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Unit Five Romance Preview assignment: Try to find the information about the legend of St. Valentine’s Day. Preview the new words and expressions in the two texts. Read text A, appreciating the romantic story. Objectives: Students will be able to: grasp the main idea (the nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive) and structure of the text; appreciate the narrative skills demonstrated in the text (switch between tenses, change of narrators), some rhetorical devices (simile and metaphor) and the use of informal language in conversations; master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text. I. Introduction to the unit: Love is the eternal theme in both literature and real life. Throughout the ages, people from around the world pursue the true affection between man and woman, leaving us many touching love stories, such as Romeo and Juliet，Butterfly Lovers, Titanic etc. Today in Unit Five, we’ll appreciate another two moving love stories. Despite different heroes and heroines, both stories tell us a fact, that is, in order to win the true love, you should be able to resist temptation and stand the test; and you must be patient because winning the true love sometimes needs your whole life’s waiting. Now, let’s take a look at our first love story, A Valentine Story in Text A. As the title denotes, it tends to be related to Valentine’s Day. St. Valentine’s Day is also called lover’s day. It is celebrated on February 14 th . On this day across the country, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. There is a legend about this lover’s day. But here in the text, A Valentine Story has nothing to do with the origin of the lover’s Day, but only to refer to the day the hero and heroine first meet. II. Check on the previewed work (ask students to tell the legend of St. Valentine’s Day) Valentine was a priest living in Rome during the third century. At that