Unit 5 text A A Friend in Need

1. Unit 5 text AA Friend in Need Objectives: Grasp the main idea and structure of the text; Give reasons when doing the ranking activities and making prediction; Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text.

2. Presentation ? • Cultural background: Maugham • Text prediction --- What might text be about? Why? a story about how people helped their friend in need. But it is an entirely _______ story

3. Why is there such a difference? --- Who narrates the first 3 paragraphs? It’s the “I”, who offers his subjective opinion of Burton’s character. Almost the entire paragraph 3 is the description of Edward Burton’s _____ appearance and ________ manners. --- Who narrates the rest of the text? It’s ______ himself, who tells what happened between him and a friend in trouble. He sounds _____ and ______ and therefore is shown to be so _____ and ___________. --- So when contrasts abound, it is hard for readers to easily predict what will happen next.

4. Ranking activities • What do you think are the determining forces in shaping human nature, factors such as genes, family, parenting, schooling, or peers? • Rank these factors in descending order of importance and explain why.

5. About the Idea & Structure of the Text • Structure of the Text • Main Idea in Each Part • Main Idea of the Text It’s _______ to judge people, as they __________ what they appear to be. A case in point is Edward Burton, a ____, _____, and ___ merchant, who appeared as if he could not ______________, but turned out to be so __________ as to send a friend _______________.

6. Again, read the text critically • How do you like the beginning? • What do you think of the sentences in Para. 1 ?

7. Sentences ,Structures, Words and phrases • Paras.1: --- I have been studying my fellowmen. --- I shrug my shoulders when --- small insight or great vanity. • L. 31: --- a real love for his fellows. • ---have /gain /bring about great insight into--- • L.4 For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.

8. Para. 2: gave me a great surprise (L.9) vs. startling (L. 11), be taken aback (L. 108), and shock (L.126) --- 当我发现电脑不见了时我大吃一惊。 I was taken aback when I found my computer was gone. • Ls. 11-12: --- I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action. --- structure • Ls. 12-13: he suggested a very definite type. Here if ever was a man all of a piece. * L. 85: --- he was all to pieces.

9. L. 16: He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station. • * in accordance with: in agreement or harmony with • ---- Students will be criticized or punished if their behavior is not in accordance with school regulations. • ---- 根据你的命令，我把房子卖掉了。 • I sold the house, in accordance with your orders.

10. Ls. 32-33: --- he could tell with point a good and spicy story, he had been something of an athlete. spicy: adj. exciting, esp. because of being slightly indecent; containing or tasting like spice You can often read spicy stories about film stars in the local newspapers. ----- spicy food.

11. Para. 6: As the boy brought them a man passed along the street outside and seeing me waved his hand.

12. Para. 16: He stroked his shaven chin with his thin hand; the veins stood out on it and it was almost transparent.---- What does it imply? • Para. 17: ‘I suppose that is why he came to me when he went broke, that and the fact that he was a namesake of mine.--- structure

13. Ls. 80-81: ---he’d got trimmed. • L. 83: --- was down and out. --- • L. 83: commit: vt. do (sth. illegal or wrong) --- The man was suspected of committing murder.

14. L. 95: I got some glimmering of what he was driving at. * drive at: be trying to say --- The teacher didn't’t mention the word “cheating” but I knew what he was driving at. --- I have no idea what you’re driving at. • L. 121: But I needn’t have hurried; he never turned up.’ What does the sentence imply?

15. Ls. 123-124: --- he’d ruined his constitution by drinking and dissipation. * constitution: n. condition of a person’s body with regard to health, strength, etc. --- strong constitution. --- fragile constitution. --- to build up ---, all students in China are encouraged/ required to ---- Collocation: * an old man with a weak constitution一位体弱的老人 * build up a strong/tough constitution练出强健的体格

16. L. 124: current: n. continuous flow of water or air in a particular direction --- Under normal conditions, the ocean currents of the tropical Pacific travel from east to west. --- Swimming against the current is energy-consuming.

17. adj. of the present time; happening now --- The current situation in this area is quite different from that in the 1990s. --- 他不喜欢现在的工作，正打算辞职。 He doesn't’t like the current job, and is planning to quit it. Collocation: current fashions时装 current events时事 current prices现价

18. Para. 51: ‘Well, I hadn’t got a vacancy in my office at the moment.’ --- What does the sentence imply?

19. Next week • Go over words and phrases in Text A, unit 5 of Integrated course • group 4 in class 50 must hand in one short story next week • Practice self-study according to the teaching plan Thank you & Good bye!