Unit 5
Weeping for My Smoking
Daughter
Group work:
What’s your opinion
on smoking? Is it a
good or bad thing?
Why or why not?
To get some ideas about
the background
information of the text
Camel
Marlboro
Players?
Queen Victoria
Prince Albert
The State of Georgia
Hollywood
Third world
A battered women’s
shelter
Guess the meaning of the
italicized term in each phrase
or sentence.
Plane / solid geometry,
analytical geometry
All drinking water must be
filtered.
filtered cigarettes,
filtered coffee,
On long walks,the old man
took along a cane.
Some youngsters get
hooked in computer games.
Some public clinics are
being established in order
that people hooked on
drugs can receive care.
They got lost in the desert and
starved to death.
People in this region was
starved of drinking water.
If you don’t chew your food
properly,it’s difficult to
swallow it.
I found his explanation rather
hard to swallow.
A woman is pregnant for
nine months before a child
is born.
The heavy waves battered
the ship to pieces.
Your car looks rather
battered.
Find out the synonyms
in the following words.
grateful region slim sob
drag tag bunch brand
zone cry appreciative
slender indebted lean
haul cluster draw batch
quarter weep label
Homework
Learn the new words and
expressions of the text by heart.
The students are to be divided into
several groups,Each group will be
responsible for one part of it,Then in
the class time,students may ask
questions about some words or
sentences in a certain part,and then
the group,which is responsible for it,
will answer the questions.
(para,1) While she is
doing… close at hand,
The man sat in the front
row,his hands on the table,
The man sat in the front
row,with his hands on the
table,
Language Points
The man sat in the front
row,and his hands were on
the table.
(para,1) … I hardened
myself against feeling so
bad…,
He became hardened to the
suffering around him.
Rough living in the desert
hardened the young men a lot.
(para,2) … dressed in a black
dress coat and carrying a
cane,
(para,3) The tobacco
industry,… hooked by
cigarettes,
(para,4) … his breath was a
wheeze,embarrassing to
hear…
(para,5) My father died from
“the poor man’s friends”,… left
him low.
(para,6) There are large
advertisement… both dragging
away,
(para,6) … over time,
people starve themselves of
both food and air…
(para,7) For what,I
sometimes wonder…
(para,8) … surely one such
victory in my family,…
Simulated writing:
(see exercises 7,8)
In fact,I do weep a little,
standing there by the stove
holding one of the instruments,so
white,so precisely rolled,that I
could cause my daughter’s death.
The tobacco industry,coupled with
Hollywood movies in which both
male and female heroes smoked like
chimneys,completely won over
people like my father,who were
hopelessly hooked by cigarettes,
I doubt he had much lung left at all,
after coughing for so many years,
Weeping for My Smoking
Daughter
Group work:
What’s your opinion
on smoking? Is it a
good or bad thing?
Why or why not?
To get some ideas about
the background
information of the text
Camel
Marlboro
Players?
Queen Victoria
Prince Albert
The State of Georgia
Hollywood
Third world
A battered women’s
shelter
Guess the meaning of the
italicized term in each phrase
or sentence.
Plane / solid geometry,
analytical geometry
All drinking water must be
filtered.
filtered cigarettes,
filtered coffee,
On long walks,the old man
took along a cane.
Some youngsters get
hooked in computer games.
Some public clinics are
being established in order
that people hooked on
drugs can receive care.
They got lost in the desert and
starved to death.
People in this region was
starved of drinking water.
If you don’t chew your food
properly,it’s difficult to
swallow it.
I found his explanation rather
hard to swallow.
A woman is pregnant for
nine months before a child
is born.
The heavy waves battered
the ship to pieces.
Your car looks rather
battered.
Find out the synonyms
in the following words.
grateful region slim sob
drag tag bunch brand
zone cry appreciative
slender indebted lean
haul cluster draw batch
quarter weep label
Homework
Learn the new words and
expressions of the text by heart.
The students are to be divided into
several groups,Each group will be
responsible for one part of it,Then in
the class time,students may ask
questions about some words or
sentences in a certain part,and then
the group,which is responsible for it,
will answer the questions.
(para,1) While she is
doing… close at hand,
The man sat in the front
row,his hands on the table,
The man sat in the front
row,with his hands on the
table,
Language Points
The man sat in the front
row,and his hands were on
the table.
(para,1) … I hardened
myself against feeling so
bad…,
He became hardened to the
suffering around him.
Rough living in the desert
hardened the young men a lot.
(para,2) … dressed in a black
dress coat and carrying a
cane,
(para,3) The tobacco
industry,… hooked by
cigarettes,
(para,4) … his breath was a
wheeze,embarrassing to
hear…
(para,5) My father died from
“the poor man’s friends”,… left
him low.
(para,6) There are large
advertisement… both dragging
away,
(para,6) … over time,
people starve themselves of
both food and air…
(para,7) For what,I
sometimes wonder…
(para,8) … surely one such
victory in my family,…
Simulated writing:
(see exercises 7,8)
In fact,I do weep a little,
standing there by the stove
holding one of the instruments,so
white,so precisely rolled,that I
could cause my daughter’s death.
The tobacco industry,coupled with
Hollywood movies in which both
male and female heroes smoked like
chimneys,completely won over
people like my father,who were
hopelessly hooked by cigarettes,
I doubt he had much lung left at all,
after coughing for so many years,
