Teaching Plan for Unit 5 Course：College EnglishUnit 5 Weeping for My Smoking DaughterI. Warm-up Activity1. Topic Discussioni. Student’s Discussion1) What are the effects of smoking?―Smoking can lead to heart disease, lung cancer and bronchitis, and variouschances of stillbirth, neonatal death, prematurity and low birth weight. Thedecrease in life expectancy is certain.2) Who suffers more from smoking? Nonsmokers or the smokers themselves?―In fact, nonsmokers who must involuntarily breathe the air polluted bytobacco smoke may suffer more than the smokers themselves.ii. Teacher’s SummarySmoking, which may be a pleasure for some people, is a serious discomfort for their fellows. In fact, smoking does great harm to both nonsmokers and the smokers themselves. We should join in an effort to persuade smokers to give up smoking, and call on the smokers to use good judgment and show concern for others rather than by regulation. “No smoking at home”“No smoking on the campus.”2. Questions on the Topic and the Passage1) Was the write r’s daughter absorbed in doing her homework?―No. she puts her feet on the bench in front of her and clicks out answers toher geometry problems with her calculation while doing her homework.2) Why did the writer harden herself against feeling so bad when her daughtersmoked Marlboros and Players?―The writer knew ever smoked these brands so that she was not greatly hurt atthe sight of them.3) Why does the writer call pneumonia “the poor man’s friend”?―Because the poor are more likely to be infected because of shortage of moneyand lack of medicine.4)Did the writer’s father finally quit smoking? Why?―Yes, because he had no more lungs.5)Did the writer’s father look as fashionable as Prince Albert when he wassmoking?―No, he never looks as fashionable as Prince Albert but hopelessly hooked bycigarettes.II. Background Information1. Camel, Marlboro and Players are some of the well-known cigarette brands made in the US. Camel is a brand of cigarettes introduced by R.J.Reynolds Tobacco() in 1913.Both Marlboro and Players are brand names of cigarettes manufactured by Philips Morris(). The company’s website provides an overview of the company, its products and itsmarketing policies, and discusses various tobacco issues such as health, youth smoking and environment.2. Prince Albert (1819–1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Thisis also the name of a kind of British tobacco. See /history/victoria.htm and /queen.html for brief introductions to Prince Albert and the website at /1998/112998/col.smith.html for a delightful news story that uses humor to tell the story of Prince Albert tobacco.3.Georgia is a state in the southeastern U.S., surrounded by Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina, and the Atlantic Ocean. Explore the web site at /georgia/info.htm and you will find that this informative site includes a map as well a good overview of the physical geography, plants and animals, people, culture, history, economy, and politics of the state of Georgia. The web site at / is a more colorful presentation of Georgia as a jewel of tourism, economic development, international trade and film making.4.Hollywood is the center of the U.S. movie industry. In terms of geography, Hollywood refers to an area consisting of the City of West Hollywood and its vicinity that form part of the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. You can take a look at/Studios/index.shtml for an interesting guide and virtualtour of Hollywood movie studios. Visitor information about the Greater Los Angeles area can be found, for example, at .5.The Third World refers to the technologically less advanced or developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Please refer to the web page at/articles/12812.html for a brief definition of the term “third world country”, the origin of the term, and links to historical information about the emergence of the Third World as a theoretical alliance and its place in the United Nations.6.A battered women’s shelter is a safe place for women and children to escape fromviolent relationships. An example can be found atIII. Text Structure AnalysisThe passage is a first person narrative about the writer’s responses toward the problem of her daughter’s smoking. The writer tries to show how smoking is harmful to her own father and to the people in poor countries as examples to support her feelings against her daughter’s smoking. And then she concludes that every home should be a no-smoking zone.The passage can be roughly divided into her parts.Part One (Para 1)It tells us that the writer’s daughter smokes.Part one is the first paragraph. The writer feels terrible about it and she wants to weep as smoking could cause her daughter’s death.Part Two (Paras. 2-6)It is mainly about the writer’s father’s experience. It presents the reasons and the effects of his smoking.Part Two consists of five paragraphs, from Paragraph 2 to Paragraph 6. Paragraph 2 is about the fact that the writer’s father, her daughter’s grandfather, smoked. Paragraph 3 is about the reason why her father smoked. The tobacco industry, coupled with Hollywood movies in which both male and female heroes smoked like chimneys, completely won over people like her father, who were hopelessly hooked by cigarettes. Paragraph 4 and 5 are about the results of smoking. Her father started to cough. When she was sixteen, his breath was a wheeze and he could not climb stairs without stopping every third of fourth step. And it was usual for him to cough for an hour. Her father died from pneumonia one winter as a result of long-time smoking. In Paragraph 6 the writer turns her attention to the Third World countries. The large advertisement signs attract people in poor countries, and the money for food goes to tobacco companies. As a consequence, people starve themselves of both food and air, effectively weakening and hooking their children, eventually killing themselves.Part Three (Paras. 7-8)Part Three is just based on the specific examples about the harmful results of smoking. This part is made up of two paragraphs. Paragraph 7 puts forward the writer’s point of view about her daughter’s smoking as a response to Paragraph 1: She is strongly againsther daughter’s smoking. According to what she says, she feels bad about bringing up her daughter to have her struggle to breathe through most of her life feeling half strength, and then die of self-poisoning, as her grandfather did. Paragraph 8, as the last paragraphof the passage, argues for every home being a no-smoking zone. Smoking has killed her father, is killing her daughter and is also killing other smokers and those who have to sit by.IV.Structured WritingA Paragraph of a Cause and EffectThe writer of the text presents us with a horrible picture of the harmful effects of smoking. And the harmful effects are described as a result of the cause—smoking. This is an example of cause-and-effect writing, which makes clear the reasons why something happens by showing the relationship between a cause and its effect. A typical cause-and-effect relationship is often brought out by words like because, as a result, consequently, etc. Look at Paragraph 6. In paragraph 6 we have the word eventually which indicates the final results of something. In paragraph 6, the writer presents us with an effective advertisement about a confident or fashionable older man and a beautiful, “worldly”young woman, both of them smoking leisurely. Because of the powerful advertisement, the effects are money going to tobacco companies, people starving for food and air and becoming increasingly weakened, and eventually, poisonous smoking kills people..(Turn to P. 115 and do Exercise XIII. Now fill in the same kind of chart for Paragraph 4, identifying the cause-and-effect relationship)V. Detailed Studies of the TextWords & Phrases Study1.weep:vt. 1).cry 哭泣，weep for\over someone or somethingThe hostages wept for joy on their release. 人质获释时喜极而泣。
新视野大学英语（第2版）第4册课后习题参考答案Unit 5 Section AComprehension o f the textI.1. Because 22 million people live alone, which suggests that it is an overwhelming phenomenon in the United States.2. Because they can find inspiration in solitude.3. The more positive one is toward oneself, the less the need for staying with others.4. It depends. If they live with their friends, the friends' temporary leaving will be received as a welcome change. However, if they live alone, the temporary absence of friends may leave them with a feeling of emptiness.5. Because the need to talk is the most basic need of a solitary person.6. They may call friends to tell them important things, or talk to themselves, their pets, the television, or even to strangers.7. To stay rational, settle down in a comfortable way and find pleasure from the current life, wait for anything happy that may happen.8. The writer thinks that as ordinary people's solitary life differs from that of great minds (like poets and philosophers), they should cherish the thought that "since we are here, we may as well accept it and make the best of it".VocabularyIII.1. humble2. slippery3. tame4. inspiration5. crept6. apology7. observation8. dictate9. inadequate 10. solitaryIV1. cast out2. all by himself3. stay up late4. was fond of5. at one sitting6. filled up with7. speaks highly of8. set forth9. at length 10. for the time beingV.1.K2.H3.M4.B5.A6.O7.J8.D9.F 10.ICollocationVI.1. efficiency2. status3. performance4. standard5. coordination6. sense7. career8. quality9. supply 10. accuracyWord BuildingVII.1. underestimated2. underpaid3. overslept4. Underdeveloped5. overestimated6. overcharged7. underweight8. overloadedVIII.1. simplified2. electrician3. recovery4. childlike5. autobiography6. underline7. terrorist8. overreactSentence StructureIX.1. The distance between them is not so great as to be unbridgeable.2. The unity of the masses with the party is never so strong as it is now.3. The punishment was harsh because Maggie would lose her position, but it was not so bad as losing her pay.4. I've heard the terrible noise once or twice before, but never so loud as this one.5. Men are never so peaceful, so graceful with each other as they are now.X.1. You might as well go there to see whether there is the information you need.2. We might as well call it freedom.3. You might as well ring and tell them you're going to visit them.4. We might as well walk home.5. We might as well find an easier one to read.TranslationXI.1. This little man is not so innocent as he appears.2. There's nothing I can do about the problem, so you might as well turn to Professor Wang for help.3. Both sides speak highly of the fruits in their cooperation in different areas, and hope that the cooperation can be furthered.4. On the one hand, an image of being close to the people can get a new policy more easily accepted. On the other hand, it will "encourage people to speak their minds and come up with constructive suggestions".5. His sense of loneliness rose and fell and he sometimes would talk at length to himself and his pets and the television.6. After all, money is not everything. The richest people are not necessarily the happiest.XII1.新的机制并不像他们预期的那样有效，因为数月过去了，但管理效率并没有明显改进。
