Unit5 I pany Man.ppt

Unit 5
pany Man
Teaching Plan
Total duration: 9 periods
Background information
+ Text analysis: 3 prehension + appreciation
+Language points: 4 periods
Discussion and interaction: 1 period
Exercises+ Revision: 1 period
Teaching Objectives
Objective 1
To familiarize the students the rhetorical features of the text: repetition of key sentences, phrases and words
Objective 2
To help students understand how a text achieves coherence with a variety of cohesive devices ranging from repetition, reference, substitution, ellipsis to conjunction
Objective 3
Language points:
variation of length of sentences
Key words, phrases and structures
1. Duty Report (1 period)
Background
The author:
Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman (1941-), journalist and columnist who writes for Newsweek, the Detroit Free Press, and the Boston Globe.
graduated (cum laude) from Radcliffe College. She was awarded the Pulitzer prize for mentary in 1980. She began her working career in 1963. She was named newspaper woman of the year by the New England Press Association in 1968, and columnist of the year by the New England Women's Press Association in 1975.
Since 1979, Goodman has published five collections of her columns dealing with contemporary themes:
Close to Home;
At Large;
Keeping in Touch;
Making Sense;
Value Judgments.
Her Pulitzer Prize mentary appears in more than 375 newspapers.