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Unit 7 Reading I My First Day at School * Pre-reading Questions When was the boy shy? What did the teacher ask him to do on his first day at school? Could he write? Why not? What did some students do when he could not write his name and address? What did the teacher do? When the whole room burst into a loud and prolonged laugh, how did he feel? * Language Points 1. in the presence of: before, in front of I can never express myself well in the presence of many people. The contract must be signed in the presence of a witness. 2. be about to do sth. Mrs. Green was about to begin, but Jennie spoke first. He waited until she was about to leave. He met her in the doorway just as she was about to go away * 3. have confidence in sb. 对某人有信心 build confidence in oneself 建立信心 4. collect one’s senses: calm down No matter how hard I tried to collect my senses, I simply could not dial the number. sense用作复数形式，意为 correct judgment（理智），可用于下列词组中，如：frighten sb. out of one’s senses（吓懵了）, lose one’s senses（失去理智）, be in/out of one’s senses（头脑正常/不正常）, come/bring to one’s senses（使头脑清醒） * 5. redeem: make up for You should try to redeem your error. I spoke in a gentle voice so as to redeem my rudeness. 6. burst into sth. He burst into a storm of abuse. He burst into angry speech. As soon as she saw me, she burst into tears. * Reading II They Never Gave Me the Present * Pre-reading Questions Did Loll like the way the school was taught? Did Loll like the boys and girls from the farms and hovels? Why or why not? How did the boys and girls treat Loll on his first day at school? Why did they tease him? Why was the boy unhappy when he returned home? * Language points 1. at one’s peak（在…的高峰期） His career is at its peak. Tang Dynasty was at its peak. 文中The village school was at its peak.可意释为The village school had the largest number of students it had ever had.? * 2. Universal education and unusual fertility had packed it to the wal