1、,Read and Explore,Unit 2 Love,Get Started,Listen and Respond,Optional Classroom Activities,Enhance YourLanguageAwareness,Sit in groups of threes or fours and discuss the following questions.,Do you think love and marriage are important matters in our life? Why or why not? Dating and courtship is a c
2、ommon scene at college now. What do you think of it? What do you think are the most important factors that contribute to a stable love relationship? Give your reasons.,Get Started-discussion,Quotes 1,Study the following quotes about love. Which quote(s) do you like best? Why?,Get Started-quotes 1,Qu
3、otes 1,The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare,Interpretation: Shakespeare believes that a true relationship is not easy to establish. People have different personalities, concepts of value, preferences of life style, etc. When two persons of the opposite sex develop a love
4、 relationship, they have to try their best to understand each other and reconcile with each other.,Get Started-quotes 1,Click Picture,Quotes 2,To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell,Interpretation: Here Russell emphasizes the importance o
5、f an active attitude towards love. We should not be afraid to fall in love just because it is not easy to find true love or just because of any possible setbacks. A life without love is as dull as a dying man because he lacks the energy and passion to enjoy life.,Click Picture,Where does the family
6、start ? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl no superior alternative has yet been found. Sir Winston Churchill,Quotes 3,Interpretation: The quotation emphasizes that true love is the only basis upon which a happy family is built. Only when the man and the woman love each other dear
7、ly and devotedly can they endure trials and tribulations in their common effort to build up a happy family.,Get Started-quotes 3,Click Picture,It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Mother Teresa,Quotes 3,I
8、nterpretation: The quotation tells us the significant role that love plays in everything we do in life. Whatever we do, we should put adequate love into it so that others can feel our love and be affected by our love. What we can offer to others may be insignificant, but as long as there is love in
9、it, the benefit will be significant. Here, love is understood in a broad sense.,Get Started-quotes 3,Click Picture,Hes Just Not That Into You is a 2009 romantic comedy-drama film about how nine people in Baltimore deal with their romantic problems. Watch the following video clip extracted from this
10、film and then complete the tasks that follow:,click here,video,Pay attention to what the woman says in the video clip and fill in the missing words on the next slide.,video,click here,1. See, you cant keep being nice to me and I cant keep like this is something that its not. Weve been together for o
11、ver seven years. You know me. You know who I am. You either wanna marry me or you dont.,video,click here,pretending,_,2. for every woman that has been told by some man that he doesnt marriage and then six months later, hes married to some twenty-four-year-old that he met . 3. Its coming from the pla
12、ce that I have been for about five years. About five years because I havent wanted to seem demanding, and I havent wanted to seem clingy or psycho . So I have never asked you.,believe in,_,at the gym,_,hiding from you,_,or whatever,_,video,2. What can you infer from the conversation between the man
13、and the woman in the video clip?,(Open.),Choose the best answer to each of the following questions according to the information contained in the listening passage.,L&R 2,L&R 2,Where did the woman see the three old men?,A) In front of her store. B) In her front yard. C) In her dream. D) In her doorwa
14、y.,L&R 2,2. Who were the three old men respectively?,A) Success, Hope and Wealth. B) Faith, Hope, and Love. C) Wealth, Faith and Success. D) Love, Success and Wealth.,L&R 2,3. Whom did the family invite in?,A) Wealth. B) Love. C) Success. D) All of the above.,L&R 2,4. How many of the old men would l
15、ike to go into the house?,A) One. B) Two. C) Three. D) Four.,L&R 2,5. What is the main idea of the passage?,A) Where there is love, there is wealth and success. B) One cannot live without wealth, love and success. C) Love is as important as wealth and success. D) Wealth and success are what people p
16、ursue mosteagerly.,L&R 3,Listen to the recording again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard.,The women thought that the three old men must beso she invited them to come in and have something 2. The old men said that they did not go into a house 3. The husband wished to inv
17、ite , but the woman did not agree and wished to have while their daughter suggested:“ ?”,L&R 3,L&R 3,hungry,to eat,together,Wealth,_,_.,_.,_,Success,_,Wouldnt it be better to invite Love,_,4. The woman came out and asked: “Which one of you is ? Please come in and be our .” The other two old men also
18、 got up and followed, which the woman. One old man told the woman: “If you had invitedor , the other two of us would.”,L&R 3,L&R 3,guest,surprised,Love,have stayed out,_,_,_,_,Wealth,_,Success,_,1. Is “love” easy to define? Why or why not? 2. How does the author describe “puppy loves”? 3. What does
19、it take for love to develop into maturity? 4. What helped preserve the holiness of love in the authors parents generation? 5. What negative roles do the media play in forming the younger generations view of love? 6. What do young people today tend to value in relationships? What does the author thin
20、k they should value?,Main Idea,Exercise 1: Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text A.,Main Idea,Exercise 2: Text A can be divided into four parts with the paragraph number(s) of each part provided as follows. Write down the main idea of each part.,Main Idea,She was angr
21、y, yet the boys father encouraged him to throw sand.,Love is hard to define because it can only be felt but not described.,The author discusses love of different depths from her own experiences.,The two generations handle love and relationships differently. The younger generation tends to be more ha
22、sty and selfish in building relationships.,The author advises young people to learn the essence of love and find ways to develop relationships into lifelong bonds.,Love is an overwhelming joy that is beyond description. It is human nature to yearn for and indulge in love, but true love takes a lot o
23、f understanding, much sharing and caring, and plenty of affection. What is true love? How deep is your love? The author shares her views with the younger generation on these questions.,In-Depth,In-Depth,Love to some is like a cloudTo some as strong as steelFor some a way of livingFor some a way to f
24、eelAnd some say love is holding onAnd some say let it goAnd some say love is everythingSome say they dont know,How Deep Is Your Love? Mansi Bhatia,2 At some stage or the other in our lives we experience the gnawing pangs of an emotion which defies definition. Its a feeling that can only be felt and
25、not described. An overwhelming joy that comes together with its share of sadness. Love.,_,In-Depth,3 Given the busy nature of our lives, its to be appreciated that we even find the time to indulge in matters of the heart. But at the same time I wonder if we even understand its true depth. I remember
26、 having countless crushes while in school. My math teacher, our neighbours son, my best friends brother and lots of others whom I fancied for the colour of their eyes, the shape of their moustaches or just the way they walked. Harmless puppy loves that are as brief as soap bubbles. I can laugh about
27、 all those silly and adventurous thoughts and acts now but at that time nothing could be more serious an affair for me. Then came the stage of real relationships.,In-Depth,4 Being in an all girls school I hardly had the opportunity to interact with members of the opposite gender. Socials between our
28、 school and the boys college, therefore, would be awaited anxiously. Those three hours of unhesitant attention by a group of well-groomed young gentlemen provided us with enough content to talk and feel exhilarated about for the next four weeks.,5 And even then there was no real need of having a boy
29、friend.,In-Depth,6 I somehow grew up believing that love would happen when it had to. And sure enough it did. It came at an age when I had a career, a long-term plan and a more or less settled life (and now I am not yet 25!). I was mature enough to enter a relationship which demands a lot of give an
30、d not so much of take.,7 Love was a magnificent building I built on the foundation of friendship. It took time to blossom. It took a lot of understanding, loads of sharing and caring, and plenty of affection to become what it is today. And it meant a meeting of minds. You might say that I belong to
31、the traditional school of romance. But in my opinion, love needs to be nurtured. And it has to be distinguished from the intense but short-lived love or the pleasures of the flesh.,In-Depth,8 Our parents generation was fed lavishly with ideals. It was an era of constraints, restraints, respect, admi
32、ration, and plenty of romance. The long skirts, the quiet and unpretentious looks, the curled long hair, the calmness, the shy glance these are all so frequently remindful of a bygone era. An age when the distance between the sexes somehow managed to help preserve the holiness of love and relationsh
33、ips.,In-Depth,9 The younger generation, with its openness and fading lines of proximity, has jumped on the bandwagon of love with so much haste that it is difficult for them to distinguish between physical attraction and mental compatibilities. What we have been exposed to via the media have fast pa
34、ced our sensibilities so much that taking things slow requires effort on our parts.,10 I am amazed when I hear stories of school kids bragging about the number of physical relationships they have had. I am horrified to learn that girls barely eighteen have already been in and out of seven to eight “
35、hook ups”.,In-Depth,11 I am sorry to learn about the kind of emotional baggage these kids are carrying in what are purely unemotional relationships. Some might blame the current state of affairs on peer pressure. But has anyone ever stopped to figure out where this peer pressure originates? Do any o
36、f us try and understand who is responsible for this shift? Does anyone bother to study the state of mind of the teenagers?,12 The mindset of this generation is all too evident in the way it handles its personal life. There are more relationships being distorted under the pressures of lust than ever
37、before. There is more focus on physical beauty than on inner charm. There is more of closeness and less of intimacy. There is more of passion and less of emotion. There is more of acquiring and less of sharing. There is more of opportunism and less of selflessness. In short, there is more of ME and
38、less of US.,In-Depth,13 We have hardened ourselves so much in this competitive age that we have forgotten the essence of relationships. Theres much more to being someones lover than gifting them red roses and fifty-cent cards. What about gifting our object of affection, our time, our company, our su
39、pport, our friendship? What about setting priorities in our lives and focusing on each with sincerity? What about trying to be self-sufficient emotionally before letting ourselves loose? What about giving ourselves, and others, time and space to forge relationships? What about working towards meanin
40、gful and lasting friendships? What about honouring our commitments? What about channeling our energies and emotions towards building lifelong bonds rather than wasting them on seasonal relationships?,In-Depth,14 We have but one life and we must experience everything that can make us stronger. True l
41、ove happens once in a lifetime. And we should not have become so tired by our frivolous acts that when it comes we arent able to receive it with open arms.,voicing,Some college students are dating on campus. Have they found true love? Are some of them driven by peer pressure without even knowing it?
42、 What is their mindset? Work in groups of threes or fours and give your comments, and then discuss how people could develop their relationships into lifelong bonds. You may refer to the hints on the next two pages. (Open.),voicing,voicing,Key Words (B),Expressions for Text B,Key Words (B),1. It was
43、a point of pride that he gave our newborn daughter her first bath. (Para. 5),2) Make a sentence with the italicized structure.,It was a point of pride that we first presented this story to the world.,1) Translate this sentence into Chinese.,大女儿的第一个澡就是他给洗的，这让他倍感骄傲。,Sentences,2. Within an hour, when t
44、he nurse checked him with her stethoscope, there was nothing left for me to do but close his bright green eyes and lay my hands on his for the last time, in the quiet peaceful corner of our bedroom. (Para.10),2) Make a sentence with the italicized structure.,When my boss lost his temper, there was n
45、othing left for me to do but stand there listening in silence.,1) Translate this sentence into Chinese.,一个小时的时间里，护士用听诊器做了检查，剩下我唯一能做的事就是合上他那双明亮的绿色眼睛，在我们卧室恬静的一隅里最后一次把我的手放在他的手上。,Sentences,3. For seven-and-a-half months, my grief for my husband had been frozen within me like an icy presence that would n
46、ot yield. (Para. 12),2) Paraphrase the sentence.,In the seven and a half months after my husbands death, I had managed to bury the grief for him deep down in my heart as if it had turned into ice that would not melt.,1) Translate this sentence into Chinese.,7个半月里，对丈夫逝去的悲伤如同冰凌雪块封存在心中，不曾融化。,Sentences,
47、4. It was as though his fathers long, graceful hands clasped mine once again. Still reassuring me. (Para. 13),2) Paraphrase the sentence.,Even though he had died, my husbands way of expressing love through his long and elegant handclasp had been passed down to our son, which was a lasting comfort to
48、 me.,1) Translate this sentence into Chinese.,仿佛他父亲那双长长的、雅致的手再次握住了我的手，令我依然感到安心平静。,Sentences,Para.1,Comprehension,Comprehension,What does “that time” (L.1 Para. 2 ) refer to?,What was the husbands job?,Why does the author describe her husbands hands in such great detail?,Para.2,Comprehension,What do you know about the husbands handwriting?,Why wasnt the handwriting difficult for his wife to read?,Para.3,Comprehension,What kind of person do you think the narrators husband was?,What could the narrator feel whenever her husband clasped her hands?,
