Learing objectives:
1. Listen and talk about different life stages.
2. Get familiar with the topic, and prepare for the passage learning.
Listen to a short passage concerning adolescent reaction and fill in the missing information.
Disillusionment with the parents, however good and adequate they may be both as parents and as1.__________, is to some degree 2. __________. Most children have such a high ideal of their parents, unless the parents themselves have been 3. _____________ that it can hardly hope to 4. _________ to a realistic evaluation.
Parents would be greatly surprised and deeply5. _________ if they realized how much belief their children usually have in their 6. __________ and infallibility , and how much this faith means to a child.
If parents were prepared for this adolescent7. _________ , and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing8. ________ powers of observation and 9. _____________ judgment, they would not be so hurt, and 10. _____________ would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.
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Watch a video clip and discuss the question.
Q1:How much do you know about this American family sitcom “GrowingPains”?
Q2:Taking into consideration of Odyssey years, what message can you get from thisTV program?
