Unit 2 Loving parents loving children Warmingup Objectives

Unit 2 Loving parents, loving children Warming-up

Objectives 1 use the key language to express feelings 2 apply the reading skill – reading in thought groups 3 write a passage of problem-solution pattern 4 translate sentences with the skill of conversion 5 have a better understanding of your parents’ love

UNIT 2 Loving parents, loving children There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. — Henry Ward Beecher (American clergyman, social reformer) While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. — Angela Schwindt (American home-schooling mom)

Critical thinking Theme exploration 1 If you were the daughter, what response would you have when you read the article? 2 Some young people refuse to take their parents’ advice or even do the opposite as they think they are adults. How do you think about it? 3 Some say a good relationship starts with good communication. What can you do to strengthen communication with your parents?

Critical thinking Theme exploration 1. If you were the daughter, what response would you have when you read the article? Tips If I were the daughter, I would be very much touched when I read the article. I would call my mom to say sorry for acting rebelliously and would tell her how much I love her. Probably I would return home as soon as I can.

Critical thinking \ Tips Theme exploration 2. Some young people refuse to take their parents’ advice or even do the opposite as they think they are adults. How do you think about it? I don’t think it is wise to refuse parents’ advice or even do the opposite without a good reason. Your parents care about you more than anybody else and always want to share their experience with you. If you follow their advice, you can at least learn from their experience and avoid making silly mistakes. If you don’t take their advice, you may still get experience – but in a hard way. Besides, your parents may directly point out your weaknesses that your peers wouldn’t. So, listening to your parents’ advice can make you smarter and help you grow mature.

Critical thinking Theme exploration 3. Some say a good relationship starts with good communication. What can you do to strengthen communication with your parents? Tips Good communication will, in my view, help build a good relationship. The following are my ways to strengthen communication with my parents: • Visit them whenever possible; • Invite them to see what I am doing at college; • Teach them to use new communication tools, such as We. Chat and Skype so that they can communicate with me wherever I am; • Try to look at things in their perspectives; and • Share with them my feelings, problems or ambitions.

Critical thinking Read, listen and discuss. You will read a poem of a mother’s love toward her daughter. You will also listen to a song of a daughter recalling memorable moments of her father. Based upon these, discuss with your classmates the following questions: 1. How do you understand the love between parents and children? 2. What will you do to honor and sustain the love between you and your parents now that you are a college student?

Critical thinking Poem of mother’s love

Critical thinking Song of a daughter to her father

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