Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 Contents Think About It Related Information Explanation of Passage B Summary of the Text Reading and writing skills Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 1. How do you think youll feel after four years college study? I think I will be more confident and mature. Think About It Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 2. How does the author feel about his college life before the graduation? The author feels that his college life is fun and exciting. Think About It Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 Click and listen to the text. Listen to the whole text. Listen to paragraph 1. Listen to paragraph 2. Listen to paragraph 3. Listen to paragraph 4. Listen to paragraph 5. Listen to paragraph 6. Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 Explanation of Passage B Para. One: As a graduate, I want to turn back time and cherish every day of my experience once again /How I wish to turn back time and experience my college life again ?/He valued his college life and wished it would not have to end. Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 Para. Two: College has been a great learning experience, and most of the learning experience has taken place outside of the classroom. e.g. his sophomore year of college 1) convince his mom .2)make lifelong friends 3) know himself 4) experience with new things Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 Para. Three--Six: Para. Three--Six: A lot of soul-searching and reminiscing were made while he was taking a walk on campus Main idea: The author cherishes college life and is reluctant to graduate. Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 1. In less than two weeks, Ill have graduated. (Para 1) This is an example of the use of the future perfect tense. The future perfect tense tells us something that will be past at or before a certain time in the future. Ill have graduated within two weeks. Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 By this time next week, youll have taken your examination. I hope it will have stopped raining before we have to go. I hope that everything I have told you will not have been forgotten by the next lesson. Examples: Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 2.I can still remember the first day of classes, looking on the map on the back of the Schedule of Classes and asking where the classroom building was. (Para 1) Being a freshman of the university, the author was not familiar with the school resources. That was why he asked of others the location of the classroom building on the first class day. Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 3. Every day I wish I could freeze time and make the next two weeks go more slowly. (Para 1) wish is followed by a subjunctive clause here. I wish it were cooler. (It is not cool. It is hot.) I wish you had been to the cinema with us last night. ( You didnt.) Examples: Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English and through many triumphs and failures I came to know more about myself. (Para 2) I had experienced many successes and many failures. It was through these successes and failures that I got to know myself better. Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 5. As I walk down the familiar routes on campus, I found myself doing a lot of soul-searching and reminiscing. (Para 3) soul-searching: a deep examination of ones mind and conscience. As I walk on the familiar campus road, I find myself thinking about the passed days I spent at the college. Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 6. The world is enormous and the possibilities are endless. (Para 3) The world is so big and who knows what will happen (after graduation). Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 7. I am getting a queasy feeling deep down every time I think about the fact that Im going to be graduating. (Para 4) I feel quite uneasy at the idea that I will graduate from college. Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 Every time I catch a cold, I have a pain in my back. Stormy applause broke forth the moment the pop star appeared on the stage. Examples: None phrases like every time / the moment / next time can also be used to introduce adverbial clauses of time. Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 8. Its too difficult to even contemplate the idea that soon I will be waking up in the mornings and not have a class to which I should be going. (Para 4) It is so difficult for me to understand that soon I will be waking up in the mornings and find there is no class for me to go to. Passage B Wish for Freshman Year Experiencing English 1 Thank You!