综合英语1 unit13 the light of depression.ppt

Unit13 When we arrived at the ↗hospital, | my dad walked around to her side of the ↗car, | gathered her into his arms ↗and ↘held her. At a ↗time in my ↗life | when the world was supposed to be opening up to ↗me, | I ↗found myself re ↘treating. Read the following sentences aloud, paying special attention to intonation. The symbol | indicates a division of tone units, while ↗ and ↘ nuclear tones. 1. 2. Reading aloud Pre-reading Activities -Reading aloud1 Reading aloud Audiovisual supplement Cultural information 3. 4. Pre-reading Activities -Reading aloud2 Reading aloud Audiovisual supplement Cultural information They regarded it as a ↘bad case | of the ↘Sunday evening blues, | believing that if I ↗tried harder | and ↘stopped feeling sorry for my ↗self, | I would “get ↘better.” And ↗slowly, | the desire to ↘live, | the ↘courage to want to live, | began to re ↘turn. 1. Quote W. M. Thackeray: Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb. Cultural information Cultural information 1 Reading aloud Audiovisual supplement Cultural information                           Some people say that depression feels like a black curtain of despair coming down over their lives. Many people feel like they have no energy and can’t concentrate. Others feel irritable all the time for no apparent reason. Most people who have gone through one episode of depression will, sooner or later, have another one. The symptoms vary from person to person, but if you feel “down” for more than two weeks, and these feelings are interfering with your daily life, you may be clinically depressed. 2. Depression Cultural information 2 Reading aloud Audiovisual supplement Cultural information ＊poor concentration and memory ＊withdrawal from social situations and activities ＊an inability to experience pleasure in activities that were formerly enjoyed ＊preoccupied with thoughts and feelings of worthlessness, h