(
课件网) Unit4 Never too old to learn Extended Reading My university life 1. What is your target school 2. What do you expect to learn from your university life Warm-up: Free talk Professional knowledge; Communication skills; Develop critical thinking skills； Self management； Better job prospects； Now let’s read a journal entry written by a university student. Read for the Structure graduation University life The first day on campus The first assignment Group projects My favourite professor Can you rearrange the three parts according to the order of time Part 2 Part 1 Part 3 Part 1 (Para .1) Part 2 (Paras. 2-5) Part 3 (Para. 6) flashback What’s the writing technique Read for the Structure Use flashback to vividly demonstrate her feelings about graduating from university as well as her review of the past four years. It helps readers better understand her thoughts and emotions during her university life. Read for the structure past present I stood with my certificate in hand and reflected on those four years. I heard my parents’ voice calling me and I returned to the moment. Transitional sentences flashback Read for the structure Topic sentences in para2-5 parallelism 排比 I remembered arriving at university on my very first day. I remembered working on my first assignment. I remembered cooperating with my classmates on group projects. I remembered visiting my favourite professor. A parallelism （排比） is a figure of speech that uses similar structures in separate sentences to express related ideas. In this way, the sentences are emphasized and forceful. Read for details Para1: What was the author’s feeling at the graduation ceremony Why happy and relieved : launch her into a whole new world; the curtain comes down on her university life; be ready for a new phase of life raising questions worried and stressed/anxious: What was my first job going to be like How would I manage Would I be able to carve out a career for myself He/She was not sure whether she was able to fit in(适应) launch: to send sth, such as a spacecraft, weapon, etc. into the sky fast speed nervousness Para2: 1. What was the author’s feeling upon arriving at university on the very first day Para2: 1. What was the author’s feeling upon arriving at university on the very first day He/She was worried and stressed (find out the supporting details) feel her hands sweating slightly she had to hold on tight to her suitcase She was not sure whether she was able to fit in She doubt if she was mature enough to be entirely responsible for her own successes and failures. 2. What was the campus like on the very first day be alive with people (anxious parents and excited students) such a circus This paragraph focuses on _____ and _____ description. psychological movement psychological description description of action environmental description Para3： What happened to my assignments The first assignment The next assignment The les ... ...
