Unit 5 The Sad Young Men

Teaching objectives:

a.To get familiar with the background knowledge on the Lost Generation, World War I, and the US in the 1920s.

b. To learn the central idea of The Sad Young Men 

c. To learn the writing technique and appreciate the language features 

Key points:

a. Master some important words and expressions, such as sensational, denuciation, gentility, precipitate, obsolescent, manifesco etc.

b. Learn to analyse and appreciate the text.