Unit 5 : Text A Holding On To A Dream

1. Unit 5 : Text A Holding On To A Dream You’ve got a dream, you’ve got to protect it. Period. ------Pursuit of Happiness

2. Content of Text A • I. Warm-up Activities • II. First Reading • A. Questions to Answer • B. Text Structure • III. Intensive Studies • IV. Assignment

3. Expensive Dream: Warm-up Activities • Do you know how much money an undergraduate will spend in a year?

4. How to support a college student?

5. Listening material: A dialogue • scholarship • grant • student loans • part-time jobs • work/study programs • parents Warm-up Activities

6. Script • Priscilla: Uh, hello – is this the financial aid office? • Officer: Indeed it is, young lady, come right in and have a seat. How can I help you? • Priscilla: Well, I've just been accepted as a student here, and I want to find out what forms of financial aid I can apply for. • Officer: Certainly! We have a whole range of financial aid to offer. First, however, it's my duty to point out that if you're under 21, it's no disgrace to ask your parents for money. • Priscilla: Uh, well, see, my parents can't really afford to help me very much. • Officer: I understand. And I imagine you've already considered finding a part-time job? • Priscilla: Well, I'd really prefer not to work, if I don't have to. I want to concentrate on my studies

7. Script • Officer: Quite right, quite right. So probably our work/study program will not be of interest to you. • Priscilla: Not if there's something else I can apply for. • Officer: Of course there is! We have student loans, grants and scholarships – which would you like? • Priscilla: Um, you mean I can just … choose whichever I want?! • Officer: That's right! • Priscilla [half asleep]: What, huh? • Priscilla's Mother: It's seven o'clock, Priscilla! Time to get up. You have to go see the university financial aid office today, remember? • Priscilla: Ohhh, and I was just having the most wonderful dream! (211 words)

8. First Reading • Read through the text to answer the following questions: 1.What was Priscilla’s dream? 2.What are important in order to make your dream come true? (para.12) 3. How many years did it take for Priscilla to fulfill her dream?

9. Detailed Information • The university of Washington could not offer Priscilla more financial aid because __. • A. her family is not poor • B. her parents claimed her as a dependant on the family’s tax forms. • C. she has got loan • D. she was not a good student • (para.3)

10. Detailed Information • The job-training program __. • A. helped Priscilla find her first decent job as a secretary • B. didn’t help her very much • C. helped her know herself • D. was a waste of time • (para.6)

11. Detailed Information • Priscilla worked so hard in the summer research project that __. • A. she failed her course • B. she earned a lot of money • C. she got a job offer at the end of the summer • D. none of the above • (para.9)

12. Text Structure • 1-6 • Admission to UW → Job hunting • 7-8 • Enrollment in UW →Working while studying • 9 • Pursuit of archeology →Diversion from study • 10-11 • Enrollment at a community college →BA in UW • 12 • How to make dream come true

13. The University of Washington The University of Washington is a state -supported institution of higher education occupying a campus of 684 acres in Seattle, Washington State, USA. Founded in 1861, the university is the oldest publicly supported institution on the US Pacific Coast. Instruction was first offered on a campus in what is now the central business district of Seattle. The move to the present campus was made in 1895. Text-related information

14. Intensive Studies • Important Words and Phrases • Difficult Sentences • Comprehension of Text

15. para.1-2 • Is Priscilla living in a rich family? • Key Phrases • come up with • get by

16. come up with • 1．manage to produce (a sum of money needed) 提供 (钱款) • You have no choice but to come up with the $2,000 you owe me. • 2. think of and suggest (a plan, reply, etc.) 提出，想出 • ？我希望你能想出个更好的主意 • I hope you can come • up with a better plan • than this.

17. get by • 1． (生活勉强) 对付过去 • ？我上学的时候一个月80块就能凑合过去。 • When I was a student I used to be able to get by on 80 yuan a month. • I'll get by with a bicycle until we can afford a car. • 2. be good enough but not very good; be acceptable 过得去 • Your work will get by, but try to improve it.

18. para.3 • Why didn’t U.W. offer her more financial aid? • Key Phrases • apart from • only if (≠if only) • take some time off • Grammar Points • V-ing • 美国税收点滴

19. apart from • separately from 与…分离着 • The garage (车库) is set apart from the house. • Apart from also means “except for”, “in addition to”. • Apart from the salary, it is not a bad job. • ？不算巧克力，鲍波最爱吃的就是牛排。 • Apart from chocolate, Bob's favorite food is steak.

20. only if -- only on the condition that • I'll come only if you promise me that you won't invite Henry. • Students are allowed to leave only if the teacher has given permission.

21. If only is used to express a wish, desire or pity. • If only I had enough money to buy a house of my own! • If only you had been to the party! • If only she could have • lived a little longer!

22. take (time) off (from sth) • leave (school, a job, etc.) for a period of time 暂时放下 (学业、工作等)；休假 • He took two hours off to meet his sister at the airport. • I explained to my boss that I had to take two days off the next week.

23. 1.While preparing to graduate from high school in 1987, … The adverbial V-ing phrases are used in place of adverbial clauses to express time relationship, cause or reason, circumstances, etc.. And they may follow after, since, when(ever), and while. • e.g. • After throwing down his jacket, the stranger moved threateningly towards me.

24. 2. Postponing my dream hurt, … The nominal V-ing phrase usually occurs in the position of subject, direct object, predicative, appositive, prepositional object, etc. • e.g. • Seeing is believing. • No one enjoys deceiving his own people. • I am tired of being treated like a child.

25. para.4 • Why did she move into a cheap apartment? • Key Phrases • sign up for • Translate Priscilla’s words

26. sign up for • sign an agreement to take part in sth. 签约从事/参加 • What made you decide to sign up for the art course?

27. para.5-6 • How did she manage to make the ends meet? • What was the result of the job-training program? • How did she feel like the job? • Key Phrase • make the ends meet

28. make (both) ends meet • get just enough money for all one‘s needs 使收支相抵；勉强维持生计 • ？夫妻都下岗的家庭很难维持生计。 • Families with both husband and wife laid off (下岗) are difficult to make ends meet.

29. para.7-8 • If you had a part-time job, how to balance your job and school? • Key Phrase • end up with

30. para.9 • Did Priscilla interrupt her studies to work on the North Dakota Project? • Cultural Notes • degrees • Key Phrase • test out • throw oneself into

31. 10.The offer was a diversion from Priscilla's pursuit of her BA. • Accepting that job meant a temporary change of direction in or suspension of the course of her studies for the bachelor's degree

32. Degree, Credit, and Credit hour Degrees are titles conferred on students by a college or university on completion of a program of study. Normally there are four types of degrees: Associate’s (completion of a program in a specific career field), Bachelor’s (conferred after completion of an undergraduate program), Master’s (first graduate degree), and Doctorate (second graduate degree and final degree).

33. Credits or credit hours are units of measuring educational credit based on a given number of classroom periods per week throughout a semester. At the college and university level, each course is assigned a number of credit hours. All degree programs require students to complete a minimum number of credit hours before graduation. In most Doctorate programs, students continue to take courses. Until they have earned enough credit hours to attempt their qualifying exams, they can begin to write their final thesis.

34. test out • test as fully as possible; examine thoroughly • The drug is quite safe. We have tested it out on animals. • The model must be tested out before we put the product on sale.

35. throw oneself into • do or take part in eagerly and actively 投身于；积极从事 • ？他全心全意地投入到工作中。 • He threw herself into his work heart and soul.

36. para.10-11 • What did she do when the project ended? • What did she mean by “I was almost sorry to graduate”? • Cultural background: • community college

37. Community College • A community college is a two-year college that offers programs of study enabling students to terminate their higher education with an earned degree, transfer to a senior college, or pursue studies that do not lead to a degree. An Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree (A.A. or A.S.) is awarded upon completion of two years of study. • Community colleges offer a wide range of academic, vocational programs and also provide non-credit adult education. Students can transfer to four-year colleges from community college.

38. Community colleges have fairly open admissions policy and flexible curricula. They are the educational and cultural centers of the communities they serve. Wenatchee Valley College was founded in 1939, is a community college located 145 miles from Seattle in Wenatchee, Washington State, USA.

39. 11.This was such a luxury, I was almost sorry to graduate • -- Being able to make school my priority was such an unusual enjoyment for me that I almost felt sad when I had to leave school on graduation.

40. para.12 • Translate Priscilla’s words.

41. can (‘t) take sth. • can('t) bear or deal with (trouble, hard work, etc.) 能 (不能) 经受 (困难、艰苦努力等) • ? She could hardly take the blow.

42. get /be put down • defeat 击败 • The trouble-makers were put down by the local police.

43. If you get put down once, just get back up there and keep fighting. • If you fall at one point, just stand up again at that point and keep fighting. • get done • The boy got hurt on his way home from school. (But never: The boy got given a violin by his father.) • The story eventually got translated into English. • Just think of all those people getting killed out there.

44. Care Your Dream Success belongs to the persevering. 胜利属于坚忍不拔的人。 Hang in there! Most students take four courses each semester, but not Mike. He always takes one more course than others. He stuck to his guns even when he had to work at two labs last semester.

45. Follow-up exercises: • 1. The bank refused to __ him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house. • A. credit B. borrow C. loan D. lease • 2. The exhibition was __ by the society of Culture. • A. sponsored B. presided C. displayed D. support • 3. The problem requiring immediate solutions will be given __ at the meeting. • A. priority B. urgency C. superiority D. emergency • 4.All the arrangements should be completed __ your departure. • A. prior to B. superior to • C. contrary to D. parallel to

46. 5. She is cautious __ hurting his feelings. • A. on B. of C. at D. for • 6.Because of a __ engagement, Lora couldn’t attend my birthday party last Saturday. • A. pioneer B. premature C. prior D. past • 7. The idea of uniting Europe under one government is strongly opposed by __, who insist that their countries must remain independent. • 8, The influence of the mind over the body is an area of research that many __ are interested in. • 9. I’m afraid I have to ask the __ to work late again– this chapter is so full of mistakes that it has to be completely retyped.

47. Assignment • Exercises following Text A • Exercises on Exercise Book.

48. Thank you!