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Unit Seven

Unit Seven. The Sampler. Introductory Questions. Allow students 10 minutes to read through the whole text, and answer the following questions: 1. How many character are there in the story? And who are they? 2. What are laid out in a row in the store during the Christmas season?

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Unit Seven

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  1. Unit Seven The Sampler

  2. Introductory Questions • Allow students 10 minutes to read through the whole text, and answer the following questions: • 1.How many character are there in the story? And who are they? • 2.What are laid out in a row in the store during the Christmas season? • 3.What does the narrator –“I” in the story-often wonder? • 4.What does the shop girl tell him when he asks her this question? • 5.Is the shop girl friendly to the old man when he turns up in the store? How do you know? • 6.Does the old man accept the narrator’s offer? • 7.What does the old man have in his worn little black pocketbook? • 8.Just make a guess: In what country does the story take place? What are the words or expression that give you the clue?

  3. Background Information • 1. The Christmas Season • For Christians, the Christmas season lasts from Christmas Eve till after New Year’s Day or, especially in England, Epiphany (on the 6th of January). Commercially, the period is much longer. Stores usually begin to decorate their departments and to promote a sales campaign for Christmas in late November. Special attention is paid to the shop windows designed to attract Christian shoppers.

  4. 2. Does everyone enjoy the happiness of Christmas? • Christmas is a time for the family to get together: to talk, to eat, to sing, to exchange presents. Just as this is the most exciting festival for most families, it is equally the most depressing for those without a home or for those with serious family problems. • These problems manifest themselves in several ways. Statistics show, for example, that the highest number of studies occur at this time. Hardly a year goes by without a tragic murder or suicide committed in the home of a poverty-stricken, often chronically-unemployed, family.

  5. 3. Old people in the west • Most people retire from work between the ages of 60-65. This has two main consequences, one economic and the other psychological. • Economically: although retired people receive a pension from the government and/or from their past employers, it is often significantly less than they earned when they were working. Unless people have managed to save money during their years at work, their standard of living may decline dramatically when they retire. • Psychologically: old people in Western countries are generally considered useless, a burden on their families and on the public purse. They are hardly held in respect. On the other hand, most of them, so used to focusing on work, simply do not know how to relax or pursue another interest now that they have time to do so. They feel they “should” be working and contributing, because work was where they were respected and their skills recognized. As retired people, their self-confidence is diminished. The longer they are away from the work place, the keener grows a sense of being superfluous.

  6. 4 Free samples • Stores use free sample as a “come-on” in competing for customers. If a store provides free samples of some of their products, it is likely that more people will shop there. • Samples, usually of new foods and drinks: are given with the understanding that if you like them, you will buy them. It is not socially acceptable to continue to sample the same product time and time again without making a purchase.

  7. Important phrases • (key structure): • 1.lay out: arrange or spread out • --The new books were laid out neatly on the table. • -- The goods for sale were attractively laid out. • 2.as if: seeming to show that • --The boy smiled as if he understood what his mother said. • --The waves dashed on the rocks as if in anger.

  8. Introductory Questions • Allow students 10 minutes to read through the whole text, and answer the following questions: • 1.How many character are there in the story? And who are they? • 2.What are laid out in a row in the store during the Christmas season? • 3.What does the narrator –“I” in the story-often wonder? • 4.What does the shop girl tell him when he asks her this question? • 5.Is the shop girl friendly to the old man when he turns up in the store? How do you know? • 6.Does the old man accept the narrator’s offer? • 7.What does the old man have in his worn little black pocketbook? • 8.Just make a guess: In what country does the story take place? What are the words or expression that give you the clue?

  9. Language points • !.lay out: arrange or spread out • 1).The new books were laid out neatly on the table. • 2).The goods for sale were attractively layout. • 2.come to a decision: make a decision. • 1).Please talk it over with the manager and then come to a decision. • 2).Think it over before you come to a decision. • 3.have no intention of doing sth: intention, intending • 1).He has intention of going abroad. • 2).She has no intention of making boyfriend so early. • 4 .take advantage of: make full of (sth or sb ) for one’s own benefit. • 1).He took fullest advantage of his intelligence to study less. • 2).He often takes full advantage of the mistakes made by others. • 3).She took advantage of his good nature.

  10. 5.suspect:guess, think • 1).I suspect him of stealing the money. • 2).We suspect him to be a liar. • 3).I doubt whether he will come. • 4).I suspect that he will come. • 5) I doubt whether he will come. • 6).I doubt if he knows the truth. • 6.what’s more:also, more important seriously. • 1).You are late for school, and what’s more, you have forgotten to bring your books. • 2).He is too old for the job. And what’s more, he is in poor health. • 7 can afford.(could, be able to) • 1).I can not afford to go away this summer. • 2).We can not afford to lose such a good friend. • 3).I paid 100 Yuan for this coat. • 4).this dictionary cost me 50 Yuan.

  11. 8 break off: stop suddenly, pause • 1).let’s break off for a while and then go on. • 2).He often breaks off in the middle of the sentence while reading. • 9.cheat: think or deceive sb. • 1).The man cheated the girl out of her money. • 2).behave in a dishonest way in order to win. • 3).Do not play with him, he is a cheat. • 4) The boy deceived the teacher by lying. • 10.come down in the world: lose a place of respect or honor, become lower as in rank or fortune : become poor. • 1) The old man has come down in the world as soon as his son graduated. • 2) His father came down in the world and has to sell his house.

  12. 11.do sb a favor/do a favor for sb; do sth kind for sb. • 1) Could you do me a favor by shutting the window? • 2) Would you like to do me a favor by closing the door? • 3) Do me a favor be quite while I am reading. • 12.considering: taking it into account. • 1) He is very young considering his age. • 2) He did very well in his exams considering that he had no experience. • 13.mistake sb/sth for sb/sth else • 1).She is often mistaken for her twin sister. • 2).She has mistaken me for sb else. • 3).It is his own fault that he failed the exam. • 14.long for:wish very much for • 1).She longed for him to say sth about that. • 2).The students are longing for winter vacation. • 3).He is longing for his father to arrive.

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