New Horizon College English Reading

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New Horizon College EnglishReading Writing
Course (I)
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Unit 3

• Text A A Good Heart to Lean On
• Text B The Right Son
• at the Right Time

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Text A

• A Good Heart to Lean On

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Contents

• Teaching Objectives
• Lead-in
• Background Information
• Global Comprehension
• Cultural Reflection
• Language Study
• Language Output
• Assignment

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Teaching Objectives

• Help students
• understand main idea of the text
• read for detailed information
• share ideas about a good heart
• talk about the youth and the volunteer movement
• expand vocabulary on the present topic
• make presentation on a given topic.

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Lead In video watching

• Watch the video clip concerning a good heart and
  talk about
• 1. What is your understanding of a good heart?
• 2. How can we cultivate a good heart?

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Lead In video watching

• Tips

devote our time/money/energy to others, offer all
kinds of help, show our concern, show our
sympathy, be considerate, be thoughtful
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Background Information Ebbets Field

• Ebbets Field is the s_____ built by and named
  after Charlie Ebbets, the owner of the Brooklyn
  Dodgers baseball team. The first game played in
  this former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers took
  place in 1938. The Dodgers no longer play for
  Brooklyn.

tadium
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Global Comprehension

• I. Main idea
• The text is about how a c_____ father helps his
  son keep balance through his act of deep caring.
  The father has gone many years, but the son feels
  regret for his previous r_______ to be with him
  and relies much more on his father for his
  balance of mind.

rippled
eluctance
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Global Comprehension
II. Reading for detailed information
Read the text carefully and try to answer each
of the following questions for better
understanding of the text. You are greatly
encouraged to find the exact place for the answer.
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Global Comprehension
How did the writer feel to be seen with his
father when he was young? And why?
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He felt embarrassed to be seen with his father,
because his father was severely crippled and very
short.
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Global Comprehension
What did the father always say when he started
out with his son?
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His father always said You set the pace. I will
try to adjust to you.
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Global Comprehension
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What is the proper standard to judge people by
according to the writer now he is growing up?
Having a good heart is the proper standard to
judge people by, according to the writer now he
is grown up.
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Global Comprehension
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Why does the writer often think of his father,
now that his father has been dead for so many
years?
He now feels sorry about having been reluctant to
be seen walking together with his crippled and
short father.
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Cultural Reflection

• Discussion questions
• What could be illustrations of a good heart in
  nowadays our country?
• Have you still remembered Wenchuan Earthquake
  which happened on May 12th,2008? How did we
  Chinese do to show our kindness?

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Language Study long sentence

• Read the following sentence and translate it into
  NATURAL Chinese.
• Now that I am older, I believe that is a
  proper standard by which to judge people, even
  though I still don't know precisely what a "good
  heart" is.
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Language Study long sentence

• Now translate it back into English.
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Language Study words expressions

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see to on leave break out in some way even
though subject to make it
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Language Study words expressions
Match-up
keep ones balance be severely crippled
coordinate our steps set the pace shame and
stress a beach party in frustration complain
about engage in

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Language Study Exercise

• 1. On one occasion a fight broke out __ a beach
  party.
• 2. I am amazed __ how much courage it must have
  taken for him.
• 3. Our usual walk was to or ____ the subway on
  which he traveled to work.
• 4. I was embarrassed to be seen ____ my father.

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from
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Language Output

1. Think of 7 situations in which the expressions on
   the left column can be used. It is advisable to
   apply them to your personal experience.
2. Create a story that contains at least 3 of them.

• adjust
• make it
• complain
• even if
• urge
• now that
• kid

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Assignment

• Prepare a 3-minute speech on the volunteer
  movement in our country. Your comments on the
  significance of the youth as volunteers are
  welcome.

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Section B

• The Right Son at the Right Time

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Contents

• Teaching Objectives
• Reading Skills
• Vocabulary Expansion
• Writing Skills
• Assignment

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Teaching Objectives

• Help students
• learn the reading skill of reading for the key
  ideas in sentences
• recognize and master words and expressions of
  high communicative value
• learn about technical words.

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Reading Skills

• Reading for the Key Ideas in Sentences
• Although a sentence may give a great deal of
  information, it usually offers one key idea.
  Readers must be able to find key ideas in order
  to understand sentence meanings clearly.

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Reading Skills

• Reading for the Key Ideas in Sentences
• Here is how to find key ideas in sentences
• 1. Ask who or what the sentence is about.
• 2. Ask what the person or object is doing or
  what is happening to the person or object.

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Reading Skills

• Reading for the Key Ideas in Sentences
• 3. Learn to separate minor details from the
  main idea. Many words in sentences describe
  things about the subject of the sentence and
  merely add details around it. If you ask when,
  what kind, where or why, you will find details.
  As a result, it is easier to see the key idea.

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Reading Skills

• Reading for the Key Ideas in Sentences
• Example On one occasion a fight broke out at a
  beach party, with everyone punching and shoving.
  (Para. 9)
• Key idea A fight broke out.
• Explanation You see that the key idea of this
  sentence is "a fight broke out", as this tells
  us about what and what is happening. All the
  other information is about where, when and in
  what way the fight broke out.

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Vocabulary Expansion
Match-up
extend ones hand the oxygen tent a downtown
street an emergency-room the Red Cross an army
vehicle a military exercise a heart attack dimly
see

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Writing Skills
Technical words
Technical or special words refer to those words
used in various special fields. Every branch of
science, every profession or trade, every art and
every sort of sports has its own technical terms.
Most of the technical terms are Latin or Greek in
origin. In fact, they are part of literary words.
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Assignment

• Writing Assignment Title
• My Father/Mother/Grandparent

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Thank you for your attention!