Unit 11 The Two Roads Teaching Objectives Topic: Looking towards the future Grammar Point:...

Unit 11 The Two Roads

Teaching Objectives• Topic: Looking towards the future• Grammar Point: Post-modification with

v.-ed / v.-ing, with adj. with idiomatic usage

• Vocabulary: mournful, vacant but, remorse, stumble, hesitate, cast, strike, for one’s good, in vain, short of, make one’s way to, burst out, resound with, linger, entrance to

• Writing: Understanding the use of similes and metaphors

Unit 11 The Two Roads

Listening and Speaking Activities

Reading Comprehension and Language Activities

Extended Activities

Fun time

Listening and Speaking Activities

1. Warming-up 2. Brainstorming 3. Listening 4. Speaking

Warming up

Looking towards the future,

What’s your plan for your future?

Brainstorming

1. Expressions for time in the future:

2. Expressions for plans / planning: 3. Expressions for possibilities /

impossibilities / uncertainties: 4. Expressions for realizing / failing

to realize a plan:

1. Expressions for time in the future:

• in...minutes / hours / days / weeks / months / years / decades..., in the (near) future, in future, soon, eventually, the day after tomorrow, the week after next week, never, by (the year) 2015, by the end of next week / month / year, fifty years from now

2. Expressions for plans / planning:

• schedule, timetables, intentions, expectations, ambitions, hopes, aspirations, prospects, outlook, forecast, prediction, dream, goal, aim, have no intention of doing, be going to, be about to do, plan to do, look forward to doing ...., expect ... to do ...., push forward (the reform, etc.) with ...., address (some problems), maintain one's commitment to...

3. Expressions for possibilities / impossibilities / uncertainties:

• perhaps,maybe,probably, definitely, certainly, surely, no doubt, it's possible /probable/ likely/certain/unlikely/impossible to do/that ...

4. Expressions for realizing / failing to realize a plan:

• realize, reach, fulfill, accomplish, come true, be satisfied, be disappointed, let down; feel hopeless, fail to do, be / fall short of (the target etc.), sense of accomplishment, ... to the fullest satisfaction

Listening Talking about the future

Task:1. Answers some questions. 2. Fill in the blanks with missing w

ords.

Listen and answer the following questions• 1.Why won’t Jane work in China after

she finishes her study?• She has been unable to find a job that

suits her. As she is studying Chinese medicine, she thinks that it may perhaps be easier for her to open a Chinese clinic in the United States.

Listen and answer the following questions

• 2. How does Jane feel about the future of China?

• She thinks that China is developing very rapidly and that China's modernization will become a reality very soon.


• 3. What afe Wang’s viewso the future?

• Wang is a bit uncertain about his own future, and he doesn't care much about it, either. To him, future is too vague to mean much.


• 4. What does Jane think of Wang?• Jane thinks that Wang sounds like

some young people in the West, who have no plans for their future.

Listening

I’m Jane. I have lived in China for ____ years to study _____. I’m going to open a _____ in the states after finishing my study here. I think there will still be some problems. For example, I’ll probably run out of ______ and ______ very soon, and I also need a lot of _____. So I think I’ll have to come back to China to purchase _____, and, ____ to update my knowledge and information.Mr.Wang is a friend of Jane. He is somewhat ____ and ____ about His future. He is a person who lives ____. To him, ______ doesn’t mean too much. It’s ______.

Speaking activities

• Planner for your monologue speech• 1. What was your dream when you were a child? What made

you have this dream?• 2. Do you think your dream will come true? Explain your

answer.• 3. What is the hardest thing to do in pursuing your dream?• 4. What’s the most important factor in realizing your dream?• 5. What do you want to do after you graduate from college?

Reading Comprehension and Language Activities

1. Pre-reading activity 2. Questions for general comprehensi

on 3. Summaries 4.Questions for discussion

The Two Roads

1. Have you ever regretted anything you did? Did you learn anything from your mistake?

2. If you were given a chance to change your past, what would you want to change most?

Pre-reading activities

Discussion

• In your life, when have you chosen a road which later seemed to be the wrong one, and when have you chosen one which was right?

• Write your opinion in the following spaces.

• The right road: ____________________

• The wrong road: ___________________

The Two Roads

The two roads refer metaphorically to two choices in a person's life. One will bring happiness and success. The other leads to failure, sorrow, discomfort, and a total waste of one's life. Those who choose the second road (the wrong road) would mourn over their mistakes when they get old, but their cry of remorse would not bring back their youth.

Summarize the story

Reading

Paragraph one

A sixty-year old man meditated over his long and painful journey in life with great remorse on New Year's Eve.

Reading

Paragraph six

The young man was brought back to reality and realized that it was not too late for him to choose the right road.

Reading

Paragraph seven

The writer makes an appeal to those young people who hesitate before choosing a road in life and warns them of the consequences of failing to make well-considered decisions about their future..

●● What dream did the man have on New What dream did the man have on New Year’s Eve?Year’s Eve?

The The young man dreamt that he was over sixty young man dreamt that he was over sixty years old, living in misery. His life was full of years old, living in misery. His life was full of errors and remorse, his health poor, his mind errors and remorse, his health poor, his mind vacant, his heart sorrowful and his old years vacant, his heart sorrowful and his old years short of comforts.short of comforts.

Reading--Comprehension

Answer the following questions.

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One road represents a meaningful life, which One road represents a meaningful life, which would hopefully lead to success and happiness. would hopefully lead to success and happiness. The other road represents a wasted life which The other road represents a wasted life which would lead to a dark cave, alive with devils and would lead to a dark cave, alive with devils and deadly snakes.deadly snakes.

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● ● What are the two roads? What are their What are the two roads? What are their differences?differences?

●● What did the young man remember about What did the young man remember about his parents?his parents?

The man remembered his parents' early The man remembered his parents' early love for him. They had taught him about love for him. They had taught him about life and prayed to God for his well-being.life and prayed to God for his well-being.

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●● Why did he cry painfully?Why did he cry painfully?

He cried painfully because both his He cried painfully because both his parents and the happy days of his youth parents and the happy days of his youth were gone. He had lost forever the were gone. He had lost forever the chance to take the right road.chance to take the right road.

V. Exercises--Comprehension

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He thought that the flowing lights were the He thought that the flowing lights were the days of his wasted life and the falling star was days of his wasted life and the falling star was the symbol of himself as a dying man. Both the symbol of himself as a dying man. Both his youthful days and the prime years of his his youthful days and the prime years of his life were irrecoverably gone.life were irrecoverably gone.

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●●5. What did the man associate the flowing 5. What did the man associate the flowing lights and the falling star with?lights and the falling star with?

●●6. What became of his childhood friends?6. What became of his childhood friends?

His childhood friends who had begun life His childhood friends who had begun life with him had chosen the right road and with him had chosen the right road and therefore made their way to success. therefore made their way to success. They were honored and happy at that They were honored and happy at that moment.moment.

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●●7. What kind of a situation was the man 7. What kind of a situation was the man really in?really in?

The man was actually still young. He was The man was actually still young. He was dreaming about his life in old age. dreaming about his life in old age. Though he had made some mistakes, he Though he had made some mistakes, he had not entered the deep, dark cave and had not entered the deep, dark cave and still had the opportunity to choose the still had the opportunity to choose the right way.right way.

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●●8. What message does the dream convey?8. What message does the dream convey?

The message of the dream is that one The message of the dream is that one should choose the right road when one is should choose the right road when one is young so as to avoid feeling remorse in young so as to avoid feeling remorse in old age.old age.

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Discussion

What, in your opinion, is the right road?

The Two Roads 两条道路　　

　 byJohn Ruskin

• Para 1 It was New Year’s Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he cast them on the earth, where few more hopeless people than himself now moved towards their certain goal --- the tomb. He had already passed sixty of the stages leading to it, and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and remorse. Now his health was poor, his mind vacant, his heart sorrowful, and his old age short of comforts.

Text Analyzing and Reading

句型

• 那是一个除夕之夜，一位老人站在窗前。他悲伤地望着天空，望着深蓝色的天空，繁星像百合花一样漂浮在清澈平静的天空之湖里。他望着地面，却没有几个像他这样绝望的，奔向唯一的终点――坟墓的人。在通往生命终点的旅途中，他已经走过了六十个驿站，收获的却只有过失和悔恨。如今他的健康不佳，精神空虚，内心痛苦，晚年的生活并不舒适。

• Para 2 The days of his youth appeared like dreams before him, and he recalled the serious moment when his father placed him at the entrance of the two roads --- one leading to a peaceful, sunny place, covered with flowers, fruits and resounding with soft, sweet songs; the other leading to a deep, dark cave, which was endless, where poison flowed instead of water and where devils and poisonous snakes hissed and crawled.


• 年轻的时光像梦一样在浮现在眼前，他回想起那个关键的时刻，父亲把他带到人生的岔路口，有两条路摆在他面前：一条通往一个宁静的、阳光灿烂的地方，那里满是花果，柔和甜美的歌手回响在空中；另一条却通往一个黑暗无底的洞穴，那里流淌的不是清水，而是毒汁，那里恶魔肆虐，毒蛇横行。

• Para 3 He looked towards the sky and cried painfully, “O youth, return! O my father, place me once more at the entrance to life, and I’ll choose the better way!” But both his father and the days of his youth had passed away.


• 他仰望着天空，痛苦地哭喊道：“啊，青春，回来吧！啊，父亲，重新把我带到生命的起点吧，我会选择另一条更好的路！”可是，他的父亲连同青春，都已经离开他了。

• Para 4 He saw the lights flowing away in the darkness. These were the days of his wasted life; he saw a star fall down from the sky and disappeared, and this was the symbol of himself. His remorse, which was like a sharp arrow, struck deeply into his heart. Then he remembered his friends in his childhood, who entered on life together with him. But they had made their way to success and were now honoured and happy on this New Year’s Night.


• 他看到黑暗中点点光亮被吞没，那些是他虚度的日子；他看见一颗星星从天上坠落，消失了，那他的象征。悔恨，像一把锋利的剑，深深刺入他的心脏。他想起那些童年时的伙伴，那些同他一起踏上生命的旅途的人们，如今都是成功的、受人尊重的。此刻，他们都沉浸在除夕的幸福中。

• Para 5 The clock in the high church tower struck and the sound made him remember his parents’ early love for him. They had taught him and prayed to God for his good. But he chose the wrong way. With shame and grief he dared no longer look towards that heaven where his father lived. His darkened eyes were full of tears, and with a despairing effort, he burst out a cry: “ Come back, my early days! Come back!”


•教堂高塔上的钟声敲响了，这让他想起了小时父母的爱，那些谆谆教诲，那些他们为他的幸福所做的祷告。可是他选择了一条错误的路。羞愧和悲伤使他不敢再奢望父亲所居住的天堂。他昏暗的眼睛饱含了泪水，他绝望地奋力哭喊：“回来吧，我逝去的岁月！回来啊！”

• Para 6 And his youth did return, for all this was only a dream which he had on New Year’s Night. He was still young though his faults were real; he had not yet entered the deep, dark cave, and he was still free to walk on the road which leads to the peaceful and sunny land.


• 不过这次他的青春真的回来了。因为所有这一切只不过是除夕夜他做的一场梦而已。他仍然年轻，尽管确实犯过错误，不过仍然没有进入那黑暗的洞穴，他仍然可以选择那条通往安宁和光明的道路。

• Para 7 Those who still linger on the entrance of life, hesitating to choose the bright road, remember that when years are passed and your feet stumble on the dark mountains, you will cry bitterly, but in vain: “O youth, return! Oh give me back my early days!”


•正在人生路口徘徊，犹豫着是否选择光明之路的年轻人啊！请记住，当时光已逝，你的双脚在黑暗的山间举步维艰、跌跌撞撞的时候，你会痛苦地呼喊：“啊，青春！回来！啊，把我逝去的日子还给我吧！”可是，那一切都是没用的！

约翰 .罗斯金（ 1819-1900 ），维多利亚时期英国著名的作家和评论家。他父亲是位富商，经常带他到欧洲各地旅游，他从小就对建筑、艺术非常感兴趣，对美怀有强烈热望。他的主要作品有《现代画家》、《威尼斯的石头》等。

在本文中他向人们揭示了选择正确人生道路的重要性和迫切性，引人深思。

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cast one’s eyes on : look at something

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cast one’s eyes / Barbie doll /•The little girl kept casting her eyes on the Barbie dolls in the shop window and didn’t want to leave.

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Back

The manager of the tailors shop cast his eyes on the one-million-dollar note and grabbed it greedily



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•The little boy in rags cast his eyes on a cake in the shop window and his mouth began to water


lead to : result in

Back

•Idling away the time when you are young will lead to your regret in future.


lead to : result in

Back

A personality clash led to the couple’s separation.


lead to : result in

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The discharge of polluted water into the lake has led to the death of fish in the area nearby.


vacant: a. showing lack of interest or active thoughtb. (of a place or space ) emptyc. (of a job) not filled

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•He stared into space with a vacant expression on his face.•Is this seat vacant?•I’ll let you know if there is vacant position.


vacant: a. showing lack of interest or active thoughtb. (of a place or space ) emptyc. (of a job) not filled

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We are sorry to inform you that we cannot employ you right now. If there is a position vacant / a vacancy in the future, we will contact you.


recall: remember, to bring back to the mind recall + n. / doing / that-clause / wh-

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I couldn’t recall where I put my key.I couldn’t recall ever meeting her.



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The old woman sitting in the armchair recalled the moment when she was the bride at her wedding.



Back

Recalling the ups and downs of the past, the old man feels quite satisfied with his present living conditions.


make one’s way to

Back

The man felt very proud that he finally made his way to the summit of the mountain.


for one’s own good:for his well-being, or benefit

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•He's clever, probably too much so for his own good.


for one’s own good:for his well-being, or benefit

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Children will understand one day that parents’ nagging is for their own good.


mournful:feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.

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•Gave her a mournful look.


remorse:n. sorrow for having done wrong

Back

He was filled with remorse after

hitting the child.


resound with:To be filled with sound; reverberate:

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•The school yard resounded with

the laughter of children.


stumble:To miss one's step in walking or running; trip and almost fall.

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•A stumble may prevent a fall.

•小惩大诫。


in vain:Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless:

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我们的努力全是徒劳。 Our efforts were in vain.


linger:To be slow in leaving, especially out of reluctance;

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妈妈告诉他不要在回家的路上逗留。 Mother told him not to linger on the way home.


burst out :To give sudden utterance or expression:

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•It made the bystanders burst out with laughter. •He burst into tears.


strike:To hit sharply, as with the hand, the fist, or a weapon.

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•He struck the sword into the dragon.


hesitateTo be slow to act, speak, or decide.

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“A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him” (Harry S Truman). “ 一位总统要么经常地驾驭各种事件要么为事件所驾驭，如果他犹豫的话” （哈里 ·S· 杜鲁门）。


nothing but:only

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In order to lose weight, she eats nothing but vegetables.


short of

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We cannot complete the project as scheduled because we are short of staff.


• A peaceful and sunny place• The Road to a peaceful, sunny place,• covered with flowers, fruits and• resounding with soft sweet songs• Friends who made their way to success and

were• now honored and happy• prayed to God for his good

Expressions which indicate a happy life

SummarySummarySummarySummary

• ~ the deep, dark cave, endless, poison flowed instead of water ...

• ~ mournful eyes• ~ hopeless people• ~ brought from his journey nothing but errors

and• remorse• ~ his health poor, his mind vacant, his heart

sorrowful, his old age short of comforts• ~ cried painfully• ~ a wasted life• ~ with a despairing effort, ... burst out ...• ~ cried bitterly

Expressions which indicate a miserable life

Writing: Understanding the use of similes and metaphors

Sun By Valerie Worth

The sun Is a leaping fire Too hot To go near, But it will still Lie down In warm yellow squares On the floor Like a flat Quilt, where The cat can curl And purr.

Can you create your own similes and metaphors? Be creative!

What would you say about the following things:

a. Youthb. Friendshipc. Loved. Agee. Lifef. City crowdg. City skylinesh. Country viewi. Oceansj. Mountains

A Madrigalby ShakespeareCrabbed Age and YouthCannot live together.Youth is full of pleasance,Age is full of care;Youth like summer morn;Age like winter weather,Youth like summer brave,Age like winter bare:Youth is full of sport,Age's breath is short,Youth is nimble, Age is lame:

Youth is hot and bold,Age is weak and cold,Youth is wild, and Age is tame: -Age, I do abhor thee;Youth, I do adore thee;O my Love, my love is young!Age, I do defy thee --O sweet shepherd, hie thee,For methinks thou stay’st too long.

English proverbs and old sayings

• A lazy youth, a lousy age. •少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。 • A man can only die once.• 人生只有一回死。

poem

•If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition;

•if you want to know your future, look into your present action.

• It is not the wind that is moving; it is not the flag that is moving; it is mind that is moving.

• There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moment of wisdom.

" The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power." -Hugh White

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