22. A Magician at Stretching a Dollar文档.pptx

A Magician at Stretching a Dollar Unit 8 Contents Text-understanding 1 2 Extension Assignment 3 4 Lead-in Text Understanding Read Para.1 -2 and answer the following questions Q2: How did the boy feel when discovering the gift? Q1: What Christmas gift did the boy discover? Lead – in Extension Assignment second-hand / I’d been admiring… the price: a shock / $15 ; scrape together enough for down payment Q1: What Christmas gift did the boy discover? A bicycle What makes this gift so special to the boy? Text Understanding Lead – in Extension Assignment moved yet sickened Q2: How did the boy feel when discovering the gift? sickened become ill make sb. feel disgusted Text Understanding Lead – in Extension Assignment Q: Why did the boy feel sickened when discovering the Christmas gift? I had robbed her of the pleasure of seeing me astonished and delighted on Christmas day. rob Illegal crime Deprive someone of something needed or significant guilty Text Understanding Lead – in Extension Assignment The importance of the Christmas gifts: Cultural Notes The Gift of The Magi –by O.Henry Further Reading: Situation: When you receive a gift that you long for, how do you show your excitement and happiness? Text Understanding Lead – in Extension Assignment e.g. What will you say? What will you do? How did the boy pretend to be astonished and delighted? (Para. 4) Utterances: Facial expressions: “Wow!” “A bike with balloon tires! I dont believe it!” “Im the luckiest boy alive!”… quite tears; mouth open and eyes wide, hands, ear-to-ear grin Practice: The tone The stress The emotion Without acquiring any confidence….. And decided to wait… Text Understanding Lead – in Extension Assignment Pair work: Read Para. 5-10, find out the sentences that show the emotional changes of the boy. … But what I felt was bitter disappointment. I knew that she was as happy as I was to see her so happy. I must have looked disappointed. Text Understanding L