新潮大学英语第一册第一单元Unit1

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③ Somewhere in our youth, we matured and learned too much. There are nuclear weapons, war, prejudice, and abused children ， lies, unhappy marriages, illness, pain and death. A world where companies poison our water and our soil, and children kill. What happened to the time when we thought that everyone would live forever, because we didn’t grasp the concept of death? When the worst thing in the world was if someone took the jump rope from you or picked you last for kickball.
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② I want to return to a time when life was simple, when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn’t bother you, because you didn’t know what you didn’t know and you didn’t care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset. I want to think the world is fair, that everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible.
你还记得儿时 最爱的游戏吗？
Boys’ Games 男生游戏
Whipping top 陀螺
Slingshot 弹弓
Wrestle 角斗
Marble 弹珠
Vaulting horse 跳马
Play cards 卡片
Girls’ Game
女生游戏
Bungee jumping 跳皮筋
Kicking shuttlecock 踢毽子
3. Grasp the language points and grammatical structures in the text, and learn to express the idea fluently;
4. Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.
My Resignation
To whom it may concern， ①I am hereby officially tendering my resignation
as an adult. I have decided to accept the responsibilities of an eight-year-old again. I want to go to McDonald’s and think it’s a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks. I want to think M & M’s are better than money because you can eat them. I want to play dodge ball at recess and paint with watercolors in art. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer’s day.
辞职；辞职书；听任；顺从 提供；投标 水坑；地上积水 涟波；涟漪；波纹 休息 橡树；橡木 柠檬水 增加；繁殖；乘法运算
rhyme blissfully mature nuclear prejudice abuse spine rip
n. 韵；押韵；韵文 ad. 极快乐地；有福地 vi. 成熟;长成 a. 原子核的；原子能的 n. 偏见；成见 vt. 辱骂；虐待；滥用 n. 脊柱；脊椎；书脊；尖刺 vt. 撕裂；扯
辞职 乘法表 童谣；儿歌 没有发觉的；不知道的 没注意到；不知道 粘到……上
work out 可以解决；设计出；作出；计算出 consist of 由……组成；构成
While-reading
Text Study Text Organization &
Comprehension
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splatter naive crash depressing gossip
v. 使水等飞溅 a. 天真的；幼稚的 v. 崩溃;撞碎；猛使……破碎 a. 令人沮丧的 n. 流言蜚语
tender one’s resignation multiplication table nursery rhyme be unaware of be oblivious to / of be glued to
踏入社会之后 你会有一个什么 样的生活呢？
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While casting a nostalgic glance over the past, when life was pure and simple, the author feels overwhelmed by the complexities of the adult world. Can he regain the lost paradise?
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⑥ I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind … and making angels in the snow.
Ⅰ. Lead-in
Ⅱ. Pre-reading
New Words and Expressions
Ⅲ . While-reading
Text Study Text Organization & Comprehension
IV . Post-reading
Exercises
Lead-in
Do you remember the favorite game in your childhood?
⑦ So, here’s my checkbook and my car keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you’ll have to catch me first, ’cause, “ Tag! You’re it!”
Beanbag game 丢沙包
Blowing bubbles 吹泡泡
Other Games
其他游戏
Blind touch 摸瞎子
Eagle catchs
a chickling 老鹰捉小鸡
Fly the kite 放风筝
What kind of life would you take when you become a social man?
Unit 1 Book 1
Be Yourself
Text A
1. Skim for the main idea and scan for the key information of the text;
2. Appreciate the application of parallelism in the text;
Text Study
④ I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again. I want to return to the days when children played hide-n-seek outside instead of being glued to a television, when video games were as harmless as Pac-man, instead of spine-ripping, blood splattering Mortal Combat, and TV still had some shows on that weren’t about sex, killing, and lies.
Text Organization
Part I (Para.1-2)
Part II (Paras.3-6)
Part III (Para.7)
The writer expresses his wishes to go back to beautiful childhood days.
The ugliness of the adult world is contrasted with the purity of the childhood days. The writer restates his wishes to go back to the childhood days.
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⑤I remember being naïve and thinking everyone was happy because I was. Afternoons were spent climbing trees and fences and riding my bike. I never worried about time, bills, or where I was going to find the money to fix my car. I used to wonder what I was going to do or be when I grew up, not worry about what I’ll do if this doesn’t work out. I want to live simply again. I don’t want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor’s bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
回顾追忆往昔的纯真岁月点滴之时， 成人世界的复杂、烦扰实乃生命难以承 受之重。时光流转，可否重拾往昔？
Pre-reading
New Words & Expressions
resignation n.
tender
v.
puddle
n.
ripple
n.
recess
n.
oak
n.
lemonade n.
multiplication n.