“京教杯”青年教师教学基本功展示活动 高中英语议论文阅读技能学习 十一学校 周劢
高中英语议论文阅读技能学习Work sheet（教师版）
By the end of today’s class, students are expected to be able to:
1. summarize main idea of paragraph and passage by locating topic sentence or key information; 2. sum up the passage organization by observing the logic between and among paragraphs; 3. infer author’s attitude by understanding paragraph idea and passage organization.
Task One: Read the passage and do the following tasks.
The Diet Zone: A/An _______________ Place
1. The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients (营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calories only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.
2. Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically (身体上) .
3. Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale (秤) instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.
4. Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.
5. On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don't have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.
1. Please summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
Para. 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Para. 2 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Para. 3 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Para. 4 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Para. 5 _________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Please rearrange the order of the paragraphs to make them into a logical passage.
(2-3-5-1-4)
_________________________________________
3. Please draw a mind-map of the development of ideas of this passage:
(I: Introduction/ CP: Central Point P: Point Sp: Sub-point C: Conclusion)
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“京教杯”青年教师教学基本功展示活动 高中英语议论文阅读技能学习 十一学校 周劢
4. Please add a proper word to make the title complete.
The Diet Zone: A/An _______________ (Dangerous/ Harmful) Place
Task Two: Further practice
Please read the passage and do the following tasks. (2015北京D篇)
1. Technological change is everywhere and affects every aspect of life, mostly for the better. However, social changes that are brought about by new technology are often mistaken for a change in attitudes.
2. An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college. Surveys on this topic suggest that parents today continue to be “very” or “somewhat” overly-protective even after their children move in college dormitories. The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago. This is usually interpreted as a sign that today’s parents are trying to manage their children’s lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate.
3. However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their “adult” children.
4. In the context (背景) of this discussion, it seems valuable to first find out the cause of change in the case of earlier generations’ involvement with their grown children. If parents of earlier generations had wanted to be in touch with their college-age children frequently, would this have been possible? Probably not. On the other hand, does the possibility of frequent communication today mean that the urge to do so wasn’t present a generation ago? Many studies show that older parents—today’s grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.
5. Furthermore, studies show that finances are the most frequent subject of communication between parents and their college children. The fact that college students are financially dependent on their parents is nothing new; nor are requests for more money to be sent from home. This phenomenon is neither good nor bad; it is a fact of college life, today and in the past.
6. Thanks to the advanced technology, we live in an age of bettered communication. This has many implications (影响) well beyond the role that parents seem to play in the lives of their children who have left for college. But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings.
Exercise:
? Please draw a mind-map of the development of ideas of this passage and summarize the main idea of each point
with a subtitle or a brief sentence: Main idea of each point 2
Mind-map “京教杯”青年教师教学基本功展示活动 高中英语议论文阅读技能学习 十一学校 周劢
67. The surveys inform us on _____.
A. the development of technology B. the changes of adult children’s behavior C. the parents’ over-protection of their college children D. the means and expenses of students’ communication 68. The writer believes that__________.
A. parents today are more protective than those in the past
B. the disadvantages of new technology outweigh its advantages C. technology explains greater involvement with their children
D. parents’ changed attitudes lead to college children’s delayed independence 69. What is the best title for the passage? A. Technology or Attitude B. Dependence or Independence C. Family Influences or Social Changes D. College Management or Social Changes 70. Which of the following shows the development of ideas in this passage?
A B
(I: Introduction P: Point Sp: Sub-point C: Conclusion)
C D
(67-70 CCAB)
Task Three: Review and Discuss for the class (Student Guest Speaker)
Please review what we have learned in today’s class and present how the study of paragraph main idea and passage organization help us better understand the details and author’s attitude. (Please use the reading tasks of Task Two as an example.) You may take down some key words while discussing.
Homework:
Please write a passage of argumentation: 1. based on the following map of organization;
2. (The first paragraph is given)
The concept of “peer pressure” means a strong influence of a group, especially of children, on members of that group to behave as everybody else does. It can be positive or negative. Most people experience it in some way during their lives. …
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高中英语议论文阅读技能学习Work sheet(教师版)
