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Weeping for My Smoking Daughter

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Pre-class Tasks Checking

Text Comprehension

Difficult Sentences

Writing

Summary

Words and Phrases

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Pre-class Tasks Checking

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Tips: pressure, curiosity about the smell of cigarettes, imitation, bad mood, improving work efficiency, having nothing to do, etc.

A. Under what circumstance will people smoke?A. Under what circumstance will people smoke?

B. What harm may smoking do to us?B. What harm may smoking do to us?Tips: health problems (e.g. lung cancer), polluted air,terrible smell, etc.

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Should we smoke in public places?

Watch the video clip and try to answer the question:

What does the advertisement tell us?

Reference: for the sake of our clean air, don’t smoke!

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ROLE PLAY

One of your roommates is smoking, you and your other roommates are trying to persuade him/ her not to smoke.

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Text Comprehension

Questions Answering

Text Structure

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I. Text Structure

Part I (Para.1)

Part (Para. 2Ⅱ － 5)

Part (Para. 6)Ⅲ

Part Ⅳ (Para. 7 －8)

I feel terrible seeing my daughter smoking.

My father’s story.

The cases in Third World countries.

The author’s feeling as a mother and her view on smoking.

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II. Questions Answering

Camel, Marlboro and Player , what are they according to the text?

Tipcigarette brands

Part I (Para.1)

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Part (Para. 2Ⅱ － 5)

1. What did the author’s father smoke before he smoked cigarettes made by manufactures?

TipPrince Albert, tobacco, roll

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2. What effects did the Hollywood movies have on her father?

Tiphook by, heroes, fashionable,

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3. What do you know about the author’s father from Para.3?

Tipnot fashionable at all, poor, overweight, hard-working, colored man, too large a family, smoked

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4. How did smoking hurt her father’s health?

Tipbreath, wheeze, rest when climbing stairs, cough, pneumonia

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Part (Para. 6)Ⅲ

In the Third World countries, how is money spent? What results from that?

Tipgoes instead to the tobacco companies, starve themselves for both food and air, weakening hooking and killing

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1. Why does the author feel a deep hurt as a mother?

Tipcarefully ， pregnant ， patiently

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2. How does the author view smoking?

Tipself-battering ， batters ， sit by.

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Paraphrase

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Sentence 1: When she smoked Marlboros and Players I hardened myself against feeling so bad; … (L9)

harden sb. against doing sth.: make sb. stronger to keep from doingsth.

-en 后缀加在一些形容词或名词后面可以构成动词，表示“使…”，类似的词还有 sharpen, weaken, strengthen, loosen, soften, quicken 等等。

Translation: 当她抽“万宝路”及“运动员”牌香烟时，我硬起心肠，不让自己感到难过；…

Paraphrase: When she smoked Marlboros and Players I made myself become less sympathetic and less easily affected emotionally; …

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Sentence 2: The tobacco industry, coupled with Hollywood movies in which both male and female heroes smoked like chimneys, completely won over people like my father, who were hopelessly hooked by cigarettes. (L.19)

coupled with: together with Translation: 烟草业，再加上好莱坞电影——影片中的男女主角都是老烟鬼——把像我父亲那样的人完完全全争取了过去，他们无可救药地抽烟上了瘾。

Paraphrase: The tobacco industry, together with films made in Hollywood in which both male and female heroes smoked a lot, completely attracted people like my father, who were hopelessly addicted to smoking cigarettes.

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Sentence 3 ： There are large advertisement signs directed at them both: the tough, confident or fashionable older man, the beautiful, “worldly” young woman, both dragging away. (L.40)

Paraphrase: There are large advertising signs telling people about a certain brand of cigarettes in order to encourage them to buy it; and the signs are aimed to attract the attention of people like my father and daughter: the adult man who is strong, confident and fashionable, and the woman who is pretty and experienced, both of them smoke.

Translation: 到处都有针对他们这两类人的巨大广告牌：强壮﹑自信或时髦的成熟男人，以及漂亮﹑“世故”的年轻女人，都在吞云吐雾。

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Sentence 4: …over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, effectively weakening and hooking their children, eventually killing themselves. (L.44)

Paraphrase: … as time passes by, people cause themselves to suffer from not having enough food to eat or fresh air to breathe, effectively making their children weaker and dependent or relying on cigarettes, and finally killing themselves.

Translation: … 久而久之，人们不但缺少食物，而且还缺少新鲜空气，这样不但大大削弱了孩子们的体质，还使他们染上了烟瘾，最终还会致他们于死地。

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Sentence 5: I realize now that as a child I sat by, through the years, and literally watched my father kill himself: Surely one such victory in my family, for the prosperous leaders who own the tobacco companies, is enough. (L.61)

Paraphrase: Now I come to know the fact that through the years when I was a little child, I sat there watching my father kill himself: Surely the rich owners of the tobacco companies have won a victory in my family, but one such victim is enough (otherwise it would be too much for my family).

Translation: 我现在意识到了，当我还是一个孩子的时候，许多年里我实际上是一直坐在旁边，看着我父亲自杀。对那些生意兴隆的烟草公司的巨头们来说，能在我家取得这样一种胜利，肯定是够满意的了。

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Chinese to English

Word Using

Words and Phrases

Word Replacing

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Guessing Game

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几何（学）平面几何立体几何解析几何一包香烟一包豌豆

geometry plane geometry solid geometry analytical geometry a package of cigarettes a package of peas

I. Chinese to English

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过滤嘴香烟滤过的咖啡好莱坞电影一则新产品

广告 城区 , 市中心区

filtered cigarettes filtered coffee Hollywood movies an advertisement of a

new product inner cities

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经验丰富老于世故的人

家庭团聚老鼠药

毒气农用杀虫剂化学杀虫剂

an experienced and worldly man

family reunion rat poison poisonous gas agricultural insecticide chemical insecticide

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Ⅱ. Word Replacing

1. The old man was most thankful to his neighbors for sending for a doctor.

was thankful for was grateful for

2. The actors were wearing the finest costumes.

were wearing were dressed in

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3. The writer wrote with plain words together with humor.

together with coupled with

4. She really worried about her son who got addicted to computer games.

addicted to hooked by

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5. Most Disney cartoons are aimed to attract young audiences.

are aimed to attract are directed at

6. The headmaster said the school was suffering from not having fund resources.

was suffering from not having

was being starved of

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1. pick sth./sb. up (L.4) ① take hold of and lift 拾起，捡起，提起

Translation

我拿起了电话拨她的号码。 Key

I picked up the telephone and dialed/ rang her number.

Ⅲ. Word Using

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1. pick sth. up ② learn sth. without formal lessons

TranslationJoe picked up a lot of Italian by watching soap-operas on TV.

KeyJoe 在看电视台播放的肥皂剧时学到了很多意大利话。

pick up a foreign language 自然学得一门外语

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1. pick sb. up ③ collect sb., in a car, etc. 接载某人

Translation

我们已经叫了一辆计程车在十点钟来接我们。

Key

We‘ve ordered a taxi to pick us up at ten.

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a car

a computer

an electronics

2. manufacture n. (L.12)a person or firm that produces goods

collocation

汽车制造商

计算机制造商 manufacturer

电子产品制造商

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2. manufacture v. make sth. in large quantities using machines

manufacturing industries 制造业

Translation

海尔是一家制造高品质家电产品的企业。

Key

Haier is an enterprise that manufactures high-quality household appliance.

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3. slim adj. (L.38) ① thin; not fat; slender

Translation

她有着可爱的苗条身材。

KeyShe has got a lovely slim figure.

e.g. a slim-waisted girl 一个细腰女郎

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3. slim adj. ② not thick ; small; insufficient

e.g. a slim pocket-book 薄薄的袖珍本

Key

Her chances of success are very slim.

Translation

她成功的机会甚微。

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3. slim vi. become or try to become thinner by eating

less, taking exercises, etc.

Use it

Another piece of cake?

e.g. slimming exercises

减肥运动；健美运动

No, thanks. I’m slimming.

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4. weaken v. (L.45) make or become weak or weaker

Translation

生产力的下降削弱了这个国家的经济。 Translation随着病情的发展，她的身体逐渐变弱。 KeyKey

The fall in productivity has weakened the country’s economy.

Key

She slowly weakened as the disease progressed.

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5. swallow vt. (L.47) ① cause or allow to go down the throat

Translation

食物不经过适当的咀嚼是很难下咽的。

Key

If you don’t chew your food properly, it’s difficult to swallow.

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5. swallow vt. ② believe sth. too easily

Translation

He swallowed her story whole.

Key

他对她的故事深信不疑。

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一束花

一串葡萄

一捆报纸

圈上的一串钥匙

flowers

grapes

newspapers

keys on a ring

6. bunch n. (L.48) a number of things tied or grouped together

collocation

a bunch of

grass growing in bunches 丛生的草

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7. zone n. (L.59) an area with a particular quality or use

collocationcollocation

a war zone

a no smoking/ smokeless zone

an economic development zone

an earthquake zone

战区

禁烟区

经济开发区

地震带

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Ⅳ. Guessing Game

Pair Work: One student is supposed to describe the new words presented on PPT, the other is going to guess what is the word. English description and body language are allowed, Chinese is forbidden.

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package

一包，一盒

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brand

品牌，商标

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reunion

重聚，团聚

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manufacture

制造

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advertisement

广告

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swallow

吞咽，轻信

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shelter

庇护所，避难所

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starve

（使）挨饿

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Summarize the text using the tips below:1. weep for her smoking daughter2. the same brand of cigarettes that killed her

grandfather3. attracted by tobacco advertising and film actors4. health was getting worse and worse5. eventually died from6. the confident or fashionable older man or the

beautiful, “worldly” young woman smoking7. is slowly killing herself8. a form of self-battering9. stop smoking at least at families

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A mother weeps for her smoking daughter: she is smoking the same brand of cigarettes that killed her grandfather. Her grandfather used to have glowing eyes before he was attracted by tobacco advertising and film actors and began to smoke. However, he did not look elegant or fashionable as the advertisements showed. His health was getting worse and worse, and eventually died from “the poor man’s friend”, pneumonia.

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Summary In the Third World countries, the mother sees many large advertisement signs with the confident or fashionable older man or the beautiful, “worldly” young woman smoking. As a result, in these poor countries, smoking makes the poor even poorer and weaker. The mother feels deeply hurt to see the care she took raising her daughter thrown away as her 16-year-old daughter is slowly killing herself. Smoking is a form of self-battering that also batters their relatives and the people around them, thus, to avoid more tragedies, everyone must stop smoking at least at families.

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Writing

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Structure Analysis

A Paragraph of Cause and Effect

The writer of the text presents us with a horrible picture of the harmful effects of smoking, and the harmful effects are described as a result of the cause—smoking.

Typical examples are:

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1) Cause: I do not remember when he started to cough. Perhaps it was unnoticeable at first, a little coughing in the morning as he lit his first cigarette upon getting out of bed.

Effect: By the time I was sixteen, my daughter’s age, his breath was a wheeze, embarrassing to hear; he could not climb stairs without resting every third of fourth step. It was not unusual for him to cough for an hour. (Para. 4)

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2) Cause: When I travel to Third World countries I see many people like my father and daughter. There were large advertisement signs directed at them both: the tough, confident or fashionable older man, the beautiful, “worldly” young woman, both dragging away.

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Effect: In these poor countries, as in American inner cities and on reservations, money that should be spent for food goes instead to the tobacco companies; over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, effectively weakening and hooking their children, eventually killing themselves. （ Para. 6）

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