课前准备：

阅读文章，完成小试牛刀的问答题。

教师导引：上网搜集作者个人资料和文章背景资料可帮助理解文章。

小贴士：联系自己的实际生活，你在和父母相处的过程中是否会有一些矛盾？你是否思考过是什么造成了这些矛盾？怎样解决这些矛盾？

小试牛刀

What is the structure of the passage?

Answer:

The whole passage can be divided into four parts.

1.Part I (paras. 1-9): at eighty, after a bad fall, my mother’s mind began to wander free through time.

2.Part II (paras. 10-15): my mother had been a formidable woman.

3.Part III (paras. 16-39): I gradually gave up arguing my mother back to the real world.

1)(paras. 16-31): she wouldn’t recognize me but remember her birthday.

2)(paras. 31-34): I came to understand why she dwelled on dead decades.

3)(paras. 35-39): I began trying to travel with her into the past.

4.Part IV (paras. 1-9): I realize there was a dispute about time between my children and me, as there had been between my mother and me.

学习目标

By the end of the class, students will be able to

1.Understand the structure and the general ideas of the passage;

2.Know something about the author;

3.Solve your own questions about the passage;

4.Master the vocabulary, phrases and grammar of the passage.

5.get the content:

1)to understand the problem of aging

2)to understand the problem of generation and ways to solve it

3)to relate the problem to personal and social experience

6.understand the language:

1)to appreciate the use of humor

2)2)to draw inferences

3)to read between the lines for gist

知识结构