1. Your College Years Youth is wasted in the young.
Youth is sweet; extravagently spending youth is commiting crime.
--- Bernard Shaw

2. Contents Warm-up Warm-up Questions 
Lesson 1 – Your College Years
Contents
Warm-up
Warm-up Questions 
Myths and Facts Regarding College Experience
On Seasons in College 

3. Alma mater is the place which you bad-mouth for eight times a day but do not allow others to speak ill of .
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4. Lesson 1 – Your College Years
Warm-up Questions
When you were a freshman, what is your general impression of college life?
many opportunities for one to explore the unknown
experiencing a lot
making lifelong friends
enjoying various kinds of activities
developing one’s personal interests
meeting outstanding scholars
keeping a good balance and laying a solid foundation …
the golden time in one’s life

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Lesson 1 – Your College Years
Warm-up Questions
2. Since you have stayed here for a whole year, have you experienced anything different from your middle school life?
being far away from home
living with others
becoming independent
taking care of oneself
handling one’s own finance
making one’s own decisions …
changes are occurring
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Warm-up Questions
3. Have you had any psychological problems ever since you entered college?
loneliness
confusion
frustration
jealousy
a sense of inferiority
feeling pressure …
psychological problems abound on campus
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Lesson 1 – Your College Years
II. Myths and Facts Regarding College Experience
College years are times of significant transition and challenge for an individual. Transition simply means change. Higher levels of anxiety are always experienced by people who are in a state of transition regardless of whether the change is perceived as good or bad. The following are some of the myths vs. the facts regarding college experience.
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II. Myths and Facts Regarding College Experience
Myth 1: College Years Are the Best Years of One’s Life
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II. Myths and Facts Regarding College Experience
Myth 2: Students experiencing stress or anxiety are unprepared to handle the rigors of college.
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II. Myths and Facts Regarding College Experience
Myth 3: A good student does not need assistance during his/her college experience.
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II. Myths and Facts Regarding College Experience
Myth 4: I am the only one that doesn't have it all.
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III. On Seasons in College
There are four seasons in a year, which make the days distinctive and exiting. Metaphorically, there are four seasons in one’s college years representing different aspects of college life, which make the days rewarding and unforgettable.
What do you think the four seasons represent ? Share your opinions, please.
For your reference
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13. College Years vs. Seasons
Freshmen
Sophomores
There are four seasons in a year, which make the days distinctive and exciting. Metaphorically, there are four seasons in one’s college years representing different aspects of college life, which make the days rewarding and unforgettable.
Do you agree? If so, what do you think the four seasons represent ? Share your opinions, please.
Juniors
Seniors

14. Warm-up : discussion (10 Minutes)
What do you think the four seasons represent and explain why?
Talk about this topic in groups, and then choose one student to share the views with the whole class.
e.g.
Winter represents the first college year because freshmen are as pure and innocent as snow. …

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III. On Seasons in College
winter
Winter is the harshest season of the four, which presents so many difficulties and hardships. Likewise, not every day in college is full of joy. You have to meet new faces,
get adjusted, make decisions for yourself, be financially and psychologically dependent, etc. So winter is the season of change. Unpleasant as it may seem to some students, it is simply inescapable and beneficial to one’s growth and maturity.
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III. On Seasons in College
spring
Spring is the season for nature to revive, to grow and to get ready to boom. Similarly, in college, spring is the season for you to acquire knowledge, to develop yourself and to lay a solid foundation for the future. It’s the season of growth.
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III. On Seasons in College
Summer is the season for flowers to bloom, and it’s the season for you to enjoy the greatest passion in nature — love, love from your classmates, from your teachers and from your romance.
summer
It is the season of affection.
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III. On Seasons in College
Autumn
Autumn is a season of harvest in college. It’s the season for you to enjoy what you have achieved.
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19. Part II Background Information
I.  Author
Bob Hartman was born in Pittsburgh, the United States, and moved to England in the summer of He has been working as a storyteller for children for more than a decade and is a part-time pastor.

20. A selection of books by Bob Hartman

21. II. Erik H. Erickson
Erik H. Erikson (1902—1994), was a German-born American psychoanalyst whose writings on social psychology, individual identity, and the interactions of psychology with history, politics, and culture. He was most famous for his work on refining and expanding Freud’s theory of developmental stages.

22.     III.  Erickson’s Developmental Stages
Basic Theory:Babies are born with some basic capabilities and distinct temperaments. But they go through dramatic changes on the way to adulthood and old age. According to psychologist Erik H. Erikson, each individual passes through eight developmental stages.

23. Stage 1: Infant (0-1.5) hope
Trust vs Mistrust Needs maximum comfort with minimal uncertainty to trust himself/herself, others, and the environment.
Stage 2: Toddler (1.5-3) will
Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt Works to master physical environment while maintaining self-esteem.
(Can I do things myself or must I always rely on others?)

24. Stage 3: Preschooler purpose
Initiative vs Guilt Begins to initiate, not imitate, activities; develops conscience and sexual identity.
(Am I good or am I bad?)
Stage 4: School-age Child competence
Industry vs Inferiority Tries to develop a sense of self-worth by refining skills. (How can I be good? What can I do well?)

25. Stage 5: Adolescent (12-19) fidelity
Identity vs Role Confusion Tries integrating many roles (child, student, athlete, worker) into a self-image under role model and peer pressure.
(Who am I? where am I going?)

26. Stage 6: Young Adult (20-45) love
Intimacy vs Isolation Learns to make personal commitment to another as spouse, parent or partner.
( Am I loved and wanted? Will I share my life with someone or live alone?)

27. Stage 7: Middle-Age Adult (45-65) care
Generativity vs Stagnation Seeks satisfaction through productivity in career, family, and civic interests.
(Will I produce something of real value?)

28. Stage 8: Older Adult (65+) wisdom
Integrity vs Despair Reviews life accomplishments, deals with loss and prepares for death.
(Have I lived a full life?)

29. College life
Exciting
frustrating

30. List the special technical terms mentioned in the essay
List the special technical terms mentioned in the essay? What do they mean? Give some examples for each of them?

31. Developmental changes
---the physiological and behavioral changes throughout one’s life

32. From adolescence to young adulthood
---the period between childhood and adulthood
The passage to adulthood is often marked by a number of small changes in status during or near the end of adolescence.
What are these changes?

33. Graduation from high school
The right to vote
The right to drink
The right to drive a car
The main changes are psychological and physical. It is usually fraught with anxiety and conflict.

34. Identity crisis
---the difficulties, confusions and anxieties that you go through during adolescence when you are not sure who you really are and what your purpose in life is.

35. identity
---how people perceive themselves and how other people perceive them.
---it is determined by three things:
1) our genes or what our parents have given us ( our legacy)
2) environment
3) luck or opportunities

36. internalize
---to make faith, values, morals, attidutes, behavior, language, etc, part of your nature by learning or assimilating them unconsciously

37. Personal values ---moral principles
---principles of what is right and what is wrong

38. Text understanding What is the essay about?
It is about what students will experience in their college years.

39. Q: What are the key changes which will probably happen in college years?
Please scan the text quickly and make clear what the changes are .

40. Key changes identity crisis the independence/dependence struggles
establishment of sexual identity
affection giving and receiving
internalization of religious faith, values and morals
development of new ways to organize and use knowledge
a new understanding of the world and himself/herself

41. structure
Part 1 (para. 1): Many key changes happen to college students during their college years.
Part 2 (paras.2-9 ): The key changes
Part 3 (para.10 ): Conclusion.

42. Thesis + Supportive Ideas
This text is an expository essay about what changes you will experience in college years, and more important, what ways you should adopt to “change” changes.
Thesis + Supportive Ideas
College is designed to be a time of changes for students. Threatening the changes may be, they contribute to young adults’ growth and maturity. College students are experiencing a lot. Not only are they being introduced to new people and new knowledge, but they are also acquiring new ways of assembling and processing information. They are also proudly growing in their understanding of themselves, others and the world.
a. Thesis (a debatable point)
b. Arguments (Sufficient evidence)

43. Thesis Identifying 3 questions： Have you ever considered… Thesis:
Para. 1
Thesis Identifying
3 questions：
Have you ever considered…
Has it ever occurred to you…
Has it ever dawned on you…
Thesis:
Though college students seldom think about them, key changes will probably happen to them during their college years.

44. Para. 1
What changes do you think you have gone through since you entered the university? Make a list of them.

45. handling one’s own finance making one’s own decisions
living with others
taking care of oneself
handling one’s own finance
making one’s own decisions
cooperate, reconcile
becoming psychologically independent

46. Further Reading What is the topic sentence of each part?
In what ways are the supportive ideas presented?

47. Detailed Reading: identity crisis (para. 2)
Blank filling:
According to Piers and Landau, identity is determined by ________________, shaped by ______________, and influenced by ______________.
Have you had any identity crisis yourselves so far? What is it?
genetic endowment
environment
chance events
Identity crisis: It refers to the difficulties, confusions and anxieties that you go through during adolescence when you are not sure who you really are and what your purpose in life is.
Also: national identity; political identity; cultural identity; social identity etc.

48. Some examples
Not everyone is happy with the progress they are making in studies.
Some may have serious difficulties keeping up with the class. They feel disappointed and discouraged.
Some students feel they are not as popular as others. They feel lonely and depressed.

49. Identity is determined by genetic endowment, …shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.
parallelism

50. Para. 3
What does the author mean by independence and dependence struggle?

51. Detailed Reading: in(dependence) struggle (paras.3-4)
Jeffery A. Hoffman observed 4 aspects to independence. What are they?
1) functional independence
2) attitudinal independence
3) emotional independence
4) freedom from excessive feelings
Explain each of them by paraphrasing.

52. Explain each of them by paraphrasing.
1) Functional independence:
We can handle everyday life situations; We have the ability to solve practical problems;
2) Attitudinal independence:
We are able to understand and accept parents’ or other people’s different attitudes, values, and beliefs.

53. 3) Emotional independence:
We don’t need parents to tell us what to do or not to do. Sometimes we also want to get emotional support from parents, but we are no longer little babies. We can be OURSELVES;
4) Freedom from excessive feelings:
Children often feel very guilty, anxious, unhappy, afraid, and angry, but we can calm down and judge ourselves and others in a reasonable way.

54. Fourth is freedom from "excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, responsibility, inhibition, resentment, and anger in relation to the mother and father."
Why do children often feel guilty (anxious, unhappy, resentful, etc)?

55. Guilty---they think they have done something wrong
Anxious---they are eager to please their parents
Unhappy---they think their parents have not been fair to them

56. Do you consider yourself reasonably independent now
Do you consider yourself reasonably independent now? Independent from whom and from what?
As a college student, have you gained much freedom now? If the answer is yes, how are you enjoying your newly acquired freedom? If the answer is no, tell us what kind of freedom you want to enjoy?

57. Being independent vs. being isolated
Being confused about the sudden independence
Independence vs. doing anything they want

58. Detailed Reading: establishment of sexual identity (para. 5)
1) Observe the words & expressions
feminine → masculine
exciting → frustrating
lower → higher

59. Para. 5
Do you find it easy to relate to the opposite sex? Why or why not?

60. Para 6 How to relate to and show proper respect for peers
How to relate to the children and young adolescents
How to relate to the people older like their parents and show them affection

61. Para. 6 I was relating to my father in a different way.
What are the differences between the ways “I” related to “my” father in the past and at present? What type of change does the example reflect?

62. Para. 6
Do you have problems of interaction with people of both sexes and all ages?

63. Para. 7 ---to internalize religious faith, values, morals
( the need to form a correct world outlook)
Education is not just for making a living, it is about how to live.
There are things of greater importance than jobs, money, houses and cars.

64. Para. 8
What is the significance of the college academic life according to paragraph 8?
College academic life is a challenge. All students should be aware of
---how they react to new knowledge and new ways of learning
---how they process the knowledge presented to them
---how they organize the knowledge

65. Para. 8 ---to develop new ways to organize and use knowledge
As for English major, do you have some unique problems?
Language is just a tool, shouldn’t we try to major in something else?
When is the best time to specialize? Should we prepare for TOFEL and GRE and pursue education overseas?
Is it a good idea to seek financial independence while studying and pay our own way through college?

66. As for English majors, it is particularly important to realize the duty to understand Western culture properly and use what is good in it in the age of globalization.

67. Para. 9 How do college students become world citizens?
At college, the young adults have good chances to meet people from different culture. By interacting with them, they are introduced to new ways of life. They begin to understand life in different ways. By doing this, they experience a new understanding of the world and themselves.

68. Structure Thesis: Key changes will happen during college years.
Supportive ideas:
Key changes in detail
by definition, explanation,
citation, example
They are getting to know a lot of new people and learning new knowledge. They are also finding or learning new ways of arranging, organizing, analyzing or understanding information.
It implies that mere information is not scientific truth. Scientific truth requires the processing of information. In college, students will learn new approaches, methods, and theories which will change many of their prejudices.
Thesis consolidation:
restating the thesis: significance

69. The essay is intended to stress the need to form a correct world outlook for young college students. For education after all is not just for making a living. It is about how to live.

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Lesson 1 – Your College Years
What’s your purpose of receiving a college education?
to get and keep a good job
to earn more money
to get a good start in life
to fully develop oneself
to contribute more to the society …
a sound investment that is worth every penny
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71. It occurs to sb. to-inf / that（p1）: it dawns on sb that, it strikes sb that/how/as
It never occurred to me that wealth could ruin a person’s life.
A smart idea occurred to me.
His name simply did not occur to my mind.
It never occurs to him to help the poor and the old.

72. Dawn on/upon sb(p1):begin to appear; grow clear ( to the mind);
It has just dawned on me that I can do it if I believe I can.
It struck her that although she was now rich by her own standards, she was not really happy.

73. Go through
He really believed that by saying those magic words he could go through walls without any trouble.
I don’t think this plan will go through the Security Council. (be accepted by )
We have gone through all these arguments.
It’s too late to back out. We just have to go through with it.

74. I don’t think this plan will go through the Security Council.
(be accepted by )
We have gone through all these arguments.
(go over carefully from beginning to end)
It’s too late to back out. We just have to go through with it.
(do it because you have promised or planned to do it, even though you are no longer sure you want to do it)

75. perceive
He perceived himself a loser who could not even support his family.
(to think of as)
Musicians can perceive very small differences in sounds.
( to notice, discover, observe)
I gradually perceived that culture and language cannot really b separated.
(to understand, grasp)

76. Chance events
This chance meeting with the famous writer changed his whole life.
This medicine was a chance discovery.

77. Freedom (free)from sth
The most important freedom our people should have is the freedom from hunger.
An ideal society is one free from exploitation and oppression.
Within a month, the whole building was fre form flies and mosquitoes.

78. See sb/sth in a certain light
What he did made us see him in a new light.
After I took that course, I began to see the world in a different light.

79. For certain He is probably an accountant. I don’t know for certain.
I can’t say for certain how much this car wil cost. It must be in the neighborhood of two hundred thousand.

80. Drag one’s feet ---to delay deliberately
The local authorities are dragging their feet closing small coal mines.
I can understand why they are dragging their feet over this reform. The reason is that it will affect their personal interests.