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(共42张PPT)
Unit 2 Let’s talk teens
(Welcome to the unit & Reading)
In this unit, you are going to:
read a magazine article about relationships between teenagers and
their parents;
write a letter of advice on parent-child tensions;
read a short story of a mother’s love for her children;
create a short play about parent-child relationships.
Welcome to the unit
★Learning Objectives
Grasp the theme, outline and details of the article
Infer the author's attitude towards parent-child tensions and
purpose of writing
Adopt a positive attitude and practical solutions to deal with real-
life parent-child tensions
Apply questions to introduce parents' love for their children.
★Key points and difficult points
Summarize the phenomenon, reasons, and solutions of tense
relationships between teenagers and their parents.
Master the textual features of argumentative papers.
Appreciate the stylistic features of the text.
Express how to handled relationship with parents correctly during
the growth process.
"家"是什么，我不知道；但烦闷、忧愁，都在此中融化消灭。
—冰心
I don't know what "home" is, but unhappiness and worries melt away once there.
—Bing
Warming up
What troubles you most as a teen
Parents often give their children unconditional love. Read the poem below and discuss the following questions in pairs.
Morning and night, Mother Bird is there
Until her baby’s old enough to leave the nest.
Mother Bird, with all her love and care,
Longs to provide her baby with the best.
Often, she worries, from day to day—
Very soon her baby will be full-grown.
Excitedly, it will jump away,
Spread its wings and fly alone.
Yet, she knows, she must let it fly
Over the hills and across the sky,
Under her careful, watching eye.
Parents often give their children unconditional love. Read the poem below and discuss the following questions in pairs.
1. How would you describe Mother Bird’s feelings
in the poem
She is full of deep love and care for her baby. Meanwhile, she feels worried about its future, but also accepts the fact that the young bird has to leave and fly independently. She is reluctant yet willing to let it grow up.
Parents often give their children unconditional love. Read the poem below and discuss the following questions in pairs.
2. What Chinese poems about parents’ love for
their children can you think of
Song of the Wanderer (游子吟) by Meng Jiao is the most typical.
A thread in a kind mother’s hand makes clothes for her traveling son.
Parents often give their children unconditional love. Read the poem below and discuss the following questions in pairs.
3. How do you think your parents feel about you
How can you tell
My parents love me deeply. They care about my daily life and study, prepare meals for me and comfort me when I’m upset. Their small daily actions show their love.
Reading
When teenagers’ bodies and minds go through a period of rapid development, every part of their lives can be influenced. The magazine article below is about teenagers’ relationships with their parents. Before you read the article, think about the following questions:
What physical and mental changes do you experience as you become a teenager How do you deal with them
What do you think “strangers under the same roof” means
例：Physically, I grow taller and my body develops fast. Mentally, I want more independence and get upset easily sometimes. I talk with friends or do sports to relax.
例：It means family members live in one house but seldom communicate, just like strangers.
Strangers under the same roof
Does every dinner with your parents seem to turn into a battle Have your once warm and open conversations become cold and guarded Do you feel that you just cannot see eye to eye with them on anything You are not alone. Heated arguments and cold silences are common between teenagers and their parents.
Teenagers’ physical changes may result in such family tensions. You may feel anxious that you are developing at a different rate to your friends, shooting up in height or getting left far behind. You might worry about your changing voice, weight problems or spots. When it all gets too much, your parents are often the first targets of your anger.
It can be a big headache to balance your developing mental needs too. You enter a strange middle ground—no longer a small child but not quite an adult. You have both a new desire for independence and a continued need for your parents’ love and support. You feel ready to be more responsible and make decisions on your own. Unfortunately, your parents do not always agree and that makes you feel unhappy. “Why can’t they just let me go ” you may wonder. On the other hand, when you are struggling to control your feelings, you wish they could be more caring and patient—sometimes they forget that growing up is a rough ride. It can be difficult when your parents treat you like a child but expect you to act like an adult. All of this can lead to a breakdown in your relationship.
Although sometimes it may seem impossible to get along as a family, you can take action to improve the situation. The key to keeping the peace is regular and honest communication.
When you disagree with your parents, take a minute to calm down and try to understand the situation from their point of view. Perhaps they have experienced something similar and do not want you to go through the same pain. After you have thought it through, explain your actions and feelings calmly, listen carefully, and address their concerns. Through this kind of healthy discussion, you will learn when to back down and when to ask your parents to relax their control.
Just remember that it is completely normal to struggle with the stress that parent-child tensions create, and that you and your parents can work together to improve your relationship. The good news is that this stormy period will not last. Everything will turn out all right in the end, and the changes and challenges of your teenage years will prepare you for adulthood.
L5
L7
L25
Find the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Reading
Para 1: Heated arguments and cold silences are common between teenagers and their parents.
Para 2: Teenagers’ physical changes may result in such family tensions.
Para 3: It can be a big headache to balance your developing mental needs too.
Para 4: Although sometimes it may seem impossible to get along as a family, you can take
action to improve the situation.
Para 5: Just remember that it is completely normal to struggle with the stress that parent-
child tensions create, and that you and your parents can work together to improve
your relationship.
Reading
How does the writer introduce the topic What's the purpose
By asking questions. When a group of questions are used to introduce a topic, they are usually not meant to be answered. Rather, the author intends to draw readers' attention to the topic and make them think about it and take an interest in it.
Reading
What may cause family tensions
Developing at a different rate to your friends, shooting up in height or getting left far behind. You might worry about your changing voice, weight problems or spots
Read the magazine article and complete the chart below.
A Understanding the text
Physical changes
Mental changes
Regular and honest communication
Everything will turn out all right in the end
Read the magazine article again carefully and answer the following questions.
A Understanding the text
1 What physical changes might teenagers worry about
2 What does “middle ground” in line 15 mean
They may worry about different developing rates from friends, height changes, changing voice, weight problems and spots.
It means the state no longer being a little kid but not yet a fully grown adult.
Read the magazine article again carefully and answer the following questions.
A Understanding the text
3 What does “that” in “that makes you feel unhappy” in line 19 refer to
4 How can teenagers have a healthy discussion with their parents
It refers to parents’ disagreement on teens’ wish to make their own decisions and take more responsibility.
First calm down, understand things from parents’ view; then calmly explain feelings, listen carefully and deal with parents’ worries.
In pairs, discuss the following questions.
A Understanding the text
1. What is the author’s attitude to parent-child tensions Use information in the magazine article to support your idea.
2. The magazine article suggests that teenagers want both independence and their parents’ love and support. Do you feel the same way or not Give an example.
3. What stresses do the parents of a teenager have to deal with How do they influence the parent-child relationship
1. What is the author’s attitude to parent-child tensions Use information in the magazine article to support your idea.
The author thinks parent-child tensions are totally normal and temporary.
Support: The stormy period won’t last; teen challenges help prepare kids for adulthood, and families can improve relations through honest communication.
2. The magazine article suggests that teenagers want both independence and their parents’ love and support. Do you feel the same way or not Give an example.
Yes, I feel the same.
Example: I hope to choose my hobbies freely, but I still turn to my
parents for comfort when I fail exams.
3. What stresses do the parents of a teenager have to deal with How do they influence the parent-child relationship
Parents worry about teens’ growth, safety and future. Their over-worry makes them control kids too much, causing quarrels and coldness between family members.
Mrs Zhao wrote an email to a teen plete the email with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box below
B Building your language
anxious argument concern calm down
normal stress struggle go through
Dear Editor,
I am writing to ask for advice on my relationship with my teenage son. To tell the truth, I often ______________ to get along with him. Recently we have argued with each other a great deal. He is ______________ about his skin because it has started to become very oily, with lots of red spots. He is always angry these days and seems less confident. I keep telling him that these changes are _____________, and that things will turn out just fine.
struggle
anxious
normal
Mrs Zhao wrote an email to a teen plete the email with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box below
B Building your language
anxious argument concern calm down
normal stress struggle go through
Of course, I wanted to show my ______________ for his condition, so I asked him to see a doctor. But then he became angry and we had a big ______________. He told me that I was putting even more _____________ on him by talking about his spots all the time. In the end, I sent him to his room. He finally ______________, but it took some time. The whole experience was really terrible and I do not want to _____________ the same thing again. What should I do
Best wishes,
Mrs Zhao
concern
argument
stress
calmed down
go through
The article uses some abstract nouns. Note the following suffixes and think of more abstract nouns formed with them. Then fill in the table below with as many words as you can.
B Building your language
Parts of speech Suffixes Words
Adjectives -ce independence,
-ty/-ity honesty,
Nouns -hood adulthood,
-ship relationship,
Verbs -ment argument,
-tion/-sion communication,
-th growth,
existence, difference, silence, occurrence, reference...
reality, ability, activity, possibility, regularity...
neighborhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood...
partnership, friendship, relationship, hardship...
development, government, movement, equipment...
construction, cancellation, dictation, admission...
truth, strength, length, growth, depth...
The magazine article uses a group of questions to introduce the topic of parent-child tensions. Read the first paragraph of the magazine article and introduce the topic of parents’ love for their children by asking questions.
When a group of questions are used to introduce a topic, they are usually not meant to be answered. Rather, the author intends to draw readers’ attention to the topic and make them think about and take an interest in it.
Learn this
Vocabulary
battle
battle：n. 争论；战斗 / v. 搏斗；抗争
battle with/against：与…… 斗争
例：She battles with daily troubles.（她和烦心事抗争。）
We battle against trouble in our daily life.（我们在生活中与困难不断抗争。)
half the battle：成功的大半，成功的关键
例：Good communication is half the battle at home.
（良好沟通是维系家庭和睦的关键。）
rate
rate：n. 速度；速率；比率；费用；价格
birth rate 出生率
success rate 成功率
room rates 房价
at the rate of …：以…… 速度
例：Plants grow at the rate of three cm each week.
（植物每周以三厘米的速度生长。）
target
target：n. 目标；对象；靶子
set a target：设定目标
例：I set a clear target for my exams.（我为考试定下明确目标。）
reach/achieve a target：达成目标
例：Effort helps us achieve our target.（努力助我们实现目标。）
be targeted at：针对/旨在……（被动）
例：Talks are targeted at solving family conflicts.（谈话旨在化解家庭矛盾。）
desire：n. 渴望；愿望 / v. 渴望；期盼
have a desire to do sth=desire to do sth：渴望做某事
例：I have a desire to be independent.（我渴望能够变得独立自主。）
have a desire for sth：想要某物
例：She has a desire for peace with her parents.（她期盼和父母和睦相处。）
desire
struggle：v. 斗争；奋斗；搏斗 / n. 斗争；难事；挣扎
struggle with sth：和…… 作斗争；费力应对（烦恼、压力、疾病）
例：Many teens struggle with daily pressure.（许多青少年和日常压力斗争。）
struggle to do sth：努力做某事
例：He struggles to keep calm when arguing.（争吵时他努力保持冷静。）
struggle against：反抗、与…… 抗争
例：We struggle against all kinds of troubles.（我们奋力对抗各式各样的烦恼。）
struggle
Exercise
1. They had to ______________ (斗争) against all kinds of adversity.
2. The department has missed its sales ______________ (目标) for the third month running.
3. She suffered a heart attack, which she believed was partly brought on by ____________(压力).
struggle
target
stress
根据括号内容填空
根据中文句意补全句子
1. ___________________________________ (最后一切都会好起来) and the changes and challenges of your teenage years will prepare you for adulthood.
2. _________________________ (维持和睦关系的关键) is regular and honest communication.
3. Does every dinner with your parents _______________________ (似乎都会演变为一场较量)
Everything will turn out all right in the end
The key to keeping the peace
seem to turn into a battle
Homework
★Homework
Write a paragraph to give your suggestions about teenagers' relationship with parents.
Recite key phrases: struggle(to do/with), desire(to do/for), target, be targeted at
Thanks!

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