（教案续页） 基本内容 注解（进展、辅助 手段和时间分配） Unit 6 Romance Text A A Valentine Story I. Pre-reading Tasks 1. Overview. A brief interpretation of Overview 2. Warm-up activities 装
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1) What is the song you have just heard mainly about? 2) Do you think it appropriate to begin this unit with a love song? Why or why not? 3. Cultural Notes Saint Valentine’s Day Valentine was a priest living in Rome during the third century. At that time, Rome was ruled by an emperor named Claudius. He wanted to have a big army and expected men to volunteer to join. However many men just did not want to fight in wars. They did not want to leave their wives and families. This made Claudius very angry. He thought that if men were not married, they would not mind joining the army. So Claudius banned marriage even engagement from his empire. But Valentine would keep on performing marriage ceremonies secretly. He was caught by the soldiers at a wedding, and was thrown into prison and beheaded.Valentine fell in love with the daughter of his jailer when he was in prison. Before he was taken to his death on February 14, 269 A.D., he signed a farewell message to her, “Love from your Valentine.” That note started the custom of exchanging love messages on Valentine’s Day. 4. Read the new words and expressions 把?搞错 整了整军装 人群 发现自己被吸引 多思善虑的心灵 富于洞察力的头脑 前一位拥有人的姓名 get wrong straighten one’s army uniform the crowd of people find oneself absorbed a thoughtful soul insightful mind the previous owner’s name 1 ……………………… ………………………
基本内容 注解（进展、辅助 手段和时间分配） 确定地址 locate one’s address 邀她互通信件 invite her to correspond 被运往海外 be shipped overseas 仅因为那而碰运气 take a chance on just that 安排了他们的第一次见面 schedule their first meeting 始终支持他 sustain him unfailingly 犹如春天般生气盎然 be like springtime come alive 差不多就站在?正后面 stand almost directly behind 体态臃肿 more than a little overweight 那本蓝色羊皮面旧书 the worn blue leather copy of the book 挺胸站立,敬了个礼 square one’s shoulders and salute 失望的痛苦使我哽feel choked by the bitterness of my disappointment 请?出去吃饭 ask … out to dinner II. While-reading Tasks 1. Global reading and comprehension 1) Scan the text to finish Text Organization Exercise 1& 2 Parts Para(s) Main Ideas John Blanchard was expecting someone at 1 1 Grand Central Station. How John Blanchard had fallen in love 2 2~6 with Miss Maynell. 3 7~15 Miss Maynell put Blanchard to a test. It was wise of Miss Maynell to give such a 4 16~17 test. 2) Further understanding For Part 1 Questions and Answers Read Part 1 carefully and answer the following questions. What do you think is the reason that John Blanchard came to the Grand Central Station? (To meet somebody not seen before.) Who do you think he was waiting for? (His lover or girlfriend.) Why did he straighten his uniform? (To make himself more attractive.) 2 ……………………… ………………………
基本内容 注解（进展、辅助 手段和时间分配） For Part 3 Multiple Choice Read Part 3 carefully and choose the best answer for each question. Who was coming toward Blanchard? _______. (B) A. A middle-aged woman B. A young beautiful lady C. A worn-out soldier D. A lively and naive pupil The young lady was dressed in ________. (D) A. the red suit B. the yellow suit C. the blue suit D. the green suit How old was the “supposed” Hollis Maynell? ________. (C) A. Over 20 B. Over 30 C. Over 40 D. Over 50 While he spoke Blanchard felt choked by the bitterness of his __________. (A) A. disappointment B. happiness C. excitement D. enjoyment Why did Miss Maynell ask the middle-aged woman to act as her? __________. (D) A. It was a joke B. It was a sense of humor C. It was April Fool’s Day D. It was some kind of test For Part 4 Questions and Answers Read Part 4 carefully and answer the following questions. What did Miss Maynell want to find out through the test? (The true nature of a heart.) How do you understand Houssaye’s remark “tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are”? (I can judge you by the person you love. And the saying is equal to a Chinese proverb: 物以类聚，人以群分。) 2. Paraphrase and explain the complicated sentences 1) He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose. (Para. 2) Paraphrase the sentence. (He tried to find the girl who shared many of his views, interests and feelings but who he had never met before. The girl was supposed to wear a For Part 2 Sentence Completion Read Part 2 carefully and supply the missing information. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. With time and effort he located her address. I’d always be haunted by the feeling that you had been taking a chance on just my beauty, which would disgust me. She was a girl he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and sustained him unfailingly. 3 ……………………… ………………………
基本内容 注解（进展、辅助 手段和时间分配） rose at their first meeting.) Translate the sentence into Chinese. (他在寻找一位姑娘，一位佩戴玫瑰的姑娘。他知其心，但不知其貌。) 2) Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. (Para. 4) Paraphrase the sentence. (Each letter from one would bring forth a warm response from the other as a seed falling on fertile soil is likely to grow into a plant.) 3) I’d always be haunted by the feeling that you had been taking a chance on just that, and that kind of love would disgust me. (Para. 4) Why is the past perfect continuous tense used in the sentence? (To show that this action took place earlier than “you fell in love with me on seeing my picture”.) Translate the sentence into Chinese. (我将会一直深感不安，惟恐你只是因为我的容貌就贸然与我相爱，而这种爱情令我憎恶。) 4) She was more than a little overweight, her thick-ankled feet thrust into low-heeled shoes. (Para. 10) Paraphrase the sentence. (She was quite a big woman. Her feet were thick in the ankles and could hardly squeeze into her low-heeled shoes.) What is the meaning of the phrase “more than a little” in this sentence? (The phrase here means “very”.- My younger brother was more than a little excited to have Michael Jordan sign his T-shirt.) Translate the sentence into Chinese. (她体态臃肿，粗圆的脚踝上套着一双低跟鞋。) 5) I felt as though I was split in two, so keen was my desire to follow her, and yet so deep was my longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned me and upheld my own. (Para. 11) Why does the author say that he felt as though he was split into two? (Because he was put into a difficult situation, one half of him wishing to go with the pretty young woman, the other wanting to stay with the woman who had warmed his heart.) 6) The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive. (Para. 16) Paraphrase the sentence. (The way one reacts to unattractive people reveals one’s character. If one is a kind person he certainly will treat the unattractive kindly.) Translate the sentence into Chinese. (心灵的本质是从其对不美的事物的态度中反映出来的。) 4 ……………………… ………………………
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