新视界大学英语综合教程1_unit1课件.pptVIP

Warming up;Warming up;Warming up;Starting point;Starting point;Starting point;; Active reading;Skimming;;;Listening ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;1. I can assure you, the first time you do the math, you’ll get it wrong. What does “the math” refer to? Why will students get it wrong? It refers to the calculations about how much free time the students will have. They will probably think they can do things more quickly than they actually can. They will also forget things they must do.;2. So why did I make so many friends in the first semester and spend five semesters unmaking them? Why did the writer “unmake ” the friends he had made? The writer made a lot of friends at first because he lacked confidence and worried about being unloved, but he afterwards lost them because he found university life was not very miserable and probably because he didn’t have enough time to spend with them. ;3. (Although check your personal freshness, you know what I mean.) What does “personal freshness” refer to? How clean you are, especially how you smell. ;5. But I wish I’d known that life becomes enjoyable not just by handing in assignments on time, shivering on the edge of life, but by diving into a pool of new friendships, swimming around lots of new ideas, and drying off in the warm sunshine of new experience. What does the underlined phrases mean? Why does the writer use “swimming” to describe his experience as a college freshman? ;;Relating to the reader.; Informal and conversational words and expressions. Your parents are really proud of you…relieved too, I guess. We only use expressions like I guess in conversations, either spoken or written.;Humour. …your mom is really good at detecting when you stay up too late.... The writer uses the word detecting which is usually used to talk about police activity, so the reader might imagine the writer’s mum checks on him the way a detective tries to discover a crime. This mild humour caused by exaggeration adds to the informal