Unit 4 Turning Off TV: A Quiet Hour

What might we do if we were forced to find

other activities rather than watching TV?

Unit 4 Turning Off TV: A Quiet Hour

1. Useful Expressions 2. Text Interpretation 3. Word Family 4. Sentence Structure 5. Translation Practice 6. Reading Skill 7. Guided Writing8. Homework

Useful Expressions

时事

Educational circles 教育界 Current affairs/events

Extracurricular activities 课外活动

社会科学 Social science

Propose to sb 向某人求婚 使…分心 / 走神 Distract…from

违禁品 Prohibited products

Useful Expressions

填补空白 / 弥补缺陷

成人教育

Fill a/the gap

Adult education

Divorce love and duty 分割爱情与责任 利率 Interest rate

Heart failure Disturb the peace

心力衰竭

扰乱治安

招待朋友 Entertain friends

Useful Expressions

赤脚

被陷入 / 涉及 / 影响 / Be/get involved in

Bare feet

Computer literacy 计算机知识 网卡 Network card

电子邮件 E-mail

Be typical of 为…特有，是…的特征

四大发明 Four Inventions

1. Warm-up questions

2. Global analysis

3. Detailed reading

4. Picture talk

5. Inspiring quotations

Text Interpretation

Content questions (75)

1. Warm-up questions

Related topics

1) What do you usually do as a pastime?2) Do you like watching TV?3) What is your favorite TV program?4) What are the advantages and

disadvantages of watching TV? 5) Do modern means bring out a better

com. and understanding among people?

外教社 PPT

◆ What type is the text? A narration B description C exposition D argumentation

2. Global analysis

◆ What pattern is the text organized in? A problem-solution B cause-effect C general-specific D time / sequence

记叙文 a movie描述文 a picture说明文 a lecture议论文 a debate

问题 - 解决因果总 - 分时间 / 顺序

2. Global analysis

Alternative activities and advantages

Activities

Family talk

Reading

Active pastimes

Reading aloud

Free outdoor activities

A more literate generation

A better understanding

Respective advantages

Closer family ties

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3

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2. Global analysis

Top sentences

1. What is the 1st paragraph about?2. What is the topic sentence for Para 2?3. What is the topic sentence for Para 3?4. What is the topic sentence for Para 4?5. What is the topic sentence for Para 5?6. What is the topic sentence for Para 6?7. What function does Sentence 1 in

Para 2 serve?Refer to the previous and

following pages.

2. Global analysis

Part division

Main IdeasParas

Parts

2 2-5

3 6

Alternative activities and advantages

Positive assessment

The proposal of a quiet hour

1 1

1. I would like to propose that all TV broadcasting be prohibited by law.

2. Let’s take a serious, reasonable look at what the results might be if such a proposal were accepted.

3. Without the distraction of TV, they might sit ...

4. It is well known that …in part by failure to com…

5. …get to know…, …come to control…(Note)

6. Freed from TV, forced to …they might …

3. Detailed reading

7. The generation growing up with TV …

8. At first glance, the idea seems radical.

9. What will parents do without the e-baby-sitter?

10. Those of us thirty-five or older can remember...

11. …which … involved the listener’s imagination…

12. It wasn’t that difficult.

13. Honest. The truth is we had a ball.

3. Detailed reading

4. Picture talk

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5. Inspiring quotations

1. Man is what he reads.

人如其所读。

3. Communication is what makes a team strong.

沟通造就一个团队的强大。

2. Reading makes a full man.

少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。4. Laziness in youth spells regret in old age.

读书使人充实。

Worthy, educationist, currency, sociable, socialism, activist, action, forbid, ban, sensible, unreasonable, suggestion, distracter, concentration, factually, disturbing, sunrise, youth, amusement, entertaining, scarcely, illiterate, literature, productive, progressive, conservative, electrical, involvement, concern, imaginative, imaginary, image, inventive,

IV. Enriching your word power (77-79)

Word Family

They walked together.

They took a walk together.

If they had free time and no TV, they might

rediscover reading.

With free time and no TV, they might rediscover

reading.

I propose that all TV broadcasting be prohibited by

law.

Sentence Structure

1. To take this job would involve working on weekends

frequently, but John didn’t mind.

2. It is well known that lung cancer is caused at least in

part by smoking too much.

3. My grandparents said that the man who invented

television had once lived in their neighborhood.

4. I propose that we go to find Prof. Smith in his office

right after the meeting and invite him to our English

evening.

Translation Practice

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3.

4.

5. Having been operated on twice for the disease, she was so weakened that she could barely stand up.

6. Educators think that the generation growing up with television spend so much of their time in front of the TV that they do not have enough time to study.

7. I do hope that you can come up with a better solution than this one.

8. At first glance the picture didn’t look very good, but after examining it carefully we found that it was indeed a masterpiece.

Translation Practice

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Context Clues for Word Meanings Ⅰ

You can often figure out meanings for new words or expressions without using a dictionary by looking for context clues, including definition, restatement, general knowledge and other related information. (85-86)

Reading Skill

Contraction: Avoiding Redundancy

Redundancy is the adding of words or phrases that add nothing to the overall meaning because their senses have already been expressed. Redundancy in writing usually comes from these sources: 1) Wordy phrases; 2) Employing obvious qualifiers when a word is implicit in the word it is modifying; 3) Using two or more synonyms together.

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