新标准大学英语综合教程4 unit7答案

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Work in pairs. Read the quote and discuss the possible interpretations. The principle was that no one could enter a man’s home unless invited in. Of course, the authorities could always issue a warrant and this did not mean one could break the law, but officials could not just come in. The third statement is true as long as reasonable minimum force is used. The fifth is less and less true as, for example, the rights of children are enforced and laws prevent cruelty to children.
• Let Ss enjoy practicing similar unusual choices of narrator.
• For the rhetorical questions there are plenty of examples in the passage to make the notion clear.
Reading skills
• Humanizing the non-human • Rhetorical questions • Understanding inversion
• Let Ss enjoy the surprise of realizing the narrator is actually a house.
• Passage 1 is not particularly demanding and has its cute side. Some of the details may need explanation as they are culturally strange.
• P a s s a g e 2 i s m o r e a b s t r a c t a n d philosophical and likely to cause some initial trouble until the main point is understood.
Unit
7 No place like home
Unit overview
Unit key features
Organizing suggestions
Passage 1 Golden Memories
Passage 2 Home Thoughts
Passage 1 is a first-person narrative which relates history of a house against the background of recent British history. Passage 2 is an essay from an American perspective on the home and how it is being changed, possibly in undesirable ways, by modern life.
4 Choose the best answer to the questions. 1 Why does the narrator never see his neighbour face on? (a) Because he can’t really see. (b) Because the neighbour is a long way away. (c) Because the narrator and the neighbour are joined in a line. (d) Because the morning sun shines on the narrator instead of the neighbour.
Unit 7 No place like home
Teaching suggestions and answer keys
Starting point
Teaching tips Go round the class with each student saying a two or three sentences about his / her first home.
2 My floorboards creak, and ghosts make strange noises throughout the night. There are signs of everyone who has lived with me … (Para 14) The house is now old and its woodwork creaks and groans- something which is particularly noticeable in the silence of the night.
Golden memories Background information
The passage is written imaginatively as the memories of a house. Using unusual narrators such as houses, cars, pets and so on is frequently a feature of children’s books. The passage covers a period from the end of the 19th century to the present.
Speaking skills
• Expressing associations • Exploiting a word to the full [home] • Gathering opinions and expressing
results as generalizations
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• Ask Ss to report on their pair work to ensure they understand the tasks properly.
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No place like home Unit 7
Language points
1 On these days, the groundsman and his family used to dress smartly and leave the house for several hours. (Para 6) On these days, the groundsman and his family used to wear their Sunday best (smartest clothes) and go to church on Sunday when the church bells ring.
Active reading (1)
1 Work in pairs and answer the questions about your family home. 1 Are you the first family to live in your family home? Oh no. It is an old building. I think a few families must have lived there over the years. 2 How many other families live in the same building? There is one on each floor – so five in total. 3 How old is the building? It’s only more than 20 years old now. 4 When was it built? It was built in the late 1980s. 5 What is it made of? The main material is concrete and bricks. 6 What important events in the neighbourhood or region have happened during its lifetime? We had a street party when Yang Liwei went into space in 2003. That was a big occasion.
• Ask individuals to replace the teacher and lead activities.
Writing skills and tasks
• Guided writing: Making generalizations • Unit task: Doing a survey on an ideal
2 Look at some sentences from the passage. Who do you think says these? The statements are made by the house. (Students should be able to realize that it is not a person speaking when they read Sentences 2 and 3.)
home
• Time for research out of class will need to be given.
• Try to find somewhere to display good written work.
Cognitive skills
• Discerning the attitudes of others understanding one’s own
The passage tells the housing issues Britain and housing benefits available ordinary people.
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People tend to assume the way they do things and look at life are universal. This section as usual gives a chance to see alternative approaches.
• Handling emotis to see how different attitudes to homes among cultures and individuals reflect underlying views of life.
Reading across cultures A roof over your head
Reading and understanding
3 Choose the best summary of the passage. 2 The passage is the story of a home, the people who lived there and how life has changed over the years, as narrated by the house itself.
3 … and someone has sprayed some words on the stonework at the side of the house. (Para 15) After Joseph’s death the house is unoccupied and attracts teenagers who spray graffiti (eg Tony loves Helen / Man Utd Forever) on the walls.
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