New Horizon College English

1. New Horizon College English Book 1 Unit 6

2. Contents Warm-up Activities Writing Section A Test Yourself Section B Audio-oral Activities

3. Warm-up Activities What makes life perfect? Tower of Babel Class Talk Understanding the passages

4. Section A • Useful Collocations • Useful Sentence Patterns • Comprehension • Summary

5. Section B • Useful Collocations • Comprehension • Learning Idioms • Topic for Discussion • Questions About the Text

6. Audio-oral Activities • A Game • Invitation • What Job Is It? • Listen for Jobs • Tongue Twisters

7. A SMALL TRUTH TO MAKE LIFE 100%

8. If A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z is equal to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

9. Hard work H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98% Knowledge K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

10. Love L+O+V+E 12+15+22+5 = 54% Luck L+U+C+K 12+21+3+11 = 47% (don't most of us think this is the most important???)

11. Then what makes 100%? Is it Money? ... NO!!!!! [M+O+N+E+Y = 13+15+14+5+25 = 72%] Leadership? ... NO!!!! [L+E+A+D+E+R+S+H+I+P = 12+5+1+4+5+18+19+9+16 = 89%]

12. Every problem has a solution, only if we perhaps change our attitude. To go to the top, to that 100%, what we really need to go further...a bit more...

13. ATTITUDE A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100% It is OUR ATTITUDE towards Life and Work that makes OUR Life 100%

14. Let’s learn what the Bible tells us:

15. Class talk: • Watch a chapter of the movie “Finding Nemo”(海底总动员). Lack of communication is often the root of generation gap. Do you have this problem? What do you think of Nemo and his father? • Survey: where do people more likely communicate with their neighbors, in the country or in city? (问卷调查：乡下还是城里的邻里关系更加和谐？) What are the possible causes? • Mobile phones are increasingly popular nowadays. Do you think they make personal communication easier or harder? What are the reasons?

16. In this unit, you’ll learn one way of communication—to appreciate what the writer is trying to pass on to you through his writing. When you have done something wrong, you feel … First of all, let’s discuss: ashamed of yourself guilty embarrassed

17. When you fail to do something, you feel … upset helpless hopeless frustrated

18. When you run into something unexpected, you feel … surprised amazed scared shocked How many words and phrases of emotion do you know and would you like to share with us some of them?

19. However, do we always have to be that straightforward? Is it possible for us to share our feelings with others in another way, in this case, through reading, and later through writing? Certainly! But HOW? Let’s take Passage A from this unit for example. Read the passage once more and figure out:

20. What kind of feeling the widow shared with Elizabeth Jolley in Cabin Fever? OR: What would be the answer to Paragraph Two: Why are these lines so painful? She loved and missed her husband very much. What message do you get from Paragraph 4, specifically the following sentence “One sat in a car, crying; another stood surrounded by sympathizers offering pity.”? Some of the couple’s relatives, including the mothers, regarded their marriage as a great loss of the families and therefore were upset even at the wedding ceremony .

21. Try to work on the rest of the passage and passage B in the unit and share more feelings with the widow and the trashman. Next, we are going to read part of a passage, telling a tragedy that happened on a father. Do the first reading and produce as many words as you know to describe the father’s emotional status. Passage

22. surprised, confused, shocked, broken-hearted, passionate, helpless,… Now have a second look at the paragraphs respectively to have some further appreciation of the discourse. 1 My wife Tina and I were preparing for an evening out in the Spanish resort of Torremolinos when the phone rang. At first I hardly recognized the voice of my eldest daughter Susannah. She was extremely upset and barely coherent. She could tell us only, “Andrew and Alexander; they’ve been found dead.” Have a close study on the underlined parts and tell the class how do you think the father must have felt ?

23. He was surprised to get the unexpected call. (…WHEN…) He was confused about the way his daughter talked over the phone. ( SHE WAS EXTREMELY UPSET AND BARELY COHERENT.) The news he got was unbelievable –Andrew and Alexanderhad died and no one knew why yet. ( …FOUND DEAD.)

24. 2 My son Andrew, 26, and his 17-year-old half-brother Alexander Woodcraft, my former wife’s son, had been staying the night at Andrew’s flat in Lincoln. The two had been to a pub concert. At first the news did not sink in. Tina and I were stunned as we got the first available flight home four hours later. It had to be a mistake. After we landed we drove straight to Lincolnshire to my ex-wife’s house. It was only then that I found out that the boys had been shot. How would you interpret the underlined parts? Shocked as they were, the father and his wife would not accept the fact until they hurried home and learned the tragedy in person from his ex-wife. ( DID NOT SINK IN; WERE STUNNED; THE FIRST AVAILABLE FLIGHT; IT WAS THEN THAT …)

25. 3 Before working as a legal assistant for Bedfordshire County Council, I had spent 30 years in the police—20 of them as a detective. Working on many gruesome murder cases, drugs investigations, regional crime, antiterrorism and robbery, I thought I had witnessed just about the full range of human violence and misery. I was now to find out that nothing prepares you for the death of one of your own children. He had found another “HE” inside him. What is it? As an experienced police who had coped with all sorts of crime, he had regarded himself as tough; still, facing the tragedy, he appeared so weak--he had to admit that he could never be ready to witness the death of his loved ones.

26. 4 Andrew, a brilliantly gifted writer, had already had one volume of verse published, and nearly finished another. All hopes, dreams and ambitions lay wasted in the pale lifeless body of my much-loved son that I had to identify in the hospital mortuary. I could hardly speak as I gave him a last kiss. What has come into your mind as you read this paragraph? A vivid picture of a broken-hearted father-- when giving his son a last kiss, he realized helplessly that his beloved, promising son, had left the world for good, taking away with him all his hopes, dreams and ambition.. (A BRILLIANT, GIFTED WRITER,.. ALL HOPES, DREAMS, … LAY WASTED IN THE PALE, LIFES BODY OF …)

27. So, communication can be carried out not only through speaking, but also through reading and writing. Would you like to have a try? • Suggestions on further practice: 1. Do more readings from the NHE series and try to communicate with the writers to appreciate more of the language they use. 2. Write a passage telling your first experiences at college, try to avoid using specific words of emotion but describe your experience in such a way that your readers will share your feelings on your first few days at college. Since you are writing your experiences, keep in mind the time sequence structure mentioned on page 134.

28. Useful collocations 大量阅读 1. read considerably 2. store quotations in a note book 在笔记本上作很多摘抄 3. experience the deep-felt wish 感觉到深切的愿望 4. an intense wish 一个强烈的愿望 5. a worn wedding album 一本旧结婚相册 6. the bride and groom 新娘新郎

29. Useful collocations 一切都模糊不清 7. everything is a blur 8. guests file past 客人都鱼贯而过 9. cheerful good wishes 令人愉快的美好祝愿 10. sympathizers offering pity 同情者表达着遗憾 11. want only the best for sb. 只希望某人过得最好 12. support the family 养家

30. Useful collocations 一个矮胖的、上了年纪的妇人 13. a short, portly, elderly lady 14. money loaned by sb. 从……借来的钱 15. afford a honeymoon 支付蜜月的费用 16. message conveyed by sb. 由某人传达的信息 17. scan for sth. in… 仔细察看……来寻找…. 18. church bulletins 教堂的布告栏

31. Useful collocations 随着时间的流逝 19. with the passage of time 20. as time and opportunity allowed 当时间和条件允许的时候 21. restrain the desire to do sth. 抑制着想做某事的渴望 22. bring up the curiosity regarding sth. 提起对某事的好奇心 参加某人的婚礼 23. attend one’s wedding

32. Useful collocations 一个破旧退色的信封 24. a worn fading envelope 25. rest one’s eyes 休息眼睛 26. What matters is this… 最重要的是……

33. Useful collocations Thomas Jefferson is a wealthy planter who read considerably in the popular books of the age. 托马斯·杰弗逊是一个富有的农场主，大量阅读了那个时代流行的书籍。

34. Useful collocations Driven by my intense wish to help this friendly patient who trusted me, I traveledas fast as I could. 在一种想帮助对我深信不疑的患者的强烈愿望驱使下，我急速快跑。

35. Useful collocations I want only the best for my child, but I don't want to take away his choices. 我只想让我的孩子过的最好，但我不想剥夺他选择的权利。

36. Useful collocations He finished his university education with the money loaned by banks. 他向银行借钱完成了大学教育。

37. Useful collocations Can’t afford a honeymoon? Here are some tips for cutting wedding cost. 没钱度蜜月是吗？这里有些节约结婚费用的小建议。

38. Useful collocations Ease your mind and scan your PC for viruses. 不必担心，给你的电脑扫描病毒。

39. Useful collocations When time and opportunities allowed I would like to travel to Tibet. 时间和条件允许的话，我想去西藏旅游。

40. Useful collocations What matters most in English classrooms is how to make students speak more. 英语课上最重要的事情是让学生讲更多的话。

41. What matters is this • matter as a verb is usually used in negatives or interrogatives. In affirmatives, it usually requires a subject of it or a clause. Put the following into English: • 这关系重大。 • It matters a lot. • 你本人是否参加会议并不重要，重要的是会议讨论这件事。 • Whether you personally attend the meeting does not matter; what matters is that the meeting will discuss on this matter.

42. Useful Sentence Patterns • so…that • for… • it seems to sb.

43. Useful sentence patterns 1）So intense is this wish that if I write the word husband on a piece of paper， my eyes fill with tears. (L 4) So + adj. + be + n. + that … (clause). (Or: To such a degree / an extent + be + n. + that …) …如此……以致……

44. Useful sentence patterns So intense was his wish to study aboard that he spend a lot of time learning English. 他是如此想到国外读书，所以他花了大量时间学英语。

45. So intense is this wish that • This is an inverted sentence. What is the normally-ordered sentence? • This wish is so intense that if I write the word husband on a piece of paper, my eyes fill with tears. • Why is the sentence inverted? • so is put at the beginning of the sentence. • Why does the author put so at the beginning? • To emphasize the idea of intense. • Do you have other ways to emphasize the idea of intense? • very: This wish is very intense and if I …

46. So intense is this wish that • Now use so…that and inversion to rewrite the following sentences: • I was very surprised at the result and I didn’t know what to say. • So surprised was I at the result that I didn’t know what to say. • He spoke English very quickly and we didn’t catch a single word of his. • So quickly did he spoke English that we didn’t catch a single word of his.

47. to such a degree / extent expresses the similar meaning with so… that. Rewrite the following sentences with so…that. To such a degree was his interest in computer games that he failed half of his final exams this term. So interested was he in computer games that he failed half of his final exams this term.

48. Rewrite the sentence with so…that To such an extent was my love for music that I even wondered whether I should not make a career of it. So much was my love for music that I even wondered whether I should not make a career of it.

49. Useful sentence patterns Then quickly，for such a short portly， elderly person，she disappeared. (L. 25) For (all)+n., main clause. 尽管……但是……

50. Useful sentence patterns 尽管困难重重，我们一定会战胜洪水。 For all the great difficulties, we will win the war against the flood.