Sophomores: Summer
Summer is the season for flowers to bloom, and it's the season for you to enjoy the greatest passion in nature — love, love from your classmates, from your teachers and from your romance.
Freshmen: Spring
Spring is the season for nature to revive, to grow and to get ready to boom. Similarly, in college, spring is the season for you to acquire knowledge, to develop yourself and to lay a solid foundation for the future. It's the season of growth.
Juniors: Autumn
Autumn is a season of harvestin college.It's the season
for you to enjoy what you have achieved.
Seniors: Winter
Winter is the harshest season of the four, which presents so many difficulties and hardships. So winter is the season of change. Unpleasant as it may seem to some students, it is simply inescapable and beneficial to one's growth and maturity.
Key Patterns
It occurs to sb. to- inf / that…/sth occurs to sb 想到 It dawns on sb that…/sth dawns on sb 明白
Translation:
1）最后，我终于 明白了真相。 2）我从来都没 想到布拉德皮特和珍妮弗安妮斯顿会离婚。 3）他突然想到应该读书以准备考试。 4）汤姆忽然 觉得周围如此冷清，如此寂寞。
Warm-up Question
In the 1st college year, did you experience anything different from that in high school?
1) Randomly pick out 1 student to share his/her changes first;
Lesson One
Your College Years
College Years vs. Seasons
Freshmen Sophomores Juniors Seniors
Warm-up I: discussion (3 Minutes)
What do you think the four seasons represent and explain why?
Talk about this topic in groups, and then choose one student to share the views with the whole class.
e.g. Winter represents the first college year because freshmen are as pure and innocent as snow. …
decisions – strive to be determined ?… ?In short, changes are occurring
Background
Bob Hartman----note 1 ,P5
Thesis + Supportive n argumentative essay about what changes you will experience in college
years, and more important, what ways you should adopt to “change” changes.
Thesis Identifying Para. 1
3 questions ：
Have you ever considered…
Has it ever occurred to you…
Has it ever dawned on you…
ENTER
Thesis:
Though college students seldom think about
them, key changes will probably happen to them during their college years.
2) Self-claim by the target student.
Summary
Changes themselves are not upsetting, the way to face them is!
?living with others – cooperate, reconcile, mutual ?becoming psychologically independent ?taking care of oneself ?handling one's own finance; making one's own
Translation
1）最后我终于 明白了真相。 At last the truth dawned on me.
2）我从来都没 想到布拉德皮特和珍妮弗安妮斯顿会离婚。 It never occurred to me that Brad Pitt and