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Unit 1Never Say Goodbye Section One Pre-reading Activities 2 I. Reading aloud 2 II. Cultural information 2 III. Audiovisual supplement 2 Section Two Global Reading 4 I. Main idea 4 II. Structural analysis 4 Section Three Detailed Reading 5 Text I 5 Section Four Consolidation Activities 16 I. Vocabulary Analysis 16 II. Grammar Exercises 21 III. Translation exercises 24 IV. Exercises for integrated skills 25 V. Oral activities 26 VI. Writing Practice 27 VII. Listening Exercises 29 Section Five Further Enhancement 31 I.Text II 31 II. Memorable Quotes 33 Section One Pre-reading Activities I. Reading aloud Listen and read the following sentences, paying attention to the pauses between sense groups. 1. When I was ten / I was suddenly confronted with the anguish of moving from the only home / I had ever known. 2. “It isn’t easy, / is it, Billy?” / he said softly, / sitting down on the steps beside me. 3. I was standing by his rosebush / when an uncle came to tell me / that my grandfather had died. 4. Its that special place in your heart / that makes them so. 5. “ ... We seem to have so many ways of saying goodbye / and they all have one thing in common: / sadness.” II. Cultural information Quote Bertrand Russell: Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it — so at least it seems to me — is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal. Henry David Thoreau: The failures and reverses which await men — and one after another sadden the brow of youth — add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. III. Audiovisual supplement Watch a video clip and answer the following questions. 1. What are the peo