Passage BPassage B Returning to CollegeReturning to College

Teaching Objective: Students are expected to get the main idea of the passage and learn topic-related words and culture notes.

• Emphasis: The general idea of the text• Difficulty: Students are able to summarize the main contents of the text

What’s your view on college students’ joining the army?

Warming-up Discussion

After several years of military service, would you like to return to college?

Passage B Returning to College

Global Reading

Q1: Why does the author plan to return to college?

Q2: What’s the college students’ attitude towards college education?

Q3: What courses would the author like to take in college?

• Q1: Why does the author plan to return to college?

• Q3: What courses would the author like to study in college?

I’ve visited a dozen colleges in the last two years, and college life looks extraordinarily pleasant. (lines 6-7)

Global Reading

extra- 2.very; more than usual

Examples: extra-curricular; extralegal; extramarital

extra-special; extra-strong; extra-thin, extra-fast

:(prefix)1.outside;beyond

extra+ordinarily extraordinarily

What does the author think of the students on campus?(A) They lack sense of responsibility(B) They are too willing to make friends(C) They make their families worry about them(D) They fail to realize that college life is precious.

D

Part II (in para.3-5)

Reading Comprehension

Paras.4-5 students author

teachers

system

girls/boys

idiots stinks

sometimes

are not nice

to make a buck

Not deny

Not deny

College life is idyllic

a independent joy

Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

PhilosophyCalculusEnglish literatureHistoryEnglish grammar and usage

What does the author plan to study at college?

I’d like to take in college.

Reasons:

philosophy

Reading Comprehension

in Para.6

I like the thinking process.I like philosophers.I’d like to take a course in which I had to read the great thinkers.

Culture Notes: Plato （柏拉图） Greek philosopher. A follower of Socrates ( 苏 格 拉 底 ). Plato presented his ideas in the form of dramatic dialogues.

Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics（形而上学）， ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics （诗学 ; 诗论） , he profoundly influenced Western thought.

Aristotle （亚里士多德）

Spiritual love

Culture Notes:

British philosopher and historian who argued that human knowledge arises only from sense experience.

David Hume( 戴维 ·休谟 1711-1776)

Baruch Spinoza( 巴 鲁 赫 ·斯 宾 诺 莎 1632-1677 ） Dutch philosopher and theologian 神 学 家 whose controversial pantheistic 泛 神 论 ( 者 ) doctrine advocated an intellectual love God. His best-known work is Ethics(1677). John Locke( 约翰 ·洛克 1632-1704) English philosopher. In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ， he set out the principles of empiricism（经验主义） , and his Two Treaties on Government influenced the Declaration of Independence.

John Dewey ( 约 翰 ·杜 威 1859-1952) American philosopher and educator who was a leading exponent （倡导者 ; 代表者） of philosophical pragmatism （实用 主 义 ） and rejected traditional methods of teaching by rote （死记硬背） in favor of a broad-based system of practical experience.

Culture Notes:

I’d like to take in college. calculus

Reasons: in para.7

I’d like to find out what is going on in mathematics.

I won’t have to worry about marks.

Reading Comprehension

I’d like to take in college.

Reasons: in para.8 I’d like to be forced by a good professor to read some literary classics. I’d like to take over a course featured George Gordon Byron.

I’d like to have a few easy courses.

Reading Comprehension

Culture Notes: George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

English poet, who was one of the most important and versatile （ 多 才 多 艺 的 ） writers of the romantic movement. His works include Childe Harold （《恰尔德哈罗德游记》） , and Don Juan( 《唐璜》 ) ， etc.

Lord Byron（拜伦伯爵）

I’d like to take in college.

I’d like to be refreshed about the broad outline of history.

I’d like to be able to associate time with some names and events and get some conversational conceit.

Reading Comprehension

Reasons: in para.9My history is weak.

This is just a little conversational conceit, but that’s life.(line 38)

several history courses

This is like a trick used in conversation to show off, but I think we all naturally do so.

I’d like to take in college.English grammar and usage

Reasons: in para.10

I know a lot about using the language, still there are times when I’m stumped.

Reading Comprehension

Please don’t take me seriously? ------ what is part of speech the word “please”?

1.Individual work Suppose you were the author, would you please make a brief speech at your college graduation ceremony. (summarize, rewrite and retell passage B)

2. Pair work: role play Would you please interview people round about you about their view on lifelong education?

Activities:

Para. 11 I’ve been asked to speak at several college graduation ceremonies. Maybe if I graduate, they’ll ask me to speak at my own.

2 minutes to prepare task 1 or task 2 Show time: 2 minutes for task 1:graduation speech

2 minutes for task 2 Interview people in the workplace about their

view on lifelong education.

In this passage, the writer praises the idea of ________________________ and regrets the fact that most college students, motivated only by the idea of ______________________, do not realize what a ___________________ they are missing. The author himself would like to go right back to be a ________ and study ________________________________________ . He does recognize that if he were studying for _____________ and not for _______________, education would probably become ______________________.

education for education’s sake

future professional successwonderful opportunity

freshman

the knowledge earning grades

less stressful and more fun

philosophy, calculus, literature, history and grammar

Summary:

Passage Structure ★★★

Culture Notes★★Reading Comprehension ★★★

Goal Checking

Summary★★

Topic-related Words ★★

1. Read the passage again and underline some difficult words and sentences;

2. Finish exercises after the passage; 3. Prepare a presentation on “My Goal to

Go to College and My Plan upon Graduation.

Assignments