He sees his parent's generation as too ready to criticize their children and unable to understand their hopes and dreams:
Come mothers and lathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you don't understand Dylan sees the older generation's way of doing things as outdated. If they are unwilling to change their ways then they should step aside and let a new generation take over. As he says to them: Your old road is Rapidly a gin
Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'
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No. 1 2 3 2. Scenes Scene One
Settings
A fast-food restaurant
The Thompson family dining room An office at a high school
Main Ideas
Father embarrassed Sean by talking too proudly to the restaurant Manager.
Scene Two
Father embarrassed Diane by persuading a work-mate into pressing his son to ask her to the senior prom.
Scene Three
Father embarrassed Heidi by boasting to an official of her new school about how bright she was.
Vocabulary
I. 1. 1) swallow 2) dumb 3) Overall 4) glorious 5) welfare 6) repeatedly 7) interference 8) fading 9) junior 10) frank 11) distract 12) at any rate 13) has narrowed down 14) in unison 15) has come over
2. 1) The security council consists of five generals and four police officers.
2) The new hotel will be in a location overlooking the lake.
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3) I was embarrassed by her comments about my clothes. 4) Do you have any proof that it was Henry who stole the computer? 5) The boy was exhausted after the long cycle ride.
3. 1) That exceptional stamp was handed down by your grandfather , and is worth a fortune. You should have known better than to trade it for a few drinks. 2) Company executives are always looking out for talented college graduates to hire as junior employees. 3) The doctor in charge of his case asked him to fill out one form after another, but kept him in suspense as to what they were for. II. Collocation
1. adequate 2. anxious 3. certain 4. content 5. crazy 6. likely 7. fortunate 8. keen III. Usage
1. be admitted 2. live 3. be postponed 4. buy 5. be banned 6. be Structure
1. 1) I do whatever I can 2) Whatever does that mean 2. 3) Whatever had happened 4) Whatever it is that you like 3. 1) You ought to know better than to go swimming right after lunch.
2) Aunt Betty certainly knows better than to invest all her money in one company's stock.
3) Jenny is old enough to know better than to spend all her time playing computer games. 4) Allen should have known better than to lend such a large sum of money to that untrustworthy cousin of his. ? ■ ■ Comprehensive Exercises I. Cloze
(A)
1. welfare 2. constant
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3. frank
5. embarrassing 7. repeatedly 9. interference 11. Overall (B) 1. send 3. picture 5. as 7. too 9. But 11. from 13. jacket 15. never
4. talent 6. dumb 8. constant 10. bet 12. trade
2. should 4. His 6. worse 8. consider 10. However 12.it 14. after
II. Translation
George, the son of Mr. Johnson, liked listening to heavy metal music in the evenings, and the noise interrupted the sleep of other residents in the community. Eventually the exhausted neigh-bors lost their patience and decided on direct interference. They called Mr. Johnson to tell him in a frank manner what they were thinking. Embarrassed. Mr. Johnson scolded his son: \hascome over you? You should know better than to disturb others for the sake of your own interest.\Overall. the whole thing has worked out quite satisfactorily. Part III TextB Comprehension Check
l.d 2. a 3. b 4. c 5.d 6. b Translation (#ja Appendix III)
Appendix I -111- Language Practice
1. sake 3. aware
2. acknowledged 4. embraced
5. mood 7. polished off 9. legal 11. justify 13. disturbs 15. look forward to 17. have ... to yourself 19. for her sake
6. to the contrary 8. beneath 10. rare 12. define 14. notion 16. respond 18. Let go of 20. contrary
Part IV Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks Model paper
Mother: Nancy, you've been home from school for three days now. Why don't you clean up your room?
Nancy: We don't have to clean up our rooms at school.
Mother: That's all very well, Nancy. But while you're at home, your Dad and I would like you to keep your room clean.
Nancy: What difference does it make? It's my room.
Mother: That's as may be, but you might give a thought to your father. He's frightened to death of
the plague and now says if it is going to start anywhere in the country, it's going to start in your room.
Nancy: Mother, you people aren't interested in anything that's relevant. Do you realize how the major corporations are polluting our environment?
Mother: Your father and I are very worried about it. But right now we're more concerned with the pollution in your room.
Nancy: For heaven's sake, Mother, I'm grown up now. Why do you have to treat me like a child? Mother: We're not treating you like a child. But it's very hard for us to think of you as an adult when
you go round throwing all your clothes on the floor.
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Unit 4
Part I Pre-Reading Task Script for the recording:
When an idle moment turned up at work, people used to reach for the newspaper, providing the boss wasn't looking. Nowadays they are more likely to spend their spare moments surfing the Internet. Needless to say, the boss is usually no more happier than before, thinking that his staff
should be looking for some useful work to do. So what happens to the surfer who hears the boss's footsteps approaching? This is the situation the writer of the poem you are about to hear found himself in. Will he be caught in the act?
Surfing the Internet
So I think I'm in the clear Because the boss is nowhere in sight. I log onto the web and start to surf And then my hair stands up with fright.
The footsteps coming down the hall Are quickening in pace. There is no time to exit, No way to save my race.
-So I press the power button And relax just a bit. There is no way he can tell
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I act all surprised, Don't know why my machine died. %unpredictable these Computers are!\
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A computer that won't crash\
Do you think he'll wonder When the new one acts the same? Part II Text A Text Organization l.
Contents
1. Description of the author's virtual life
Paragraphs 2-3
Stepping into the lab, I round no one is inside.
2. How she feels about it after staying on the Net for a 1,4-10, 13 while
3. What she does to return to the real world 4. How she feels about the real world
11 12
2. The first paragraph tells about the consequences of living a virtual life and the last tells about the author's return to it. Together, they show us the dilemma people at present are in: Because of modern technology, we have a choice between a virtual life and real life, but we find both unsat-isfactory. The author, however, finally has to choose the latter despite its negative effects.