【牛津译林版】英语必修一课件：Unit 2 Growing pains project(2)

Growing Pains

Writing a report on growing pains

What kinds of the growing pains have you experienced?

often quarrel with your parents because they forbid listening to foreign music / chatting online / …; they are busy with their work and spend little time with you; have too much homework and no time to relax;

sometimes feel lonely and feel no one else can understand you; have to depend on your parents and can’t make your own choices; etc.

adolescence: the time of life between child and adult

misunderstand: not able to understand correctly

confused: being unable to understand or think clearly normal: usual, not surprising, not strange

physical changes: changes inside one’s body psychological changes: changes in one’s mind

Now read the article “Growing pains” for the first time. While reading, try to find out what different kinds of growing pains are talked in the article.

kinds of growing pains: physical changes psychological changes

how to fit in society

Read the article again and discuss how many parts this article can be divided into and what the main point is for each part.

Part 1

Paras. 1-2

Part 2

Paras. 3-5

Part 3

Para. 6

The main point of each partPart 1:Many teenagers feel lonely and are going through many changes. These changes are part of adolescence.

Part 2:Physical changes and psychological changes happen inside teenagers. They become confused and want to know how to fit in society.

Part 3:Growing pains do not last long.

Language points 1. Many teenagers feel lonely, as if no one understands them and the changes they aregoing through. lonely adj. 孤独的, 单独的；荒凉的 When his wife died, he was very lonely.

A lonely island lonely, alone均有“孤单的”之意。 lonely: adj感到孤独的，可用作表语或定语。alone: adj表客观单独的，并且在句中只用作表语。

I live all alone but I never feel lonely.alone 还可以做副词：live alone

go through 经历, 检查, 浏览 ,通过 Their marriage has been going through a patch倒霉时光. I go through this mailbox almost every day.

Go through the gate.

2. Day by day, everything seems different, yet the same. day by day 一天天地, 逐日地 It is getting warmer day by day. The patient's condition is improving day by day. day after day 日复一日地 day and night 日日夜夜