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1、Unit 5 Writing Three Thank-You Letters,Alex Haley,1,课件教育,Alex Haley (19211992),American biographer, scriptwriter, and author became famous with the publication of the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which traces his ancestry back to Africa and covers 7 American generations as they are t
2、aken slaves to the U.S.,2,课件教育,Thanksgiving History,Second most important holiday in the U.S., celebrated in on the fourth Thursday in November. associated with the time when Europeans first came to North America. In 1620 the ship the Mayflower arrived, bringing about 102 people who today are usuall
3、y called Pilgrims.,3,课件教育,Thanksgiving celebrations,Thanksgiving dinner Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, sweet corn, various fall vegetables (mainly various kinds of squashes), and pumpkin pie,4,课件教育,Thanksgiving,Giving thanks Saying grace (谢恩祈祷) before
4、carving a turkey at Thanksgiving dinner, Pennsylvania, U.S., 1942,5,课件教育,Thanksgiving celebrations,Vacation and travel: Thanksgiving Break Thursday-Sunday Parades Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC “National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation” and “Presidential Pardoning” Football and other sports,6
5、,课件教育,Now ,lets get to business and learn about the text.,7,课件教育,Main Idea,By writing three “thank you” letters, the author realizes that human beings long for other peoples appreciation for their efforts. Therefore, he encourages people to “find the good-and praise it”.,8,课件教育,WRITING THREE THANK-Y
6、OU LETTERS,It was 1943, during World War II, and I was a young U.S. coastguardsman. My ship, the USS Murzim, had been under way for several days. Most of her holds contained thousands of cartons of canned or dried foods. The other holds were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in
7、padded racks. Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific. I was one of the Murzims several cooks and, quite the same as for folk ashore, this Thanksgiving morning had seen us busily preparing a traditional dinner featuring roast turkey.,Alex Haley,9,课件教育,I decided fi
8、rst to go out on the Murzims afterdeck for a breath of open air. I made my way out there, breathing in great, deep draughts while walking slowly about, still wearing my white cooks hat.,Well, as any cook knows, its a lot of hard work to cook and serve a big meal, and clean up and put everything away
9、. But finally, around sundown, we finished at last.,D R _ Text 2,10,课件教育,D R _ Text 3,I got to thinking about Thanksgiving, of the Pilgrims, Indians, wild turkeys, pumpkins, corn on the cob, and the rest. Yet my mind seemed to be in quest of something else some way that I could personally apply to t
10、he close of Thanksgiving.,It must have taken me a half hour to sense that maybe some key to an answer could result from reversing the word “Thanksgiving” at least that suggested a verbal direction, “Giving thanks.”,11,课件教育,Giving thanks as in praying, thanking God, I thought. Yes, of course. Certain
11、ly. Yet my mind continued turning the idea over. After a while, like a dawns brightening, a further answer did come that there were people to thank, people who had done so much for me that I could never possibly repay them. The embarrassing truth was Id always just accepted what theyd done, taken al
12、l of it for granted. Not one time had I ever bothered to express to any of them so much as a simple, sincere “Thank you”.,D R _ Text 4,12,课件教育,At least seven people had been particularly and lastingly helpful to me. I realized, swallowing hard, that about half of them had since died so they were for
13、ever beyond any possible expression of gratitude from me. The more I thought about it, the more ashamed I became. Then I pictured the three who were still alive and, within minutes, I was down in my cabin.,D R _ Text 5,13,课件教育,Sitting at a table with writing paper and memories of things each had don
14、e, I tried composing genuine statements of heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to my dad, Simon A. Haley, a professor at the old Agricultural Mechanical Normal College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas; to my grandma, Cynthia Palmer, back in our little hometown of Henning, Tennessee; and to the Rev. Lonual N
15、elson, my grammar school principal, retired and living in Ripley, six miles north of Henning.,D R _ Text 6,14,课件教育,The texts of my letters began something like, “Here, this Thanksgiving at sea, I find my thoughts upon how much you have done for me, but I have never stopped and said to you how much I
16、 feel the need to thank you ” And briefly I recalled for each of them specific acts performed on my behalf.,D R _ Text 7,15,课件教育,For instance, something uppermost about my father was how he had impressed upon me from boyhood to love books and reading. In fact, this graduated into a family habit of a
17、fter-dinner quizzes at the table about books read most,D R _ Text 8,recently and new words learned. My love of books never diminished and later led me toward writing books myself. So many times I have felt a sadness when exposed to modern children so immersed in the electronic media that they have l
18、ittle or no awareness of the marvelous world to be discovered in books.,16,课件教育,I reminded the Reverend Nelson how each morning he would open our little country towns grammar school with a prayer over his assembled students. I told him that whatever positive things I had done since had been influenc
19、ed at least in part by his morning school prayers.,D R _ Text 9,17,课件教育,D R _ Text 10,In the letter to my grandmother, I reminded her of a dozen ways she used to teach me how to tell the truth,to share, and to be forgiving and considerate of others. I thanked her for the years of eating her good coo
20、king, the equal of which I had not found since. Finally, I thanked her simply for having sprinkled my life with stardust.,18,课件教育,Before I slept, my three letters went into our ships office mail sack. They got mailed when we reached Tulagi Island. We unloaded cargo, reloaded with something else, the
21、n again we put to sea in the routine familiar to us, and as the days became weeks, my little personal experience receded. Sometimes, when we were at sea, a mail ship would rendezvous and bring us mail from home, which, of course, we accorded topmost priority.,D R _ Text 11,19,课件教育,Every time the shi
22、ps loudspeaker rasped, “Attention! Mail call!” two hundred-odd shipmates came pounding up on deck and clustered about the two seamen, standing by those precious bulging gray sacks. They were alternately pulling out fistfuls of letters and barking successive names of sailors who were, in turn, shouti
23、ng back “Here! Here!” amid the pushing.,D R _ Text 12,20,课件教育,One “mail call” brought me responses from Grandma, Dad, and the Reverend Nelson and my reading of,D R _ Text 13,their letters left me not only astonished but more humbled than before.,21,课件教育,Rather than saying they would forgive that I h
24、adnt previously thanked them, instead, for Petes sake, they were thanking me for having remembered, for having considered they had done anything so exceptional. Always the college professor, my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental, so I knew how moved he was to write me t
25、hat, after having helped educate many young people, he now felt that his best results included his own son.,D R _ Text 15,22,课件教育,The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a “simple, old-fashioned principal” had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in self-doubt.
26、“I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right,” he said, adding that my letter had brought him welcome reassurance that his career had been appreciated.,D R _ Text 16,23,课件教育,A glance at Grandmas familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white roc
27、king chair, watching her “setting down ” some letter to relatives. Character by character, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word, then the next, so that a finished page would consume hours. I wept over the page representing my Grandmas recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness t
28、o me whom she used to diaper!,D R _ Text 17,Much later, retired from the Coast Guard and trying to make a living as a writer, I never forgot how those three “thank you” letters gave me an insight into how most human beings go about longing in secret for more of their fellows to express appreciation
29、for their efforts.,24,课件教育,Now, approaching another Thanksgiving, I have asked myself what will I wish for all who are reading this, for our nation, indeed for our whole world since, quoting a good and wise friend of mine, “In the end we are mightily and merely people, each with similar needs.” Firs
30、t, I wish for us, of course, the simple common sense to achieve world peace, that being paramount for the very survival of our kind. And there is something else I wish so strongly that I have had this line printed across the bottom of all my stationery: “Find the good and praise it.”,D R _ Text 18,2
31、5,课件教育,D R _ S_ Most of her ,Why was it necessary for the writer to offer so many details of his voyage?,The details indicate that this Thanksgiving was unusual, explaining why the writer felt the need to celebrate it in an unusual way.,Most of her holds contained thousands of cartons of canned or d
32、ried foods. The other holds were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in padded racks. Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific.,26,课件教育,D R _ S_ this Thanksgiving ,. this Thanksgiving morning had seen us busily preparing a traditional dinner feat
33、uring roast turkey.,Paraphrase this part., on this Thanksgiving morning we were busy preparing a traditional dinner which included mainly roast turkey. “Feature” here means “to include as a special part”.,27,课件教育,D R _ S_ I made my way ,Analyze the structure of the sentence.,在这个长句中有三个 -ing 分词：breath
34、ing、walking 和 wearing。breathing 为 made my way out 的伴随状语，walking 与 while 连用表示与 breathing 这一动作同时发生，wearing 为 walking 的伴随状语。,I made my way out there, breathing in great, deep draughts while walking slowly about, still wearing my white cooks hat.,Translate the sentence into Chinese.,我信步走去，一边深深呼吸着空气，一边慢慢
35、地踱着步，头上仍戴着那顶白色的厨师帽。,28,课件教育,大概过了半个小时我才意识到，问题的关键也许在于把Thanksgiving 这个词前后颠倒一下，那样一来至少文字好懂了：Giving thanks。,D R _ S_ It must have taken ,It must have taken me a half hour to sense that maybe some key to an answer could result from reversing the word “Thanksgiving” at least that suggested a verbal directio
36、n, “Giving thanks.”,Translate this sentence into Chinese.,29,课件教育,D R _ S_ Not one time ,What can we infer from this sentence?,The author took all for granted and never expressed any appreciation. The sentence is in inverted order.,Not one time had I ever bothered to express to any of them so much a
37、s a simple, sincere “Thank you”.,30,课件教育,D R _ S_ I told him that ,I told him that whatever positive things I had done since had been influenced at least in part by his morning school prayers.,Analyze the structure of the sentence.,whatever positive morning school prayer 是宾语从句。I had done since 是定语从句
38、，修饰 whatever positive things; since 为副词，修饰 had done; in part 在这里意为 partly。,31,课件教育,D R _ S_ and my reading ,and my reading of their letters left me not only astonished but more humbled than before.,我读了信，既觉得震惊，又深感卑微。,Analyze the structure of this part.,leave 常用于结构：leave sb. + adj./past participle，adj
39、./past participle（此处为 not only astonished but more humbled than before）为宾语补足语。,Translate this sentence into Chinese.,32,课件教育,D R _ S_ Rather than saying ,Rather than saying they would forgive that I hadnt previously thanked them, instead, for Petes sake, they were thanking me for having remembered,
40、for having considered they had done anything so exceptional.,Paraphrase the sentence.,They didnt say they would forgive me for not thanking them, but instead, for Gods sake, they thanked me for having remembered what they had done and for having thought they had done something special to me.,33,课件教育
41、,D R _ S_ A glance at Grandma ,A glance at Grandmas familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her “setting down” some letter to relatives.,What does the sentence mean?,His grandmas handwriting reminded the writer of many sweet memor
42、ies of his childhood with her. “Setting down” here means “writing”.,34,课件教育,D R _ S_ I wept over the page ,I wept over the page representing my Grandmas recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me.,Paraphrase the sentence.,I was moved to tears that my grandma had spent hours re
43、cently in expressing her loving gratefulness to me.,35,课件教育,D R _ word _ under way,Its been under way for fifty years and it still has a long way to go.,A battle to conquer nature is under way.,under way: in position or operation, having started and making progress,Collocation:,all the way,自始自终,any
44、way,无论如何,by the way,顺便说,by way of,经由；通过的方法,36,课件教育,D R _ word _ put away,put away: remove (sth.) to a place where it is usually stored,He has a habit of putting away his tools after work.,Put the books away neatly on the shelf.,37,课件教育,D R _ word _ get to sth./doing sth.,Recently Ive got to wonderin
45、g why I am doing the part-time job.,get to sth./doing sth.: begin to give serious attention to or deal with,Ill get to the accounts as soon as I can.,38,课件教育,D R _ word _ reverse,The rise, the first in 10 months, reversed the downward trend in the countrys jobless rate.,reverse: vt. turn around to t
46、he opposite direction; exchange the position of,Why dont you reverse the order so that I perform first and he performs second?,Collocation:,in reverse,向相反方向；倒（退）；逆（行、转等）,just the reverse,正好相反，恰恰相反,suffer/sustain a reverse,遭受挫折（或失败）；吃败仗,the reverse of,的反面；绝不是，远非,39,课件教育,D R _ word _ turn over,She sat
47、 there quietly, turning over the problem.,turn over: think about; consider,他在心里反复考虑这件事情。,He turned the matter over in his mind.,Collocation:,turn aside,避开，撇开,turn (away) from,对感到厌恶,turn down,关小；拒绝,turn up,开大；出现,40,课件教育,D R _ word _ repay,She repaid me the money.,How can I ever repay you for your kin
48、dness?,repay: vt. pay back; reward,41,课件教育,D R _ word _ gratitude,gratitude: n. being thankful; thankfulness (followed by to sb. / for sth.),He showed me his gratitude by inviting me to dinner.,She expressed her gratitude for our help.,Collocation:,feel gratitude,心怀感激,show gratitude,表露感激之情,deep/prof
49、ound gratitude,深切的谢意,everlasting gratitude,永远的感谢,sincere gratitude,诚挚的谢意,42,课件教育,D R _ word _ specific 1,specific: adj. relating to one thing and not others; particular,He uses a specific tool for each job.,试卷回答要明确具体。,Be specific in your examination answers.,specific, special, especial in the interests of sb.; as the representative of sb.,My husband cant be here today, so Im going to speak on his behalf.,律师代表当事人说话。,The lawyer spoke on behalf of his client.,46,课件教育,D R _ word _ impress,I am impressed by/with his performance.,The gas turbine feeds