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1、Unit 2 Silent Struggle,Objectives,Part I Video Starter,Part II Text A,Part III Text B,Part V Additional Theme-Related Activities, Exercises, Exercises,Outline,Part IV Writing,From studying this unit, students are expected tomaster the words, expressions and sentence structures that are the focuses o
2、f the exercises following the Text A;understand how to build words using suffix ency;talk and write about adventure and travel experiences;be familiar with noun verbalization employed in the Text.,Objectives,Part I Video Starter,To begin, well watch a video clip and try to grasp its message. Getting
3、 to know the words and expressions in the box below first may be helpful.,Part I Video Starter,Video Clip,【Script】,Ask the students the following questions after listening and watching if you have enough time:,1. What does the instructor begin with?2. What is the instructor trying to guess?3. What d
4、oes the instructor say if you want to pursue your dream here in China?4. What is the social problem mentioned in the talk?,A question about the American Dream.,Our possible response to the question.,_,_,We are something.,_,It is that many Chinese are pursuing the American dream in the USAwhile their
5、 parents are left living by themselves in the empty nest.,_,Occasionally, they will replace their visits with remittances and gifts.,5. What is the psychological problem with the parents?6. How do their children strike an internal balance between their continuous ambitions and aspirations and their
6、loyalty and filiality?7. What can we call this?,They tend to suffer from empty nest syndrome.,_,_,It is a silent struggle in this nation of immigrants.,_,Now that the students have fully understood the Video Starter, you can ask some of them to dub the video, if time permits. Correct their errors in
7、 pronunciation and intonation.,Hi Class, Is the American Dream still ringing in your ears1? Hopefully, this question brings you to the threshold2 of Unit Two. Maybe, you dont expect such a question at the moment, do you? Let me try to read your mind3. Your response may go like this: I have never giv
8、en a thought to the American Dream, and I will pursue my dream here in China. Youre really something if you have something like that on your mind. By the way, do you know how many Chinese immigrants are pursuing the American Dream in the USA? And how many parents are left living by themselves while
9、their children are chasing the American Dream?,Video script:,It is hard to tell, isnt it? Geographically4, the Pacific Ocean serves as the long distance that makes visits extremely difficult. As it is5, the parents are living in what is called “empty nest6 and they tend to suffer from “empty nest sy
10、ndrome”, which is generally accepted as the lonely, abandoned feeling of the home being empty. At the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean, their immigrant children are too busy pursuing the American Dream to visit their lonely parents. Occasionally, they will replace their visits with remittances7 an
11、d gifts to strike an internal balance between their continuous ambitions8 and aspirations9 and their loyalty10 and filiality11. Is this a silent struggle in this nation of immigrants? Im sure you will better understand what I am trying to say when you read the coming text.,1. ring in ones ears: to m
12、ake one feel that one can still hear sth. 耳边(脑海里)犹响起2. threshold: the floor of an entrance to a building or room 门槛,门口3. read sb.s mind: to guess what sb. else is thinking 猜透某人的心思,e.g.,His warning was still ringing in my ears.,e.g.,He had never crossed the threshold of a bar before.,e.g.,I have know
13、n John so long that I can read his mind.,4. geographically: with respect to geography 从地理上来说5. as it is: taking present circumstances into account; as things are 照现状看;看样子6. empty nest: the situation that parents are in when their children have grown up and left home 空巢,e.g.,Managing geographically d
14、istributed teams is no easy job.,e.g.,I thought I might be transferred but as it is I shall have to look for a new job.,e.g.,Empty nest syndrome describes the depression that can result for a parent whose children are all out of the house.,7. remittance: a sum of money which you send to someone 汇款8.
15、 ambition: strong desire to achieve sth. 抱负9. aspiration: strong desire or ambition 志向,e.g.,She sends a small remittance home to her parents each month.,e.g.,She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer.,e.g.,He was filled with the aspiration to succeed in life.,10. loyalty: the quali
16、ty of being loyal 忠11. filiality: the relation or attitude of a child to a parent 孝,e.g.,They swore their loyalty to the king.,e.g.,One should be filial to ones parents; I have never heard of a view stating that one shouldnt practice filiality.,Part II Text A,An Immigrants Silent Struggle Robert Kos
17、i Tette,Back home in Ghana, I am the embodiment of success. But life in America hasnt always been easy.,According to the title, what is this text mainly about?,Question About the Title,It is about how an immigrant silently battles against his burdened life in the host country.,一位移民的无声挣扎 罗伯特科希泰特,Chin
18、ese Version,在老家加纳,我是成功的化身。可是,在美国的生活却一直不容易。,Author: Robert Kosi Tette(罗伯特科希泰特) is a native of Ghana, West Africa. He currently lives and works in Detroit as an engineer. Achieving higher education has been his goal since arriving in the United States in 1987. He earned his bachelors degree in mechani
19、cal engineering from PrairieView A & M University, Texas, and holds respective graduate degrees in engineering and business administration from Purdue University, Indiana, and the University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. His March 10, 2008 Newsweek article “An Immigrants Silent S
20、truggle” has been nominated for a 2008 New York Association of Black Journalists Award.,Newsweek: an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed
21、 Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence. Newsweek is published in four English language editions and 12 globaleditions written in the language of the circulation region.,“I want to be just like you. You are from uptown, arent you?” the young man asked in the local slan
22、g with a vigorous smile unaware of 1 the scorching tropical sun. Selling bags of onions at the roadside, his extra-large T-shirt and drooping jeans were a testament to the widespread influence of American pop culture in Africa. I had accepted a seat at his onion stand to take a break2 before conclud
23、ing business in Accra that afternoon. Between brisk sales serving customers stuck in traffic, he asked incessant questions about life in America, convinced that having a visa to the United States was like winning the lottery. How could I tellhim that I envied his simple life and blissful innocence w
24、hen I was guilty of 3 the silent culture that had helped to perpetuate a false image of Africans living abroad?,1.未察觉到 2.休息一会儿 3.感到内疚,Questions About This Paragraph,1) What was the young man doing at the roadside? What did his clothes testify?,He was selling bags of onions at the roadside. His cloth
25、es extra-large T-shirt and drooping jeans testified the widespread influence of American pop culture in Africa.,2) What did the young mans incessant questions about life in America suggest?,The questions suggested that the young man had a false perception about life in America, i.e. having a visa to
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