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Unit 5. Weeping for My Smoking Daughter. Content. BOOK 2. Unit 5. Presentation. Detailed Study. Consolidation. Writing. Assignment. New Horizon College English. BOOK 2. Unit 5. Presentation. Group Discussion.
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Unit 5 Weeping for My Smoking Daughter
Content BOOK 2 Unit 5 Presentation Detailed Study Consolidation Writing Assignment New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Presentation Group Discussion the parent-child relationship especially some parents’ indulgence for their children New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Presentation What is your opinion about smoking, especailly young women smoking? New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Presentation If you were a father or mother, what is the attitude towards your smoking daughter? New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Presentation Background Information Camel, Marlboro and Players are some of the well-known cigarette brands made in the US. Camel is a cigarette introduced by R.J. Roynolds Tobacco in 1913. It is the country’s first nationally marketed cigarette.Both Marlbore and Players are manufactured by Philips Morris. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Presentation Queen Victoria (1819-1901) was queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India. Her nearly 64-year-long reign was the longest in British history. She presided over a period of British industrial progress, artistic successes and colonial empire-building which become known as the Victorian Era. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Presentation Prince Albert (1819-1861) was the husband and trusted advisor of Britian’s Queen Victoria. Albert encouraged in his wife a greater awareness of social ills. He took an active role in bringing about reform and discussion of child labor issue. Prince Albert is also a brand of pipe tobacco sold by John Middleton,Inc. Prince Albert is one of most popular independent brands of tobacco in the US. More recently, it has also become available in the form of pipe-tobacco cigars. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details Main Idea of the Test Structure Analysis Language Details New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details When seeing her daughter smoke heavily, the author as a mother can do nothing but weep. Her weeping is attributed to a bitter lesson she learned from her painful experiences with her father’s smoking. Through years she had to sit by, seeing her father breathe hard at first, then cough a lot, and eventually die from lung trouble. So she feels deeply hurt to watch many people like her daughter following in her father’s steps. She hopes her father’s fate will be a lesson to all. What is the main idea ? New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details Part I (Para.1) I feel terrible seeing ____________________.Part II (Para.2-6) The author recalled_____________________ and her travelling experience in_______________________Part IV (Para 7-8) The author’s feeling as a________ and her view on_________ . her daughter smoking her father’s story Text Structure Analysis the Third World countries mother smoking New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details The way to develop the Passage • What is the effect ? Effect + Cause + Conclusion • What are the causes? • What is the conclusion? New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details The Effect I feel terrible about my daughter’s smoking.(Para.1) The Causes 1. My father died from smoking.(Para.2-5) 2.I see many people like my father and daughter in the Third World countries, weakening and killing themselves by smoking. (Para.6) The Conclusion I am strongly against smoking. (Para. 7-8) New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details • Weeping for My Smoking Daughter (Title) weep: vi. cry Eg. weep with joy 喜极而泣 The girl wept over her sad fate. 女孩为自己的苦命悲叹落泪 2. While she is doing her homework, her feet on the bench in front of her and her calculator clicking out answers to her geometry problems, … (Para.1) In this sentence, “her feet on the bench in front of her” is an expression that describes the behavior or a minor event which goes together with the major event described in the clause. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details Eg. The man sat in the front row, his hands on the table. 那男子坐在前排,手放在桌子上。 This type of expression can be rewritten by adding “with” . Eg. The man sat in the front row, with his hands on the table. geometry: n plane / solid geometry 平面 / 立体几何 analytical geometry 解析几何 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 3…I am looking at the half-empty package of Camels ... (Para.1)package: n. [C] a box or packet in which things are packed eg. a package of cigarettes a large package of books4.I pick them up, …(Para.1) pick up: lift something or somebody up from a surface eg.The boy picked up a stone and threw it at the window. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 5. … and study them -- they’re filtered, for which I am grateful. (Para.1) Meaning: ... and examine them carefully -- they have a tip on one end for smoking at, and I feel or experience a feeling of thanks for this fact. “Study” is used here in the sense of “examine carefully”. Eg. She studied the map.她仔细查看地图 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 6.… they’re filtered, for which I am grateful. (Para.1) filter: vt. pass it through a device to remove unwanted elements Eg. filtered cigarettes 过滤嘴香烟 filtered coffee 滤过的咖啡 Be grateful for sb to do sth: be thankful for Eg. We are very grateful to you for your help when we are in trouble. 我们非常感谢你在我们困难时给予的帮助。 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 7… I hardened myself against feeling so bad; ... (Para.1) Meaning: ... I made myself become less sympathetic and less easily affected emotionally;… harden: v. 1) make someone less conscious of; (cause sb. to) become stronger, severe, unkind, or lacking in human feelings eg. He became hardened to the suffering around him. 2) (cause sth. to) become hard, strong, etc eg. The food hardens as it cools. 食物冷却时变硬。 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 8. She doesn’t know this, but it was Camels that my father, her grandfather, smoked. (Para.2) Meaning: She doesn’t know the fact that it was Camels that my father, her grandfather, smoked. it is (was) ... that (who): This structure is used for emphasis. Eg. It was their teacher who (or: that) helped them solve the problem. 是他们的老师帮助他们解决了那个问题。 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details Eg. It was last month that I bought a video camera. It was in London that I met her for the first time. In these two sentences we never use “when” or “where”. 9. …dressed in a black dress coat and carrying a cane. (Para.2) be dressed in : wear Eg. Her mother was dressed in the nicest clothes she could afford. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 10. … coupled with Hollywood movies in which both male and female heroes smoked like chimneys, … (Para.3) Meaning: ... together with films made in Hollywood in which both male and female heroes smoked a lot, ... couple with (usu. pass.): link /associate something with something else; join one thing to another eg. The writer wrote with plain words coupled with humor. 那位作家的写作风格于质朴中见幽默。 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 11. … who were hopelessly hooked by cigarettes. (Para.3) Meaning: ... who grew to completely rely on cigarettes and the situation was not likely to change or improve. hopelessly: ad. in such a bad way that is causing no hope or not likely to improve Eg. Most of the students are making good progress but Jeremy hopelessly fails again. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 12. … upon getting out of bed. (Para.4) Meaning: ... immediately after he got out of bed. upon / on: prep. immediately after the occasion of something Eg. I saw them on my return. 我一回来就见到了他们 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 13. It was not unusual for him to cough for an hour. (Para.4) Meaning: It was usual for him to cough for an hour. Here in this sentence the negative word “not” and the negative prefix “un-” cancel one another and form an affirmative sentence. Eg. Heavy snow is not unusual in the northeastern part of China. 在中国东北地区下大雪是常事。 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 14. My father died from “the poor man’s friend”pneumonia, ... (Para.5) Meaning: My father died from a serious lung disease called “pneumonia” and this disease was regarded as one that poor people were most likely to develop, ... New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 15. I doubt he had much lung left at all, ... (Para.5) Meaning: I do not think that most of his lungs functioned well ... 16. … he was always leaning on something. (Para.5) Lean on : rest on sth for support Eg. He was leaning on the wall for a rest. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 17. … and largely because he had no more lungs, … (Para.5) Meaning: ... and mainly because his lungs did not function any more ... largely: ad. mainly; to a great degree Their success was largely due to their shared effort. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 18. He gained a couple of pounds, but by then he was so slim no one noticed. (Para.5) Meaning: He became heavier, but by then he was so thin no one noticed . slim: a. 1) thin; not fat eg. I’m trying to get slim. 2) ( of hope, chance,etc.) very small; slight Eg. There are slim hopes of success. 成功的希望很渺茫 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 19. There are large advertisements directed at them both ... (Para.6) Meaning: There are large signs used for telling people about a certain brand of cigarettes in order to encourage them to buy it; and the particular purpose of the signs is to attract the attention of people like my father and daughter ... direct at: aim at a particular person or group Eg. The examination is directed at non-English majors. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 20. ... the beautiful, “worldly” young woman,…( Para.6) worldly: a. experienced and has much knowledge of the practical elements of life eg. worldly people 俗人 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 21. ... both dragging away. (Para. 6) Meaning: .... both smoking (cigarettes) continuously. drag: vi. (slang) smoke (a cigarette) He waited and dragged at the cigarette. 他边等边抽烟。 away: ad. all the time, continuously They worked away all day. 他们整天不停地工作。 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 22. .. as in American inner cities and on reservations..(Para6) inner city: the area in or near the center of a large city where people live and where there are often social and economic problems like a high (usu. poor) population, violence, old buildings in bad condition, etc. Eg. schools in the inner cities 市中心区的学校 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 23. ... money that should be spent for food goes instead to the tobacco companies; ... (Para.6) Meaning: ... money that should be used to buy food is instead paid to the tobacco companies for cigarettes; … go to: be given or paid to Eg. All our sympathy went to the old man after we knew his experience. 我们了解了老人的经历之后,对他深感同情。 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 24. ... over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, ... (Para.6) Meaning: …as time passes by, people cause themselves to suffer from not having enough food to eat or fresh air to breathe… starve sb of sth: not give someone sth that is neededeg. People in this region are starved of drinking water. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 25. ... effectively weakening and hooking their children, ... (Para.6) Meaning: … effectively making their children weaker and dependent or relying on cigarettes (in the same way as they are), … weaken: v. make or become weak or weaker eg. The disease is steadily weakening her heart. The suffix “-en” can be added to some adjectives and occasionally to nouns to form verbs. eg. Widen, deepen, loosen, quicken, etc. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 26. ...that if a baby swallows one, it is likely to die, ...(Para.6) swallow: vt. 1) cause or allow (esp. food or drink) to go down the throat eg. He swallowed the food hastily. 他匆匆吞下了食物。 2) believe sth. too easily eg. He swallowed her story whole. 他对她的故事深信不疑 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 27... the boiled water from a bunch of them makes an effective insecticide. (Para.6) Meaning: … the boiled water from a number of cigarette ends serves as an effective aid used for killing insects. a bunch of : a number of things or a group of people eg. a bunch of flowers 一束花 make : vt. serve as; function as Eg. Their success makes a good ending to the book. 他们的成功成为这部书的圆满的结局。 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 28. There is a quotation from a battered women’s shelter ... (Para.8) Meaning: There is a quotation which comes from a place where a woman who has been violently treated seeks shelter. battered woman: a woman having been physically harmed, usu. by a member of her family. batter: v. hit sb. or sth . Hard again and again. Eg. The storm battered the trees. 风暴摧毁了树木。 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 29. “Peace on earth begins at home.” (Para.8)Meaning: “We should have peace at home first and then peace may spread to the other parts of the world.” on earth: in the world Eg. the happiest man on earth 世界上最快乐的人 New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Study Details 30. ... surely one such victory in my family, for the prosperous leaders who own the tobacco companies, is enough. (Para.8) Meaning: … surely one victim of the tobacco industry in my family means that the prosperous owners of the tobacco companies have won a victory in my family, but one such victim is enough (otherwise it would be too much for my family). New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Consolidation Summary A mother weeps for her smoking daughter: she is smoking the same brand of cigarettes that killed her grandfather. Her grandfather used to have glowing eyes before he was attracted by tobacco advertising and film actors and began to smoke. However, he did not look elegant or fashionable as the advertisement showed. His health was getting worse and worse, and eventually died from “the poor man’s friend”, pneumonia. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Consolidation In the Third World countries, the mother sees many large advertisement signs with confident or fashionable older man or the beautiful “worldly” young women smoking. As a result, in these poor countries, smoking makes the poor even poorer and weaker. The mother feels deeply hurt to see the care she took raising her daughter thrown away as her 16-year-old daughter is killing herself. Smoking is a form of self-battering that New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Consolidation also batters their relatives and the people around them, thus , to avoid more tragedies, everyone must stop smoking at least at family. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Consolidation Expressions 1.at hand 2. pick up 3. coupled with 4. win over 5. be hooked on\\by 6. direct at 7. lean on 8. starve of 9. struggle to do sth 10. die of New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Consolidation Patterns 1. 并列动词表示一连串动作 2. 介词 + which… 3. while +S+ v.+-ing 4. It is not unusual for … to … New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 1 Writing Structure Writing The Cause and Effect Pattern Cause and effect pattern is concerned with why things happen (causes) and what happens as a result (effects). Cause and effect is a common method of organizing and discussing ideas. New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Writing Cause/effect paragraphs generally follow basic paragraph format. That is, they begin with a topic sentence which is followed by specific supporting details. For example, if the topic sentence introduces an effect, the supporting sentences all describe causes. New Horizon College English
For Causes because because of due to on cause is, another is since for first, second For Effects consequently as a result for this reason thus resulted in one result is, another is therefore BOOK 2 Unit 5 Writing Transitional words and phrases New Horizon College English
BOOK 2 Unit 5 Writing Writing Tasks Write a paragraph following the cause-and-effect pattern. Topics: Many problems for mixed marriages Why is my father in excellent health? New Horizon College English