Unit 16 Someone Waiting Unit 16 Someone Waiting. Unit 16 Someone Waiting

Unit 16 Someone WaitingUnit 16 Someone Waiting

Unit 16Unit 16

Someone WaitingSomeone Waiting



• 1. Functions: Asking about & expressing impressions

• 2. Grammatical points: Predetermines/indefinite pronouns some, both, any, each, etc; everywhere, nowhere, etc.

• 3. Vocabulary: see…off, give…an embrace, out of place, look like, pick up, intense, capture, head (verb), delight

Teaching ObjectivesTeaching ObjectivesTeaching ObjectivesTeaching Objectives


Warming-up Activities

Warming-up Activities

Listening to a songListening to a song

Watching movies clipsWatching movies clips

ReadingActivitiesReadingActivities

Pre-reading TaskPre-reading Task

Group DiscussionGroup Discussion

While-reading TaskWhile-reading Task


Step 1 Listening and singingStep 1 Listening and singingStep 1 Listening and singingStep 1 Listening and singing

Task:Task: Listen to the song and answer the following question:

What feelings does the song want to express?

Task:Task: Listen to the song and answer the following question:

What feelings does the song want to express?

poignant sad


Questions:

1. What can you see in the first video?

2. What expressions can you see from their faces?

Step 2 Watch video clip 1Step 2 Watch video clip 1Step 2 Watch video clip 1Step 2 Watch video clip 1


• What expressions can you see from their faces?

anxiousanxiousanxiousanxiousnervousnervousnervousnervous upsetupsetupsetupset disappointeddisappointeddisappointeddisappointed


They are pacing, nervous, looking at one

another, touching and not touching


1. What can you see in the second video?

2. What expressions can you see from their faces?

Step 3 Watch video clip 2Step 3 Watch video clip 2Step 3 Watch video clip 2Step 3 Watch video clip 2


• What expressions can you see from their faces?

surprisedsurprised

unbelievableunbelievable pure delightpure delighthigh-pitchedhigh-pitched

unbelievableunbelievablesurprisedsurprised


dampendampenpowerful embracepowerful embrace


1. Her voice is high-pitched.

2. She wraps her arms around her son,

giving him a powerful embrace that

should protect him until he returns.

3. There are tears and smile, pure delight ringing

in the laughter of seeing someone who has been gone.

Step 4 Sentence PracticeStep 4 Sentence PracticeStep 4 Sentence PracticeStep 4 Sentence Practice


nervous upset happy Joyful delightful sad mixed feelings apprehensive

Step 5 Pre-reading TaskStep 5 Pre-reading TaskStep 5 Pre-reading TaskStep 5 Pre-reading Task

Q1: Did anyone see you off when you left for college?

Q2: How were you feeling then?

Q3: Which of the following words apply for your case?


• Topics for discussing• 1. Talk about your experience of seeing a friend

off or how you felt when your friends and your parents see you off?

• 2. How would you feel when you, after a long journey, see somebody waiting for you at the railway station?

• 3. Talk about one of your unforgettable experience about the above topic.

Step 6 Group DiscussionStep 6 Group DiscussionStep 6 Group DiscussionStep 6 Group Discussion


Task: one volunteer from each group will show his/her opinions about the topics.

Step 7 Group PresentationStep 7 Group PresentationStep 7 Group PresentationStep 7 Group Presentation


soften widen fasten lighten

harden

1. Read paragraphs 1-4 and answer: what did the narrator observe when sitting at an airport waiting for her turn to leave?

A woman …

A grandmother and grandson …Two ladies …A mother …At Gate 13, the arrivals …

(run in circles/high-pitched/wrap her arms/ give him a powerful embrace/protect)

(suppose/pick up)

(unrelated/look up and down/scan)(dampen)

(poignant/fold into/ingredient)

-en: a suffix normally used to form a transitiveverb from an adjective. It can also be used to form adjectives from nouns; e.g., golden.

Step 8 While-reading TaskStep 8 While-reading TaskStep 8 While-reading TaskStep 8 While-reading Task


2. Read paragraphs 5-10, and answer:

1) Who are really seeing her off and waiting for her at the moment she is leaving?

The narrator thinks that her husband at work is wondering if she has left, and her daughter is wondering about the same thing at the other end. They are really seeing her off and waiting for her.


2) What conclusion does she draw from her observation? And what are her wishes?

She concludes that life needs to be this important all the time. She wishes all the people who go on a journey could come back to find someone waiting for them, and wishes they could leave with someone to see them off. If dying is like this, a passage, then she isn’t afraid any more.


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