Unit 5 Section A

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Unit 5 Section A
Weeping for My Smoking Daughter
New Horizon College English
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Pre-class Tasks Checking
Text Comprehension
Difficult Sentences
Words and Phrases
Summary
Writing
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Pre-class Tasks Checking
BACK
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A. Under what circumstance will people smoke?
Tips pressure, curiosity about the smell of
cigarettes, imitation, bad mood, improving work
efficiency, having nothing to do, etc.
B. What harm may smoking do to us?
Tips health problems (e.g. lung cancer),
polluted air,terrible smell, etc.
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• Should we smoke in public places?

Watch the video clip and try to answer the
question What does the advertisement tell us?
Reference for the sake of our clean air, dont
smoke!
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ROLE PLAY
One of your roommates is smoking, you and
your other roommates are trying to persuade him/
her not to smoke.
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• Text Comprehension

Text Structure
Questions Answering
BACK
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I. Text Structure
I feel terrible seeing my daughter smoking.
Part I (Para.1)
Part ? (Para. 2-5)
My fathers story.
The cases in Third World countries.
Part ? (Para. 6)
The authors feeling as a mother and her view on
smoking.
Part ? (Para. 7-8)
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II. Questions Answering
Part I (Para.1)
Camel, Marlboro and Player , what are they
according to the text?
Tip cigarette brands
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Part ? (Para. 2-5)

1. What did the authors father smoke before he
   smoked cigarettes made by manufactures?

Tip Prince Albert, tobacco, roll
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Part ? (Para. 2-5)
2. What effects did the Hollywood movies have on
her father?
Tip hook by, heroes, fashionable,
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Part ? (Para. 2-5)
3. What do you know about the authors father
from Para.3?
Tip not fashionable at all, poor, overweight,
hard-working, colored man, too large a family,
smoked
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Part ? (Para. 2-5)
4. How did smoking hurt her fathers health?
Tip breath, wheeze, rest when climbing stairs,
cough, pneumonia
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Part ? (Para. 6)
In the Third World countries, how is money spent?
What results from that?
Tip goes instead to the tobacco companies, starve
themselves for both food and air, weakening
hooking and killing
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Part ? (Para. 7-8)
1. Why does the author feel a deep hurt as a
mother?
Tip carefully,pregnant, patiently
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Part ? (Para. 7-8)
2. How does the author view smoking?
Tip self-battering,batters,sit by.
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Difficult Sentences
Paraphrase

Translation
BACK
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• Sentence 1 When she smoked Marlboros and
  Players I hardened myself against feeling so bad
  (L9)

Paraphrase When she smoked Marlboros and
Players I made myself become less sympathetic and
less easily affected emotionally

• harden sb. against doing sth. make sb. stronger
  to keep from doingsth.
• -en????????????????????,???,??????sharpen,
  weaken, strengthen, loosen, soften, quicken???

Translation??????????????,?????,????????
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• Sentence 2 The tobacco industry, coupled with
  Hollywood movies in which both male and female
  heroes smoked like chimneys, completely won over
  people like my father, who were hopelessly hooked
  by cigarettes. (L.19)

• coupled with together with

Translation???,???????????????????????????
????????????,?????????????
Paraphrase The tobacco industry, together with
films made in Hollywood in which both male and
female heroes smoked a lot, completely attracted
people like my father, who were hopelessly
addicted to smoking cigarettes.
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• Sentence 3There are large advertisement signs
  directed at them both the tough, confident or
  fashionable older man, the beautiful, worldly
  young woman, both dragging away. (L.40)

Paraphrase There are large advertising signs
telling people about a certain brand of
cigarettes in order to encourage them to buy it
and the signs are aimed to attract the attention
of people like my father and daughter the adult
man who is strong, confident and fashionable, and
the woman who is pretty and experienced, both of
them smoke.
Translation???????????????????????????????,??
??????????,???????
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• Sentence 4 over time, people starve
  themselves of both food and air, effectively
  weakening and hooking their children, eventually
  killing themselves. (L.44)

Paraphrase as time passes by, people cause
themselves to suffer from not having enough food
to eat or fresh air to breathe, effectively
making their children weaker and dependent or
relying on cigarettes, and finally killing
themselves.
Translation ????,????????,?????????,????????
???????,?????????,???????????
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• Sentence 5 I realize now that as a child I sat
  by, through the years, and literally watched my
  father kill himself Surely one such victory in
  my family, for the prosperous leaders who own the
  tobacco companies, is enough. (L.61)

Paraphrase Now I come to know the fact that
through the years when I was a little child, I
sat there watching my father kill himself Surely
the rich owners of the tobacco companies have won
a victory in my family, but one such victim is
enough (otherwise it would be too much for my
family).
Translation???????,???????????,??????????????
?,??????????????????????????,????????????,????????
?
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Words and Phrases
Chinese to English
Word Replacing
Word Using
Guessing Game
BACK
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I. Chinese to English

• ??(?)
• ????
• ????
• ????
• ????
• ????

• geometry
• plane geometry
• solid geometry
• analytical geometry
• a package of cigarettes
• a package of peas

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• ?????
• ?????
• ?????
• ?????
• ??
• ??,????

• filtered cigarettes
• filtered coffee
• Hollywood movies
• an advertisement of a new product
• inner cities

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• an experienced and worldly man
• family reunion
• rat poison
• poisonous gas
• agricultural insecticide
• chemical insecticide

• ??????????
• ????
• ???
• ??
• ?????
• ?????

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?. Word Replacing
1. The old man was most thankful to his neighbors
for sending for a doctor.
was thankful for
was grateful for
2. The actors were wearing the finest costumes.
were wearing
were dressed in
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3. The writer wrote with plain words together
with humor.
together with
coupled with
4. She really worried about her son who got
addicted to computer games.
addicted to
hooked by
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5. Most Disney cartoons are aimed to attract
young audiences.
are directed at
are aimed to attract
6. The headmaster said the school was suffering
from not having fund resources.
was suffering from not having
was being starved of
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?. Word Using
1. pick sth./sb. up (L.4) ? take hold of and
lift ??,??,??
Translation ???????????? Key I picked up the
telephone and dialed/ rang her number.
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1. pick sth. up ? learn sth. without
formal lessons
pick up a foreign language ????????
Translation Joe picked up a lot of Italian by
watching soap-operas on TV. Key Joe
??????????????????????

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1. pick sb. up ? collect sb., in a car,
etc. ????
Translation ???????????????????? Key Weve
ordered a taxi to pick us up at ten.
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2. manufacture n. (L.12) a person or firm that
produces goods
collocation
a car a computer an electronics
?????
??????
manufacturer
???????
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2. manufacture v. make sth. in large quantities
using machines
Translation ??????????????????
manufacturing industries ???
Key Haier is an enterprise that manufactures
high-quality household appliance.
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3. slim adj. (L.38) ? thin not fat
slender
e.g. a slim-waisted girl ??????
Translation ???????????
Key She has got a lovely slim figure.
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3. slim adj. ? not thick small
insufficient
e.g. a slim pocket-book ??????
Translation ?????????
Key Her chances of success are very slim.
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3. slim vi. become or try to become thinner
by eating less, taking exercises, etc.
Use it
e.g. slimming exercises ????????
Another piece of cake?
No, thanks. Im slimming.
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4. weaken v. (L.45) make or become weak or
weaker
Translation ?????????????????
Translation ???????,?????????
Key She slowly weakened as the disease
progressed.
Key The fall in productivity has weakened the
countrys economy.
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5. swallow vt. (L.47) ? cause or allow to go
down the throat
Translation
?????????????????
Key
If you dont chew your food properly, its
difficult to swallow.
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5. swallow vt. ? believe sth. too easily
Translation He swallowed her story
whole. Key ???????????
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6. bunch n. (L.48) a number of things tied or
grouped together
collocation
flowers grapes newspapers keys on a ring
??? ???? ???? ???????
a bunch of
grass growing in bunches ????
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7. zone n. (L.59) an area with a
particular quality or use
collocation
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a war zone
a no smoking/ smokeless zone
???
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an earthquake zone
an economic development zone
?????
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?. Guessing Game
Pair Work One student is supposed to
describe the new words presented on PPT, the
other is going to guess what is the word.
English description and body language are
allowed, Chinese is forbidden.
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• package
• ??,??

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• brand
• ??,??

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• reunion
• ??,??

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• manufacture
• ??

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• advertisement
• ??

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• swallow
• ??,??

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• shelter
• ???,???

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• starve
• (?)??

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Summary
BACK
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• Summarize the text using the tips below
• weep for her smoking daughter
• the same brand of cigarettes that killed her
  grandfather
• attracted by tobacco advertising and film actors
• health was getting worse and worse
• eventually died from
• the confident or fashionable older man or the
  beautiful, worldly young woman smoking
• is slowly killing herself
• a form of self-battering
• stop smoking at least at families

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Summary
A mother weeps for her smoking daughter
she is smoking the same brand of cigarettes that
killed her grandfather. Her grandfather used to
have glowing eyes before he was attracted by
tobacco advertising and film actors and began to
smoke. However, he did not look elegant or
fashionable as the advertisements showed. His
health was getting worse and worse, and
eventually died from the poor mans friend,
pneumonia.
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Summary
In the Third World countries, the mother sees
many large advertisement signs with the confident
or fashionable older man or the beautiful,
worldly young woman smoking. As a result, in
these poor countries, smoking makes the poor
even poorer and weaker. The mother feels
deeply hurt to see the care she took raising her
daughter thrown away as her 16-year-old daughter
is slowly killing herself. Smoking is a form of
self-battering that also batters their relatives
and the people around them, thus, to avoid more
tragedies, everyone must stop smoking at least
at families.
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Writing
Structure analysis

BACK
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Structure Analysis

• A Paragraph of Cause and Effect

The writer of the text presents us with a
horrible picture of the harmful effects of
smoking, and the harmful effects are described as
a result of the causesmoking.
Typical examples are
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1) Cause I do not remember when he started to
cough. Perhaps it was unnoticeable at first, a
little coughing in the morning as he lit his
first cigarette upon getting out of bed.
Effect By the time I was sixteen, my daughters
age, his breath was a wheeze, embarrassing to
hear he could not climb stairs without resting
every third of fourth step. It was not unusual
for him to cough for an hour. (Para. 4)
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2) Cause When I travel to Third World countries
I see many people like my father and daughter.
There were large advertisement signs directed at
them both the tough, confident or fashionable
older man, the beautiful, worldly young woman,
both dragging away.
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Effect In these poor countries, as in American
inner cities and on reservations, money that
should be spent for food goes instead to the
tobacco companies over time, people starve
themselves of both food and air, effectively
weakening and hooking their children, eventually
killing themselves. (Para. 6)
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