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lonely
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1. Pre-reading 2. While-reading 3. After-reading
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1.When you are alone, will you feel lonely? 2. What kind of person do you think prefer being alone?
Feeling Words
delighted free
Positive Feelings
carefree /lighthearted
1. Pre-reading 2. While-reading 3. After-reading Preview Nowadays, more and more people are living alone, either choosing to live that way or having to. While some claim that living alone gives them creative inspirations and the sense of independence, many suffer from loneliness.
listen, view and speak Watch the video and tell others what it is mainly about.
The first communication of roommates between a British girl and a Chinese girl.
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Questions for Roommate Agreements
• What time do you go to bed? • What time do you usually wake up? • Can lights be on when someone is sleeping? Which lights (bathroom\desk\main)? • Are there going to be study hours? What time? • Can I have guests in the room during study hours? • How will you share the common space of the room (living room, bedroom and main room)? • Will you purchase items for the room together? How will you share these items? • Can we have overnight guests? How often? • Can overnight guests sleep in another roommate’s bed if that roommate is out for the night? Does it need prior permissions ? • What should be done when someone continuously violates tenets of the contract? • Who should be involved in making that decision? Who should be informed?
"If you live with other people, their temporary absence can be refreshing. Solitude will end on Thursday. If today I use a singular personal pronoun to refer to myself, next week I will use the plural form. While the others are absent you can stretch out your soul until it fills up the whole room, and use your freedom, coming and going as you please without apology, staying up late to read, soaking in the bath, eating a whole pint of ice cream at one sitting, moving at your own pace. Those absent will be back. Their waterproof winter coats are in the closet and the dog keeps watching for them at the window. But when you live alone, the temporary absence of your friends and acquaintances leaves a vacuum; they may never come back." If you live with感到耳目一新 they leave just for a放飞自己的灵魂 feel other short time, you will ..感到 people, and 使..感到耳 good staying alone for a while. Because this is a new and pleasant experience for 填满整个房间 随意来去而 you. You can relax yourself; you feel carefree and lighthearted. But if you live 熬夜读书 大泡浴缸 alone, all by yourself, you may want to be with your friends and acquaintances 一口气 按自己的节奏行动 very often, and if they leave even for a short time, you will feel empty. 密切留意 使你感到空虚
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Read Part One carefully, and answer the following question: Why are so many Americans live alone? divorced, widowed, never yet committed Choose to Be Alone on Purpose Para. 1 Here we are, all by ourselves, all 22 million of us by recent count, alone in our rooms, some of us liking it that way and some of us not. Some of us divorced, some widowed, some never yet committed.
Read the text and complete its outline
Part One (Para.1) Living alone ______________ is a common social phenomenon in U.S.A. Part two (Para.2) People think of living alone as _____________________ a national disease/ a sin/ ____________________or _____________. something embarrassing a characteristic ofAmerican heroes Part Three (Paras.3~10) philosophers _____ and ______________ prefer living alone for inspiration. Poets Part Four (Paras.11~13) The life of the solitary people and their need to ______. talk Part Five (Paras.14~16) The author advises people to stay ________, settle down and rational _________ make themselves ___________. comfortable
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listen, view and speak 妞妞《长翅膀的绵羊》 妞妞《长翅膀的绵羊》 时差七小时》 《时差七小时》(Life Translated) 1. What do you think of the British girl in movie clip ? 2. Do you remember the first roommate(s) you met?
从未结婚
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Read Part Two carefully, and answer the following question: Hanry and David both live a solitary life. Para. 2 Loneliness away a sort of national disease here, and Hanry's wife passedmay befive months ago; his two children live it’s work in different for us This 68-year-old other sin. with and more embarrassing cities. to admit than any man lives On the17 parrots and 3to be who make his roomhaving rejected company other hand, cats, alone on purpose, a crazy mess. rather than been cast out by it, is one characteristic of an David, 27, The solitary hunter or explorer needs no girlfriend American hero. is young, attractive and urban. He hasno one as because he believes marriage deer and wolves to sense to a greatwho they venture out among the doesn't make much tame the man spends his incomes not on mortgages and diapers but on electronic wild areas. Thoreau, alone in his cabin on the pond, his back entertainment, clothes, and exciting cars. deliberately turned to the town. Now, that’s character for you. Would the Americans make the same remarks on the two men?
