New Horizon English Book 2 Unit 2 Trends and Fads

1. New Horizon English Book 2 Unit 2 Trends and Fads

2. Content • Pre-class assignment • Leading-in • Exploring • Reading through • Background information • Studying through • After-reading questions • Assignments • Reading More • Questions • Practical writing

3. Pre-class assignments • 1. Ask your grandparents and you parents what kind of music they like and what their pastimes are. • 2. Ask them what the four luxuries of a family in 1970s, 1980s and the late 1990s were. • 3. Take a look at the pictures of their youth. • 4. Compare yours with theirs in the above two items.

4. Leading-in • Listen to the music. Which one is familiar to you? Which do you like most?

5. Look at these pictures. What feelings do you have about their hair styles?

6. Reference words • It looks funny/traditional. • It’s out of date. • It’s in fashion. • The girl looks elegant. • She’s modern/fashionable/stylish.

7. The old four luxuries in 1970s sewing machine (upper left) How happy I am to wear a watch! (right)

8. The four luxuries in 1980s refrigerator washing machine fanner

9. The four luxuries in late 1990s mobile phone/cell phone computer air-conditioner

10. The four luxuries were/are also differs in cities and countryside. tape recorder Sound system

11. Exploring Do you think fashion is good or not? Useful expressions: • make life different from time to time • helps people make choices while shopping • promote business and the economy • waste money • takes up too much of people’s attention and time • make everyone look the same or do the same thing

12. Why do people like to follow the latest fashions? • be afraid to be considered out-of-date. • show they are different from others • be interested in anything that is new

13. Reading through • Background information Except those covered in the Leading-in section, things like exercise, language, names are also greatly influenced of fashion. • Name: Someone called Jianguo, Geming, Hongwei and Guoqing were highly marked by the time of their birth. • Language: People in 1950s ~1980s liked to address another person, esp. a sales person, comrade. Some elderly people like to do so nowadays. However, we like to address another person Miss, Mr., Mrs., Ms, etc.

14. Studying through Language points: Words • furniture (u.) n. 家具 • actor男演员　　actress女演员 –ess shows female in some profession names. Other examples: waiter, prince, host waitress, princess, hostess • enjoy enjoy doing • hero (pl.) heroes, tomatoes, potatoes pianos, phonos, photos (these words are short forms for pianoforte, phonograph and photograph, so the plural forms are plus “s”.)

15. advertisement n.广告 advertise v.　做广告 advertising n.广告业 • desire n. ＆ v. 渴望，欲望 • economyn.经济 economic a.有关经济的，经济学的 economical a.节约的 • survive vt. live longer than 幸存，比活得长 Expressions • more than just 不仅仅 Children like it because it is more than just a toy. • in style　时髦，流行

16. out of date　过时的，不用的 • get away from　逃避，逃离 • in/out of fashion　流行/不流行 • and the like　诸如此类 Young girls are fans of movie stars, sports heroes, music stars, and the like. • pay attention to 　留心，注意 • come and go　来来去去，忽隐忽现，变化无常 The fads come and go in these field. 这些流行一时的人在这些领域里来去匆匆。 • make money　赚钱，挣钱

17. Difficult points • (Para 1) It is more than just clothing and hairstyles that are in style one year and out of date the next; it’s a whole way of living. more than just: not only it’s a whole way of living: all other aspects in life are also in style one year and out of date the next. • (Para 1) Almost nothing in modern life gets away from the influence of fashion. Nearly everything in modern life are influenced by fashion. • In the United States, even people can be “in” and “out”. even the common people can be famous and out-of-date.

18. (Para. 5) this desire for money doesn’t explain fads in other areas, such as language. Fads in language do not speak the fashionable words for money. After-reading Questions • 1. Why causes fads to come and go? • 2. What is another reason why fads are common in the United States?

19. Keys to After-reading Questions • 1. Fads come and go because people who follow fads simply want to be part of something new and creative. • 2. Most American seem to feel that something is wrong if there isn’t frequent change in their lives. Assignments: 1. Read the text aloud after class. 2. Recite Paragraph 7. 3. Finish the exercises.

20. Reading More • Before reading the text, get familiar with these words and expressions. Then answer the questions Words: weight n.重量，重要性 medicala.医学的，医药的 chartn.图表 overweightn. & a.超重（的） raten.比率 v. 估价 normala.正常的 childhoodn.童年时代

21. nurseryn.托儿所，苗圃 drugn.毒品，麻醉品；药物 discriminationn.歧视；识别力 justifyv.证明…有理；为…辩护 judgmentn.　评价，判断 obsesseda.着迷的，全神贯注的 falsea.错误的 disordern.（身体、精神）的失调、不适；混乱 naturallyad.生来，天然地；自然地 commentn.评语 charactern.性格、气质 controln. & vt. 控制，管理

22. failuren.失败；失败的人或事、企图等 beautyn.美丽；美人，美好的事物 conceptn.概念 virgina.新鲜的，未开发的；贞洁的，处女的 beachn.海滩 modeln.模特 bonen.骨头 Expressions • live off 靠…过活 • as early as 　早在 • would rather　宁愿 • in every aspect of　在…各个方面 • in reality　事实上

23. try hard to do　努力争取去做 • at a rate　以…速度 • get back　重新获得 • on the beach　在海滩上 Questions: • What does the author usually have? • Why does she enjoys exercising? • What are the false ideas about fat people in society? • What does the author understand “You have such a pretty face”? • Why does the author feel happy when she learns that some cultures have different standards of beauty?

24. Keys to the questions • 1. She usually had fast food and soft drinks. • 2. She enjoys exercising because she likes to live a healthy life. • 3. They have eating disorders, emotional or mental issues, and they have chosen to be fat. • 4. She understands it really means “you’d be prettier if you weren’t that fat”. • 5. She feel happy because she enjoys being liked for beauty.

25. Practical Writing • Letters of acceptance or declination Sample 1 Mr. and Mrs. George Smith regret that a previous engagement prevents their acceptance of Mr. and Mrs. Harry King’s kind invitation to dinner on Tuesday, July 1st at five o’clock pm. at the Lotus Hotel

26. Sample 2 Mr. and Mrs. Adam Accept with pleasure Mr. and Mrs. Black Smith’s kind invitation to be present at the marriage of their daughter Susan Anna to Mr. Robert Christ on Saturday, the eighth of December at five o’clock

27. Writing Suggestions • Mention your name if necessary. • State you’re please to accept the invitation or decline it politely. • State the reason if you decline it. • Repeat the time and date and place. • Repeat the occasion to which the invitation mentions.

28. Finish the letters below • 福斯特（Forster）先生因为要参加重要的商务谈判（business negotiation）而无法出席贵公司2006年5月26日周五下午3点在大饭店（the Grand Hotel）举行的鸡尾酒会（Cocktail Party）。 ___________________ Regrets that ______________ Prevents his acceptance of Your company’s invitation to _________________ On ______________ 3:00 pm, At the _______________