unit2allthecabbiehadwasaletter.ppt

Unit 2 Friendship,Text A All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter Text B Never Let a Friend Down,What does friendship mean to you?,If you have friends, you will /can,Stay together and be happy,Blow bubbles in the sun and have fun,Have a company and will not be alone, and will not be lonely,Have common activities and share beautiful memories,Even the most common things can be wonderful and beautiful,Pure delight, pure smile,Laugh with open-hearted enjoyment,Smile and be happy from the bottom of your heart,When you have worries,When you are upset,When you are sad,Friends can,Give you comfort,Offer you help and encouragement,Have shoulders for you to rest on,Moments with friends are,Meaningful And memorable,If you do not have friends, you will be,Lonely and unattractive,So, make more friends! Friends are perfectly important to us!,Your friendship is :,a precious treasure.,I want to thank you for being a part of my life.,I know I can count on you in difficult times.,I know that I can share with you happy moments. And I also know that our friendship is based on mutual love.,Your friendship is a very special gift, I wont be able to thank you enough for it.,Thanks for filling my life with so much happiness.,Remember that I am always here to listen to you, to comfort you, to share your sorrow, and to celebrate your success.,I hope that today and every day brings you love & happiness.,-Donna Levine,A faithful friend is the medicine of life. - William Shakespeare,A friend is, as it were, a second self. - Cicero,friends,support,encouragement,comfort,happiness,warmth,love,power,wisdom,What qualities are important while choosing a friend?,Unit 2,All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter Foster Furcolo,Part One (paras.1-20),Read this part attentively and underline everything you dont understand. (6 minutes),Part One (paras.1-20),Group work,Make the following sentences complete:,1. From a child or maybe a grandchild? (5) 2. Went to school together? (9) 3. Died a couple of weeks ago. (14),Is this letter from a child or .,You went to school together? Did you go to school together,He died a couple of weeks ago.,Find out the expressions below:,完全沉浸于 引起某人的注意 坐进后座 得了感冒什么的 不着急 家书抵万金,保持通信往来 小学到高中 老街坊 有点儿失去联系 与老朋友保持联系 总有事情冒出来,Find out the expressions below:,完全沉浸于 引起某人的注意 坐进后座 得了感冒什么的 不着急 家书抵万金,be completely lost in,get sbs attention,settle into the back seat,have a cold or something,be in no hurry,Letters from home always mean a lot.,保持通信往来 小学到高中 老街坊 有点儿失去联系 和老朋友保持联系 总有事情冒出来,keep up correspondence,the old neighborhood,kind of lose touch,keep in touch with old friends,things come up,through both grade and high school,Find out sentences similar in meaning to those given below:,1. At least letters from home mean a lot to me because I travel a lot. 2. Im not good at writing. 3. But I expect that he is someone youve known quite a while?,Find out sentences similar in meaning to those given below:,4. We were friends since our childhood, so our friendship has a long history. 5. It is painful to lose any friend. 6. But I realized that the taxi driver was still thinking of Old Ed when he spoke again. It seemed that he spoke more to himself than to me.,Translate the following 2 paragraphs:,Paragraph 6 Paragraph 12:,New Words,Be lost in /lose oneself in Available Or something Go ahead Know / learn by heart Might/ may (just)as well+do sth Estimate Go way back All the way Come up urge,Be lost in / lose oneself in 专心致志于，沉迷于,Henry was lost in playing computer games so he was not aware of my entering the room. She was lost in her novel. I had lost myself in thought.,available,（东西）可获得的；可用的；可找到的 - This is the only room available. available facilities/resources（可利用设施/资源） （人）有空的 - Will your boss be available this afternoon? - The President is not available now.,Or something,(infml) (used when you are not very sure about what you have just said诸如此类的事 It was in 1997 or something. His major is math or something. The number of students in that class is 54 or something. Here is some money. Get yourself a sandwich or something.,Go ahead (with sth):继续,They are not sure about whether to go ahead with the plan or not. Henry will be late but we will go ahead with the meeting anyway. Go ahead and finish your letter.,Know /learn by heart,Memorize, remember exactly记住，背出 The students are required to learn one English passage by heart every week. 学生要求每星期背一篇英语文章 大声朗读第五第六段直到你能把它们背出来 Read aloud paragraphs 5 and 6 until you can learn them by heart. P44 translate 2,Might /may (just) as well+do sth: 不妨，也无妨,If you say that you might /may (just) as well do sth, you mean that you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly reluctant about it. Anyway, youre here; you might as well stay. 既来之，则安之,Might /may (just) as well+do sth: 不妨，也无妨,There are so many people in the canteen. We might as well go and buy some fruits first. The movie ticket has been sold out. We might just as well go shopping. P44 Translation 3,estimate:估计,Form a judgment about (a quantity or value): 估计 I estimate that the total cost for treatment of the disease will go from $5,000 to $ 8,000. Bills personal riches were estimated at $368 million. It is estimated that more than one third students will further their study abroad when graduate. 据估计,Go way back:老相识，老朋友，很有交情,My friend Amy and I go way back. Weve been friends since elementary school. 我和Amy是老朋友了，我们从小学就是朋友。,All the way:自始至终，一直,Look at the examples from childrens story books.,So, Little Bear climbed up and up to Squirrels house. He stretched even more, but still he couldnt reach the star. “Twit-twoo!” hooted Owl at the top of a rock. “Climb up here, Little Bear. Then you might catch the star.”,So, Little Bear climbed all the way up to Owl. He stretched and stretched, but the shiny star was still out of reach. “Oh, dear,” said Little Bear, Sadly.,And so the boy and his friend went home together, talking of wonderful things all the way.,All the way:自始至终，一直,She has walked all the way from the train station to school. 她一直从火车站走到了学校。 P44 Translation 4 He stayed in Australia with his parents all the way through World War II.,Come up: 出现，发生,It means happen, occur, esp. unexpectedly.（尤指意想不到地）发生，出现 Sorry, I am late. Something came up at home. But things come up and we just dont seem to find the time.,urge,urge sb to do sth. - He urged his cousin to take a year off to study drawing. urge that. (should) - Sir Fred urged that Britain (should) join the European Monetary System.,Part One (Paras. 1-20):,From a conversation with the cab driver the author learned how much the driver regretted failing to keep up correspondence with his old friend Ed.,Part Two (paras.21-35),Read this part attentively and underline everything you dont understand. (6 minutes),Part Two (paras.21-35),Group work,Find out the expressions below:,使我想起我自己 住在同一个街区（坊） 同学聚会 时间不饶人 总在一起闲晃 时不时相互串门,点头称是 完全哽咽 快到目的地 跳到最后一段 把信递回去,Find out the following expressions:,使我想起我自己 住在同一个街区（坊） 同学聚会 时间不饶人 总在一起闲晃 时不时相互串门 点头称是 完全哽咽,remind me of myself,a class reunion,Time goes by,hang out on the same corner,nod in agreement,be all choked up,live in the same neighborhood,go to each others house every now and then,Find out the following expressions:,快到目的地 跳到最后一段 把信递回去 神情有点悲伤 远处某个东西,get close to the destination,hand back the letter,something in the distance,skip to the last paragraph,look sort of sorrowful,Find out sentences similar in meaning to those given below:,1. As the letter says, though we didnt have much money we had a lot of free time in those days. 2. fewer and fewer of us are left alive.,Find out sentences similar in meaning to those given below:,3. Your friendship over the years has been very important to me, more important than I can say because Im not good at expressing my feelings.,Read and Translate the italic（斜体的） parts:,New Words & Phrases,postpone reference go by choke,postpone,postpone sth until - Were postponing our holiday until we have some more money. - The match had to be postponed. postpone doing sth - It was an unpopular decision to postpone building the new hospital.,reference:提及，谈到,Make / have reference to sth: mention 谈到，提及 Make / have no reference to sth:没提及 奇怪的是他在他的简历中没有提及任何工作经历。 It was strange that he made no reference to any work experience in his resume. This book is full of references to places I know. 这本书里提到许多我熟悉的地方 Avoid (making) any reference to his illness. 千万别提起他的病。,reference: 参考，查阅,reference book: 参考书 The original text is here for ease of reference. 谨附原文以便查考。 bear / have no some / no reference to sth: (not) be connected with sth与无关 This has no reference to what we were discussing. 这与我们讨论的问题无关。 In / with reference to sb /sth: about or concerning sb /sth关于某人或某物,go by,(of time) to pass - The weeks went slowly by. - Things will get easier as time goes by. - Her daughter was becoming more and more beautiful as the years went by. -with time going by, I gradually realize the importance of health. 随着时间的流逝，我逐渐意识到健康的重要性。,choke: v窒息，堵塞,She choked (to death) on a one dollar coin. 一美元的硬币把她卡住而窒息（致死） Dont talk and eat. Its easy to be choked. choke with sth：使某人说不出话来 She was choking with emotion. 她激动得说不出话来。 Anger choked his words. 他气得说不出话来。,choke up: （因激动等）哽得说不出话；堵塞 (P33a听写句子）,Losing my job left me completely choked up; I was so upset that I didnt know what to say. When he heard the news of his friends sudden death, he was so choked up he couldnt say a thing.,Halloween