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Unit 4 Section A
Dance with Love
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH PRESS AIR FORCE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY
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4 UNIT
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Lead-in Pre-reading activities Cultural background
Lead-in
Look at the pictures and discuss
Look at the following pictures and discuss what are the modern dating practices.
Cultural background
American society in 1960s
2. What is “sexual revolution”?
• The changes to sexual attitudes and behavior during the 1960s are often referred to as the “sexual revolution”;
Pre-reading activities
Compound dictation
Listen to a short passage concerning American dating and fill in the missing information.
Before marriage, younger Americans date each other, that is, they often go out together. Casual dating usually begins in the early teens, and in the late teens a _p_a_tt_e_r_n_ of steady dating develops. There is a great _p_o_s_s_ib_i_li_t_y that one goes to a dance with one person, to a football game with another, and to a picnic with a third.
