综合英语教程1 unit7 the mistery of the white gardenia

Understanding the Language of Flowers – Preparing Bouquets
• Any nurse, or someone who works in the medical profession, who has worked in a hospital or clinic for even one single day has most likely seen numerous bouquets of flowers being sent to patients to brighten their room, or sent to the staff as a token of gratitude for their outstanding care. While flowers are simple, natural and beautiful just as they are, did you know
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Interactive speaking and listening
• Interactive speaking/ listening: speaking or listening with a communicative purpose • Changes • Think about the changes of life in the last ten years, and write your answers in the appropriate boxes in the table on page 90. • Listen to a radio talk show, and take notes for answer the following questions. • What are the changes that the speaker has noticed in
Text: The Mystery of the White Gardenia
By Marsha Arons
The Message of White Gardenia
• In the language of flowers, Gardenia gives the message of hidden love, and it is a sign of pureness and honesty. Its floral bouquet, extremely feminine and elegant, is refreshed by a citrus touch of bergamot and tangerine, and enveloped by a soft, woody musky accord.
Who Decided What Each Flower Meant?
• It is really hard to define exactly where the definitions and meanings of flowers come from. Unfortunately, no one really knows. Many say that the meanings evolved from simple local folklore. For example, the Thistle flower is the national flower of Scotland. During the reign of Malcom I, a Danish army tried to invade Scotland in the middle of the night. As the army approached the Scottish camp, one of soldiers stepped on a Thistle with his bare foot. He screamed and the Scottish army woke up and ran the Danish army off. The Thistle became a symbol of independence and retaliation that day. Today some Scottish brides choose to have a Thistle in their bouquets as a symbol of national
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• Useful structures and expressions:
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Unit 7 the Mystery of the White Gardenia
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Basic Qualities
Caring personality, kindly, having sympathy/ empathy towards patients Caring personality, inspiring, kindly, having sympathy/ empathy towards students, especially less-abled learners well-disciplined, calculating, good at numbers, propensity to details kind-hearted, disciplined, hard-working, physically strong creative, artistic, sociable, talented, aspiring
Behind bad luck comes good luck
This Scottish proverb means: The one thing for certain is that luck will change.
The role of luck in our life
• Good luck may help improve our mood especially when we feel discouraged. • Good luck may enable us to realize dreams that are important to us. • Bad luck may suddenly destroy what we hold dear, and devastate our life. • Bad luck may crush us, but it
Part 2 Reading and Language Activities
•Aims: •Learn to understand and talk about the positive attitude to setbacks in life •Learn to use the expression and structures given as the objectives o this unit
Part 1 Communicative Activities
Aims
• Language skills for making comparison and contrast in personal qualities and modern lifestyles • Practicing formulaic expressions
Family love Personal anecdote Modern lifestyle Comparison and contrast
• B: Language knowledge
Words / expressions and skills for talking about One’s feelings and emotions towards family members Making comparison and contrast when talking about personal qualities and modern lifestyles Describing food/ beverage for Christmas
Unraveling the Hidden Messages in Bouquets • It is a fact that during Victorian days the ladies would carry small hand-tied bouquets with flowers and ivy woven together. Think they were chosen to match their dresses and look pretty in paintings? One would think so, but the bouquets, called tussiemussies, actually had hidden messages. If a lady carried a bouquet containing Gardenias, she was secretly telling someone that she loved him. If she combined Gardenias with Forsythia, she was expressing anticipation for the next time she would be alone with the one she loved. Did the lady want to tell another lady she hated her without causing a socially unacceptable and unladylike scene? A bouquet of orange lilies sent to the poor victim
Pre-Reading Tasks
• Discuss the following questions: • When do you give people flowers as a present? List at least three occasions when people give flowers. • A. If I have a girl friend, I will give her flowers on her birthday • B. If my mother doesn’t feel
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1. Conversation 1
• Study the conversation below, and answer the following questions: • 1. Find out the qualities of Jeffrey and Joan • 2. What decision have they finally made? Do you like the decision? And why or why not? • 3. Give at least two