UNIT 2
First Period
Preview task:
Read text B and try to understand what the true friends are.
Pre-Reading
1. Questions and Answers
Q(1)What is a fair weather friend?
A(1) A fair weather friend is one who is happy to stay with you when things are going well but leaves as soon as trouble arrives.
Q(2)How can friend and friendship be defined?
Friends
(A):
A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff（谷壳）and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift (筛，过滤) them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
---------- George Eliot (1819~1880), English novelist
(B):
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
- --------- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803~1882), American poet and philosopher
(C):
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
----------- Doug Larson (1902~1981), English middle-distance runner
Friendship
(A):
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
---------- Charles Caleb Colton (1780~1832), English author and clergyman
(B):
Friendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul（天气恶劣的）.
--------- Ambrose Bierce (1842~1914), American author and journalist, from The Devil’s Dictionary
(C):
Friendship is a treasure that always helps us overcome any kind of difficulty.
Friendship is a comfort which always understands worries and emotions.
Friendship is a blessing because it teaches the way to live.
------------ Unknown
Q(3)Can you give some examples of great friendship?
Marx and Engles
Marx valued Engels’ friendship so highly that he once said he loved and admired his friend very much. Engels had been aiding Marx who suffered greatly from bitter poverty. Were it not for the help Marx obtained from Engels, Marx would hardly have been able to overcome poverty and he surely would not have left behind him a monument.
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The stories in this unit are about friendship. Write down five words which you would use if you were writing a poem on this subject.
durable long-standing enduring lifelong genuine help generous everlasting intimate close warm trust perpetual
While-reading
As for “friend” or “friendship”, a sentence may occur to us --- “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” It tells us the real meaning of “friendship” and the reason why it has always been the theme of some great writers and some art works. The stories between real friends often made us moved deeply, and at the same time, almost all of us long for truehearted friendship. Text B is a story about the genuine friendship between two old men, and what happened to them in this text made us ponder over the problem that what we will do when our friends get in trouble.
Text B Never Let A Friend Down
Part 1. ask the student to read the text and get information about the main characters
Bill : 79- year-old, thin but strong, look far younger than his age, now he was living by himself 12 miles east of the town and he scraped a living hunting foxes and rabbits
Royce: 59-year-old, had a bad leg and walked with difficulty, helped run the Wedding family’s farm
Bill and Royce had been best of friends for 30 years, ever since the days when they traveled together from
farm to farm in search of work.. Bill caught up with Royce once a fortnight.
This narrative mainly gives us an account of how a pair of best friends survived a fire disaster.
Once Bill helped Royce burn off the weeds on one of his fields. Unfortunately, they ran into a big trouble.
Part 2. assign the students to describe the danger they face (para5-9)
After setting a fire to the weeds, they were in danger: Royce’s car plowed into a hidden bank of sand and the fire headed directly toward them. After a while, they were surrounded by flames. At this crucial time, Royce was found pinned against the steering wheel.
Part 3. How did they survive a fire disaster?
(Para 10-12 is about the detail of what Bill did for his friend.)
Bill never let a friend down, dragging Royce away from the burning c ar as hard as he could. To save Royce’s life, Bill went out of his way of getting help from his home. The twin pillars of character--- never give up no matter how bad the odds and never let friend down--- determined him to save his friend’s life. At last t hey made it.
Part 4. the result( after the accident)
They survived this accident but Both of them were injured seriously. Tell sth about their injuries. (para13-14) Royce’s stomach and left hip were covered in deep burns. His fingers were burned completely out of shape.
Bill was in equally bad shape. Pieces of blackened flesh and skin hung from his forearms, hands and legs.
Bill was presented with the Bravery Medal at Government House, but his best reward came when he was praised by his friend Royce.
Homework:
(1).Q: Choose some sentences from the text and retell this accident. (ask students one by one to finish this task.) A: (L.14) Soon they were bumping over a sandy track to the weed-choked 120-acre field.
(L.17) Bill soaked the tire with gasoline, then he put a match to it and jumped in the car.
(L.22) The breeze suddenly swung around to their backs and began to gather strength.
(L.24) “Let’s get out of here!” Royce said.
(L.21&25) But the car plowed into a hidden bank of sand, and they couldn’t back it out of the sand bank.
(L.28.) The gasoline tank exploded.
(L.30) (After the explosion,) Royce was pinned against the steering wheel and unable to move.
(L.32) Bill was breathless and unable to move, too.
(2). preview the text A and try to get the main idea
Second period:
Part5.Assign the student to retell the story
Part6. Detailed explanation of text B:
(1) Attentions to the vivid description of the fire
Fanned to the white heat, the fire line suddenly burst into a wall of flame, heading directly towards them.
The fire bit at Bill’s arms, face and legs, but he…………..
The car was eaten by flames.
……………….
(2)Attentions to the verbs in the text
The car pitched violently forward, plowing into a hidden bank of sand
Para 8, 9 and 15
As soon as he had dragged him away he patted out the flames………
…………….
(3) Important sentences:
L.27 Suddenly the fire was on them. Bill pushed open his door only to find himself flung through the air as, with a roar, the gasoline tank exploded and the car leapt three feet off the ground.
①only to find only + 动词不定式，表示一种出乎意料的结果
②find oneself + 现在分词/过去分词表示不知不觉地发现自己在做某事
③with a roar
L.55. A lifetime spent around the tough people (who make their home in the Australian bush) had permanently fixed into Bill’s soul two principles: never give up [no matter how bad the odds] and never let [a friend] down.
①A lifetime had fixed two principles into Bill’s soul.
② no matter how bad the odds
③ never give up no matter how bad the odds and never let a friend down
④ a lifetime (that was) spent around the tough people
⑤ people who make their home in the Australian bush
⑥一辈子与居住在澳大利亚灌木地带的那些刚强的硬汉一起生活的人生经历，将两条准则永久地铭刻在比尔心头：无论多么艰难，决不泄气，决不抛弃朋友。
Text A All the Cabbie Had W as a Letter
Leading words:
“A faithful friend is the medicine of life”, put William Shakespeare. A true and sincere friendship is a precious assets for anyone in his or her life despite all the phrases in one’s life and the distance. Bill and Royce’s story is a good example. Since friends are important to us, what should we do to keep in touch with our friends? After learning this story, maybe you will get the idea. This narrative is mainly a conversation between the cab driver and the author “ I” on his trip to a hotel by taxi.
Topic-related Prediction
1. T ext A is titled All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter. Before you read the story, think about the answers to the following questions.
What does a cabbie do?
What is a letter used for?
Who wrote the letter to the cabbie?
Why was all the cabbie had only a letter?
2. Read the last sentence of T ext A and try to guess what the story is about.
When I got to my hotel room I didn’t unpack right away. First I had to write a letter -- and mail it.
3. Read T ext A as quickly as possible, and find out if you are right. Can you summarize the story with three sentences?
Key words: lost in thought; read a letter; an old friend; lifelong friendship; regret; author decided
W arm-up Questions
Q: According to the discussion and the story between Bill and Royce, what are the friends for?
A: The friends are for the good times and bad times. No matter how bad the odds, never let a friend down.
Q: How do you keep in touch with your friends? Do you often write letters to your friends?
A: through letters, phone call, email, qq etc. frequently, sometimes, rarely, never
Scanning
Scan Text A and decide which of the following statements is the theme.
a. One should keep in touch with his friends.
b. Never delay expressing your true feelings to a friend.
c. A true friend will stand by you forever.
d. Late is better than never.
In a word, this narrative wants to convey its readers an idea: keep up correspondence with your friends and never hesitate in expressing your true feeling to your friends, cherish the friendship.
Group Discussion
1)Ss work in pairs to skim the text and find out how many questions the narrator asked the cabbie and what were the latter’s responses.
They are:
a. Is your cab available? --- Y es.
b. Is the letter from a child or a grandchild? --- No. Ed was my oldest friend.
c. He’s someone you’ve known quite a while? --- All my life.
d. Did you go to school together? --- All the way through high school.
e. Is he dead? --- He died a couple of weeks ago.
f. Did you two work at the same place?
--- No, but we hung out together when single, later we grew more distant.
g. The letter must have made you feel good, didn’t it?
--- (The driver said someth ing that the narrator couldn’t understand.)
h. I thought your friend was Ed. Why did he sign it Tom?
--- The letter was not from Ed to me, I am Tom. It’s a letter I wrote
to him before I knew he’d died. So I never mai led it.
(2)One pair of Ss perform the questions and answers for the class. Before doing so T explains that they needn’t read word-for-word from the text, but should use their own words to get the meaning across.
(3)T asks other Ss these Qs:
① At first, did you mistake Ed for the writer of this letter, like the storyteller did?
② Which round of Q-and-A leads to the misunderstanding?
A:The second round: “Is the letter from a child or a grandchild?”
“No. Ed was my oldest friends.”trouble is a friend中文歌词
Homework:
1.finish the exercise 2 (P 40)
2.learn the new expressions by heart
available, estimate, postpone, be lost in, keep in touch, hang out, etc
Third period
Dictation:
完全沉浸于be completely lost in
引起……的注意get sb’s attention
坐进后座settle into the back seat
不着急in no hurry
不大会not much of a hand at …
保持通信往来keep up correspondence
从小学一直到高中all the way through both grade and high school
老街坊an old neighborhood
保持联系keep in touch with
老同学聚会 a class reunion
时间不饶人Time goes by.
在一起闲逛hang out on the same corner
点头称是nod in agreement
在远处in the distance
(1) Important sentences:
L.5. He sounded as if he had a cold or something.
This sentence implies the sad state of mind the taxi driver was in.
L.9-10. “At least they do with me because I’m on the road so much.”
Paraphrase:At least letters from home mean a lot to me because I travel a lot in a car for long distances.
L.48-49. It had references to things that probably meant something to the driver,
Paraphrase:The letter mentioned something that might be important to the driver.
L.53-54. “Like it says there,” he answered, “about all we had to spend in those days was time.”
Paraphrase:“As the letter says there, ”he answered , “though we didn’t have much money we h ad a lot of free time.”
L.60. there are fewer and fewer still around.
Paraphrase: Fewer and fewer of us are left alive.
L.65-66. But for the last 20 or 30 years it’s been mostly just Christmas cards.
Paraphrase:But generally speaking we have sent only Christmas cards to keep in touch with each other for the last 20 or 30 years.
L.70-72. Y our friendship over the years has meant an awful lot to me, more than I can say because I’m not good at
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