The Professor and the Yo-yo Thomas Lee Bucky with Joseph P. Blank

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The Professor and the Yo-yoThomas Lee Bucky
with Joseph P. Blank

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Unit 4
Seen through the eyes of a young friend Einstein
was a simple, modest and ordinary man.
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The Professor and the Yo-yo

• Useful expressions
• Text interpretation
• Word family
• Sentence structure
• Translation
• Reading skill
• Guided writing
• Homework

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Useful expressions

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• A modest price
• Ease the pain
• LCD
• Keep balance
• Universal travel
• Simplified Chinese
• Intellectuals

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Useful expressions

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• In vain
• Be jealous of
• HIV
• A beam of light
• Revert to type
• For your exclusive use
• Theoretical physics

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Useful expressions

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• Atomic bomb
• A series of
• Repeated customer
• In principle
• In pursuit of freedom
• Profound concepts
• Household appliance

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Albert Einstein

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• A Brief Introduction to Albert Einstein
• Einsteins Chronology
• Theory of Relativity
• Atomic Bomb
• Fame and Social Activities

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Text interpretation

• Warm-up questions
• Why do you think Einstein is generally considered
  the greatest scientist of all time?
• What makes a great scientist?
• Who is the Chinese scientist you admire most?
• Which is more important, social science or
  natural science?

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Text interpretation

• Answer the questions
• Comprehension Ex 2 on p.83
• What type is the text, generally?
• A. narration
• B. exposition
• C. description
• D. argumentation

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Text interpretation

• What is the main idea/topic of the passage?
• It explains the personalities/characteristics of
  the great scientist Albert Einstein.
• Try to pick up key words or topic sentences of
  each paragraph/part. That is, summarize each
  paragraph/part. (Next pages)

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Text interpretation

• A visit to Einstein's home
• The personality that was Einstein
• He seemed immune to these emotions.
• Material things meant nothing to him. In other
  words, he believe in simplicity. (razor)
• Einstein was purely and exclusively a theorist.
  (TV, toy bird)
• Another puzzle that Einstein could never
  understand.

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Text interpretation

• Part division

Main Ideas
Paras
Parts
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My visit to Einstein's home-ordinary
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He was content to go as far as he could.
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He cared nothing about material things.
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He was purely a theorist.
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He was puzzled by his fame.
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Text interpretation

• What can we learn about and from the great
  scientist Einstein?
• Your answers
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Text interpretation

• I was made to feel at ease
• When my turn came, I displayed my few tricks
• had thrown the toy off balance.
• Einstein nodded, properly impressed by
• I never lost my wonder at the personality that
  was Einstein.
• come to terms withwithin his limitsbeyond his
  intellectual reach.
• He was content to go as far as he could.
• He seemed immune to these emotions.

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Text interpretation

• He was beyond any pretension.
• Material things meant nothing to him.
• He believed in simplicity, so much so that
• When I suggested that he try shaving cream
• I presented him with a tube of shaving cream.
• he was beaming with the pleasure of
• Then he reverted to using plain water.
• He didnt have the slightest interest in
• a toy, a bird that balanced on the edge of a
  bowl of water

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Text interpretation

• Einstein watched it in delight, trying to deduce
  the operating principle.
• Then he stopped, realizing a flaw in his
  reasoning.
• No, I guess thats not it.
• we take the toy apart to see how it did work.
• His quick expression of disapprovalwork out the
  solution.
• a household word
• Its been my good fortune that my ideas
• He was bewildered by his famereceive this
  attention single out

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Text interpretation

• Picture Talk

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Text interpretation

1. Humility is the beginning of wisdom.
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2. Experience is the mother of wisdom.
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3. Plain living and high thinking.
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4. The more a man knows, the more he is inclined
to be modest.
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Word family

• Modesty, arrogant, ill at ease, show,
  demonstrate, cycle, balanced, impressive,
  personification, universal, logical, simplify,
  complicate, functional, intellectual property,
  frustrating, envious, enterprising, vulnerable,
  emotional, showy, affected, corresponding,
  eventually, grin, giggle, chuckle, mustache,
  divert, avert, inclusive, practitioner,
  indifferent, observer, observation, observatory,
  observant, repetitive, soak, induce, deductive,
  inductive, principal, flawless, work out/come up
  with, puzzlement, reputation, incapable,
  civilian, spokesman, politician
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Sentence structure

• Passive structures
• What the professor said made me feel at ease.
• I was made to feel at ease.
• Subjunctive in a that clause
• I suggested taking the toy apart.
• I suggested that we take the toy apart.
• Do the exercises on pp 88-9

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Translation

• The little girl ran so fast that she was thrown
  off balance and fell over / down.
• I was impressed by his devotion to his research
  but I did not have the slightest interest in his
  profound theories.
• Be sure not to say anything capable of being
  misunderstood.
• I was so bewildered by their conflicting advice
  that I did not know how to act.

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Translation

• At first this complicated problem frustrated
  them, but after thinking it over carefully they
  finally worked out a solution.
• The head of the sports delegation beamed with
  delight when a young pioneer presented him with a
  bunch of flowers.
• I really dont see why our English teacher should
  single out our monitor for praise since we have
  all done quite well this term.
• I believe in the theory that the higher animals
  developed from the lower ones.

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Reading Skill

• Reading beyond the lines
• A good reader is one who can read beyond
  the lines, seeing ideas implied through the
  words, and one who can bridge the gap between the
  obvious and the suggested, thus obtaining much
  more information.
• (p. 93, Book 2)

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Guided writing

• Logic organization of paragraphs
• There are many ways to organize a paragraph
  in a logical order general-specific,
  known-unknown, temporal, spatial,
  concept-example, problem-solution,
  data-conclusion.
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Homework

• Other exercises
• Recitation
• Passage
• Fast reading
• Review
• Preview
• Dictation
• Dont forget your plan promise.

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