Teaching Focus 1. Comprehension and Appreciation of the Texts; 2. Vocabulary & Grammar; 3. Reading Strategy; 4. The skill of recognizing restatement; 5. Fast reading and exercises.
1. There is not a shadow of doubt that he stole the money. 2. In the cynical words there was indeed a grain of truth. 3. The strength of love is big enough to cause the person to forget all, but actually as small which cannot hold just a sand of envy.
second-class carriage（二等车厢）
Second-class carriage is the lower class of railway coach carrying passengers. Second Class is the class of travel which is below that of First Class. In the UK, it was renamed to Standard Class by British Rail during the early 1990s.
Text A: Background information
1.Luigi Pirandello
路伊吉· 皮兰德娄
(1867--1936) is an Italian writer, who is considered the most important Italian dramatist of period between World War Ⅰ and World War Ⅱ. He won the 1934 Nobel Prize for literature.
Text A : Vocabulary
*express [ɪkˈspres]n. a train or bus that does not stop in many places and therefore travels quickly 快车（运） local [ˈl ukə]慢车 ə stuffy [ˈst fi] adj. a room or building that is stuffy does not ʌ have enough fresh air in it.通风不良的；窒息的；闷热的 *carriage [ˈkær dʒ] n. one of the parts of a train where ɪ passengers sit. （火车）客车厢 bulky [ˈb ʌlki] adj. someone who is bulky is big and heavy庞 大的 mourning [ˈm ɔːnɪŋ] n. great sadness because someone has died悲伤；治丧；戴孝 host [həust] v. to provide the place and everything that is needed for an organized event举办,包含 *bundle [ˈb ʌndl] n. a group of things such as papers, clothes, or sticks that are fastened or tied together捆，包，束
Teaching Procedure
1. Warm-up Activity Share some information about World War Ⅱ
with classmtion
Text A Text B
Text A
Background information Vocabulary Language points
• Without faith in any fixed standards of ethics, morality, politics, or religion, characters in Pirandello’s tales and plays find reality only in themselves, and then discover that they themselves are unstable and inexplicable(费解 的） beings. • Pirandello expressed in humorous terms his deep pessimism and his pity for the confusion and suffering of the human condition. The humor is, however, grim and disturbing, and it explores the embarrassing and sometimes painful recognition of the absurdities of human existence.
4.a shadow of sympathy （一点点同情心）
It is a metaphorical ways of saying that there is a slight suggestion or hint of sympathy. Here shadow indicates a small degree of position. Many other words can be used in similar ways. Such experiences are often used in negative statements. Other examples are:
puff [pʌf] v. to breathe quickly and with difficulty after the effort of running, carrying something heavy etc喘气 moan [məun] v. to make a long low sound expressing pain, unhappiness呻吟；抱怨 weakly [wiːk] adj. not physically strong 瘦弱的 *uneasy [ʌnˈi zi] adj. not comfortable, peaceful, or relaxed心 ː 神不安的，担心的，忧虑的 pull down [pul daun] v. to bring to a lower level 弄低 *collar [ˈ kɔlə] n. the part of a shirt, coat etc that fits around your neck, and is usually folded over衣领，领子 *inquire [ɪnˈkwa v. to ask someone for information打听， ɪə] 询问 pull up [pul ʌp] v. to use your arms to pull yourself up把...拉起 来 nasty [ˈ nɑːsti] adj. having a bad appearance, smell, taste etc. 讨厌的
• Pirandello’s writings deal mainly with people of the lower middle class and are concerned with philosophical ideas such as the human conflict between instinct and reason, which often leads to an existence full of inconsistencies（矛盾）. Pirandello also asserts that specific actions are not right or wrong in themselves, but only in the way that humans regard them, and that an individual has not one definite personality but many, depending on how that person appears to the people with whom he or she comes in contact.
Extensive Reading 1 Unit Two
Teaching Objectives
In this unit students are required to: 1. Grasp some new words and expressions to enrich student’s vocabulary; 2. Do some oral work such as pre-reading questions, and interaction activities to help develop the students’ oral communicative abilities; 3. Appreciate the two articles in this unit and learn some reading skills; 4. Learn something about recognizing restatement; 5. Do some other after-class exercises to improve students’ comprehensive skills.
• ―War‖ is a short story written in 1925 about people’s reception and reaction to war. It reveals the humane（人性的） prospective of war often ignored in the era of world wars where government propaganda accentuating（强调） ultranationalism(极端民族主义）, adventure and other factors that glory war. The text is the English translation of the story.