Carol Siskin
The Virtues of Growing Older
Lesson 1: Overview
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Pre-reading questions
Background information
New words and expressions
A global picture
Pre-reading Questions
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What are the virtues of being old?
What are the virtues of being young?
What are the vices of being old?
What are the vices of being young?
active
energetic
flexible
adaptable
curious
rebellious
contradictory
unrealistic
quick in
response
radical
ambitious
reckless
creative
easily
distracted
conceited
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Wise
Experienced
Independent
Mature
Philosophical
Contented
Confident
Thrifty
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Slow & Weak
Forgetful
Chatter
Untidy
Prone to hoard
Miserly
Sceptical
Superstitious
Background Information
• What is an “Ageing Society”?
• According to the definition of the UNESCO,
a country or region becomes an aging
society once:
– people 60 years old and older make up 10%
of its population
– a group of 65-year-olds and above account
for 7% of the populace
Background Information
• Is China an aging society now?
• Yes. China has 人口普查统计
crossed the threshold of aging
society by the United Nations’ criteria. The 2009
demographic census statistics showed that
– people aged 60 and older (167 million)
already accounted for 12.5% of the general
population
– this number is increasing by 3 million every
year.
– Experts predict that the group of people aged
65 and above would make up 20% by 2035.
Background Information
• What are the problems of an aging
society?
– Demand for the infrastructure（基础设施）
and social services
– Demand for effective pension and healthcare
system
– A labor resource shortage
– The high preventive bank saving rate
– A dilemma of family planning policy
Empty Nesters
As I sit here alone
I see nothing but people passing me by
I try to smile and to say "Hi"
But no one notices someone who is being kind
They look to me like I am nothing
Then they turn their heads
Seeming to be afraid to be seen saying "Hi" to an
old man like me
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— 2001 by Michelle Korgis-Fitzpatrick
New Words & Expressions
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Reading aloud (page 91)
Meaning and use
Word derivation
Word association
Word differentiation
Understanding the Meaning
• Grecian Formula
a popular men’s
hair product in the
US.
Three easy-to-use forms:
* Grecian Liquid
* Grecian Cream
* Grecian Plus
Understanding the Meaning
• Oil of Olay
a product of the world-famous Procter &
Gamble Corporation（宝洁公司）. It
was born in 1950s.
Understanding the Meaning
• Gym
– I take yoga
lessons at a ~.
(= gymnasium)
– I can’t do ~
today.
(=gymnastics)
<syn.> Stadium
Health center
Understanding the Meaning
• Jog
– She ~s round the
park for half an
hour every
morning.
• Jogging
– He decided to go
~ each morning.
Understanding the Meaning
• Aging = ageing
– Is ~ an experience to be dreaded?
Aging Process (18-68)
18
28
38
48
58
68
Understanding the Meaning
• Milk shake
• Slush
Lemon squash
punch
Word Expansion
sundae
puff
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ice-cream cones
fruit jelly
egg tart
Understanding the Meaning
• Wiry
– Mr. Gates was a ~ little man.
(=rather thin, but with strong
muscles 精瘦结实的)
– That boy has got ~ black
hair.
(=resembling wire in form
and texture 金属丝般坚硬的)
Understanding the Meaning
• Loose-fitting
Loose-fitting
pants
Loose-fitting blouse
Understanding the Meaning
• School blazer
front
back
Understanding the Meaning
• Tailor
– The ~ makes
the man.
人靠衣装。
– The best tailors
tailored him.
第一流的裁缝替
他做衣服。
–The lie has been ~ed to look like the truth.
Understanding the Meaning
• Freak
– This man is a real ~.
– Snowing in this season is
a ~ of nature.
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It sort of frightens
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me. I guess I am
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kind of freaked
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out by it.
Understanding the Meaning
Apple pie
Pecan pie
Chicken pie
Understanding the Meaning
• Lanky
ungracefully tall
and thin
– That ~ man used
to be a basketball
player.
– The ~ man in the
picture is a newlywed.
Blank-filling Exercise
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Why are people so obsessed
o________ with money?
You do look a freak
f______ in those clothes.
He lay writhing on the ground in agony
a_____.
No one could have come out of that
bombardment with his sanity
s______.
• If the p_______
premise is true, then the
conclusion must be true.
• How was it that she could tolerate
t_______ such
noise?
Word Derivation
V.
tolerate
tailor
age
N.
toleration
tailor
aging
A.
tolerant
tailor-made
aged/age
V.
idealize
freak
agonize
N.
ideal
freak
agony
A.
ideal
freak/freakish
agonizing
Word Derivation
V.
criticize
N. criticism/critic
accomplish
automate
~ment
automation
A.
critical
accomplished
automatical
N.
gym
teens
sanity
A.
gymnastic
teenage
sane
N.
fever
adolescence
muscle
A.
feverish
adolescent
muscular
Word Derivation
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plead → <n.>
dread → <adj.>
lanky → <n.>
wiry → <n.>
tolerate → <adj.>
convince → <adj.>
slave → <v.>
pursue → <n.>
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plea
dreadful
lankiness
wiriness
tolerable
convincing
enslave
pursuit
Word Association
• Mega-dose
• Take one dose of this cough syrup
three times a day.
• Mega-: <origin from Greek> great
– The film is set to earn megabucks.
– Tom Cruise is a Hollywood megastar.
– Can you imagine the power of a 100megaton bomb? （百万吨/兆吨）
– megabyte (MB); mega-city; mega-jet
Word Association
Our life journey:
child → Infant → baby → toddler →
little girl/boy → girl/boy → teenager →
adolescent → youth → adult → middle
age → old age / grey hair / senior citizen /
elderly / OAP (=old age pensioner)
Word Differentiation
• Convince vs. Persuade
convince them of your
• You'll need to _________
enthusiasm for the job.
• Despite all my efforts to persuade
________ him ,he
wouldn't agree.
convinced them of our
• We finally __________
innocence.
• Try to persuade
_________ them to come with us.
Word Differentiation
• Idea vs. Ideal
• With clear water and green mountains, this
ideal
place is an _______
for a holiday.
• It is a good _______
to do some research
idea
before you go.
idea
• The purpose is to get a better _______
of
consumer tastes.
ideal
• The swimming pool is _______
for a quick
dip.
Word Differentiation
• Loose; lose; loss
• He’d moved to another job; it’s a great
loss
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to our firm.
losing her
• Linda was very upset about _______
job.
• I can’t open the door because I’ve
lost
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the key.
loose
• You’d better wear your hair ________.
Word Differentiation
• Careless vs. Carefree
• After finishing the Band Four Exam, we all
carefree
felt happy and __________.
careless
• She had been __________
and had left
the window unlocked.
• People always tend to look back on their
carefree time.
childhood as a _________
Word Differentiation
• Quirk vs. Coincidence
• By some _________
of fate the two of us
quirk
were on the same train.
• They accepted her attitude as one of her
quirks
little __________.
• It was a coincidence
__________ that she was wearing
a jersey exactly like Laura’s.
• They met by coincidence
____________.
Word Differentiation
• Phase vs. Phrase
• Don’t worry about your son’s shyness; it’s
phase he’s going through.
just a ________
phrase is “it’s a pleasure”.
• His favorite ________
phrase
• It’s important to _________
the question
correctly.
phases of Picasso’s work.
• It covers all ________
Assignment: A Mini-Speech Contest
• Each of you is to use your wildest
imagination to get prepared for a 2-minute
mini-speech on the following topic:
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If I were 60, I
would…
Thank you!
To be continued.
Lesson 2: Overview
• Word review
• Text analysis
– Comprehension
– Language points
– Sentence highlights
Word Matching
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Words
tolerate
adolescent
agony
freak
feverishly
convince
accomplished
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Synonyms
anguish
skilled
oddity
endure
persuade
teenage
excitedly
Word Matching
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sanity
worship
lanky
wiry
feverish
slave
critical
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Antonyms
stocky
master
despise
complimentary
flabby
insanity
calm
Word Review
• We finally convinced
c__________ them of our
innocence.
• One of his quirks
q______ is that he
refuses to travel by train.
• He was obsessed
o_________ with a craving
for materialistic gratification.
• His legs are strong and
muscular
m__________.
• Cars will be automatically
a___________
controlled by computer in the future.
Word Review
• What are the major and minor
premise on which the conclusion is
p______
based?
• It was comic to see him trying to get
his lanky
l______ frame into that small car.
• She wondered if she was losing her
sanity
s_______.
accomplished at the left• Tom was a____________
handed manipulation of the dinner
fork.
A Global Picture
• What is the writer’s attitude towards
growing old?
• What is the author’s purpose of writing?
• The writer’s purpose is not to deny the
virtues of being young, but to point out
some advantages of growing older that
have been overlooked.
A Global Picture
• What are the main benefits of growing old
listed in the text?
• Being less obsessed with one’s
appearance (para.3).
• Being less uncertain about the unknowns
(para.4).
• Being sure of one’s identity (para.5).
Structure of the Text
• Part I (para.1-2)
– her own view about growing older
• Part II (para.3-5)
– advantages of growing older
• Part III (para.6)
– her parents' contentment
Text Analysis
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Part I (para.1-2):
Comprehension questions
Language points
Sentence highlights
Comprehension Questions
• Why do people want to
hide their gray hair and
delay the effect of aging?
• What does the author
mean when she says “ it
is un-American to say so”?
• Does the writer deny the
virtues of being young?
Language Points
• Worship (para.1)
– There is a church where people have
~ped for hundreds of years.
– He absolutely ~s her. (=love or admire)
– The hero-worship of the fans
gathered at the airport.
– We were soon joined by His Worship
the Mayor.（used in addressing or
referring to an important person 市长阁
下）
Language Points
• work out (para.1): engage in
vigorous physical exercise
– I ~ out regularly to keep fit.
– She’s ~ing out in the gym.
– He ~s out with the team three times
weekly.
– Things ~ed out quite differently.
– I can’t ~ out the meaning of this poem.
Language Points
• Idioms with “age”:
• age bracket=age group=age range
• age of consent: the age when someone can
legally get married or have a sexual relationship
– The general ~ of consent for sexual activity is 16.
• in this day and age: at the present time
– Why dress so formally in this day and ~?
• come of age: reach adult status
– The company was to be held in trust for Eddie until
he came of ~.
Language Points
• the New Age movement: it is both a
religious and a social movement relating to
spiritual beliefs, types of medicine, and
ways of living that are not
traditional Western ones
– Meditation
– Astrology
– Alternative medicine
Language Points
• Sign with the devil (para.2):
• A deal/pact
with
the
Devil,
or
theme
Faustian bargain is a cultural
motif widespread in the West,
best exemplified by the legend
of Faust and the figure of
Mephistopheles.
– He made a deal with the devil for the gift of
music.
Sentence Highlight
• …gladly sign with the devil
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just to be young again?
• … gladly sign a contract
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with the devil so that the
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devil would help you
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become young again
• …be ready to do anything, even to work for
the devil just to be young again
Language Points
• Dread (para.2)
– I ~ to think what Russell will say.
– The thought of returning to London
filled her with ~.
• Un-American (para.2)
• Prefix un- is added to adjectives or
participles to denote the absence of
a quality or state, meaning “not”.
Language Points
• The prefix un- and non- both mean “not”,
but there is often a distinction in terms of
emphasis. Un- tends to be stronger and
less neutral than non-.
– His language was refreshingly un-academic.
– A non-academic life suits him.
– He has applied for a nonscientific job in the
Civil Service. (=not connected with science)
– It was unscientific not to measure your results.
Sentence Highlight
• Perhaps it is un-American to say
so,… (para.2)
• Perhaps it is contrary to the values
commonly held by most American
people,…
• Perhaps it is not in agreement with
the American idea,…
Sentence Highlight
• Wouldn’t any person…? Isn’t aging an
experience to be dreaded? (para.2)
• Rhetorical question:
– O, Wind, if winter comes, can spring be far
behind? (Shelly)
– When Adam delved and Eve span, who
was then the gentleman? (John Ball)
– How dare you ask me such a question?
(Bernard Shaw)
Text Analysis
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Part II (para.3-5):
Comprehension questions
Language points
Sentence
highlights
Comprehension Questions
• What is the first advantage of
growing older?
• What technique is used to project
the difference between adolescents
and people in their forties?
• Is it accurate to say that older
people are totally free from
uncertainty?
Comprehension Questions
• What technique is used by the author to
project the difference between
adolescents and people in their forties?
• The technique of contrast is used.
– adolescents “feel anxious about what others
will think”
– older people are happy “as long as we feel
good about how we look”
Language Points
• be apt to (para.3): to have a natural
tendency to do something
– This kind of shoe is ~ to slip on wet ground.
– Babies are ~ to put objects into their mouths.
• Cf: be inclined to: have a tendency to do
sth
– She’s inclined to gossip with complete
strangers.
Language Points
• Per`fect (para.3): <v.>
– He’s busy ~ing his bowling technique.
– She strove to be the `perfect wife.<adj.>
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the object <n.>
the produce <n.>
the increase <n.>
the contrast <n.>
the protest <n.>
to object <v.>
to produce <v.>
to increase <v.>
to contrast <v.>
to protest <v.>
Language Points
• be obsessed with (para.3)
– Some women are ~ with the need to keep
their home as clean as a hospital.
– The girl was ~ with the desire to become a
movie star.
• plead (para.3):make an emotional appeal
– The wife of one of the hostages appeared on
TV last night to ~ for her husband’s life.
– He refused to listen to her tearful pleas.
Sentence Highlight
• When young, you are apt to be obsessed
with your appearance. (para.3)
• When you are young, you are likely to
focus all your attention on your
appearance.
Language Points
• fall apart (pa.3)
– This cup just fell apart in my hands.
– The world's transport systems would ~ apart
without a supply of electricity.
没有电力供应全世界的运输系统将陷于瘫痪。
• would be v-ing (pa.3)
– He said that they would be reading when she came.
– He asked me what I would be doing when he
came the next day.
Sentence Highlight
• If our parents didn’t get them for us,
we felt our world would fall apart.
(para.3)
• If our parents didn’t get the “right”
clothes we wanted, we felt our
world would break up /
disintegrate.
Language Points
• Smartly (para.3): in a stylish way
– Nancy ~ dressed and aloof.
南希衣着入时，神情冷淡。
– He drew himself up,
saluted ~. 他打起精神,敬
了一个很帅的礼。
Smartly tailored
leather jacket →
Sentence Highlight
• I often wonder how my parents, and
parents in general, manage to
tolerate their children during the
adolescent years. (para.3)
• I often wonder how my parents,
and parents as a whole try to
endure their children during the
adolescent years.
Language Points
• at the mercy of (para.3): completely in
the power of
– The dog’s life is at the ~ of its master.
– They were lost at the ~ of the wind and
weather.
– The gunmen showed no mercy in killing
innocent men and women.
– It is a mercy that no one was killed in the car
crash.
– Is mercy killing illegal in your country?
Sentence Highlight
• And women, I’m embarrassed to
admit, even more than men, have
always seemed to be at the mercy of
fashion. (para.3)
• I am embarrassed to admit that
women are less capable than men
of resisting the temptation of
fashion.
Comprehension (para.4)
• What is the second advantage of
being older?
• Which sentence pinpoints the
writer’s view?
• The last sentence: what truly worries
the young people is not the problem
of age, but the unknowns in the
future.
Language Points
• be preferable to (para.4)
– Poverty is ~ to ill health.
– Anything is ~ to having her stay for a whole
week.
• await (para.4)
– I am ~ing their reply.
– She is in prison ~ing trial.
– The committee is ~ing a decision from head
office before it takes any action.
Sentence Highlight
• …major decisions await you at every
turn. (para.4)
• …major decisions are there for
your to make at every important
point in your life.
Language Points
• It is no wonder (para.4)
– It is no ~ you can’t sleep when you eat so
much.
– It’s no ~ you have a stomachache. I told you
not to eat so much ice-cream.
• facade (para.4)
– They hid the troubles plaguing their marriage
behind a ~ of family togetherness.
– Behind her cheerful ~ , she's a really lonely
person.
Sentence Highlight
• It’s no wonder that, despite their carefree
facade, they are often confused,
uncertain, and troubled by all the
unknowns in their future. (para.4)
• It is not surprising / only too natural
that although they seem to have no
worries or problems, they are often
confused, uncertain, and anxious by
all the unknowns in their future.
Comprehension (para.5)
• What is the greatest benefit of
growing older?
• How does the author contrast young
people with older ones in terms of
self-identity?
• The author implied that lack of the
knowledge about yourself can bring
about a kind of adolescent insanity.
Language Points
• unsettling (para.5): causing to feel
anxious and uneasy
– It has become a potentially ~ element in
East-West relations. （不稳定因素）
– All this talk of death was ~ him. <v.>
• Take up with (para.5)
– The girl is ~ing up with the Smith boys.
– His mind was wholly ~n up with the
question.(=fully occupied by)
Sentence Highlight
• It means trying on new selves by
taking up with different crowds.
(para.5)
• It means that you make friends
with different people in order to
find new identity for yourself.
Language Points
• resent (para.5): feel annoyed about
– He bitterly ~s being treated like a child.
– She ~ed his/him making all the decisions.
– I bitterly ~ his attempts to interfere in my work.
• accomplished (para.5)
– Both my parents are ~ musicians.有造诣的
– That smoking causes health problems is an ~
fact. (=unquestionable)
Language Points
• by way of (para.5)
– We had some sandwiches by ~ of a meal.
– By ~ of introducing himself, he showed me his
card.
• keep a running score (para.5): keep a
continuous record
– Is anybody keeping (the) ~ in this game?
– Let me keep the ~ for you.
Sentence Highlight
• I no longer blame my parents for my
every personality quirk or keep a running
score of everything they did wrong
raising me. (para.5)
• I no longer blame my parents for every
strange aspect of my personality or keep
reminding myself of the unhappy things
that my parents did to me in the process
of bringing me up.
Comprehension (Part III)
• What does the author mainly tell us
in the last paragraph?
• What significance does the author
draw from her parents’ contentment
in their sixties?
• The newer (younger) is not
necessarily better, and one can be
happier than before as he/she grows
older.
Language Points
• gladden (para.6): make glad
– The sight of the child running about after his
long illness ~ed his father’s heart.
– The high, childish laugh was a sound that ~ed
her heart.
• hold out (para.6)
– These plans ~ out the prospect of new jobs
for the area.
– I don’t ~ out much hope that the weather will
improve.
Sentence Highlight
• Their contentment holds out great
promise for me as I move into the
next… (para.6)
• Their contentment makes me believe
that I’ll also be happy as I move into
the next…
Thank you!
To be continued.
Lesson 3: Overview
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Duty report
Translation practice
Exercise highlights
Oral practice
Students’ Duty Report
• Translation of Trademarks
• Story of Faust
• Social Welfare
Johann Georg
Faust
Dr Johann
Georg
Faust
巡游的
炼金术士
(1480-1540)
was
an
占星家
itinerant alchemist,
astrologer, and
magician of the
German Renaissance.
His life became the
nucleus of the popular
17th Century German tale of Doctor Faust.
Portrait of Faust
Story of Faust
• Though a highly successful scholar, Faust
is bored and disappointed.
• He decides to make a deal with the devil,
exchanging his
________
soul for unlimited
knowledge
__________ and worldly
pleasures
_________.
• In response, the Devil's
representative Mephistopheles
appears.
Story of Faust
• Mephistopheles makes a bargain with
Faust: Mephistopheles will serve Faust
with his magic powers for a term of years,
but at the end of the term, the Devil will
claim Faust's soul and Faust will be
eternally damned.
be condemned by God to suffer
eternal punishment in hell
Story of Faust
• During the term, Faust makes
use of Mephistopheles in
various ways.
• In many versions of the story,
Mephistopheles helps him to
seduce a beautiful and
innocent girl, usually named
Gretchen, who is destroyed.
Story of Faust
• However, Gretchen's naive innocence
saves her in the end and she enters
Heaven
_________.
• Faust, however, is
irrevocably corrupted,
and when the term
ends, the Devil
carries him off to
Hell
______.
Goethe's Faust
• The most important version
of the legend is the play
Faust by the 18th-century
German author Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe.
• A hybrid between a play and an extended
poem, Goethe's two-part “closet drama"
ends in a Faust being saved and carried
aloft to heaven.
案头剧；
书斋剧
Influence
• The story of Faust inspired a great deal of
a sound moral story
literature, music and illustration.
• It remains a resonant parable on scientific
learning and religion, passion and
seduction, independence and love, as well
as other subjects.
• Faust is a scientific empiricist who is
forced to confront questions of goodevil
and
theand
devil
_____, God
_______, sexuality and
mortality.
Translation Practice
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embarrassed
convince
contradict
beyond
make a
choice
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deny oneself
take up with
in the mood
work out
be obsessed
with
Useful Words & Idioms
• embarrassed
– Her husband’s drunken behavior ~ her.
她丈夫的醉后举止使她难堪。
– We are not trying to ~ him in any way.
我们一点也不想使他为难。
– He felt catered to and at the same time ~.
他感到受宠若惊。
– Heavy gambling losses ~ him.
赌博输掉大量钱财，这使他经济拮据。
Useful Words & Idioms
• convince
– 他设法使陪审团(jury)相信他是无罪的.
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He managed to ~ the jury of his
innocence.
I hope this
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failure will ~ you to change your mind.
– 他没能使董事们相信他的计划是可行的.
He failed to ~ the directors that his plan/
proposal would work.
Useful Words & Idioms
• contradict
– If you will excuse my presumption, I should like to ~
what you have just said. 假如你能原谅我的放肆，
我想对你刚才说的话表示异议。
– Recent evidence has tended to ~ established theories
on this subject. 新的证据似乎与原有理论相驳
– 如果你再和我作对，我就炒你鱿鱼。
If you ~ me once more, you’re fired.
– 约翰对事件的陈述和彼得说的截然相反。
John’s account of the event directly ~s Peter’s.
Useful Words & Idioms
• beyond
– She seems to be mature ~ her years.
她似乎比她的实际年龄显得成熟。
– I was touched ~ words by her story.
– 这座小镇变得都认不出来了。
The small town has changed ~ recognition.
– 竟然有这么蠢的人，简直让人难以置信。
It’s ~ belief that anyone could be so stupid.
– 她的美貌无与伦比。Her beauty is ~ compare.
Useful Words & Idioms
• make a choice
她被迫在家庭和事业之间做出决择She
。 was forced
to make a ~ between family and career.
She felt it
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她觉得在这两个男人之间很难做出选择。
very difficult make a ~ between the two men.
– We offer these materials in order to help
students make more informed career ~s.
我们提供这些材料以便帮助学生在了解更多信息
的前提下做出就业的选择。
Useful Words & Idioms
• deny oneself
– We ~ied ourselves for years, until we’d
finished paying for the house.
– 为了减肥，她克制自己不吃甜食。
She ~ied herself all the sweet foods in
order to lose weight/go on a diet.
– 母亲节衣缩食使孩子们受到了好的教育。
By ~ing herself, Mother gave the
children a good education.
Useful Words & Idioms
• take up with
– He’s ~n up with a divorced woman, I
understand. 他和一个离了婚的女人好上了
– The question of public housing should be
~n up with the Minister concerned.
公众的住房问题理应让相关部长了解。
– He can’t help; he’s too taken up with his
own problems.
别指望他，他自己的事还忙不过来呢。
Translation Practice
• take up with
– Mary took up with a boy of whom her
family disapproved. 玛丽最近和一个男孩
好上了，可她家里人都反对。
– David is being treated unfairly, I shall ~
things up with his teacher.
戴维受到了不公平的对待，我得找老师谈谈。
– 他一直在埋头准备考试。
She’s completely taken up with preparing
for her exams.
Useful Words & Idioms
• in the mood
– They went home in a dark/gloomy ~.
– A few hours later, she was in a brighter ~.
– The city is in a festive/holiday ~.
– What was the general ~ of the class?
– I’m just not in the ~ for a party tonight.
– I was not in the buying ~.
– When he was in the ~, he would dance
alone in his bedroom. 情绪好的时候
Useful Words & Idioms
• work out
– I couldn’t ~ out whether it was a band playing
or a record. 我无法确定究竟是乐队在演奏还是
– Can you ~ out on the map where we are now?
你能在地图上找到我们现在的位置吗？
– When did you ~ out that he had been lying to
you? 你是什么时候发觉他在对你撒谎的？
– His shirt has ~ed out. 他的衬衫拖到外面了。
– The mine was ~ed out long ago. 开采尽了
Useful Words & Idioms
• Be obsessed with
– Obsessed with the present, he is beyond
thinking of the future. 一味关注眼前，从不考虑
– Though he sometimes seems ~ with numbers,
his speeches are otherwise accessible.
除了有时候好像特别喜欢引用数字以外，……
– He’s ~ with the idea of getting a sports car.
他一心想买一辆跑车。
Grammar Points
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Much vs. Many
A great deal of
A large number of
A great many
Everyone vs. Every one
Every vs. Each
Many & Much
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•
•
many boys there?
Did you see ______
I didn’t have much
_____ breakfast this morning.
Many a man (=Many men) would
_______
welcome your valuable suggestion. (part
of a subject)
Much of
• _________
what you say is not true.
Much research has been carried out in
• ______
order to establish the cause of AIDS.
(formal)
A great deal of + Sing. Non-Count
A great (large) number of + Pl. Count
• He seems to have had a great _____
deal of
trouble leaving the country.
• She spends a great _____
deal of time
making up her face every morning.
• The editor had found a great (large)
number of mistakes in the manuscript.
______
• The soldier lost a great quantity of
blood.
A great many = very many
• I’ve known her for a great many
years.
• He devoted a good deal of attention
to the problem.
• There’s plenty of room for everyone
inside.
• A lot of students want to buy this CD.
(informal)
Everyone vs. Every one
• In a small village everyone knows
everyone else.
• We looked at the potatoes in the bag;
every (single) one was rotten.
• Get off the bus, every one of you!
• Every one (of the boys) was given a
tool kit.
Every vs. Each
— Can you tell the difference?
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Each man must do his best.
Every man must do his best.
He gave every boy two apples.
He gave each boy two apples.
Each child has his own road to
success.
• We want every child to succeed.
Each or Every?
every reason to believe that he
• We have ______
is innocent.
Each sex has its own physical
• ______
characteristics.
every other day.
• We went to see John ______
every inch a gentleman.
• He is ______
Oral Practice
• A mini-speech contest:
A Mini-Speech Contest
• Choose one student to be the chair.
• Choose five students to be the judges.
• Judge the performance according to the
speaker’s content (40%), language (40%) and
presentation skills (20%).
• Choose one student to be the scorer.
• Choose one student to be the timer.
• Draw lots to decide who is to speak.
• Each speaker must finish his/her speech within
two minutes.
What is success?
• At age 4 success is...not peeing in
your pants.
• At age 12 success is...having friends.
• At age 16 success is...having a
drivers license.
• At age 20 success is...having sex.
• At age 35 success is...having money.
What is success?
• At age 50 success is...having money.
• At age 60 success is...having sex.
• At age 70 success is...having a
drivers license.
• At age 75 success is...having friends.
• At age 80 success is...not peeing in
your pants.
The end of the unit.
Thank you!
Sentence Highlight
• Being young means feeling happy
with yourself one day and wishing
you were never born the next.
(para.5)
• Being young means feeling happy
with yourself one day and wishing
you were never born the next day
(because you feel so miserable).