第三单元SectionA课堂笔记

Questions: 1. How many parts can the text divided into ? 2. What is the main idea of each part ?
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Text Study—Structure Analysis
Part 1: Paras.1-4
尽管存在种族和文化的差异，Gail和mark 在尊重 和互信的基础上仍然走到了一起 In spite of their racial and cultural differences, Gail and mark were held together by the strength of mutual trust and respect.
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Text Study Notes to the Text Words and Expressions Idea Sharing
Writing
Understanding Structure Analysis Detailed study of tΒιβλιοθήκη e textSummary
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Text Study—Understanding
I. Understanding
Read the text quickly and understand the text
by filling in the blanks with the information given in the text.
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Text Study—Understanding
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Notes to the Text—Focus Study
compromise: v. reach an agreement by making a compromise
Examples: 1)We finally comprised on a price.
2)The government has compromised with other party leaders over the date of the next general election. 政府与其他党派领导人就下届大选日期达成了妥协。
e.g.2 When we learn that the distinguished professor
assuring us of the safety of a particular product holds a consultancy with the company making it, we cannot be blamed for wondering whether his fee might conceivably cloud his professional judgment.
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Text Study—Understanding
What was her father’s response?
When Gail‟s father heard the news, he approached our decision with _______ a fatherknows-best __________ attitude. He doubted that I was marrying in order to ______ in remain the USA , for I had problems with the Citizenship Department. So, they all ___________ that Gail be sure that suggested she was doing the wrong thing ___________________________and she may _______________. change her mind
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examples
• e.g.1 He believes that this very difficulty may have
had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence, and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations。
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Text Study—Structure Analysis
Part 2: Paras.5-9
尽管存在种族和文化的差异，Gail和mark 在尊重 和互信的基础上坚持走到了一起 Although Gail‟s mother thought mark was charming and intelligent and his color was not the problem, she still considered that they need more time to make the decision.
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exercises
• 他是一个令其朋友都钦佩，甚至连敌人多尊敬的 人 • He was a man whom all of his friends admired and who won the respect even of his enemies.
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Para.4
• We wanted to avoid the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only finding out ten, twenty or thirty years later that they were incompatible, that they hardly took the time to know each other, that they overlooked serious personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work our right. • 主，谓，宾，定，同位语
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Text Study—Understanding
What did her mother think?
When Gail‟s mother heard the news, instead congratulations of ____________ she _________ Gail to counseled reconsider our marriage . Though she regarded me as ________ and _________, charming intelligent she was afraid that Gail may be marrying me for ______ reasons. wrong
Why did we decide to get married?
Gail and I had experienced ups and downs ___ _____ in two years, now we come to _____, know _________ and _________ each other. understand respect weaknesses strengths We confronted __________ and ________ of each other‟s character. We have learnt to open be tolerant ____________ and _____. The ______, compromising source of our strength was our mutual trust ____ and _______. respect
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Split the sentence into four
• We wanted to avoid the mistake that many couples hardly took the time to know each other • We also wanted to avoid the mistake that many couples overlooked serious personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work our right • The mistakes are made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons • The mistakes are made by many couples of finding out they were incompatible ten, twenty or thirty years later (after their marriage)
1. …we had experienced the usual ups and downs of a couple learning to know, understand, and respect each other. (Para. 1) 后置定语修饰ups and downs. 用介词of 引导，表从属关系 形容词：Someone important 副词：the clouds above 介词：the south side of Changjiang river 不定式：things to be done 分词： the girl sitting by my side 从句：the man I saw told me that.