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Unit
Seven THE SAMPLER
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主讲： 鲍琳虹 Period 1 Introduction & New Words Period 2 Understangding of the Text Period 3 Analysis of the Text Period 4 Follow-up Exercises Period 5 Listening Practice Period 6 Reading Activity & Writing |
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| ( Hello, everyone. Today
we will start to learn Unit Seven The Sampler. In the first period,
we will make introductory remarks on the background information to
help you get familiar with the major content of the text. Then we
will learn the new words related to the text. Finally we will have
some assignments about the vocabulary exercises so that you can consolidate
what you have learned in class. Before studying the text, we have a question for you. Have you ever been in an awkward situation where you offer to help a person, but you are refused firmly? Maybe yes. Actually the author of The Sampler just tells us such a kind of story. Now let's start the text, and get more details about the story. ) 
In the western countries Christmas is such an important festival
that people begin shopping many days before Christmas. And of course
stores will never miss the chance to make profits, and they try every
means to promote sales including discount and free sampling. Among
those samplers, some may have no intention of making any purchase，but
simply take advantage of free sampling. Though the elderly gentleman
in the text seems among this sort of samplers, he does it unintentionally
and unconsciously. The elderly gentleman may have seen better days before retirement, but now he can’t afford his favorite puddings. He comes to the store to sample puddings in memory of his past. At the same time it’s in the stores that he may find company and forget his loneliness temporarily. After retirement, Westerners generally live on pensions or social securities, so quite a lot of old people are plunged into problems such as inadequate income. As far as their spiritual lives are concerned, many old people consider themselves to be no longer valuable to society; they don’t really enjoy their lives. These problems related to the old become common social phenomena, and the text here merely presents one aspect of the elderly in the West. |
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