大学泛读3 unit_4doc资料.ppt

1、Seeking Steady Arm to Lean on,Unit 4,predicting,Seeking Steady Arm to Lean On Aging Old people living alone and with disease or disabled Someone needs help. Someone needs help for some time, not just for a moment. What kind of people need help most? Who will be most probably referred to in the text?

2、 Do all the old need help?,Scanning for the main idea,Introductory part opinion introduction details Subtitles conclusion,Name Matching,Grace McCabe Roberta Van Laven Barbara. R. Elvia Moran Frank Dakin,Carol Kaimovitz Charlotte Frank Various kinds of friends Cristina Martinez,Patients,The help,Outl

3、ine of the text,A new kind of need Help in a crisis Fear of being a burden,Lead in,Three ways of help for people in need,Story of Grace McCabe,Skimming for information,Comprehending the text 1-7 d d b c d d c,Detailed reading,Case 1 Grace McCabe comprehension What is her problem? Why did she choose

4、Frank? Difficult sentences para2 line 2(paraphrase) para7 line 2(paraphrase) line 5(translation) para8 line 3(translation) para13 line3(paraphrase) para14 line2(translation),But now Ms. M. gradually loses her sight and almost sees nothing clearly.,In 2003, almost 27% of American families are made up

5、 of one person living by himself or herself, which was up in percentage form 18% in 1970. as far as these families are concerned, what they really value is friendship, a relationship that has no lawful status or social position belonging to their relatives.,人口统计学家警告说，生育高峰期出生的人逐步老年化，疾病和残疾成为老年不可避免的必然结

6、果，这将使独居者家庭队伍壮大。,他说，任何病人或残疾人，在医院里或出院后都需要有人负责照料他们，但独居者在特别脆弱的时候却是自己照顾自己。,Give good news or bad to the relatives living in faraway places,但紧急情况联系人表格没有明显近亲可以填写的独居者，必须依靠从专职人员和朋友那里临时获得支持。独立多年以后，且不说请求帮助，就是接受帮助，到时候也可能不那么自然。,Detailed reading,Case 2 Roberta Van Laven What could the story of Roberta Van Laven t

7、ell us?,Its just so hard to accept help,Detailed reading,Case 3 Barbara R comprehension what is her profession? What was her goal to release her friends burden? And how to achieve the goal? difficult sentences Para1 (translation) Para5 line1(paraphrase) Para11 line 1(translation),So + adj. + Inverte

8、d order + that clause So hard is the wish to give up that getting unconditional care from a family member must be the first choice for a patient. 希望得到家人无条件的照顾肯定是首选，要放弃它很难。,Barbara knew that she had a lot of advantages while she became a patient.,芭芭拉认为，这些新生的团体和自己那个被称为“友谊曼陀罗”的关系网，是日益庞大的疾病患者和老年孤独者队伍的榜样

9、。,Detailed reading,Case 4 Elvia Moran comprehension Whats the difficulty for Cristina Martinez when she helped Elvia out? Whats Elvias attitude towards the endless help from Cristina? difficult sentence Para 5 line 1 Para11 para12,Emphatic structure It isthat 去年冬天，莫兰女士拿到诊断后，马丁内斯女士停止了寻找工作，打那以后，她拿不出来的

10、是钱。,Detailed reading,Case 5 Frank Daykin comprehension What is his problem? According to Frank, what kind of characters does Carol have? And in fact what is it? What could be the greatest fear of Frank? difficult sentence Para1 line 3,Reading skills,Fast reading,d b c c d b d a d d b a d c d,Homework,Group work: imagine some mechani