综合英语Book IV Unit 1 This Year It’s Going to Be Different.pptVIP

Unit 1 This Year It’s Going to Be Different Pre-reading questions: Pre-reading questions: Text I Pre-reading activities 1.About New Year’s Resolutions A.Top 10 Most Common New Year Resolutions 1. Lose weight 2. Stop smoking 3. Stick to a budget 4. Save or earn more money 5. Find a better job 6. Become more organized 7. Exercise more 8. Be more patient at work/with others 9. Eat better 10. Become a better person Pre-reading questions 3.What’s the text about? -The title discloses very little information. -A narrative piece of writing -Characters: Dad: the hero Maggie: his wife Sammy: 1st son, 5 Roy: 2nd son Kit: 1st daughter, 14 Gretchen: 2nd daughter Reading Detailed Questions Detailed Questions Hippie /hippy Hippie /hippy 2. History Hippie /hippy 2. History Hippie /hippy Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a wide audience. The hippie legacy can be observed in contemporary culture in myriad forms — from health food, to music festivals, to contemporary sexual mores, and even to the cyberspace revolution. Rock and Roll Rock and Roll changed in many ways during the hippie era.? Though it always ways a sensuous music form since its formation in the 1950s, it tended to hide its sexuality behind euphemisms. It was never political, and seemed to express contentment with middle class American values.? Even if Middle America didn’t always like it, their kids loved it.? Masked with behind its playful, happy veil, Rock and Roll in the Fifties subtly thumbed its nose at Middle America. Rock and Roll Rock and Roll was and is the music of the Hippie Generation.? It began as a distinctive genre in the 1950s. It