Unit3 The Generation Gap
Part II Reading Task
Comprehension
Content Question
Pair Work
1. There are seven characters---Father, Mother, Heidi, Diane, Sean, Restaurant Manager, and
Mrs. Higgins.
2. No. Because what he does usually ends up embarrassing them.
3. To buy a guitar.
4. To check if Sean was going to embarrass him.
5. He knew his father was going to embarrass him.
6. It was unnecessary and embarrassing.
7. He wanted Dan to pressure his son into asking Diane to the senior prom.
8. He would speak to his son and insist that the latter give Diane a call.
9. She felt humiliated.
10. Because the Thompson had just moved.
11. He tried to let her know how exceptionally talented a young woman Heidi was.
12. Because she couldn’t bear being embarrassed by her father.
Text Organization
Working On Your Own
1 Uint2
II. Basic Listening Practice
1. Script
W: Have you chosen your elective for next semester yet? Are you taking French
writing again?
M: Yes I am, but it’s compulsory for us next semester. So I think I’m gong to do
marketing as an elective instead.
Q: Which class will the man choose as his elective?
2. Script
M: Did you go to that businesses lecture on Friday? I missed it and need to copy your
notes.
W: I’d say you could borrow my notes, but Sarah’s got them. Be careful not to miss
Professor Brown’s seminar; he takes attendance in that.
Q: What is the woman telling the man?
3. Script
W: Wow, Steven! In the library! What brings you here?
M: I’m enjoying the view. All the girls in fashion design are here are preparing for an
exam on Monday.
Q: Why is the man in the library?
4. Script
W: How’s your group doing with this statistics presentation? Mine’s terrible.
Unit 1 Reading Rtrategies
Section A
Word Pretest
1----5 B C (3: no correct answer, suggested one:
tired condition in the eyes) B B
6----10 A (7:no correct answer, suggested one:
capable of being developed or used) C C B
Reading Skill
2----5 CBCA 6----9 BBAA
Vocabulary Building
1
1.a.practicable/practical b. practice c. practices
d. practicable/practical e. practiced
2. a.worthless b. worthy c. worthwhile d.worth
e.worth
3. a.vary b.variety c.variation d.various/varied
e.Various
4. a.absorbing b.absorbed c.absorb d.absorption
e.absorbent
2
1. a.effective b.efficient c.effective
2. a.technology b.technique
3. a.middle b.medium c.medium
Cloze
Going/about/trying expectations/predictions
questions answers
Predictions/expectations tell know/foretell
Unit 2 Civil Rights Heros
Text A Freedom Givers
Vocabulary
I.
1.
1) decades 5) slender 9) on the side
2) historic 6) web 10) authorized
3) imposed 7) bade 11) terminal
4) religious 8) site 12) make the best of
2.
1) went through 2) stood up for 3) laid down 4) take on
5) let (us) down 6) draw on 7) fall into 8) pass for
3.
1) The Europeans are fully confident that the Americans will not be able to justify
their measures to protect the struggling American steel industry.
2) Clinton is, in the eyes of Joe Klein, staff writer of the New Yorker and author
of The Natural, the most talented politician of his generation and the most
compelling.
3) There's not much you can do if people are really intent on destroying
themselves with drugs.
4) A different experience of the world could forge a completely different
