上外版综合英语2 Unit 2 The virtues of growing older.ppt

I no longer blame my parents for my every personality quirk or keep a running score of everything they did wrong raising me up. Grammar: Raising me up现在分词作状语，表示时间，相当于状语从句when they were raising me Language points PART 2 Vocabulary: blame sb. for sth. :consider or say that sb is responsible for sth done (badly or wrongly) or not done keep score: count the number of times sth. happens Paraphrase: I no longer hold my parents to blame for my strange character and no longer constantly remind myself of all the unhappy things that my parents did to me in the process of bringing me up. Language points PART 2 1. What does “this premise” refer to? It refers to “newer is automatically better.” 2. What does the author draw from her parents’ contentment in their sixties? The newer (younger) is not necessarily better, and she can be happier than before as she grows older. Detailed reading questions scanning PART 3 Contradict (vt.) to be opposite in nature to E.g.: The speaker had got confused and started contradicting himself. The report contradicts what we heard yesterday. Derivation: Contradictory (adj.) Contradiction (n.) E.g.:His private actions are in direct contradiction to/with his publicly expressed opinions. Language points PART 3 Their contentment holds out great promise for me as I move into the next----perhaps even better----phase of my life. Paraphrase: Their contentment makes me believe that I’ll be as happy as they are when I am their age. Language points PART 3 Hold out 1. If you hold out hope of something happening, you hope that in the future something will happen as you want it to. E.g.：He still holds out hope that they could be a family again. 2. if a supply of something such as food or money holds out, there is enough of it to last for a particular period of time. 地震切断了这个城市和外界的联系。人们的食品供应也许挨不过冬天了。 The earthquake isolated this city from other areas. I’m afraid their food supplies will not hold out through the winter. Language points PART 3 Unit