Teaching Plan (U.1 of B.V.NCE)

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Teaching Plan (U.1 of B.V.NCE)

• Love Of Reading

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I. Objectives Students will be able to 1.   
grasp the main idea and structure of the
text 2.    understand the value of reading and
learn from the writer one of the best ways in
reading 3. learn a few useful writing techniques
such as using a mixture of long and short
sentences, simple and complex structures, various
openers, as well as the proper deployment of
details 4. master the key language points and
grammatical structures in the text 5. conduct a
series of reading, listening, speaking and
writing activities related to the theme of the
unit.  
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Time Allotment
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• I.Pre-reading tasks
• A.topics for oral presentation (ppt)
• Reading Makes A Success
• The Value Of Reading
• The Book J Am Most Interested In.
• . B.Questions and Answers
•    1. Do you think reading is important in life?
• why or why not?
• .  2. Are you an ardent lover of reading? If so,
  how
• did you develop a passion for reading?
• .  3. What are favorite books? Why do they appeal
  to you?
• .  4.Could you name a book or two that greatly
• influenced your thinking ? Explain briefly.

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IV. While-reading tasks 1.Q.    Why does the
writer choose the title One Writers Beginnings
, How about if the title were My Beginnings or
his Writers Beginnings
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Cultural Notes
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• Cultural Notes
• 1. Noah Webster (1758-1843) a US educator and
  author, best known for his American Dictionary of
  the English Language (1828). He also helped to
  establish standard American spelling of English
  with The Elementary Spelling Book (1783). His
  name is now used on many dictionaries published
  by different US companies.

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• 2. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) an English writer
  of novels who combined great writing with the
  ability to write popular stories full of
  interesting characters. His many books are mostly
  about life in Victorian England and often
  describe the harsh conditions in which poor
  people lived. His early novels, which include
  Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, were written in
  parts for magazines. His later books include
  David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great
  Expectations

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• 3. Walter Scott (1771-1832) a Scottish author
  and poet. Most of his poetry and his historical
  novels are based on the traditions and history of
  Scotland, especially the border region. His most
  famous poems include The Lay of the Last Minstrel
  and The Lady of the Lake, and his best known
  novels include Waverley, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe. All
  were extremely popular during his life and
  influenced many writers in Britain and Europe.

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• 4. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) a Scottish
  writer of novels. He is best known for his famous
  children's adventure stories Treasure Island and
  Kidnapped, but he also wrote poetry for children
  and the well-known adult psychological novel The
  Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr.Hyde. Because of
  poor health Stevenson went to live on the island
  of Samoa in the Pacific for the last few years of
  his life.
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• 5. Jane Eyre a novel (1847) by Charlotte Bronte.
  Jane Eyre is a private teacher for the daughter
  of Edward Rochester. Jane and Mr Rochester fall
  in love and are about to marry when she discovers
  that he already has a wife, who is mentally ill.
  Years later the lovers meet again and marry,
  although Rochester has by this time been badly
  injured in a fire. The novel is still popular,
  mainly for the contrast in character between Jane
  and Rochester.

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• 6. Trilby a novel written by George Louis
  Palmella Busson Du Maurier (1834-1896), English
  artist and writer, born in Paris. In 1858 he
  began to work as a graphic artist. His
  caricatures for Punch, Once a Week, and The
  Cornhill Magazine, in which he satirized the
  middle and upper classes, are of historical value
  in portraying the fashionable social life of his
  time. He illustrated works by the English
  novelists William Makepeace Thackeray, George
  Meredith, etc.

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• 7. The Woman in White a novel written by
  (William) Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), English
  writer, often regarded as the originator of
  detective fiction. He was born in London.
  Unsuccessful at business and law, he preferred to
  write. In 1851 he began a close association with
  Charles Dickens, with whom he collaborated on the
  novel No Thoroughfare (1867). Collins's mystery
  thriller The Woman in White (1860) and the
  detective story The Moonstone (1868), which first
  appeared in periodicals edited by Dickens, are
  considered masterpieces of their respective
  genres

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• 8. Green Mansions a novel written by William
  Henry Hudson who was an English
  novelist,naturalist, and ornithologist. The
  novel's title refers to a forest where the
  protagonist encounters a tiny girl of the woods,
  a figure symbolic of the wilderness's unsullied
  beauty. The book is for-
• ward-looking in its ecological warning against
  civilization's impact on nature. Both his
  fictionaland nonfictional writings reflect a
  romantic regard for nature and its inhabitants.

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• 9. King Solomon's Mines a book (1885) written by
  Sir H(enry) Rider Haggard (1856-1925),English
  novelist, colonial administrator, and
  agriculturist. Haggard's hero, Allan Quatermain
  who narrates the story in the first person, and
  two other Europeans travel to the remote interior
  of Africa in search of a lost friend. They find
  adventure, mystery, terror, and the legendary
  diamond mines of King Solomon. Haggard apparently
  drew inspiration for his tale from the ancient
  ruins in Zimbabwe.
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• 10. Mark Twain (1835-1910) the leading US
  humorous writer of the 19th century. His real
  name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He is best
  known for the novels The Adventures of Tom
  Sawyer(1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry
  Finn (1885), but he also wrote travel books and
  essays, many of them based on his experiences of
  life on the Mississippi River. His other books
  include the historical novels The Prince and the
  Pauper (1882) and A Connecticut Yankee in King
  Arthur's Court (1889), and Life on the
  Mississippi (1889), an account of his early life.
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• 11. Ring Lardner full name Ringgold Wilmer
  Lardner (1885-1933), American writer and
  humorist, born in Niles, Michigan. From 1907 to
  1919 he was a newspaper columnist and sports
  reporter. He first attracted attention with a
  series of humorous magazine stories about a young
  baseball player, eventually published as You Know
  Me, Al (1916). In Treat 'Era Rough (1918)
• and The Big Town (1921), Lardner depicted the
  lives of ordinary Americans with satirical humor.

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• 12. Thomas Day (1748-1789) English
  philanthropist and author, born in London. Day
  devoted his inherited fortune to various
  philanthropies, but he is chiefly remembered for
  The History of Sanford and Merton (1783-1789), a
  didactic story for children exemplifying the
  educational theories of French philosopher Jean
  Jacques Rousseau.

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• 13. Grimm the Grimm Brothers, two 19th-century
  German scholars, who were leaders in the study of
  philology and folklore. Their names were Jacob
  Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Karl
  Grimm (1786-1859).
• The Grimm brothers were attracted to old
  German folktales, which they collected from many
  sources and published as Household Tales (2
  volumes, 1812-1815 trans. 1884). The
  collection, expanded in 1857, is known as Grimm's
  Fairy Tales. The brothers collaborated on
  numerous other works. In 1854 they published the
  first volume of the standard German dictionary,
  which was completed by other scholars in 1954.

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• 14. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish
  author, whose 150 stories for children such as
  The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The
  Snow Queen, The Red Shoes, and The Little Mermaid
  established him as one of the great figures of
  world literature and have been translated into
  more than 80 languages and have inspired plays,
  ballets, films, and works of sculpture and
  painting. Born in Odense, he suffered from
  poverty and neglect during his childhood, and
  when he was 14 years of age he ran away to
  Copenhagen. There he worked for Jonas Collin,
  director of the Royal Theater, until Collin
  raised money to provide him with an education.
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• 15. All Baba in folktale, the hero of "Ali Baba
  and the Forty Thieves" in the collection of
  stories known in English as Arabian Nights.
  According to the story, Ali Baba, a poor
  woodcutter, is gathering wood in the forest when
  a band of thieves approaches. He hides and
  watches them enter a cave that opens when they
  say the words, "Open Sesame." After they depart,
  Ali Baba stands before the cave and gives the
  command to his surprise, the cave opens to
  reveal an enormous supply of gold and treasures.
  Ali Baba packs some of the gold on his donkeys
  and returns home. When his brother Qasim, a rich
  but hard-hearted

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• merchant, discovers Ali Baba's new wealth, he
  demands an explanation. The next day Qasim visits
  the cave and greedily gathers as much treasure as
  he can, but forgets the formula for leaving the
  cave. He is found and killed and the thieves soon
  trace him to Ali Baba. They plan to kill him too,
  but Ali Baba's slave Murganah, discovers and
  foils their scheme. In gratitude, Ali Baba frees
  Murganah and marriesher (in some variants of the
  story, he marries her to his son).

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• 16. Aesop (620?-560? B.C.)" ancient Greek writer
  of fables, who is supposed to have been a freed
  slave from Thrace. His name became attached to a
  collection of beast fables long transmitted
  through oral tradition. The beast fables are part
  of the common culture of the Indo-European
• peoples and constitute perhaps the most widely
  read collection of fables in world literature.

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• 17. Robin Hood a character in traditional
  British stories, who is said to have lived in
  Sherwood Forest near Nottingham during the rule
  of King Richard I (1189-1199). His companions
  (usually called his Merry Men) included Friar
  Tuck, Little John and Will Scarlet, and his lover
  was Maid
• Marian. Together they robbed rich people and gave
  money to poor people, and their enemy was the
  Sheriff of Nottingham. There is no evidence that
  Robin Hood ever existed but there are many
  stories about him and many films have been made
  about his adventures. In these he is often shown
  wearing clothes made of a material called Lincoln
  green, and holding a bow.

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• 18. King Arthur (5th or 6th century) a king of
  England who led the Britons in battles against
  the Saxons. There are many stories about King
  Arthur, e.g. that he pulled his sword Excalibur
  from a stone, and that he sat with his knights at
  a Round Table. Nobody knows if the stories are
  true but they are very popular and have been used
  in poems, plays and films.

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• 19. St. George a national saint of England. Many
  people believe he was a Christian martyr (person
  who is killed because of his or her religious
  beliefs) in the third century. According to
  legend, he killed a dragon to save a woman. He is
  often shown in pictures fighting the dragon
• 20. Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, Saint, in French,
  Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), called the Maid
  Orléans, national heroine and patron saint of
  France, who united the nation at a critical hour
  and decisively turned the Hundred Years' War in
  France's favor. Although Joan had united the
  French behind Charles and had put an end to
  English dreams of hegemony over France,

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• Charles opposed any further campaigns against the
  English. Therefore, it was without royal support
  that Joan conducted (1430) a military operation
  against the English at Compiègne, near Paris, She
  was captured by Burgundian soldiers, who sold her
  to their English allies. The English then turned
  her over to an ecclesiastical court at Rouen to
  be tried for heresy and sorcery. After 14 months
  of interrogation, she was accused of wrongdoing
  in wearing masculine dress and of heresy for
  believing she was directly responsible to God
  rather than to the Roman Catholic Church. The
  court condemned her to death. On May 30, 1431,
  Joan was burned at the stake in the Old Market
  Square at Rouen.
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• 21. The Pilgrim's Progress a religious novel
  written between 1678 and 1684 by John Bunyan. It
  is an allegory ( a story in which the characters
  and events are symbols representing other things,
  such as truths, fears and human qualities) about
  a man's journey through life to heaven, The man,
  whose name is Christian, meets many symbolic
  difficulties on the way, including the Slough of
  Despond, Vanity Fair and Giant Despair. He
  finally reaches heaven, and his wife and children
  follow him.
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• 22. Gulliver's Travels a novel (1726) by
  Jonathan Swift in which he attacked the British
  attitude of his time towards religion, science,
  the law, etc., using satire. Samuel Gulliver, an
  English traveler, visits strange lands, including
  Lilliput, where the people are all tiny,
  Brobdingnag, where the people are all giants,
  and the country of the Houyhnlmms and the Yahoos,
  where the horses are wise and the humans are
  stupid and cruel.

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• 23. Walter Crane (1845-1915) an English artist
  and member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His
  colorful book illustrations had a strong
  influence on the development of children's books.

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• Quotations on Reading

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• I cannot live without books.         Thomas
  Jefferson
• The book to read is not the one which thinks for
  you, but the one which makes you think.         
  James McCosh
• Outside of a dog a book is man's best.  Inside of
  a dog it's too dark to read.          Groucho
  Marx 

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• A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
           Chinese Proverb
• Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for
  nothing.          Cicero
• Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good
  life.          Mortimer J. Adler

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• He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
           John Milton
• Be as careful of the books you read, as of the
  company you keep, for your habits and character
  will be as much influenced by the former as the
  latter. Paxton Hood

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• Except a living man, there is nothing more
  wonderful than a book.          Charles
  Kingsley
• To acquire the habit of reading  is to construct
  for yourself a refuge from almost all of the
  miseries of life.          W. Somerset
  Maugham
• Never read a book through merely because you have
  begun it.          John Witherspoon

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• A good book is the best of friends, the same
  today and forever.          Martin Tupper
• Wherever they burn books they will also,  in the
  end, burn human beings.          Heinrich Heine 
  
• Books are the quietest and most constant of
  friends they are the most accessible and wisest
  of counsellors,  and the most patient of
  teachers.          Charles W. Eliot

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• A library is a hospital for the mind.         
  Anonymous
• Books are not made for furniture, but there is
  nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a
  house.          Henry Ward Beecher
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the
  body.          Richard Steele
• I divide all readers into two classes Those who
  read to remember and those who read to forget.
           William Phelps

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• If we encounter a man of rare
• intellect,  we should ask him what
• books he reads.          Ralph Waldo
  Emerson
• In a very real sense, people who have read good
  literature have lived more than people who cannot
  or will not read.          S. I. Hayakawa
  
• The more that you read, the more things you
  will know.
• The more that you learn, the more places
  you'll go.
• Dr. Seuss

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• Readers may be divided into four classes 1.)
  Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return
  it in nearly the same state, only a little
  dirtied. 2.) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing
  and are content to get through a book for the
  sake of getting through the time. 3.)
  Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what
  they read. 4.) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and
  valuable, who profit by what they read, and
  enable others to profit by it also.         
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• The best effect of any book is that it excites
  the reader to self activity.          Thomas
  Carlyle
• T'is the good reader that makes the good book.
          Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct
  for yourself a refuge from almost all the
  miseries of life.         W. Somerset Maugham

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without
  digesting.         Edmund Burke
• We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a
  love of reading.
• B. F. Skinner
• The end of reading is not more books but more
  life.         Holbrook Jackson
• Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is
  transitory, the other perpetual.        
  Socrates

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• Some books are to be tasted, others to be
  swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and
  digested.         Francis Bacon
• We are drowning in information but starved for
  knowledge.         John Naisbitt
• Words are the voice of the heart.       
  Confucius
• We read to know we are not alone.         C.S.
  Lewis

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• The books that help you the most are those which
  make you think the most.         Theodore Parker
  
• Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find
  out.         Alvin Toffler
• An investment in knowledge always pays the best
  interest.         Benjamin Franklin
• Learning is weightless, a treasure you can always
  carry easily.         Chinese Proverb

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• The things I want to know are in books my best
  friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't
  read.         Abraham Lincoln
• What a school thinks about its library is a
  measure of what it thinks about education.
          Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of

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• 2.The structure of the text
• Part One Paras 1and 2
• the main idea Weltys mother read to her when
  she was very young and developed in her a strong
  love for books.
• presentation Details are presented first and
  then a result is shown( The last 2 sentences of
  the second para. tells us that she developed a
  very strong passion for reading books).

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• Part Two Paras 3 to 11
• the main idea Weltys parents did all they could
  
• to help her start reading on her own, thus
  further
• stimulating her interest in reading.
• Presentation Pay attention to para 3 which
  carries the main of this part, that is, the
  purpose of her parentseffort.( Her poor parents
  tried their best or as the writer says in line 70
  They must sacrificed to to choose right books
  to make sure their children could enjoy a good
  future.

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• Mini-task
• a).Q What have your parents done to you to make
  sure you will have a good future?
• b) Q Would you tell us a very good gift you have
  ever got and why.
• c).In this part, quite a few books and writers
  are mentioned. T may ask Ss how many or how much
  they have read or known them.
• d), In this part, the writer, as a child, divided
  the books in her family into 4 categories. Have
  Ss find out what they are. ( they are books for
  the whole family fathers books mothers books
  and the writers own books)
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• Part Three Paras 12 and 13
• the main idea Reading has enabled Welty to hear
  a voice when reading or writing, which is very
  helpful in her writing career.
• Presentation In this part, the writer tells what
  she thinks is the best way in reading. Can you
  get it?( It is implied in the topic sentence 1st
  sentence of para 12 Ever since I was first read
  to, then started reading to myself, there has
  never been a line read that I did not hear.
  Thats why the writer says in line
• 80 that while she read books she located herself
  in these pages.)

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• V. Writing Technique
• Inversion or shift of part of a sentence for the
  sake of emphasis. Exs
• 1. that any room in my house, or to be read to
  ( L.1)
• 2.Here to help us grow up arguing around the
  dining room table were( L.29)
• 3.In the library inside the bookcase were
  books(L.32)
• 4.To both my parents I owe my early acquaintance
  with a beloved Mark Twain ( L.40)
• 5.    but of him no mention is made on the
  title page of this book (L.47)
• 6.    Whether I am right to trust so far I dont
  know. ( L.106)
• 7.    My own words, when I am at work on a
  storythat I hear when I read in books. ( L.109)

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• V. Have Ss paraphrase some sentences
• 1.It was my ambitionbefore I brought her butter.
  ( L.9)
• 2. I was ready for them, committed to. ( L20 )
• 3. But though it must have been something of a
  strain on his salary. ( L.23 )
• 4. those were the volumes that in time united us
  all, parents and children. ( L.42 )
• 5.  anger and rescue allotted to the rich and
  the poor respectively. ( L.51 )
• 6.I live in gratitude to my parents for
  initiating me by way of the alphabet. ( L.92 )
• 7.Whether I am right to trust so far I dont
  know. (106)

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• VI. Have Ss understand and practice some key and
  active language points
• A. presentation by teachers
• 1.tick make light, regularly repeated sounds
  put a small mark against (names, figures, etc.)
  to show that sth. is correct
• Exs While we waited the taxi's meter kept
  ticking away
• Tick the sentence that best describes your
  feelings.
• n.
• Exs The ticks made us all dose off in such a
  stuffy day.
• Put a tick in a box next to your answer.

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• 2.rhythm regular successions of weak and strong
  stresses, accents,sounds of movements (in speech,
  music, dancing, etc.)
• Exs Sleeping pills upset the normal rhythms of
  sleep.
• Children began to move together to the rhythm of
  the music.
• in rhythm
• Ex The young mother was rocking the cradle in
  rhythm.
• 3.churn move sth. energetically in different
  directions
• Exs The fish churned (up) the water when we
  threw into food.
• The village woman churned the milk until it
  turned into butter.

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• 4.sob draw in breath sharply and
  irregularly from sorrow or pain, esp. while
  crying make a sound like that of sobbing
• ExsI found her sobbing in the bedroom
  because she'd broken her favorite doll.
• What can be worse than this? She sobbed.
• n. act or sound of sobbing
• Exs I could feel mother controlling her sobs
  from the next room.
• Her body shook with sobs.
• 5.read off finish reading ( off in this phrase
  means an arranged event is stopped or given up in
  advance)
• Exs The football has been called off this
  afternoon because of snow.
• His hockey match was rained off ( stopped
  because of rain )

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• 6.carry off to deal successfully with sth.
  difficult to win a prize
• Ex Exs Its a demanding role, but Im sure
  shell be able to carry it off.
• At last weeks Oscars, a small number
  of films carried off nearly all the prizes.
• 7. illiterate (sb.)unable to read or write with
  little or no education
• Exs Exs It is reported that a surprising
  percentage of the population in the town are
  illiterate.
• They know nothing and they need nothing they
  are completely illiterate.
• She has to teach a class of illiterates.
• 8.strain pressure caused by a difficult situation
• Exs This war will still put a great strain on
  the economy
• I dont think our relationship can
  stand the strain of another move.
• All that lifting is putting his back
  under severe strain.
• v. T try hard to do sth.
• Exs Exs I strained to hear what they were
  saying.
• I could not keep up with him, without
  straining myself.
• He strained his eyes (tried very hard to
  see ) in the dim light.

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• 9.order/send away for write to a person or an
  organization asking them to send sth. to you
• Exs Ive sent away for details of their
  holiday packages.
• Some are used to ordering away for what
  they need online.
• 10. sink into indulge in, be absorbed into
• Exs As the months went by, he sank into a
  deep depression.
• She was furious with her boss and sank into
  fantasies of revenge.
• 11 11.elope (of a woman) run away from home
  with a lover, usually to get married
• Exs Asher parents didn't allow her to
  get married, she decided to elope with her
  lover.
• It turned out that she eloped with her tutor.
• 12. discourse communicate in speeches or writing
• Exs Civilized discourse between the
  two countries has become impossible.
• We rarely entered into discourse
  about anything more interesting than the weather.

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• 13. respectively separately or in turn, and in
  the order mentioned
• Exs In the 200 meters, Lily and Sarah came first
  and third respectively (Lily won the race and
  Sarah was third).
• Their sons, Henry and Ben, were three and six
  respectively.
• 14. moral that which a story, event or
  experience teaches (followed by of/to) standards
  of behavior, principles of right and wrong (used
  in plural)
• Exs The moral of / to the story is that
  honesty is always the
• best policy.
• Most of the Chinese fables carry some
  morals.
• It is certainly not true that all young
  people have no morals.
• adj. concerning principles of right and wrong
  good and virtuous
• Ex Those who campaign against the death penalty
  believe they are on a moral crusade.

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• 15.engrave cut or carve (lines, words, designs,
  etc.) on a hard surface impress deeply (on the
  memory or mind)
• Exs Terrible memory was engraved on her mind.
• He engraved the silver plate with the date they
  married on.
• Some tourists like to engrave their names on
  trees or something in a new place
• 16. tatter in very bad condition because parts
  oe it have been torn
• Exs The broken photo is just a symbol of my torn
  and tattered past.
• n. The strong wind has blown our flags into
  tatters.
• 17. lay in obtain or store
• Exs Wed better lay in plenty of food in case
  were cut off when it snows.

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• 18. legend old story handed down from the
  past, esp. one of doubtful truth famous person
• Exs Have you read the legend of King Arthur and
  the Knights of the Round Table?
• Legend has it that he always wore his boots in
  bed.
• She was a legend in her own lifetime.
• 19. flank place at the side of or on either side
  of
• Exs The altar was flanked by two Christmas
  trees.
• We could see him taking a walk in the prison
  grounds sometimes, flanked by two guards.
• n
• Exs A small group of houses clings to the
  eastern flank of the mountain.
• They decided to attack the enemy's exposed right
  flank.

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• 20. go through fire and water face great
  hardship and danger
• Exs Doctors and nurses went through fire
  and water
• to save SARS patients
• The police went through fire and water to
  secure the
• local people.
• 21 measure a way of judging
• Ex Tests are not an accurate measure of
  performance.
• 22. initiate give (sb.) elementary instruction
  (used in the patterninitiate sb. into) set
  (sth.) working
• Exs The teacher initiated his students into
  the study of
• the traffic problem of the city.
• The government has recently initiated a
  massive new house-building program.

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• 23. via, through
• Exs He contacted me by way of email.
• Why don't you travel to London by way of Paris?
• 24. inward deep in mind or soul situated
  within, inner
• Exs He never revealed his inward
  feelings.
• His latest CD gives us a thoughtful and inward
• interpretation of the music.the inward organs of
• the human body
• 25. reside live be present
• Exs All full time students must reside in
  university halls of residence.
• The power to sack employees resides in the Board
  of Directors.

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• B. presentation by students find the
  definitions of the following and demonstrate
  their correct usages in class
•  1.  give sb. no peace 2. ambition
• 3. expressive 4. all the while
• 5. stay on 6. allot 7.illustration
• 8. not hold a candle to
• 9. in gratitude to 10. by way of

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• VII. Post- reading tasks
• 1. Have Ss do some after-text exercises
• 2.Check on Ss home reading of Text B
• 3.Guide Ss through Reading Strategy
• 4.Have Ss role-play based on the following
  story
• Directions Read following story and have Ss
  solve the puzzle
• Who Is The Most Intelligent Candidate?

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• The story
• The residents of the village are going to make a
  very
• important decision, which will affect their
  future greatly. The
• head of their village, a wise old man, is to
  retire soon. In the past
• 50 years, his management has helped the
  residents enjoy an
• above-the-average life. Their residence is like
  a garden and
• every family has a 2-storied house. No one is
  worried about
• food and clothing and every school-age child is
  having a merry
• school life. Now they are anxious to get a
  person to take the position
• and this man should be, if not wiser, as
  intelligent as the old head.
• Three young men are now under consideration, but
  who is the best
• ? 3 days ago, the village council decided to
  assign each of the three
• 100, and asked them to bring back whatever they
  think the
• most useful for the future development of the
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• have come back with their best choice. All the
  residents are assembled
• at the village hall. They will hear the three
  candidates reasons for their
• choices and make their final decision.
•  
• participants and tasks
• Three students are supposed to be candidates
  A,B, and C. Other students, hearing their reasons
  .will decide on the best candidate.
•  
• Cand. A Ive got a design of a new model. Im
  sure.
• Cand. B Ive bought some seeds of a new breed
  of . I have
• confidence that with them,
• Cand. C Ive brought back some newly published
  books on.
• With the instructions and experiences we get from
  them, I firmly believe that.
• Residents A,B,C,D,
•  

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•   5.   Writing task
• Directions For this part, you are required to
  write a composition of no less than 150 words on
  the topic The Importance of Literature Reading
  It should be finished in no more than 30 minutes.
  The composition must be based on the following
  outline given in Chinese.
•  
•  1.????????????????
• 2.???????????????????
• 3.????????

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• 1.        Have Ss to prepare for the next unit
• a.      preview Text A of Unit 2
• b.  suggested topics (ppt) of Oral Presentation
  for Text A of Unit 2
• ? Eat For Good Health
• ? The List Of Most Suitable Food For
• ? My Reasons (Not) To Go Veggie
• __________________________________________________
  ________________
•  

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Practice on
Vocabulary
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• Section A
• Directions From the four choices given under
  each sentence, choose the ONE that is closest in
  meaning to the underlined word or expression.
• 1.       Youll give your wife no peace until you
  tell her the truth.
• A)     Your wife will not live a quiet life
• B)      You and your wife will not live in peace
• C)      Your wife will be kept in dark
• D)      Your wife will be kept anxious
• 2.       With her great voice and expressive
  features, she would have made a good actress.
• A)     a face showing a lot of feeling,
• B)      a face telling audience a lot of stories,
• C)      eyes full of emotions,
• D)      eyes full of affection,
• 3.       There was me thinking you were out and
  you were upstairs asleep in bed all the while.
• A) such a long time B) all the time
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• 4.  Being a politician can put an enormous amount
  of strain on ones family.
• A) trouble B) stress C) preoccupation D)
  hysteria
• 5.  My parents believe that I should go to a
  first-rate college to study so they tried every
  means to work and save money for the future.
• A)     to buy me into the best college.
• B)      to buy various books for my future.
• C)      so that in future I need not work
  hard.
• D)      so that I can have a good future
• 6.The system was introduced to save money.
  Consideration was made secondarily for any
  benefit to the public.
• A)     Benefit to the public was to be
  considered later.
• B)      Second consideration would be made by
  public.
• C)      Any other benefit should come after
  that to public.
• D)      Public interests were considered of
  minor importance.

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• 7.    The names of the 58000 American military
  personnel who died in Vietnam are carved on the
  Vietnam Veteran Memorial in Washington.
• A) incised B) engraved C) printed D)
  penetrated
• 8 8.   When I read novels, I always locate
  myself in the very places, walking through
  streets or along rivers, talking with people and
  experiencing their life, etc.
• A) imagine B) illuminate C)
  believe D)comprehend
• 9. The pop music of today cant hold a candle to
  the great songs of the 60s and 70s.
• A)     cant exceed
• B)      cant be appreciative to people of 60s
  and 70s
• C)      cant be compared to
• D)      cant enlighten us on
• 10.   At the age of thirteen, Harry was initiated
  into the art of golf by his father
• A)started B) informed C) lessoned D)
  instructed

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• 11. He swore that, come what may, he would never
  let her know what he was doing for her sake.
• A) whether she came or not B) whatever he was
  offered
• C) whoever comes D) whatever happens
• 12. She was furious with her boss and indulged in
  rapturous fantasies of revenge.
• A) drank in B) fell into C) downed in D)
  sank into
• 13.They were waiting to strike at the flank of
  Napoleons army.
• A) side B) back C) front D) rear
• 14. By the time they arrived at the house shed
  worked herself up into a real state.
• A) excited herself B) raised herself
• C) triggered herself D) passionated
  herself
• 15.  The book is full of illuminating details on
  the causes of the war.
• A) enlightening B) lightening C) conspicuous D)
  obscure

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• Section B
• Directions For each of the following sentences
  there are four choices marked a, b, c and d.
  Choose the ONE answer that best completes the
  sentence.
• 16.  Hurry up and you might catch them in the
  ______ of their tea.
• A) time B) middle C) occasion D) event
• 17.   The university has already ______ honorary
  degrees on several successive politicians and
  businessmen.
• A) conferred B) allocated C) rewarded D)
  granted
• 18.  This is the only newspaper that insistently
  ______ the right of teenagers to have their say.
• A) conflicted B) championed C) combated D)
  competed
• 19. As a teacher, you could expect to be paid
  ______ between 50,000 to 80,000.
• A) somewhere B) anywhere C) something D)
  anything   
• 20.  He ______ through four or five newspapers,
  trying to find the article.
• A) worked B) went C) flipped D) riffled

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• 21.  They were so ______ with what they were
  doing that they didnt hear me come in.
• A) engrossed B) fascinated C) willed D)
  intensified
• 22.The symptoms of the rare disease include a
  _____ for sweet foods.
• A) craze B) craving C) crawl D) crane
• 23.  Her talent might have lain ______ had it not
  been for her aunts encouragement.
• A) intact B) lifeless D) inactive D)
  dormant
• 24.   She was lulled to sleep by the gentle
  ______ of the boat in the water.
• A) movement B) rhythm, C) note D) rock
• 25.  The wife was given specific instructions on
  how to cope with conceivable problem that might
  ______ during his absence.
• A) come up B) pick up
• C) come out D) pick out

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• 26.. Although she had only rehearsed the part a
  few times, she ______ it off beyond all
  expectations.
• A) gave B) presented C) carried D)
  performed
• 27.The soldier found himself ______ a hero when
  he returned to his village.
• A) somehow like B) someway as
• C) something of D) somewhat of
• 28.  Its very important to play the game ______
  and not make trouble for anyone.
• A) in the right spirit B) by great emotions
• C) with a good heart D) on the correct
  principle
• 29.       The prisoners were kept on ______
  allowance of food and insufficient time for
  sheep.
• A) few B) little C) short D) thin
• 30.  Those who campaign against the death penalty
  believe they are on a ______ crusade.
• A) secondary B) ambitious C) legendary D)
  moral

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• 31. Voters in three states were given the
  opportunity to make English the language of
  official ______ in those states.
• A) interlocutor B) discourse
• C) encyclopedia D) cricket
• 32.For many ______ people, television is the one
  means of getting news.
• A) illegible B) illiterate C) illegitimate D)
  illegal
• 33. He ______ working in the office with long
  tours overseas.
• A) alternated B) ticked C) flanked D)
  flecked
• 34.  David wasnt able to finish the task within
  the ______ time.
• A) donated B) allotted
• C) distributed D) subscribed
• 35.   I got a few ______ of paint on the window
  when I was painting the frames.
• A) flecks B) freaks C) flasks D) freckles

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• 36.    His success was in some ______ due to his
  being in the right place at the right time.
• A) degree B) extent C) measure D) scale
• 37. Over the 8 years, Chinese people went through
  ______ to defeat the Japanese aggressors.
• A) thick and thin B) mountain and
  river
• C) a thousand and one way D) fire and water
• 38. He did everything he could to restore his
  ______ reputation but to little avail.
• A) tattered B) tattooed C)
  tethered D) terrace
• 39. He was the star at the party he entertained
  us by reciting his poems with beautiful ______.
• A) cadences B) rhythms C) beats D)
  tempos
• 40. The rugs are still produced, but they are a
  little too ______ for western tastes.
• A) expressive B) garish C) innocuous D)
  straight

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• 41.  Obviously you came here intending to _____
  in America and you will need a work visa.
• A) reprimand B) resettle
• C) reprieve D) reside
• 42.   Low earners will pay only half the charge
  but high earners will have to pay full ______.
• A) mark B) price
• C) whack D) cost
• 43. She came out with some ______story about not
  having enough money to go and see her father who
  was seriously ill.
• A) weeping B) saddened
• C) sobbing D) tragic
• 44.The need for secrecy is ______ to the need to
  take immediate action.
• A) superior B) secondary
• C) superb D) priority
• 45.In her speech she presented a(an) ______
  argument for increasing taxes.
• A) authoritative B) sedative
• C) influential D) potent

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• 46.   When animals have more food, they generally
  ______ faster.
• A) multiply B) intensity C) expand D)
  escalate
• 47. They showed great ______ for the cause of
  helping deprived children.
• A) ardent B) ardor C) arbiter D) arbor
• 48.    The Home Office must weed out ______ from
  such highly sensitive jobs.
• A) proponents B) guerillas C)
  subversives D) rebels
• 49.       They ______ in (at/over) their victory
  after so many years of hardships and
  difficulties.
• A) overjoyed B) gloated C) elated D)
  exulted
• 50.   He had an actors typically ______
  features, which enabled him to act roles of
• different backgrounds.
• A) malleable B) changeable C)
  conceivable D) manageable
• key

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• Key
• D A B B D D B A C D
• D D A A A B C A B D
• A B D B A C C A C D
• B B A B A C D A A A
• D C C B D A B C D A