大学英语综合教程 book 1Unit 4.pptVIP

Objectives Students will be able to understand the main idea (Tony Trivisonno realized his American Dream through his own efforts) and structure of the text (one part telling the story of Tony’s life and the other giving the author’s comments on it); learn to describe a person by his or her characteristic features, together with supporting details which demonstrate the features; grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit. Lead-in Pictures Look at the following pictures and tell what and where they are. 1. Where did Tony come from? (Para1) collocation Pair the verbs in Column A with objects in column B 27. How did I look at him after he passed away? (Para30-33) Summary Writing From the start, Tony showed his ________ to ______ his dream. When he came to Mr. Crawford for help, for the first time, Mr. Crawford __________, but he didn’t give up. Later, Mr. Crawford offered him a job in the factory. He worked hard, and learned to be a ________ worker. Then with Mr. Crawford’s help, he managed to get a loan on _________ for a house. Finally he bought a farm, and he was able to _________ his family from Italy. His dream came true. Unit 4 American Dream * Unit 4 American Dream White House in Washington Statue of Liberty in New York Empire State Building in New York Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco What do you often associate America with? America opportunities money violence terrorism good job better education better life Why Why do they go to America? From this we can see that people go to America with different goals and aims. All the goals are just like their dreams. Today we are going to learn a text about American dream of an ordinary person. Let’s see what his American dream is and how he realizes it. He came from a rocky farm in Italy, somewhere of south of Rome. He was an immigrant. He emigrated f