book iii unit 5 zhou shiyi college of foreign studies
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3. Grasp the main idea and structure of the text;
4. Understand the important words, phrases and sentence patterns in the text;
5. Be able to conduct text-based written and oral practices.
1. To understand the meaning of the title of the passage;
2. To talk about your attitude to death;
OBJECTIVES
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Pre-class Task Checking
Text Understanding
Difficult Sentences
Words and Expressions
Summary
Writing
Post-class Tasks
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1) What is the writer’s job?
3) What are the patient’s conditions?
1.Dictate some new words, phrases and
expressions.
2. Answer the following questions:
2) What and how does she know about Mrs.
5) What does the writer do for her?
4) Give some details of the patient’s conditions.
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6) Why was there no family member accompanying Mrs. Clark? Who stays with her at the end of her life?
7) What are the author’s reactions while the patient dies?
8) Who is Mrs. Clark?
3. Show your PPT and explain it.
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Main idea of the text ?
Text Understanding
The story deals with a doctor’s view of a terminally ill grandmother as a terrible-looking lady with graceful hands from the outset but a considerate lady with graceful heart and mind in the end.
Main idea of each part
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Paras 1-4 Mrs. Clark was dying.
Para 5 I looked after her, who was too weak for anything.
Paras 6-7 The exchange between Mrs Clark and I.
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Para 8 I was glad that I was there when Mrs. Clark died.
Para 9 After Mrs. Clark died, I knew what she was.
Para10 Mrs Clark’s hands impressed I greatly.
Structure Analysis
The way to develop the text
Narration in a chronological order
Listing events according to the time sequence
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1) I have never seen Mrs. Clark before, but I know
that tonight she will die.
2) As I stand there , the smell hits my nose.
3) When I am finished, I pull a chair up beside the bed to face her…
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Sentences with time markers
4) Some unknown interval of time passes before her eyes open again, only this time there is no response in them.
5) Two days later, I read about Mrs. Clark in the newspaper.
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1) I reach for the light switch, …, I return to bed…
2) I reach for the long, thin fingers…
3) I bend close to her…I put my finger over the end of the straw…We repeat the procedure.
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Sentences without time markers
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4) I go about providing for her needs. …I turn her on her side. …I remove the lid …I rub cream into the yellow skin … I notice that …
5) …her shallow breathing stops, …I begin to cry quietly. …still holding her hand, I become aware that …
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1. Placing a pillow between her legs, I notice that these
too are ice cold, and not until I run my hand up over her
knees do I feel any of the life-giving warmth of blood.
(Para. 5) 状语从句位于主句前，以否定词 not 开头，主句的主语和谓语动词倒装。Not until after the old woman ’s death was the secret told.
Practice: P129
Not until he saw his mother lying in bed, dying, did he realize how much he loved her.
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2. There is no hint in the room anywhere that this is a person who is loved. (Para. 6)
There is no hint/sign … that … 没有迹象表明 ······
that this is a person 是 hint 的同位语。英语中有些名词：idea, fact, news, hope, belief, thought, suggestion, evidenced 等后面常常接同位语从句，说明具体内容。
Sentence Pattern ：
There is no sign that a massive earthquake will strike the area.
没有任何迹象显示一场大地震会袭击这个地区。
3. Her suffering is done, yet so is the life. (Para.8)
So + 助动词 + 主语回答或补充前面句子的意思
yet: conj. but at the same time; nevertheless
He has lost their address, yet so have I.
Lily can dance beautifully, yet so can her sister.
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Word Using ------ “yet”
1) Different subjects do the same thing
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The Greens are going to buy a house in the suburbs, yet the Smiths are going to sell their house in the suburbs.
格林夫妇要在郊区买一栋房子，而史密斯夫妇要卖掉郊区的房子。
3) Same subjects do the different things:
They have won great victories, yet they have a lot more to do.
2) Different subjects do the different things:
他们已经取得伟大的胜利，然而他们还有更多的工作需要做。
4. She had not wanted to have her family see her die, yet she did not want to die alone. (Para.8)
不带 to 的不定式作宾语补足语
The police observed him the bank with a shotgun.
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要求不带 to 的不定式（短语）作宾补的动词有：have, make, let, feel, hear, listen to, look at, notice, observe, see, watch, ….
当不带 to 的不定式做宾补的主动句变成被动句时，做主补的不定式必须带 to.
He was made to work 15 hours a day .------ They made him work 15 hours a day.
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5. Slowly, still holding her hand, I become aware that I do not mind this emotional battle, that in fact, it was a privilege she has allowed me, and I would do it again, gladly. （ Para. 8 ）
句子主干结构： I became aware+ 两个由 that 引起的并列从句。第二个从句中， she has allowed me 是定语从句，修饰 privilege 。
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Words and Expressions
1. 胸 口 ， 心窝the pit of the stomach
2. 被用胶带固定在 be taped to
3. 一起一伏 rise and fall
4. 摸索，寻找 feel for
Useful Expressions
5. 给她翻了个身 turn her on her side
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6. 耗尽最后力气 spend one’s last ounce of strength
7. 不知道多久 some unknown interval of time
8. 不想使家人痛苦 spare one’s family the pain
9. 伸手去拉灯 reach for the light
10. 没有用力去吞咽 to make no attempt to swallow
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病历卡 ; 医疗记录医疗设备微弱的脉搏( 为某人 ) 解渴病号服
medical chart
medical equipment
faint pulse
ease (one’s) thirst
hospital gown
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Chinese to English
护肤霜
善解人意的人
看透他人心思者
空空的凝视
一股情感
skin cream
a mind reader
a blank stare
a swell of emotion
sense sb’s thoughts
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rot; become badsafeweakdesire of drinkinghurt, harmindicationemptya strong feelingorganization
decay secure faint thirst injure hint blank emotion association
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Word Replacing
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preceding
adj. coming or going earlier in time, order
常指时间，顺序等，位于名词前作定语。Look at the preceding page.
Practice:
在前几章中 in the preceding chapters
This kind of garments was very fashionable in the preceding years.
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Vegetables are decaying now.Dental decay in children is a common phenomenon
all over the world.
Collocation
in decay 逐渐腐朽 fall into decay 腐烂，衰落practice
这房子已经塌坏。 The house is in decay.
旧文化很快地衰落下去。The old civilization was fast falling into decay.
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securevt. make safe; protect; fasten
adj. safe; firm/tight; having no doubt/anxiety
By strengthening the river banks, the town secured itself against flood.
Keep your passport in a secure place.
safe : 指处于安全状态或状况secure: 指受到保护而没有危险
cf: safe / secure
secure against / from
feel secure about (as to )
be secure of
保护使不受……
对……觉得放心对……有把握，确信
have one’s mind secure 放下心
a secure place 安全的地方
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Collocation
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n. a period of time between two events
He visits me at regular intervals.
Collocation:
at intervals 每隔一段时间或距离 interval between sth. …… 间的间隔Practice
1. 中间休息时提供咖啡。Coffee is available during intervals.
2. 从上海到南京的火车，每隔 20 分钟发一趟。Trains will run from Shanghai to Nanjing at 20-minute intervals.
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emotion a strong human feeling such as love, hate, or anger
Cf: emotion / feeling / passionemotion: 指受外界刺激产生的情感 ------ 喜怒哀乐等feeling ： 内在生理上收到刺激所产生的感觉passion ： 指强烈的感情或激情Collocation
with emotion 激动地，动情地control / suppress one’s emotions 控制 / 抑制某人的感
情hide one’s emotion 掩饰某人的感情play with one’s emotions 玩弄某人的感情
bend to v. submit
I bent to the ground and picked up a book.
The mother bent forward to her child to listen to what he was saying.
We will not bend to your will.
每个人都是自己命运的主宰，任何时候都不能听天由命。Every man is the master of his own fortune, so he shall not bend to fate at any time.
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go about doing sth. start to work at sth.
I have not the faintest idea of how to go about finding a better job.
我一点儿也不知道该如何着手找份更好的工作。
Collocation
go about
go about with sb.
四处走动 , 到处……
常与……交往
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provide for sth. v. make ready
The stock holders didn’t provide for such a great reverse in the stock market.
How can people provide for unexpected events?
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The medical _____ from the _________ shift was the first _________ I got that Mrs. Clark would die. There was also a smell of _____ in the room that ___ me in the ___ of my stomach. The patient’s skin hung _______ so a needle was _______ to let the _____ ____in. She had a ____ pulse and was thirsty, so I gave her a _____ of a few drops of ________ to ____ into her mouth to ease her ______. Having managed to swallow some _______, she said “Thank you.” She was so small and
Summary
chart precedingindication
decay hit
pitloosely secured fluiddrip faint
straw moisture slidethirst
liquid
light that she looked like a victim of some terrible ______. I removed the ___ of a ___ of cream and put some on the _____ of my hand. Then I rubbed the cream into her yellow skin to make her feel better.
famine lid jar
palm
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（划线部分可替换）
1) Something may be many things to many
people.
2) Some may see it as …while others may
view it as … ( 人们的看法举例 )
3) As far as I am concerned, however, I
would prefer to value it as … ( 我的看法 )
(Para. I)
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理由陈述类 ------ 写作模式
4) My insight into sth.(My outlook on sth. / My
understanding of sth.) is bound up with three
major factors.
5) Primarily, sth. is so …that …( 理由 I) 6) …
(进一步阐述 )
7) Secondly, sth. is also … ( 理由 II)
8) ... (进一步阐述 )
9) And most of all, … ( 理由 III)
10) … (进一步阐述 )
(Para. II)
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11) I have (not) much freedom / option in
this matter, but I have never found any other
way of seeing sth. more reasonable and
acceptable than mine.
12) Thus, I will leave no stone unturned
during the course of … in order to pave the
way for ...
(Para. III)
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My Way of Seeing Something
1. 人们从不同的角度看待某一事物2. 我的看法是 ······( 说明理由 )
Sample
对比选择型 ------ 说明性议论文
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My Way of Seeing Life
1) Life may be many things to many people. 2) Some may see it as building up as much material wealth as possible while others may view it as enjoying to the fullest the pleasures each day offers. 3) As far as I am concerned, however, I would prefer to value it as my sole chance to enrich myself with knowledge first, then to serve the society with all my heart, and finally to leave the world without any regrets.
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4) My outlook on life is bound up with three major factors. 5) Primarily, life is so wondrous that I am eager to explore it. 6) Set your heart on a mystery and you can find something new; attach more of your mind to a challenge and you can get a sense of success, all of which, however, depends on how much knowledge you have equipped yourself with first. 7) Secondly, life is also short to any
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individual like me. 8) The flower you have just kissed for the first time is now fading away while the love from others you have come to cherish more is already on the wane. 9) And most of all, both wondrousness and shortness of life push me to seize every golden minute and every golden chance. 10) Once I idle away the time I am supposed to grasp to study or work for the people, there will be no more hope of making up for it.
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11) I have much option in this matter, but I
have never found any other way of seeing life
more reasonable and acceptable than mine.
12) Thus, I will leave no stone unturned during
the course of my college studies in order to
pave the way for my meaningful and colorful
life.
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I. Section A1. Comprehension of the Text: II ----- Oral
Report: P125 (25%) 2. Review New words and expressions (25%)
II. Writing Task: (50%) On the importance of a name 1. 有人说名字或名称很重要 2. 也有人觉得名字或名称无关紧要 3. 我认为
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Post-class Task
