1,Unit 8 Fourteen Steps Hal Manwaring,2,Short speech,How would you show your appreciation if somebody helps you when you are in trouble? What do you think the invalid need most in their daily life? What can we do to let the invalid lead a happy life?,3,Name some disabled celebrity and tell how his/her story has influenced other people. Name some areas in which the disabled are prejudiced against. Analyze the possible reasons and/or results of such prejudice.,4,7,9,Attention please!,How does the narrator depict the three lives and show his attitude towards them? How does the narrator show us his inner self?,10,Structure of the text,First life (Para. 1-2) Second life (Para. 3-5): “fourteen steps” Third life (Para. 6-10):,11,First life,What key words does the narrator use to describe the two phases of his first life? What details does the writer use to depict the first life? What happened to end his first life?,12,Second life,Was he overwhelmed by the disease? How did he manage to keep his health and optimism? What does the narrator reveal about himself in his second life? What do the fourteen steps represent then?,13,Beginning of his third life,When and Where? Who were involved? What happened (beginning, development, climax),14,Was there any hint to suggest something unusual about the man? How did the narrator feel when the man and the little girl were working in the storm? Why did the old man refuse to accept the payment? When did the narrator realize that the old man was blind?,15,Reflection and revelation,What words does the author use to show his attempt at reflection on himself? How did he feel when he learned that it was a blind man that helped him? What did he soon realize? How has the incident change his life?,16,Matthew: 7 (from The New Testament),7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye. 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.,17,7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 7:9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 7:10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.,18,Discussion,The title of the text, “Fourteen Steps,” is directly associated with the second part of the story, or the narrators second life, but the narrator actually focuses on his third life. To what extent is the “fourteen steps” relevant to the whole story (the narrators three lives)?,19,invalid,/invlid/ adj. not valid. E.g., 1）invalid excuses / claims / arguments / will 2）无效的合同/支票/结论 -invalidate, invalidation, invalidity /invlid/ adj. weak or disabled through illness or injury n. a person who is invalid v. make sb invalid,20,incline,His head inclined toward me. /He inclined his head in prayer. (slant, lean, or bend) Im inclined to believe you. (wanting to) Shes inclined to be very timid. (likely, having a tendency) Hes athletically inclined. (naturally skilled) inclination to sth / to do sth,21,care for, care about,Would you care for a drink? Do you care for pop songs? Who will care for the children when the parents are away? / The government must care for the families of soldiers killed in the war. Does the minister really care about education?,22,paralysis, paralyze, paralytic,paralysis: loss of feeling or power to move in any or every part of the body; (fig) state of utter powerlessness or helplessness paralyze: make unable to move or act,23,afflict,cause bodily or mental trouble to E.g., The old man was afflicted with blindness. afflicted at/by the news affliction: suffering, distress E.g., help people in affliction affliction of old age,24,thus,in this or that manner; in the way just stated or in the following manner E.g., Stated thus, the problem seems trivial. In her diary, her state of mind is simply recorded thus: “I am fed with everything.” to this or that degree or extent; so E.g., thus wise; thus bright according to this or that; consequently; therefore; hence: often used with