大学英语专业综英2Unit5.ppt

Fourteen StepsUnit 5Unit 5Fourteen StepsUnit5Watch the video and answer the following questions.1.What did the mother mean at the end of the video?Pre-reading Activities-Audiovisual supplement 1Audiovisual supplementCultural informationShe was trying to tell her boy that everybody should be treated equally,even for those who had some physical or intelligence problems.Pre-reading Activities-Audiovisual supplement 2Audiovisual supplementCultural informationForrest Gump is a 1994 film based on Winston Grooms 1986 novel of the same name.The film,directed by Robert Zemeckis,stars Tom Hanks,Robin Wright Penn,and Gary Sinise.The story is of Forrest Gump,an ordinary man who comes from Alabama and his journey through life meeting historical figures,influencing popular culture,and experiencing firsthand historic events of the late 20th century.2.What do you know about the movie Forrest Gump?Pre-reading Activities-Audiovisual supplement 3Audiovisual supplementCultural informationDoctor:Mother:Voiceover:Lets take a little walk around.How do those feel?His legs are strong,Mrs.Gump,as strong as Ive ever seen.But his backs as crooked as a politician.But were going to straighten him right up,arent we,Forrest?Forrest!Now,when I was a baby,Mama named me after the great Civil War hero General Nathan Bedford Forrest.She said we was related to him in some way.What he did was,he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan.Theyd allVideo Script1Audiovisual supplementCultural informationVideo Script2Audiovisual supplementCultural informationVoiceover:Mother:dress up in their robes and their bedsheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something.Theyd even put bedsheets on their horses and ride around.Anyway,thats how I got my name Forrest Gump.Mama said the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that,well,that just dont make no sense.All right.What are yall staring at?Havent you ever seen a little boy with braces on his legs before?Dont ever let anybody tell you theyre Video Script3Audiovisual supplementCultural informationMother:Voiceover:better than youForrest.If God intended everybody to be the same,hed have given us all braces on our legs.Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.I am quite often asked:How do you feel about having ALS?The answer is,not a lot.I try to lead as normal a life as possible,and not think about my condition,or regret the things it prevents me from doing,which are not that many.Stephen HawkingQuoteCultural information 1Audiovisual supplementCultural informationGlobal Reading-Main idea 1Main ideaStructural analysis It is hard to imagine that a blind old man should be willing and able to for someone else on a night.This happened to the author,a man who was afflicted by a progressive disease and who took others for granted.Up to that day,the author had lived in ,as he was becoming increasingly feeble.He struggled to every day only to hold on to his sanity,his wife,his home and his job.fix a car _darkstormy _crippled_help_disillusionment,self-pity,indifference andselfishness_climb the fourteen steps _Global Reading-Main idea 2Structural analysisMain ideaAfter he met the blind old man,it suddenly dawned on him that even a person was capable of performing for his fellow beings,and that was where lies.handicapped_an act of love _the value of life _Structural analysis 11.How many parts can the text be divided into and whats the topic of each part?Main ideaStructural analysis According to the development of the story,the text could be divided into four parts,each of which focuses on one topic.Respectively,these topics are about the authors first life,his second life,his third life and his reflection on the auto-repair incident.Structural analysis 2Structural analysisParagraphsMain idea1-2It depicts the authors first phase of life in which he began to enjoy everything pleasant:excellent health,a good job,a nice house,a happy family and lovely daughters.2.Summarize the main idea of each part by completing the table.Main ideaParagraphsMain idea3-56-89-10The author describes his second life.Because of his disease,he became miserable and frustrated.The authors third life began with the trouble of his car on the stormy night and he described the blind mans magnanimous,selfless help.Structural analysis 3Structural analysisMain ideaThe author reflected on the incident and his life philosophy,from which he discovered the true value of life.Hal ManwaringFourteen StepsDetailed reading1Detailed reading They say a cat has nine lives,and I am inclined to think that possible since I am now living my third life and Im not even a cat.My first life began on a clear,cold day in November 1934,when I arrived as the sixth of eight children of a farming family.My father died when I was 15,and we had a hard struggle to make a living.As the children grew up,they married,leaving only one sister and myself to support and care for Mother,who became paralyzed in her last years and died while still in her 60s.My sister married soon after,and I followed her example within the year.1Detailed reading2 This was when I began to enjoy my first life.I was very happy,in excellent health,and quite a good athlete.My wife and I became the parents of two lovely girls.I had a good job in San Jose and a beautiful home up the peninsula in San Carlos.Life was a pleasant dream.Then the dream ended.I became afflicted with a slowly progressive disease of the motor nerves,affecting first my right arm and leg,and then my other side.Thus began my second life In spite of my disease I still drove to and from work each day,with the aid of special equipment installed in my car.And I managed to keep my health and optimism,to a degree,because of 14 steps.Detailed reading23Detailed reading3 Crazy?Not at all.Our home was a split-level affair with 14 steps leading up from the garage to the kitchen door.Those steps were a gauge of life.They were my yardstick,my challenge to continue living.I felt that if the day arrived when I was unable to lift one foot up one step and then drag the other painfully after it repeating the process 14 times until,utterly spent,I would be through I could then admit defeat and lie down and die.So I kept on working,kept on climbing those steps.And time passed.The girls went to college and were happily married,and my wife and I were alone in our beautiful home with the 14 steps.Detailed reading4Detailed reading4 You might think that here walked a man of courage and strength.Not so.Here hobbled a bitterly disillusioned cripple,a man who held on to his sanity and his wife and his home and his job because of 14 miserable steps leading up to the back door from his garage.As I became older,I became more disillusioned and frustrated.Then on a dark night in August,1971,I began my third life.It was raining when I started home that night;gusty winds and slashing rain beat down on the car as I drove slowly down one of the less-traveled roads.Suddenly the steering wheel jerked in my hands and theDetailed reading56Detailed reading5Detailed readingcar swerved violently to the right.In the same instant I heard the dreaded bang of a blowout.I fought the car to stop on the rain-slick shoulder of the road and sat there as the enormity of the situation swept over me.It was impossible for me to change that tire!Utterly impossible!A thought that a passing motorist might stop was dismissed at once.Why should anyone?I knew I wouldnt!Then I remembered that a short distance up a little side road was a house.I started the engine and thumped slowly along,keeping well over on the shoulder until I came to the dirt road,where I turned in thankfully.Lighted windows welcomed me to the house and I pulled into the driveway and honked the horn.Detailed reading6Detailed reading The door opened and a little girl stood there,peering at me.I rolled down the window and called out that I had a flat tire and needed someone to change it for me because I had a crutch and couldnt do it myself.She went into the house and a moment later came out bundled in raincoat and hat,followed by a man who called a cheerful greeting.I sat there comfortable and dry,and felt a bit sorry for the man and the little girl working so hard in the storm.Well,I would pay them for it.The rain seemed to be slackening a bit now,and I rolled down the window all the way to watch.7Detailed reading7Detailed readingIt seemed to me that they were awfully slow and I was beginning to become impatient.I heard the clank of metal from the back of the car and the little girls voice came clearly to me.“Heres the jack-handle,Grandpa.”She was answered by the murmur of the mans lower voice and the slow tilting of the car as it was jacked up.There followed a long interval of noises,jolts and low conversation from the back of the car,but finally it was done.I felt the car bump as the jack was removed,and I heard the slam of the truck lid,and then they were standing at my car window.Detailed reading8Detailed reading He was an old man,stooped and frail-looking under his slicker.The little girl was about eight or ten,I judged,with a merry face and a wide smile as she looked up at me.He said,“This is a bad night for car trouble,but youre all set now.”“Thanks,”I said.“How much do I owe you?”He shook his head.“Nothing.Cynthia told me you were a cripple on crutches.Glad to be of help.I know youd do the same for me.Theres no charge,friend.”I held out a five-dollar bill.“No!I like to pay my way.”He made no effort to take it and the little girl stepped closer to the window and said quietly,Grandpa cant see it.”8Detailed reading9Detailed reading In the next few frozen seconds the shame and horror of that moment penetrated and I was sick with an intensity I had never felt before.A blind man and a child!Fumbling,feeling with cold,wet fingers for bolts and tools in the dark a darkness that for him would probably never end until death.I dont remember how long I sat there after they said good night and left me,but it was long enough for me to search deep within myself and find some disturbing traits.I realized that I was filled to overflowing with self-pity,selfishness,indifference to the needs of others and thoughtlessness.I sat there and said a prayer.9Detailed reading10Detailed reading “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them:for this is the law and the prophets.”To me now,months later,this Scriptural admonition is more than just a passage in the Bible.It is a way of life,one that I am trying to follow.It isnt always easy.Sometimes it is frustrating,sometimes expensive in both time and money,but the value is there.I am trying now not only to climb 14 steps each day,but in my small way to help others.Someday,perhaps,I will change a tire for a blind man in a car someone as blind as I had been.10What can we infer about the authors childhood?Detailed reading1-Quesion 1We can infer that he lived an unhappy and hard life in his childhood because of the early death of his father and the poor health of his mother.Detailed readingDetailed reading1-Quesion 2Detailed reading1.How did his second life begin?His second life began when he was afflicted with a slowly progressive disease of the motor nerves,affecting first his right arm and leg,and then his other side.2.What does the author mean by“I managed to keep my health and optimism,to a degree,because of 14 steps”?In a way,the daily exercise of climbing helped to keep his physical capability(health),which in turn made him optimistic that he could continue living.Detailed reading1-Quesion 3Detailed readingWhy does the author call these steps“14 miserable steps”?Because the fact that everything in his life(his home,his job,his wife and his sanity)seemed to totally depend on these 14 steps made him miserable.Detailed reading1-Quesion 4Detailed readingWhy did the author dismiss the thought at once that any passing motorist would offer help at the moment?Because he knew that he would not stop if he were a passing driver in that situation.Detailed reading1-Quesion 5Detailed reading1.Was there any hint that indicates something unusual about the man?There were some indications:first,they were working awfully slow;second,the little girl obviously handed to the man something(the jack-handle)the man was unable to find.2.How did the author feel when the man and the little girl were working in the storm?The author first felt sorry that he sat in the car dry and comfortable,while they were working in the heavy rain.But his uneasiness was soon relieved by the thought that he would pay them.Detailed reading1-Quesion 6Detailed reading1.Why did the old man refuse to accept the authors payment?Because the old man took it for granted that offering free help to disabled people is what everyone should do,especially when they are in trouble.He believed that the author would have done the same for others.2.When did the author realize that the old man was blind?The author did not realize it until the little girl explained to him“Grandpa cant see it.”Detailed reading1-Quesion 7Detailed readingHow did the author react to the girls words?On hearing the little girls words,the author was stunned for a few seconds,full of shame and horror,because as a handicapped man,he had taken others help for granted and had never expected that a blind man would work on the dark stormy night for him out of pure warm-heartedness for a fellow human being.This contrasts his own selfishness and indifference to the needs of others before the incident.Detailed reading1-Quesion 8Detailed readingHow did the author re-evaluate the 14 steps?The author came to be aware that some people who had the same or worse adversity were always ready to offer help.For him the 14 steps were not the whole thing in his life.There are other people he should give help to when he was struggling against his own adversity.be inclined to be likely or tend to do sth.Detailed reading1 be inclined to e.g.In the first instance I was inclined to refuse,but then I reconsidered.Synonym:tend to,be likely toDetailed reading起初我想拒绝，但后来还是重新考虑了。起初我想拒绝，但后来还是重新考虑了。He was inclined to give them a free hand.他倾向于放手让他们干。他倾向于放手让他们干。follow ones example imitateDetailed reading1 follow ones example Synonym:follow ones leadDetailed readinge.g.Brian persuaded his brother to follow his example and join the army.I suggest you follow Teds example and take some regular exercise.afflict vt.cause severe suffering or painDetailed reading1 afflict 1e.g.He was afflicted with cancer.Collocation:be afflicted withDetailed readingDerivation:afflictive a.affliction n.他患了癌症。他患了癌症。她受良心责备。她受良心责备。She was afflicted with conscience.Detailed reading1 afflict 21.我对那些受苦受难的人们充满同情。我对那些受苦受难的人们充满同情。2.这种病女人比男人更容易患上。这种病女人比男人更容易患上。Translation:I have great sympathy for people in affliction._It is an illness which afflicts women more than men._Detailed readingDetailed reading1-progressiveprogressive a.developing graduallye.g.The b