1. Mr. Doherty Builds His Ideal Life — Jim Doherty by Group One

2. Teaching Plan Warm-up and Preview Background information Text Analysis Discussion and Review Exercises and A mini-quiz one hour three hours one and a half half an hour

3. Warm-up Activities Group work: 1. What is your ideal life? 2. Please compare the country life and the city life.

4. Comparisons between country life and city life Country life: A pastoral life Friendly Live harmoniously Clean air and green trees Good environment Inconvenient Not many activities Dirty Can only buy the second best City life: Keep up with the fashion Convenient Earn a lot of money Have a lot of opportunities Can buy the best things A quick pace of life Polluted Lonely and cold, like strangers

5. Preview 1 Guess work: Give the Chinese meanings of these following words frustration canoe overdue spray orchard virtuous squash self-reliant be busy with manage to do sth. be involved in

6. Preview 2 Questions concerning the text: 1) What kind of life does the author live? 2) What does the author do in summer? 3) Why does the author come to the countryside? 4) Are they satisfied with their life?

7. Background Information In America many people have a romantic idea of life in the countryside. Many living in towns dream of starting up their own farm, of living off the land. Few get round to putting their dreams into practice.

8. Background Information This is perhaps just as well, as the life of a farmer is far from easy, as Jim Doherty discovered when he set out to combine being a writer with running a farm. Nevertheless, as he explains, he has no regrets and remains enthusiastic about his decision to change his way of life.

9. Text Analysis The structure of this text: 1. a general introduction (part 1: Para.1) 2. the general nature of his life (part 2: Para. 2-3) 3. elaboration (part 3: the rest of the text)

10. Text Analysis Part One: 1. Ask one student to read the text 2. Ask the students questions 3. Explain the text: 1) get by 2) frustration 3) suburban 4) contentment Translation Gap-filling Synonyms

11. Key Sentences: 1.White ’ s class as a writer or in my neighbor ’ s class as a farmer, but I ’ m getting by. 2.We love the smell of the earth warming and the sound of cattle lowing. 3.Besides the usual household routine, she oversees the garden and beehives, bakes bread, cans and freezes, …….. 4.There is, as the old saying goes, no rest for the wicked on a place like this --- and not much for the virtuous either.

12. 5. Will there ever be a better time? The answer, decidedly, was no, and so, off I went. 6..but on the whole, things have gone much better than we had any right to expect 7. …… we could just about double that if we sold today.

13. Discussion and Review Discussion questions: 1. What kind of life do you like? City life or country life? 2. Nowadays a lot of Chinese decide to live in city, please list the reason. 3. What is the author’s character? 4. What do you think the quality of your life?

14. Review Key Words: frustration, suburban, contentment, self-reliant, canoe, long-overdue, spray, rounds(n), virtuous, wicked, blast, wave upon, wave of, produce, quit, freelance, timing, mortgage, lower(v), dine, budget, entertain, make …… profit

15. Review Phrases and sentence structures: 1.White ’ s class as a writer or in my neighbor ’ s class as a farmer, but I ’ m getting by. 2.We love the smell of the earth warming and the sound of cattle lowing. 3.Besides the usual household routine, she oversees the garden and beehives, bakes bread, cans and freezes, …….. 4.There is, as the old saying goes, no rest for the wicked on a place like this --- and not much for the virtuous either.

16. Review Phrases and sentence structures: 5. Will there ever be a better time? The answer, decidedly, was no, and so, off I went. 6..but on the whole, things have gone much better than we had any right to expect 7. …… we could just about double that if we sold today.

17. Exercises and a mini-quiz 1. Match work: 2. Translation: 3. Gap-filling

18. Thanks for your attention and welcome your suggestions!