本章主要分为四部分，即热身活动与课文背景介绍，文本赏析，文本语言点的理解与运用，以及拓展阅读与思考活动，本单元的知识结构如下图所示。

Warm-up

1. Can Chicken Soup Really cure the Soul? 

2. Take the Chicken Soup Quiz

3. Do You Know?

Background Information

●Author

●Duel

●Battle of Gettysburg

●Test pilot & Bob Hoover

●Mark Twain

Text Analysis

1. Theme

2. Structure

3. Questions

4. Discussion

Writing Devices: Quotation

Language Study

1. Word Study

Futile / arouse / indulge / indignation / ridicule / retain / adroit / maneuver / unleash / service / blunder / malice / deluge / procrastinate / hereafter

2. Phrases and Expressions

apply to / in favor of / (put sb.) on the defensive / lift out / blow off steam / once too often / water under the bridge / in connection with

3. Grammar

Subject–auxiliary inversion 主谓倒装

FOR SUBJECT-VERB INVERSION 主谓倒装（全部倒装）

4. Word Formation

●Prefix—un

●Prefix—un

●Suffix—ate

1)Oral Work---Group Discussion & Debating

2)Quiz

3)Writing

4)Listening Lab