读写教程 Unit 1 Live Without Limitations.doc

Unit One Section A Love Without Limitations Summary: My brother, Jimmy, suffered lack of oxygen during a difficult delivery, leaving him with brain damage. From then on, my family life revolved around his. My mother taught him practical things like how to brush his teeth. I was in charge outside where I administered justice by tracking down the parents whose kids picked on him, and telling on them. My father held the family together with such patience that Jimmy could not go anywhere without his company. But misfortune also loves company. My father and mother died respectively of a heart attack and lung cancer in 1991. As an immediate result of that, Jimmy, though under careful disguise, fell into a wreck, grasping that the world he’d known was gone for good. I pledged to help him out of it. Through my constant efforts, I was eventually able to work it out. Now he has lived in my parents’ house for 11 years with many different caretakers and blossomed on his own. In fact, caring for someone who loves as deeply and appreciates my efforts as much as Jimmy does has enriched my life more than anything else ever could have. This hit home in the wake of the September 11th disaster, when I managed to hold a party for his 57th birthday. I called on my friends to make it a merry and festive occasion, ignoring the fact that the sheer terror had drained Americans of all happiness in those days. For Jimmy, however, the party was a welcome bonus, and mostly he had just wanted to see everyone else happy again. He made it in the end. Indeed, there had never been any limitations to what Jimmy’s love could accomplish. Teaching Objectives: To help students grasp the main idea and some detailed information in the text To help students learn new words and expressions To make students get familiar with and practice writing structure of “problem-response-evaluation” pattern Teaching Difficulties: To help students master the key words, expressions and sentence structure To help student