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• Unit 6 The Human Touch

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Objectives

• 1. Understand the main idea and structure of
  the text
• 2. Appreciate how the repeated use of clues
  helps weave a piece of narration together
• 3. Grasp the key language points and grammatical
  structures in the text
• 4. Conduct a series of reading, listening,
  speaking and writing activities related to the
  theme of the unit.

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Text A The Last
Leaf O. Henry
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• 1. Pre-reading Tasks
• 2. While-reading Tasks
• 3. Post-reading Tasks

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1. Pre-reading Tasks Warm-up Questions
Background Information
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Warm-up Questions

• How do you understand the Human Touch?
• It originates from the warmest aspect from
  human normal feelings, a natural revelation from
  real emotions among one another, giving others a
  wonderful felling of love, care and an
  encouraging spirit.

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Warm-up Questions

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Warm-up Questions

• 2. What is the human nature?
• Man is born kind.
• Man is born evil.
• Man is born neither kind nor evil.

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Warm-up Questions

• Virtues
• love, zeal, faith, self control, charity,
  kindness, tolerance, loyalty, honesty,
  selflessness, generosity
• Weaknesses
• greed, selfishness, jealousy, sadness, anger,
  depression, pride, laziness, meanness

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Warm-up Questions

• No one is perfect. Yet, we should try our best to
  be a person with more virtues and less
  weaknesses.
• Love not only yourself but also your family
  members, friends, even other people you dont
  know.

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O. Henry

• O. Henry was the pen name of the American
  writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862
  June 5, 1910).
• O. Henry's short stories are well known for
  their wit, wordplay, warm haracterization and
  clever twist endings.

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His stories

• The Four Million
• Cabbages and Kings
• The Gift of the Magi
• The Ransom of Red Chief
• The Cop and the Anthem
• A Retrieved Reformation
• The Furnished Room
• Baby in the Jungle

The Ransom of Red Chief
A Retrieved Reformation
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Major features of Henrys stories

• Henry's stories are famous for their surprise
  endings, to the point that such an ending is
  often referred to as an "O. Henry ending." He was
  called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant.
  Both authors wrote twist endings, but O. Henry
  stories were much more playful. His stories are
  also well known for witty narration. Most of O.
  Henry's stories are set in his own time, the
  early years of the 20th century. Many take place
  in New York City and deal for the most part with
  ordinary people
• clerks, policemen, waitresses.

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Major features of Henrys stories

• O. Henry's work is wide-ranging, and his
  characters can be found roaming the cattle-lands
  of Texas, exploring the art of the "gentle
  grafter," or investigating the tensions of class
  and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York.
• O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating
  some element of society and describing it with an
  incredible economy and grace of language.

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Major features of Henrys stories

• Some of his best and least-known work resides in
  the collection Cabbages and Kings, a series of
  stories which each explore some individual aspect
  of life in a paralytically sleepy Central
  American town while each advancing some aspect of
  the larger plot and relating back one to another
  in a complex structure which slowly explicates
  its own background. O.Henry's work is
  fundamentally a product of his time, and contains
  examples of casual racism.

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2. While-reading Tasks Structure of the Text
Further Understanding
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Structure (Part division of the text)
Scenes Paras Characters Events
1 Paras 1-2 Sue,Johnsy Sues roommate Johnsy caught pneumonia.
2 Paras 3-8 The doctor, Sue The doctor told Sue that Johnsy needed a strong will to live on
3 Paras 9-17 Johnsy, Sue Johnsy decided that she would die when the last ivy leaf fell.

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Structure (Part division of the text)
Scenes Paras Characters Events
4 Paras 18-21 Behrman, Sue Sue told Behrman about Johnsys fancy
5 Paras 22-33 Sue, Johnsy As Johnsy was encouraged by the last leaf that wouldnt give in to the weather, her will to live returned.

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Structure (Part division of the text)
Scenes Paras Characters Events
6 Paras 34-37 the doctor, Sue The doctor told Sue that Johnsy would recover, but Behrman caught pneumonia himself and his case was hopeless.
7 Paras38-39 Sue, Johnsy Sue told Johnsy that Behrman had performed a kind deed without any thought of sels
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Further Understanding

• Key Words and Phrases
• Language Focus
• Analysis of the Text

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• Key Words and Phrases

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in tune harmoniously (often followed by with)
e.g. His ideas were in tune with mine. The price
of gold coins fluctuates (??) in tune with that
of commodities.
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stalk v. (of an evil force) move through (a
place) in a threatening way move quietly and
cautiously in order to get near
e.g. There are sharks stalking their prey in
those waters.
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victim n. person, animal, etc. suffering
death, injury or loss
e.g. Thousands were victims of the plague in the
Middle Ages. Four people were killed in the
explosion, but the police have not yet named the
victims.
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subtract vt. take (a number, quantity) away
from a larger number or quantity
e.g. Students were given a lot of practice in
writing, adding, subtracting, multiplying and
dividing.
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turn loose allow (sth.) to be free of control
e.g. The World Bank makes grants to developing
countries but it doesnt just turn the money
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to excess to an extreme degree

• e.g.
• Dont carry your grief to excess.
• He drinks to excess.
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for the rest as regards other matters?????
e.g. The working conditions in my new job are
excellent, but for the rest, I am not impressed.
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stand out be easily seen above or among others
e.g. These writers stood out above the rest.
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Language Focus

• 1. Literary Language
• writing techniques in a narration

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Language Focus

• Make a dialogue between Sue and Behrman
  according to the sentence She told him of
  Johnsys fancy, and how she feared she would,
  indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself,
  float away, when her slight hold upon the world
  grew weaker in Lines 65 to 68.

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2. Figures of Speech ??
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Personification??

• My heart was singing.
• This time fate was smiling to him.
• My only worry was that January would find me
  hunting for a job again.

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Euphemism???

• Die fall asleep, cease thinking, pass away, go
  to heaven, leave us
• Old people senior citizens
• Fat people weight watcher
• Madhouse/asylum mental hospital
• Stupid people slow learners

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Simile??

• like, as, as if, as though?.
• This elephant is like a snake as anybody can see.
  
• He looked as if he had just stepped out of my
  book of fairytales and had passed me like a
  spirit.

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Metaphor??

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• The diamond department was the heart and center
  of the store.
• The world is a stage.
• Time is money.

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Hyperbole??

• My blood froze.
• He almost died laughing.
• When she heard the bad news, a river of tears
  poured out.

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Pun ??

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• Seven days without water make one weak/week.
• A cannonball took off his legs, so he laid down
  his arms.

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Irony ??,??

• As welcome as a storm
• The public is wonderfully tolerant----it forgives
  everything except genius.

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Oxymoron????

• She read the long-awaited letter with a tearful
  smile.
• Sweet pain/sorrow
• living death
• impossible hope

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Alliteration??

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• Proud as a peacock
• Safe and sound
• Home and hearth
• New Jersey is a story of struggle, success, and
  sadness.

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Parallelism ??

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• No one can be perfectly free till all are free
  no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral
  no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

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The Order of Adjectives before a Noun

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• e.g.
• 1. beautiful brown leather jacket2. small
  antique wooden table3. fabulous new diamond
  ring4. gorgeous pink silk scarf5. fantastic new
  British film

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Analysis of the Text

• 1. Explain composition of a short story
  narration scene, theme, characters, climax.
• 2. Ask students to identify theme, characters,
  climax, etc. in the text.
• 3. Appreciate the atmosphere build by its
  beautiful sentences and phrases.

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3. Post-reading Tasks

• Group Discussion
• Performance
• Debate
• Exercises

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Group Discussion

• Which character in the story impresses you most?
  Why?
• What is the essential message the writer wants to
  convey to his readers through the story? Is it of
  social significance? Explain.

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Performance

• Form groups and act different roles.

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Debate

• Many years ago, a college student lost his life
  to save an old farmers life, which aroused a
  heated discussion among people. Some thought that
  it was not worthwhile for a college student who
  might contribute a lot to the society in the
  future to risk death for an old life, while some
  other people held the opposite view. What is your
  opinion?
• Make a debate about whether it was worthwhile for
  Old Behrman to risk death to save Johnsys life?

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Debate

• Supporting arguments
• 1. It is the only way to save her life.
• 2. It is worthwhile for the old to risk death to
  save
• the youngs lives.
• Opposing arguments
• 1. Behrman could try other means to save Johnsys
  life instead of sacrificing himself.
• 2. Both the olds and the youngs lives are
  valuable.

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• Exercises

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Vocabulary

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• 1. 1)flutter/fluttering 2) acute
• 3) cling to 4)
  streaming
• 5) fancy 6) mock
  
• 7) fierce 8)
  masterpiece
• 9) nonsense 10) bare
• 11) subtracted 12) victim
• 13) Sin 14) look the
  part
• 15) for the rest

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Vocabulary

• 2.
• 1) gave in/gave up 2) figure out
• 3) sized up 4) wiped out
  
• 5) pulling up 6) wear away
• 7) sit up 8) hear of / about

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Vocabulary

• 3. 1) Illnesses usually stand out in childhood
  memories.
• 2) According to the bulletin, Albright
  College now offers a joint bachelor's degree
  program in environmental studies together with
  Duke University.
• 3) The new government is less oppressive, but
  violence still stalks the country.
• 4) There is scarcely any surface water in the
  desert.
• 5) The demand for change in the election law
  is so persistent that both houses have promised
  to consider it.

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Vocabulary

• 4. 1) It was dreary lying in the tent with
  nothing to read, so we built a camp fire. Soon
  the smell of steaks, bread and coffee mingled
  with that of fresh grass and earth. Other campers
  seemed to be doing the same. Here and there
  people were eating, drinking or dancing to their
  hearts' content, if not to excess. What a merry
  night!
• 2) Miss Florence, our music teacher, called
  to us to stop singing. I didn't realize why until
  Sally told me in a whisper " You are not in tune
  with the group!"
• 3) The angry wife poured a bucket of water
  over her drunken husband, who was immediately
  wet through and stumbled backward " You can't do
  without drinks? I won't hear of any excuses. You
  certainly don't need it to turn loose your
  tongue!"

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Vocabulary

• II. Words with Multiple Meanings
• 1. He went to Paris on business last month.
• 2. The train to Brussels goes at 225p.m.
• 3. As soon as they arrived at the meadow, the
  shepherd let the sheep go.
• 4. We went exploring together in the mountains. /
  We will go exploring together in the mountains.
• 5. Let's go and have a drink in the bar.
• 6. The store is going to close up soon.
• 7. South Koreans went crazy when their soccer
  players beat the Spanish team in the
  quarterfinals.
• 8. When Mother came out of the house, she found
  her children gone.

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Vocabulary

• III. Usage
• 1. a little white wooden house
• 2. long, curly red hair
• 3. a large old round table
• 4. a cheap Indian restaurant
• 5. a huge cool chocolate ice-cream
• 6. rapid technological advance
• 7. a handsome young Chinese American

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Structure

• 1. 1) The kitchen smells of burnt rubber.
• 2) It smells of rose.
• 3) It tastes of fish.
• 4) It tastes of gasoline.
• 2. 1) I killed the spider by hitting it.
• 2) The little girl supported herself by
  selling matches.
• 3) You can unlock the door by turning the key
  to the right.
• 4) She tried to get help by screaming.

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Comprehensive Exercises

• I. Cloze
• (A)
• 1. Victim 2. in tune 3. Scarcely 4. in a whisper
  5. cling to 6. merry
• 7. sat up 8. nonsense 9. fancy 10. fierce 11. sin
  12. masterpiece
• (B)
• 1. As 2.whose 3. that 4.or 5. jail 6. Her 7. so
  8.buy 9. not
• 10. Figured 11. Collect 12.when 13. into
  14.deliver 15. including
• 16. feel 17. take 18. Bring 19. in 20. small

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Comprehensive Exercises

• II. Translation
• Here and there we see young artists who stand out
  from other people. They may be in worn out jeans
  all the year round, or walk barefoot / in bare
  feet even in winter, or drink to excess, or cling
  to the fancy of creating a masterpiece without
  actually doing any creative work. In fact, many
  of them act like this just to look the part, or
  to be "in tune with" other artists. They have
  forgotten that only through persistent effort can
  one achieve success.

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Thanks for Your Attention