,2,Unit 4 Dance with love,FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH PRESS HEBEI UNIVERSITY,Objectives,Inspiring your thoughts,Enhancing your skills,Presenting your project,Section A College sweethearts,Project of the unit,Inspiring your thoughts,Enhancing your skills,Presenting your project,Project of the unit,Lead-in,Project forecasting,Watch the video clip and discuss the following question in pairs.,Step 1,Why does the girl think that she and her boyfriend should go separate ways after they graduate?,Project of the unit,Lead-in,Getting familiar with college life,Task,The girl has got a scholarship in Paris next year. But her boyfriend will go to law school. She is a social zero and her boyfriend is a millionaire. So she thinks that they will go separate ways after they graduate.,Reference answers：,Project of the unit,Lead-in,Work in groups and discuss the following questions.,1. Do you think its a good idea to date someone at college? Why or why not? 2. Do you think college romance can last long through the ups and downs in life?,Step 2,Project of the unit,Lead-in,1. Yes, because we can spend a few years at college trying to know about a person. No, because students need to concentrate on study, not to waste time dating. 2. Yes, because students get to know each other well and they have mutual understanding through years of studying together. No, because students need to face the troubles and obstacles in real life when they enter the society.,Project of the unit,Lead-in,Reference answers：,Inspiring your thoughts,Enhancing your skills,Presenting your project,Project of the unit,Project forecasting,Lead-in,Please get prepared by doing the following exercises.,Nowadays, for many students, college years are a perfect time to build lifelong friendships, especially for dating and romantic relationships. By the end of this unit, you are expected to write a narrative story on the following topic: College romance,Project of the unit,Global understanding,Detailed understanding,Enhancing your skills,Presenting your project,Project of the unit,Inspiring your thoughts,Read Para. 1 and answer the following questions.,1. What type of text do you think this passage might be? A narrative story. 2. Who is the narrator? A mother of two daughters. 3. Why did she start dating Butch? The narrator started dating Butch not for love but for fun because she wanted to get away from her boring college life.,Step 1,Task,Global understanding of the text,Inspiring your thoughts,Global understanding,Step 2,Work in groups of four. Read Paras. 2-10 and try to add time markers to the following paragraphs to complete a summary of the text. Present your answers to the other group members.,Inspiring your thoughts,Global understanding,_, we met through my college roommate. Though Butch looked cute, I thought he was wild and a little weird. For Butch, it was love at first sight, while I was just curious. (Para. 2),Example：,That fateful night,Inspiring your thoughts,Global understanding,After that,Gradually,At that time,During that period of time,One night,to be continued,_, Butch was found to have failed all his courses, which meant that he would be expelled from the university. Though he was about to resign to his fate, I led him to the college secretary for reconsideration. (Para. 6) _, I offered my advice concerning his future career, and he agreed. Butch was granted reconsideration. Once we became steadies, he balanced his studies and social life. _, he studied law. (Para. 7),Inspiring your thoughts,Global understanding,One month later,Meanwhile,Eventually,to be continued,_, I came to realize that Butch was a perfect gentleman and deserved credit for that. Though sometimes he took the liberty of showing his love in front of my friends, we actually had a pure and responsible relationship for _. (Para. 8) _, Butch proposed to me. I confessed my love for him. But _, I was still pessimistic about our future as we had not graduated from college yet. _, we got married. (Paras. 9-10),Inspiring your thoughts,Global understanding,Later,seven full years,Two years later,at that moment,Five years later,Enhancing your skills,Presenting your project,Project of the unit,Global understanding,Detailed understanding,Inspiring your thoughts,How do you understand the sentence “In a way, love just happens when you least expect it” (Para. 1)? 2. Why did the author think that Butch seemed a little weird although very cute? Why did fear come over the author when she started to fall in love? What motivated the author to “grab” a boyfriend at college? Why did the author worry what Butch would think of her? What is the exact meaning of “he seemed resigned to his fate” (Para. 6)? Why did the author think that Butch deserves a lot of credit?,Read the text again and answer the following questions.,Inspiring your thoughts,Detailed understanding,Task