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Unit 2 The Virtues of Growing Older Section One Pre-reading Activities I. Audiovisual supplement Watch the video and answer the following questions. 1. What’s wrong with the young boy? 2. Can you imagine the life of growing younger? Answers to the Question: 1. He is not like normal people. He is not growing older, but growing younger. 2. Open. Video Script: Daisy: Do you remember me? I’m Daisy. Benjamin: I’m Benjamin. Daisy: It’s nice to meet you, Benjamin. Would you mind if I sit with you? I would love to hear you play. Benjamin: Do I know you? Voiceover: And every day, I would stop by to make sure that he was comfortable. Benjamin: No, I didn’t. Nurse: You just finished eating. Benjamin: Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing! You’re all fucking liars! Nurse: He doesn’t believe he just had his breakfast. Daisy: Now, why don’t we see if we can’t find something else for you to do? Benjamin: I have a feeling there’s a lot of things I can’t remember. Daisy: Well, like what, sugar? Benjamin: It’s like there’s this whole life I had, and I can’t remember what it was. Daisy: It’s okay. It’s okay to forget things. Voiceover: Many times, he would simply forget who or where he was. Nurse: There he is. He’s up there on the roof. Voiceover: It wasn’t easy. Daisy: Benjamin! Benjamin: I can see everything! I can see the big river! Daisy: That’s right. You can see everything, sweetheart. Benjamin: I can see the graveyard where Mama’s buried, and all those other people. Daisy: I want you to come down! Benjamin: What if I could fly? Daisy: I knew a man who could fly. You come down, and I’ll tell you all about him. II. Cultural information 1. Quote Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. — Samuel Ullman 2. Growing Pains Growing Pains is an American television sitcom about an upper-middle class family with a working mother and a stay-at-home psychiatris