Unit 3 : Part A

1. 21st Century College English: Book 1 Unit 3 : Part A Stevie Wonder: Sunshine in the Shadow

2. Unit Three: Part A • Pre-Reading Activities • Intensive Study • Exercises • Assignment

3. Pre-Reading Activities • Warm-up Listening

4. I Just Called to Say I Love You • No new years day to ____ • No chocolate covered _____ to give away • No ______, No ______ • In fact here's ______________ day • No _____, No _____ • No _________ within the month of June • But _____, Is something _____ • Made up _______ that I must say to you • I just called to say I love you • I just called to say ____________ • I just called to say I love you • And I _______________________

5. I Just Called to Say I Love You • No ____ high, No ______, No __________ to light one tender _______ • No _______, No _______, Not even time for birds to _______________ • No Libra sun, No Halloween, No giving thanks to all the _____________ • But ________ • Though old so new • To ____________________________________. • I just called to say I love you • I just called to say _____________ • I just called to say I love you • And I ________________________ • I just called to say I love you • I just called to say _____________ • I just called to say I love you • And I _______________________

6. Intensive Study • Related information • Key words, phrases & usages Intensive Study

7. Intensive Study Someone broke into my car and stole the radio. Her house was broken into last week. Stevie Wonder: Sunshine in the Shadow 1 When Stevie Morris was born, on May 13, 1950, the doctors shook their heads and told the mother that her son was born blind and likely would always be that way. She broke into tears. Her face broke into a smile. The audience broke into loud applause. He was still following me, and in a panic I broke into a run. Claire looked as if she were about to burst into tears. Suddenly, the group burst into laughter. Lydia burst into song. Some of his more drunken friends burst into song.

8. Intensive Study Never in my wildest dreams had I thought I would go to Hollywood. 2 Blind and black and poor -- what kind of a life could this new infant have? In her wildest dreams, Mrs. Morris could never have imagined that her new baby would become a famous musician called Stevie Wonder. At the time, all she could do was pray — and worry. 3Stevie himself didn’t worry at all. Life was too full. He was brought up among church-going people whose faith helped them bear the poverty. He loved music and would pound spoons or forks on any surface that faintlyresembled a drum. Thomas pounded on the door with his fist. It's amazing how closely Brian and Steve resemble each other. She gave a faint smile. I don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about. He grew up to resemble his father. Everyone looked faintly surprised.

9. Intensive Study 4 He even ran and played with sighted children. “I didn’t realize I was blind until I was about four,” he says. That might sound strange. To a small child just learning about the world, it wasn’t strange at all. Stevie heard and smelled and touched. As far as he knew, that was all anyone could do. That was life.  As far as I know, they're arriving on Saturday.

10. Intensive Study All this shopping has worn us out. My boots are beginning to wear out. He travels so much he actually wears out suitcases. 5When Stevie’s mother got tired of her tables being used for drums, she bought him a toy set. He played so hard that he had actually worn the toy out within a few weeks. Other toys sets followed; then an uncle added a toy harmonica, and Stevie learned to play it so quickly that everyone was amazed.

11. Intensive Study 6Stevie taught himself to play the piano as quickly as he had once learned the harmonica. With friends, he began playing rock and roll music. They performed on the front porch of Stevie’s apartment building, drawing crowds of neighbors to watch and listen and clap time to the beat.

12. Intensive Study 7 “I loved that beat,” Stevie says. He not only loved the beat he was very good at making it. 8Ronnie White, of the Miracles singing group, heard Stevie and promptly took him down to his recording company, Motown Records. Prompt action must be taken. Prompt payment is requested. She arrived promptly. She turned off the alarm and promptly went back to sleep.

13. Intensive Study 9“Give him an audition,” Ronnie said. They did. All the top people at Motown got together to hear a little blind boy who wasn’t even ten years old yet. At first, they were being nice. Poor kid. They didn’t want to hurt his feelings. 10Then they heard Stevie sing and play, and nobody said “poor kid” anymore. They were too busy congratulating themselves on finding a youngster who could be the musical talent of the decade. “He’s a wonder boy,” somebody said as they watched little Stevie dart from one instrument to the next, playing each one with ease. She felt completely at ease with Bernard. The security codes could be broken with relative ease. They won with ease. Jill darted forward and pulled him away from the fire.

14. Intensive Study 11“Wonder,” somebody said, “Little Stevie Wonder”. 12The new name stuck and Stevie Morris became Little Stevie Wonder. He had his first hit when he was twelve years old. It was called “Fingertips” and it was a smash. They had a smash hit with their first single.

15. Intensive Study 13Over the following years, Little Stevie Wonder became one of the top recording artists at Motown, producing one hit after another. But as he grew into adulthood, Stevie began to get tired of the way the Motown company controlled all aspects of his career. He wanted to write and produce his own songs, but the Motown company thought it was unwise to change a winning formula. When he turned 21, Stevie finally got his freedom. Against Motown’s wishes he started exploring: he made records that combined gospel, rock and roll, and jazz and which used African and Latin American rhythms. To the record company’s surprise, Stevie’s new albums such as “Music of My Mind” and “Innervisions” were even more popular than his early ones. Stevie Wonder had become a mature man and an independent musical artist. Alcoholism affects all aspects of family life. Dealing with people is the most important aspect of my work. Gospel music Rock ‘n’ Roll Jazz African rhythms Latin-American rhythms

16. Intensive Study Everything seemed to be going fine when suddenly disaster struck. The plague struck again for the third time that century. 14 Just after this success, however, tragedy struck. In August of 1973, Stevie was involved in a serious car accident. For nearly a week he lay in a coma, unable to speak or walk. “We don’t know when he’ll be out of danger,” the doctor said. Everyone waited and prayed. Suddenly, it didn’t matter that Stevie was a musical genius or that he had conquered blindness and poverty. All he had left was his faith and strong will. Even though she was in terrible pain, Mary never lost the will to live.

17. Intensive Study As it turned out (=used to say what happened in the end), he passed the exam quite easily He fought back the impulse to slap her. She looked away, fighting back her tears. United fought back and scored a last-minute goal. She was fighting back against the cancer. It was a difficult time, but eventually things turned out all right. To my surprise, it turned out that I was wrong. 15That turned out to be enough. Stevie fought back from the shadow of death as he had once fought out from the shadow of blindness. He went on to give more performances and make more hit records.

18. Intensive Study 16The car accident changed Stevie by making him reevaluate his goal in life. He still loved to make music, but he also started to pay more attention to the world outside. He worked to create a national holiday to honor the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He recorded songs urging racial harmony and raised money to end world hunger. Recently, Stevie was honored by South African president Nelson Mandela for his work against that country’s system of racial apartheid. I do believe it is possible for different ethnic groups to live together in harmony. They are raising funds to help needy youngsters.

19. Intensive Study 17Stevie Wonder has faith and fame, wealth and love. He has not only conquered his own darkness, but through his music and his social activities he has been able to bring sunshine to the shadow of other lives.

20. Blind and black and poor —what kind of life could this new infant have? Translate this sentence into Chinese: The adjective phrase functions as an adverbial, which normally occurs either at the beginning or the end of a sentence. Key 既穷又瞎，还是个黑人，这个新生的婴孩将来会拥有怎样的命运呢？ Example 1. Eager to meet her boyfriend early, Mary went to the airport 3 hours earlier than the arrival of fight. 2. Hit by a big stone, the soldier fell down dead.

21. in one’s wildest dreams — the expression is used to imply that a particular thing is so strange or so unlikely that one has never thought of it. Translate 邻居们做梦也没有想到温文尔雅的怀特先生竟是个杀人 犯。 Example In his wildest dreams he could never have expected to get the fellowship from MIT so easily. Key None of the neighbors, even in their wildest dreams, could ever think of that mild-mannered Mr. White is a murderer.

22. At first, they were being nice. The progressive tense of “be” is used to express temporary activity or behavior at the moment of speaking, but not about states of mind or feelings. Example You were being stupid. =You were behaving stupidly (although you normally didn’t).

23. with ease — without difficulty Fill in the blank: If you work hard, _____ (你就能轻松通过四级考试). Example Only the well-trained horse can jump over this gap with great ease. you can pass the College English Test Band 4 with ease

24. The new name stuck and Stevie Morris became Little Stevie Wonder. Translate this sentence into Chinese: ? Key 这个名字不胫而走，史蒂威﹒莫里斯变成了小史蒂威﹒ 旺达。

25. hit/smash/smash hit — a great success of a new play, film, book, etc. Example The show was a smash hit in London and New York. Paraphrase The new toy is supposed to be a sure hit with kids. Key The new toy is supposed to be surely popular with young children.

26. involve somebody/something in — bring sb./sth. into a difficult situation • Example • Jenny was involved in a heated quarrel with the store- keeper for over-charge. Translate Series of scandals involved the government in a lot of trouble. Key 一连串的丑闻使政府麻烦不断。

27. fight back — protect oneself by fighting • Example • Though surprised by the German attack, the Allied Forces fought back safely. • He declared that he would fight back when attacked.

28. go on doing sth. — continue an activity without stopping go on to do sth. — do sth. after completing sth else • Example • How long do you intend to go on playing those noisy records? • He welcomed the new students and then went on to explain some of the university regulations. • Drill • Ann went to her father and asked him a question, but he _____ (read) his newspaper and didn’t give her an answer. • Once he had learned the harmonica, Stevie _____ (teach) himself to play the piano. went on reading went on to teach More to do

29. go on doing sth. — continue an activity without stopping go on to do sth. — do sth. after completing sth else 3. The man _____ (play) the violin at the subway station even though no passers-by seemed to pay any attention. 4. He took a long drink from the bottle and then _____ (tell) us about his life in that mountainous village. Drill went on playing went on to tell

30. Saxophone Text-related information Popular Music in the U.S.A Jazz A kind of music originally played by black Americans with a strong beat and parts in which performers can play alone.

31. Carpenters Text-related information Country Music Popular music based on the folk style of the southern rural United States or on the music of cowboys in the American West. Also called country and western music.

32. a break-dancer Text-related information Rap and Break Dance A type of popular music in which the words of a song are not sung, but spoken in time to music with a steady beat. The rap music is often accompanied by break dance including acrobatics such as head spins and flips.

33. Elvis Presley the Beatles Text-related information Rock and Roll A type of popular music, marked by a steady beat and a strong rhythm, which is often played at high volume. Rock music combines elements of blues, country and gospel and its popularity can be traced to the mid-1950s when Elvis Presley was its most successful performer. By the early 1960s, rock and roll, which often expressed a rebellious attitude towards society, became the most popular form of music for teenagers and such British groups as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were influential performers. Since the 1960s, rock and roll has gained worldwide popularity not only among teens, but also among persons of college age and older.

34. Exercise • Comprehension • Word Building • Listening & Discussion

35. Comprehension 《读写教程 I》:Ex. II, p. 55

36. Comprehension The Outline of Text A Para. 1~4 Born black and blind Para. 5~7 Early days showing music talents Para. 8~12 First hit as Stevie Wonder Para. 13~14 Success as an independent musical artist Para. 15~17 Car accident and a different life after it Para. 18 Conclusion: Sunshine in the shadow

37. Listening Directions: Listen to the conversation and decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). ____ 1) The woman has already decided to give up smoking. ____ 2) The woman doesn’t enjoy smoking any longer. ____ 3) She advises the man to give up smoking. ____ 4) The man enjoys hearing the things the woman is saying. ____ 5) She believes he can give up smoking. ____ 6) The man thinks what she’s saying about him is nonsense. ____ 7) He doesn’t think she can give up smoking. ____ 8) The man has tried many times to give up smoking. Check-up

38. Listening Directions: Listen to the conversation and decide whether the following statements are True (T) OR False (F). ____ 1) The woman has already decided to give up smoking. ____ 2) The woman doesn’t enjoy smoking any longer. ____ 3) She advises the man to give up smoking. ____ 4) The man enjoys hearing the things the woman is saying. ____ 5) She believes he can give up smoking. ____ 6) The man thinks what she’s saying about him is nonsense. ____ 7) He doesn’t think she can give up smoking. ____ 8) The man has tried many times to give up smoking. T T T F F T F T Script

39. Assignment • Revision of Text A: • Vocabulary Ex. IV, p. 56 • Ex. V. P. 57 • Cloze Ex. XI. P. 59 • Translation Ex. XII. P. 59 • 2. Preview Text B