Unit Five

1. Unit Five

2. Teaching Objectives 1. Grasp the main idea (Mother feels sorry for her smoking daughter) and the structure of the text • Master some key language points and grammatical structures in the text; • Word building: the suffixes -en are added to some adjectives to form verbs. • Structure analysis of the text

3. Section A Weeping for My Smoking Daughter

4. Background Information 1. Camel Camel is one of the world-famous cigarette brands, which used to come out number one in sales. The slogan for this brand is "To err is human. To smoke Camel cigarettes, divine."

5. Background Information 2. Prince Albert Prince Albert (1819–1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. This is also the name of a kind of British tobacco.

6. Background Information 3. Queen Victoria Queen Victoria (1819–1901) was queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India. Her rule was the longest in English history.

7. Background Information 4. Hollywood is the center of the U.S. movie industry. In terms of geography, Hollywood refers to an area consisting of the City of West Hollywood and its vicinity that form part of the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.

8. Background Information 5. Third World Third World refers to countries in Asia, Africa and South America where economy and technology are under-developed.

9. Background Information Discussion Why are parents often worried about the growth of their children? How to help children grow up healthy and sound? Is it good to smoke? Why?

10. Warming-up Activities Keys for discussion • Harms of smoking: do harm to the smoker’s health; • do harm to the health of those around the smoker; • waste of money; • fire hazard

11. Warming-up Activities Read the following statements. Are they true (T) or (F) according to the text? 1. The author is very worried about her daughter’s smoking. 2. The author’s father was a rich white man. 3. The author’s father died from pneumonia because he was a heavy smoker. T F T

12. Warming-up Activities F 4. In Third World countries the tobacco companies managed to help poor people and money that should be spent for tobacco is spent for food instead. 5. The author is afraid that one day her daughter might only struggle to breathe through most of her life feeling half her strength just like her grandfather did. T

13. Vocabulary and Structure 1. to weep for /over / about (title) e.g. The optimistic never weep over their failure or misfortune. Instead, they hold a positive attitude towards anything in life. 乐观的人从不为自己的失败或厄运而哀叹，而是以积极的态度对待生活中的一切。 2. close at hand e.g. People often have their view of the important overshadowed by what is close at hand. 人们常因一叶障目而不见泰山。

14. 3. to be grateful to sb. for sth. e.g. The victims of the disaster are grateful to the Party and government for their sincere care and help when they were in danger. 灾民们非常感激党和政府在他们危难之际给与的真诚关怀和帮助。

15. 4. to harden oneself against doing sth. e.g. After her husband’s sacrifice for the national cause, this heroic woman hardened herself against feeling deep sorrow and sent her beloved son to the battlefront. 在丈夫为民族事业牺牲后，这位坚强的妇女强 忍悲痛，又将自己的爱子送上前线。

16. 5. to be dressed in e.g. On Children’s Day, the pupils, dressed in their holiday best, flocked to the People’s Square for the celebration. “六一”儿童节这一天,小学生们身着节日盛装，成群结队涌入人民广场参加庆祝活动。 6. to couple with e.g. Good natural environment, coupled with convenient water transportation, makes the area a hot spot for investment. 良好的自然环境，加上便利的水上交通运输使这个地区 为投资的热点。

17. 7. to win over e.g. After hours of heated debate, we eventually won the other side over to our point of view. 经过数小时的激烈辩论，我们最终还是说服对 方接受了我们的观点。 8. to be hooked by sth. e.g. Unable to control themselves, some teenagers get hooked by online games, which is a constant worry to the teachers and parents. 由于缺乏自控 能力，一些青少年迷恋于网上游戏，这成了老 师和家长始终担心的事。

18. 9. to be stuck in / with e.g. For some people, once stuck in the whirlpool of love, they will find it hard to stick to their studies or work as before. 有些人一旦卷入爱情的旋涡，就很难像以前那样专心于学业或工作。 10. not to do sth. without doing sth. else e.g. You have no right to speak without making any investigation. 没有调查，就没有发言权。

19. 11. to die from e.g. With the development of modern medicine, many of the diseases from which people died in great numbers are no longer incurable now. 随着现代医学的发展，过去许多导致人大量死亡的疾病今天已不再是不可治愈的了。 12. to leave sb. low e.g. Overworking day and night left him low, but he still kept on fighting together with his comrade-in-arms on the river bank. 夜以继日地 超负荷工作使他极度虚弱，但他仍然坚持和 战友们一起战斗在大堤上。

20. 13. to lean on e.g. He sighed with deep feeling, “It is those who always lean on you for help that you can’t look to at the critical moment.” 他感慨道,“正是那些总靠你帮助的人在关键时刻你却指望不上。” 14. to pick up e.g. “Our sales picked up a bit in May,” the manager of the marketing department said, “but they took a turn for the worse again in June.” “我们的销售五月份有了起色，” 市场部经理说，“可是在六月份又不行了。”

21. 15. to direct at / against e.g. At the UN assemblies, the bills directed against Chinese human rights conditions have been voted down again and again. 在联合国大会上，屡次针对中国人权状况的议案都一一被否决。 16. to drag away e.g. Whenever stuck in trouble, he would drag away so as to remove his annoyance. 每当遇到麻烦，他往往是一根接一根地抽烟，以藉此消愁。

22. 17. to see sb. at his worst e.g. In social contact, everyone desires others to see him at his best rather than at his worst. But the point is how to refine and control himself. 在社交中，人人都想要别人看到自己最好的一面而不是最糟糕的一面。但关键在于如何优化和克制自我。 18. to go to e.g. When your dignity suffers any insult in social life, the best course of action is to go to law for help. 在社会生活中当你的人格受到侮辱时，最好的办法是诉诸于法律。

23. Text Analysis What is the text mainly about?(1) As the story reveals to us, there are three major characters — the mother, her father and her daughter. The mother felt sorry for her father because she witnessed her suffer and die from smoking. Her bitter and painful experiences with her father’s smoking habit have taught herself a good lesson.

24. Text Analysis What is the text mainly about? (2) That’s why she feels deeply hurt to see her daughter smoking the same kind of cigarette that killed her grandfather. The mother never hopes that her daughter will follow in her grandfather’s footsteps, but hopes that her father’s fate will serve as a warning to her daughter.

25. Text Analysis How is the text organized? (1) The author narrates to the reader the stories of her daughter and her father in first person, which makes the narration more vivid and convincing. The whole passage consists of three parts: the author’s worries about her daughter’s smoking; the author’s painful experiences with her father’s smoking.

26. Text Analysis How is the text organized? (2) And the author’s earnest appeal to the smokers like her daughter to give up smoking. During her narration, time sequence is adopted to make it clear and smooth. Besides, the device of cause and effect is used to help people have a strong feeling of the harm smoking does.

27. Text Analysis The author’s anxiety about her daughter’s smoking(Para.1) The author’s heart-felt appeal to all people (Paras. 2-5) The author’s bitter experience with her father’s smoking(Paras.6- 8)

28. Text Analysis Part I (Para.1)The author’s anxiety about her daughter’s smoking. • By giving a vivid description of how her daughter smokes while doing her homework, the author intends to express how she feels — she feels so terrible that she weeps — and to imply how bitterly she hates the habit of smoking.

29. Text Analysis • PartII (Paras. 2-5)The author’s heart-felt appeal to all people. To illustrate why she felt so terrible when seeing her daughter smoke, the author follows time sequence and cause-and-effect pattern to tell the reader her painful experience with her father’s death from smoking.

30. Text Analysis • Part III (Paras. 6- 8) The author’s bitter experience with her father’s smoking Based on what she saw and read, how much she cherished life and how helplessly she watched her father kill himself, the author finally appeals to all people to keep away from tobacco and value their lives.

31. Assignment: 1: To Review the Language Points 2: Preview “Section B of Unit 5”, including reading skills, the passage and the related exercises. 3: To do the relevant exercises in Comprehensive Exercises