Unit 3 : Text A

1. 21st Century College English: Book 1 Unit 3 : Text A Stevie Wonder: Sunshine in the Shadow

2. Unit Three: Text A Lead-in Activities Text Organization Reading & Writing Skills Language Points Guided Practice Assignment

3. Lead-in Activities Questions for Discussion Do you know who Stevie Wonder is? What do you know about him and his accomplishments? Besides Stevie Wonder, what other people with physical disabilities do you know about who have achieved fame and success? Describe who they are and what they have done? How do you think you would feel if you became blind? How would it affect your life?

4. Text Organization The Structure of Text A Para. 1~4 Born black and blind Para. 5~7 Early days showing music talents Para. 8~12 First hit as Stevie Wonder Para. 13~14 Success as an independent musical artist Para. 15~17 Car accident and a different life after it Para. 18 Conclusion: Sunshine in the shadow

5. Reading & Writing Skills A) When writing, it is often more effective toshowthe reader what you mean, by giving specific examples and concrete details, than it is totellthem what you mean. For example, nowhere in Text A do the authors tell you that Stevie Wonder was very musically-talented as a child. Instead, the text makes this important point by giving specific examples of how Stevie’s musical talent was expressed. Instead oftelling you he was musically talented, they areshowingyou this.

6. Reading & Writing Skills B) This is a narration. This is a biography, including the basic information of character, such as birth, family, childhood and habit, characteristic and achievement etc.. In this article, the author arranged it according to time. C) symbol shadow: blindness, poverty, unfortunate sunshine: joyful music, love, happy

7. Lead-in Activities D) alliteration It refers to the appearance of the same initial consonant sound in two or more words, such as “proud as a peacock” and “blind as a bat”. Alliteration is often used in poetry to give emphasis to words that are related in meaning. Alliteration is sometimes used in prose for the same effect---to join two or more related words. Stevie Wonder: Sunshine in the Shadow blind and black faith and fame

8. Intensive Study • Related information • Key words, phrases & usages Intensive Study

9. Intensive Study Stevie Wonder: Sunshine in the Shadow 1 When Stevie Morris was born, on May 13, 1950, the doctors shook their heads and told the mother that her son was born blind and likely would always be that way. She broke into tears.

10. Intensive Study 2Blind and black and poor -- what kind of a life could this new infant have? In her wildest dreams, Mrs. Morris could never have imagined that her new baby would become a famous musician called Stevie Wonder. At the time, all she could do was pray — and worry. 3Stevie himself didn’t worry at all. Life was too full. He was brought up among church-going people whose faith helped them bear the poverty. He loved music and would pound spoons or forks on any surface that faintly resembled a drum.

11. Intensive Study 4He even ran and played with sighted children. “I didn’t realize I was blind until I was about four,” he says. That might sound strange. To a small child just learning about the world, it wasn’t strange at all. Stevie heard and smelled and touched. As far as he knew, that was all anyone could do. That was life. 

12. Intensive Study 5When Stevie’s mother got tired of her tables being used for drums, she bought him a toy set. He played so hard that he had actually worn the toy out within a few weeks. Other toys sets followed; then an uncle added a toy harmonica, and Stevie learned to play it so quickly that everyone was amazed.

13. Intensive Study 6Stevie taught himself to play the piano as quickly as he had once learned the harmonica. With friends, he began playing rock and roll music. They performed on the front porch of Stevie’s apartment building, drawing crowds of neighbors to watch and listen and clap time to the beat.

14. Intensive Study 7“I loved that beat,” Stevie says. He not only loved the beat he was very good at making it. 8Ronnie White, of the Miracles singing group, heard Stevie and promptly took him down to his recording company, Motown Records.

15. Intensive Study 9“Give him an audition,” Ronnie said. They did. All the top people at Motown got together to hear a little blind boy who wasn’t even ten years old yet. At first, they were being nice. Poor kid. They didn’t want to hurt his feelings. 10Then they heard Stevie sing and play, and nobody said “poor kid” anymore. They were too busy congratulating themselves on finding a youngster who could be the musical talent of the decade. “He’s a wonder boy,” somebody said as they watched little Stevie dart from one instrument to the next, playing each one with ease.

16. Intensive Study 11“Wonder,” somebody said, “Little Stevie Wonder”. 12The new name stuck and Stevie Morris became Little Stevie Wonder. He had his first hit when he was twelve years old. It was called “Fingertips” and it was a smash.

17. Intensive Study 13Over the following years, Little Stevie Wonder became one of the top recording artists at Motown, producing one hit after another. But as he grew into adulthood, Stevie began to get tired of the way the Motown company controlled all aspects of his career. He wanted to write and produce his own songs, but the Motown company thought it was unwise to change a winning formula. When he turned 21, Stevie finally got his freedom. Against Motown’s wishes he started exploring: he made records that combined gospel, rock and roll, and jazz and which used African and Latin American rhythms. To the record company’s surprise, Stevie’s new albums such as “Music of My Mind” and “Innervisions” were even more popular than his early ones. Stevie Wonder had become a mature man and an independent musical artist.

18. Intensive Study 14Just after this success, however, tragedy struck. In August of 1973, Stevie was involved in a serious car accident. For nearly a week he lay in a coma, unable to speak or walk. “We don’t know when he’ll be out of danger,” the doctor said. Everyone waited and prayed. Suddenly, it didn’t matter that Stevie was a musical genius or that he had conquered blindness and poverty. All he had left was his faith and strong will.

19. Intensive Study 15That turned out to be enough. Stevie fought back from the shadow of death as he had once fought out from the shadow of blindness. He went on to give more performances, make more hit records.

20. Intensive Study 16The car accident changed Stevie by making him reevaluate his goal in life. He still loved to make music, but he also started to pay more attention to the world outside. He worked to create a national holiday to honor the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He recorded songs urging racial harmony and raised money to end world hunger. Recently, Stevie was honored by South African president Nelson Mandela for his work against that country’s system of racial apartheid.

21. Intensive Study 17Stevie Wonder has faith and fame, wealth and love. He has not only conquered his own darkness, but through his music and his social activities he has been able to bring sunshine to the shadow of other lives.

22. Blind and black and poor —what kind of life could this new infant have? Translate this sentence into Chinese: The adjective phrase functions as an adverbial, which normally occurs either at the beginning or the end of a sentence. Key 既穷又瞎，还是个黑人，这个新生的婴孩将来会拥有怎样的命运呢？ Example 1. Eager to meet her boyfriend early, Mary went to the airport 3 hours earlier than the arrival of fight. 2. Hit by a big stone, the soldier fell down dead.

23. in one’s wildest dreams — the expression is used to imply that a particular thing is so strange or so unlikely that one has never thought of it. Translate 邻居们做梦也没有想到温文尔雅的怀特先生竟是个杀人 犯。 Example In his wildest dreams he could never have expected to get the fellowship from MIT so easily. Key None of the neighbors, even in their wildest dreams, could ever think of that mild-mannered Mr. White is a murderer.

24. At first, they were being nice. Translate this sentence into Chinese: ? The progressive tense of “be” is used to express temporary activity or behavior at the moment of speaking, but not about states of mind or feelings. Key 一开始，他们只是表示一下善意。 Example You were being stupid. =You were behaving stupidly (although you normally didn’t).

25. with ease — without difficulty Fill in the blank: If you work hard, _____ (你就能轻松通过四级考试). Example Only the well-trained horse can jump over this gap with great ease. you can pass the College English Test Band 4 with ease

26. The new name stuck and Stevie Morris became Little Stevie Wonder. Translate this sentence into Chinese: ? Key 这个名字不胫而走，史蒂威﹒莫里斯变成了小史蒂威﹒ 旺达。

27. hit/smash/smash hit — a great success of a new play, film, book, etc. Example The show was a smash hit in London and New York. Paraphrase The new toy is supposed to be a sure hit with kids. Key The new toy is supposed to be surely popular with young children.

28. involve somebody/something in — bring sb./sth. into a difficult situation Example • Jenny was involved in a heated quarrel with the store- keeper for over-charge. Translate Series of scandals involved the government in a lot of trouble. Key 一连串的丑闻使政府麻烦不断。

29. fight back — protect oneself by fighting Example • Though surprised by the German attack, the Allied Forces fought back safely. • He declared that he would fight back when attacked.

30. go on doing sth. — continue an activity without stopping go on to do sth. — do sth. after completing sth else Example • How long do you intend to go on playing those noisy records? • He welcomed the new students and then went on to explain some of the university regulations. Drill • Ann went to her father and asked him a question, but he _____ (read) his newspaper and didn’t give her an answer. • Once he had learned the harmonica, Stevie _____ (teach) himself to play the piano. went on reading went on to teach More to do

31. go on doing sth. — continue an activity without stopping go on to do sth. — do sth. after completing sth else 3. The man _____ (play) the violin at the subway station even though no passers-by seemed to pay any attention. 4. He took a long drink from the bottle and then _____ (tell) us about his life in that mountainous village. Drill went on playing went on to tell

32. Text-related information (1) Stevie Wonder(1950 - ) Pop star Stevie Wonder, who was born blind, has been a recording artist since the age of ten. His music and songs reflect his ability to draw on diverse themes and a rich variety of musical ideas and techniques. His biggest hits include “Ebony & Ivory”(1982) and “I Just Called to Say I Love You”(1984), which won an Academy Award as best original song.

33. Saxophone Text-related information (2) Popular Music in the U.S.A Jazz A kind of music originally played by black Americans with a strong beat and parts in which performers can play alone.

34. Carpenters Text-related information (2) Country Music Popular music based on the folk style of the southern rural United States or on the music of cowboys in the American West. Also called country and western music.

35. a break-dancer Text-related information (2) Rap and Break Dance A type of popular music in which the words of a song are not sung, but spoken in time to music with a steady beat. The rap music is often accompanied by break dance including acrobatics such headspins and flips.

36. Elvis Presley the Beatles Text-related information (2) Rock and Roll A type of popular music, marked by a steady beat and a strong rhythm, which is often played at high volume. Rock music combines elements of blues, country and gospel and its popularity can be traced to the mid-1950s when Elvis Presley was its most successful performer. By the early 1960s, rock and roll, which often expressed a rebellious attitude towards society, became the most popular form of music for teenagers and such British groups as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were influential performers. Since the 1960s, rock and roll has gained worldwide popularity not only among teens, but also among persons of college age and older.

37. Guided Practice Vocabulary Cloze Translation Structure Writing

38. Vocabulary IV. Fill in the blanks with the words or expressions given below. Change the form where necessary. 《读写教程 I》:Ex. IV, p. 70

39. Vocabulary wear out bear racial mature draw conquer break into pay attention to aspect perform as far as get tired of 1. The films he directed two decades ago still _____ large audiences today. • draw 2. Of all the sorrows she had to _____, none was so great as her son’s being born blind. • bear

40. wear out bear racial mature draw conquer break into pay attention to aspect perform as far as get tired of Vocabulary 3.He didn’t throw away the stockings until they were so _____ that they couldn’t be mended anymore. • worn out 4. He finally _____ sitting in the office all day and longed for a more active life. • got tired of

41. wear out bear racial mature draw conquer break into pay attention to aspect perform as far as get tired of Vocabulary 5. He had a vision (幻想) of a society in which the members of different races could live together in _____ harmony. • racial 6. He _____ so little _____ what he was doing that he cut his face while shaving. • paid; attention to

42. wear out bear racial mature draw conquer break into pay attention to aspect perform as far as get tired of Vocabulary 7. Although he’s only 16 he has very _____ ideas about life. • mature 8. He told such a funny story that everybody _____ laughter. • broke into

43. wear out bear racial mature draw conquer break into pay attention to aspect perform as far as get tired of Vocabulary 9. The concert at which the classical pianist _____ was a great success. • performed 10. Although he made a great deal of money, he could never _____ his feelings of worthlessness. • conquer

44. wear out bear racial mature draw conquer break into pay attention to aspect perform as far as get tired of Vocabulary 11. We must consider all _____ of the plan before deciding. • aspects 12. _____ I know, it is not necessary to buy tickets in advance. They should be available at the door. • As far as

45. Cloze 《读写教程 I》:Ex. XI, p. 74

46. Cloze X. Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate word. with 1 Stevie Wonder’s life had been filled _____ challenges. However, he has _____ each one by finding joy even in a life with a great deal of pain. _____ he was born poor and _____, Stevie had a wonderful _____ because he played with all of the sighted children. blind Although met childhood

47. Cloze X. Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate word. amazed 2 When young Stevie discovered music, he _____ his family with his talent. Soon his _____ and the world learned how gifted a musician he was. As a man, Stevie had to _____ for the right to make music his own way. When he did make his own _____, they were very popular. Stevie had trusted his own _____ enough to become a mature musical artist. neighbors fight records talent

48. Cloze X. Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate word. accident only 3 After a serious car _____, Stevie didn’t just survive. He became famous not _____ for his music, but also for his public mindedness. He sang _____ serious problems and the need for people everywhere to get _____. The life of Stevie Wonder shows the importance of having a positive _____ and trusting your own abilities. about along attitude

49. Translation XIV. Translate the following sentences into English.22 《读写教程 I》:Ex. XII, p. 74

50. Translation 1. 据我所知，他们必须做的只是来见一见他们想抚养的孩子， 并填写一份表格 。 As for as I know bring up fill up all they have to do As far as I know, all they have to do is come and see the child they want to bring up and fill up a form.