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Lesson one
your college years
About the author and the text
Dr. Bob Hartman is a children’s story-teller and part-time pastor. He
was born in Pittsburgh, the United Stated, and moved to England in
the summer of 2000. This is a text about what students will experience
in their “college years”. It is addressed to college students in the
United Stated. But with some modifications, what the author says here
will also make perfect sense to our students. It is particularly
appropriate now as we are just beginning the second academic year,
which is considered by many the most important in our college life,
because with our first year’s experience we are in a better position to
understand the issues involved and the ways to deal with them
effectively. Attention should be paid to the special technical terms such
as “developmental changes”, “identity crises”, “psychological
independence”, “internalizing religious faith” etc without a clear
understanding of which the meaning of the whole text will be hard to
grasp.
Warm Up
1, What do you think is particularly important for
us English language students?
2, Is there generation gap between your parents
and you?
3, What are your goals for the college years?
Word Study
1
doing through: experiencing, undergoing,
suffering
Other uses of this phrasal verb:
E.g. HE really believed that by saying those magic
words he could go through walls without any
trouble.
E.g, I don’t think this plan will go through the
Security Council. (be accepted by)
E.g, We have gone through all these arguments.
(go over carefully from beginning to end)
2
a)
to perceive
to think of as
eg, He perceived himself a loser who could
not even support his family.
b)
to notice; to discover; to observe
eg, Musicians can perceive very small
differences in sounds.
c)
to understand; to grasp
eg, I gradually perceived that culture and
language cannot really be separated
3 to relate
a) to be able to have a good relationship with
people because you understand their feelings
and behavior
e.g, Some adults can’t relate to children.
b)
to give an account of(facts, experiences,
etc.); to tell(a story, etc.)
e.g, She related to them how it happened.
4 to handle
a) to touch, lift or turn with the hands
eg, This box contains delicate china.
Please handle with care.
b)
to operate with the hands
eg, This computer is easy to handle.
c)
to manage, control or cope with
eg, Thank you. But I can handle it
myself.
5) to involve: to include as a necessary part or result; to
affect
a) to involve sb. or sth.
b) to involve doing sth.
c) to involve sb. in sth.
d) to be involved in sth
eg , All reforms involve certain risks.
This project involves digging a canal between the two
rivers.
We don’t want to involve too many people in our
preparations.
He was deeply involved in the power struggle.
6) excessive: much more than reasonable or
necessary
If somebody has an excessive need for
approval, it means that he is too dependent on
sb’s approval. Children need their parents to
tell them what to do or not to do. They also
need to be close to their parents and receive
encouragement, love all kinds of emotional
support which give them strength. But when y
they grow up, this should change. They should
no longer have the same needs like babies.
7) freedom(free) from sth: no longer having sth
you do not want, e.g.
The most important freedom our people
should have is the freedom from hunger.
Note: it is different from freedom of sth.
Compare;
The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is
freedom of every person to worship God in his
own way---everywhere in the world.
Detailed discussion of the Text
1)… They are becoming independent from their
parents, yet are probably still very dependent on
them. (para. 3)
Here “yet” functions as a conjunction. It is used
to add a fact that contrasts strongly with what
you have just said. More examples:
e.g. These are exciting times yet frustrating
times.
e.g. His father had been dead for thirty years,
and yet he still waked at four o’clock in the
morning.
2)…The way they are relating to whomever they
are having a romantic relationship with.(para.5)
…the way they are relating to whomever they are
having a romantic relationship with. Here
“whomever they are having a romantic
relationship with” is used as the object of “are
relating to”. The relative pronoun “whomever” is
the object of the preposition “with”.
3) It may be heightened by their choice to pursue
a college education.(para.3)
“It” here refers to the word “struggle” in the
previous sentence. “To heighten” means to
become stronger or intensified. The whole
sentence therefore means that if they choose to
go to college to continue their education, they
will face an more serious struggle between the
desire to be independent and the need to depend
on the financial support of their parents.
4) people from a
backgrounds.(para.7)
variety
of
ethnic
people from many different races
Today sociologists often prefer the word
“ethnic” to “racial”, and “ethnic group” to
“race”.There are differences of course. The
Hans and the Tibetans are both Chinese,
belonging to the same yellow race, but the
belong to two ethnic groups.
5)…they are also acquiring new ways of
assembling and processing information.
(para.10)
They are also finding or learning new ways
of arranging, organizing, analyzing or
understanding information. It implies that
mare information is not scientific truth.
Scientific truth requires the processing of
information. In college, students will learn
new approaches, methods, and theories
which will change many of their prejudices
Answers to grammar work
2 1)what yourself what whether it others
why which/how everything much
2)feeling to change becoming being; being/to
be to go thinking to stay not to see having
fallen behind being recognized
4 1) a poet’s way of telling us
2) the only way to learn a foreign language well
3) no easy way to say good-bye
4) the way they all stared at me
5) some aspects of the way we speak
6) ways to get data into a computer
7) The way I judge it
8) a way of delivering the secret message
9) a way to stop the leak
10) the way the children responded to their
questions
5 a his a his the an the
the/a a the the The the / The his the the
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Written work
In what ways, according to the writer of
the article, is college a time of growth and
expansion?
Discuss
Have you experienced any important
changes since you entered our university?
Have they all been positive? Do you have a
better idea now about your strengths and
weaknesses?