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Unit 2 Food, glorious food!Active Reading (1) The First Oyster. Warm-up Activities:Please list some food and drinks everyday.Western Food:FruitsStrawberryPineapplePeachLemonPlumPitayaApricotVegetablesCauliflowerEggplantCarrotCabbageAsparagusDrinksMilkCoca colaCoffeeStaple foodBreadToastPizzaHamburgerSandwichMeatSteakDessertsSaladChinese Food:FruitsOrangeApplePeachGrapeWatermelonVegetablesCauliflowerEggplantCarrotCabbageGreen beanpotatoDrinksSoybean MilkPorridgeStaple foodSteamed bunsNoodlesDumplingsBaked pancakeMeatPorkLamb. Further Discussion:Work in pairs and talk about what food or drink do you associate with. 1. Spring Festival; 5. your grandparents home;2. your childhood; 6. life at college;3. a summers day; 7. being in love.4. the end of the working day;Example: chocolate candy a cup of tea ice cream jiaozi large family meals self-service toffee apples. A brief introduction to narration1. What is narration?To narrate is to give an account of an event or a series of events.2. Six elements of a narrationa. Setting: the time and place in which the events of a story take place. Cultural, social, physical context of a story.b. Plot: the sequence of events that take place in a story. c. Characterization: the methods used to present the personality of a character in a narration. (Direct-the author describes the character. Indirect-the reader judges what the character is like based on what they say or do, or what other characters say about them. ) d. Conflict: the central problem that drives the action of a story. two main types Internal: the conflict happens in a characters mind. e.g. A character with a guilty conscienceExternal: the conflict happens between characters, or between a character and some outside force, like nature. e.g. Sherlock Holmes pursuing a criminal is an example of external conflict. e. Atmosphere: the general mood or feeling established in a piece of literature. f. Point of View: who is narrating the story two main types: First person: the narrator uses I to tell the action, and is involved in the story. Third person: the story is told from a perspective outside the story. The characters are referred to by name, or as he, she or they. 3. What should you consider when planning a narration? context purpose selection of details organization poin of view. Background Information & Culture Notes:1. Fish and chips: a piece of fish that is covered in batter and fried in oil and served with chips. It is a very popular food in Britain and often bought from a restaurant to take home.2. Oyster: Oysters were an important food source in all coastal areas where they could be found, and oyster fisheries were an important industry where they were plentiful. Overfishing and pressure from diseases and pollution have sharply reduced supplies, but they remain a popular treat, celebrated in oyster festivals in many cities and towns. . Words & Expressions: 1 cling: vto stick to someone or something, or seem to surround them; to hold someone or something tightly, specially because you do not feel safe 我们坚持祖先的信仰。We cling to the beliefs of our fathers. 他的湿衬衣紧紧贴着身体。His wet shirt clung to his body. 2 frown: vi. to make an angry, unhappy, or confused expression, moving your eyebrows together 表示生气、不悦或困惑而 皱眉，蹙额 frown on / upon sb. /sth.: disapprove of something, especially someones behavior e.g. The father frowned on his sons behavior. 父亲不满他儿子的行为。3 discard: vt. to get rid of something because it is useless 扔掉；弃置 e.g. 1. discard old beliefs 2. discard an old pair of shoes 4 scrape: v. to remove something from a surface, using the edge of a knife, stick, etc. 用小刀等 把刮除 e.g. I must have scraped some of the paint off when I was parking the car. 我准是停放汽车的时候刮掉了一些油漆。 Scrape your shoes on the door mat before you come in. 进屋前先在门口擦鞋垫上擦一擦鞋子。5 despair: n. U a feeling that you have no hope at all for the future 绝望 e.g. She was overcome by despair. 她已完全绝望。Defeat after defeat filled us with despair.一次又一次的失败使我们完全绝望了。6 slippery: a. sth. that is slippery is difficult to hold, walk on, etc. because it is wet or greasy 因湿或有油脂滑的，滑溜的 e.g. The oil made the ground slippery and treacherous to walk on. 油使地面发滑，走在上面很危险。 The road was slippery after the rain. 下雨之后道路很滑。7 crack: vt. to break or make something break so that it gets one or more lines on its surface （使）破裂；（使）裂开；（使）产生裂纹 e.g. He carefully cracked a nut and then gave it to me. 他小心地敲开一只坚果，然后递给了我。Take care not to crack the glass. 小心别将玻璃杯弄裂了。8 perception n. C the way you regard something and your beliefs about what it is like 认识，观念；看法 U the way that you notice things with your senses 感觉；知觉；感知方式 U the natural ability to understand or notice something quickly 感知能力；洞察力e.g. Parents views influence their childrens perceptions of the world. His analysis of the problem showed great perception. 他对该问题的分析显示出敏锐的洞察力。 His perception of the change came in a flash. 他在一瞬间察觉到了这一变化。9 despair: na feeling that you have no hope at all e.g. Despair gives courage to a coward. 谚狗急跳墙，人急造反。1 to be frank: used when you are saying something true that other people may not like 坦率地说 e.g. To be perfectly frank, I think thats a crazy idea. 坦白相告，我认为那是个荒唐的主意。2 come of age: (of a person) reach adult status 成年；到法定年龄 e.g. 1. Hell inherit the money when he comes of age. 等他成年，他就会继承这笔钱了。2. He has come of college age. 他已经到了上大学的年龄。 3 a battery of: a group of many things of the same kind 一排，一组，一连串同类事物 e.g. 1. a battery of lights 一组灯 2. She faced a battery of questions. (比喻)她面临一连串的问题。4 to be frank: used when you are going to say something that is true, but which other people may not like to tell you the truth; frankly speaking; to be frank with you. Language in use: slide it into ones mouth 放进某人的嘴里work out知道to be frank坦白地说seaside resort海滨旅游胜地an enormous portion of seafood 份量极大的海鲜come of age成年schoolboy challenge男生式的挑战bacon sandwich咸肉三明治homesick 想家a note of compromise妥协的意味The clear perception 清晰的感觉scrape out剔出pause every mouthful每吃一口就停一下slide down ones cheek（眼泪）顺着某人的脸颊淌下来before or since 之前或以后half smiling似笑非笑. Text organization. Difficult sentences1. There was no hope left, the only feeling was hunger, and the only emotion was the fear of lost innocence as I realized there could be no escape from my first oyster. (Para 7) Analyze the sentence.Here the writer realized that he had to eat the oyster so he felt the emotion of fear, not about the