1. Unit 1
Growing up

2. What are the impressive things in our growing up?
Question 1
What are the impressive things in our growing up?

3. Sharing some happy with friends
Unforgettable failure
An successful teamwork

4. Family gathering

5. Flying kite
Happy holiday

7. Question 2
How do we keep such important moments in our mind forever?

9. Text A Writing For Myself
--- Russell Baker

10. Objectives
Help students to know the essence of writing and structure of the text
Grasp some key language points
Writing skills: Appreciate the narrative skills demonstrated in the text.( selections of details, repetition, coherence )

11. Question What kind of teacher do you like most?
Humorous, responsible, knowledgeable, understanding, tolerant, passionate, eloquent,…

12. Text Structure 1 Para.1-2 2 Para.3-5 3 Para.6-9 Parts Paragraphs
Main Ideas 1
Para.1-2
Baker was bored by everything associated with English learning, including essay writing and the teacher 2
Para.3-5
Baker found himself attracted by one particular topic and wrote about it for his own joy. 3
Para.6-9
The experience of writing the essay helped him discover his talent for writing and realize what he wished to do in life

13. Language point
…but it wasn’t until my third year in high school that the possibility took hold.
The usage of not until ：
1. Basic structure
2. Emphatic structure
3. Inverted structure

14. Basic structure We did not get off the bus until it stopped.
not+ main clause +until+ subordinate clause
I did not realize the importance of team work until I became monitor of our class.

15. Emphatic structure It was not until it stopped that we got off the bus
it is/was not until + subordinate clause + that +main clause
直到我成为班长我才意识到团队的重要性。
It was not until I became monitor of our class that I realized the importance of team work.

16. Inverted structure Not until it stopped did we get off the bus.
not until + subordinate clause +inverted main clause
直到我成为班长我才意识到团队的重要性。
Not until I became monitor of our class did I realize the importance of team work.

17. Translation 直到她摘掉眼镜，我才认出她是李宇春。 Basic structure：
I did not recognize she was Li Yuchun until she took off her glasses.
Emphatic structure
It was not until she took off glasses that I recognized she was Li Yuchun.
Inverted structure：
Not until she took off her glasses did I recognize she was Li Yuchun.

18. Writing skills Appreciate the narrative skills
demonstrated in the text.( selections of
details, repetition, coherence )

19. Writing skills
(paragraph 2)To me he looked to be sixty or seventy and excessively prim. He wore primly severe eyeglasses, his wavy hair was primly cut and primly combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white shirts. He had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he seemed a comic antique.

20. Selecting details
A narrative comprises details. It is important to remember only those that help bring out the main idea of the narrative , they are useful and effective.
In Para. 2, the author creates an unfavorable image of Mr. Fleagle by selecting details, describing his eyeglasses, hairstyle, clothes, jaw, nose, and manner of speaking

21. Repetition
Make it easy for readers to follow the essay as well as impress them more deeply
In Para. 2, 9 prim’s or primly’s appear in 3 sentences – vivid picture of Mr. Fleagle
In Para. 5, 5 I wanted’s help to emphasize author’s strong desire to write for himself

22. Employment of synonymous words and phrases
Dull, lifeless, cheerless, tedious
Turn out, write, compose, put down
Anticipate, prepare for
Formal, rigid, prim, correct, proper, respectable

23. Employment of synonymous words and phrases
Vivid memories of sth., come flooding back to sb., sth. reawakes in one’s mind, sb.’s recalls sth.
Recapture, relive
Pleasure, delight, happiness
Contempt, ridicule
Topic, title

24. Homework
Do you have any unforgettable experiences in your English studying/life? Talk about these memorable occasions.

25. Thank you !