现代大学英语第三册第13课教案Lesson 13 In My Day

Lesson 13 In My Day

I．Warm-up questions:

1.questions:

(1)When do people attain old age?

(2)What changes would occur to the elderly?

(3)Why do the aged like to talk about their past lives?

(4)What are your thoughts on age and aging?

Typically, the beginnings of change in the five senses are as follows:

Hearing—the mid 40’s

V ision—the mid 50’s

T ouch—the mid 50’s

Taste—the late 50’s

Smell—the mid 70’s

2 .Generation gap refers to the difference in ideas, feelings and interests between older and younger people, which often causes misunderstanding. In the U.S.A, "Never trust anyone over thirty"had even been a very common belief among young people.

How to bridge it ? mutual understanding and love ….

3. The Image of the Mother

4 Y ears of Age—

My Mommy can do anything!

8 Y ears of Age—

My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot

12 Y ears of Age—

My Mother doesn’t really know quite everything.

14 Y ears of Age—

Naturally, Mother doesn’t know that, either.

16 Y ears of Age—

Mother? She’s hopelessly old-fashioned.

18 Y ears of Age—

That old woman? She’s way out of date!

25 Y ears of Age—

Well, she might know a little bit about it.

35 Y ears of Age—

Before we decide, let’s get Mom’s opinion.

45 Y ears of Age—

Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?

65 Y ears of Age—

Wish I could talk it over with Mom!

4. T ell us a story about your parents that touches your heart and is rooted deeply in your memory.

II. Background

1. Author: Russell Baker

▪Born in V irginia in 1925

▪In charge of "The Observer" column for the New Y ork Times from 1962 to 1998.

▪Won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for distinguished commentary as a columnist

▪Received his second Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for his autobiography Growing up

▪Regarded as one of America's leading wordsmiths and humorists

2. R ussell Baker’s main works

▪Growing up

▪Russell Baker’s book of American Humor

▪Fear and Loathing in George W. Bush’s W ashington

▪Poor Russell Almanac

(The text is extracted from the first chapter of Growing Up.)

3. Russell Baker’s memoir Growing up

This book traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia. When Baker was only five, his father died. His mother, strong-willed and matriarchal, never looked back. These were depression years, and Mrs. Baker moved her family to Baltimore. Baker's mother was determined her children would succeed, and her unfailing faith in the talents of her young son was not misplaced. He did everything from delivering papers to hustling subscriptions for the Saturday Evening Post. As is often the case, early hardships make the man.

4. Popularity of the book—reviews from the book reviewers and readers

▪This is a wondrous book, funny, sad, and strong… as funny and touching as Mark Twain's.

----Mary Lee Settle of the Los Angeles Times Book Review ▪This is an iconic and magical piece of literature, a story of courage and love, of the bonds of family in spite of tension and disagreement.

-----One reader ▪Growing Up is carefully crafted by this experienced writer. The many characters come to vivid life with all their virtues and foibles(小缺点), and Baker's narrative flows smoothly from beginning to end.

-----One reader 5. Quotations of the author

▪The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

▪In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

▪An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.