My Father’s Shadow
Teaching Objectives
1,To get students understand father’s love,
2,To understand the purpose of writing and
organization of the text,
3,To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge
by doing various types of exercises,
Design of the Teaching Process
1.Students are asked to discuss the structure of the
text and try to tell the main idea of each part,and
the teacher comments on the result of discussion,
2.Detailed study of the text mainly based on
questioning and answering whether by the teacher
or students,
3,Exercises and comment,
4,Assignment,
a) Read the text as fluently as possible,
b) Write a passage talking about the relationship
between you and your father,
5,Means of classroom instruction,Multi-media
Think over
? Imagine you were your father and your father
were you,how would you improve the present
relationship between you two?
2,You will have a family in the future,Now dream of
it,describe it and write it down,When you look
back some day,you may find it funny,
Structural analysis of the text
Part One 1,
The author supplies the basic information for the
whole story,
Part two (2-4),
a flashback about the clashes between the author
and her father,It elaborates on how their problems
arose from their different personal preferences and
how these differences have developed into a kind of
“cold war” (silence),It is a flashback into the
author’s early years,
Part Three (5-6),
It is a transition,The author recalls her father’s
affection for her in her childhood and shows
her uncertainty about the forthcoming reunion,
Part Four (7-13),
describes the reunion---the initial uncertain
moment,the father’s affection for his
grandchild,and ease of the tension between
the father and the daughter,
Part Five (14-15),
Conclusion---the ending of the story about how
family ties work in removal of disagreement
between family members,
some difficult sentences,words or phrases
We might have gone on like that,the habit of
separation hardening into a permanent
estrangement,
Explain,It was quite possible that the physical
separation and emotional breach between us
would further widen and eventually separate us
forever,
Then Timmy was born,and I felt an unexpected tidal
pull back to the islands,
Explain,My parental love for my newborn baby
aroused in me a strong wish to go back to my parents
on the islands,Here the author seems to suggest that
she has come to appreciate her father’s love for her,
Having claimed his hapa haole grandson,my
father no longer defined our family by a uniform
set of features,
Explain,MY father’s acceptance of his half-
Chinese grandson showed that he had become
tolerant of ethic differences and no longer
insisted that all his family members should look
alike,
disapproval/approval (of) object oppose
---having or expressing an unfavourable opinion
1.My father could easily have opposed our marriage
or at least expressed his disapproval,
2.Football managers voiced their disapproval of
people who sell tickets unofficially,
3.The workers strongly disapprove of the firm’s new
methods on the assembly line,
4.I am sorry I must disapprove your action,
5.He has been violently opposed to it at first,
6.This sort of thing is utterly opposed to all my
principles,
7.The rare woman is truly beautiful as opposed to
the many who are merely pretty.（和。。。相对）
8.She asked me to give up smoking---she objected to
the smell of it,
9.They objected to leaving school and going to work,
10.She objected to us keeping animals,
settle
1,She settled down to read a book,
2.They have settled down very happily in their new
home,
3.The situation has settled down,
4,I’m sure the child will settle down in his new school,
5,I owe you some money for the drinks,We’ll settle up
after lunch.(结帐 )
6,I’m short of cash,Have you enough to settle up with
the waiter?
7.The new neighbours seem to have settled in now,
(习惯于新工作、环境 )
Translation exercises,
1.Animal conservationists strongly disapprove of
experimenting on animals,
2..Shelie walked into the museum under the stern gaze
of the curator,
3.After a spell in the advertising business,Jim began
to work for a large insurance company,
4,It was estimated that 50,000 people flooded into
London over the weekend for the opening of the
Commonwealth Games,
5.He rushed into the busy street and mingled with the
crowd,hoping in that way the police would not spot
him,
6.He tiptoed quietly out of the room so as not to
wake her up,
7.He bought the painting as a status symbol,not
because he was particularly interested in art,
8,Jim was always disappointed that his son never
followed in his footsteps and took over the farm,
Dictation,
As far as I am concerned,my father was the finest man
who ever lived,We spoke without words and loved without
barriers,The day he died was the hardest day of my life,
Without Dad I thought the hope in me had died as well,
Becoming a father myself wasn’t high on my list of things to
do,Responsibilities were not my idea of good time,Almost a
decade after my father died,an infant changed my mind,
Being a father means there are new challenges for me,There
was no school degree to prepare me for fatherhood,I went to
the bookstores,But I found nothing,I had no lines,no
textbooks,no videos to tell me what to do,It was a job with
no description,People would say to me,“Just love me.”
Loving was the easy part,Being a father was not,
Teaching Objectives
1,To get students understand father’s love,
2,To understand the purpose of writing and
organization of the text,
3,To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge
by doing various types of exercises,
Design of the Teaching Process
1.Students are asked to discuss the structure of the
text and try to tell the main idea of each part,and
the teacher comments on the result of discussion,
2.Detailed study of the text mainly based on
questioning and answering whether by the teacher
or students,
3,Exercises and comment,
4,Assignment,
a) Read the text as fluently as possible,
b) Write a passage talking about the relationship
between you and your father,
5,Means of classroom instruction,Multi-media
Think over
? Imagine you were your father and your father
were you,how would you improve the present
relationship between you two?
2,You will have a family in the future,Now dream of
it,describe it and write it down,When you look
back some day,you may find it funny,
Structural analysis of the text
Part One 1,
The author supplies the basic information for the
whole story,
Part two (2-4),
a flashback about the clashes between the author
and her father,It elaborates on how their problems
arose from their different personal preferences and
how these differences have developed into a kind of
“cold war” (silence),It is a flashback into the
author’s early years,
Part Three (5-6),
It is a transition,The author recalls her father’s
affection for her in her childhood and shows
her uncertainty about the forthcoming reunion,
Part Four (7-13),
describes the reunion---the initial uncertain
moment,the father’s affection for his
grandchild,and ease of the tension between
the father and the daughter,
Part Five (14-15),
Conclusion---the ending of the story about how
family ties work in removal of disagreement
between family members,
some difficult sentences,words or phrases
We might have gone on like that,the habit of
separation hardening into a permanent
estrangement,
Explain,It was quite possible that the physical
separation and emotional breach between us
would further widen and eventually separate us
forever,
Then Timmy was born,and I felt an unexpected tidal
pull back to the islands,
Explain,My parental love for my newborn baby
aroused in me a strong wish to go back to my parents
on the islands,Here the author seems to suggest that
she has come to appreciate her father’s love for her,
Having claimed his hapa haole grandson,my
father no longer defined our family by a uniform
set of features,
Explain,MY father’s acceptance of his half-
Chinese grandson showed that he had become
tolerant of ethic differences and no longer
insisted that all his family members should look
alike,
disapproval/approval (of) object oppose
---having or expressing an unfavourable opinion
1.My father could easily have opposed our marriage
or at least expressed his disapproval,
2.Football managers voiced their disapproval of
people who sell tickets unofficially,
3.The workers strongly disapprove of the firm’s new
methods on the assembly line,
4.I am sorry I must disapprove your action,
5.He has been violently opposed to it at first,
6.This sort of thing is utterly opposed to all my
principles,
7.The rare woman is truly beautiful as opposed to
the many who are merely pretty.（和。。。相对）
8.She asked me to give up smoking---she objected to
the smell of it,
9.They objected to leaving school and going to work,
10.She objected to us keeping animals,
settle
1,She settled down to read a book,
2.They have settled down very happily in their new
home,
3.The situation has settled down,
4,I’m sure the child will settle down in his new school,
5,I owe you some money for the drinks,We’ll settle up
after lunch.(结帐 )
6,I’m short of cash,Have you enough to settle up with
the waiter?
7.The new neighbours seem to have settled in now,
(习惯于新工作、环境 )
Translation exercises,
1.Animal conservationists strongly disapprove of
experimenting on animals,
2..Shelie walked into the museum under the stern gaze
of the curator,
3.After a spell in the advertising business,Jim began
to work for a large insurance company,
4,It was estimated that 50,000 people flooded into
London over the weekend for the opening of the
Commonwealth Games,
5.He rushed into the busy street and mingled with the
crowd,hoping in that way the police would not spot
him,
6.He tiptoed quietly out of the room so as not to
wake her up,
7.He bought the painting as a status symbol,not
because he was particularly interested in art,
8,Jim was always disappointed that his son never
followed in his footsteps and took over the farm,
Dictation,
As far as I am concerned,my father was the finest man
who ever lived,We spoke without words and loved without
barriers,The day he died was the hardest day of my life,
Without Dad I thought the hope in me had died as well,
Becoming a father myself wasn’t high on my list of things to
do,Responsibilities were not my idea of good time,Almost a
decade after my father died,an infant changed my mind,
Being a father means there are new challenges for me,There
was no school degree to prepare me for fatherhood,I went to
the bookstores,But I found nothing,I had no lines,no
textbooks,no videos to tell me what to do,It was a job with
no description,People would say to me,“Just love me.”
Loving was the easy part,Being a father was not,
