Unit 5 never judge by appearance
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Unit 5
Never Judge by Appearances
I. 教学目标Objectives
Students will be able to:
1. understand
the main idea and the structure of the text;
2. master the key words and phrases in the
text;
3. learn to memorize words in
association
4. express themselves more freely
on the theme of Never Judge by
Appearances
after doing a series of theme-related reading,
listening,
speaking and writing activities
II. 课时安排Time Allotment
The suggested
division goes like this:
1
st
period:
Pre-reading (warm-up activities, cultural
background, global
analysis of Text A)
2
nd
period: While-reading
(introductory remark; quick check of the
students’ comprehension of the overall text)
3
rd
period: While-reading (check of
the students’ comprehension of the
overall
text; language points)
4
th
period:
While-reading (language points)
1
5
th
period: While-reading (language
points)
6
th
period: While-reading
(language points; concluding remark; revision
of useful expression)
7
th
period:
Post-reading (revision of the text content, after-
text discussion,
check on assignment)
III.
教学内容及过程
Pre-reading tasks
1.
Listening Practice
The story goes that two
friends were walking through the desert.
During some point of the journey, they had an
argument, and one friend
slapped the other one
in the face. The one who got slapped felt hurt,
but
without saying anything, wrote in the
sand: my best friend
slapped me in the kept
on walking until they found an
oasis(绿洲),
where they decided to take a bath. The one who had
been
slapped got stuck in the mire(陷入泥潭) and
started to drown, but the
friend saved him.
After he recovered from the near drowning, he
wrote on
a stone: my best friend saved my
friend who had
slapped and saved his best
friend asked him,
in the sand and now you
write on a stone. Why?
“When someone hurts us,
we should write it down in sand where winds
of
forgiveness can erase it away. But when someone
does something good
for us, we must engrave it
in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”
Learn to write your pain in the
sand and to carve your benefits in stone.
They say it takes a minute to find a special
person, an hour to
appreciate them, a day to
love them, but an entire life to forget them.
Don’t value the things you have in your life,
but people you have in your
life.
2.
Brainstorming
1. Do you have any good friends?
What makes a friend into a good
friend?
2.
Brainstorm as many possible words and phrases
about friend.
3. What’s your understanding of
the proverb “A friend in need is a friend
in
deed”?
4. In the text, whether “a friend in
need” is really “a friend in deed”? Air
your
own understandings.
3. Cultural Background
The Author
William Somerset Maugham
☆1874, born in the British Embassy in Paris
☆An obstetric clerk in the slums of Lambeth.
☆ Write his first novel, Liza of Lambeth
(1897).
☆ On the outbreak of the First World
War, joined a Red Cross
ambulance unit in
France.
☆ 1946，Somerset Maugham Award
Main works
Of Human Bondage
（1915)
《人性的枷锁》自传性质长篇
The Moon and
Sixpence
《月亮与六便士》以高更为主角原型
Cakes and Ale
《蛋糕与麦芽酒》 以哈代为原型
The Razors Edge
《刀锋》
Kobe: one of the leading Japanese ports;
a major industrial center and railway hub;
a cultural center;
heavily bombed
during World War II but was
rebuilt and enlarged
Yokohama: Japan’s second
largest city;
one of the
leading seaports in Japan;
revived and prospered after the heavy
bombardment during World War II;
Bridge:
Bridge, card game derived from whist, played with
52 cards by
four players in two partnerships.
Bridge probably originated in the
Middle East
in the 19th cent.
Gin Fizzes
Cocktail
4. Text Organization
Skimming&scanning
Parts Para(s)
Main Ideas
1 1 It is no easy job to
judge people, for they aren’t always
what
they appear to be.
2 2~3 Kind and gentle,
Edward Burton, a wealthy merchant,
appeared as
if he could not bear to hurt a fly.
3 4~51
As it turned out, Burton was cold-blooded enough
to
send a friend to certain death.
4.1
Further Understanding
For Parts 1 & 2
Questions and Answers
1. Who narrates
Parts I and II?
(=Part I and Part II are
narrated by “I”, who offers his subjective opinion
of Burton’s character.)
2. Why is there
such a difference?
(=When contrasts abound, it
is hard for readers to easily predict what will
happen next.)
For Part 3
Section
Division
(Directions:) Part Three, which
constitutes the main plot, can be
subdivided into three sections.
Sections
1
2
Lines
37-66
67-98
Mainly about
what Edward knew about
Lenny
how Edward responded to Lenny’s
request
3 99-132 how Edward, a
“kind” gentleman,
handled a friend in
desperate need of
help
5. Preview check
1. Does the narrator think our first
impressions of a person are always
right? Why
or why not?
2. What was Edward Burton by
profession? How did he look?
3. What struck
the narrator most about Edward Burton? Why?
4.
Who was Lenny Burton? How did Edward Burton get to
know him?
5. How did Lenny manage to support
himself?
6. Why did Lenny call at his
namesake's office one day?
7. What idea did
Edward think of when Lenny begged again for a job?
8. When Edward set a condition for offering a
job, was he aware Lenny
would be drowned? How
do you know?
While-reading tasks
Language points
1, Appearances, however,
can be deceptive. (the red part)
deceptive: likely to deceive; misleading
eg: The company was charged with deceptive
advertising for a number of
products.
deceptively adv.; a deceptively simple idea
貌似简单的想法
Translation:
然而，外表可能具有欺骗性。
2, I shrug my shoulders when … （Para1, L2）
shrug: v. to express disapproval,
indifference, ignorance, helplessness,
contempt, etc
e.g. She shrugged helplessly
and said nothing.
Practice: An actor has to
learn to shrug off criticism.
演员必须得学会对批评不顾一屑。
He shrugged at my
suggestion.
他对我的建议只是耸耸肩。
More related
expressions:
frown on 皱眉
shake head
摇头
shrug one’s shoulder 耸肩
3, For my own
part I find that the longer I know people the more
they puzzle me. (Para1, L2）
1. What does
“for my own part” mean?
It means “as far as I
am concerned”.
2. Translate this
sentence into Chinese.
拿我自己来说，我发现，认识一个人的时间越长，我就越感到困惑。
4, These
reflections have occurred to me… (Para. 2, L1)
1. Paraphrase the sentence
Paraphrase :
Those thoughts have come to my mind
2.
Translate this sentence into Chinese.
我产生这些想法…
It occurs to me that ….
It strikes me
that….
It comes to my mind that…
It clicks
in my mind that…
5, Unless I had heard the
story from his own lips, I should never have
believed that he was capable of such an
action. (Para.2, L5)
1. Paraphrase this
sentence.
If I hadn’t heard the story told by
himself, I should never have believed
that he
could do such a thing.
This is a subjunctive
mood.
2. Translate this sentence into Chinese.
要不是听他亲口讲这个故事，我根本不会相信他能做出这种事情来。
Capable:能干的，有能力的
Capable of doing sth.
6, … because both in appearance and manner he
suggested a very
definite
type.(Para.2, L9)
definite: adj. clear; that
can’t be doubted.明确的，不含糊的
我们要求给一个确切的答复。
We
demand a definite answer.
It’s definite that
he’ll come.
Collocation：
a definite
success 绝对的成功
definite period of
time 确切的时间
7,Here if ever was a man all
of a piece.(Para 2, L9)
paraphrase:
Here
if there ever was a man who is the same as he
looks like.
Translation:
要说真有表里如一的人的话，那就是此公了。
8,...in height, and
very slender, with white hair, a red face much
wrinkled, and blue eyes.(Para 2, L11)
wrinkle: 使起皱纹
eg: The woman was forty, but
looked fifty. Her cheeks were sunken and
her
skin was wrinkled and yellow.
Practice:
他闻到怪味儿皱起了鼻子。
He wrinkled (up) his nose at
the bad smell.
9,He was always neatly and
quietly dressed in accordance with his
age and station.(Para 2, 13)
in accordance with:与……一致；按照，依据
eg:
Students will be criticized or punished if their
behavior is not in
accordance with school
behavior.
Practice:
根据你的命令，我把房子卖掉了。
I
sold your house, in accordance with your orders.
10, ...he could tell with point a good and
spicy story, and in his youth
he had been
something of an athlete. (Para 3,L19)
spicy:有刺激性的，有点下流的；（食品）辛辣的
eg: People from
Sichuan province like to eat spicy food.
Practice:
在一些地方报纸上你可以读到有关电影明星的下流故事。
You can often read spicy stories about film stars
in the local
newspapers.
Translation:
他还能很要领地讲个动听的来劲儿的故事，他年轻时多少还是个运动
员呢。
something of (to some degree): 在某种程度上，有点儿
eg: It's something of a disadvantage nowadays
if you can's use a
computer.
Practice:
他们没能从银行贷到款，这对他们来说多多少少有点儿失望。
They haven't got a loan from the bank, which
is something of
disappointment.
11, ...he
aroused your instincts of protection.(Para 3, L23)
instinct: a tendency that one is born with to
behave in a certain way
without reasoning or
training （本能，直觉）
eg: It is the mother's
instinct to protect her children.
Practice:
相信你的直觉，你认为对的就去做。
Trust your instincts and
do what you think is right.
12, Burton sipped
his gin fizz. (Para 14,L1)
sip: drink (sth.),
taking a very small amount each time
小口地喝，抿
pattern: sip sth. atfrom (sth.)
eg: She
sipped politely at her drink.
Practice:
他把玻璃杯内饮料呷干。
He sipped the glass dry.
13, He was handsome in a way with curly hair
and pink-and-white
cheeks.(Para15, L3)
in
a way: to a certain extent but not entirely
eg: I agree with you in a way, but
there are still some areas on which I
can't
see eye to eye with you.
Practice:
In a
way, he was a typical Chinese scholar.
The
work is well done in a way.
14, He stroked his
shaven chin with his thin hand; the veins stood
out
on it and it was almost tranparent.(Para
16, L3)
stroke v.: pass the hand gently over
(a surface), usu. several times 轻抚，
抚摸，捋
eg: At the sight of her husband getting off
the train, the woman walked
forward and
embraced him and gently stroked his white hair.
Practice:
I reached out to stroke the
baby's cheek.
n. 中风，笔画，轻抚
transparent:
adj. allowing light to pass through so that
objects behind
can be seen clearly 透明的
eg:
The cup is made of transparent colored plastic.
Practice:
她的真丝连衣裙几乎是透明的。
Her silk
dress was almost transparent.
Translation:
他用瘦小的手摸了摸剃得光光的下巴；手上青筋鼓起，手白得几乎透
明。
15, I suppose that is why he came to me
when he went broke.(Para 17,
L 1)
go
broke:
eg：He invested all his money in stocks;
unfortunately he made one wrong
choice after
another and finally went broke.
Practice:
许多跨国公司在经济危机期间都破产了，更不用说小企业了。
Many
multinational companies went broke during the
financial crisis, not
to speak of small
businesses.
16, He hadn't been willing to
stick to bridge...(Para 23, L3)
stick to:
refuse to abandon or change (sth.) 坚持
eg: The
old man stuck to jogging every morning although he
was eighty
years old.
Practice:
The
mother asked her son just to tell the cops what he
saw and stick to
his story.
Collocation：
stick to one’s word 遵守诺言
stick to the
point 紧扣要点
17, “I got some glimmering of
what he was driving at....”(Para30, L1)
drive
at: be trying to say
eg: The
teacher didn’t mention the word “cheating” but I
knew what he
was driving at.
Practice: I
have no idea what you’re driving at.
我不知道你到底什么意思。
18, It's over three miles and
it's rather difficult on account of the
currents round the beacon.(Para 36, L3)
current: n. continuous flow of water or air in
a particular direction 水
流，潮流，趋势
eg: Under
normal conditions, the ocean currents of the
tropical Pacific
travel from east to west.
Swimming against the current is energy-
consuming.
adj. of the present time;
happening now现在的，最近的
他不喜欢现在的工作，正打算辞职。
He
doesn’t like the current job, and is planning to
quit it.
19, I could see he was rather taken
aback.(Para 37, L1)
be taken aback: be shocked
or surprised吃一惊
eg: be shocked or surprised
Practice:当我发现电脑不见了时我大吃一惊。
I was taken
aback when I found my computer was gone.
20,
I'm not in very good condition..(Para 39, L1)
in badgood condition: in badgood health
out of condition = in bad health
eg: In spite of the surgery he is still in bad
condition.
Practice:
He is in good
condition again after a long holiday.
21, But
I needn't have hurried; he never turned up.(Para
45, L3)
turn up: arrive; make one’s appearance
eg: He didn’t turn up until the end of the
examination.
Practice:
她干什么都迟到。
She
turns up late for everything.
22, But of
course he'd ruined his constitution by drink and
dissipation. (Para 47, L2)
constitution:
n. condition of a person’s body with regard to
health,
strength, etc.
eg: A boxer must
have a strong constitution.
Practice: Having
been ill for several years, he has a particularly
fragile
constitution.
Collocation：
an
old man with a weak constitution 一位体弱的老人
build up a strong (tough) constitution
练出强健的体格
23, He rubbed his chin with his
hand.(Para 50, L2)
rub: vt. move one’s hand,
an object, etc. backwards and forwards
repeatedly on a surface while pressing摩擦，揉搓
eg: He looked tired and sat
rubbing his eyes.
practice:她弯腰去揉疼痛的脚踝。
She
bent over and rubbed her sore ankle.
Post-reading tasks
1. Revision of useful
expression
1. 耸耸肩
2. 自大
shrug one’s shoulders
great vanity
3. 让某人大吃一惊 give sb. a great surprise
4. 听某人亲口讲述 from sb. own lips
5.
衣着整洁素雅 be neatly and quietly dressed
6.
合乎某人的年龄和身份 in accordance with one’s age and
station
7. 玩桥牌 play bridge
a united and affectionate family 8. 和睦恩爱的一家人
9. 年轻时 in one’s youth
nod a
greeting 10. 点头致意
11. 对…有一种本能 have an
instinct about …
12. 两颊白里透红 pink-and-
white cheeks
13. 和善地咯咯一笑 give a kindly
chuckle
14. 勉强地欣然地 with a badgood grace
go broke 15. 一文不名
16. 穷困潦倒 be down and out
17. 自杀
18. 由于
commit suicide
on account of
be taken aback
19. 吃一惊
20. 身体状况不好好 in badgood condition
21.
祝某人好运 wish sb. good luck
22.
临阵脱逃 funk it at the last moment
23. 喝酒作乐把身体搞垮 ruin one’s constitution by
drink and
dissipation
24. 对付不了
more than one can manage
25. 拿我自己来说
for my own part
a red face much wrinkled
for my own part
26. 红红的脸上布满皱纹
27.
拿我自己来说
28. 红红的脸上布满皱纹
Assignments
a red face much
wrinkled
1. Review the content and language
points that we learn in class.
2. Complete
exercises on the textbook: P150-157.
3. Finish
Home Reading Task: Text B on Page 108.