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上海交通大学出版社 应用型大学英语系列教材 Book 4 上海交通大学出版社 Language in Use Enhancement of Language Abilities Unit Seven Table of Contents Language Skills Development 上海交通大学出版社 Focus1 content Starter Text: A lifestyle Working with words and phrases Discussion Practice: interpreting Practice: translation Practice: writing Surfing the Internet Highlights Table of Contents Part 1 Language Skills Development 上海交通大学出版社 focus1highlights Highlights S: Feeling alone — a luxury or misfortune L: Lonely am I R: A lifestyle W: Patterns of organization (5): comparison and contrast Internet work: Searching for information on how to deal with loneliness and depression Part 1 Language Skills Development 上海交通大学出版社 1. Starter focus1starter Pros: The idea presented in the topic sentence is quite true because the need for human companionship is universal, and humans are creatures of community who need each other for companionship, as indicated in the text. Loneliness may not kill a human being physically, but it surely makes you feel you have nothing and can literally drive people mad or even sentence them to death mentally or spiritually. Cons: Some examples in history and reality show that human beings can still survive alone without feeling so sad or being driven mad. One of the most famous stories is Robinson Crusoe, which is based on the real experience of a sailor. The victim of a shipwreck managed to live on a deserted island for many years in loneliness before finding Friday, a slave, to be his servant and being rescued by a passing boat. So it’s safe to say that while feeling alone is never a positive or healthy feeling, it is not a disastrous or deadly feeling either when compared with such extremely deadly feelings as being in despair, feeling humiliated, or being unwanted. B. Listen to a short poem, Lonely Am I, divided into four parts, and try to memorize it; then recite one of the four parts by turns in groups and see which group can recite most fluentl