综合英语C-2

福建师范大学协和学院外语系 综合英语课程教学设计（教案）

Integrated Skills of English (Book Three)

Unit 2 Why My Great-uncle Gave up the Ministry

Teaching Objective After learning this unit, the students should be able to: 1. Learn expressions of describing a person’s behavior and impression through speaking practise; 2. Improve skills of reading, listening, writing, translating and speaking through the study of the text and the exercises Important/Difficult 1. Topic: Describing people and their behaviour 2. Grammar Points: Expand a sentence with infinitive to- structure and the Point(s) structure for (doing) something expressing \ 3. Vocabulary: jolly, beloved, concern, clumsy, inadvertently, panic (v.), devastated, bring oneself to do something, resolve to, retire, knock over, grope, in search for, retrace one's steps, smudge, crisp, mount, fixture, rip ... from, clutch, topple, rise to on feet, demolish, reverence 4. Writing: Describing people 6-8 periods Time allotment Materials Resources Instruction Types and Lectures and discussions Group-assignments Task-based exercises Multi-media Courseware; Textbook; Chalk; Blackboard Teaching Procedures and Contents:

Section 1: listening and speaking activities

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Pre-listening activities

? Guessing Game: Listen to a personal description, using the following chart to

take notes and guess who the person is. You may have three guesses. The person’s personality: ___________________________ The person’s appearance: ___________________________ The person’s manner: ____________________________

The person’s special deeds/action: ____________________________

? Brainstorming for words for expression:

1. Expressions for describing general impressions of a person:

Positive expressions: polite, smart, cute, nice, a good leader, well-educated, entle, charming, wise man

Negative expressions: clumsy, forgetful, rude, careless, stupid, a follower, (somebody) having

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福建师范大学协和学院外语系 综合英语课程教学设计（教案）

more age than

experience, wise guy (of someone who pretends to be smart, but actually behaves foolishly; cf. wise man)

Neutral expressions: funny (When used in an neutral way, the word means that someone's behaviour is laughable; but the expression can be slightly negative when it means that someone's behaviour is strange, abnormal, as in the saying: funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? This saying is used when someone says somebody is funny.) sensitive, forgetful 2. Expressions for describing someone's emotional changes:

Changes for the better: calm, cool, cheer up, feel better, be sympathetic with

Changes for the worse: get panicky, feel nervous, have butterflies in the stomach, get irritated / angry, become anxious, wear / have a questioning expression, be horrified, feel guilty, be embarrassed

3. Expressions of behaviour:

Silly behaviour: play the fool (e.g. to make people laugh), make a fool of oneself (unintentional), be up to no good / mischief (intentionally, usually in secret), mess / fool around (wasting one's time, behaving foolishly), behave badly, get into trouble

Good behaviour: be good / be as good as gold (of children, behaving very well), set a good example, turn over a new leaf, behave oneself

Neutral behaviour: behave, conduct oneself (behave in a particular way, such expressions are usually used with other qualifying expressions, e.g. conduct oneself responsibly; behave very well) 4. Expressions for social positions or titles:

headmaster, doctor, nurse, director, supervisor, head of department (HOD), chairman / chairwoman, professor, coach, president

5. Expressions for commenting on personalities:

can't stand, (can't) put up with, It takes all sorts (to make a world). To err is human, to forgive is divine. (someone's silly behaviour) almost brings down the house, arouse hilarious laughter, be disgusted at / with

? Pre-reading questions:

Do you know your grandma’s/grandpa’s birthday? Do you know the shoe size of your father/mother? What is your parents’ wedding anniversary?

II. Listening comprehesion

? Listen to the conversations and answer the questions on page 15. (refernce answers

included)

1. Why did John visit an old people’s nursing home?

John had to write an essay. The essay would be about an elderly person, but John knew

little about old people. John’s teacher advised him to visit an old people’s nursing home. 2. What happened in the office of the nursing home?

John felt nervous when he first entered the office, but the director was very nice to him.

She showed him a list of the old people living there and helped him to choose an old lady to visit.

3. How did the old lady strike John?

John found that the old lady was a bit deaf and clumsy, but that she was diligently

knitting. She was crazy.

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福建师范大学协和学院外语系 综合英语课程教学设计（教案）

4. What happened weeks after John’s visit?

John received a package in which he found a wool sweater. A note from the director of

the nursing home said that it was given to him by the old lady as a gift for visiting her. The old lady was very happy when she died a few days before. ? Notes on the Script:

1) wrinkled: refers to the lines in something which is folded or crushed, especially on the skin when a person is old.

2) attach to: to come to; to cause to join as a member of in action

? Task 2: Fill in the blanks with words and expressions your hear. (see.ppt)

III. Speaking Task: Make your own dialogue

? Task 1: Prepare a short story to give an interesting account of someone and his/her

typical behavior. You may tell a true story or use your imagination.

? Task 2 : Picture Description: Look at the picture in section 3C on page 16 and

speculate on: Who is the lady?

Where are her husband and children? What was she trying to do before this? What happened to her then? How did it happen?

What happened then to her house and furniture? What finally became of her?

Section 2: Reading comprehension and detailed text analysis I．Pre-reading tasks----discuss the following questions:

1) Have you ever done something foolish or made any mistake accidentally, for example,

cheating in the exams or telling lies?

2) What feelings do you have when you commit a folly? 3) What will be your best ways to make good a loss?

List the follies that you have committed in your life. And then describe your feelings and emotions as afterthought. The follies that you committed once Your feelings or emotions as afterthought (a story) Give your story here:

Describe your feelings then and now: II. Background information

? Organization of the text

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福建师范大学协和学院外语系 综合英语课程教学设计（教案）

Para 1- gives a general description of the narrator’s great-uncle and his accidental killing of a small dog because of his clumsiness.

Para 2-3 give an account of how his clumsiness led to a terrible mess in the guest room during his visit to the lady.

Para 4-6: describe how the narrator’s great-uncle damaged a beautiful candelabra when he rushed downstairs.

Para 7: tells the great-uncle retired from the ministry and became a teacher of philosophy.

III． Understanding the main content of the text

? Main idea:

My great uncle Alden Bentley used to be a full-time Baptist minister. He was beloved and considered as a wonderful, jolly, gentle man despite his large size. However, his terrible clumsiness, seemingly his only real fault, led him to give up his profession. During a pastoral call a South Carolinian woman, this clumsy young minister inadvertently sat on and killed her pet dog, but he was too panicky to tell her the truth. Five years later, he revisited the woman, intending to confess his guilt. Then unfortunately, his clumsiness left a horrible mess of the guest room he slept in. At last, he unburdened himself. Before long, he retired from ministry and turned to teaching in a private preparatory school. ? Comprehension work (questions and answers) 1. How does the narrator describe her great-uncle?

Her great-uncle was a full-time Baptist minister and his only fault was his clumsiness.

He was a very large man, who was over 6 feet and weighed close to 300 pounds. On the whole the narrator thinks of her great-uncle as a wonderful, jolly and beloved man. He was kindly, gentle, and well-educated.

2. What was his first accident? What was his feeling?

When he was visiting a woman in Dillon, the Baptist minister inadvertently sat on the

woman’s small dog and unfortunately killed it. When he realized what he had done, the narrator’s great-uncle was devastated, but could not bring himself to tell her about it. He slipped the dead dog into her coat pocket. 3. What was his second accident?

Five years later when the narrator’s great-uncle revisited the woman’s home, he was

welcomed and put up for one night. In the night, he got up to open the window and knocked over a bottle of ink in the process. Then, groping along the walls for the light, he covered the fresh wallpaper with huge black ink blobs and smudged the crisp new curtains with his huge palm prints. The next morning when he woke up and found what had happened, he rushed downstairs and his foot slipped. Reaching for support he accidentally grabbed the beautiful candelabra nearby and ripped it from the wall.

4. Why did the Baptist minister say to the woman “Twinkie had a Christian burial”? During his visit, the Baptist minister meant to tell the woman what had happened to

Twinkie. He was conscience-stricken for having kept her in the dark for almost five years. Now, he resolved to clear his conscience by telling the truth. He also hoped that he would be redeemed by faithfully performing his duty of guiding the soul of the dog to heaven.

IV. Text Analysis and translation

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福建师范大学协和学院外语系 综合英语课程教学设计（教案）

1. Para1. The following sad but true tale concerns my great-uncle, a wonderful, jolly, beloved man who was over six feet four and probably weighed close to three hundred pounds. He was also well-educated and in the early 1900s became a full-time Baptist minister. A kindly, gentle man despite his size, Uncle Alden Bentley's only real fault seemed to be that he was terribly clumsy. 译文：下面讲述的是一个有关我叔祖伤感而真实的故事。他是一个能干的、快活的、受人爱戴的人，身高6英尺，体重近 300磅。他受过良好的教育，在20世纪初，成为一个全职的牧师。尽管身躯庞大，但他温文尔雅，心地善良。叔公阿尔登·本特利惟一的缺点就是行动笨拙。 1） concern: v. a. to relate, be about 关于，与。。。有关，涉及

This story concerns a little girl called Alice, a lovely, pretty and charming child who discovers an amazing Wonderland.

b. to affect, worry使关心 (with)，担心，挂念，忧虑 (for, about, over) She was concerned about the growth of her children.

concern oneself (in / about / with ): to interest oneself in sth., be busy with sth. There's no need to concern yourself with this matter; we're dealing with it. c. to be relevant or important to关系到；影响，涉及(某人的)利害 I am not concerned with it. 那件事和我没关系[我不知情]。 He doesn't bother about things that don't concern him.

2) jolly: a. joyful, merry, jovial (of person or thing) pleasant, delightful I prefer a jolly companion to a dull man. What jolly weather we have today!

[idioms] a jolly dog (slang): a joyful person

Jolly Roger: pirate's black flag, usu. with skull and cross-bones 3)beloved: a. much loved n. much loved person

This well-beloved novel sells up to five edition. Nobody would neglect his beloved.

4) Baptist minister: A Baptist minister is a clergyman of a Christian denomination that believes in baptism.

Baptism: a religious ceremony, in which a person is sprinkled with or immersed in water as a sign that he / she has become spiritually pure and his / her sins have been washed away. The person thus becomes a member of this Christian church. 5) kindly: a. kind, kind hearted; ( of climate ) pleasant

The students were watching her with kindly interest.

ad. in a kind or friendly way

Kindly take your hands off my knee. [idiom] ( not ) take kindly to sth.: ( not ) like sth.

I don't think he takes kindly to foreign tourists.

6) clumsy: a. awkward in movement or shape ; tactless; difficult to handle or use

John's efforts to make up his relationship with his family were clumsy and naive. He carried a large suitcase and clumsily went upstairs.

2. Para. 1 As a young minister, he was paying a pastoral call one day on a woman in Dillon, South Carolina, when he inadvertently sat on her Chihuahua, Twinkie, and killed it. As the lady searched for and called for her dog throughout the house, Uncle Alden felt underneath his hip and, realising what he had done, panicked and slipped the dead dog into his coat pocket. Although he was

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