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Nettles

----------Alice Munro

Teaching Aims: The teaching of this lesson aims to enable students to master

• 1 20 key words and about 100 other new words• 2 20 key phrases and their translations• 3 the way of analyzing the usage of simile, metaph

or and alliteration in this lesson• 4 the way of dividing the lesson • 5 the skills of translation in ten sentences• 6 the main idea stated by the author

The teaching of this lesson is divided into five parts

Part One: Background Information(in one period)• In this part, the teacher and the students are working together to offer a

s much information as possible in one period. Information comes in all directions. In this way , views of the students can be broadened and versions of the world can be easily seen. We follow two procedures:

• I: The teacher gives a brief introduction about the background information and guides the students to the text by asking some questions.

• 1 Why is the story entitled “Nettles”? Do “Nettles” here have any symbolic meaning here?

• Para 91 is essential for understanding the meaning of the title of the story. While they were driving back, Mike and the narrator noticed an itch or burning on their bare forearms, the backs of their hands and around their ankles. She remembered the nettles. But those plants with big pinkish-purple flowers (described in Para 72) are not nettles. They are called joe-pye weeds. The nettles are stinging insignificant-looking plants with stalks outfitted with skin-piercing spines. Her mistaking joe-pye weeds for nettles implies that ordinary life is more like the insignificant-looking nettles that are stinging and piercing, thus irritating and annoying people rather than the joe-pye weeds with showy pinkish-purple flowers. Real life is disturbing, frustrating, and unsetting, offering no tidy resolution.

• 2 Which rhetorical speech is repeatedly used in this lesson to achieve the fixed effects?

• 3 How many sections can you divide the lesson into?• 4 Tell the students what difficulties they will face in understanding the l

esson.• 5 What is the theme of the story?• 6 How does the author begin the narration?• 7 Does the plot develop in the normal chronological order?• II: Some students are asked to introduce some important notes because

they have got some relevant information from the internet to help understand the lesson.

• 1 About the author:• Present the picture downloaded from the internet and try to make the a

uthor impressive in the students’ minds.• 1 Then introduce the author: Alice Munro• Present a picture of Munro first and a picture of nettle at the same ti

me• 2 Carl Gustav Jung• 3 Simone de Beauvior• 4 Arthur Koestler• 5 The Cocktail Party

Part Two Detailed Study of the Text (in six periods)

• In this part, the teacher finishes the explanation of words, sentences, grammar in six periods.

• Approaches used in this part:• 1 Raising questions to make the students think differently;• 2 Explaining some points;• 3 Discussing some topics in pairs or with the teacher• 4Communicating with the students by repeating some words , some sente

nces or some explanations.• 5 Asking volunteers to read each paragraph or asking them to read togeth

er.• 6 Asking them to summarize the main idea in each paragraph and in each

section separately• 7 Asking them to seek some transitional paragraphs or sentences• 8 Asking them to analyze the rhetorical speeches used in some sentences an

d master the skills used in organizing the ideas.• 9 Asking them to paraphrase as many sentences as possible• 10 Making them pay attention to the special usages of some common word

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Key points in the explanation:

Para. 1 -----Para. 2• Questions to be asked:• When did the story happened?• How is the time shifted ?• Where did the story happened?• How many people are mentioned?• 1 Some places:• Uxbridge: economic centre where Industrial Revolution took place• Ontario: a state in Canada, also a name of a lake between Canada an

d America• Toronto: the capital of Ontario with a population of over one million,

where many Chinese immigrants live• Ottawa: the capital of Canada with a population of over four million• 2 compare:• A summer place , a place of interest and resort place]

Para.3---------Para.15• In this part, the narrator told us sth about her childhood and how sh

e got to know Mike.• This part is narrated in flashback, devoted to the narration of her chil

dhood memories, her friendship with Mike. The description of her childhood show that the narrator is very nostalgic.

• Questions to be asked• How did the narrator and Mike become friends?• At which point of the story do we know that the narrator is a girl?• Why did she and Mike wash the dog Ranger in tomato juice?• They played a game of war with other boys and girls. Retell this part

of the story in your own words.• In Paragraph10, there is one word that can best sum up the girl’s feel

ings for Mike, or the relationship between them. Can you point out that word?

• Did the girl miss Mike after he left with his father? How does the author show this?

• Why does the author devote so much space to the narration of childhood memories? Is the narration vivid and interesting? Give your comments.

• 1 Let the students to translate two Chinese idioms:• 青梅竹马 : a man and a woman who had an affection for each other in childhood• 喝水不忘掘井人 : When you drink the water, think of those who dug the well.• 2 penned animals• canned foods• chilled drinks• 3 sparkling: a present participle as an adverbial of way• e.g. The stars are always sparkling high in the sky.• 4 boarding house: a private house where you pay to sleep and eat• boarding school• 5 …the rain washed down the windows and made a racket like stones on the roof.• the underlined word shows “simile” is used here to make a comparison between the

sound of rain on the windows and the sound of stones on the roof• 6 try to find similar words in a text• e.g. mucky• scummy• filthy• 7 compare distinct and distinctive• 8 translate the following sentence in Para.8• …the elm…crabby.• 榆树看上去宁静安详,橡树则咄咄逼人,枫树亲切友好,而山楂树则老气横秋,脾

气暴躁。• 9 The river in August was almost as much a stony road as it was a watercourse.• Simile is used here again.

• 10 They might have followed the boys out from town—pretending not to follow---or the boys might have come along after them, intending some harassment, but somehow when they all got together, this game had taken shape.

• (1) The subjunctive mood is used in this sentence for supposition, suggesting that the girl was not sure how the boys and girls got together, but she knew one way or another they all got together and made up this game of war.

• (2) intend some harassment: be going to attack them or play tricks with them• 11 There was a keen alarm when the cry came, a wire zinging through the whole

body, a fanatic feeling of devotion.• (1) “A wire zinging through your whole body” and “ a fanatic feeling of devotio

n” are in apposition to “a keen alarm”, further explaining what this keen alarm was like.

• (2) In this part about the children’s game, the word “devotion” can best sum up the girl’s feeling for Mike. In playing the game of war, their friendship further developed.

• (3) 当她喊我的名字时,我会紧张万分,全身蹭地就像过了电似的,一种狂热的忠诚感油然而生。

• 12 How all my own territory would be altered, as if a landslide had gone through it and skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike.

• (1) The implied meaning of the sentence is that the impact of Mike’s leaving on my life was beyond my imagination. I didn’t expect that Mike’s leaving would have such a tremendous power that it would change the meaning of my existence completely. All my thoughts were about loss of Mike.

• (2) Here both words “territory” and “landslide” are used metaphorically, comparing her life experience to a territory and the great impact of Mike’s departure to a devastating landslide.

• Para.16----Para.19• In this part , the narrator tells us the relationship between Sunny and her .• Questions to be asked:• Who is Sunny?• Would you say that Sunny and the narrator were educated and sophisticated wom

en? Give evidence to support your point.• How is the time shifted in Paragraph 19?• 1 In my kitchen or in hers, once a week or so, distracted by our children and some

times reeling for lack of sleep, we stoked ourselves up on strong coffee and cigarettes and launched out a rampage of talk---about our marriages, our fights, our personal deficiencies, our interesting and discreditable motives, and our forgone ambitions.

• (1) reel for lack of sleep: to feel dizzy, have a sensation of spinning or whirling , because of lack of sleep.

• (2) …stoked ourselves up on strong coffee and cigarettes…• To “stoke up” means to eat large quantities of food, and here means seeking ener

gy by drinking many cups of coffee and smoking cigarettes.• (3) rampage: an outbreak of violent or raging behavior.• (4) discreditable: damaging to one’s reputation or status• (5) forgone: that has gone before; previous; former• (6) 我们大约每周都要在我的厨房或他的厨房聚会一次。孩子总是不断地打扰我

们,有时还会因为缺觉而感到头晕目眩,于是我们就用大量的浓咖啡和香烟给自己提神,开始天南海北地聊天,所谈的话题无所不包 , 我们的婚姻、奋斗、个人的不足、既有趣又有些丢脸的动机,以及我们曾有过的理想抱负。

• 2 During that time of life that is supposed to be a reproductive daze, with the woman’s mind all swamped by maternal juices, we were still compelled to discuss Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and “ The Cocktail Party”.

• (1) Reproductive daze: Daze means being stupefied, or bewildered often by a shock or blow. Here reproduction refers to the process by which animals or plants produce new individuals. So “reproduction daze” describes the stupefying and confusing condition that young mothers are stereotypically supposed to be in. Since these two young mothers continued to discuss literary and intellectual matters, the stereotype is called into question.

• (2) swamped: flooded• (3) maternal juices: Usually maternal juice should be interpreted as mothe

r’s milk. Here the plural form is used, probably referring to juices with which a mother feeds the baby, such as milk and fruit juices and mother’s milk. The phrase “swamped by maternal juices” should not be taken literally, but rather figuratively, meaning the young mothers were terribly busy looking after their babies.

• (4) The meaning of the sentence is that as young mothers, we were supposed to lead a terribly busy and sometimes confused or bewildered life brought about by giving birth to and raising babies, and our minds were supposed to be fully occupied by how to feed the babies and things like that. However, in the midst of all this we still felt the need to discuss some of the important thinkers of our time like Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and T.S. Eliot’s sophisticated verse play “The Cocktail Party”.

Para.20----Para.26• In this part, the narration returns to 1979 when she spent the weekend at Sunny’s country home. First

she explains the different reasons for which they had moved away from Vancouver.Then the narrator talks about her unsuccessful marriage and her problems with her children, which lead her to phone Sunny and get the invitation to spend the weekend with the latter’s family.

• Questions to be asked:• Why did the narrator move away from Vancouver?• What happened to her marriage?• What did the narrator think of the marriage?• Was her new living environment in Toronto comfortable? How did she feel about it? Did her daughter

s enjoy living there during their summer holidays/• Why did the narrator phone her friend Sunny and get her invitation to spend a weekend in the country?• 1 And I had moved for the newfangled reason that was approved of only in some special circles---leavi

ng husband and house and all the things acquired during the marriage(except , of course, the children, who were to be parceled about) , in the hope of making a life that could be lived without hypocrisy or deprivation or shame.

• (1) The tone of this sentence is slightly ironic. The word “newfangled” is a humorously derogatory term, meaning newly made, new, novel, untested. “Some special circles” refer to feminists and their sympathizers and supporters. The more conservative social values and attitudes do not approve of women leaving their husbands and houses, and would consider doing so as newfangled in a negative sense.

• (2) husband and house: Without articles before them the two words function as collective nouns for the normal acquisitions associated with marriage. In addition they alliterate, making them more memorable.

• (3) …the children…were to be parceled about…• As the wife and husband were separated, the arrangement for the children was to take turns in living

with the father and the mother.• (4) 希望能过上一种没有虚伪,不丧失自我,不感到羞辱的生活。• 2 …a long necessary voyage from the house of marriage.• (1) “The house of marriage” is a metaphor, comparing marriage to a house, a place that provides shelt

er, living space, etc. On the other hand, such a house can be a sort of confinement, hindering one’s freedom.

• (2) 未摆脱婚姻的禁固而必须踏上的漫长旅程。

Para.27---Para.93• This is the main part of the story, in which the author tells what happened during the we

ekend she spent with Sunny’s family in the country.• Questions to be asked:• How was she able to recognize Mike at the first sight after she saw him last when they we

re only small kids?• How are we led to know that she was extremely happy about her reunion with her childh

ood friend?• What was going on in the mind of the narrator when they were watching the stars?• When the narrator told Mike that she missed her children, Mike said nothing . she made

an assumption about his silent response. Was she right in her guess? What must have been the real reason, now that we have read the whole story?

• When they saw a heavy rain coming, where did they go for shelter? Was it a terribly big storm? What details can you give from Para.72---75 to illustrate your answer?

• What did they do when the wind passed over? Why?• What did Mike tell the narrator after the storm was over? Why didn’t he tell her earlier

in the conversations about their families and children? What was the narrator’s response to what he said?

• What did she mean when she said, “I knew now that he was a person who had hit rock bottom”? According to her, what will happen to people who have hit rock bottom?

• Why did Mike choose to tell the narrator his secret while he had kept it from all the people he met since he moved to this new place?

• When they came out from the bushed, they found rashes on their arms and feet. What plants gave them the rashes?

• What are the characteristics of the narration in Para.45---49?• Para.71---76 are characterized by detailed descriptions of the storm. Do you find them vi

vid and effective? What makes them so? What function do they serve in the whole story?

• What is the climax of the story?• 1 She did not ask me----was it delicacy or disapproval?---about my new life.• (1) delicacy or disapproval: alliteration• (2) delicacy: a sensitive diplomacy or , sometimes, finicky distaste for what is considere

d improper or offensive.• (3) She did not ask me about my new life, either out of subtle consideration for my feeli

ng about this sensitive subject or out of disapproval for my new life style.• (4) Why didn’t Sunny ask about her friend’s life?• When old friends meet, they usually ask about each other’s lives. But Sunny didn’t. Th

e narrator guessed this was either because Sunny thought this was a sensitive subject and therefore tried to avoid it or because she disapproved of her friend’s new life and therefore didn’t want to hear about it.

• 2 …I was full of happy energy.• The word “happy” is transferred epithet. Though used before the noun “energy”, it act

ually modifies “I”. The sentence means I was full of energy because I felt so happy.• 3 It might be that he thought it unseemly to talk of our partners or our children, under

the circumstances.• (1) Mike and the narrator were alone now, and it was like a date. The word “might” in

dicates that she was making a supposition about Mike’s silent response to her remark about her children. She thought Mike probably found it improper for “dates” to talk about their respective partners or children in the present situation. Actually Mike might be thinking of his own children, especially the little child his car had killed by accident. We didn’t know what he was thinking at this point but will get to know his secret later.

• (2) unseemly: not decent or proper• (3) under the circumstances: used to say that a particular situation makes an action, de

cision necessary when it would not normally be. Pay attention to the plural form of the noun “circumstances” and the use of the definite article “ the” before the noun.

• 4 How does the author describe the storm in the part from Para.71---76?• In this part, the author describes a big storm the two main characters went thr

ough on the golf course. The author doesn’t tell but show with vivid and specific details how violent the storm was. These descriptions of the storm serve as an important element of the whole story. The two of them who survived the storm together felt even closer. As readers, we know that something will happen between the man and the woman now.

• 5 Nettles: the literary meaning, that is the plant with rough leaves that sting people, and the figurative meaning, that is something to irritate and annoy people. It may not be far-fetched to suggest that the author is comparing life, human relationship, etc. to the effects of nettles.

• 6 Curtains of rain---not veils but really and wildly slapping curtain---were driven ahead of it. We could see them distinctly, when all we were feeling were light, lazy drops.

• (1) As the golf course was a vast open space, the two of them could see clearly how the weather was changing and how the storm was coming to them step by step.

• (2) Both the words “curtain” and “veil” can be used to describe rain, but they are different. A veil is a thin piece of material or any thin layer, such as a veil of mist, cloud. So a light rain can be described as a veil. A curtain is a piece of heavy material that can be pulled across to cover a window, door, the front of a stage, etc. It may be a thick layer of something that stops anything behind it from being seen, such as a curtain of smoke. By using “curtain of rain” the narrator wants to emphasize it was a heavy, pouring rain that they couldn’t see through.

• 7 vivid details that show the terrible force of the storm.• (1) my hair was lifted and fanned out above my head.• (2) It was hard enough to stand up---out in the open the wind would have knocke

d you down at once.(Para.73)• (3) He said something, right into my face, but I couldn’t hear him.(Para.74)• (4) Big tree branches had been hurled all over the golf course.(Para.76)• 8 This was more of a ritual, a recognition of survival rather than of our bodies’ i

nclinations.• (1) ritual: a set form or system of rites, religious or otherwise• (2) inclination: a particular disposition or bent of mind; tendency ; a more or less

vague mental disposition toward some action, practice, or thing.• (3) In this sentence, the author makes a distinction between the spiritual and the

bodily. At night, when they were watching the stars and when she was lying in bed, she was disturbed by sexual desire. During the storm, the two were holding each other tightly, but they did that to protect themselves from the terrible storm. Now they kissed and pressed together because they had just survived a devastating storm, a dangerous situation. They kissed and embraced as a spontaneously shared ritual. At this moment, lust that had disturbed her in the night gave away to this sense of togetherness. We can see that in a sense, the rain had washed away the lust and purified her mind, thus purifying their relationship, too.

• 9 His voice surprised me, like the sun. But in the opposite way.• Right after the storm was over, the sun came out suddenly, with its cheerful light,

and so it surprised the narrator pleasantly. Now Mike said something in a voice that also surprised her, but in the opposite way. This “opposite” is explained in the next sentence.

• 10 It had a weight to it, a warning----determination edged with apology.• (1) It had a weight to it, a warning…• The weight and warning in his voice told the narrator what he was going to tell her was not happ

y news. SO he surprised her in the opposite way.• (2)…determination edged with apology…• As he made up his mind to tell her something , he sounded apologetic. He seemed to say “I know

how you feel and what you want. I feel the same, but I can’t because…”• (3) 她的声音有些沉重,带有一种警告以及道歉的决心。• 11 He and his wife knew that together and it bound them, as something like that would either br

eak you apart or bind you, for life.• He and his wife experienced the worst together and knew the meaning of that experience. Experi

ence of this kind, involving life and death, posed the gravest test to people. If they were able to stand the test and emerged from the worst together, their friendship or marriage would be strengthened, and a sacred bondage would be formed between them. But if they failed the test, their relationship would be broken and they would be driven apart.

• 12 But they would share a knowledge of it---that cool, empty, locked, and central space.• The implied meaning of the sentence is that they both understood what that terrible experience

was like and what it meant to them. Not the use of the four adjectives before the word space, which refers to the rock bottom. The word “cool” may be associated with death, tragedy and sorrow; the word empty indicates a sense of loss; locked implies secret, private, not open to others; central perhaps means this experience was essential to their lives.

• 13 What is Para.91 about?• It is essential for understanding the meaning of the title of the story. While they were driving bac

k, Mike and the narrator noticed an itch or burning on their bare forearms, the backs of their hands and around their ankles. She remembered the nettles. But those plants with big pinkish-purple flowers are not nettles. They are called joe-pye weeds. The nettles are stinging insignificant-looking plants with stalks outfitted with skin-piercing spines. Her mistaking joe-pye weeds for nettles implies that ordinary life is more like the insignificant-looking nettles that are stinging and piercing, thus irritating and annoying people rather than the joe-pye weeds with showy pinkish-purple flowers. Real life is disturbing ,frustrating , and unsettling, offering no tidy resolution.

• Para.94---95• Questions to be asked:• What is your interpretation of the meaning expressed in Para.94?• 1 Para.94 is an important part of the story.• Like some of Munro’s other stories, this one ends with the narrator’s epiphany,

a moment of sudden intuitive understanding, or a flash of insight. It is part of the author’s style to search for some revelatory gesture by which an event is illuminated and given personal significance. What happened, or rather what did not happen between Mike and her gave her a new perception of love. This is the theme of the story. The event that took place during that weekend may not seem very special or exciting, but through it the author explores the complexity of human emotions and the beauty of ordinary life.

• 2 Love that was not usable, that knew its place.• The sentence means that love was not an object that could be used or be made u

sed of; and we knew exactly the limits of our love and would not displace it.• 3 Not risking a thing yet staying alive as a sweet trickle, an underground resour

ce.• (1) the implied meaning of the sentence is that if they acted on love, they would t

ake risks. They wouldn’t do that or go further in their relationship, but they would rather let their love remain as a sweet trickle, which would flow on gently and permanently, and as an underground resource, which would never be fully tapped but would never go dry.

• (2) …as a sweet trickle, an underground resource…• These words bring us readers all the way back to the beginning part of

the story when the narrator talked about the family’s new well. In Para.3 the girl said: “…so one day the well-driller arrived with impressive equipment and began the work of extending the hole down, down , deep into the earth until the water was found in the rock. From that time on we could pump out pure water no matter what time of the year and no matter how dry the weather was. There was a tin mug hanging on the pump, and when I drank from it, on a burning day, I thought of black rocks where the water ran sparkling like black diamonds.” Their love was like a sparkling trickle of underground water, always sweet and refreshing, and it was as precious as black diamonds.

• 4 With the weight of this new stillness on it, this seal.• Here again the narrator is comparing her love for mike to a well. Rem

ember in Paragraph 12, the narrator said: “…the well capped, the pump reinstated, the fresh water marveled at,” Just as it was necessary to put a cap on the well to keep the water clean and fresh, it was also necessary to have the weight of this new stillness as a seal on their underground resource of love.

Part Three: Summary of the whole lesson and the discussion of the questions

( in two periods)

• In this part , the teacher is summarizing the whole lesson to make the students aware of the thoughts and ideas offered by the author and make the students know what we should learn from the lesson.

• Finish the quiz for Lesson 4

• I: Find the English explanations for the following words:• pen sparkle racket mucky serene crabby plow resurrectionreinstate t

hump matronly dovetail launch discreditable provocation delicacy scrupulous animate agitated dwindle1 start sth new

• 2 living• 3 gradually becoming less and less or smaller and smaller• 4 fit sth perfectly• 5 damaging to one’s reputation or fame• 6 a loud noise• 7 shining in small flashes • 8 shut an animal in a small enclosed area• 9 put sth back into the former position• 10 walk hard• 11 fairly fat and no longer young• 12 peaceful, calm and relaxing• 13 dull sound made when sth hits a surface• 14 bad-tempered, easily annoyed• 15 a careful and sensitive way of speaking or behaving so that you don’t hurt a

nyone• 16 extremely careful to do the precisely right, proper or correct thing• 17 nervous and upset• 18 action making sb angy• 19 the return of all dead people to life• 20 dirty with mud or oil

• II: Translate the following phrases into Chinese• dwindling friendship• a recognition of survival• curtains of rain• unmake the bed• but one’s head against• bear down• unpleasant subplots• fill the air• of all things• a civil engineer• snap one’s mind shut• make a break• husband and house• forgone ambitions• personal deficiencies• maternity clothes• stoke up on sth• take shape• belly button• in another minute

• III: Tell the rhetorical speeches used in each sentence or phrase

• husband and house• a long necessary voyage from the house of marriage• All afternoon while the men were gone I was full of happ

y energy.• How all my own territory would be altered, as if a landslid

e had gone through it and skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike.

• It looked as if we were washing him in blood.• I thought of black rocks where the water ran sparkling lik

e black diamonds.• The rain washed down the windows and made a racket li

ke stones on the roof.

Part Four: Key to exercises:• Key to explanation• 1 The impact of Mike’s leaving on my life was beyond my imagination. I didn’t expect that

Mike’s leaving would have such a tremendous power that it would change the meaning of my existence completely. All my thoughts were about loss of Mike.

• 2 At that time, we were young mothers, and we were supposed to lead a terribly busy life full of confusion and bewilderment caused by giving birth to and raising babies. And our minds were supposed to be fully occupied by how to feed the babies and things like that. However, in the midst of all this we still felt the need to discuss some of the important thinkers of our time like Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and T.S. Eliot’s sophisticated work “The Cocktail Party.”

• 3 I would be frightened, and my fear was not caused by my neighbors’ visibly hostile and violent way of life, but by a kind of formless and hidden emptiness and meaninglessness of human existence. What happened around me was totally irrelevant to me, and I felt very isolated and alienated.

• 4 She did not ask me about my new life, either out of subtle consideration for my feeling about this sensitive subject or out of disapproval of my new life style.

• 5 It would be a morally low thing ,an indecent thing to commit infidelity in the house of a friend.

• 6 I knew that he was a person who had experienced the worst in life, the hardest experience a person might have to endure.

• 7 They experienced the worst together and they knew what it was like and understood meaning of that experience. Such an experience posed the gravest test to people. If they stood the test, their friendship of marriage would be strengthened ,and a sacred bondage would be formed between them. But if they failed the test, their relationship would be broken and they would be driven apart.

• 8 If they acted on love, they would take risks. They wouldn’t do that or go further in the relationship, but they would rather let their love remain as a sweet trickle, which would flow on gently and permanently, and as an underground resource, which would never be fully tapped but would never go dry.

• Key to Translation• 1 只能投一次• 2 一种没有虚伪,不丧失自我,不感到羞辱的生活• 3 整条街道• 4 未摆脱婚姻的禁固而必须踏上的漫长旅途• 5 如瀑布般的叫声• 6 这声音就像是卷着石块的海浪冲击着海滩• 7 从汽车道里把车倒出去• 8 在我们的友谊逐渐淡化的那些岁月里。• 1 这里的每一棵树都表现出某种神态。比如,榆树看上去宁静安详,橡树则咄咄逼

人,枫树亲切友好,而山楂树则老气横秋,脾气暴躁。• 2 大她喊我的名字时,我会紧张万分,全身蹭地就像过了电似的,一种狂热的忠诚

感油然而生。• 3 一天早上,工作全部完成,这也是意料中的事。井口盖上了盖子,水泵重新安装

好了,大家对清新的井水赞叹不已。• 4 我们大约每周都要在我的厨房或她的厨房聚会一次。孩子总是不断地打扰我们,

有时我们还因为缺觉而感到头晕目眩,于是我们就用大量的浓咖啡和香烟给自己提神,开始天南海北地聊大天,所谈的话题无所不包,我们的婚姻,奋斗,个人的不足,既有趣又有些丢脸的动机,以及我们曾有过的理想抱负。

• 5苏妮给了他干净的床单,免得在他留给我的床上重新叠被、铺床。• 6 我睡得很浅,没完没了地做着充满情欲的梦,中间还穿插着令人不快的小情节。• 7 挨着草地边上的灌木丛看上去似乎无法穿过,但走近了可以看到一些小缺口和窄窄的小径,这是给动物或者找高尔夫球的人们踩出来的。

• 8 看上去,天空的一大部分似乎脱离了主体,喧闹着、果断地压向地面,那形状虽然说不出具体像什么,但像是一种活物的样子。

Part Five: Assignments• In this part, all the assignments will be listed , the teache

r will assign them to the students after each two periods.• 1 seek out some information about each note on the inte

rnet and hand them in to the teacher• 2 read the whole lesson• 3 memorize the new words• 4 prepare for the discussions• 5 do the exercises• 6 pre-review of the next lesson• 7 prepare for the quiz• 8 prepare the presentation of next lesson