LESSON ONE HALF A DAY
Preliminary understanding of the text
LESSON ONE HALF A DAY
Analyze the Title
Questions evoked by the title
➢ whose half a day? ➢ what did he do during half a day? ➢ Where did it happen?
➢Did you feel you were a stranger the first day you arrive? ➢ Did you find the university just as you had imagined? In what way it was, and in what way it wasn’t? ➢ Do you have trouble adjusting to life here? ➢ What do you think of the business of the university? What do you think you should do to get most out of college?
LESSON ONE HALF A DAY
Structure of the Text
➢ Part I (Para.1-para.7) The boy’s misgivings about school
➢Part II (Para.8- para.16) How the boy felt about school
5. I don’t think it was useful to take me away from home and put me into that building with high walls. ( The school building looked like a prison to the boy.) “ there is no good to be had in doing”: It’s no use/no good doing sth. ”to tear oneself away from…”: to leave a place or a person unwillingly because one has to. ENGLISH
现代大学英语
主讲: 庄玉芳
LESSON ONE HALF A DAY
LESSON ONE HALF A DAY
Warming-Up Topic My first Day at the College
➢ Was it hard for you to leave home for the first time in your life? Who went to see you off at the railway station? What did he/her day to you on the way?
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4. Why do I have to go to school? I don’t think I’ve done something wrong to be punished like this. ( Little children often think that taking them away from Mom is the worst punishment.)
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1. I wasn’t happy as I usually was when I had clothes on. 2. “to throw sb. into/ out of a place”: to force sb. to
leave a place. --- They’ll thrown me out (of school) if I fail three exams. 3. My mother was anxious to know how my father would get me to go, and I turned towards her hoping she would stop my father taking me to school, or talk to my father so that he would change his mind about sending me to school.
➢Part III (Para.17- para.20) The change of the outside world and himself after school
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Detailed Study of the Text Part I (para.1- para.7)
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Discussion: How did the boy feel the first day he went to school?
1. They did not make me happy. (para.1) 2. … as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time. (para.1) 3. My mother stood at the window watching our progress and I turned towards her form time to time, hoping she would help. (para. 2) 4. Why school? What have I done? (para.3) 5. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building. (para.5) 6. I hesitated and clung to his hand (para.7)