1、Unit 1 People around Us,Read and Explore,Unit 1 People Around Us,Get Started,Listen and Respond,Optional Classroom Activities,Enhance YourLanguageAwareness,Sit in groups of threes or fours and discuss the following questions.,How do you expect to be treated by people around you? Please give examples
2、. Have you ever met anyone just once but remember that person well? If yes, share your experiences with your group members. Do you think special help should be offered to the sick, the poor, the aged and the handicapped?,Get Started-discussion,Quotes 1,Study the following quotes about people around
3、us. Which quote(s) do you like best? Why?,Get Started-quotes 1,Quotes 1,No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. John Donne,Interpretation: Everybody lives in relation to other people in a community. Our well-being depends on this community and
4、 we, in turn, should contribute our efforts to its prosperity and harmony.,Get Started-quotes 1,Click Picture,Quotes 2,The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. Homer,Interpretation: An offer of help is likely to be of little value or importance to us, but it means a lot to those
5、 in need and it makes a great difference to their lives.,Get Started-quotes 2,Click Picture,Quotes 3,To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. Pearl S. Buck,Interpretation: When we choose to do something good for others, the act of kindness will be con
6、sidered noble only if it is done with a willing heart and genuine delight.,Get Started-quotes 3,Click Picture,Quotes 4,Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Cicero,Interpretation: Being grateful is the highest moral standard. In fact, all other good human quali
7、ties, such as kindness, generosity, compassion（恻隐之心） and courage, derive from gratitude.,Get Started-quotes 4,Click Picture,Watch the following video clip “Shenzhen Drafting Samaritan Law” and then complete the tasks that follow:,video,Fill in the missing words according to what you hear from the vi
8、deo clip.,Lawmakers in Shenzhen have been considering making laws to people willing to help strangers in distress, while the proposal comes after several tragedies where failed to help those injured people. The new draft proposes that Samaritans wont be held accountable for the consequences of their
9、 . And if those in distress ever try to hold their helpers for injuries or damages by deliberately distorting the facts or lodging false complaints, they will face various .,protect,passers-by,compassion,responsible,punishments,_,_,_,_,_,video,click here,lighting n. U the arrangement or type of ligh
10、t in a place 照明；灯光 slipper n. C a light soft shoe that one wears at home 室内便鞋，拖鞋aisle n. C a narrow passage between rows of seats, shelves, etc. in a building or a plane 通道，过道canned a. (of food ) preserved in a round metal container （食物）罐装的,Listen and Respond Word Bank,L&R 1,brightly ad. cheerfully
11、欢快地get the best of gain more advantage from 在（交易等）中得便宜for free without payment 免费地；无偿地image n. C a mental picture that one has of what sb. or sth. is like （头脑中对某人或某物的）印象,Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences according to the information contained in the listening passage
12、.,L&R 2,L&R 2,What did the old woman look like when the speaker saw her?,A) She was in neat clothes and walked elegantly. B) She was in shabby clothes and walked with difficulty. C) Her clothes were too thick and heavy and she could hardly walk. D) She was fashionably dressed and walked with her hea
13、d held high.,L&R 2,2. Why did the old woman come into the store?,A) Because she needed some food. B) Because she wanted to take a rest. C) Because the store looked bright at night. D) Because the store was warmer than the outside.,L&R 2,3. What was the speakers attitude toward the woman?,A) She was
14、just polite to her. B) She was honest with her. C) She felt sorry for her. D) She was impatient with her.,L&R 2,4. Did the woman get food from the store?,A) Yes, she bought some canned food. B) Yes, the speaker gave her some food for free. C) No, she didnt like the food sold in the store. D) No, she
15、 left with no food because she couldnt pay.,A) She felt relieved when the woman left. B) She was glad that she was a good employee. C) She regretted not having helped the woman. D) She was worried that the woman might complain to her boss.,L&R 2,5. How did the speaker feel afterwards?,L&R 3,Listen t
16、o the recording again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard.,L&R 3,The store was brightly lit and the shelves were . The woman was wearing a(n) , a and a pair of . In the store, the old woman stopped before the rows of canned and picked up a can of and looked at the .,neatl
17、y arranged,old dress,thin sweater,black slippers,_,_,_,_,vegetables,_,corn,_,label,_,L&R 3,4. The speaker found it harder to her smile because the womans hands were covered with and the rose from her clothes. 5. The speaker was to say “Take the corn”, but the rules came to her mind. 6. The speaker w
18、ished that she had acted like a rather than a .,smell of sweat,tempted,maintain,employee,_,_,_,_,dirt,_,human being,_,robot,_,1. Why did the narrator hesitate to hire Stevie? 2. What removed the narrators doubts? How? 3. What was the life of Stevie and his mother like? 4. How was it that Stevie miss
19、ed work one morning in three years? 5. How did the staff and the trucker regulars react to the news of Stevies health conditions?,Main Idea,Exercise 1: Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text A.,6. Was Stevie looking forward to the day when he could return to work? Why?
20、 7. How did people react when Stevie and his mother were presented with the $10,000 donation tucked within the napkins? What did Stevie do then? 8. What does the story tell us?,Main Idea,Main Idea,Exercise 2: Text A can be divided into four parts. Now write down the paragraph number(s) of each part
21、and then give the main idea of each in one or two sentences.,Main Idea,She was angry, yet the boys father encouraged him to throw sand.,The author was worried about hiring Stevie because he was mentally handicapped and the author wasnt sure how some of his fault-finding customers would react.,The au
22、thors worries vanished when he found that Stevie was very pleasing, hardworking and very attentive, and consequently he became popular with the authors staff and regular customers.,Having learned that Stevie and his mother lived a hard life, the other staff and the truck drivers made efforts to help
23、 him after he had had heart surgery.,On Stevies return to work, the mother and son received a warm welcome, a free breakfast and a donation of over $10,000 in cash and checks.,Stevie, a mentally handicapped boy, is given a job as a busboy in a truck-stop restaurant. He takes pride in doing his job e
24、xactly right and regular trucker customers soon adopt him as their official truck-stop mascot. When the boy undergoes heart surgery, the truck customers and their companies reach out helping hands.,In-Depth,In-Depth,1 I try not to be biased, but I had my doubts about hiring Stevie. His placement cou
25、nselor assured me that he would be a good, reliable busboy. But I had never had a mentally handicapped employee and wasnt sure I wanted one. I wasnt sure how my customers would react. Stevie was short, a little dumpy, with the smooth facial features and thick-tongued speech of Downs syndrome.,Someth
26、ing for Stevie Dan Anderson,In-Depth,2 I wasnt worried about most of my trucker customers. Truckers dont generally care who buses tables as long as the food is good and the pies are homemade. The ones who concerned me were the mouthy college kids traveling to school; the yuppie snobs who secretly po
27、lish their silverware with their napkins,for fear of catching some dreaded “truck-stop germ;” and the pairs of white-shirted businessmen on expense accounts who think every truck-stop waitress wants to be flirted with. I knew those people would be uncomfortable around Stevie, so I closely watched hi
28、m for the first few weeks.,In-Depth,3 I shouldnt have worried. After the first week, Stevie had my staff wrapped around his little finger. Within a month my trucker regulars had adopted him as their official truck-stop mascot. After that I really didnt care what the rest of the customers thought. 4
29、He was a 21-year-old in blue jeans and Nikes, eager to laugh and eager to please, but fierce in his attention to his duties. Every salt and pepper shaker was exactly in its place, not a bread crumb or coffee spill was visible when Stevie got done with the table.,In-Depth,5 Our only problem was convi
30、ncing him to wait to clean a table until after the customers were finished. He would hover in the background, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, scanning the dining room until a table was empty. Then he would hurry to the empty table and carefully bus the dishes and glasses onto the car
31、t and meticulously wipe the table with a practiced flourish of his rag. If he thought a customer was watching, his brows would pucker with added concentration. He took pride in doing his job exactly right, and you had to love how hard he tried to please each and every person he met.,6 Over time, we
32、learned that he lived with his mother, a widow who was disabled after repeated surgeries for cancer. They lived on their Social Security benefits in public housing two miles from the truck-stop. Their social worker, who stopped to check on him every so often, admitted they had fallen between the cra
33、cks. Money was tight, and what I paid him was probably the difference between them being able to live together and Stevie being sent to a group home.,In-Depth,In-Depth,7 Thats why the restaurant was a gloomy place that morning last August, the first morning in three years that Stevie missed work. He
34、 was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester getting a new valve or something put in his heart. His social worker said that people with Downs syndrome often have heart problems at an early age, so this wasnt unexpected. There was a good chance he would come through the surgery in good shape and be back at w
35、ork in a few months.,In-Depth,8 A ripple of excitement ran through the staff later that morning when word came that he was out of surgery, in recovery and doing fine. Frannie, my head waitress, let out a war whoop and did a little dance in the aisle when she heard the good news. Belle Ringer, one of
36、 our regular trucker customers, stared at the sight of this 50-year-old grandmother of four doing a victory shimmy beside his table. Frannie blushed, smoothed her apron and shot Belle Ringer a withering look. 9 He grinned. “OK, Frannie, what was that all about?” he asked. 10 “We just got word that S
37、tevie is out of surgery and going to be okay.” she responded.,11 “I was wondering where he was,” said Belle. “I had a new joke to tell him. What was the surgery about?” 12 Frannie quickly told him and the other two drivers sitting at his booth about Stevies surgery, then sighed. “Yeah, Im glad he is
38、 going to be okay,” she said, “but I dont know how he and his mom are going to handle all the bills. From what I hear, theyre barely getting by as it is.” Belle Ringer nodded thoughtfully, and Frannie hurried off to wait on the rest of her tables.,In-Depth,In-Depth,13 After the morning rush, Frannie
39、 walked into my office. She had a couple of paper napkins in her hand and a funny look on her face. “Whats up?” I asked. “That table where Belle Ringer and his friends were sitting,” she said, “this was folded and tucked under a coffee cup.” She handed the napkin to me, and three $20 bills fell onto
40、 my desk when I opened it. On the outside, in big, bold letters, was printed “Something For Stevie.”,14 “Pony Pete also asked me what that dance was all about,” she said, “so I told him about Stevie and his mom and everything, and Pete looked at Tony and Tony looked at Pete, and they ended up giving
41、 me this.” She handed me another paper napkin that had “Something For Stevie” scrawled on its outside. Two $50 bills were tucked within its folds. Frannie looked at me with wet, shiny eyes, shook her head and said simply, “Truckers.” 15 That was three months ago. Today is Thanksgiving, the first day
42、 Stevie is supposed to be back to work. His placement worker said hes been counting the days until the doctor said he could work, and it didnt matter at all that it was a holiday. He called 10 times in the past week, making sure we knew he was coming, fearful that we had forgotten him or that his jo
43、b was in jeopardy. I arranged to have his mother bring him to work. We met them in the parking lot and invited them both to celebrate his day back.,In-Depth,In-Depth,16 Stevie was thinner and paler, but couldnt stop grinning as he pushed through the doors and headed for the back room where his apron
44、 and busing cart were waiting. “Hold up there, Stevie, not so fast,” I said. I took him and his mother by their arms. “Work can wait for a minute. To celebrate you coming back, breakfast for you two is on me.” I led them toward a large corner booth at the rear of the room. I could feel and hear the
45、rest of the staff following behind as we marched through the dining room. Glancing over my shoulder, I saw booth after booth of grinning truckers empty and join the procession.,17,In-Depth,We stopped in front of the big table, its surface covered with a mess of coffee cups, saucers and dinner plates
46、, all sitting crooked on dozens of folded paper napkins. “First thing you have to do, Stevie, is to clean up this mess,” I said, trying to sound stern. Stevie looked at me, and then at his mother, then pulled out one of the napkins. It had “Something for Stevie” written on the outside. As he picked
47、it up, two $10 bills fell onto the table. Stevie stared at the money, then at dozens of napkins peeking from beneath the tableware, each with his name printed or scrawled on it.,18,In-Depth,I turned to his mother. “Theres over $10,000 in cash and checks on that table, all from truckers and trucking
48、companies that heard about your problems. Happy Thanksgiving!” Well, it got real noisy about that time, with everybody shouting, and there were a few tears, too. But you know whats funny? While everybody else was busy shaking hands and hugging each other, Stevie, with a big, big smile on his face, w
49、as busy clearing all the cups and dishes from the table the best worker I ever hired.,voicing,ABC News brought their hidden cameras to the streets of Lynbrook, New York and recorded a video program entitled “What would you do” in September 2012. In the program, a lady led Kevin, a homeless man, to a bar and gave him 20 dollars to buy some food. The following are some reactions from the people in the bar.,
