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Unit 1 Book Two Section A Time-Conscious Americans Teaching Objectives The unit is intended to help students know more about cultural differences and culture shock. After learning the three passages, students are supposed to: realize the importance of understanding cultural differences; know how to adjust to a new culture; learn to write a general statement supported by specific details and reasons; improve the students’ reading skill of reading for the main ideas in paragraphs; master the following key words and phrases: adjust, replace, budget, cope, worthy, distress, convention, obtain, account for, result in, go through, due to master the key sentence structures: much less, given…, whereas, the other being labor Time Allotment 1st and 2nd period------ Pre-reading Activities 3rd and 4th period------While-reading Activities 5th and 6th period -----Post-reading Activities and Section B 7th and 8th period------Listening and Speaking Teaching Contents I. Important Points A. Key words and phrases: Section A: budget, acute, replace, restless, brief, opening, convention, leisure, assess, conduct, competent, fulfill fall behind, slave to, result in, account for, at hand, in person, be worthy of Section B: clash, amuse, hostile, distress, devise, isolate, reject, recognition, recovery, favorable, distinction, appreciate, acquisition adjust to, be familiar to, come to, go through B. Key Sentence Patterns much less; whereas II. Difficult Points 1. Students have little knowledge of time consciousness in other cultures. Some long and difficult sentences Teaching Procedures I. Pre-reading Activities A. Warm-up activities 1) What do you think of time? Do you agree time is money; time is life; time is victory? If so, can you give an example to illustrate your opinion? In business, time is money. If you can introduce a new product earlier into the market, you may dominate the market and make a fortune. In medical treatment, if a disease can be