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1、Unit 2: Why My Great-uncle Gave Up the Ministry,Teaching Objectives: 1. Topic: Describing people and their behavior 2. Grammar points: Expanding a sentence with infinitive to-structure and the structure for (doing something) expressing “purpose” 3. Vocabulary: jolly, beloved, concern, clumsy, inadve
2、rtently, panic, devastated, bring oneself to do something, resolve to, retire, knock over, grope, in search for, retrace ones steps, smudge, crisp, mount, fixture, rip from, clutch, topple, rise to on feet, demolish, reverence 4. Writing: Describing people,Part I Brainstorming,1.Expressions for gene
3、ral impressions of a person: 2.Expressions for Expressions for emotional changes 3.Expressions for beheaviour 4.Expressions for social positions or titles: 5.Expressions for commenting on personalities:,Keys for reference,Expressions for general impressions of a person: 1. a. Positive ones: polite,
4、smart, cute, nice, a good leader, well-educated, gentle, charming, wise man;b. Negative ones: clumsy, forgetful, rude, careless, stupid, a follower, sb having more age than experience, wise guy;c. Neutral ones: funny(laughable/strange, peculiar, sensitive,2.Expressions for Expressions for emotional
5、changes a. changes for the better: calm, cool, cheer up, feel better, be sympathetic with b. changes for the worse: get panicky, feel nervous, have butterflies in the stomach, get irritated/ angry, become anxious, wear / have a questioning expression, be horrified, feel guilty, be embarrassed,3.Expr
6、essions for beheaviour a. silly ones: play the fol,( to make people laugh), make a fool of oneself (unintentional), be up to no good/ mischief (intentionally, usually in secret), mess ? fool around ( wasting time, behaving foolishly), behave badly, get into trouble.,b. Good ones: be good, be as good
7、 as gold, set a good example, turn over a new leaf, behave oneself c. Neutral ones: behave, conduct oneself (behave in a particular way, or conduct oneself responsibly,4.Expressions for social positions or titles: headmaster, doctor, nurse, director, supervisor, head of department, chairman, profess
8、or, coach, president,5.Expressions for commenting on personalities: cant stand, cant put up with, it takes all sorts , to err is human, to forgive is divine; (sbs silly behaviour) almost brings down the house, arouse hilarious laughter, be disgusted at/ with,Part II Text,Why My Great-uncle Gave Up t
9、he Ministry by Marcia Barnard Chandler 1. The following sad but true tale concerns my great-uncle, a wonderful, jolly, beloved man who was over six feet four and probably weighed close to three hundred pounds. He was also well-educated and in the early 1900s became a full-time Baptist minister. A ki
10、ndly, gentle man despite his size. Uncle Alden Bentleys only real fault seemed to be that he was terribly clumsy.,As a young minister, he was paying a pastoral call one day on a woman in Dillon, South Carolina, when he inadvertently sat on her Chihuahua, Twinkie, and killed it. As the lady searched
11、for and called for her dog throughout the house. Uncle Alden felt underneath his hip and, realising what he had done, panicked and slipped the dead dog into his coat pocket. Although he was devastated, he could not bring himself to tell the woman what had happened.,2. Five years later, he returned t
12、o the same home for an overnight visit and resolved to unburden himself by finally telling the woman exactly what had happened to Twinkie. She had just had the guest room prepared and had hung brand-new curtains. To make Uncle feel welcome, she had placed on the bedside table a large pitcher of ice
13、water and a glass, as well as a pen and a bottle of ink, so he could work on his sermon before retiring.,3. Uncle liked to sleep with the window open and got up in the night to open it. As he did, he knocked over what he assumed to be a full glass of water. Then, groping along the walls in an unsucc
14、essful search for the light switch, he retraced his steps several times before raising the window and settling back on the bed for the night. When he opened his eyes the next morning, he was horrified. The fresh wallpaper on two walls was covered with great black blobs. The crisp white curtains were
15、 thoroughly smudged with the prints of Uncles huge paws. It had not been the water glass hed overturned during the night it had been the ink bottle.,4. In a shaken state of mind and knowing he must face his hostess, Uncle dressed hurriedly and started down the stairs outside the guest room. As he ap
16、proached the landing, his foot slipped. Reaching wildly for support, he grabbed the nearest object, which happened to be a beautiful electric brass candelabra mounted on the stairwell wall. The fixture was hissing and smoking as he ripped it from the wall and toppled down to the landing below, still
17、 clutching it in his hand. 5. “Are you hurt?“ His hostess cried as she rushed to Uncles side.,6. “No,“ said Uncle as he rose to his feet, “but I have demolished your home.“ With that he quickly walked out the front door and, at the end of the walk, turned and said to his hostess with deep reverence, “Twinkie had a Christian burial.“ 7. He then retired from the ministry and became a teacher of philosophy for many years at a private preparatory school in Massachusetts.,
