New Horizon College English,Unit 6 : Section A,The Widow,Part IV: Topic-related Further Learning,Part III: Exercises,Part I: Pre-reading Activities,Warm-up Exercises Background Information,Vocabulary,Part II: Text Learning,Text Analysis: A: Main Ideas,Language Points,Some Recommended Books, Passages and Websites.,B: Devices of Developing the Text,Structure,Translation,Essay Summary,Text Structure Analysis,Structured Writing,Pre-reading,A woman alone writes some painful lines in a notebook. To understand why the lines are painful, we go back in time to a strange event that happened on her wedding day. A strange woman gave the couple a message about their marriage. Every year, the husband and wife discussed their unique wedding guest. The wife thought she had come from heaven; the husband thought she had the wrong shape for someone from heaven. (to be continued),上一页,下一页,Pre-reading Activities,One night, he wrote his wife a note. He wrote that it did not matter where their guest had come from. What mattered was that the word gift she had given them was true. Now that her husband has died, the woman finds the painful lines in the book remind her of him.,下一页,上一页,Pre-reading Activities,Questions Why is the woman in the story in pain?,Because her husband has died, the woman finds the painful lines in the book remind her of him.,下一页,上一页,Elizabeth Jolly,Elizabeth Jolly is a famous Australian fiction writer. Born in England in 1923, Jolly moved to Australia in 1959 with her husband and three children. She had trained as a nurse in England and nursed there and in Australia before starting her writing career in 1964. Her body of work includes 26 books: short stories, radio plays, collections and 12 novels in print since 1980. Jolly has won many writing awards, two of them for Cabin Fever, her tenth fiction book. She is known for her peculiar people in funny situations.,下一页,上一页,Cabin Fever,“Cabin Fever” continues the events of her previous book, “My Fathers Moon”, but different voice and 40 years later. The story is presented in bits and pieces as a successful woman psychologist recalls her war experiences and postwar hard times. The book is not a complete story but only certain memories that help the woman make sense of all the pain, trouble, loss and sad times in her life. The book describes the culture of the late 1940s.,下一页,上一页,Main Idea,Part I Para.1 Para. 2 Part II Para. 3 Para. 15 Part III Para.16 Para. 19,上一页,下一页,Main Idea,Main Idea of Part I The quotation of the widow stored in a notebook reminds her of the painful memory of losing her husband.,上一页,下一页,Main Idea,Main Idea of Part II The Widows mind slipped back to her wedding ceremony at which she and her husband received a strange word gift which had a magic power.,下一页,Main Idea,Main Idea of Part III The message her husband left her showed that their aunts prophecy had come true - they work hard and love each other and that was why the widow stored the painful quotation.,上一页,下一页,Devices of Developing the Text,Part I Quotation From Elizabeth Jollys “Cabin Fever”,上一页,下一页,Devices of Developing the Text,Part II Flashback Start with the widows wedding ceremony,上一页,下一页,Devices of Developing the Text,Part III Flashback Back gradually to the painful quotation,上一页,下一页,Reading Comprehension Answer the following questions.,1. In the first paragraph which word tells you that the husband has died?,Widow.,上一页,下一页,2. Why is the quotation from Elizabeth Jolly so painful for the widow?,Because it is the exact description of her real feelings at the moment.,上一页,下一页,She was short-sighted and could not see things clearly without glasses.,1 3. What does the last sentence of the third paragraph suggest about the woman?,上一页,下一页,We know that their colleagues and old schoolmates were happy about the marriage, but their relatives and mothers were “crying” or “offering pity” or “would have insisted they wanted only the best for their children.”,4. From the paragraph 4 what do we know that attitudes of the couples colleges, old schoolmates, relatives and even their mothers towards their marriage?,上一页,下一页,He means the couples life together was very happy because whenever they could, the couple helped each other and showed concern for each other.,5. What does the writer mean by saying “both acted to fill their needs as time and opportunity allowed” (Paragraph 13)?,上一页,下一页,Worn, fading, kept for so long.,1. 6. What words in Paragraph 17 tell us that the husband wrote the message many years ago?,上一页,下一页,No, he was still in doubt bout Aunt Esthers identity. This is shown by the phrase in his message, “whether she came from heaven or a nearby town”.,7. Did the husband finally agree with the wife that Aunt Esther Gubbins was on some heavenly mission? Why?,上一页,下一页,8. In what sense was Aunt Esther Gubbins right?,So long as the wife and husband work hard and love each other, they will live a good life and be happy.,上一页,