Teaching Demo

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Teaching Demo

• Group 6
• Presented by Wang Lihe
• Li Huaiyu
• Cao Xiangying

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The Blanket Floyd Dell (1887-1969)
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Objectives

• 1.help the students to know about the elements of
  short stories.
• 2.familiarize the students with language points
  and the way to use language properly.
• 3.encourage students to think about the theme of
  the story.

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Schedule

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3

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Day 1

• Lead in
• Check up
• Plot
• Characterization

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Day 2

• Retelling
• Detailed discussion

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Day 3

• sum-up symbolism ,theme
• further discussion debate
• topic should we send the old people to
  nursing home?

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Lead-in

• Questions
• 1.     how many members do you have in your
  family?
• 2.     when you get married, would you like to
  live with your parents? Why or why not?
• 3.     should we send our parents to the nursing
  house when they become old? Why or why not?

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Check-up

• 1.    How many characters are there in the story?
  
• 2.     what does the story tell about in general?
  
• 3 Elements of a story
• Time
• Place
• Setting
• Character

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Elements of a story

• Point of view(narrator)
• Theme
• Plot (beginning/development/climax/ending)

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Elements of a story
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Elements of a story
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Characterization

• What do you think of the four characters? Find
  some words from the text to describe the
  characters? And then generalize their
  characteristics.

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Characterization
Dad
Grandpa

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Characterization
Dad
Grandpa
gently,embarrassment

• uncertainly

hesitant
tolerant,forgiving
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Retelling

• Ask students to be one of the characters to
  retell the story

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Detailed discussion

• Discussion of Sentences
• Paraphrase
• 1. Petey had never believed that his dad would be
  doing it---sending granddad away.
• 2.and the tune stopped on a wrong, high, startled
  note.
• Read between the lines
• 1.and isnt it kind of your father to give it to
  me to go away with?
• 2.There will be few blankets there the equal of
  this one !
• Translate
• 1. and the pretty girl with the hard, bright face
  like a child dolls.
• 2.Hed never be hearing granddad play like this
  again, and hed never want to sit here on the
  porch again with granddad gone.

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Discussion of some expressions

• Sending him away
• The ugly government place

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Summary

• 1.Symbolism
• Moon light cold, calm,
• Examples
• with a thin white moon riding over the roof
• the thin moon was high overhead
• the tune of the violin
• the tune changed
• the tune stopped suddenly
• its a bit sad, but a fine tune for a night like
  this
• the tune stopped on a wrong, high, startled

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• 2.theme
• Parents are models of children
• How to treat the elderly
• 3.further discussion
• Debate Should we sent the elderly to nursing
  homes

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Exercises

• Give the appropriate forms of the words
• Embarrass ____ ( n. )
• Reproach _____(adj.)
• Certain ______ (antonym)
• Harsh ______(adv.)

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Weekly Quiz

• Dictation of words (30 words )
• Dictation of a short passage
• Translation five sentences

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