Practice Always Makes Perfect

Fresh Start

Unit one

Practice Always Makes PerfectLead-in questions

• What does “fresh start” mean to you?

• Can you name some fresh start in your life?

• How do you always feel when something new starts?

Practice Always Makes PerfectGlobal reading questions

• Is this essay a narration or argumentation?• Who are involved in the story?• What happened to the author?• How did she feel?• What did she learn from this experience?• What change have taken place since?• How many parts can this article be divided into?• What does each part talk about?

Practice Always Makes PerfectPart one (1-2): A Freshman

• Important words & phrasesanyway pitifully drive off first-gradish add todistress airs of assurance discreetly reserve in the direction of glance at be drawn to seek out

• Sentence patterns…want nothing more than…Adding to … was…It took everything I had not to …

Practice Always Makes PerfectPart one (1-2): A Freshman

• How did the author when I was left alone in the parking lot? (wonder pitifully first-gradish distress freshman)

• What did I do then?( raise square set out glance at)

• Who did I see?• What did I do the whole afternoon? (seek out)

Practice Always Makes PerfectPart two (3,4,5): The first class

• Important words & phrasesawait demeanor deliberation foreground march in vision grope for break out assume the scientific pose cold sweatunder one’s breath tip…off…

• Sentence patternsOnce… After deliberation… do…in preparation for…

Practice Always Makes PerfectPart two (3,4,5): The first class

• What is the question that I’m thinking about when I went into the classroom?

• Why did cold sweat break out on the back of my neck?

• What did I decide to do then?

Practice Always Makes Perfect

Part three (6-7): At the cafeteria

• Important words & phrasesnourishment hurry to pile…with head for

accidentally step in get out of the mess

lose one’s balance do no good determined

(jump) clear (of) charge (+adv./prep.) die down

• Sentence patterns …is not going to be easy.

Practice Always Makes PerfectPart three (6-7): At the cafeteria

• Where did I go after class? And what happened to me?

• Why did I think that my entire life ended with my first day of college classes?

• What was the reaction of the people in the cafeteria?

Practice Always Makes PerfectPart four(8-11): I learned sth.

• Important words & phrases

dine (on) humiliation composed shame relief (my heart) go out to (him) grin from ear to ear take myself far too seriously interpret…as… popularity run with the crowd a law of survival preoccupation

• Sentence patterns dine nothing more than (want nothing more than) … was long enough for … to … So off to the cafeteria I went. This is my big chance to do…

Practice Always Makes PerfectPart four(8-11): I learned sth.

• What did I do after this accident?• What did I see in the cafeteria when I went to it

again four days later?• How did I interpret the accident and what may

be others’ view?• According to the author, what may be the

difference between high school and college?

Practice Always Makes PerfectPart five(12-14): I changed myself

• Important words & phrases live up to one’s expectation self-consciousness

fall away view…as… a wonderful experiment

try on new experience break rules give up

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Part five(12-14): I changed myself

• Why did I feel relaxed?• What did I do in the following years in college?• What does this sentence imply: College, I

decided, was probably the only time I would be completely forgiven for massive mistakes.