Weeping for My Smoking Daughter

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Unit 5

• Weeping for My Smoking Daughter

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• Group work
• Whats your opinion on smoking? Is it a good or
  bad thing? Why or why not?

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• To get some ideas about the background
  information of the text
• Camel
• Marlboro
• Players?
• Queen Victoria

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• Prince Albert
• The State of Georgia
• Hollywood
• Third world
• A battered womens shelter

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Guess the meaning of the italicized term in each
phrase or sentence.

• Plane / solid geometry, analytical geometry
• All drinking water must be filtered.
• filtered cigarettes,
• filtered coffee,

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• On long walks, the old man took along a cane.
• Some youngsters get hooked in computer games.
• Some public clinics are being established in
  order that people hooked on drugs can receive
  care.

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• They got lost in the desert and starved to death.
• People in this region was starved of drinking
  water.
• If you dont chew your food properly, its
  difficult to swallow it.
• I found his explanation rather hard to swallow.

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• A woman is pregnant for nine months before a
  child is born.
• The heavy waves battered the ship to pieces.
• Your car looks rather battered.

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Find out the synonyms in the following words.

• grateful region slim sob drag tag bunch
  brand zone cry appreciative slender indebted
  lean haul cluster draw batch quarter weep
  label

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Homework

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text
  by heart.
• The students are to be divided into several
  groups. Each group will be responsible for one
  part of it. Then in the class time, students may
  ask questions about some words or sentences in a
  certain part, and then the group, which is
  responsible for it, will answer the questions.

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Language Points

• (para. 1) While she is doing close at hand.
• The man sat in the front row, his hands on the
  table.
• The man sat in the front row, with his hands on
  the table.

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• The man sat in the front row, and his hands were
  on the table.
• (para. 1) I hardened myself against feeling so
  bad.
• He became hardened to the suffering around him.

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• Rough living in the desert hardened the young men
  a lot.
• (para. 2) dressed in a black dress coat and
  carrying a cane.
• (para. 3) The tobacco industry, hooked by
  cigarettes.

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• (para. 4) his breath was a wheeze, embarrassing
  to hear
• (para. 5) My father died from the poor mans
  friends,left him low.
• (para. 6) There are large advertisement both
  dragging away.

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• (para. 6) over time, people starve themselves of
  both food and air
• (para. 7) For what, I sometimes wonder
• (para. 8) surely one such victory in my family,
  

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• Simulated writing
• (see exercises 7, 8)
• In fact, I do weep a little, standing there by
  the stove holding one of the instruments, so
  white, so precisely rolled, that I could cause my
  daughters death.

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• The tobacco industry, coupled with Hollywood
  movies in which both male and female heroes
  smoked like chimneys, completely won over people
  like my father, who were hopelessly hooked by
  cigarettes.
• I doubt he had much lung left at all, after
  coughing for so many years.