the widow u nit 6. section a assignment: writing text a the widow exercise phrases and expressions...

The Widow

UNIT 6 . SECTION A

Assignment: writing

Text AThe Widow

Exercise

Phrases And Expressions

Pre-reading Activities

Text Understanding

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Homework Review

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Topic Your Understanding of Love

Enjoy a Song

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Ooh... Oh! Carol, I am but a fool.Darling I love you tho’ you treat me cruel.You hurt me and made me cry.But if you leave me, I will surely die.Darling, there will never be another ’cause I love you so.Don’t ever leave me, say you’ll never go.I will always want you to be my sweetheart. No matter what you do. Oh! Carol,I am so in love with you.

1.A Song Oh! CarolHOME

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1. What would you compare love to? Why?

Discuss

2. What qualities does “ love” include?

3. Have you ever received any unforgettable message? How does it impress you?

Key

Key

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1. Love is like...2. ... responsibility,

knowledge,understanding, concerning, giving rather than taking...

3. Predict, like a miracle, lead a good and happy life; they would work industriously and love each other

Tips

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Love is holding hands in the street.Marriage is holding arguments in the street.

Love is dinner for 2 in your favorite restaurant.Marriage is Chinese take-out.

Love is cuddling ( 拥抱 ) on a sofa.Marriage is deciding on a sofa.

Love is talking about having children.Marriage is talking about getting away from children.

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Love is losing your appetite.Marriage is losing your figure.

Love is sweet nothings in the ear.Marriage is sweet nothing's in the bank.

Love is a flickering flame.Marriage is a flickering television.

Love is 1 drink and 2 straws ( 麦杆，吸管 ).Marriage is "Don't you think you've had enough!"

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Directions: Watch the video and then discuss the topics as follows:

1. What do you think can pull you through any crisis you are faced with?

2. What points should we pay attention to in the cultivation of confidence?

Video watching

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Questions and Answers

1. Why is the woman in this story in pain?

2. Where did the wife think the strange wedding guest had come from? Why did her husband not agree with her?

3. What gift did the strange wedding guest give to the new husband and wife?

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Text Structure Analysis

Main Idea of the Text

Idea sharing

Paraphrase for Some Sentences

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The Whole Text:

The Widow

Part I (Paras.1-2)The quotations the widow

stores in a notebook remind her of the painful memorythe widow’s late husband.

Part II (Paras. 3-15)The widow’s mind slipped back to her wedding ceremony —a strange wordgift with a magic power.

Part III (Paras. 16-19)The message her husband left her showed that their aunt’s prophecy had come true.

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What is the text mainly about?

The quotations taken from Cabin Fever bring the widow back in time to her wedding day and married life, which was as happy and peaceful as a strange woman predicted at the wedding ceremony.

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DiscussionDiscussion

What kind of role did

the short, elderly woman play in the whole story?

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DiscussionDiscussion

What do you think is

the key to the marriage?

Reference

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Reference

The key to a happy marriage

is an understanding of three

words: CHANGE,

COMMITMENT,

COMMUNICATION.

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For a couple to have a happy marriage they need to realize they are always changing and adjust to those changes.

They need to be committed to each other and the marriage.

Finally, they should communicate and seek solutions to their

problems.

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There are many outside

pressures: jobs, extended

family, friends, social

activities and church which

complicate marital relation-

ship.

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Accepting the changing rolesand working on maintaining therelationship is vital to keeping amarriage together and growing.Remember to grow means tochange.

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Couples need to work on building their lives together within the bond of a strong commitment. When problems come (and they will), commitment to the marriage partner and to being married may be the only thingto get a couple through the problems.

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They need to acknowledge there is a problem.

Do not place blame on anyone.

Give an opportunity for all people involved with the problem to state how they would like it resolved and what they need from the resolution.

Seek a solution to the problem that gives benefits to all parties involved.

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If the key to a happy marriage is followed, then a couple will adjust to each other, feel secure with each other, and deal effectively withproblems.

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1. I experience again the deep-felt wish to be part 1. I experience again the deep-felt wish to be part

of a married couple, to sit by the fire in winter of a married couple, to sit by the fire in winter with the man who is my husband. with the man who is my husband. (L3)(L3)

Paraphrase

Again I deeply feel desire to be part of a married couple, to sit by the fire in winter with the man who is my husband.

Translation

我又有了那为人之妻的强烈愿望，渴望着冬天里和是自己丈夫的男人一起坐在炉火边。

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Normal order:This wish is so intense that...

so... that... 太…… 以至于……

2. So intense is this wish that if I write the word 2. So intense is this wish that if I write the word husband on a piece of paper, my eyes fill with husband on a piece of paper, my eyes fill with tears. tears. (L4)(L4)

Structure

Translation

这愿望如此强烈，以至若将“丈夫”二字写到纸上，我就会热泪盈眶。

Paraphrase

This wish is so strong that if I write the word husband on a piece of paper, my eyes fill with tears.


3. The last person to approach the couple was a 3. The last person to approach the couple was a short, elderly woman who smiled as she short, elderly woman who smiled as she congratulated them—not by name but as “wife” congratulated them—not by name but as “wife” and “husband”. and “husband”. (L18)(L18)

ParaphraseParaphrase

The last person to get close to greet the couple was a short, old woman. When she greeted them, she smiled and simply called them “wife” and “husband”.

Translation最后一个走到新婚夫妇前的是一位矮矮的、上了年纪的妇人。她笑着祝贺他们，不是直呼其名，而是称他们为“妻子”和“丈夫”。


4. Anyway, it’s time to stop wondering whether she 4. Anyway, it’s time to stop wondering whether she came from heaven or a nearby town. came from heaven or a nearby town. (L57)(L57)

可不管怎么说，我们不该再去猜测她是来自天上还是来自附近的城镇了。

Translation

Paraphrase

In any case, we should stop being curious about who the old woman was and where she came from.

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与……共同分担 / 享受 1. to share…with… (L 2)

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The joy of joys in my life is to share my success and happiness with my friends.

我生活之中最大的快乐莫过于和朋友分享自己的成功和幸福。

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2. to file in/out/into/past (L. 10)

鱼贯而入 / 出 / 入 / 一个一个地走过

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As the students filed past the painting, each of them was filled with great admiration for its beauty.

当学生们鱼贯走过这张油画时，个个都被它的美所折服。

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3.to be clothed in (L. 11) 用…表达

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与其用语言，倒不如用行动来表达我们对祖国母亲的爱。

Our love for motherland should be more clothed in what we do than in what we say.

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4. to scan for announcements in church bulletins (L. 33)

在教堂的布告栏上查找／打听（婚礼的）消息USE IT NOW

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两个小时的劝说之后，她审视着他的面部表情，看看有无懊悔的迹象。

After two hours of persuasion, she scanned his face for some sign of regret.

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5. with the passage of time (L. 35)

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随着时间的推移

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随着时间的推移，丈夫渐渐地懂得了妻子日常家庭工作中所包含的爱与支持。

With the passage of time, the husband came to realize both love and support clothed in the wife’s daily housework.

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6. with the birth (invention / appearance) of grandchildren (sth.) (L. 35)

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随着更多的高科技产品问世，人类对生活的享受将是无止境的。

With the birth of more high-tech products, there will be no limit to man’s enjoyment of life.

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7. to bring up (L. 43)

提起 / 引起

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人口学家马寅初先生第一个在我国提出了人口问题需要极大关注的话题。It was the demographer Mr. MA Yinchu who first brought up the issue of population which should cal

l for more of our concern.

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8. to save sth. / sb. from (L. 46)

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把……从……中救出来

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在诞生的初期，中国共产党的伟大使命是救民于水深火热之中。At the early stage of its birth, the great mission of the Chinese Communist Party was to save the people from the depths of suffering.

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Exercises--Translation

1. 有了他父亲给的钱，他就能在附近的镇上买栋房子了。

With the money given by his father ， he could afford a house in the town nearby.(Or …. he could afford to buy a house in the town nearby.)

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2. 那位年轻女士太激动，以致情不自禁地提起了婚姻话题。

The young lady was so excited that she could not restrain herself from bringing up the subject of marriage. Or: … that she could not help bringing up the subject of marriage.

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3. 恐怕你今天见不到他了，一小时前，他刚被派去执行一项重要任务了。

I’m afraid you can’t see him today because he was sent on an important mission just an hour ago.

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4. 她年轻时 , 常常在笔记本里记下一些摘引自诗歌的内容。

When she was young ， she used to store quotations from poems in a notebook.

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5. 不管他们是谁 , 他们都得对这次事故负责任。

Whoever they are ， they should take the responsibility for the accident/they should be responsible for the accident.

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Paragraph Writing: Develop a Paragraph of Time Sequence

I. Analysis and Samples

One dayOne day, my friend Liu came to see me. He asked me to help

him prepare the room for the meeting in in the eveningthe evening. I agreed,

and together we swept the floor, and arranged the chairs in rows.

AfterAfter we had finished, we sat down and had a short rest.

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Paragraph Writing: Develop a Paragraph of Time Sequence

If we want to make the story more interesting, we can use the past perfect tense to talk about earlier events.

One day, my friend Liu came to see me. He told me that the college had arrangedhad arranged a meeting for the evening, and he had offeredhad offered to prepare the room. He asked me to help him. I agreed, and together we swept the floor, and arranged the chairs in rows. After we had finishedhad finished, we sat down and had a short rest.

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II. Your TaskII. Your Task

1. In his reply, the manager of the bus company said that the bus hadn’t stopped to pick up the passengers.

2. In England, a man wrote a letter of complaint to the bus company.

3. He pointed out that if the bus had stopped, the bus would have been late.

4. A number of people were waiting at the bus stops, but the driver took no notice of them.

5. He said that the local bus had passed by several bus stops without stopping.

Key: 2-5-4-1-3

Put the sentences into time order.

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lassHomeworkC

Contributors to Changes /Success / Failure in Sth.

(changes: decline / rise / improvement, etc)

( 原因分析 )

Reference model:

Contributors to Their Success in Marriage Life

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1) Just as what has happened to anything in the world, many factors lead to their success in marriage life. 2) In the first place, a positive psychological suggestion plays a role. 3) If a couple often utter syllables, like “We will love each other and live a happy life”as shown in their story, about the bright side of theirmarriage, they will bring more spirits of love and happiness

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into their life whereas, if a couple constantly speak of poison-words such as “terrible”, “painful” and “exhausted”, they will build one little ghost of bitterness after another to live with. 4) In the second, a common and good taste for life counts much to a couple’s thirst for each other. 5) As told in their story, the couple used to underline favorite passages to share with each other, which added color to their marriage life. 6) And above all, readiness to devote more to the other serves

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as the bottom line in their marriage life. 7) Like many other couples, the couple in the story also had much to complain about in their daily life, but both acted to fill each other’s needs as time and opportunity allowed. 8) Our list of contributors to their success in marriage life could go on, but the foregoing ones are already enough to give us a deep insight into the problem.

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Write a composition at least 120 words on the following title:

A Boom in the Number of MA Candidates

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1. We should concentrate on sharply reducing interest rates to pull the economy out of _____.

A. retreat B. rejection C. recession D. restriction 2. In order to get rid of her sorrow,

Bush _____ heavily _____ alcohol. A. depart... from B. classified... into C. relied... on D. hesitated... in

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3. Children’s _____ for acquiring language is remarkable for a number of reasons.

A. responsibility B. capacity C. curiosity D. ability 4. Our journey was slow because the

train stopped _____ at different villages.

A. eventually B. gradually C. continuously D. continually

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5. They claim that _____ 1,000 factories closed down during the economic crisis.

A. sufficiently B. properly C. appropriately D.

approximately 6. Having completed its _____ to the

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7. I want to buy a new tie to _____ this brown suit.

A. go into B. go after C. go with D. go by8. What you have done is _____ the

doctor’s orders. A. attached to B. responsible to C. resistant to D. contrary to

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9. It is much easier to talk bout social change than to_____.

A. bring it on B. bring it out C. bring it up D. bring it

about 10. A well-written composition _____

good choice of words and clear organization among other things.

A. calls on B. calls for C. calls up D. calls off

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