Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal , there is no secure direction ; without direction , there is no life .

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• Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal , there is no
  secure direction without direction , there is
  no life .
• by Leo Tolstoy (Russian writer)

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Course information

• Aim of the course
• To give the freshmen a thorough understanding of
  the importance and ways of mastering of the 5
  English skills
• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing
• Translating

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What youll need for listening

• Good habit
• Radio (long/short wave)
• MP3
• A walkman
• Sharp ears
• Attension
• Taking notes
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Speaking

• Mouth
• A strong desire to show off
• Thick skin
• Topic collecting
• Hard work
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Reading

• A good E-C dictionary (not the electronic
  dictionary)
• Extensive reading
• Taking notes (read between the lines)
• Think( be critical)
• back

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Writing

• Course training
• C-E dictionary
• Grammar
• Practice
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Translating

• Basic theory
• C-E/E-C contrastive analysis
• Practice, practice, practice

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Structure of the book

• Pre-reading questions
• Text comprehension
• Structural analysis
• exercises

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Unit 1

• Never Say Goodbye

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES OF UNIT 1

• By the end of this unit, you are supposed to
• grasp the authors purpose of writing and make
  clear the structure of the whole passage through
  an intensive reading of Text 1 Never Say Goodbye.
• comprehend the topic sentences in Text 1
  thoroughly and be able to paraphrase them.
• get a list of new words and structures and use
  them freely in conversation and writing.
• be aware of the cross-cultural differences in the
  social behavior of Giving Gifts.

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Contents

• Pre-reading questions
• Text analysis
• After-reading
• Exercises

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Pre-reading questions

• 1 Have you family ever moved from one place to
  another? If you have, how did you feel when you
  were going to be away from the old house for
  good?

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• 2 Have you ever attended a funeral of someone you
  knew very well? If you have, what were you
  thinking when you saw him for the last time?

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Text Analysis

• Part I (para1-4) The problem the author was
  confronted with.
• Part II (para5-13)Grandpa illustrates the meaning
  of never say goodbye.
• Part III (para14-20)The authors understanding of
  never say goodbye.

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Part One (Paragraphs 1-4)

• Main idea bringing up the problem the author was
  confronted with it is hard to overcome the
  sadness as the moment of parting drew near. So he
  turned to his grandpa for help.
• Para. 1 beginning of the story ---introducing
  the background
• Para. 2-4 the author learned from his
  grandfather the implication of goodbye.

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Questions for thought

• Q1 What did you learn form the first part? What
  id problem confronted the author?
• Q2 Why was the author seized with the anguish
  of moving for m his home?

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Questions for thought

• Q3 Why did the author shudder and shed tears
  when the final day came?
• Q4 Why did his father advise him not to use the
  word goodbye to friends?

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Language points

• 1 confront with be faced with and have to deal
  with
• Confront
• 1) be faced with and have to deal with
• E.g. The actress was confronted by large
  group of reporters as she left the stage door
• 2)force to deal with or accept the truth of
  bring face to face with
• E.g. When the police confronted her with
  the evidence, she confessed she was guilty.

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confront with     ???

• Examples
• 1.?????????.
• When confronted with the evidence of her guilt,
  she confessed.
•  2.??????????????????
• The new system will be confronted with great
  difficulties at the start.  

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2 anguish

• n. ??,?? v. ?...???,?...???
• Examples
• in anguish
• 1. The child was badly hurt and was in anguish
  all the evening.
•   ????????,?????????
• 2. ??????????, ????????.
• I was in anguish until I knew she was still
  alive.
• 3. Nothing can take away the anguish of losing a
  child.
•    ????????????????.
• mental anguish ????

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3 brief as it was

• brief as it was although it lasted a short time
• as although though
• P 8. Ex III
• Rewrite the following sentences
• Though he was poor,
• Although I was very tired,

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• 4 Touched with the laughter and tears of four
  generations
• touched with the happiness and bitterness of four
  generations. The sentence implies that the
  house which had seen and/witnessed the joys and
  sorrows of the four generations of my family.
• touch have an effect on ones feelings to
  cause one to feel pity, sympathy, etc.
• E.g. His sad story so touched us that we
  nearly cried.
• be touched with have a certain amount of
  quality
• E.g. Her hair is touched with gray.

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• 5 Well
• (of liquid) flow or start to flow
• E.g. Blood welled (out) form the cut.
• She was so moved that tears welled (up,
  forth, out) in her eyes.
• Linguistic Knowledge
• Homonymy the same phonological structure
  possessing several unrelated senses.
• Polysemy the same phonological structure
  possessing a set of different but related
  meaning.

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6 feel a hand rest on my shoulder

• feelobjectinfinitive without to
• watch, make, Let, have, see, hear, notice,
• feel complex object, the infinitive without to
  is adopted.

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• Rest on/upon
• 1)lean on to be supported by
• 2)(esp. of a proof, argument, etc.) be based on
  be grounded on depend on
• E.g. Your argument rests on a statement than
  cannot be proved.
• 7 Through ones tears
• With tears in ones eyes while shedding tears
• Through among or between the parts or members of
  
• E.g. I searched through my papers for the
  missing documents.

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• 8 Stare
• 1) look steadily for a long time, esp. in great
  surprise or shock
• E.g. He sat staring into space, thinking
  deeply.
• 2) be very plain to see to be obvious
• E.g. The lies in the report stared out at us
  from every paragraph.
• stare off stare away to move ones eyes

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• Part Two (Paragraphs 5-13)
• By narrating his sad experience of the loss of
  his eldest son during the war, the grandpa
  illustrates how one can overcome the sad feeling
  resulting from the loss of someone dear to him by
  recalling not the moment of parting but the happy
  times spent together.
• Para. 5-9 the grandpas intention of saying it
  isnt just the roses that are beautiful it is
  that special place in your heart that makes them
  so.
• Para 10-13 The telling of the story related to
  the rosebush. The message of the text is conveyed
  in Para. 13

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Questions for thought

• Q5 Why did the authors grandfather take him to
  see the rosebush in the front yard?
• Q6 How to appreciate the last sentence of para8?

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Questions for thought

• Q7 What does the rosebush symbolize?
• Q8 What kind of advice di the authors
  grandfather offer?

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1 look into??,??

• Examples1. A committee was set up to look into
  the workers' grievances.   ?????????????????2.
  A working party has been set up to look into the
  problem.   ???????????.3. The government has
  set up a working party to look into the problem
  of drug abuse.   ????????????????.4. They
  stopped to look into the window.   ??????????

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• 2 Whisper
• 1) speak or say very quietly so that only a
  person cloze by can hear
• E.g. She whispered a warning to me and then
  disappeared.
• 2) (of the wind, etc) make a soft sound
• E.g. The leaves of the trees were whispering
  in the wind.

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3 conspicuously k?n'spikju?sli  

•   ad. ???,?????
• Examples
• 1. Conspicuously bad or offensive.
• ????????????????
• conspicuous k?nspikju?s   a. ???,?????
• 1.Lincoln is a conspicuous example of a poor boy
  who succeeded
• ????????????????????
• 2.A traffic sign should be conspicuous.
• ?????????
• 3.If you're walking along a badly-lit road at
  night you should wear conspicuous clothes.
• ????????????, ????????.

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4 It isnt . that ???? stress pattern

• It isnt just the rose that are beautiful It is
  that special place in your heart that makes them
  so.
• P 9 Ex IV
• That special place in your heart makes them
  beautiful.
• It is that place in your heart that makes them
  beautiful.

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• 5 Before your mother was even a dream
• before you mother was born / before we thought of
  having a daughter.
• 6 Pick
• 1) take what one likes or considers best, or
  more suitable from a group.
• E.g. He has been picked to head the planning
  committee.
• 2)gather pull or break off (part of a plant)
  from a tree or a plant
• E.g. He picked some roses and gave them to
  his girlfriend.
• 3) take up or remove something separately or bit
  by bit using the fingers, a beak, a pointed
  instrument, etc.
• The dog picked the bone clean.

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• Part Three (Para. 14-20)
• By the way he behaved when confronted with
  another sad moment---the loss of his grandpa, the
  author shows us that he came to understand what
  his grandpa had taught him.

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Questions for thought

• Q9 Why was the family summoned to the old house?
• Q10 What do you think of the parting between the
  author and his grandpa?

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• 1 Lock it away within you
• Fasten it firmly in your mind imprint it on your
  mind bear it in your mind and never forget it.
• in that place in your heart where summer is an
  always time.
• In that place in your heart where there is
  always sunlight and warmth. / which is always
  filled with joy and happiness. Here SUMMER is a
  metaphor.
• Always here is used by the Grandpa as an
  adjective, which revealed that he was not
  well-educated. Sociolinguistic knowledge Your
  accent betrays you.

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2 breathe brið   v. ??

• 1.His enthusiasm breathed new life into the
  company.
• ???????????????
• 2.Fish cannot breathe out of water.
• ??????????
• 3.They walked through the forest breathing the
  scent of pines.????????,?????????
• 4.Promise me you won't breathe a word of this to
  anyone.
• ??????????????
• C.f. breath bre?  n. ??,??
• 1.I was out of breath after running for the bus.
• ?????????,?????????
• 2.There is a breath of autumn in the air today.
• ?????????????????
• 3.Let's go out for a breath of fresh air.
• ????????????

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After-reading

• 1 QUESTIONS
• What is the text concerned with?
• What is the message of the text?
• 2 Text II The Dinner Party

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MAIN IDEA OF TEXT 2

• The Dinner Party, one of the best known short
  stories of Mona Gardner, takes place in India
  earlier last century, when India was still a
  colony ruled by Great Britain. At the very
  beginning, there is a disagreement between the
  colonel and a young girl as to whether women are
  still easy to be scared. Then a snake came into
  the room, the hostess, with the help of an
  American, escaped the danger of a possible attack
  by the cobra. In the story, both the man and the
  woman demonstrated the marvelous quality of
  self-control

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Exercises

• Step 1 Distinguish the synonyms1) Shudder shake
  
• shudder vi shudder at object shake vi and
  vt
• 2) answer reply
• Answer (vt) when a question is asked, any words
  or actions in return is regarded as an answer.
• Reply (vt that, vt clause, vi to ) an
  answer in the form of a statement appropriate to
  the question.
• Step 2 Dictation
• Step 3 Writing practice
• How to place the modifiers ?????
  ???????????????????????????????? Noun
• Step 4 Listening exercises

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