新视野大学英语第三版 第三册第五单元课件.ppt

❖What can we learn from the boy’s words? ➢It shows that the boy was too surprised to say anything useful.
❖1. What’s the meaning of “out of place” here? ➢“Out of place” means “not suitable for a particular situation or occasion.”
Unit 5: The Day Mother Cried
Warm-up Questions
❖1. When a task defeats you. How do you react?
❖Frustrations could be called our invisible teachers. I think I should have optimistic views and have faith in myself. I may inevitably meet with frustration in the future but with more experience that I got from failure, I believe I could deal with it better next time.
❖What can we learn from “slow” and “until midnight”?
➢“Slow” implies “it’s difficult to learn to type”. From “until midnight”, we can see Mother’s determination and perseverance.
❖1. Do you think the mother really meant it when she said it? ➢No.
❖2. Why did she say so? ➢She said so to relieve the son, to control her emotion and to try to persuade herself not to mind it too much.
❖Why were their responses so different?
➢The boy took it for granted that his mother was capable of doing anything.
➢For Mother, however, it was a great surprise because it was, as a matter of fact, a real challenge and she got the job with great difficulty.
❖Paraphrase the sentence.
➢Time for the children to enter college was drawing nearer and nearer so Mother was wildly anxious for ways to earn more money.
❖2. How do you comfort someone threatened with losing his or her job?
❖Not everyone is so lucky to get his or her favorite job at the beginning, but from the previous job we get experience which could give us great help in our future lives and jobs. What’s more, we could change our attitudes towards our lives and attain more proper way to live our expecting lives.
❖2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. ➢我感到既无能为力，又十分尴尬。
❖What can we infer from the sentence? ➢His mother was really very smart and clever. She could learn things quickly.
Part Division of the Text
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Parts Paras.
Main Ideas
I was shocked at finding my mother I 1~6 crying because she would probably lose
her new job.
I previously assumed my mother was a II 7~17 capable woman. She tried all she could to
save up money to send us to university.
III 18~21 I realized my mother’s pressure and vulnerability as a human being.
IV
22~24
I understood my mother’s perseverance and its influence on me.
❖What can we infer from the sentence? ➢1. The children and Father did little housework before. ➢2. Father was very considerate towards Mother.
❖Paraphrase the sentence. ➢He felt deeply moved and couldn’t help sympathizing with his mother.