Unit 3 When Lightning struck

1. Unit 3 When Lightning struck

2. The Plan • Word study • A global picture of Text I • A detailed study of Text I • Exercises & Homework

3. Word Study • Pronunciation • Derivation • Syn. & Anto. • Differentiation

4. Word Study • Pronunciation --Read the new words and expressions aloud. --Listen for the correct pronunciations of the new words in the recording of Text I.

5. Word Study: Derivation

6. Word Study Synonyms scared frightened, terrified go through experience (v.) anticipate expect indebted grateful, obliged

7. Word Study Antonyms vaguely clearly glamorous unglamorous indiscriminate discriminate, selective rocky steady, stable

8. Word Study: Differentiation (I) somehowvs. somewhat • Somehow is used when we don't know or cannot say how something has been done or will be done. • Somewhat indicates that something is the case to a limited extent or degree.

9. Word Study: Differentiation (II) fearvs. panic • Both words refer to producing an upsetting emotional response to something unpleasant or dangerous. • Fearmeans to be afraid or worried that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen or might have happened • Panicstresses the confused, hysterical or ineffective action that results from an unpleasant or dangerous event.

10. Word Study: Differentiation (III) hope vs. anticipate • Both words pertain to the attitude of looking forward to something that is to occur in the future. • Hopesuggests looking forward exclusively to some positive or favorable outcome. Structurally, it should be followed by either a nominal clause or an infinitive, or used intransitively. • Anticipateis restricted to thoughts of the future of either a pleasant outcome or an unpleasant one. Normally, it is followed by a nominal phrase, and occasionally , by a nominal clause.

11. Word Study: Differentiation (IV) survive vs. live • Both words indicate continued existence. • Survive emphasizes the successful overcoming of an ordeal or threat to existence. It can be used both transitively and intransitively. • Livemeans to have life or to function as an animate organism. It is basically an intransitive verb, and if used transitively, it must be followed only by a cognate object, as in the exercise.

12. A Detailed Study • Warm-up • Background information • Theme • A structural analysis • Comprehension check • Language points • Effective narration

13. Warm-up • Watch the videos of an air-crash survivor’s account of her survival and an expert’s comments on her experience. • Listen for the information about: • how the speaker felt and what she heard before the plane crashed • what she did while the plane was dropping • what one should do to have a better chance of survival in a similar accident

14. ★fuselage ★landing gear ★cockpit ★cabin ★cabin crew ★stewardess ★pilot / co-pilot ★ loudspeaker ★ safety belt ★ oxygen mask ★ cabin lavatory ★ life jacket ★ boarding card Background Information Do you know them?

15. Theme • People can do fine deeds and establish superb touching human relations by helping and supporting each other in crises, and such kindness should be passed on from generation to generation.

16. A Structural Analysis • Part I (Para. 1—4) Our plane was unexpectedly struck by lightning, and the worried passengers were informed about an emergency landing. • Part II (Para. 5—9) Throughout the emergency landing, “I” was proud of the passengers’ perfect self-control in the crisis and their efforts to comfort one another.

17. A Structural Analysis (cont.) • Part III (Para. 10—12) After the safe landing, “I” felt relieved and was deeply touched by “my” fellow passengers’ kind deeds while waiting for alternative flights. • Part IV (Para. 13—14) “My” adventurous plane trip taught me that what is most important is not to pay back kindness to a specific fellow passenger but to pass it on at large.

18. Text Comprehension Q & A • 1.What made the author think that the plane must have been hit by lightning when she was in the tiny bathroom? • 2. Why did many passengers never pay attention to the emergency procedures instruction before takeoff? • 3. What is suggested about the wonderful gift of the author’s friend’s dying father? • 4. What were the passengers’ admirable acts of kindness that deeply touched the author? • 5. What is the writer’s purpose of presenting her extraordinary and unforgettable travel experience? • 6. What is the tone of this narrative?

19. Text comprehension Judge whether the following statements are true or false. • 1. The author was informed that the plane was hit by lightning when she was in the tiny bathroom. • 2. A flight attendant managed to unbolt the bathroom door and let me out. • 3. The author was too frightened to remember the emergency procedures that a flight attendant reviewed before takeoff. • 4. The author took pride in her fellow passengers, because none of them panicked. Instead, they went all out to support one another. • 5. The author came to realize that, instead of paying it back, she should pass the kindness she had seen or received on. Key: F F F T T

20. Part I (Para. 1—4) Language points Sentence Highlights

21. Language Points • lightning (in the title) • thunder and ~ • ~ never strikes twice in the same place. • She changed her clothes with (at) ~speed. • slam (Para. 1) • We could hear people shouting and doors ~ ming in the house next door. • Henry ~med the report on the desk and angrily walked out. • In the distance, he heard the ~ of the car door.

22. Language Points • jolt (Para. 1) • The residents felt the first massive ~ of the earthquake at about 2:30 p.m. • Our car ~ ed over the rough road. • swerve (Para. 1) • The bus made a sudden ~ to avoid a child running across the street. • The bus ~d across the road and crashed into a tree.

23. Language Points • …this is it! • (sl)used before an action or event that will have an important effect on the final result • scramble (Para 1) • The campers ~ed to safety when flood came down the canyon. • He made a ~ over the rocks at the seashore.

24. Language Points • lunge (Para. 1) • They both ~d forwards to catch the ball. • He made a ~ towards his opponent, but missed. • bee (Para. 2) • All the pupils got excellent grades in the spelling ~ . • connect (Para. 2) • This train ~ s with the cross-Channel ferry at Dover. • Related word: connection • My train was late and I missed my ~ .

25. Concepts visualized laptop desktop palmtop • palmtop

26. Language Points • put away (Para. 3) • Remember to ~ the toys ~ when you finish playing. • My parents have ~ about $50,000 for my education. • done (Para. 4) • As soon as I’m ~, I’m going home. • review (Para. 4) • ~ ing for exams gives you a chance to bring together all the individual parts of the course. • We'll ~ the situation at the end of the month.

27. Language Points • figure (Para. 4) • She ~d that both she and Ned had learned a lot from the painful experience. • life jacket(Para. 4)

28. Sentence Highlights • …I felt the slamming jolt, and then the horrible swerve that swerve (Para. 1) …I felt the sudden, forceful, and loud shaking of our plane, and then its terrible turning aside that pushed me against the door.

29. Sentence Highlights • Somehow, I managed to unbolt the door and scrambled out.(Para. 1) • By some means, I succeeded in releasing the bolt of the door and getting out of the bathroom.

30. Sentence Highlights • As I lunged toward my seat, passengers looked up at me with the stricken expressions of creatures who know they are about to die. (Para. 1) As I suddenly rushed forward in the direction of my seat, the passengers looked up at me with painful emotions, which are almost commonly seen in animals who know that they are going to die.

31. Sentence Highlights • Of course I never paid attention to this drill, always figuring that if we ever got to the point where we needed to use life jackets, I would have already died of terror.(Para. 4) Subjunctive Mood I never took this drill seriously, since I always supposed that if we ever came to the critical moment when we had to put out life jackets on, I would have already died of fear.

32. Part II (Para. 5—9) Language points Sentence Highlights Rhetorical Devices

33. Language Points • pull oneself together (Para. 5) • Just pull yourself together. There's no point crying about it. • make it (Para. 5) • Despite the heavy rain, she made it to the airport just in time to catch her flight. • small potatoes (Para. 5) • If somebody or something is referred to as a small potato, it seems unimportant when compared to somebody or something else.

34. Language Points • confide (Para. 7) • He ~ ed to his friends that he his wife planned to separate. • It is easier for a child to ~ in someone who is not much older than him. • bring up (Para. 7) • He tried repeatedly to ~ the subject of money. • We’d been ~ to think that borrowing money was bad.

35. Language Points • squeeze (Para. 7) • The mother gave her son’s hand a little~. • He ~d an orange to get the juice out. • The government’s putting the ~ on business profits. • panic (Para. 8) • When he saw the flames getting closer, he ~ked and jumped out of the window. • I phoned the doctor in a ~, crying that my grandpa had a heart attack.

36. Language Points • excruciating (Para. 8) • He was in ~ pain and one foot wouldn’t move. • pocket (Para. 8) • Government troops crushed the last ~ s of resistance in the city.

37. Sentence Highlights • I reached for her hand and reassured her that we were going to make it. (para. 5) I held out my hand to take hers, comforted her and restored her confidence by saying that we would manage to have a safe and sound journey home.

38. Sentence Highlights • After this, London’s going to seem like small potatoes. (Para. 5) Having experienced this, you might consider your trip to London insignificant.

39. Sentence Highlights • The female equivalent of the confident businessman must have seen how scared I was. (Para. 6) The businesswoman who was as confident as that young businessman must have noticed how frightened I was.

40. Sentence Highlights • I was sure that even if I survived the plane crash, I’d have a couple of broken fingers from all the TLC. (Para. 7) I firmly believed that if I was able to live through the air crash, I would have a couple of broken fingers as a result of the soulful squeezes given out of her tender loving care.

41. Rhetorical Devices • roller-coaster (Para. 5)

42. Rhetorical Devices • Now we began a roller-coaster ride through the thunderclouds. (Para. 5) • metaphor

43. Rhetorical Devices • “After this, London’s going to seem like small potatoes.” (Para. 5) • simile

44. Part III (Para. 10—12) Language points Sentence Highlights

45. Language Points • transfer (Para. 10) • You’d better ~ in Xi’an if you want to go to Urumqi. • On day 12, your journey ends with your airport ~. • lament (Para. 10) • The whole country ~ed the death of the great novelist. • He ~s the fact that he earns too little to pay his bills. • anticipate (Para. 11) • The organizers are ~ting a large crowd at the carnival. • It is ~d that the majority of our trainees will still come from local companies.

46. Sentence Highlights • We chattered about the lives we now felt blessed to be living, as difficult or rocky as they might be. (Para. 10) In our talks after the forced landing, we expressed our gratitude to God for the good luck in our lives, which might be very hard or uncertain.

47. Sentence Highlights • He had been complaining that he wasn’t getting to see very much of me because of my book tour. (Para. 11) He had been voicing dissatisfaction or unhappiness, saying that he was not able to see me quite often because I had been on my tour for the promotion of my recently published book.

48. Sentence Highlights • I felt almost tearful to be parting from the people whose lives had so intensely, if briefly, touched mine. (Para. 12) I felt that I was on the point of shedding tears when having to say goodbye to those people whose words and deeds had so profoundly and strongly influenced my feelings even though we had spent only a short time together on the plane.

49. Part IV (Para. 13—14) Language points Sentence Highlights

50. Language Points • fateful (Para. 13) • The world will always remember the ~ day when the atomic bomb was dropped. • witness (Para. 13) • Anyone who ~ed the attack should call the police. • Any ~es to the incident are asked to contact the police. • indebted (Para. 13) • I am ~ to all the people who worked so hard to make the concert a success. • ~ countries are ones that owe money to other countries.