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外国语学院南世锋

Unit 6 The Human Touch

外国语学院南世锋

Unit 6 The Human Touch

Objectives

1. Understand the main idea and structure of the text;

2. Appreciate how the repeated use of clues helps weave a piece of narration together;

3. Grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;

4. Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.

Text A

The Last Leaf

O. Henry

1. 1. Pre-reading TasksPre-reading Tasks

2. 2. While-reading TasksWhile-reading Tasks

3. 3. Post-reading TasksPost-reading Tasks

1. 1. Pre-reading Tasks Pre-reading Tasks

Warm-up Questions

Background Information

Warm-up Questions1. How do you understand the Human Touc

h? It originates from the warmest aspect fr

om human normal feelings, a natural revelation from real emotions among one another, giving others a wonderful felling of love, care and an encouraging spirit.

Warm-up Questions

human touch ：人情味，源自人性之中最温情的一面，是人与人之间真挚情感的自然流露，是一种给人以爱与关怀的奇妙感觉，是一股可以温暖人心的精神，也可指人们互相关怀鼓励。

Warm-up Questions

2. What is the human nature? Man is born kind. Man is born evil. Man is born neither kind nor evil.

Warm-up Questions

Virtues:love, zeal, faith, self control, charity, kind

ness, tolerance, loyalty, honesty, selflessness, generosity

Weaknesses: greed, selfishness, jealousy, sadness, an

ger, depression, pride, laziness, meanness

Warm-up Questions

No one is perfect. Yet, we should try our best to be a person with more virtues and less weaknesses.

Love not only yourself but also your family members, friends, even other people you don’t know.

O. Henry

O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910).

O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm haracterization and clever twist endings.

His storiesHis storiesThe Four Million Cabbages and Kings The Gift of the Magi The Ransom of Red Chief The Cop and the Anthem A Retrieved Reformation The Furnished RoomBaby in the Jungle

The Ransom of Red Chief A Retrieved Reformation

Major features of Henry’s storiesMajor features of Henry’s stories Henry's stories are famous for their surprise

endings, to the point that such an ending is often referred to as an "O. Henry ending." He was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. Both authors wrote twist endings, but O. Henry stories were much more playful. His stories are also well known for witty narration. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early years of the 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part with ordinary people:

clerks, policemen, waitresses.

Major features of Henry’s storiesMajor features of Henry’s stories

O. Henry's work is wide-ranging, and his characters can be found roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the "gentle grafter," or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York.

O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language.

Major features of Henry’s storiesMajor features of Henry’s stories

Some of his best and least-known work resides in the collection Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background. O.Henry's work is fundamentally a product of his time, and contains examples of casual racism.

2. While-reading Tasks2. While-reading Tasks

Structure of the Text

Further Understanding

Structure (Part division of the text)Structure (Part division of the text)

SceneSceness

ParasParas CharactersCharacters EventsEvents

11 Paras 1-2Paras 1-2 Sue,JohnsSue,Johnsyy

Sue’s roommate JohSue’s roommate Johnsy caught pneumnsy caught pneumonia.onia.

22 Paras 3-8Paras 3-8 The doctor, The doctor, SueSue

The doctor told Sue tThe doctor told Sue that Johnsy needed hat Johnsy needed a strong will to live a strong will to live on on

33 Paras 9-1Paras 9-177

Johnsy, SuJohnsy, Suee

Johnsy decided that Johnsy decided that she would die wheshe would die when the last ivy leaf fen the last ivy leaf fell.ll.


SceneSceness


44 Paras 18-Paras 18-2121

Behrman, Behrman, SueSue

Sue told Behrman abSue told Behrman about Johnsy’s fancyout Johnsy’s fancy


Sue, JohnsSue, Johnsyy

As Johnsy was encoAs Johnsy was encouraged by the last luraged by the last leaf that wouldn’t gieaf that wouldn’t give in to the weatheve in to the weather, her will to live retr, her will to live returned. urned.


SceneSceness



the doctor, the doctor, SueSue

The doctor told Sue tThe doctor told Sue that Johnsy would rhat Johnsy would recover, but Behrmecover, but Behrman caught pneumoan caught pneumonia himself and his nia himself and his case was hopeless.case was hopeless.

77 Paras38-Paras38-3939

Sue, JohnsSue, Johnsyy

Sue told Johnsy that Sue told Johnsy that Behrman had perfoBehrman had performed a kind deed rmed a kind deed without any thoughwithout any thought of selst of sels

Further UnderstandingFurther Understanding

Key Words and PhrasesKey Words and Phrases Language FocusLanguage Focus Analysis of the Text Analysis of the Text

Key Words and PhrasesKey Words and Phrases

in tune: harmoniously (often followed by with)

e.g.

His ideas were in tune with mine.

The price of gold coins fluctuates ( 波动 ) in tune wi

th that of commodities.

stalk: v. (of an evil force) move through (a place) in a

threatening way; move quietly and cautiously in

order to get near

e.g.

There are sharks stalking their prey in those waters.

victim: n. person, animal, etc. suffering death, injury or loss

e.g.

Thousands were victims of the plague in the Middle Ages.

Four people were killed in the explosion, but the police have not yet named the victims.

subtract: vt. take (a number, quantity) away from a larger nu

mber or quantity

e.g.

Students were given a lot of practice in writing,

adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.

turn looseturn loose:: allow (sth.) to be free of control allow (sth.) to be free of control

e.g.

The World Bank makes grants to developing countriThe World Bank makes grants to developing countri

es but it doesn’t just turn the money loose.es but it doesn’t just turn the money loose.

世界银行拨款给发展中国家，但并不听任随便世界银行拨款给发展中国家，但并不听任随便

使用。使用。

to excessto excess:: to an extreme degree to an extreme degree

e.g.

Don’t carry your grief to excess. Don’t carry your grief to excess.

He drinks to excess.He drinks to excess.

他嗜酒无度他嗜酒无度 ..

for the restfor the rest:: as regards other matters as regards other matters 在其他方面在其他方面

e.g.

The working conditions in my new job are excThe working conditions in my new job are exc

ellent, but for the rest, I am not impressedellent, but for the rest, I am not impressed..

stand out: be easily seen above or among others

e.g.

These writers stood out above the rest.

stand by 支持 stand for 代表

stand on 坚持 stand well with 与……相处得

好

Language FocusLanguage Focus

1. Literary Language writing techniques in a narration

Language FocusLanguage Focus

Make a dialogue between Sue and Behrman according to the sentence “She told him of Johnsy’s fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker” in Lines 65 to 68.

2. Figures of Speech 修辞

Personification 拟人

My heart was singing.This time fate was smiling to him.My only worry was that January wou

ld find me hunting for a job again.

Euphemism 委婉语

Die: fall asleep, cease thinking, pass away, go to heaven, leave us

Old people: senior citizensFat people: weight watcherMadhouse/asylum: mental hospitalStupid people: slow learners

Simile 明喻

like, as, as if, as though 等 .This elephant is like a snake as anybod

y can see. He looked as if he had just stepped out

of my book of fairytales and had passed me like a spirit.

Metaphor 隐喻

没有比喻词，而是直接将用事物当作乙事物来描写，甲乙两事物之间的联系和相似之处是暗含的。

The diamond department was the heart and center of the store.

The world is a stage.Time is money.

Hyperbole 夸张

My blood froze. He almost died laughing.When she heard the bad news,

a river of tears poured out.

Pun 双关

以一个词或词组，用巧妙的办法同时把互不关联的两种含义结合起来，以取得一种诙谐有趣的效果。

Seven days without water make one weak/week.

A cannonball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

Irony 反语 , 讽刺

As welcome as a stormThe public is wonderfully

tolerant----it forgives everything except genius.

Oxymoron 矛盾修饰

She read the long-awaited letter with a tearful smile.

Sweet pain/sorrowliving deathimpossible hope

Alliteration 头韵在句中有两个以上连结在一起的词

或词组，其开头的音节有同样的字母或声音，以增强语言的节奏感。

Proud as a peacock Safe and sound Home and hearth New Jersey is a story of struggle, s

uccess, and sadness.

Parallelism 排比把结构相同或相似、语气一致、意思

密切相关联的句子或句子成分排列起来，使句式得到增强 .

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

The Order of Adjectives before a Noun (Exercise P205-206)

限定描绘大长高，形状年龄和新老；颜色国籍跟材料，作用类别往后靠 .

e.g.1. beautiful brown leather jacket

2. small antique wooden table3. fabulous new diamond ring4. gorgeous pink silk scarf5. fantastic new British film

Analysis of the Text

1. Explain composition of a short story narration: scene, theme, characters, climax.

2. Ask students to identify theme, characters, climax, etc. in the text.

3. Appreciate the atmosphere build by its beautiful sentences and phrases.

3. Post-reading Tasks3. Post-reading Tasks

Group DiscussionGroup Discussion PerformancePerformance DebateDebate Exercises

Group DiscussionGroup Discussion

1) Which character in the story impresses you most? Why?

2) What is the essential message the writer wants to convey to his readers through the story? Is it of social significance? Explain.

PerformancePerformance

Form groups and act different roles.

DebateDebate

Many years ago, a college student lost his life to save an old farmer’s life, which aroused a heated discussion among people. Some thought that it was not worthwhile for a college student who might contribute a lot to the society in the future to risk death for an old life, while some other people held the opposite view. What is your opinion?

Make a debate about whether it was worthwhile for Old Behrman to risk death to save Johnsy’s life?

DebateDebate

Supporting arguments1. It is the only way to save her life. 2. It is worthwhile for the old to risk death to save the young’s lives. Opposing arguments1. Behrman could try other means to save Johns

y’s life instead of sacrificing himself.2. Both the old’s and the young’s lives are valu

able.

Exercises

Vocabulary

I. 1. 1)flutter/fluttering 2) acute 3) cling to 4) streaming 5) fancy 6) mock 7) fierce 8) masterpiece 9) nonsense 10) bare 11) subtracted 12) victim 13) Sin 14) look the part 15) for the rest

Vocabulary

2. 1) gave in/gave up 2) figure out 3) sized up 4) wiped out

5) pulling up 6) wear away 7) sit up 8) hear of / about

Vocabulary

3. 1) Illnesses usually stand out in childhood memories.

2) According to the bulletin, Albright College now offers a joint bachelor's degree program in environmental studies together with Duke University.

3) The new government is less oppressive, but violence still stalks the country.

4) There is scarcely any surface water in the desert. 5) The demand for change in the election law is so

persistent that both houses have promised to consider it.

Vocabulary

4. 1) It was dreary lying in the tent with nothing to read, so we built a camp fire. Soon the smell of steaks, bread and coffee mingled with that of fresh grass and earth. Other campers seemed to be doing the same. Here and there people were eating, drinking or dancing to their hearts' content, if not to excess. What a merry night!

2) Miss Florence, our music teacher, called to us to stop singing. I didn't realize why until Sally told me in a whisper: " You are not in tune with the group!"

3) The angry wife poured a bucket of water over her drunken husband, who was immedi ately wet through and stumbled backward: " You can't do without drinks? I won't hear of any excuses. You certainly don't need it to turn loose your tongue!"

Vocabulary

II. Words with Multiple Meanings 1. He went to Paris on business last month. 2. The train to Brussels goes at 2:25p.m. 3. As soon as they arrived at the meadow, the shepherd let the

sheep go. 4. We went exploring together in the mountains. / We will go

exploring together in the mountains. 5. Let's go and have a drink in the bar. 6. The store is going to close up soon. 7. South Koreans went crazy when their soccer players beat the

Spanish team in the quarter finals. 8. When Mother came out of the house, she found her children

gone.

Vocabulary

III. Usage 1. a little white wooden house 2. long, curly red hair 3. a large old round table 4. a cheap Indian restaurant 5. a huge cool chocolate ice-cream 6. rapid technological advance 7. a handsome young Chinese American

Structure

1. 1) The kitchen smells of burnt rubber. 2) It smells of rose. 3) It tastes of fish. 4) It tastes of gasoline. 2. 1) I killed the spider by hitting it. 2) The little girl supported herself by selling matches. 3) You can unlock the door by turning the key to the

right. 4) She tried to get help by screaming.

Comprehensive Exercises

I. Cloze (A) 1. Victim 2. in tune 3. Scarcely 4. in a whisper 5. cling to 6. merry 7. sat up 8. nonsense 9. fancy 10. fierce 11. sin 12. masterpiece (B) 1. As 2.whose 3. that 4.or 5. jail 6. Her 7. so 8.buy 9. not 10. Figured 11. Collect 12.when 13. into 14.deliver 15. including 16. feel 17. take 18. Bring 19. in 20. small

Comprehensive Exercises

II. TranslationHere and there we see young artists who stand

out from other people. They may be in worn out jeans all the year round, or walk barefoot / in bare feet even in winter, or drink to excess, or cling to the fancy of creating a masterpiece without actually doing any creative work. In fact, many of them act like this just to look the part, or to be "in tune with" other artists. They have forgotten that only through persistent effort can one achieve success.

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