全新版大学英语第二册Unit2

1、HomeBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingBefore Reading 1. English Song - Thats What Friends Are For Introductory Remarks Thats What Friends Are For Questions and Answers2. Background Information 3. Word Web 4. Topic-related Prediction 5. Warm-up Questions Introductory Remarks Be

2、fore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHome Thats What Friends Are For Listen to the song and fill in the blanks with what you hear. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeAnd I never thought Id feel this wayAnd Im concerned Im glad I got the chance to sayThat A

3、nd ifWell, then close your eyes and tryTo feel today And then if you can remember , Knowing you can always me , thats what friends are forBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeFor Ill be forevermore Thats what friends are forWell, you me And now theres so much more I seeAnd so

4、 , I thank you And then for the times were apartWell, then close your eyes and knowThese words areAnd then if you can remember , Knowing you can always me Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHome , thats what friends are forIn Ill be forevermore Thats what friends are for , Know

5、ing you can always me thats what friends are forFor Ill be forevermore Thats what friends are for Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHome,Knowing you can always me Count on me Thats what friends are forFor Ill be forevermore Thats what friends are forCount on me, for sureCount

6、on me, for sureCount on me, for sureThats what friends are forKeep smiling, keep shining good times and bad times Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHome,Questions and Answers1.What is a fair weather friend?One who is happy to stay with you when things are going well but leaves

7、 as soon as trouble arrives. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeQuestions and Answers2. Do you know anything about the singers?Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight .Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHom

8、eQuestions and Answers2. Do you know anything about the singers?Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight .Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Dionne WarwickDionne Warwick was a pop and R&B (Rhythm and Blues, 节奏蓝调音乐) music star of the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s she worked jointly with Elt

9、on John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder on the Grammy-winning single Thats What Friends Are For, a fundraiser for AIDS victims. CloseBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeQuestions and Answers2. Do you know anything about the singers?Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Stevie Wonder a

10、nd Gladys Knight .Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Elton John Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeQuestions and Answers2. Do you know anything about the singers?Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight .Dionne Warwick，Elton John, Elton John (1947), an English roc

11、k composer, singer and pianist, is one of rock musics durable (持久的) performers. He played the piano by ear from age four, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music at 11.The top pop star of the 1970s, his performance was featured by wild eyeglasses and outlandish (奇异的) costumes on the stage. Despite

12、 health problems in 1993 he continues to perform live across the world, mostly on the softer side these days. His latest success includes the best-selling sound track for The Lion King (1994), a Disney film. And the recording of Candle in the Wind 97, sung at the funeral of Princess Diana, became th

13、e largest-selling single in history within a month of its release (发行). He was knighted (授予爵士称号) in 1998.CloseBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeQuestions and Answers3. According to the song, what are friends for? For both good times and bad times. Before ReadingGlobal Read

14、ingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeQuestions and Answers4. How can friend and friendship be defined? friendfriendshipBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeQuestions and Answers4. How can friend and friendship be defined? friendfriendshipFriends A CloseNextBefore ReadingGlobal

15、 ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeA friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of ones heart, chaff（谷壳） and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift (筛，过滤) them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - George Eliot (181

16、91880), English novelist Questions and Answers4. How can friend and friendship be defined? friendfriendshipFriends B CBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeA friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882), America

17、n poet and philosopherA true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. - Doug Larson (19021981), English middle-distance runner CloseQuestions and Answers4. How can friend and friendship be defined? friendfriendshipFriendship A True friendship is like sound health; the

18、value of it is seldom known until it is lost. - Charles Caleb Colton (17801832), English author and clergyman B CloseNextBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeFriendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul（天气恶劣的）. - Ambrose Bierce (18421914)

19、, American author and journalist, from The Devils Dictionary Questions and Answers4. How can friend and friendship be defined? friendfriendshipFriendship C Friendship is a treasure that always helps usovercome any kind of difficulty. Friendship is acomfort which always understands worries and emotio

20、ns. Friendship is a blessing because it teaches the way to live. - UnknownCloseBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeQuestions and Answers5. Can you give some examples of great friendship?Marx and Engles， Qu Qiubai and Lu Xun Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter R

21、eadingHomeQuestions and Answers5(popwin_ Marx and Engles1 )Questions and Answers5. Can you give some examples of great friendship?Marx and Engles， Qu Qiubai and Lu Xun Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeMarx and Engles Questions and Answers5. Can you give some examples of g

22、reat friendship?Marx and Engles， Qu Qiubai and Lu Xun Marx valued Engels friendship so highly that he once said he loved and admired his friend very much. Engels had been aiding Marx who suffered greatly from bitter poverty. Were it not for the help Marx obtained from Engels, Marx would hardly have

23、been able to overcome poverty and he surely would not have left behind him a monument. CloseBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeQuestions and Answers5. Can you give some examples of great friendship?Marx and Engles， Qu Qiubai and Lu Xun Qu Qiubai and Lu Xun Before ReadingGlo

24、bal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeQuestions and Answers5. Can you give some examples of great friendship?Marx and Engles， Qu Qiubai and Lu Xun Qu Qiubai was one of CPCs principal leaders in the early period. Under the persecution（迫害）of Wang Ming, one of the CPCs early leaders, Qu was dismi

25、ssed from his important posts in the CPC Central Committee. But he soon took an active part in the struggles launched by the left-wing cultural front, together with Lu Xun, in Shanghai. During the two years of joint work , they became true friends. CloseBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAf

26、ter ReadingHomeBackground Information Halloween Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeBackground Information Halloween Halloween Halloween is celebrated annually. It is on the night of 31 October, when people once believed that ghosts could be seen. Now, in Britain and America

27、, it is a time when children have parties, dress up as witches, make lanterns out of pumpkins from which the inside has been removed, and play “trick or treat”. CloseNextBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeBackground Information Halloween “Trick or treat ” is a traditional a

28、ctivity at Halloween. Children dress in costumes and visit houses. At each house they say “Trick or treat”. This means that they will play a “trick”, or joke, on the people in the house unless they are given a “treat”, e.g. sweets or money. Most people prefer to give treats rather than having tricks

29、 played on them. CloseBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomePrevWord Web The stories in this unit are about friendship. Write down five words which you would use if you were writing a poem on this subject.friendshipBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomef

30、riendshipdurable everlasting warm lifelong perpetual trustclose intimate long-standing enduringgenuine help generous Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeTopic-related Prediction 1.Text A is titled All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter. Before you read the story, think about the an

31、swers to the following questions.What does a cabbie do?What is a letter used for?Who wrote the letter to the cabbie?Why was all the cabbie had only a letter?Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeTopic-related Prediction 2.Read the last sentence of Text A and try to guess what

32、the story is about.When I got to my hotel room I didnt unpack right away. First I had to write a letter - and mail it.3.Read Text A as quickly as possible, and find out if you are right. Can you summarize the story with three sentences?Key words: lost in thought; read a letter; an old friend; lifelo

33、ng friendship; regret; author decidedBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHome Warm-up Questions 1. Do you often write letters to your friends?2. Did you ever write a letter which was not sent? Why did you keep it? Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeGlob

34、al Reading 1. Scanning 2. Group Discussion3. Part Division of the Text 4. Further UnderstandingFor Part I True or FalseFor Part 2 & 3 Questions and AnswersBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeScanning Scan Text A and decide which of the following statements is the theme. 1. O

35、ne should keep in touch with his friends. 2. Never delay expressing your true feelings to a friend. 3. A true friend will stand by you forever. 4. Late is better than never.Never delay expressing your true feelings to a friend. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeGroup Discu

36、ssion 1. The following questions are what the narrator asked the cabdriver. Put them in the right order.1)Did you go to school together?2)The letter must have made you feel good, didnt it?3)Is your cab available? 4)Is he someone youve known quite a while? 5)Is he dead? 6)I thought your friend was Ed

37、. Why did he sign it Tom? 7)Is the letter from a child or a grandchild? 8) Did you two work at the same place? 3-7-4-1-5-8-2-6 Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeGroup Discussion 2. What were the cabbies responses to these questions?3. The narrator thought that the cabbie h

38、ad received a letterfrom a friend named Ed. Which round of question-and-answer in the text leads to the misunderstanding? The second round: “Is the letter from a child or a grandchild?” “No. Ed was my oldest friends.”Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomePart Division of the T

39、ext Parts Lines Main Ideas 1 142 2 4387 3 8889 From a conversation with the cab driver the author learned how much he regretted failing to keep up correspondence with his old friend Ed. Reading the letter by himself, the author learned more about the lifelong friendship between the driver and Old Ed

40、. The drivers experience urged the author to reach for his pen. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeTrue or False1. The driver caught a cold that day. 2. The driver had never seen Ed in the past 25 or 30 years. 3. The driver had never forgotten his old friend. 4. The narrato

41、r was quite eager to read the letter. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeFFTF( )( )( )( )True or False1. The driver caught a cold that day. 2. The driver had never seen Ed in the past 25 or 30 years. 3. The driver had never forgotten his old friend. 4. The narrator was quit

42、e eager to read the letter. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHome( )( )( )( )FFTFHe had just cried. True or False1. The driver caught a cold that day. 2. The driver had never seen Ed in the past 25 or 30 years. 3. The driver had never forgotten his old friend. 4. The narrator

43、 was quite eager to read the letter. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHome( )( )( )( )FFTFHe had only seen him once or twice a year. True or False1. The driver caught a cold that day. 2. The driver had never seen Ed in the past 25 or 30 years. 3. The driver had never forgotte

44、n his old friend. 4. The narrator was quite eager to read the letter. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHome( )( )( )( )FFTFHe thought it was very personal. Questions and Answers1. What did the driver and Ed use to do before they gotmarried? They went to school and passed time

45、 together. 2. What did the narrator mean by saying the first sentencein the letter reminded him of himself?The letters author often postponed writing to his friends. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeQuestions and Answers3. Who wrote the letter? Who did the narrator think

46、hadwritten the letter? Find out sentences that demonstrate thenarrator s misunderstanding? The driver wrote the letter. The narrator thought that Ed had written the letter. For example, “I know Id like to receive a letter like that from my oldest friend.” 4.What did the narrator decide to do when he

47、 arrived at thehotel? Why? He decided to write a letter and mail it immediately because he wouldnt wait until it was too late. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingHomeAll the Cabbie Had Was a Letter He must have been completely lost in something he was reading because I had to t

48、ap on the windshield to get his attention. “Is your cab available?” I asked when he finally looked up at me. He nodded, then said apologetically as I settled into the back seat, “Im sorry, but I was reading a letter.” He sounded as if he had a cold or something. “Im in no hurry, ” I told him. Go ahe

49、ad and finish your letter.” He sounded as ifhe had a cold or something.SentenceWordor something.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading“Go aheadHomeAll the Cabbie Had Was a Letter He must have been completely lost in something he was reading because I had to tap on the windshield t

50、o get his attention. “Is your cab available? I asked when he finally looked up at me. He nodded, then said apologetically as I settled into the back seat, “Im sorry, but I was reading a letter.” He sounded as if he had a cold or something. “Im in no hurry, ” I told him. Go ahead and finish your lett

51、er.” He sounded as ifhe had a cold or something.What can we infer from this sentence?This sentence implies the sad state of mind the taxi driver was in. CloseSentenceWordBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Readingor something.“Go aheadHome He shook his head. “Ive read it several times

52、already. I guess I almost know it by heart.” “Letters from home always mean a lot,” I said. “At least they do with me because Im on the road so much.” Then, estimating thathe was 60 or 70 years old, I guessed: “From a child or maybe a grandchild?” “This isnt family,” he replied. “Although,” he went

53、on, “come to think of it, it might just as well have been family. Old Ed was my oldest friend. In fact, we used to call each other Old Friend-when wed meet, that is. Im not much a hand at writing.” “At least they do with me because Imon the road so much.”it might just as well have been family. Sente

54、nceWordmight just as wellBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Readingestimating. not much ofHomeSentenceWordBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading He shook his head. “Ive read it several times already. I guess I almost know it by heart.” “Letters from home always mean

55、 a lot,” I said. “At least they do with me because Im on the road so much.” Then, estimating thathe was 60 or 70 years old, I guessed: “From a child or maybe a grandchild?” “This isnt family,” he replied. “Although,” he went on, “come to think of it, it might just as well have been family. Old Ed wa

56、s my oldest friend. In fact, we used to call each other Old Friend-when wed meet, that is. Im not much a hand at writing.” “At least they do with me because Imon the road so much.”it might just as well have been family. might just as wellParaphrase the sentence.At least letters from home mean a lot

57、to me because I travel a lot in a car for long distances. Closeestimating. not much ofHomeSentenceWordBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading He shook his head. “Ive read it several times already. I guess I almost know it by heart.” “Letters from home always mean a lot,” I said. “A

58、t least they do with me because Im on the road so much.” Then, estimating thathe was 60 or 70 years old, I guessed: “From a child or maybe a grandchild?” “This isnt family,” he replied. “Although,” he went on, “come to think of it, it might just as well have been family. Old Ed was my oldest friend.

59、 In fact, we used to call each other Old Friend-when wed meet, that is. Im not much a hand at writing.” “At least they do with me because Imon the road so much.”it might just as well have been family. might just as wellTranslate the sentence into Chinese. 也可以算是一家人。 Closeestimating. not much ofHome “

60、I dont think any of us keep up our correspondence too well,” I said. “I know I dont. But I take it hes someone youve known quite a while?” “All my life, practically. We were kids together, so we go way back.” “Went to school together?” “All the way through high school. We were in the same class, in