《大学英语》课程教学资源（第二册课件，英文版）Unit Three The generation gap

Unit Three The generation gap

Unit Three The generation gap

Quotations about fatherhood a Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own Doug Larson a Raising kids is part guerilla warfare

Quotations about fatherhood: ◼ Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own——Doug Larson ◼ Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare——Ed Asner

a Each generation imagines itself to he more intelligent than the one fore it, and wiser than comes after it George Orwell Youth is a blunder: manhood a struggle, old age a regret Benjamin Disraeli

◼ Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ——George Orwell ◼ Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. ——Benjamin Disraeli

Part one: pre-reading task 1. Who should be sitting up and taking notice? Why? 2. What does the singer think of his parents'way of doing things?

Part one: pre-reading task ◼ 1. Who should be sitting up and taking notice? Why? ◼ 2. What does the singer think of his parents’way of doing things?

Pair interview 1. Do you know your parents' birthdays and their wedding anniversary 2. Do your parents celebrate your birthday? How about their own birthday celebration? 3. In your parents' eyes, what are you interested in? 4. In your eyes, What are your parents interested in?

* Pair interview 1. Do you know your parents’ birthdays and their wedding anniversary? 2. Do your parents celebrate your birthday?How about their own birthday celebration? 3. In your parents’ eyes, what are you interested in? 4. In your eyes, what are your parents interested in?

5. In what areas do your parents want you to improve? 6. In what ways do you want your parents to improve? 7. Tell of an instance when your parents and you disagree over something

5. In what areas do your parents want you to improve? 6. In what ways do you want your parents to improve? 7. Tell of an instance when your parents and you disagree over something

Part two: Something about plays x Components of a play 1. Characters actors or 2. Settings actress in which the play is performed!b↓∴b 3. Stage directions: to set up stage properties in the proper place; to direct actors's movement, gesture, facial expression etc

Part two: Something about plays Components of a play: 1.Characters: actors or 2.Settings: actress in which the play is performed 3. Stage directions: to set up stage properties in the proper place; to direct actors’s movement,gesture, facial expression etc

4. Language /Line < Here I am 5. conflicts: the essence of a play, a clash of actions, ideas which may happen in three forms man v.s. man. man vs environment. man ys himself

4. Language / Line 5.conflicts:the essence of a play, a clash of actions, ideas which may happen in three forms: man v.s. man,man v.s. environment, man v.s. himself

6. Climax, when a conflict develops to the most intensified point it becomes a climax 7. Theme: main ideas of a play

6. Climax: when a conflict develops to the most intensified point, it becomes a climax 7.Theme: main ideas of a play

Stage arrangement Up left Up right Stage left Center Stage Stage right Down left Down right

Stage arrangement: Up left Stage left Down left Center Stage Up right Stage right Down right