新视野英语unit 5-3.docVIP

Unit 5 Graceful Hands ( Third time) Teaching Time: 2 periods Students’ Level: Sophomores of non-English majors in the 1st semester Teaching Objectives: 1. Understand the text 2. Grasp some important phrases 3. Learn to paraphrase some difficult sentences 4. Comment on the text 5. Do exercises Teaching Procedures： Ithe former part of the text II.While-reading Activities II.Language Points When I am finished, I pull a chair up beside the bed to face her and, taking her free hand between mine, again notice the long, thin fingers. Meaning: When I have done this, I pull a chair up beside the bed to face her. As I take her free hand between mine, I notice again her long, thin fingers. Graceful. Meaning: They (the fingers) are very attractive. I wonder briefly if she has any family, and then I see that there are neither flowers, nor pictures of rainbows and butterflies drawn by children, nor cards. Meaning: For some time, Im curious about whether she has any family, and then I see that in the room there is nothing suggesting that she has one. There are neither flowers, nor pictures of rainbows and butterflies drawn by children, nor cards. There is no hint in the room anywhere that this is a person who is loved. Meaning: There is nothing in the room to suggest that there are some people who love her. As though she is a mind reader, Mrs. Clark answers my thoughts… Meaning: As if she is able to know what Im thinking, Mrs. Clark replies to my doubts… Having spent her last ounce of strength she cannot go on, but I have understood what she had done. Meaning: She has spent all her strength and cannot go on to say any more. But I have understood what she meant. Again she seems to sense my thoughts, You …stay … Meaning: Again she seems to become aware of what Im thinking, and asks me to stay. Time seems to stand still. Meaning: It seems that time stops. In the total silence, I feel my own pulse quicken and hear my breathing as it