Unit 8 In My Day by Russell Baker 2025/4/4 1
Unit 1 by Russell Baker 2025/4/4 1 Unit 8 In My Day
Words
Unit 1 Words
Words Expressions Synonyms/ 11. adj. collocations antonyms utter utterance unutterable utter a word say senility senile go senile aging (adj.) interrogate interrogator interrogatory/ interrogative interrogate sb. question (v.) radiation/ radiate radiance radiant radiant with full of happiness grow overgrowth overgrown overgrown with naive disconnect disconnection disconnected disconnect from connection
Words & Expressions Unit 1 v. n. adj. collocations Synonyms/ antonyms utter utterance unutterable utter a word say × senility senile go senile aging (adj.) interrogate interrogator interrogatory/ interrogative interrogate sb. question (v.) radiate radiation/ radiance radiant radiant with full of happiness grow overgrowth overgrown overgrown with naive disconnect disconnection disconnected disconnect from connection 2025/4/4 3
Outline of Text A I.At eighty,after a bad fall,my mother's mind began to wander free through time.(paras.1-9) ● II.My mother had been a formidable woman.(paras.10-15) III.I gradually gave up arguing my mother back to the real world. (paras.16-39) A.She couldn't recognize me but remembered her birthday.(paras.16-21) B.I came to understand why she dwelled on dead decades.(paras.32-34) C.I began trying to travel with her into the past.(paras.35-39) IV.I realized there was a dispute about time between my children and me,as there had been between my mother and me. (paras.40-49)
Outline of Text A Unit 1 ⚫ I. At eighty, after a bad fall, my mother’s mind began to wander free through time. (paras.1-9) ⚫ II. My mother had been a formidable woman. (paras.10-15) ⚫ III. I gradually gave up arguing my mother back to the real world. (paras.16-39) ➢ A. She couldn’t recognize me but remembered her birthday. (paras.16-21) ➢ B. I came to understand why she dwelled on dead decades. (paras.32-34) ➢ C. I began trying to travel with her into the past. (paras.35-39) ⚫ IV. I realized there was a dispute about time between my children and me, as there had been between my mother and me. (paras.40-49)
Sentences
Unit 1 Sentences
Let's work together! long involved sentences 1.I soon stopped trying to argue her back to(what I considered the real world and tried to travel along with hen n those fantastic journeys into the past. predicate verbs The what-clause functions as the object of the preposition "to" In the what-clause: Subject:I Predicate verb:considered Object:what Object complement:the real world
Unit 1 long involved sentences 1. I soon stopped trying to argue her back to (what I considered the real world) and tried to travel along with her on those fantastic journeys into the past. In the what-clause: Subject: I Predicate verb: considered Object: what Object complement: the real world Let’s work together! The what-clause functions as the object of the preposition “to”. predicate verbs
Let's work together! long involved sentences 2.It irritated me (that their childhoods should be,as I thought,so easy wh n my own had een,as I thought,so hard). predicate Parenthetical verb Subject:the whole of clause (used twice) the that-clause Adverbial clause of comparison:when my own had been so hard
Unit 1 long involved sentences 2. It irritated me (that their childhoods should be, as I thought, so easy when my own had been, as I thought, so hard). Adverbial clause of comparison: when my own had been so hard Let’s work together! Subject: the whole of the that-clause predicate verb Parenthetical clause (used twice)
Sentence Paraphrase I Through all this she lay in bed but moved across time, traveling amona the dead decades with a speed and ease beyond the qift of physical science.(1 the present participle phrase ability,talent as adverbial of attending circumstances(伴随状语) .traveling among the past decades so quickly and easily that no physical science would be able to manage to do it
Unit 1 Sentence Paraphrase 1 Through all this she lay in bed but moved across time, traveling among the dead decades with a speed and ease beyond the gift of physical science. (1) . traveling among the past decades so quickly and easily that no physical science would be able to manage to do it. the present participle phrase as adverbial of attending circumstances (伴随状语) ability, talent
Sentence Paraphrase 2 She gazed at this improbably overarown figure out of an inconceivable future and prompt dismissed it.(4) impossible to comprehend to refuse to or grasp fully accept that to grow something beyond normal size might be true She looked steadily at me and could not recognize me because I was much too big for the son in her mind.She simply could not imagine the distant future when her little Russell would be that tall and big.Therefore,she immediately put that thought out of her mind
Unit 1 Sentence Paraphrase 2 She gazed at this improbably overgrown figure out of an inconceivable future and promptly dismissed it. (4) She looked steadily at me and could not recognize me because I was much too big for the son in her mind. She simply could not imagine the distant future when her little Russell would be that tall and big. Therefore, she immediately put that thought out of her mind. to grow beyond normal size impossible to comprehend or grasp fully to refuse to accept that something might be true
Sentence Paraphrase 3 It showed in that angry challenging thrust of the chin when she issued an opinion,and a great one she had always been for issuing opinions.(10) Inversion,showing a quick hard push emphasis This character trait of her was shown when she expressed an opinion.She would stick out her chin angrily and defiantly.Whenever she had something to say,she would say it,never afraid of speaking her mind
Unit 1 Sentence Paraphrase 3 It showed in that angry challenging thrust of the chin when she issued an opinion, and a great one she had always been for issuing opinions. (10) This character trait of her was shown when she expressed an opinion. She would stick out her chin angrily and defiantly. Whenever she had something to say, she would say it, never afraid of speaking her mind. Inversion, showing a quick hard push emphasis