教案：

第三、四学时                                          

 第三学时（45 分钟）

Step 1. 检查单词识记及知识点掌握情况（5）

Step 2. 课文梳理（40）

9. The service offers customers flexible, practical and affordable access to a fleet of cars for one-way journeys with easy parking throughout London. (Para. 7)

1) flexible: a. a person, plan, etc. that is flexible can change or be changed easily to suit any new situation（人、计划等）灵活的，可变通的

e.g.

They were required to undergo a 14-day quarantine after arriving in China, with a more flexible method adopted for the second part of the quarantine period, when athletes could resume training while experiencing strict self-monitoring.

（来源：https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202011/11/WS5fab58cba31024ad0ba936c7.html）

2) a fleet of: agroup of planes, buses, taxis, etc. travelling together or owned by the same organization 飞机群；车队

e.g.

Stores were closed. Roads were sealed. In February, a fleet of five unmanned vans, quiet and orderly, fanned out across Shandong province's Zibo, a city on lockdown, delivering groceries to thousands of residents in 16 nearby villages stricken by the COVID-19 pandemic.

（来源：https://epaper.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202010/29/WS5f9a0aa8a31099a234351541.html）

10. Companies like Uber, Spotify and Airbnb are allrecent success stories that also speak to the new sharing economy.(Para. 8)

speak to: to respond to, deal with, fulfill, etc. 回应；处理；完成

e.g.

LONDON, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- British police said they have spoken to Prince Philip for driving without fastening his seatbelt, media reported.

Paraphrase: These companies are all recent successful businesses that are related to the new sharing economy.

11. “In years past the idea of renting someone's apartmentfor a vacation stay was nothing short of a foreign concept to millennials.”(Para. 8)

In this sentence the author uses“nothing short of”which means“almost or equal to”to emphasize that sharing things is actuallyquite new.

nothingshort of:

be nothing short of 意思是“毫不逊于；简直就是”。用于表示强调某物极好、令人惊叹等。

e.g.

1) The party was nothing short of a disaster.

这次聚会完全是个灾难。

2)    His recovery was nothing short of miraculous.

他的康复简直是奇迹。

3)   That treatment is nothing short of torture!

这疗法完全是折磨

12. Airbnb has created an entirely new way oftraveling for millennials, providing access to properties ranging from intimate to exotic all around the world with competitive pricing that most major hotel chains can't compete against. (Para. 8)

compete against: to try to win sth. by defeating others who are trying to do the same 

竞争；对抗；比赛

e.g.

Researchers found that learning to compete against internal benchmarks rather than focusing on comparison with others improved younger player's initiative and motivation.

研究人员发现，学会将自身作为参照物进行比较，而不是专注于和其它人的竞争，这对提高年轻队员的主动性和积极性有很大的帮助。

13. Rent the Runway, a popular online retailer offering designer dresses and accessories for rent, has surged to success among millennial women where luxury designers might have normally been out of their financial reach. (Para. 9)

out of reach: difficult to achieve orget because you do not have enough skill, power, or money （因为没有足够的技能、权力或金钱而）难以实现（得到）

e.g.

It was no good to try for something I knew at thestart was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure.

14. Not only is Rent the Runway the smart choice of women who value experiences over possessions, it's also themodern one. (Para. 10)

value A over B：A重于B

e.g.

They value the environmental quality they preserve over their oil imports from abroad.

15. Millennials' need for sharing is not just about finances, but rather their insatiable desire to refresh a product or service as fast as they do their social media feeds. (Para. 11)

1) not… but rather… “不是（做）某事而是（做）另外的事”。

In this sentence the author uses“not … but rather”to emphasize millennials' need to share things.

e.g.

1) The patient's condition was not better but rathergrew worse.

2) Our aim was not to punish the rich, but rather to bring justice to the poor.

3) The ending of the war is not a cause for celebration, but rather for regret that it ever happened.    

Drill:

Translate the following sentences using the sentence patterns in the above box.

1)     现在只有奇迹才能救我们了。

Nothing short of miracle can save us now.

2)     她的行为实在粗鲁。

Her behavior was nothing short of rude.

3)     他决定放弃而不是承认他犯了错误。

He chose to quit rather than admit that he'd made amistake.

4)     我们想早点而不是晚点解决这问题。

We want the matter settled sooner rather than later.

2) insatiable: a. always wanting more and more of sth. 不能满足的；贪得无厌的

insatiable demand/appetite/curiosity/thirst/desire/ambition

无法满足的需求/贪得无厌的需求/永不满足的好奇心/无尽的渴求/永无休止的欲望/不知足的野心

3) refresh: vt. if you refresh sth.old or dull, you make it as good as it was when it was new 更新

e.g.

There is a hypothesis that we sleep so that our brain can repair and refresh itself.

有一种假设是，我们睡觉是为了让大脑自我修复和更新。

第四学时（45 分钟）

Step 4. iExplore 2 Less vs. More

基于Pre-class Assignment, 学生选择生活方式，分享个人观点：

What type of lifestyle do you prefer? Financially abundant (material prosperity) or culturally rich (spiritual wealth)? Why?

Step 5. Writing skills

1.   Achieving cohesion with REPETITION

Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds atext together and gives it meaning.

• How to achieve cohesion in writing?

Cohesionin writing is achieved in many ways. Repetition is one of them which help readers to relate what they have just read with what they are going to read.

The writer could repeat words, phrases, or ideas that appear in a previous sentence or paragraph.

Orthey could avoid dullness with variations of the word (teach, teacher), pronouns (teachers, they), or synonyms (walk, wander).

Millennials, born 1980-2000, are a generation 92 million strong. They (pronoun) stand to inherit large amounts of wealth and will control the spending power in the US for quite some time. This generation (repetition, pronoun) has grown up with immense uncertainty, being witness to the 2008-2009 stock market catastrophe and partners-in-crime that has wrapped students in debt. These (pronoun) have left lasting reminders for millennials that owning things might not be the smartest financial decision. (Para. 3)

• Read the following paragraphs and identify the repetition, following the examples in the above box. Write the repeated words or information of Column A in the corresponding blanks in Column B.

(1) Millennials grew up with computers and the Internet. (2) This familiarity makes them good at understanding information technology. (3) They tend to adjust readily to new programs, operating systems (OS) and devices and to perform computer-based tasks more quickly than older generations. (4) Although it's been proven that multitasking is not usually an effective way to work, millennials may be theemployees that are most likely to pull it off. (5) Millennials are generally comfortable with the idea of a public Internet life. (6) Privacy, in the millennial eye, ismostly a concern of functional settings limiting who sees their online shares.(7) This comfort with social media means they are good at self-promotion and fostering connections through online media. (8) But this approach often results in an issue when comparing themselves to peers. (9) Millennials are sometimes frustrated by the grass seeming greener on the other side of the fence. (10) That impression may be due to people's image crafting, which emphasizes their good qualities and exciting parts of their lives.                    

2.  How to Write a Picture-based Essay?(图画、漫画作文)

解题点拨

一、体裁介绍

现象解释型作文的变体。题目提供图画/漫画信息用来反映一个社会现象或生活哲理，要求考生根据自己对漫画的理解对现象进行描述，说明原因，阐述个人看法。

二、写作思路

第一段   简要描述漫画内容，指出漫画寓意。(切不可抛开漫画内容直接议论。)

第二段   表达考生对漫画寓意的看法。(重心)

第三段   指出漫画寓意/提出解决问题的建议。(总结升华，完善结构，简明扼要，点到为止)

三、真题分析

Directions：For this part, you're allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of learning basicskills. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.(2013.6)

写作思路

第一段 图画描述(现象描述段)

       老师教授的东西，学生的提问，老师尴尬的表情

第二段 原因分析+意义阐述段落

       分析学生质疑的原因；反面论述，如果不学习会…知识重要性。

第三段 结论+表态

       相关部门，学生本身，展望未来等。

参考模板句型

It seems to me that the cartoon/drawing is sending a message about _____(图画内容), which reveals ____ (稍作评价)。 In my perspective of view, _____(表明个人观点). Apparently, _____(将个人观点和图片内容相结合，得出观点)  For onething, _____(举例子). Last but not least, _____(从反面角度谈论).

As aresult, the drawer of thee illustration is urging us to _____(建议或措施). Only in this way can we_____(展望结果). In conclusion/To my understanding,  ________ (再次表明观点或态度). We should _______(进一步说明个人观点).

Step 6. 小结与作业（5）

• 课程小结：

• 检查了单词识记及知识点掌握情况

• 梳理了课文Paras. 7-12, 学习了重点目标词汇及句型

• 学习了写作技巧：

1）Achieving cohesion with repetition

2）图画/漫画类作文写作模式

4. 基于iExplore 2主题，讨论了对不同生活方式的追求：精神富足 vs. 物质富足

• 作业（见课后任务清单）

  教师通过学习通将课后学习任务清单（见Unit 4 课后学习清单—第三四学时）发布给学生，学生依据清单进行课后学习，为下一周上课做准备。

  
  

课后学习清单：