New Horizon College English Book One Unit six The widow
New Horizon College English Book One Unit six The Widow
Pre-reading activity ◆ ackground Information ◆ Let-in Activity
Pre-reading activity ◆ Background Information ◆ Let-in Activity
◆ Background Information Elizabeth Jolley is a famous Australian fiction writer. Born in England in 1923, Jolley moved to Australia in 1959 with her husband and three children. She had trained as a nurse in England and nursed there and in Australia before starting her writing career in 1964. Her body of work includes 26 books: short stories radio plays, collections and 12 novels in print since 1980. Jolley has won many writing awards, two of them for cabin fever her tenth fiction book. She is known for her peculiar people in funny situations
Elizabeth Jolley is a famous Australian fiction writer. Born in England in 1923, Jolley moved to Australia in 1959 with her husband and three children. She had trained as a nurse in England and nursed there and in Australia before starting her writing career in 1964. Her body of work includes 26 books: short stories, radio plays, collections and 12 novels in print since 1980. Jolley has won many writing awards, two of them for Cabin Fever, her tenth fiction book. She is known for her peculiar people in funny situations. ◆ Background Information
For more information about Elizabeth Jolley, please visit http://www.middlemissorg/it/authorsjolleye/jolley e. html, where brief introduction about her works (which includes Cabin Fever) can be found. 2. Cabin Fever,(237p $26.95Cdn. 1991 Harper CollinS ISBN0-06-016622-3LC90-55966) continues the events of her previous book, My Father's Moon but from a different voice and 40 years later. The story is presented in bits and pl feces
For more information about Elizabeth Jolley, please visit http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/jolleye/jolley e.html, where brief introduction about her works (which includes Cabin Fever) can be found. 2. Cabin Fever, (237p. $26.95Cdn. 1991 Harper Collins ISBN 0-06-016622-3 LC 90-55966) continues the events of her previous book, My Father's Moon, but from a different voice and 40 years later. The story is presented in bits and pieces
The book is not as a successful woman psychologist recalls her war experiences and post war hard times a complete story but only certain memories that help the woman make sense of all the pain, trouble. loss and sad times in her life. The book describes the culture of the late 1940s
The book is not as a successful woman psychologist recalls her war experiences and post war hard times a complete story but only certain memories that help the woman make sense of all the pain, trouble, loss and sad times in her life. The book describes the culture of the late 1940s
Let-in activity After introducing the background information about this unit. ask the students to talk about the possible life of a widow
◆ Let-in Activity After introducing the background information about this unit, ask the students to talk about the possible life of a widow
While-reading Activity ◆ ew words e phrases ◆ Language points
While-reading Activity ◆ New Words & Phrases ◆ Language Points
New Words and phrases I considerable a fairly large 相当的 .He spent considerable time on translating the novel 他花了很多的时间翻译这部小说。 considerably ad. much 相当地,很多
New Words and Phrases 1. considerable a. fairly large 相当的 •He spent considerable time on translating the novel. 他花了很多的时间翻译这部小说。 considerably ad. much 相当地，很多
He spent considerably more time on translating the novel 他花了相当多的时间翻译这部小说。 2. underline vt.1. draw a line under划横线 You'd better underline these words and try to learn them by heart. 你最好在这些单词下面划上横线,并且努力把它们 背下来。 2. give added attention to, so as to show importance 强调;使突出 s The second World War underlined the importance of science and technology 第二次世界大战突出了科学和技术的重要性
* He spent considerably more time on translating the novel. 他花了相当多的时间翻译这部小说。 2. underline vt. 1. draw a line under 划横线 •You'd better underline these words and try to learn them by heart. 你最好在这些单词下面划上横线，并且努力把它们 背下来。 2. give added attention to, so as to show importance 强调；使突出 * The Second World War underlined the importance of science and technology. 第二次世界大战突出了科学和技术的重要性
file vi. walk one behind the other 个接一个地走 Slowly, the parents filed into the classroom and sat down 家长们一个个慢慢地走进教室,坐了下来。 2. make a written request for a position 提出 She filed for a divorce on the grounds that he was not devoted to her. 她提出离婚,理由是他对她不忠
file vi. 1. walk one behind the other 一个接一个地走 Slowly, the parents filed into the classroom and sat down. 家长们一个个慢慢地走进教室，坐了下来。 2. make a written request for a position 提出 She filed for a divorce on the grounds that he was not devoted to her. 她提出离婚，理由是他对她不忠