Lesson 8 Psychologically Speaking

1. Lesson 8 Psychologically Speaking

2. Introduction to the Text • 1. Situational Comedy: • Feature: • 1) It does not have a particular significant social or moral message • 2) It can’t be regarded as a great work of art, • 3) The main merit is its amusing story.

3. Introduction to the Text • 2. Conflict of the story: • Chief Conflict: • mother & daughter: The traditional way of life and life for change and freedom • love & marriage • Minor Conflict: • The fight over Mrs Kent between Mr Kent and the psychologist

4. Introduction to the Text • 3. Discussion • 1) Do you like the conventional way of life, love and marriage? • 2) What’s your view about “experimental marriage” and co-habitation before marriage? Will it cause many problems and hurts? How to solve these problems? • 3) Do you believe life-long love and marriage? • 4) What is generation gap? Do you have this problem?

5. New Words and Phrases • 1. fuss • 1) v. to worry over small things • eg. She is always fussing with her clothes. • fuss about If you keep on fussing about, we’re sure to be late. • fuss over sb. :pay excessive attention to sb. 过于注意某人 • eg. He’s always fussing over his grandchildren. 过于操心

6. New Words and Phrases • 2) n. unnecessary nervous excitement or activity • make/ kick up a fuss ( about/ over sth ) complain strongly • eg. She’s kicking up an awful fuss about the high rent.大喊大叫抱怨房租太高 • make a fuss of/ over sb/ sth: pay excessive attention to sb./sth. • Eg. Don’t make so much fuss over the children.

7. New Words and Phrases • 2. behave v. • behave well/ badly, etc. ( towards sb. ): act or conduct oneself in the specified way. • Eg: She behaves ( towards me ) more like a friend than a mother. • He has behaved shamefully towards his wife. • behave ( oneself ): show good manners; conduct oneself well. • Eg: Children, please behave yourself! 放规矩点儿 • behavior n.

8. New Words and Phrases • 3. Puritans: • org: members of the party of English Protestants (基督教新教徒)in the 16th and 17th centuries who wanted simpler forms of church ceremony.清教徒 • Usu. derog: persons who are extremely strict in morals and who tend to regard pieasure as sinful. 禁欲者；苦行者

9. New Words and Phrases • 4. Quakers: are considered even more severe than the Puritans. • 5. crusade: • Originally it referred to one of a series of wars fought in the 11th, 12th,and 13th centuries by Christian armies trying to take Palestine from the Muslims. • Here: a determined attempt to change sth. Because you think you are morally right.

10. New Words and Phrases • 6. in some measure: • to some degree. • Eg: We hope that the completion of this railway will in some measure help to narrow down the gap between the East and West of China.

11. New Words and Phrases • 7. clue: • n. clue to sth: facts or piece of evidence that helps to solve a problem or reveal the truth. • Eg: The only clue to the identity of the murderer was a half-smoked cigarette. • Idm: not have a clue ( infm ) not know anything about sth • Eg: ----- When does the train leave? • ----- I haven’t a clue.

12. New Words and Phrases • 8. claim v. • demand or request sth because it is one’s right. • Eg: After the Duke’s death, his eldest son claimed the title. • claim for sth. : demand (the money )under an insurance policy. • Eg: Have you claimed the insurance for damage yet? • claim sth back: ask for sth. To be returned. • Eg: You can claim you money back if the goods are damaged. • claim n.

13. New Words and Phrases • 9. go through with • to do sth you have promised or planned to do even though it causes problems. • Eg: Just before the curtain rose she got a stage fright. She felt she could not go through with it. • Since we have started, we must go through with it. There is no backing out.

14. New Words and Phrases • 10. beat about the bush: • talk about sth without coming to the main point 拐弯抹角地说；东拉西扯 • eg: Stop beating about the bush and tell us the truth. • 11. bid • v. bid (sth.) for sth.: offer ( a price ) to buy sth. • Eg:She bid $5,000 fot the painting. • Several firms have bid for the contract to build the new concert hall. 竞标

15. bid sth to sb.: say sth as a greeting. • Eg: He bade farewell to his sweetheart and left for the battlefield. • n. eg: She made a bid of $5,000 for the painting. • Any higher/ further bids?

16. Text Analysis • I wouldn’t go out with him, unless he was—not when I’m working for you. (Para. 10) • I wouldn’t go out with him unless he was a decent guy. I wouldn’t do that so long as I’m working for you because I don’t want to bring shame to such a respectable family.

17. Text Analysis 2. Why, her mother wouldn’t have dreamed of marrying her father, it would simply have seemed childish to her! (Para. 15) Her mother probably didn’t think of marrying her father at home or in the church. This social convention was silly and childish for them.

18. Text Analysis 3. That’s the whole trouble, our stupid, small-town way of doing things, always under cover. (Para. 21) That is the problem of our way of life. People in our small town are usually ill-informed, narrow-minded, and ridiculously conservative, and always like to cover things up.

19. Text Analysis 4. And the final uncertainty as to just where he was buried? (Para. 46) With regard to the place where he was buried, we didn’t find out for sure in the end.

20. Text Analysis 5. Partially recovering, I wandered all over the world, hunting some clue to my identity—hoping to establish some connection with my past. (Para. 50) When I got a little better, I began to go from one country to another, trying to find out who I was and to get back my lost memory.

21. Text Analysis 7. I was not killed in action in France, but circumstances over which I had no control kept me abroad all there years. (Para. 57) I was not killed in the war in France. As I can’t control the things happening around me, I was abroad for so many years.

22. Text Analysis 6. Finally, one night, I had a shock, it all came back—my former life—and I am here to claim you, Bessie! (Para. 50) Finally, one night, suddenly the memory all came back, and I come here to take you away.