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Unit 2
Text aall the cab had Was a Letter Part OBjectives Part 2 Cultural notes ■Part3 Text structure ■Pat4 Language points a Part 5 Content Questions
Text A All the Cab Had Was a Letter ◼ Part 1 Objectives ◼ Part 2 Cultural Notes ◼ Part 3 Text Structure ◼ Part 4 Language Points ◼ Part 5 Content Questions
I. Objectives Students will be able to .grasp the main idea(never delay expressing your true feeling to a friend) and structure of the text(developing a story around a letter) 2. appreciate that spoken English is much more informal than written English: short, simple, incomplete, some words phrases do not usually find their way into written English shorter paragraph length, sentence length, dialogue, etc. bid I Cultural notes l Halloween Halloween is celebrated annually. It is on the night of Oct 3 1st when people once believed that ghosts could be
I. Objectives Students will be able to: 1.grasp the main idea (never delay expressing your true feeling to a friend) and structure of the text (developing a story around a letter); 2.appreciate that spoken English is much more informal than written English: short, simple, incomplete, some words /phrases do not usually find their way into written English, shorter paragraph length, sentence length, dialogue, etc.[Back] II. Cultural notes 1.Halloween Halloween is celebrated annually. It is on the night of Oct. 31st , when people once believed that ghosts could be
seen.Now in Britain and America. it is a time when children have parties, dress up as witches. make lanterns out of pumpkins from which the inside has been removed, and play trick or treatThe traditional activity means that they will play trick,, or joke, on the people in the house unless they are given treat, eg sweets or money. Most people prefer to tive treats rather than havin tricks played on them ac
seen. Now in Britain and America, it is a time when children have parties, dress up as witches, make lanterns out of pumpkins from which the inside has been removed, and play “trick or treat”.The traditional activity means that they will play a “trick”, or joke, on the people in the house unless they are given a “treat”, eg. sweets or money. Most people prefer to give treats rather than having tricks played on them. [Back]
II. Text Structure Parts Paragraphs Main ideas Part 1 Paras 1-20 From a conversation with the cab driver the author learned how much he regretted failing to keep up correspondence with his old friend Ed Part 2 Paras 21-35 Reading the letter by himself, the author learned more about the lifelong friendship between the driver and old ed Part 3 Paras 36 The driver s experience urged the author to reach for his pen T. Language points l.available: able to be used had
III. Text Structure IV. Language points 1.available: able to be used,had Parts Paragraphs Main ideas Part 1 Paras 1-20 From a conversation with the cab driver the author learned how much he regretted failing to keep up correspondence with his old friend Ed. Part 2 Paras 21-35 Reading the letter by himself, the author learned more about the lifelong friendship between the driver and Old Ed. Part 3 Paras 36 The driver’s experience urged the author to reach for his pen