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新视野大学英语读写教程新视野大学英语读写教程
Unit Five
Stop Spoiling Your Children
New Horizon College English
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Contents
•Pre-teaching Pre-teaching ActivitiesActivities
•While-teaching While-teaching ActivitiesActivities
•After-teaching After-teaching ActivitiesActivities
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Nowadays, most Chinese families are one-child ones. So many parents love their children. But, if they love their children with excessive possessions, then they are ______ their children.
spoiling
Please look at the title—Stop Spoiling Your Children. Who are the intended readers of this passage and why? What do you think this passage should include and what writing techniques will be used in the passage to make it persuasive and convincing?
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Structure Analysis & Structure Analysis & Writing DevicesWriting Devices
Expressions & Expressions &
Sentence Structures Sentence Structures
Summary of the Summary of the PassagePassage
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Read Para. 1 to see what it is about and how it is developed.
main idea: a common phenomenon—children are showered with lots of material possessions, that is, children are spoiled. writing device:
with the author’s own observations
Structure Analysis & Writing Structure Analysis & Writing DevicesDevices
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Read Para. 2 to see what it is about.
main idea:
Showering children with too many material possessions—something common in the USA, not only makes children come to take their parents’ generosity for granted, but can be harmful to children.
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Read Para. 3 to predict what the following paragraphs will talk about.
Reasons why parents spoil their children
Scan Para. 4-6 to find out what reasons for spoiling children are mentioned and what main writing technique is used in the part of Para. 3-6.
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Reasons for parents to spoiling their children
• wanting children to have everything• fearing their children may feel unloved or be made fun of without such material possessions.• fluctuation due to inability to stand up to children’s unreasonable demands.
• out of a sense of guilt
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Main writing techniqueGeneral statement
I believe there are several reasons (for parents to spoiling their children). (Para.3)Details
deduction
• wanting children to have everything and fearing their children may feel unloved or be made fun of without such material possessions. (Para. 5)• fluctuation due to inability to stand up to children’s unreasonable demands.
• out of a sense of guilt (Para. 4)
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Read Para. 7 to 8 to see what is discussed and how it is discussed.
main idea:
harmful effects of spoiling children
writing technique:
deduction General Statement: The effects of providing too much can be harmful. (Para. 7) Details: (Para. 7 and 8)
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Scan Para. 7-8 to find out the harmful effects of spoiling children.
• Children have fewer opportunities to learn the value of money.• They have less experience in learning to handle satisfaction delay.
• children may become greedy, selfish, ungrateful and insensitive to the needs and feelings of others.• It undermines their respect for their parents.• It will make children push further on their parents.
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Read Para. 9 to 11 to see what is talked.
• try to determine what makes you submit or feel guilty.
• do not expect your children to respond at once immediately (be patient and stick to your new leaf)
• begin to make firm decisions and practice responding to children’s requests promptly & definitely• be satisfied with gradual improvement.
Suggestions to stop spoiling children
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Expectation from adapting such suggestions:Both you and your children will be happierAfter learning this passage, we can see the a writing technique is used on the passage level. What’s it?
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Problem—parents spoiling children (Para. 1)
problem
Reasons for the problem (Para. 3-6)
Harmful effects of the problem (Para. 7-8)
Advice to stop spoiling children (Para. 9-11)
In the end, both you and your children will be happier (the last sentence in Para. 11)
solution
evaluatio
n
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In this passage called “Stop Spoiling Your Children”, the author first points out that many parents _________ their children _____ too many material possessions. Then, he goes to analyzes the ______ for parents to _____ their children, including _________________________________________________, a wish that their children to have everything, their inability to _________ their children’s unreasonable demands, etc. To the author, spoiling
showeringwith
reasonsspoil
a sense of guilt of being not spending enoughwith their children
stand up to
Summary of the Summary of the PassagePassage
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children does nothing but ______ to children: they may become ____________, ungrateful and ________to the needs and feeling of others; their ______ for parents may be _________; they will less _________ to be creative, have fewer _______ to know the value of money and less experiences to ____ with delay in satisfaction, when everything requested is given ________. So, in the last part, the author _______ parents to stop spoiling children by firstly ________ what makes you feel guilty, then making firm
harmgreedy, selfish
insensitiverespect
undermined challengedchances
deal
on demandadvises
determining
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decisions and _______ to children’s requests in a _____________ manner, being satisfied with ________________. If parents keeping doing so, both parents and their children will be ______ for it.
respondingprompt, definitegradual improvement
happier
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•After-teaching After-teaching ActivitiesActivities
1. Writing a composition of “Stop Doing Something”, “Stop Smoking”, for example, in a problem-solution-evaluation pattern and with deduction.
2. Finish the exercises that follow the passage on Page .
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1. assign…to (Line 2, Para. 1)•send…to (a particular
place)
examples:He was assigned to a school in the country.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
•name…for (a task/position)
They’ve assigned their best man to the job.
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4. as accommodation for (Line 3, Para. 4)•as
compensation/compromise for
example:
Government usually gives local people certain sums of money as accommodation for their confiscated ( 被征用的 ) land.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
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2. make a point (Line 1, Para. 2)
•make one’s opinion known
example:
When one makes a point, supports are needed.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
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3. take…for granted (Line 3, Para. 2)•believe…to be true without
thinking or looking for proof
examples:We take it for granted that knowledge advances rapidly.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
•benefit from without showing gratitude
She always takes my help for granted.
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5. shower…with (Line 4, Para. 4)
•give…much/many…
example:
Parents have been showering their children with affection/love.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
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6. pine for… (Line 2, Para. 5)
•long for
example:
Many college students pine for a computer to help them with their studies.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
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7. stand up to… (Line 1, Para. 6)
•defend oneself against
example:
He is too weak to stand up to her.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
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8. feel a wave of…for (Line 4, Para. 6)
•fell much…for
example:
I felt a wave of sadness and regret for the troubled boy.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
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9. (in)sensitive to… (Line 5, Para. 7)
•(not) deeply understanding/aware of example:
Manufacturers sensitive to the needs of customers usually have the upper hand during the fierce competition.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
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10. on demand (Line 4, Para. 8)•whenever someone
asks example:
PLA men are ready to devote themselves on demand.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
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11. turn on a new leaf (Line 1, Para. 11)•change one’s way of life for
better example:
The troubled youngster promised to turn on a new leaf in the future.
Expressions & Sentence Expressions & Sentence StructuresStructures
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