Unit 12 She's Leaving Home
Unit 12 She’s Leaving Home
Purposes 1. To get students know the greatness of parents 2. To understand the purpose of writing and the writing skills of the text 3. To reinforce some basic linguistic knowedge by doing various types of exercises
Purposes • 1. To get students know the greatness of parents. • 2. To understand the purpose of writing and the writing skills of the text. • 3. To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises
About the text 1. What advantages does a first person narrator show? 2. Why is the simple present tense frequently employed to relate or narrate what happened in the past?
I. About the text • 1. What advantages does a first person narrator show? • 2. Why is the simple present tense frequently employed to relate or narrate what happened in the past?
I Structural analysis of the text Main idea of each part Part One(1-8)--- The writer's daughter was busying a h friends and relatives and that she is becoming impatien making preparations for her university life and visiting with her mother Part TWo(9-12)---It relates how the writer took good care of her daughter when she was a toddler, how she kept her daughter close to her when she was in her teens and when she was a secondary school student Part Three (13-16)---The writer wants the romanticized parting with her daughter, but her daughter has concealed her feeling as she prepares to depart Part Three(17-20)---It relates the touching event that Allie is back to her mother and she has become close to her mother again
II. Structural analysis of the text • Main idea of each part: • Part One (1-8) --- The writer’s daughter was busying making preparations for her university life and visiting her friends and relatives and that she is becoming impatient with her mother. • Part Two (9-12) --- It relates how the writer took good care of her daughter when she was a toddler, how she kept her daughter close to her when she was in her teens and when she was a secondary school student. • Part Three (13-16) --- The writer wants the romanticized parting with her daughter, but her daughter has concealed her feeling as she prepares to depart. • Part Three (17-20)--- It relates the touching event that Allie is back to her mother and she has become close to her mother again
ll some difficult sentences words or phrases 1. I struggle to think of something to say to her Explain: I am searching for words to talk to her 2. When other mothers were already the estrangement they felt with their adolescent daughters, I hit upon a solution; rescue raids Explain: When other mothers were already turned away in affection by their teenage daughters, I chanced upon a solution: taking occasional actions to save our relation
III. some difficult sentences, words or phrases • 1. I struggle to think of something to say to her. • Explain: I am searching for words to talk to her. • 2. When other mothers were already the estrangement they felt with their adolescent daughters, I hit upon a solution; rescue raids. • Explain: When other mothers were already turned away in affection by their teenage daughters, I chanced upon a solution: taking occasional actions to save our relation