阅读理解能力发展活动：篇章结构宏观理解活动，学生自主快速阅读课文，根据教师所提供的判断句，判断主题。教师列出以下问题： Did you go to school together?The letter must have made you feel good, didn’t it? Is your cab available? Is he someone you’ve known quite a while? Is he dead? I thought your friend was Ed. Why did he sign it Tom? Is the letter from a child or a grandchild? Did you two work at the same place? 学生小组讨论并排序。学生阅读课文，划分段落结构，写出各部分观点。教师写出若干个陈述句，学生正误辨识。如Baker had never thought of becoming a writer until he was in the eleventh grade；Teachers found it painful to read students’long and lifeless essays；Before Mr. Fleagle became the English teacher for Baker’s class, the English course had been interesting.