Growing
Pains
Lead-in
• Can you describe an experience with your
parents that was not pleasant?
• E.g.
• Is there any thing you like to do while your
parents do not allow you?
• Is there any thing your parents expect you
to do while you dislike it?
• If you were left alone at home, can you
imagine what would happen?
Reading Strategy : Reading a play
• What is a play?
• A play is a piece of writing which is
intended (旨在） to be performed in a
theatre, on the radio or on television.
• A play is usually made up of several acts(
幕). Each act can have several scenes(场
景).
The structure(结构)of the text
Act One
• two acts
Scene one
Act Two
Scene two
Read and answer:
1.What is the play in the form of ?
A dialogue
2. In order to understand a play,
what should we do?
Read the dialogue aloud.
3.Things we should pay attention to:
Instructions(旁白）
Feedback：
• 1.Who are the main characters in the
play?
Eric, Daniel, Mom and Dad.
• 2.Why do the parents get angry?
The room was in a mess.
• 3.What happened to their dog, Spot?
Spot was ill.
True or false
T 1. The boys do not expect their parents to come
back so early.
starving
F 2. Spot, the dog, looks full of life.
F 3. Daniel’s
Daniel parents still think of him as an adult.
F 4. Eric does not want to explain to their parents.
T 5. The boys didn’t clean the house because they
went to the clinic.
F 6. The mother thinks the father should be stricter
with Daniel.
they were too hard on Daniel
Multiple choice
1.This passage is mainly about ________.
A. What Mom and Dad did after they returned
from vacation.
B. What Daniel and Eric did at home.
C. the reason why the dog was tired and hungry
D. a big quarrel an American family had
2. Mom and Dad left Daniel in charge at home
because ______.
A. he was an adult
B. he was the youngest
C. they liked him very much
D. they thought he could take good care of
everything while they were away.
3. The reason why the house was so dirty
is that ______.
A. Spot pulled the dirty out of the trash
can
B. the kids forgot to clean the room up
C. the parents were back one day earlier
than expected
D. the kids had no time to clean it
5. The main reason for their quarrel is that ______.
A. Daniel was too rude.
B. Eric didn’t tell his parents what had happened
C. the parents blamed Daniel without giving him
a chance to explain
D. Daniel and Eric didn’t behave well at home.
6. What do you think is the most reasonable end of
the play?
A. The parents punished Daniel and he respected
them more than before.
B. After the parents had a long talk with the boys,
they knew about the truth and said “sorry” to
Daniel.
C. They didn’t mention the quarrel and didn’t trust
Daniel.
D. Daniel knew he was wrong and said “sorry” to
his parents.
Read Act One of the play
carefully and fill in the
form:
Characters
Mom
and Dad
Eric
Daniel
Detailed reading
Feelings
excited
Back home from vacation------ ________
garbage all over the room-----______
Finding ________
angry
Seeing Mom and Dad arrive home earlier
expected----surprised,frightened
than________
__________
Not being __________by
his parents----trusted
angry
________
Read Act Two of the play
carefully and fill in the
form:
Characters
Daniel
Eric
Feelings
explain angry,upset
Having no chance to ________---________
Comforting
____________ his brother
Wanting to tell the truth
Mom
Dad
Detailed reading
calm
------_______
hard
regretful / sorry
Being too _______on
Daniel-------__________
forgive/
angry
Hard to tolerate
_______ Daniel’s rude behavior------______
stubborn
Deciding to punish
_______Daniel------__________
Discussion
If you were one of the two children,
what would you do? Would you stay
silent or offer an explanation to your
parents?
quarrel with parents
feel lonely and
misunderstood
Growing Pains
have to depend on your parents
have too much homework and can't make your own choice
and no time to relax
Summary
Paragraph gist
Para1
Problems
Para2
Explanation
Para3
Physical changes
Para4
Psychological changes
Para5
Social changes
Para6
Right attitude
structure
introduction
detailed information of
the topic
conclusion
Key points
• The definition of Growing Pains:
the difficulties that teenagers face as they
grow to adults.
• Different kinds of changes of growing
pains:
Physical
Psychological
social
• If you are faced with some growing
pains,what will you do?
Growing pains do not last,
everything turns out OK
Homework
• oral presentation
retell the play Home Alone in your own
words.
Thank
you
True or false
T 1. The boys do not expect their parents to come
back so early.
starving
F 2. Spot, the dog, looks full of life.
F 3. Daniel’s
Daniel parents still think of him as an adult.
F 4. Eric does not want to explain to their parents.
T 5. The boys didn’t clean the house because they
went to the clinic.
F 6. The mother thinks the father should be stricter
with Daniel.
they were too hard on Daniel