Transcript Unit 6

Unit 6
Objectives
• The adverbial clause of time introduced by
• 1. when
• 2. before
• 3. since
• 4. until
Teaching tasks and process
• Language Structure Practice(1课时)
• 1. You’ll see … when you go…
• 2. Will you go …before you leave?
• 3. I’ve been playing…since I was …
• 4. He won’t … until…, and I’ll … until …
Dialogues (2课时)
• Dialogue 1
• Broad questions
• Questions on specific
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details
Main idea
Language teaching
points and practice
• Dialogue 2
• Asking for and giving
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information
Substitution practice
Useful words and expressions
• 1. make a hit: be very successful hit here refers to
success. e.g. The play was an immediate hit.
• 3. I long to act …: here long refers to want very much.
Long can only be used as an intransitive verb, followed
by infinitive or preposition for / after. e.g. long for love.
• 4. I volunteered on every occasion to play …volunteer
here means give or offer sth willingly, usually followed
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by infinitive. e.g. ~ to join the army.
5. I really enjoyed the spotlight.
A spotlight is a powerful light which lights up a small
area on a stage. Here it refers to acting on the stage. e.
g.,
I am quite shy. I never enjoyed the spotlight.
• 6. … went off well: go off here means adhere to the
expected course of events or the expected plan. e.g. The
project went off smoothly. Besides, go off means
explode, lose good quality, become unconscious, etc.
• 7. I was more than excited.
• Here more than is not to show comparative, instead it
means very. It can be followed with Noun, Verb,
Adjective, Past participle and Clause. e.g. It is more than
I can tell. He more than hesitated to promise that.
Readings (2课时)
• Reading 1
• Sample questions
• New words and
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phrases
Language teaching
points
• Reading 2
• Sample questions
• Language teaching
points
Language points
• 1. relating to the country of issue
• the country that issues the stamps or publishes / circulates the
stamps. Issue can both be noun and verb, meaning publish, put ...
into circulation, e.g. ~ periodic statements.
• relate to here refers to concern, e. g.,
• It does not matter whether the problem you have concerns to food.
• 2. imposing taxes on liquor …
• impose on / up on: lay or place a tax, duty, ect on, e.g. I must
perform the task that has been ~d upon me. impose oneself on sb
refers to force one’s company on sb. e.g. Don’t yourself on others
who don’t want you. Impose upon sth means take advantage of e.g.
~ upon sb.’s good nature.
• 3. bear the likeness of: resemble, e. g.,
• The baby bears the likeness of her father ,not her
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mother.
4. be familiar to: be well known to, e.g. facts that are ~
to every schoolboy.
be familiar with: having a good knowledge of e.g. I am
not very ~ botanical names.
5. be off the press: be issued. e. g.,
The novel was sold up soon after it was off the press.
Guided Writing (1课时)
• Paragraph writing
• Telephone message
Background Information
•British Stamp Act
•The American Revolution
•American Civil War
Assignments
• 1. Guided writing
• 2. Exercises in WB
Stamp Act Of 1689 –
First British Stamp Tax
• This is the first stamp act
of Britain which imposed
a stamp duty after the
1624 tax established in
the Netherlands. This tax
was imposed for items
such as legal documents,
administrative letters,
different court grants, etc.
The proceeds were used
to fund the war against
France, and the costs of
the stamps ranged from
just 1 pence to a few
shillings.
Stamp Act of 1765
• The Stamp Act of 1765 (short title Duties in
American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12)
was the fourth Stamp Act to be passed by the
Parliament of Great Britain but the first attempt
to impose such a direct tax on the colonies. The
act required all legal documents, permits,
commercial contracts, newspapers, wills,
pamphlets, and playing cards in the American
colonies to carry a tax stamp.
• It was part of an
economic program
directly effecting colonial
policy that was initiated
in response to Britain’s
greatly increased national
debt incurred during the
British victory in the
Seven Years War (the
North American theater
of the war was referred
to as the French and
Indian War).
• Although opposition to this possible tax
from the colonies was soon forthcoming,
there was little expectation in Britain,
either by members of Parliament or
American agents in Great Britain such as
Benjamin Franklin, of the intensity of the
protest that the tax would generate.The
Stamp Act was passed by a large majority
on March 22, 1765, and went into effect
later that year on November 1.
The American Revolution
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We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal... that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness.
The struggle by which the Thirteen
Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North
America won independence from Great
Britain and became the United States. It is
also called the American War of
Independence.
The "shot heard round the world" fired at
Lexington on April 19, 1775 began the
war for American Independence. It ended
eight and a half years later September 3,
1783 with the Treaty of Paris.
The causes
• Conditions changed abruptly in 1763.
The Treaty of Paris in that year ended
the French and Indian Wars and
removed a long-standing threat to the
colonies. At the same time the ministry
(1763-65) of George Grenville in
Great Britain undertook a new colonial
policy intended to tighten political
control over the colonies and to make
them pay for their defense and return
revenue to the mother country. The
tax levied on molasses and sugar in
1764 caused some consternation
among New England merchants and
makers of rum; the tax itself was
smaller than the one already on the
books, but the promise of stringent
enforcement was novel and ominous.
War's Outbreak
• April 19, 1775, shots had
been exchanged by
colonials and British
soldiers, men had been
killed, and a revolution
had begun, George
Washington as
commander in chief of
the Continental Armed
Forces
The Declaration of Independence
• The Declaration of Independence is
conventionally dated July 4, 1776. Drawn up by
Thomas Jefferson (with slight emendations), it
was to be one of the great historical documents
of all time. It did not, however, have any
immediate positive effect.
Aftermath
• The American Revolution had a great
influence on liberal thought throughout
Europe. The struggles and successes of
the youthful democracy were much in the
minds of those who brought about the
French Revolution, and most assuredly
later helped to inspire revolutionists in
Spain's American colonies.
American Civil War
• The American Civil War (1861–1865),
which is also known by several other
names, was a civil war between the United
States of America (the "Union") and the
Southern slave states of the newly formed
Confederate States of America under
Jefferson Davis.
Causes of the war
• The coexistence of a slave-owning
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South with an increasingly antislavery North made conflict
inevitable.
Southern fears of losing control of
the federal government to
antislavery forces, and Northern
fears that the slave power already
controlled the government,
brought the crisis to a head in the
late 1850s.
Southern secession was triggered
by the election of Republican
Abraham Lincoln because regional
leaders feared that he would stop
the expansion of slavery and put it
on a course toward extinction.
• Republicans opposed the
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expansion of slavery into
territories owned by the United
States, and their victory in the
presidential election of 1860
resulted in seven Southern states
declaring their secession from the
Union even before Lincoln took
office. The Union rejected
secession, regarding it as rebellion.
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861,
when Confederate forces attacked
a U.S. military installation at Fort
Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln
responded by calling for a large
volunteer army, then four more
Southern states declared their
secession.
Aftermath
• The war, the deadliest in American history,
caused 620,000 soldier deaths and an
undetermined number of civilian casualties,
ended slavery in the United States, restored the
Union by settling the issues of nullification and
secession and strengthened the role of the
Federal government. The social, political,
economic and racial issues of the war continue
to shape contemporary American thought.