《新时代核心英语教程 综合英语1》Unit 8 教师用书.docxVIP

PAGE PAGE 10 Unit 8 In a Festival Mood Unit Overview Text A is about Ellen Goodman’s description and understanding of Thanksgiving Day. First of all, Goodman thinks that preparing for Thanksgiving trip and reunion is a family activity full of ritual feeling. Family members get together to share delicious food and communicate with each other about life and children. This is a conflict of values between individualism and family unity, and everyone must face it at the same time. Facing the outside world, Goodman thinks it is necessary to cultivate individualism, believe in independent values and the principle of survival of the fittest, while the family is beautiful and tolerant, without competition and pressure, which can make people relaxed and comfortable. Finally, Goodman mentions that on Thanksgiving Day, everyone will go back to their families to share their differences and gain space for interaction. For this study, it is suggested that teachers should consider explaining key words before reading Text A according to students’ English level, so that students can understand difficult words during reading. At the same time, organize students to understand and discuss Thanksgiving Day before class. The concept of contrast is a skill that needs to be mastered and can be used to explore and summarize the understanding of families and individuals in the text. Text B is an English translation of Yan Lianke’s essay “过年的母亲.” Yan recalled that every time his mother received his letter, she would wait for him at the station every day and prepare more food and meat at home, but his mother could not wait for him to get off the bus. A few days later, when the author and his family arrived, they could see that Mother was busy with household chores. His mother is very considerate and always tells the author and his wife not to come back to see her when they are busy at work next year. But at this time, the author clearly knew that his mother expected them to come back to he