unit1sectiona新视野大学英语第三册资料.ppt

Unit 1 I Am Home,Contents,,Text A,Main Idea & Structure,Words & Expressions,Spot Dictation,Activity I,Activity II,Watch and Discuss,Warming up,,·Directions: The following paragraph is taken from Text A. listen carefully and fill in the blanks without referring to the original text.,I _______ on a farm with a huge family. There was lots of love, lots of space and lots to do. From gardening in the _________ to chasing our old goose, ______ the goats to ________ the cattle, the word “bored” never found its way ___ my vocabulary. The work for us was a ____ of love.,grew up,greenhouse,feeding,into,labor,gathering,,Watch the film clips and discuss the following questions: 1) Why was Alexandre unhappy? 2) Can you understand Alexandre’s feeling? Have you had the similar experience with her?,,In this film clip, Alexandre, a Greek exchange student who studies in the US is sad. She misses her family, especially when she received a letter from her parents. Being away from home, she feels lonely, though she has a lot of good friends in the US, and they treat her very well. Nothing can replace the position of family in one’s life. Text A furnishes us a good example.,Summary of the clips and reference for discussion,,Reading through,,Chinese,I grew up on a farm with a huge family. There was lots of love, lots of space and lots to do. From gadening in the greenhouse to chasing our old goose, feeding the goats to gathering the cattle, the word “bored” never found its way into my vocabulary. The work for us was a labor of love. My family and I were very close, spending most nights playing games or telling stories until it was time to go to bed. Falling asleep was never a problem for me. I just listened to the sounds of singing birds and dreamed of another day on the farm. This was my life, and I knew I was lucky.,I Am Home,Para 1&2,,Para 3,When I was 12, though, something terrible happened that would change my life forever. My father suffered a serious heart attack and was diagnosed with heart disease. The doctors informed my dad that he would need to change his lifestyle completely, which meant no more farming life. We were forced to sell our home and move west.,Chinese,Para 4,The dry Arizona air was good for my father, and I was adjusting to a new school, new friends and a new way of living. While my surroundings were different and strange, they were also exciting and fun. As fate would have it, my life would soon change again, and in a very big way.,Chinese,Para 5&6,One day, a personal manager from Los Angeles came up to me and asked if I had ever thought about being an actress. The idea had never crossed my mind. After talking it over with my parents, we decided that my mother and I would move to Los Angeles for a while and give it a shot. Thank goodness my mother was right by my side from the very start. Together, we approached it like an adventure. When my first film was a success, my mother and I both decided that it was time for her to depart and resume her life in Arizona. The little girl from the farm was disappearing and being replaced by a woman in the big city.,Chinese,Para 7&8,I truly loved my job and was treated like a queen. And yet, something was missing. Slowly, a dark void found its way into my heart and began to eat away at my happiness. I tried to figure out what was missing. I tried working harder, then working less. I made new friends and lost touch with old ones. Nothing I did seemed to fill the void. I tried to remember when I was happiest. I asked myself what was important to me. Finally, I had the answer. I knew what I had to do to be happy. Once again, my life was about to change.,Chinese,I called my mother and father and said, “I miss you so much. I need my parents back. I’m buying a place out here and I want you to move to California.” My father wasn’t too keen on the idea of being back in the rat race, but I assured him that this time it would be nothing like that. So we began looking for a place just like I remember growing up in. Then one day we found it: the perfect home, nestled in a warm and sunny valley with pear trees in the yard. The move renewed my family’s happiness; the dark void in me began to disappear; and a sense of balance returned to my soul. I was home, again.,Para 9&10,Chinese,,Meaning of the Sentences,Meaning: For us, this kind of physical labor is enjoyable.,Meaning: I had no difficulty or trouble falling asleep, or I fell asleep easily.,Falling asleep was never a problem for me.,The work for us was a labor of love.,Back,Back,Meaning of the Sentences,Meaning: Yet, when I was 12, a terrible thing happened, which changed my life forever.,Meaning: My father had a serious heart attack and the doctor said it was due to heart disease.,My father suffered a serious heart attack and was diagnosed with heart disease.,When I was 12, though, something terrible happened that would change my life forever.,Back,Back,Meaning of the Sentences,Meaning: The doct。