My Stroke of Love
Teaching Objectives
1.To get students know the right attitude
towards misfortune,
2,To understand the purpose of writing and
organization of the text,
3,To reinforce some basic linguistic
knowledge by doing various types of
exercises,
Design of the Teaching Process
1.Students are asked to discuss the structure of
the text and try to tell the main idea of each part,
and the teacher comments on the result of
discussion,
2.Detailed study of the text mainly based on
questioning and answering whether by the teacher
or students,
3.Exercises and comment,
4.Assignment,
a) Read the text as fluently as possible,
b) Write a composition about your own lucky or
unlucky experience,
5,Means of classroom instruction,Multi-media
Think over
1.I am lucky,because……
2.I am unlucky,because……
3.Whenever I meet with misfortunes,I often……
4.My attitude towards luck is……
Structural analysis of the text
Part One (1-2),an introduction to the whole story
(description of the air crash)
Part two (3-4),flashback
(his wife’s intuition and judgement on previous occasions)
Part Three (5-7),flashback (their romance and marriage)
Part Four 8,chronological account
(the author’s recovery from the air crash)
Part Five (9-10),flashback (his wife’s surgery)
Part six (11-13),flashback
(his wife’s method to make people move on)
Part seven 14,chronological account
(the author’s concluding comments)
some difficult sentences,words or phrases
1,But that took some doing on my part too,
Explain,But I also made some efforts to adjust myself,
2.…which hasn’t always been easy,given that I’m
sometimes an actor wrapped up in his ego,
Explain,…which hasn’t been easy,because I am
sometimes too proud of myself as an actor,
deal with cope with solve resolve handle
treat
e.g,
1.He resolved to do better work I the future,
（决心）
2.She was keenly resolved to do well in the
school examination,
3.We can resolve the matter to your satisfaction,
（解决,消除）
4.This book will resolve all the difficulties,
5,He made a New Year’s resolution to give up
smoking,
inspire---influence,to give a sudden good idea
e.g,
1.These designs are inspired by the colours of
Italian peasant pottery,
2.The novel is obviously inspired by her
experience of Christianity in her childhood,
3,Beautiful view inspired people to write poems,
4,He made an inspiring speech,
eventually finally last in the end
e.g,
last指位于一系列实物、时间或一排人的最后
1.I can not see the last two students in the row,
2.We spent the last two days of our holidays at home,
Eventual指由于各种原因，某事物迟早会出现某种结果
1.He was fully confident of the eventual victory,
2.The eventual decision on whether to build a public
swimming pool depends on how much money the town
can raise,
Final指一个系列、过程或进展的终结
1.This is your final chance,
2.I have not read the final pages of the book yet,
authorize
e.g,
1.Only the Congress can authorize the
President to declare war,
2.The police have the authority to arrest
criminals,
3,He is an authority on English literature,
4,the authorities concerned 有关当局
the school authorities 学校当局
Translation exercises,
1) Most people in the Middle East believe in Islam,
2) As the fire was destroying the building,we just
stood and stared at all this,
3) He relied more on intuition than logic in solving
the case,
4) The country is gong through a very difficult
period,after the earthquake,
5） Last week the board of directors authorized
the installation of a new computer system,
6） This area has been the greatest beneficiary
of a large restoration program,
7） The government finances higher education
with tax money,
8） He insisted that what he said was true,even
though the police refused to believe him,
Dictation,
Love means that I know the person I love,I’m aware of the
many sides of the other person---not just the beautiful side
but also the limitations,I have an awareness of the other’s
feelings and thoughts,I can see the person on a deeper level,
Love means that I care about the welfare of the person I
love,If I care about you,I’m concerned about your growth,
and I hope you will become all that you can become,
Love means trusting the person I love,If I love you,I trust
that you will accept my caring and my love and that you won’t
deliberately hurt me,I trust that you will find me lovable and
that you won’t abandon me,If we trust each other,we are
willing to be open to each other and reveal our true selves,
Teaching Objectives
1.To get students know the right attitude
towards misfortune,
2,To understand the purpose of writing and
organization of the text,
3,To reinforce some basic linguistic
knowledge by doing various types of
exercises,
Design of the Teaching Process
1.Students are asked to discuss the structure of
the text and try to tell the main idea of each part,
and the teacher comments on the result of
discussion,
2.Detailed study of the text mainly based on
questioning and answering whether by the teacher
or students,
3.Exercises and comment,
4.Assignment,
a) Read the text as fluently as possible,
b) Write a composition about your own lucky or
unlucky experience,
5,Means of classroom instruction,Multi-media
Think over
1.I am lucky,because……
2.I am unlucky,because……
3.Whenever I meet with misfortunes,I often……
4.My attitude towards luck is……
Structural analysis of the text
Part One (1-2),an introduction to the whole story
(description of the air crash)
Part two (3-4),flashback
(his wife’s intuition and judgement on previous occasions)
Part Three (5-7),flashback (their romance and marriage)
Part Four 8,chronological account
(the author’s recovery from the air crash)
Part Five (9-10),flashback (his wife’s surgery)
Part six (11-13),flashback
(his wife’s method to make people move on)
Part seven 14,chronological account
(the author’s concluding comments)
some difficult sentences,words or phrases
1,But that took some doing on my part too,
Explain,But I also made some efforts to adjust myself,
2.…which hasn’t always been easy,given that I’m
sometimes an actor wrapped up in his ego,
Explain,…which hasn’t been easy,because I am
sometimes too proud of myself as an actor,
deal with cope with solve resolve handle
treat
e.g,
1.He resolved to do better work I the future,
（决心）
2.She was keenly resolved to do well in the
school examination,
3.We can resolve the matter to your satisfaction,
（解决,消除）
4.This book will resolve all the difficulties,
5,He made a New Year’s resolution to give up
smoking,
inspire---influence,to give a sudden good idea
e.g,
1.These designs are inspired by the colours of
Italian peasant pottery,
2.The novel is obviously inspired by her
experience of Christianity in her childhood,
3,Beautiful view inspired people to write poems,
4,He made an inspiring speech,
eventually finally last in the end
e.g,
last指位于一系列实物、时间或一排人的最后
1.I can not see the last two students in the row,
2.We spent the last two days of our holidays at home,
Eventual指由于各种原因，某事物迟早会出现某种结果
1.He was fully confident of the eventual victory,
2.The eventual decision on whether to build a public
swimming pool depends on how much money the town
can raise,
Final指一个系列、过程或进展的终结
1.This is your final chance,
2.I have not read the final pages of the book yet,
authorize
e.g,
1.Only the Congress can authorize the
President to declare war,
2.The police have the authority to arrest
criminals,
3,He is an authority on English literature,
4,the authorities concerned 有关当局
the school authorities 学校当局
Translation exercises,
1) Most people in the Middle East believe in Islam,
2) As the fire was destroying the building,we just
stood and stared at all this,
3) He relied more on intuition than logic in solving
the case,
4) The country is gong through a very difficult
period,after the earthquake,
5） Last week the board of directors authorized
the installation of a new computer system,
6） This area has been the greatest beneficiary
of a large restoration program,
7） The government finances higher education
with tax money,
8） He insisted that what he said was true,even
though the police refused to believe him,
Dictation,
Love means that I know the person I love,I’m aware of the
many sides of the other person---not just the beautiful side
but also the limitations,I have an awareness of the other’s
feelings and thoughts,I can see the person on a deeper level,
Love means that I care about the welfare of the person I
love,If I care about you,I’m concerned about your growth,
and I hope you will become all that you can become,
Love means trusting the person I love,If I love you,I trust
that you will accept my caring and my love and that you won’t
deliberately hurt me,I trust that you will find me lovable and
that you won’t abandon me,If we trust each other,we are
willing to be open to each other and reveal our true selves,
