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1、Unit 3 Old and Young,Proverbs and Quotations,The secret of remaining young in spite of old age and white hairs is to preserve our enthusiasm. Switzerland Henri Ameil 即使年老苍白，只要能保存我们的热情，就是保持青春年少的秘诀。 瑞士 亨利阿梅尔 I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Am. Bernar

2、d Baruch 我永远不会成为一个老人。对于我来说，进入老年永远都是十五年以后的事。 美 伯纳德巴鲁克,Outline,Teaching Objectives,Part 1 Lead-in,Part 2 Reading FocusText A,Part 3 Integrated Exercises,Part 4 Reading FocusText B,Part 5 Intranet Assignments,Teaching Objectives,1. Do you think our society is becoming an aging one? As far as you are co

3、ncerned, how should you treat old people and vice versa? Do you think different generations can live a harmonious life at home and in the society as well? In this unit, you will read two texts. In Text A, Patty gave an account of her unhappy experience in transforming herself (as a young woman) into

4、 an old one in a culture that adores youth and beauty. She was ignored and even mistreated. In Text B, the son Yuki appeared wild and unruly at the beginning, which caused a lot of concern from his parents. However, it turned out respect and duty were inside him after all. Given time, they grew and

5、blossomed.,2. By learning this unit students will be able to grasp the main idea and structure of the texts, master the key language points, new words, grammatical structures and translation skills. And students will also be able to improve their oral communication skills and reading competence thro

6、ugh performing the relevant tasks. 3. Writing Focus in this unit introduces the structure of an essay which paves the way for essay writing in the following units.,Look at the picture and discuss with your partner the following questions.,Lead-in,1. Are you scared of growing old? 2. Do you agree wit

7、h the statement that the old are indispensable to the society? 3. Do you think that we live in a society which worships youth?,Lead-in,B. Listening Practice Listen to the short passage about “Old Age Is a Gift”. Pre-listening Task,Some says that “I truly believe that age if youre healthy is just a n

8、umber.” Do you agree? Discuss with your partner.,Lead-in,B. Listening Practice Post-listening task Answer the following questions.,1. What is the speakers view of being old? 2. According to the speaker, what is the advantage of old age? 3. What can a broken heart bring to the speaker?,In his opinion

9、, old age is a gift.,_,When you grow old, you have more freedom and it is easier to be positive at that time.,_ _,Broken hearts give him strength, understanding, sympathy and the joy of being imperfect.,_ _,4. How does the speaker feel when he becomes aged? 5. What will the speaker do to spend his a

10、ging life?,He feels blessed to have lived long enough to have his hair turn gray.,_ _,He will never lament over it but will enjoy every single day.,_,【Script】,【Script】,Old Age Is a Gift Old Age, I decided, is a gift. I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted t

11、o be. Oh, not my body! I sometimes despair over my body . the wrinkles, the baggy eyes. And, often I am shocked by that old person who lives in my mirror, but I dont waste my time on those things for long. I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, or my loving family for less gray h

12、air or a flatter belly. As Ive aged, Ive become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. Ive become my own friend. I dont blame myself for eating that extra cookie, or for buying that silly toy that I didnt need. I can overeat, be messy.,Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the

13、computer until 4 a.m., and sleep until noon? I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging. Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or

14、 even when a beloved pet is hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength, understanding and sympathy. A heart never broke will never know the joy of being imperfect.,I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turn gray. As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You c

15、are less about what other people think. I dont question myself anymore. Ive even earned the right to be wrong. I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or wo

16、rrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day.,Reading Focus-Text A,First Reading Read the text and then answer the questions in the left margin.,Old Before Her Time Katherine Barrett,Chinese 她在时光之前老去,This is the story of an extraordinary voyage in time, and of a young woman wh

17、o devoted three years to a singular experiment. In 1979, Patty Moore then aged twenty-six transformed herself for the first of many times into an eighty-five-year-old woman. Her object was to discover firsthand the problems, joys and frustrations of the elderly. She wanted to know for herself what i

18、ts like to live in a culture of youth and beauty when your hair is grey, your skin is wrinkled and no men turn their heads as you pass.,1,Language Point “She wanted to know for herself what its like to live in a culture of youth and beauty .”. In this sentence, “what its like to live .” is a nominal

19、 clause introduced by “what”, and it serves as the object of the verb “know”.,e.g. I dont care what you have done before. She didnt notice what he wore on that day.,Chinese这是一段奇特的时光旅行的故事，是一个年轻女性花费了三年时间在一项独一无二的实验上的故事。1979年，帕蒂摩尔时值26岁首次把自己装扮成了一个85岁的老年妇女。她的目的就是掌握关于老年人的第一手资料，包括他们的喜怒哀乐。她希望能亲身体会当你满头银丝，满脸皱纹

20、，当男人经过却毫无回头率的时候，生活在一个属于年轻人和美女的社会是何等状况。,An eighty-five-year-old woman.,What kind of person did Patty Moore transform herself into?,2,Her time machine was a makeup kit.1 Barbara Kelly, a friend and professional makeup artist, helped Patty pick out a wardrobe and showed her how to use latex to create w

21、rinkles, and wrap Ace bandages2 to give the impression of stiff joints. “It was peculiar,” Patty recalls, as she relaxes in her New York City3 apartment. “Even the first few times I went out I realized that I wouldnt have to act that much. The more I was perceived as elderly by others, the more elde

22、rly I actually became . I imagine thats just what happens to people who really are old.”,Note 1Her time machine was a makeup kit：The method she disguised herself as an old woman was using a series of make-up tools.,Note 2Ace bandages（王牌绷带） are coloured a neutral beige（浅褐色）. This brands elastic banda

23、ges contain natural rubber latex（乳胶）and are reputed to maintain elasticity even after repeated laundering. ACEs elastic bandages are sold with ACE brand E-Z clips, designed to secure the bandages as needed. By contrast, ACE brand self-adhering bandages require no clips and are designed to stay on wi

24、thout annoying slipping or loosening. These bandages also contain natural rubber latex.,Note 3New York City（纽约市） is the most populous city in the United States, and the centre of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The city is often referred to

25、 as New York City to differentiate it from the state of New York, of which it is a part. Located on a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast of the North-eastern United States, the city consists of five boroughs： The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.,Chinese帕蒂的时光机器就是一套化妆箱。巴

26、巴拉凯莉，她的朋友同时也是专业的化妆师，帮帕蒂挑选了一套服装，并向她展示了如何使用乳胶来制造皱纹，如何把王牌绷带缠绕在关节上使它们变得僵硬。“这很奇怪”，当现在的帕蒂在纽约市的公寓里休息时这样回忆到，“即使是最初的几次，当我走出去的时候，我意识到我其实根本不必表演太多。我越被其他人当作老年人看待，我就真的变得越老我想那就是发生在真正的老年人身上的情况。”,The more I was perceived as elderly by others, the more elderly I actually became.,How did she feel when she was perceive

27、d by others as elderly?,In all, she donned her costume more than two hundred times in fourteen different states. Here is the remarkable story of what she found.,3,Chinese帕蒂总共在14个不同的州披挂上阵了两百多次。下面就是她体验到的不同寻常的经历。,Columbus, Ohio,4 May 1979. Leaning heavily on her cane, Pat Moore stood alone in the middl

28、e of a crowd of young professionals. They were all attending a gerontology conference, and the room was filled with animated chatter. But no one was talking to Pat. In a throng of men and women who devoted their working lives to the elderly, she began to feel like a total nonentity. “Ill get us all

29、some coffee,” a young man told a group of women next to her. “What about me?” thought Pat. “If I were young, they would be offering me coffee, too.” It was a bitter thought at the end of a disappointing day a day that marked Pattys first appearance as “the old woman.” She had planned to attend the g

30、erontology conference anyway, and almost as a lark decided to see how professionals would react to an old person in their midst.,4,Note 4 Columbus, Ohio（哥伦布市，俄亥俄州）： Columbus is the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the states third largest metropolitan area, behind Cleveland an

31、d Cincinnati. It is the county seat of Franklin County, although parts of the city also extend into Delaware and Fairfield counties. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital

32、in 1816.,Language Point “Pat Moore stood alone in the middle of a crowd of young professionals”. Here “alone”, used as a predicative, means “without any companions”. In grammar a predicative is an element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. A

33、predicative may be nominal or adjectival. If the complement after a linking verb is an adjective, it is called a predicate adjective. e.g. He seems nice. It turned green.,Chinese1979年5月，俄亥俄州，哥伦布。帕蒂摩尔弯腰驼背倚靠在拐杖上，孤单的站在一群年轻的专业人士中间。他们都正在参加一个老年学大会，房间里到处都是热火朝天的谈论。但是却没有人跟帕蒂交流。在一群终生致力于研究老年人的男男女女之中，她逐渐感到自己完全是

34、一个无足轻重的人。“我去帮我们所有人都倒杯咖啡吧”，一个年轻人对坐在帕蒂身边的一群女性说道。“那我呢？”帕蒂想，“如果我也很年轻，他们也会帮我去倒咖啡的。”这是她在那令人失望的一天结束后冒出的酸楚的想法那一天标志着帕蒂第一次作为“老年妇女”的出场。她曾打算无论如何要去参加老年学大会，几乎是想把这当作一次恶作剧，想看看专业人士是如何对待一个处于他们中间的老年人的。,They were all attending a gerontology conference, and the room was filled with animated chatter. But no one was talki

35、ng to Pat. All day she had been ignored.,How was Patty treated during the conference?,Now, she was angry. All day she had been ignored . counted out in a way she had never experienced before. She didnt understand. Why didnt people help her when they saw her struggling to open a heavy door? Why didnt

36、 they include her in conversations? Why did the other participants seem almost embarrassed by her presence at the conference as if it were somehow inappropriate that an old person should be professionally active?,5,Language Point “as if it were somehow inappropriate that an old person should be prof

37、essionally active?” The were-subjunctive has only one form “were”, which applies to subject of all persons.,It is hypothetical or unreal in meaning and is commonly used in adverbial clauses introduced by “if, if only, as if, as though, though, etc” to denote an unreal condition or concession. e.g. I

38、f I were you, Id plant some trees around the house. She treats the boy well, as if he were her own child.,Chinese结果，她怒气冲冲。一整天都没有人理睬她她以前从来没有体验过被人排除在外。她不明白。为什么当他们看到她颤颤巍巍地去打开厚重的大门时却没有人来帮助她？为什么他们把她排除在交谈之外？为什么其他参加大会的人看到她在大会现场会显得如此尴尬似乎一个老年人热衷于老年专业竟是一桩不合时宜的事？,And so, eighty-five-year-old Pat Moore learned

39、her first lesson The old are often ignored. “I discovered that people really do judge a book by its cover,”5 Patty says today. “Just because I looked different, people either condescended or they totally dismissed me.”,6,Note 5“I discovered that people really do judge a book by its cover,” Patty say

40、s today： Now Patty says that the past experiment revealed that in fact people judged a person by his appearance.,Chinese于是，85岁的帕蒂学到了第一课：老年人经常被忽视。“我发现人们确实是以貌取人的”，现在的帕蒂说，“只是因为我看起来跟他们不一样，人们对我不是以恩赐的态度相待就是完全不理不睬。”,The old are often ignored.,What was the first lesson she learned?,New York City, October 19

41、79. Bent over her cane, Pat walked slowly toward the edge of the park. She had spent the day sitting on a bench with friends, but now dusk was falling and her friends had all gone home. She looked around nervously at the deserted area and tried to move faster, but her joints were stiff. It was then

42、that she heard the barely audible sound of feet approaching and the kids voices. “Grab her, man.” “Get her purse.” Suddenly an arm was around her throat and she was dragged back, knocked off her feet.6,7,Note 6Suddenly an arm was around her throat and she was dragged back, knocked off her feet : Wit

43、hout warning, her neck was surrounded by one of the attackers arms, her body was pulled backward and she fell down on the ground.,Language Point “It was then that she heard the barely audible sound of feet approaching and the kids voices.” A cleft sentence is an emphatic construction with non-referr

44、ing “it” as formal subject. It is commonly used to spotlight an element of an ordinary statement. Generally speaking, except the predicator, almost all the elements can be singled out as the focal element of a cleft sentence. e.g. It is in this town that I met her at the first time. It is chairman o

45、f the committee that they elected him.,Chinese1979年10月，纽约市。帕蒂佝偻着身体，拄着拐杖，缓慢的向着公园的边界走去。她在这里跟朋友们在长椅上坐了一天，但是现在暮色降临，她的朋友们都回家了。她紧张的看了看周围荒凉的地方，试图走得更快些，但是她的关节不听使唤。就在那时她听到了身后轻微的脚步声正在接近她，以及孩子们的声音。“嘿，抓住她。”“抢她的钱包。”突然一只手臂绕过她的脖子，把她往后拖，拽倒在地上。,She saw only a blur of sneakers and blue jeans, heard the sounds of mock

46、ing laughter, felt fists pummelling her on her back, her legs, her breasts, her stomach. “Oh, God,” she thought, using her arms to protect her head and curling herself into a ball. “Theyre going to kill me. Im going to die.”,8,Chinese她只看到了袭击者模糊的身影和蓝色的牛仔裤，听到了阵阵的嘲笑声，感到拳头不停地落在她身上她的后背、她的双腿、她的胸部、她的腹部。“哦，

47、上帝啊”，她一边用手臂护住她的头部，把身体蜷成一团，一边想，“他们会把我打死的。我要死了”,Then, as suddenly as the boys attacked, they were gone. And Patty was left alone, struggling to rise. The boys punches had broken the latex makeup on her face, the fall had disarranged her wig, and her whole body ached. Again the thought struck her: What

48、 if I really lived in the grey ghetto . what if I couldnt escape to my nice safe home .?,9,Language Point Then, “as suddenly as the boys attacked, they were gone.” Here the expression “as . as” is used before adverb in order to make a comparison. With the second “as” a conjunction, it means “to the

49、same extent . as; equally . as”. e.g. Run as fast as you can. He recited as much of the poem as he could remember.,Chinese随后，就像他们偷袭时一样，男孩们迅速消失了。帕蒂孤身一人躺在那里，她费尽力气才爬起身来。男孩们的重拳已经把她脸上乳胶制的妆扮击碎了，摔跤也把她的假发弄得凌乱不堪，她全身上下酸痛不已。这种想法又一次跃入她的脑海： 要是我真的住在昏暗的贫民区该怎么办要是我没能逃脱，没能平安到家怎么办？,Lesson number two: The fear of crime

50、 is paralyzing. “I really understand now why the elderly become homebound,” the young woman says as she recalls her ordeal today. “When something like this happens, the fear just doesnt go away. Thats when people starve themselves because theyre afraid to go to the grocery store.”,10,Chinese第二课： 对于罪

51、恶的恐惧会让你动弹不得。“我真的能理解为什么现在老年人都足不出户，”这个年轻女人回忆起那天所受的折磨说，“当这种事发生以后，恐惧会萦绕不散。那就是人们饿得要死也不敢去杂货铺的原因。”,The fear of crime is paralyzing.,What was the second lesson she learned?,Ft. Lauderdale, Florida,7 May 1980. Pat met a new friend while shopping and they decided to continue their conversation over a sunday a

52、t a nearby coffee shop. The woman was in her late seventies, “younger” than Pat, but she was obviously reaching out for help. Slowly, her story unfolded. “My husband moved out of our bedroom,” the woman said softly, fiddling with her coffee cup and fighting back tears. “He wont touch me anymore. And

53、 when he gets angry at me for being stupid, hell even sometimes .” The woman looked down, embarrassed to go on. Pat took her hand. “He hits me . he gets so mean.” “Cant you tell anyone?” Pat asked. “Cant you tell your son?” “Oh, no!” the woman almost gasped. “I would never tell the children; they ab

54、solutely adore him.”,11,Note 7Ft. Lauderdale, Florida （劳德代尔堡市，佛罗里达州）：Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which is home to over 5,413,212 people. The city

55、 is a popular tourist destination, with 10.35 million visitors in 2006. Fort Lauderdale is sometimes known as the “Venice of America” because of its expansive and intricate canal system.,Language point “he gets so mean.” Here “get” is used as a copula, which can not be used in the passive voice. It

56、means “reach the specific state or condition; become”, usually followed by adjectives, e.g.： get angry, bored, hungry, worried, etc.,Chinese1980年5月，佛罗里达州，劳德代尔堡。帕蒂在购物时结识了一位新朋友，于是她们决定在某一星期天附近的咖啡店吃点冰淇淋，继续聊天。那个女人将近60岁，比帕蒂“年轻”，但是她显然在寻求帮助。慢慢的，她敞开了心房。“我的丈夫搬出了我们的卧室，”那个女人轻声地说着，手指不安的摩挲着咖啡杯，尽量不让眼泪流出来。“他不愿再碰我。当

57、他因为我变得笨拙而恼怒的时候，他有时甚至会”那个女人低下头，难堪地停止述说。帕蒂握住她的手安慰她。“他打我他变得好可怕。”“难道你就不能告诉其他人吗？”帕蒂问，“你就不能告诉你儿子吗？”“哦，不行！”那个女人几乎惊呼，“我永远不会告诉孩子们的；他们非常崇拜他。”,Lesson number three: Even a fifty-year-old marriage isnt necessarily a good one. While Pat met many loving and devoted elderly couples, she was stunned to find others w

58、ho had stayed together unhappily because divorce was still an anathema in their middle years. “As a young woman I, too, had just been through a relationship where I spent a lot of time protecting someone by covering up his problems from family and friends. Then I heard this woman in Florida saying t

59、hat she wouldnt tell her children their father beat her because she didnt want to disillusion them. These issues arent age-related. They affect everyone,” says Patty.,12,Language Point “. protecting someone by covering up his problems from family and friends.” In this sentence, “by covering up his p

60、roblems .” is a prepositional phrase. It consists of preposition “by” and gerund “covering up his problems”, and modifies the verb “protect”. Prepositional phrases may also end with a noun, a pronoun, a noun clause, which is chiefly used as adverbials in clause. e.g. The coyote runs after the rabbit

61、. The car stalled despite the tune-up. The team won without the starting quarterback.,Even a fifty-year-old marriage isnt necessarily a good one.,What was the third lesson she learned?,Chinese第三课： 即使一段长达50年的婚姻也并不美满。尽管帕蒂遇到很多相敬如宾、白头偕老的夫妻，她还是非常震惊的发现还有其他过得并不幸福的老年夫妻因为在他们中年时离婚仍然是一种受人鄙视的行为。“作为一个年轻女性，我在当时也刚

62、刚经历了一段感情挫折。我花费了很多精力袒护他，不让我的家人和朋友发现他的问题。然后我听到佛罗里达的那个女人说她不愿告诉她的孩子们他们的父亲揍她，因为她不愿让他们失望。这些问题跟年龄无关。它们影响着每一个人。”帕蒂说道。,As Patty continued her experiment, she was also learning a great deal from the older people she observed. “If there was one lesson to learn, one lesson that Ill take with me into my old age,

63、 its that youve got to be flexible,” Patty says. “I saw my friend in the park, managing after the loss of his wife, and I met countless other people who picked themselves up after something bad or even something catastrophic happened.8 Im not worried about them. Im worried about the others who shut

64、themselves away.9 Its funny, but seeing these two extremes helped me recover from the trauma in my own life, to pull my life together.”10,13,Note 8I saw my friend in the park, managing after the loss of his wife, and I met countless other people who picked themselves up after something bad or even s

65、omething catastrophic happened: I saw an old friend of mine sitting in the park, talking to others, seeking to recover from the death of his wife. I also came across many old people. Although they had gone through some bad luck or even severe incidents, they succeeded in regaining hope toward life.,Note 9Im worried about the others who shut themselves away： Im worried about other old people whod rather stay at