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(共25张PPT)
Unit 4 Changing and Growing
Developing the Topic:
Reading for Writing
(Growing in the past year)
能通过阅读成长故事，梳理出故事的开端、发展和结局，掌握记叙文的结构分析方法。
学会运用文中的短语和句型，描述自己的成长故事。
能够根据成长故事的人物发展图表，完成自己的作文草稿，并通过自评和同伴互评，对作文进行修改完善，提升写作能力。
1. What problems did you have
2. How did you feel at first
3. What did you do to deal with the problems
4. How did you feel in the end
We should bravely face the growing pain and try our best to solve them！
Talking about problems of growing up and solutions to them
Understand character development
the process of change
Beginning Middle End
the reason for change
... changed because ...
We can understand character development
by analyzing how and why a character changes.
Growing in the past year
Activity 1
Discuss the order of the sentences and read the text
in Activity 2 to check.
I often argued with my parents for nothing.
Little by little, I became more confident.
During my 8th grade, I went through many changes.
Now, I don’t worry about my weight anymore.
Luckily, my elder sister, Zhenzhen, noticed how I was feeling.
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Growing in the past year
Activity 1
Accept Yourself and Share Your Feelings
My name is Li Mei. Today, I want to share my story of growing up.
During my 8th grade, I went through many changes. As I was growing taller, I was gaining weight quickly. This made me feel bad about myself, and I often argued with my parents for nothing. At times, I was really feeling lonely and unhappy.
Growing in the past year
Activity 1
Luckily, my elder sister, Zhenzhen, noticed how I was feeling. She was always there to listen. With her support, I started to talk about my feelings. Little by little, I became more confident, and my relationship with my parents also improved.
Being a teenager is not easy, but I learned to accept myself and share my feelings. Now, I don’t worry about my weight anymore. Instead, I feel happy every day!
Read the text about Li Mei’s growing-up story and complete the chart.
Activity 2
Growing in the past year
Accept Yourself and Share Your Feelings
My name is Li Mei. Today, I want to share my story of growing up.
During my 8th grade, I went through many changes. As I was growing taller, I was gaining weight quickly. This made me feel bad about myself, and I often argued with my parents for nothing. At times, I was really feeling lonely and unhappy.
Read the text about Li Mei’s growing-up story and complete the chart.
Activity 2
Growing in the past year
Luckily, my elder sister, Zhenzhen, noticed how I was feeling. She was always there to listen. With her support, I started to talk about my feelings. Little by little, I became more confident, and my relationship with my parents also improved.
Being a teenager is not easy, but I learned to accept myself and share my feelings. Now, I don’t worry about my weight anymore. Instead, I feel happy every day!
Read the text about Li Mei’s growing-up story and complete the chart.
Activity 2
Beginning
Middle
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End
Her elder sister Zhenzhen noticed her bad feelings and was always there to listen.
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Li Mei started to talked about feelings, became more confident, and got on better with parents.
Li Mei learned to accept herself and share her feelings.
Now she doesn’t worry about her weight anymore. She feels happy every day.
Growing in the past year
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Li Mei grew taller and put on weight fast. This made her unhappy.
She often fought with her parents for no reason and felt lonely.
My name is Li Mei. Today, I want to share my story of growing up.
During my 8th grade, I went through many changes. As I was growing taller, I was gaining weight quickly. This made me feel bad about myself, and I often argued with my parents for nothing. At times, I was really feeling lonely and unhappy.
Activity 2
Understanding character development
Accept Yourself and Share Your Feelings
经历
争吵
体重增加
偶尔，有时
Luckily, my elder sister, Zhenzhen, noticed how I was feeling. She was always there to listen. With her support, I started to talk about my feelings. Little by little, I became more confident, and my relationship with my parents also improved.
Being a teenager is not easy, but I learned to accept myself and share my feelings. Now, I don’t worry about my weight anymore. Instead, I feel happy every day!
Activity 2
Understanding character development
Accept Yourself and Share Your Feelings
不再……
幸运地
慢慢地
关系
接受
Activity 3
Draw a character-development chart of your growing-up story, and then draft your essay. The phrases and sentence patterns may help you.
Growing in the past year
Useful phrases
Useful phrases
feel … about …
argue with …
try to do …
no longer
I want to tell …
To become a(n) …
Little by little, …
I’m no longer …
Activity 3
Growing in the past year
Beginning
Middle
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End
My math teacher encouraged me and told me some useful skills.
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I tried to practice these skills and find out my own good learning methods.
Little by little, math got easier for me.
Now I can solve many math problems. I feel happy because I didn’t give up.
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I felt sad about my bad math grades.
To become a good math learner, I tried to do more exercises every day. But I still made lots of mistakes.
Activity 4
Rate your draft, and then complete your essay.
Growing in the past year
1-Needs improvement; 2-Satisfactory; 3-Good; 4-Excellent
How well can you ____________________ Self-rating Partner’s rating
express your view of knowing yourself
use the thinking skill of describing a character
write about your growing-up story
organize ideas into a well-balanced structure
Activity 4
Growing in the past year
1-Needs improvement; 2-Satisfactory; 3-Good; 4-Excellent
How well can you ____________________ Self-rating Partner’s rating
use the theme vocabulary of the unit
use the past continuous tense
use punctuation
spell the words
Please ask your partner to review your draft for errors and
offer suggestions for improvement.
单词 词性 释义
gain v. 获得；赢得；增加
argue v. 争论；争吵；争辩
luckily adv. 幸好；幸运地
notice v. 注意到；注意
relationship n. 关系；联系；关联
New words
单词 词性 释义
accept v. 接受
anymore adv. 再也（不）；（不）再
went through / 经历
at times / 偶尔，有时
little by little / 慢慢地
New words and phrases
Sentences
1. Luckily, my elder sister, Zhenzhen, noticed how I was feeling.
幸运的是，我姐姐珍珍注意到了我的感受。
elder 意为 “年长的”，仅用于人（亲属关系），且只能作定语放在名词前。如：Her elder brother is a doctor.（她哥哥是医生。）
older表示“年龄更大的”，可用于人或物，可作定语或表语。
如：This book is older than that one. 这本书比那本旧。
He is older than me. 他比我大。
Sentences
1. Luckily, my elder sister, Zhenzhen, noticed how I was feeling.
幸运的是，我姐姐珍珍注意到了我的感受。
“how I was feeling” 是一个由连接词 “how” 引导的宾语从句，在原句中作动词 “noticed” 的宾语，用来具体说明 “注意到” 的内容。其语法规则为“连接词引导 + 陈述句语序”。如：
She explained how the machine works. 她解释了机器是如何运作的。
I wonder how they finished the task so quickly. 我好奇他们是如何这么快就完成任务的。
Sentences
2. Now, I don’t worry about my weight anymore.
现在我再也不担心我的体重了。
not...anymore... 意为“再也不……”，强调 “过去持续的动作或状态现在已经停止”。例如： He doesn’t play video games anymore. 他再也不玩电子游戏了。
She does not eat fast food anymore because she wants to keep healthy.她再也不吃快餐了，因为她想保持健康。
3. 我不再害怕在众人面前发言了。(no longer)
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翻译句子
I no longer fear speaking in front of people.
1. 我对自己的进步感到开心。(feel … about …)
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2. 不要和你的弟弟为玩具争吵。(argue with …)
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I feel happy about my progress.
Don’t argue with your younger brother about toys.
6. 我不再害怕独自在家了。(not...anymore...)
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翻译句子
I am not afraid of staying at home alone anymore.
4. 为了成为一名作家，我每天都坚持写作。
(To become a(n) …)
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5. 渐渐地，我学会了独立解决问题。(Little by little, …)
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To become a writer, I keep writing every day.
Little by little, I learned to solve problems independently.
We learn:
We can:
some words related to growing-up feelings.
some phrases, such as “feel... about...”, “argue with...”, etc.
understand Li Mei’s character development and master the structure of a growing-up story (beginning, middle, end).
analyze Li Mei’s changes in the story and talk about her growth in pair work.
complete a character-development chart of our own growing-up story and draft an essay.
accept ourselves and share our feelings when facing growing pains.
1. Finish your own growth story and share it in the next class.
2. Finish the exercises.

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