1、1,Unit6 Romance,Text A A Valentine Story,2,Lead-in activities:,1. Theme-related questions: 1) What are the popular ways for a boy or girl to find a girlfriend or boyfriend? 2) Will you fall in love with somebody you never meet? Why or why not? 3) What are the necessary standards for your ideal boyfr

2、iend or girlfriend? 4) What do you think of cyber love?,- ( parties, outdoor activities,blind date; pen pal, key pal, classmate, alumni,etc.) - ( beautiful, handsome, pretty, lovely, kind ,considerate, helpful, generous, ambitious, royal, responsible,etc)- (reliable, easy way to access to knowing ea

3、ch other, unreiable, virtual love, full of vision.),3,Lead-in activities:,2. Expressions about Love 愛上某人 fall in love with 一見鐘情 fall in love at the first sight 初戀 first love 早戀 puppy love 白馬王子 Mr. Right 風(fēng)流韻事 love affair 情書 love letter 絕交信 a dear John letter 相思病 lovesickness 失戀 be crossed in love / l

4、ovelorn 分手 break up 被甩 be dumped / get dumped 相親 blind date 求婚 propose 相互吸引 mutual attraction 永恒的愛情 everlasting love 精神戀愛 Platonic love 單相思 one-sided love / unrequited love 山盟海誓 lovers vows 情敵 rival in love 求愛、追求 court (sb.) 天生一對 marriage made in heaven,4,Lead-in activities:,2. Expressions about Lov

5、e 情人眼里出西施 Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. / Love is blind. 狂熱地愛上 have a crush on 熱戀（神魂顛倒）be head over heels in love with 表白 make a confession 情侶 love birds 校園戀情 campus love 向獻(xiàn)殷勤 make a pass at 和正在交往（戀愛） dating seeing someone in a relationship with 單身 available single bachelor 恢復(fù)單身 back on t

6、he market,5,Culture Notes:,St. Valentines Story New Words in the Story priest 牧師 Claudius 克勞迪亞斯 ceremony 典禮，儀式 jailer 看守監(jiān)獄的人，獄卒,Rome volunteer behead,羅馬 自愿 斬首，砍的頭,6,Culture Notes: St. Valentines Story,Valentine was a priest living in Rome during the third century. At that time, Rome was ruled by an

7、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 th

8、e 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.

9、 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 Valentines Day.,7,Culture Notes:,Valentine Traditions,In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bow

10、l to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. “Wear your heart on your sleeve” now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.,8,Culture Notes:,Valentine Traditions,If you cut an apple in half and count how many seeds are i

11、nside, you will also know how many children you will have.,In Wales, wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on February 14th. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favorite decorations on the spoons. The decoration meant “You unlock my heart!”,9,Culture Notes:,Public Libraries in the U.S. Public

12、 libraries in the U.S. are free to the public. One can get a library card at a local library by filling in a form and showing the librarian a valid ID and something to prove one lives in the neighborhood (e.g., a used and stamped envelope with ones name as the addressee (收信人), ones phone bill, gas b

13、ill, etc.). Besides borrowing books, people go to libraries to borrow videotapes, use the computers there, and attend book readings by authors and other cultural events. Libraries are regarded as community centers.,10,Overview Questions:,1. Who is involved in the story? 2. Where does the story take

14、place? 3. When does the story take place? 4. What happens?,- Narration,What is the point of this valentine story?,The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive.,11,Text Structure,expecting someone,fallen in love,test,wise,12,Reading in Depth,For Part 1 1)Ask some students to

15、 perform what John was doing in Part One. (Verb phrases) 2)What was John doing at the Grand Central Station? How did he look? (- waiting for sb. / expecting sb.) (- anxious, nervous, neatly dressed, etc.),13,Reading in Depth,For Part 2 1)How had John and Miss Maynell come to know each other? 2)How d

16、id the two grow to know each other? What kind of rhetoric （修辭）ways is the author using? (metaphor暗喻:Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A romance was budding.) 3)Why didnt Miss Maynell offer John a picture? Will you ask for or provide a picture in this situation? Why? 4)How could Blan

17、chard recognize Miss Maynell at the fist meeting?,14,Reading in Depth,For Part 3 1. Fill in the Blanks A comparison between the description of the outer appearance of the two ladies, and Blanchards reaction,15,Reading in Depth,For Part 3 2. Underline words to describe 1) Johns action started toward,

18、 moved, make one step closer, was split in two, , squared my shoulders, saluted, held out book 2)Miss Maynells / young womans action coming toward, curved her lips, walking quickly away, 3) the ladys action standing directly behind the girl, stood, gripped, , broaden into a smile,16,Reading in Depth

19、,For Part 3 3. Role Play 4. rhetoric ways in paragraph 7 (simile明喻:Her eyes were blue as flowers. In her green suit, she was like spring time come alive.),17,Reading in Depth,For Part 4 1.Question Why did Miss Maynell invent such a test? 2. Group work Do you think its wise of Miss Maynell to give su

20、ch a test? What would you do if you were? (add an end for the story),18,Story Retelling,Get to know each other,Growing love via mails,First Date & Test,Blanchard got to know Maynell via the notes in the margin of the book in the library.,They kept correspondence with each other during World War II,T

21、he first date finally came for Blanchard to return from Europe, and he managed to pass through the test given by Maynell.,19,Difficult Points:,1. If your feeling for me has any reality, any honest basis, what I look like wont matter. Suppose Im beautiful. Id always be haunted by the feeling ( that y

22、ou had been taking a chance on just that), and that kind of love would disgust me. Suppose Im plain (and you must admit that this is more likely). Then Id always fear that you were going on writing to me only because you were lonely and had no one else. (para 4) 如果你對我的感情是真實(shí)的，是誠心誠意的，那我的相貌如何并不重要。設(shè)想我美麗

23、動人。我將會一直深感不安，惟恐你只是因?yàn)槲业娜菝簿唾Q(mào)然與我相愛，而這種愛情令我憎惡。設(shè)想本人相貌平平（你得承認(rèn)，這種可能性更大）。那我一直會擔(dān)心，你和我保持通信僅僅是出于孤獨(dú)寂寞，無人交談。,20,Difficult Points:,2. A young woman was coming toward me, her figure long and slim. (Para 7) 語法結(jié)構(gòu)：獨(dú)立主格結(jié)構(gòu)（ absolute construction） 不使用獨(dú)立主格，句子應(yīng)為： A young woman was coming toward me. Her figure was long and

24、 slim. A young woman was coming toward me and her figure was long and slim.,21,Difficult Points:,2. A young woman was coming toward me, her figure long and slim. (L34) 一、獨(dú)立主格結(jié)構(gòu)的含義和實(shí)質(zhì) “獨(dú)立主格結(jié)構(gòu)”又叫“獨(dú)立結(jié)構(gòu)”，是帶有自己主語的非謂語動詞分句和無動詞分句。由于在語法上有自己的邏輯主語，結(jié)構(gòu)上與主句不發(fā)生關(guān)系，因此傳統(tǒng)語法叫做“獨(dú)立主格結(jié)構(gòu)”。其實(shí)，所謂“獨(dú)立主格結(jié)構(gòu)”并非真正獨(dú)立，它還是一種從屬分句，與主句緊

25、密聯(lián)系在一起，共同表達(dá)一個完整的意思，通常在句中起狀語分句的作用。獨(dú)立主格結(jié)構(gòu)可放于句首、句尾，用逗號和主句隔開。 二、獨(dú)立主格結(jié)構(gòu)的基本形式和功能 獨(dú)立主格結(jié)構(gòu)可以分為兩部分：一部分是名詞或代詞，起邏輯主語的作用；另一部分是非謂語動詞分詞（現(xiàn)在分詞、過去分詞、不定式）無動詞分句（名詞、形容詞、副詞、介詞短語），表示前面的名詞或代詞的動作或狀態(tài)?；拘问绞牵好~普通格/代詞主格+現(xiàn)在分詞/過去分詞/不定式/名詞/代詞/形容詞/副詞/介詞短語，with引導(dǎo)的復(fù)合結(jié)構(gòu),22,Difficult Points:,三、獨(dú)立主格例句 The old lady stood by the window, her hands trembling. She walked along hurriedly, her purse held tightly in her hand. The little girl entered the room, her face red with cold. The whole village was deadly silent. The only sign of life was a goat tied on a rope to a t