have a thorough understanding of the text contextually and linguistically;
build up an active vocabulary to talk about freshman year and know how to use the key words and expressions in context properly;
communicate with regard to freshman year experience;
understand what American parents and their children think of the freshman year;
reflect on their own experience of the first year at college and how their parents feel when they leave home to attend college;
make a comparison between American college students’ parents and Chinese ones;
get familiar with the writing of an email.
《大学英语》课前预习导引
Guiding questions for previewing the texts
1. What is the title of the text？
2. What is the theme of the unit？
3. How many paragraphs are there in the text？
4. How would you divide the text into parts ？And why do you divide it this way？
5. Draw a mind map to illustrate the structure of the text.
6. What kind of writing is this text, narrative, descriptive,expository or argumentative?
7. What is the main idea of the text? Try to summarize the main idea in one long sentence,
8. What cultural background knowledge must you have grasped to better your understanding of the text?
9. What new words and expressions are significant in your eye that you would like to keep them in mind?
10. What are the sentences patterns and structures that are singled out for practice in this text?
11. What rhetoric devices(修辞手法)are applied in this text?
12. What are the difficult sentences that you want your teacher to discuss in class?
13. What moral values have you learned from this text? Prepare a little speech
14. What message reminds you of Chinese ideology?
