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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,A Mothers Place,Donna,Gamache,Discuss,1.What role,s,do mothers play in,the family?,2.What w,ill,you do after you,quarrel with,your,mother?,About the Author,Donna Gamache,was born in,Minnedosa,(明尼多萨),Manitoba,(马尼托巴),in 1994 and she is a writer and teacher f,rom,Macgregor,(马格雷戈).,She received a bachelor(,学士),of Arts degree form the University of Manitoba.She has taught language arts and social studies fulltime at the,secondary level and has worked,as an elementary and secondary,substitute,(代替),teacher.,She specializes in fiction,especially for children.She has published a book for children,S,pruce,W,oods,A,dventure,(,云杉森林历险记),as well as many short stories for both children and adults.Her poetry has been printed in,P,rairie,M,essenger,W,estern,P,eople,and,O,ur,F,amily,and has won honorable mentions in the CAA poetry contest.,AWARDS,Manitoba Winner,Canadian Authors Association Millennium Anthology,1999.First Prize,Winners Circle fiction contest,Canadian Authors Association,1999.Second Prize,Canadian Authors Association(Manitoba)non-fiction contest,1994.Donna has also received honorable mention in several Canadian Authors Association(Manitoba)short story and poetry contests and two Toronto Sunday Star fiction contests.,A mother named Dorothy feels that she is,getting old and doubts her place in the family.,She thinks that she was redundant in the,house,Dorothy decides to leave but her son,and daughter-in-law convinces her that she is,welcomed and needed.,Organization,Text Comprehension1.Text Analysis and main idea,Part one:para1-para2,Moms mood,Part two:para3-para18,Moms solution for the argument,Part three:para19-para33,Sons solution for the argument,Part four:para34-para37,Breaking the ice,Text comprehension2.Question,How did Dorothy feel about herself at the beginning of the story?,Why did Dorothy think herself redundant(多余的)?Can you give me some example?,After reading what do you think of Tims way of solving the problem?,Answer,1.She felt herself old and lonely,2.1Jenny did every housework,2she noticed Jennys glance in the,direction of her own bed-room,3the kitchen is too small for two men all,the time,Important sentences&Language notes,1.The rain still fell in a silent gray,sheet,when Dorothy opened her bedroom,curtains to,peer,outside.(P1,L1),Sheet,:a large moving mass of fire and water.,Rain in a sheet/in sheets=rain heavily,Peer,:look closely or carefully at sth.,eg.她从帘子后面凝视着邻居们。,She peered at the neighbors from behind the curtain.,2.And usually she acted younger than her years,if anything,.(P2,L3),If anything,:if there is any difference,如果有什么不同的话,(如果有什么不同的话,就是从她平日里的举止行动看不出她的实际年龄。),eg.如果有区别的话,我新的工作比以前的更差。,If anything,my new job is worse than my old one.,3.She neednt,bother to drive,the,tractor anymore.,(P2,L6),Bother to do,费心去做,eg.很多人如今不费心举办婚礼了。,Lots of people dont bother to go through a marriage ceremony these days.,4.Shed known it last night,of course,after,the,blow up with,Jenny,Tims wife.(P3,L2),Blow up with,sb.,:be angry with sb.,(当然,昨晚与蒂姆的妻子詹妮吵架之后,她就已经知道是为什么了。),5.,Dorothy argued that the closest garden,patch,needed,fallowing,.,(P4,L3),Patch,:(,尤指种菜用的)小块土地,Fallowing,:n.休耕制;休闲地,(多萝西认为,屋子旁边的那块园地应该空着,。),6.Dorothy,stumped off,to bed at 8.30 p.m.,feeling old and lonely,and missing Steve,as,she hadnt missed him for a long time.(P4,L4),Stump off,:walk in a noisy,heavy way,especially because you are angry.,脚步笨重,沉重,As,:as if 虚拟语气,(于是多萝西晚上八点半就气冲冲地上床了,感到苍老无力,孤立无助,从来没有这么想念过史蒂夫。),7.Tim and Jennys,baby,was due,in two months,and last week Jenny stopped working at the,potato plant,.(P10,L1),Be due in/on,:在到期;预期,eg.结果预期于月底揭晓。,The results are due at the end of the month.,Potato plant :,n.,potato factory,(,蒂姆和詹妮的孩子还有两个月就要出世了。上个星期,詹妮辞去了土豆加工厂的工作。),8,.Not that anything had been said,to that effect,.,(P13,L1),To that/this effect,:,说了,话,表达了,意思,with that/this meaning or information.,eg.他话里带着叫我出去的意思。,He told me to get out,or words to that,effect.,(引申为:事情还没到那个地步。),Understanding Vocabulary,Drought,draut n.lack of rain,Downpour,daunp:n.heavy fall of rain,Relinquish,rilikwi v.give up 放弃;让渡,Redundant,ridndnt not needed,Reconvert,ri:knv:t vt.convert back,Bending,bendi stooping 屈服,Have A,Break,!,9,.A few yards away,the lilacs hung heavy in the rain.,几码远处,丁香花在雨里沉甸甸的挂在枝上。,Yard :,n.,院子;庭院,n.,码(长度单位),lilac:,n.紫丁香花,lalk,10,.Tim made a dash for the house,splashing through large puddles as he ran.,蒂姆正往房子这边跑过来,身后边溅起大滩的雨水。,dash 猛冲 d puddle 积水pdl,splash 溅起 spl,.,11,.shed have her say first,她要掌握发言权。,have ones say 表示意见,12,.though her mind was churning when she went to bed.,尽管去睡觉时她心里还难过着。,churn tn 翻腾,13,.Dorothy closed her mouth,the wind gone from her sails for a moment.,多萝西闭着嘴,好象帆一时没了风一样,不知道说什么好了。,14,.Around here,I wont be needed anymore.More than that.In this house,Im in the way.,家里没人需要我了。不止如此,在这座房子里,我碍手碍脚了。”,in the way 在路上;挡道的,15,.and a life of your own without your mother always looking over your shoulder.,你们过自己的生活,不用我整天在后面盯着你们,Be looking over your shoulder 小心提防,16,.He looked so much like Steve when he set his chin in that determined way.,他看上去真象史蒂夫,那样坚毅地昂着下巴。,Understanding Vocabulary,Pasture 牧场 Poplar 白杨,Creek 小溪 grunt 喃喃道,grove 小树林 trailer 车拖活动住屋,Moisture 水分,C,haracter,Through the whole story,we can have a clear plot about the figure,s,in the article,.,Now let us discuss the character,s,of the whole story,.,C,haracter,This article has three people:mother,son and sons wife,.,The hero is the son,and the heroine is the mother.,D,ifferent descriptio,ns,show the figure,s,character,.,Reason,The background,The mothers thoughts,The attitude of her sons wife,The communication between mother and son,Mother,Love,to,complain,C,ommon but competent,Insist on strong,Sentimental:easy to think too more,Important,Alone,Love,Son,Piousness,Love,Sensible,N,ot a bad son,Not good at communication,Pay more attention to our old mothers,P,ut oneself in ones shoes,allow oneself to see or experience something from someone elses point of view,Dont do unto others what you dont want others do unto you.,Do as you would be done by.,(己所不欲,勿施于人),Thanks For,Watching,G,roup Members,朱雅文,孙卫芳,谭亚欣,胡盟敏,冯文婷,陈滢浇,
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