Growing Pains

Lead-in

• Can you describe an experience with your parents that was not pleasant?

• E.g.

• Is there any thing you like to do while your parents do not allow you?

• Is there any thing your parents expect you to do while you dislike it?

• If you were left alone at home, can you imagine what would happen?

Reading Strategy : Reading a play

• What is a play?

• A play is a piece of writing which is intended ( 旨在） to be performed in a theatre, on the radio or on television.

• A play is usually made up of several acts(幕 ). Each act can have several scenes( 场景 ).

The structure( 结构 )of the text

Act One

• two acts Scene one

Act Two

Scene two

Read and answer:

1.What is the play in the form of ?

2. In order to understand a play, what should we do?

A dialogue

Read the dialogue aloud.3.Things we should pay attention to:

Instructions( 旁白）

Feedback ：• 1.Who are the main characters in the

play?

• 2.Why do the parents get angry?

• 3.What happened to their dog, Spot?

Eric, Daniel, Mom and Dad.

The room was in a mess.

Spot was ill.

True or false 1. The boys do not expect their parents to come back so early. 2. Spot, the dog, looks full of life.3. Daniel’s parents still think of him as an adult.4. Eric does not want to explain to their parents.5. The boys didn’t clean the house because they went to the clinic.6. The mother thinks the father should be stricter with Daniel.

T

F

FFT

F

starving

Daniel

they were too hard on Daniel

1.This passage is mainly about ________.

A. What Mom and Dad did after they returned from vacation.

B. What Daniel and Eric did at home.

C. the reason why the dog was tired and hungry

D. a big quarrel an American family had

Multiple choice

2. Mom and Dad left Daniel in charge at home because ______.

A. he was an adult

B. he was the youngest

C. they liked him very much

D. they thought he could take good care of everything while they were away.

3. The reason why the house was so dirty is that ______. A. Spot pulled the dirty out of the trash can

B. the kids forgot to clean the room up C. the parents were back one day earlier than expected D. the kids had no time to clean it

5. The main reason for their quarrel is that ______.

A. Daniel was too rude.

B. Eric didn’t tell his parents what had happened

C. the parents blamed Daniel without giving him

a chance to explain

D. Daniel and Eric didn’t behave well at home.

6. What do you think is the most reasonable end of the play?

A. The parents punished Daniel and he respected them more than before.

B. After the parents had a long talk with the boys, they knew about the truth and said “sorry” to Daniel.

C. They didn’t mention the quarrel and didn’t trust Daniel.

D. Daniel knew he was wrong and said “sorry” to his parents.

Read Act One of the play carefully and fill in the form:Characters Feelings

Mom and Dad

Back home from vacation------ ________

Finding ________ all over the room-----______

Eric Seeing Mom and Dad arrive home earlier than________ ---- __________

Daniel

Not being __________by his parents-----________

excited

Detailed reading

angry

surprised,frightened expected

angrytrusted

garbage

Read Act Two of the play carefully and fill in the form:

Characters Feelings

Daniel Having no chance to ________---________

Eric ____________ his brother

Wanting to tell the truth

Mom Being too _______on Daniel-------__________

Dad Hard to _______ Daniel’s rude behavior------______

Deciding to _______Daniel------__________

Detailed reading

angry,upsetexplain

Comforting

calm------_______

hard regretful / sorryforgive/ tolerate

punish

angrystubborn

Discussion

If you were one of the two children, what would you do? Would you stay silent or offer an explanation to your parents?

Growing Pains

quarrel with parents

feel lonely and misunderstood

have too much homework and no time to relax

have to depend on your parents and can't make your own choice

SummaryParagraph gist structure

Para1

Para2

Para3

Para4

Para5

Para6

Problems

Explanation

Physical changes

Psychological changesSocial changes

Right attitude

introduction

detailed information of the topic

conclusion

Key points

• The definition of Growing Pains:

• Different kinds of changes of growing pains:

the difficulties that teenagers face as they grow to adults.

Physical

Psychological

social

• If you are faced with some growing pains,what will you do?

Growing pains do not last,

everything turns out OK

Homework

• oral presentation

retell the play Home Alone in your own words.

Thank you

True or false 1. The boys do not expect their parents to come back so early. 2. Spot, the dog, looks full of life.3. Daniel’s parents still think of him as an adult.4. Eric does not want to explain to their parents.5. The boys didn’t clean the house because they went to the clinic.6. The mother thinks the father should be stricter with Daniel.

T

F

FFT

F

starving

Daniel

they were too hard on Daniel