1. Unit Five

2. Teaching procedures Ⅰ Warming-up Ⅱ Check on pre-class work Ⅲ Word study Ⅳ General understanding of the text Ⅴ Role Play Ⅵ Questions for dicussion Ⅶ Language focus Ⅷ Exercises

3. Ⅰ Warming-up Questions 1.People often say that “love is a wonderful thing”. Do you agree? In what sense is it “wonderful” ? Do you agree that all wonderful things often seem hard to come by and require great sacrifices? 2. What are your standards for an ideal mate?

4. Ⅰ Warming-up A poem by Robert Burns My Love is Like a Red Red Rose by Robert Burns My love is like a red red rose That’s newly sprung in June; My love is like the melodie That’s sweetly play’d in tune. So fair are you art thou, my beautiful darling sweethear bonnie lass, So deep in love am I; And I will love you thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun: And I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run. And farewell to you, my only love And fare thee weel, a while! And I will come again, my love, Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

5. Ⅱ Check on pre-class work P109 Find useful expressions and idioms from the text and list them below. at last be dear to sb be fond of be something of a…compared to for want of in the air in this age night after night upon my word

6. Ⅱ Check on pre-class work P109 Find useful Verb + noun collocations and expressions from the text and list them them below. bury one’s face chill one’s veins cost money pay a price deny the fact pierce the heart give a ball shake one’s head make no answer spread one’s wings nip the buds touch one’s heart open its petals

7. Ⅲ Word study 1. fling 1) to throw violently, with force Don’t fling your clothes on the floor. 2) to move violently or quickly She flung herself down on the sofa. She flung back her head proudly. 3) to devote to He flung himself into the task.

8. Ⅲ Word study 2. want: 1)the condition or quality of lacking something usual or necessary for /from want of 由于缺少 The plants died for/from want of water. stayed home for want of anything better to do. 2) pressing need; 贫困 to live in want = to live in poverty 3) something desired: in want of = in need of Are you in want of money? He’s a person of few wants and needs.

9. Ⅲ Word study 3. bloom vi. to produce flowers, yield flowers, come into flower or be in flower 开花 The roses are blooming. blossom 1) vi. (of a seed plant, esp a tree or plant) to produce or yield flowers, bloom The apples trees are blossoming. 2) vi. to develop Their friendship blossomed when they found out how many interests they shared.

10. Ⅲ Word study 4. ebb n. 1.The tide is on the ebb. 2.The financial resources have reached its lowest ebb. vi. 1) fall back from the flood stage The tide will begin to ebb at 4 o’clock. 2) to fall away or back; decline or recede The danger of conflict is not ebbing there.

11. Ⅲ Word study 5. linger vi. 1) to be slow in leaving, especially out of reluctance The children lingered at the zoo until closing time. 2) to proceed slowly linger over one’s work ( 磨洋工） 3) to persist Winter lingers. vt. to pass (a period of time) in a leisurely or aimless manner. We lingered away the whole summer at the beach.

12. Word Study see see about doing: attend to, make arrangements for, deal with 安排，处理 It is time for me to see about cooking the dinner. see something out: to last until the end of 熬过，度过 Will our supplies see the winter out? It was such a bad play we couldn ’ t see out the performance and we left early.

13. Ⅲ Word study 6. See see through sb./ sth The paper is too thick to see though. It was a hard time for us, but we managed to see it through. see to something: to attend to, take care of 负责， 留意 If I see to getting the car out, will you see to closing the windows?

14. Ⅲ Word study 7. go go about something: to perform to do 从事，着手 to go about one’s business Don’t go about the job that way. go after sb/sth to go after a job, a girl, a prize go against sb/sth Opinion is going against us. The case may go against us. go along : vi. to agree with, support We’ll go along with you /your suggestion.

15. Ⅲ Word study go round vi. 萦绕， There is a tune going round in my head. If there are not enough chairs to go round, some people have to stand. go back on sth Don’t go back on your promise. Never go back on your friends. 背叛，出卖 go by vi. He let the chance go by. A car went by. go by sth = according to, based on to go by the rules/the book

16. Ⅲ Word study go for sb/sth My wife went for me because I was late for dinner. Do you go for modern music? I find this report badly done, and that goes for all the other work done in the office. go into: to enter a profession, state of life to go into business/films go over vi.= change one’s stance He went over from the People’s Party to the Enemy’s Party. go through sth. vt = (some formalities) The country has gone through too many wars. They went through the new marriage service. go under vi= go bankrupt, fail She has so many worries, she is sure to go under.

17. Ⅳ General understanding of the text 1. The Genre of the story What is the genre of this story? And its characteristics? Fairy tale Characteristics: 1) The frequent use of personification. 2) The symbolic meaning given to words. For example, the rose is a symbol of love. 3) The vivid and simple narration, which is typical of the oral tradition of airy tales. 4) The repetitive pattern used.

18. Ⅳ General understanding of the text 2. The main idea of the story A young student thought that he was madly in love with the professor’s daughter. He felt miserable because he could not find a single red rose in the whole garden to give to his love, and he knew that without the rose she would not agree to dance with him in the ball to be given by the prince the next day. The Nightingale overheard this and was deeply touched by what she believed was the expression of the young man’s true love. So she decided to help the young man, but she was told that the only way to get a red rose in this cold winter was for her to build it out of her music and her heart’s blood. The Nightingale of course also valued her life, but she was ready to lay down her own life for the happinessness of the young couple. She therefore did what she was told to do. The next morning, the most beautifyl red rose appeared, but the Nightingale was found dead under the rose tree. Not Knowing what it hadcost to produce the rose, the student thought that he was lucky to find this flower and he immediately plucked it and ran to the professor’s daughter. The professor’s daughter, however turned him down because she had already agreed to dance with the chamberlain’s nephew who had given her precious stones. The student was very angry, so he threw the rose away and returned to his reading.

19. Ⅳ General understanding of the text 3.Theme The nightingale is the true lover, if there is one. She, at least, is Romance, and the student and the girl are, like most of us, unworthy of Romance. Nightingale sacrifices its own life for pure love’s sake. A true love needs wholehearted devotion and passion.

20. Ⅰ Introduction: The Nightingale understood the Student who badly needed a red rose for his love.(paras.1-12) A The student cried because he had no rose for her love.(paras. 1-3,7) B The Nightingale thought the Student was a true lover.(para. 4) C other creatures in the Student’s garden did not understand why the Student cried for a red rose. (paras. 8-12)

21. Ⅱ Body: The nightingale built a red rose with her life-blood.(paras. 13-45) A The nightingale looked for a red rose with her life-blood. (paras. 13-45) B The Nightingale found the only was to get a red rose. (paras. 23-27) C The Nightingale decided to build a red rose with her own heart’s blood. (paras. 28-34) 1. The tree that produced red roses said the Nightingale had to sing all nitht with her breast against a thorn till it pierced her heart. 2. The Nightingale thought the love of man was more important that her life. 3. she told the student about her decision to sacrifice her life for his love, but the Student failed to understand her. D The Nightingale built a red rose at the cost of her life.(paras. 35-45) 1. The Nightingale sang of the love between a boy and a girl, and a marvelous rose blossomed. 2.The Nightingale sang of the love between a man and maiden, and the rose became pink. 3. She sang of the love that does not die, the thorn reached her heart, and the rose bacame red.

22. Ⅲ conclusion: When his love rejected the rose, the Student threw it into the street.(paras. 46-54) A The Student went to his love the flower. (paras. 46-49) B The girl rejected it. (paras. 50-51) C The Student threw the rose away and concluded that love was a silly thing.

23. Ⅴ Role play The students are divided into four groups and they are expected to roleplay the text. That’s one way to learn the text.

24. Ⅵ Questions for discussion 1. Is it true that “ In this age, to be practical is everything”? What would it mean with regard to the question of love if we accept the view? 2. Describe the different attitudes toward love of the Student, the Nightingale and the Daughter of the Professor. 3. Do you think this fairy tale is meant for children or adults? Give your reasons.

25. Ⅶ Language focus 1. Key words : to go 2. Word formation 1) suffixes: -ian, -ous, -th, -al, -ity 2) past participles used as attributives 3. Idioms and expressions at last be dear to sb be fond of be something of a…compared to for want of in the air in this age night after night upon my word

26. Ⅶ Language focus 4. Verb phrases be filled with tears dance to the music go with the colour hold sb in one’s arms pay for play upon a musical instrument sing of shoot through a place soar into the air stain it with sweep over the garden

27. Ⅶ Language focus 5. Verb + noun collocations and expressions bury one’s face chill one’s veins cost money pay a price deny the fact pierce the heart give a ball shake one’s head make no answer spread one’s wings nip the buds touch one’s heart open its petals

28. Ⅶ Language focus 6. Synonym discrimination cry, weep true, real plot, patch meadow, lawn answer, reply beneath, under love, lover want, need fling, throw can’t, won’t indeed, in fact want, lack,need bloom, blossom, flowers last, atl last, first, at first lonely, alone, sonesome dear, precious, expensive grove, forest, jungle

29. Ⅶ Language focus 7. Homonyms lean, film, dial, form, spray, flight, sweet, against, faint, ball, about, fan 8. Grammar 1) degrees of comparison 2) pronouns( all/everything, etc) + relative clauses

30. Ⅷ Exercises Omitted.

31. The Nightingale and the Rose The end