教学内容（包括基本内容、重点、难点）：
Part I Pre-readingTasks
Listen to the recording and answer the following questions:
1. What is the riddle?
2. Why did the teacher ask his class this riddle?
3. T explains the related cultural points andlanguagepoints in part one to Ss and gives thempractice.
4. Ss skim part two and find out how many Kevin Hanleys there are in this part, and how they live.
Aesop’s fables伊索寓言; tale故事,Fairy tales神话,Tales of adventure冒险故事, legend 传说
Part II Text:Fable of the Lazy Teenager
1.Ss skim the text and find out the main idea and structure of the text.
---the meaning of“this”inPara. 7. (students’inability to perform even the simplest calculations)
---the meaning of“all this ignorance”inPara. 8. (students’inability to calculate, and their poor knowledge of world history or geography)
3. Can you mentally calculate the cost of the goods you have just bought in a market as quickly as the peddlers? If you can’t, why?
4. In text, the author tells a fable. What is a fable?
---the meaning of“this young man”inPara. 9. (a friend’s bright, lazy 16-year-old son)
---the meaning of“this message”inPara. 10. (teenagers’ignorance leads to serious consequences)
Main idea of the text:Teenager’s idleness and ignorance will seriously affect themselves and society in general.
Organization of the text:
Part 1---paras1-10: teenager’s idleness and ignorance will produce serious effects on all concerned and society as a whole.
---Kevin 1835, a poor peasant inIreland;
Part 2---paras11-24: Kevin 1990 comes to realize in his dream how greatly lack of education costs his forebears, himself, his children and the society they live in, and how important it is to study hard.2. Ss skim part one and review anaphoric referents by finding out
2. Ss skim part one and review anaphoric referents by finding out
---the meaning of“that”inPara. 3. (the author’s doing mental arithmetic)
---the meaning of“such an experience”inPara. 6. (the salesgirl’s ignorance)
(hint: short tales not based on facts and intended to give moral guidance.)
5. Do fables give the moral lessons directly or let the reader deduce?
(hint: let the reader deduce.)
授ducational Problem
授课类型
Classroom teaching
授课时间
第15、16周第 节
教学目标或要求：
Students will be able to:
understand the main idea and structure of the text;
learn the way to write a cause-and-effect analysis;
graspthe key language points andgrammaticalstructures in the text;
Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities centered upon the theme of the unit.