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Unit 3 The Generation GapTeaching Aims:1. Understanding the main idea (Father meddled in children’s affairs with good intentions ,but only to find his efforts unwele) and structure ( three settings,three scense)。2. Appreciate the basic elements of a play。3. Grasp the key language points in Texts A and learn to use them in context。4. Understand the cultural background related to the content5. Conducting a series of themerelated reading, listening, speaking, and writing activities6. Learn to write poster, etc.Teaching Keypoints:1. Grasp the main idea of Text A and language points in Text A 2. Cultural background about The Generation Gap。 3. Analysis of the difficult sentences in Text ATeaching Difficulties:1. Writing strategy and style demonstrated in Text A2. Learn how to understand the structure of difficult and long sentencesTeaching Aids:Teacherguided, discussion, exercises, groupactivities, studentcentredTeaching period: 12 classesTeaching Procedure:Step 1Warming up1. Have students read the overview of page 58, students will understand the main topic of unit3 2. Have students listen to the script of listening part, explain some difficult sentences and phrases, lead them to finish the exercises on page59, check the answer3. Have students form pairs to interview each other.Step 2 Global analysis of Text APart Division of the Text PartsPara(s).Main Ideas11~35In a fastfood restaurant, Father embarrassed Sean by talking too proudly to the restaurant manager.236~108In the Thompson family dining room, Father embarrassed Diane by persuading a workmate into pressing his son to ask her to the senior prom.3109~130In an office at Heidi’s high school, Father embarrassed Heidi by boasting to an official about how bright she was.Step 3 Detailed Reading Ⅰ. Difficult Sentences1. (Title) “Father Knows Better”1. What does “Father knows better.” mean?(=“Father knows better.” or “Father, you know better than that.” literally means Father was wise enough not to do something. Actually it does not have this meaning. It means Father was not wise when he meddled with his children’s affairs.)2. How many times does this sentence occur in the text? What can you infer from the sentence?(=This sentence occurs six times in the text. The children said it satirically to show their disapproval of Father’s meddling with their affairs. )2. (~40) “I’m sure he’s a good worker but a typical teenager, if you know what I mean.”1. What did Father mean by saying this?(=Father was proud of his son as he thought his son would work well, but he was a little worried that his son was a boy and he might make some mistakes in his work.) 2. What was the manager’s response? (=As a young man, the manager didn’t understand a father’s feeling, and showed no interests.)3. (~43) “And I assure you that if there are any subjects that need to be addressed, Sean and I will have a mantoman talk.”1. What is a mantoman talk?(=A talk that takes place between two men, especially two men who need to discuss a serious personal matter.)2. Translate the sentence into Chinese.(=你放心,要是有什么問題需要解決的話,我和肖恩會開誠布公