新视野英语unit 5-2.docVIP

Unit 5 Graceful Hands (Second Time) Teaching Time: 2 periods Students’ Level: Sophomores of non-English majors in the 1st semester Teaching Objectives: 1. Understand the text 2. Grasp some important phrases 3. Learn to paraphrase some difficult sentences Teaching Procedures： I.Review 1. Dictate the new words 2. Review the usage of some important words secure, hint, thirst, slide, outline, naked, shallow II.While-reading Activities I. Division of the Text Part 1(from para.1~para.4). The first part tells us something about “I”, the author — a medical worker, the patient — Mrs. Clark and how the patient is. Part 2 (para.5)??? It is arranged according to the time sequence too, though without any time markers. We can understand the time sequence from our knowledge of the real world: after the author examines the patient, she does something for the patient as a medical worker. Through her service to the patient, the author creates a dominant impression on readers that the patient is seriously ill, too weak for anything.Part 3 (para.6~para. 7) We have a clear time marker: “When I am finished” with helping the patient. We have the real exchange between the two human beings. It is also the first time that the author mentions that the patients graceful hands catch her attention. And in this part the author comes to understand what is in the patients mind. The patient chooses to send her family home and expresses her thanks to the author for being with her at this special moment. Part 4 (para.8)We can find the time marker — “Some unknown interval of time passes before her eyes open again”, which clearly connects the present part to the preceding one. The patient dies. And the author seems to have a better understanding of the patient. Mrs. Clark spares her family from seeing her die and the author feels it a privilege to be there with the patient.Part?5 (para.9) It is only two days after Mrs. Clarks death that the author