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Dance with My Father An English Song ■ Back when I was a child Before life removed all the innocence My father would me high And dance with my mother and me and then Spin me around till I fell asleep Then up the he would carry me And I knew for sure I was loved If I could get another chance Another Another dance with him I’d play a song that would never, ever end How I love, love, love To with my father again When I and my mother would disagree To get my way I would run from her to him He’d make me laugh just to me Warm-up Questions ___ lift Topic-related Prediction Read and Think ______ stairs Background Information ____ walk ______ dance ______ comfort

Then finally make me do just what my mama said Later that night when I was asleep He left a dollar under my Never dreamed that he would be gone from me If I could steal one final glance One final One final dance with him I’d play a song that would never, ever end ’Cause I love, love, love To dance with my father again Sometimes I’d listen her door And I’d hear how my mother cried for him I for her even more than me I for her even more than me I know I’m praying for much too much But could you send back the only man she loved I know you don’t do it usually But dear Lord she’s To dance with my father again Every night I fall asleep this is all I ever dream ______ sheet An English Song Warm-up Questions ____ step Topic-related Prediction Read and Think Background Information ______ outside ____ pray _____ pray ______ dying

Do you think that your parents are the most important people in your life? Why or why not? 1. An English Song Warm-up Questions 2. What is the ideal relationship between parents and their children in your view? Topic-related Prediction Read and Think 3. Some parents believe that they raise children so that their children will look after them when they are old. Do you accept this view? Background Information Some parents are often willing to sacrifice a lot for their children. Do you think it is good for them to do so? Please elaborate your position with examples. 4.

A. Discussion Directions: Work in groups. List as many words or expressions as possible related to “Family Relationship”. An English Song Warm-up Questions Topic-related Prediction Read and Think B. Group Presentation Background Information Directions: Each group is required to choose ten words or expressions that are closest to the topic — “Family Relationship”, and invent a story with them.

1. Read the following, find the key words, and write a summary sentence for each statement. An English Song • Tips to Improve Father-Child Relationship • 1 You could play ball, color pictures, build toy houses from blocks, or do whatever they like. • 2 Allow them to help you carry in the groceries, make dinner, or mow the yard. Children often get great joy from doing things that adults consider work. • 3 Spend time with your children out picnicking and enjoy playing Frisbee (飞盘), passing a ball, or pushing them in the swings. Your children will cherish this special time together as a family. • 4 Show them that you are truly interested in their education and life by asking them what they did in school and looking at their books, projects, and assignments with them. • 5 Don’t just turn on the news and forget your children when they are in the car with you. Talk or joke with them, or sing songs together. • 6 Usually, mothers bathe the children, but bath time is an excellent opportunity for fathers to be with their kids. Let them splash around and play a little more than mom does. Warm-up Questions Topic-related Prediction Read and Think Background Information

2. Check your sentences and match the summary sentences below with the tips you have read. One of the sentences given is surplus (多余的). An English Song a) Use driving time with your children. b) Take the family out for a picnic. c) Give your small children a bath sometimes. d) Have at least two meals a week as a family. e) Play with your children sometimes. f) Help your children with their homework. g) Let your children help you with simple tasks. Warm-up Questions Topic-related Prediction Read and Think Background Information 1-e; 2-g; 3-b; 4-f; 5-a; 6-c

Senior Prom 1. Definition: A prom is a formal dance at a school or college, usually held at the end of the academic year. A senior prom usually refers to a formal dance party held at the end of the final year of high school. An English Song Warm-up Questions Topic-related Prediction Read and Think Background Information

2. Preparation for a Senior Prom Directions: Listen to the following paragraphs and fill in the blanks given below. An English Song Warm-up Questions _____________ 1) Planning for the prom begins . Shadi Sakr, 23, was on his high school prom committee, but later decided to leave, and did not attend the prom either. “ people were getting their licenses, deciding on they wanted to wear, reserving their six months in advance for the ,” he says. well in advance Topic-related Prediction _____________, The whole year ___________ what clothes Read and Think ___________ appointments Background Information ________ hair salon ______ 2) Proms are not . Depending on parents’ and individual teens’ , hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent on the prom. cheap ____________________ financial circumstances

3) This is usually for the following items: for girls, ; for boys, renting tuxedos (男士无尾半正式晚礼服); the actual ; renting a hotel room; renting a limousine (豪华轿车) or some other car; beauty salon for girls to get their done and the after-prom party. ____________ fancy dresses An English Song ________ banquet _________ expensive Warm-up Questions _______ make up Topic-related Prediction _________ 4) In some places, there is almost an entire day pre-prom preparation, with ato commemorate the event. devoted to _____ party Read and Think Background Information

Part Division Further Understanding The writer recalls the days when she and her mother would meet and chat about life under a pine tree in the park nearby. After the writer’s mother died, the writer still brought her sons to the same spot which brought back fond memories of her mother. Such visits and gatherings under the tree had created a close bond between her and her sons.

Questions and Answers 1. What did the family often do under the pine tree when the writer’s mother was alive? Part Division The family used to have picnics and gatherings quite often under the pine tree in the park. Further Understanding 2. What did the writer and her mother usually talk about under the tree? They usually talked about what was happening in their respective lives. 3. Why did Mother look unusually solemn one day and ask her daughter strange questions? Mother acted unusually that day because her heart disease was deteriorating and she was dying.

True or False 1. The writer’s sons come to the pine tree often after their grandmother died because their grandmother used to take them there. Part Division ( ) False Further Understanding 2. The writer always brings her sons to the pine tree and talk to them about family picnics, gatherings and their grandmother. ( ) True 3. Her son rarely hugs her, and when he does, it is like a special treat — something that gives her great pleasure and delight. ( ) True 4. The park with the pine tree is a meaningful place for the writer. ( ) True 5. The writer visits the pine tree after her mother’s death occasionally only because she misses her mother. ( ) False

Role Play Based on Part 2, make a dialogue between Mother and Son. Part Division Further Understanding

Detailed Reading When people die, they cease to exist in this world physically. But for the author of this essay, a pine tree in a nearby park brings back fond memories of her dead mother and she knows clearly that love and memory will never “die.” Now, she brings her sons to the same place.

A Time for Memories Sharon Wright Detailed Reading One warm and pleasant summer afternoon, I sat on an old blanket under a pine tree chatting with my mother. For years, we had been coming to this park for family picnics and gatherings, and my mother and I often sat in this same spot. In recent years, we usually just talked about life, but sometimes we recalled events from my childhood. Like the time I was thirteen and had my first date, when Mother brought me to this spot under the tree and told me about the facts of life. Or the time a few years later, when my hair turned out pink for my senior prom and she’d held me while I cried. But the most special event that occurred next to this tree was when I told Mother I was getting married.

Tears filled her eyes and this time I held herwhile she cried. She told me she was sad to lose her little girl but happy to see that I had turned into a beautiful young woman. Detailed Reading Over the years, we’d watched the pine trees in this park grow tall and straight until their needles seemed to touch the clouds. Each year of their growth seemed to match our increasingly close relationship and the deepening love we had for each other. On this particular sunny afternoon, Mother and I sat quietly breathing in the scent of freshly mown grass. She was unusually solemn and took me by surprise when she asked me, “Who will you bring here after I’m gone?” I gave her one of my arched-eyebrow inquiries, then smiled. After a few moments, when she didn’t return my smile, I began to wonder what made her ask such a disturbing question. Mother picked up a blade of grass and began to shred it with her fingernail. I’d become well acquainted with my mother’s habits, and this particular one indicated she had something serious on her mind.

For several minutes, we sat in silence gathering our thoughts. A couple of blue birds squawked nearby and an airplane flew overhead, but they didn’t ease the awkward moment between us. Finally, I reached over and took my mother’s hand in mine. “There’s nothing you can’t tell me, Mother,” I said. “We will handle this together, like we always have.” Detailed Reading She looked into my face, and her eyes filled with tears that spilt down her cheeks — cheeks that were alarmingly pale. Even before she said it, I knew what was coming. Mother was dying. I held her tightly while she told me that her heart condition was worsening and couldn’t be repaired. I think I had known for quite a while but had not been willing to admit it to myself. She’d had several heart attacks and, a few years ago, even open-heart surgery.

What I didn’t know, and what she had kept from me, was that her condition wasn’t improving. We talked about her options, which were few; we cried, held each other and wished for more time together. Detailed Reading That was many years ago now. Mother died soon after that day, before my sons had a chance to know her. I still come to the park, but now I bring my boys. I still sit under that same sturdy pine tree on an old blanket and talk to my sons of family picnics, gatherings and the grandmother they never knew. Just as my mother did with me, I tell my children about their youthful funny behaviors and praise them for their accomplishments as young adults. We come to this special place to create our own memories — memories that I know would make my mother smile with pride.

Not long ago my oldest son wanted to come to the park and talk, so we came and sat under our tree. He hemmed and hawed for a few minutes, then he finally told me he was getting married. I cried tears of joy as my son hugged me — his hug a rare and special treat. I told him how proud I was of the man he had become. As I sat there that cool April afternoon soaking up the sun and the smell of freshly mown grass, I felt I had come full circle under this giant pine tree.Holding my son in my arms, I was happy for him, just the way I knew my mother had been happy for me all those years ago when I told her I was getting married. Detailed Reading Looking over my son’s shoulder, I saw that several young pine trees had been planted recently. As these trees grow straight and tall, I thought, will the lives of my family continue to grow with them? I wanted to share this spot with my grandchildren, too.

The branches above were swaying in the breeze and in them I heard a whispering voice: Who will you bring here when I’m gone? It was my mother’s voice, and I tightened my arms around my son. Detailed Reading

Or the time a few years later, when my hair turned out pink for my senior prom and she’d held me while I cried. Detailed Reading 1. Paraphrase the sentence. 2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. A few years later, when I dyed my hair for a formal dance party at high school, it ended up being pink rather than the color I had expected, I felt very sad and cried in my mother’s arms. 又如几年以后，我的发型在高中毕业舞会显得不太合时宜，母亲让我在她怀中哭泣。

Tears filled her eyes and this time I held her while she cried. Detailed Reading • Pay attention to the usage of the word “fill”. • More examples: … and her eyes filled with tears that spilt down her cheeks … (Para. 7) Laughter filled the room. 房间里充满了欢笑。 The thought fills me with pleasure. 这个想法使我很高兴。 2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. 当时她热泪盈眶。这次是她在我的怀里哭了。

Over the years, we’d watched the pine trees in this park grow tall and straight until their needles seemed to touch the clouds. Detailed Reading 1. What’s the symbolic meaning of the growth of the pine trees? It symbolizes the increasingly close relationship between mother and daughter. 2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. 年复一年，我们看着公园里的松树长得巍峨挺拔，直至高耸入云。

She was unusually solemn and took me by surprise when she asked me, “Who will you bring here after I’m gone?” Detailed Reading What can we infer from the sentence? There was probably something serious to happen, because mother used to be kind, not at all the way she behaved that day.

I gave her one of my arched-eyebrow inquiries, then smiled. Detailed Reading 1. What does “arched-eyebrow” mean in the sentence? When one makes a facial expression by making one’s eyebrows arched, one is usually disapproving or doubtful. 2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. 我皱起了眉头，狐疑地看了她一眼，然后微微笑了。

What I didn’t know, and what she had kept from me, was that her condition wasn’t improving. Detailed Reading 1. Analyze the sentence structure. “What I didn’t know” and “what she had kept from me” are two paralleled clauses used as subject. 2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. 但有一点我一无所知，而且她也一直瞒着我，那就是她的情况毫无好转。

I felt I had come full circle under this giant pine tree. Detailed Reading 1. What’s the meaning of the sentence? Under the special big pine tree, what I did with my sons was just what my mother did with me. Life had repeated itself like a circle here. 2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. 我坐在那里，觉得自己回到了原地，就在这棵巨大的松树下。

Holding my son in my arms, I was happy for him, just the way I knew my mother had been happy for me all those years ago when I told her I was getting married. Detailed Reading What’s the grammatical function of “Holding my son in my arms”? “Holding my son in my arms” is a present participle phrase used as adverbial. More examples: Looking over my son’s shoulder, I saw that … (Para. 12) Hearing the news, they all jumped with joy. Lying under the apple trees, Newton was thinking and thinking.

CF: cease, pause & stop cease pause stop cease: v. stop something Detailed Reading Workplace nurseries will cease to be liable for tax. 公司已经决定明年停止一切在英国的运作。 The company has decided to cease all UK operations after this year. 这些词均含有“中止，停止”之意。正式用词，侧重逐渐结束某活动或状态，含永远结束的意味。指短暂的中断或停止，含再进行下去的意味。普通用词，指迅速或突然中止某行为、活动或状态。

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words above. Change the form where necessary. Detailed Reading _____ 1. Whether the protests will remains to be seen. 2. I to pick up a letter that I’d dropped. 3. He and thought for a moment. 4. Apparently she drinking. 5. The dying man soon to breathe. 6. Why don’t you just somewhere and ask for directions? 7. She to get her breath back and then carried on jogging. cease ________ stopped _______ paused __________ has stopped _______ ceased _____ stop _______ paused

physically: adv. with regard to body Detailed Reading Special holidays are available for physically handicapped/disabled people. 他看上去身体很健康。 He looks physically fit. NB:physically的反义词是mentally，意为“精神上，智力上，在内心”。 The protestors had to be physically removed from the room. It’s going to be a tough competition but I’m mentally prepared for it.

spot: n. Detailed Reading 1. a particular place This looks like a nice spot for a picnic. This is the spot where the accident happened. 2. a point of interest Spain is our favorite holiday spot. 这座古城有许多可供参观的名胜。 There are a lot of spots to visit in the old city. Collocation: in spots 有时；到处；偶尔 on the spot 现场，当场

CF: memorize, remember & recall memorize remember recall recall: v. remember, call back sth. Detailed Reading I can’t recall his face/seeing him/that he came/where he lives/how to do it. 听到有人叫我名字，我才清醒过来。 The sound of my name recalled me to myself. 这些动词均有“记忆，记住，回忆”之意。指有意识地下功夫把某事的整个细节都记在脑子里。含义较广，多指无意识地回忆起往事，也可指通过主观努力去记忆。比remember文雅，指想方设法回忆已经遗忘之事。

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words above. Change the form where necessary. Detailed Reading _______ recalled 1. He that he had sent the letter over a month before. 2. When I was at school, we were required to a poem every week. 3. me to your family. 4. I don’t signing a contract. 5. She seeing him outside the shop on the night of the robbery. _________ memorize ___________ Remember _________ remember ________ recalled

prom: n. a formal party given for students by a high school or college class Detailed Reading Who are you taking to the Senior Prom? 她穿长裙去参加聚会。 She wore a long dress to the prom.

CF: happen, occur & take place happen occur take place occur: vi. (esp. of unplanned events) happen, take place Detailed Reading Almost half of all fatal accidents occur while landing. We hope this won’t occur again. 这些词语都可表示“发生”之意。是普通用词，泛指一切客观事物或情况的发生，强调动作的偶然性。是较正式用词，可指意外事件的发生，也可指意料中事件的发生。多指通过人为安排事件的发生。

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words above. Change the form where necessary. Detailed Reading _________ 1. They to look in the right place almost immediately. 2. If any of these symptoms while you are taking the medicine, consult your doctor immediately. 3. Fortunately it that there was no one in the house at the time of the explosion. 4. The concert next Thursday. 5. Where did the earthquake ? happened _____ occur _________ happened ___________ takes place ______ occur

scent: n. a pleasant natural smell Detailed Reading When you are choosing which flower to plant, appearance and scent should both be considered. 玫瑰的芳香 the sweet scent of roses

mow: vt. cut (grass, corn, etc.) Detailed Reading I love the smell of new-mown hay. 我们割地里的牧草给牛提供饲料。 We mowed the field so as to provide the cattle with fodder. Pattern: mow down 铲除；战胜 Collocation: mowing machine 割草机，收割机

solemn: adj. serious and without any amusement Detailed Reading The service of burial is done with solemn and mournful music. 就职典礼是一件严肃的事情。 The inauguration was a solemn event. Collocation: a solemn face/voice 阴沉的面孔/声音 solemn music庄严的音乐

inquiry/enquiry: n. request for help or information (about sb./sth.) Detailed Reading It isn’t polite to make many inquiries into other people’s affairs. 他们有没有问起我的情况？ Have they made any inquiries after me?

CF: bother, disturb & trouble bother disturb trouble disturb: vt. Detailed Reading interrupt what someone is doing I’m sorry to disturb you so late, but my car’s broken down and I was wondering if I could use your phone. Please don’t disturb Georgina—she’s trying to do her homework. 这些词均有“使人不安或烦恼”之意。指烦恼引起的紧张不安或感到不耐烦。较正式，多用被动态。指扰乱，使人不能平静或妨碍别人工作、思维或正常秩序，烦恼程度较深。指给人在行动上带来不便或在身心上造成痛苦。

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words above. Change the form where necessary. Detailed Reading ________________ 1. He by a knee injury for most of the season. 2. Don’t making the bed — I’ll do it later. 3. Heavy truck traffic the neighborhood. 4. You won’t get any credit for doing it, so why ? 5. He hung the “Don’t ” sign around the door handle on the outside. has been troubled _______ bother _________ disturbed _______ bother _______ Disturb

shred: vt. Detailed Reading cut or tear sth. roughly into thin strips Shred the lettuce (莴苣) and arrange it around the edge of the dish. 他的工作之一是检查并撕毁成百捆的文件。 One of his jobs was to check and shred hundreds of bundles of papers. Collocation: shredded cabbage切碎的白菜

become/be acquainted with: know or be familiar with sb./sth. Detailed Reading I am not personally acquainted with the gentleman in question. I am already acquainted with the facts.

indicate: vt. Detailed Reading 1. show a need for; suggest The change in his illness indicates the use of stronger drugs. 症状表明急需外科手术。 The symptoms indicate immediate surgery. 2. show the way to or the direction of; point out Please indicate which free gift you would like to receive. 她示意我什么也别说。 She indicated to me that she didn’t want me to say anything.

awkward: adj. Detailed Reading 1. difficult to use, do, or deal with It’s an awkward corner to drive round, so take it slowly. He’s an awkward customer (= a difficult person to deal with). Some of the questions were rather awkward. 2. not smooth or graceful; ungainly An awkward girl is no help in the kitchen. 一个笨手笨脚的女孩在厨房里帮不了什么忙。 He is still awkward with his chopsticks. 他使用筷子还不熟练。

CF: awkward & clumsy awkward clumsy Detailed Reading 这两个形容词都含有“笨拙的”之意。侧重缺乏优雅、机敏和技巧。用于物时，指使用不便。指人时，侧重行动笨拙；指物时，侧重制作粗陋或体积、重量过大而呈现笨重。 More Examples： The clumsy dog knocked the cup over. 那只笨拙的狗把杯子打翻了。 My attempts to apologize were very clumsy. 我的道歉显得很笨拙。

be willing to (do sth.): be happy to do sth. if it is needed Detailed Reading If you’re willing to fly at night, you can get a much cheaper ticket. 显然，约翰愿意让我们使用花园。 Apparently John is willing for us to use his garden.

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