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• School of Foreign Studies
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• Bu Youjuan
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Lovely love
beauty
Power strength
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Unit 5 Section A

• Graceful Hands

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• Graceful
• characterized by beauty of movement, style, form,
  or execution
• 2. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

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I. New Words

• 1. chart
• n. 1. a visual display of information ??
• 2. a map designed to assist navigation by sea
  ??,??
• v. make a map or chart of ??

Example
Columbus discovered America first and drew the
new chart.
We have charted the course of our study at the
beginning of the new term . ????????????????
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I. New Words

• 1. chart

Compare
diagram???,???
graph ???
illustration ??,??
table ??
figure ??,??
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I. New Words

• 2. Preceding
• a. ???,???

Example
This concept has been mentioned in the preceding
chapter. ??????????????
Precede v. ??,?..??,?? M precedes N in the
alphabet. Manager precedes section chief in the
company.
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I. New Words

• 2. Preceding
• a. ???,???

Compare
a previous engagement It happened previous to my
arrival.
previous ??,?.??
prior ???,???
a prior choice of house The house was sold prior
to auction.
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I. New Words

• 3. switch
• n. /v. ????

Example
???????,???????? Please switch off when you leave
your room.
switch on
You can switch between the two modes any
time. ????????????????
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I. New Words

• 4. secure
• a. ???,??? free from danger, fear
• v.??,?? make certain of firmly attach to

Example
the secure area a secure job/ life/
investment
The dam secured the city from the flood. Please
secure the boat to the tree.
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I. New Words

• 5. outline n. ??,??
  v.??,????
• skeleton n.??,???? a.?????,???

Example
Could you write an outline of the article before
your writing? the childs skeleton growth She
showed only the skeleton of her theory.
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Main Idea of the passage
The story deals with a doctors view of a
terminally ill grandmother as a terrible-looking
lady with graceful hands from the outset but a
considerate lady with graceful heart and mind in
the end.
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Explicit clue
writing device 1.Double clues (???)
Time sequence
The authors emotional experience
Inplicit clue
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for details
Explicit clue --- Time sequence

• As a major device used in narrative, the order of
  time is employed in this text like a thread to
  string all the events together.

Sentences with time markers 1) I have never seen
Mrs. Clark before, but I know that tonight she
will die. (Para. 1) 2) As I stand there , the
smell hits my nose. (Para. 2) 3) When I am
finished, I pull a chair up (Para. 6) 4) Some
unknown interval of time passes before her eyes
open again, (Para. 8) 5) Two days later, I read
about Mrs. Clark in the newspaper. (Para. 9)

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• Sentences without time markers
• 1) I reach for the light switch, , I return to
  bed(Para. 2)
• 2) I reach for the long, thin fingers(Para. 4)
• 3) I bend close to herI put my finger over the
  end of the strawWe repeat the procedure. (Para.
  4)
• 4) I go about providing for her needs. I turn
  her on her side. I remove the lid I rub cream
  into the yellow skin I notice that (Para. 5)
• 5) her shallow breathing stops, I begin to cry
  quietly. still holding her hand, I become aware
  that (Para. 8)

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for details
Implicit clue --- Emotional experience

• The authors feeling for Mrs Clark is changing
  with the development of the story. Following this
  clue unconsciously, the reader seems to
  experience the same shock and change in emotion
  as the author did.

1) , I return to the bed to observe the patient
with an unemotional, medical eye. (para.2) 2) I
reach for the long, thin fingers that are lying
on the chest.(para.4) 3) I again notice the
long, thin fingers. Graceful. (para.6) 4) Her
long fingers I nod my head slowly, smiling.
(para.7) 5) No one should die alone, and Im glad
I was there.(para.8) 6) Yes, they were long and
graceful fingers. (para.10)
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writing device 2.detailed description
(?????) --- for appreciation
The detailed descriptions are centered
around the conditions of the ward and the
patient as well as around the help the doctor
gave to the patient. This device produces
the result that the reader feels to be on the
spot as the author is, and that the writers
mental activities can find echoes in the reader.
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The conditions of the ward The
only light in her room is coming from a piece of
medical equipment, which is flashing its red
light as if in warning. The smell hits my
nose, and I close my eyes as I remember the smell
of decay from past experiences. In my mouth, I
have a sour, vinegar taste coming from the pit of
my stomach.
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The conditions of the patient 1) Refer to Para.
3. 2) In Para. 5 They are cold. Naked, except
for a light hospital gown, she is very small and
light that she seems like a victim of some
terrible famine. The yellow skin rolls freely
over the bones. 3) In Para. 8 Without warning,
her shallow breathing stops, and within a few
moments, the faint pulse is also gone. One single
tear flows from her eye, across the cheek and
down onto the pillow.
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The help given to the patient I bend close to
her I put my finger overand allow a few
dropsand ease her thirst. (Para. 4) Picking her
up in my arms like a child, I turn her on her
side. I remove the lid from a jar of skin cream
and put some Carefully, to avoid injuring her, I
rub cream into the yellow skin, (Para. 5)
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Read the text again and answer the questions
below.

• How does the writer describe the smell
• of Mrs.Clarks ward?
• What is the look of Mrs. Clarks skin?
• Why does the writer wonder whether she has anyone
  loves her?
• Why does Mrs. Clark send her family home that
  night?
• What does the writer mean by saying it is a
  special moment between I and Mrs Clark?
• Why the writer mention Mrs Clarks fingers
  several times? What kind of a person she is?

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A. Language points

• Reach for (L.7)
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Example
?????????? The soldier reached for his gun.
Make by yourself ?????????????
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A. Language points

• 2. Feel for(L.16)
• ??,?? share the suffering of

Example
I felt for the switch carefully in the darkness.
???????????????????? I acquired a feel for the
game I never had before.
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A. Language points

• 3. Bend close to(L.17)
• ??????

Example
?????????,??????????? We had to bend to the
order of general if we want to win in this war.
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• 4. Ease ones thirst(L.20)
• ??????? (ease??)

Example
It eased my mind (make me less worried) to know
that my girlfriend was settled in the new school.
Ease makes thief. ????????????? Stand at
ease. ?? ???
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A. Language points

• 5. Go about providing for(L.24)
• ??????? Go about ?(??),???????

Example
?????????,????????? It is necessary to go about
your study if you do not want to disappoint
your parents.
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A. Language points

• 6. Not until do I feel(L.31)

Example
Not until last week did I get a work permit.
????????????? Finish the exercise in textbook
P.129.
Ambition never dies until there is no way out.
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A. Language points

• 7. Read ones mind/sense ones thoughts(L.38/41)
  ???????

Example
??????????,?????????? If you could read my
mind/sense my thought, you will know my
difficulties.
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A. Language points

• 8. Her suffering is done, yet so is the
  life.(L.54)

Mrs Clark neednt bear her pains from the
disease any more, but her life is also finished
together with the suffering.
Paraphrase
Structure
Sth. is done the same as the former one.
So be sth.
yet
Here is used as conj., means ??,??
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A. Language points

• 9. Mrs Clark spared her family an episode that
  perhaps they were not equipped to handle. (L.57)
  
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Example
I don't think he's equipped for the entrance to
the society. ?????????????????
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Can you find other useful expressions?

• 1. medical chart
• 2. to observe the patient with an unemotional,
  medical eye
• to hang loosely around exaggerated bones
• 4. to rise or fall with the uneven breaths

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Can you find other useful expressions?

• the faint pulse
• 6. to make no attempt to swallow
• 7. to spend her last ounce of strength
• 8. to spare her family an episode

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• 7. ?????????
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V Assignment

• Write an article on the meaning of life
  after the appreciation of the plot in the film
  Forest Gump.

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Thanks for your attention