Unit 13 People Lesson 4 First Impressions

Pre-reading Do you trust the first impression? Why? What is your first impression on your best friends? Have you ever met someone you didn’t like, who later became your friend?

First Reading F T 1. True or false? When I heard someone singing, I became happy. ( ) I thought the girl singing selfishly. ( ) F …annoyed … upset … I turned around and glared at the person who was singing. T

F F 3. I threw my textbook at the girl because of anger. ( ) 4. I didn’t return to get my book because I was too tired and upset. ( ) F I picked up my books, glared at her and whispered angrily, “ Thanks to your noise … selfish”. F … as the library was closed.

F T 5. Jenny brought the book to my home and we had a good time. ( ) ( ) 6. Jenny is friendly and humourous. ( ) F …I invited her back to my apartment for a quick cup of tea. T

B Where did the writer first meet her best friend? 2. Choose the best answers. Where did the writer first meet her best friend? A. In the school library. B. In the local library. C. At the convenience store. D. At the writer’s apartment. B

D 2) What was the writer’s first impression on her best friend? A. She was a lovely, friendly and outgoing girl. B. She was hard-working and good at singing. C. She liked reading and was a literary type. D. She overreacted in the library and was very selfish. D

C 3) Put the following in the right order. The writer met Jenny at a convenience store. The writer left her textbook behind in the library. The writer went to the library to do some revision for an exam. The writer invited Jenny to her apartment for a cup of tea. A. ①②③④ B. ③④②① C. ③②①④ D. ①④②③ C

Second Reading 1. Answer the questions. 1) Where does the story take place? In the local library. 2) What kind of books does Jenny like? Poetry / Poems. 3) What exam was Jane studying for? An important oral exam. 4) What was the last straw for Jane? She heard someone singing behind her.

5) What kind of person do you think Jenny is? Friendly, warm-hearted, forgiving. 6) How did Jenny get Jane’s phone number? She asked a librarian and got it from the library files. 7) Do you think that Jane overreacted in the library? Have you ever experienced a similar situation when you were studying?

2. Use the reading strategies and underline important words in the sentences below. Example 1 = pleased, singing Jane was pleased when Jenny started singing. 2) Tennyson must be a famous poet.

3) Jane first saw Jenny near “English literature” section. 4) Jane was upset that she had left her book in the library. 5) Jane didn’t feel that it was necessary to apologise.

F T 3. Find the relevant parts of the text and identify important words. Then decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F). Example 1 = pleased, singing Jane was pleased when Jenny started singing. 2) Tennyson must be a famous poet. F T

3) Jane first saw Jenny near “English literature” section. 4) Jane was upset that she had left her book in the library. 5) Jane didn’t feel that it was necessary to apologise. T T F

4. Find words from the text to replace the expressions in italics. I looked angrily at the person who was singing. I was full of worry the first time I met my best friend. I sighed with relief and felt I would like to thank her for it. 4)I couldn’t stop laughing at this. 5)After making sure that I was, Jenny said that she had noticed … glare at anxiety was so grateful to her couldn’t help confirming

glanced at librarian files guilty rude behaviour revision oral 6) … she was very interested in what she was reading. I quickly looked at the book’s cover. 7) She’d asked a person who works in a library to get my phone number from their place where they keep information. 8) I felt so bad about behaving rudely. 9) … who was willing to forgive my bad things. 10) I was trying to do some studying for an important spoken exam. glanced at librarian files guilty rude behaviour revision oral

5. Complete the paragraph with the correct form of the following words. glance, annoy, recognise, concentrate, disturb, whisper, glare, selfish, grateful Janet was 1)____________ on writing an essay when a noise 2)__________ her. She 3)__________her brother’s whistling. “Shh,” she 4)__________, 5)__________at him quickly. concentrating disturbed recognised whispered glancing

The noise didn’t stop. Janet 6)__________ at him angrily The noise didn’t stop. Janet 6)__________ at him angrily. “Please stop it, Simon. You are being very 7)__________ ,” she said. But still he didn’t stop. Janet was now very 8)__________. Just then her father called Simon out of the room. Janet smiled, feeling 9)__________ to her dad. glared selfish annoyed grateful

Paraphrase The fact that she looked like a sensitive, friendly girl didn’t matter. If anything, it made me even angrier. = It didn’t have an effect on me that she looked like a sensitive friendly girl. If there was something different, it made me even angrier. 虽然她看上去是一个敏感、友善的女孩子，但这并没有用，反而令我更加恼火。

直到两个小时后我回到家时才发现，可是已经无济于事了，因为图书馆已经关门了。 2. It was only when I got home two hours later that I realized I’d forgotten it and there was nothing I could do as the library was closed. = When I got home two hours later, I knew I’d forgotten it and I couldn’t do anything as the library was closed. 直到两个小时后我回到家时才发现，可是已经无济于事了，因为图书馆已经关门了。

Summary Fill in the blanks with information from the text. Para.1- Para. 3: Jane’s first __________ on Jenny. Jane was ___________ on getting preparation for an important exam when a girl was singing loudly, which made her very _______ and think the girl very rude and ________. impression concentrating annoyed selfish

Para. 4 - Para. 6: Jenny’s _______ and ___________. Jane left her important ________behind. Not only did Jenny ______ her bring it round, but she ________ Jane’s rude behavior. Para. 7: The true _________ between the writer and Jenny. They’re very much ______, ______ and ______ everything to each other. help forgiveness textbook help forgave friendship alike trust tell

Post Reading Have you ever experienced a similar situation? 2. Do you believe “fall in love at first sight?”

Language Points 1. I was getting more and more annoyed and of course, the more upset I got, the less I was able to concentrate. 我越来越烦躁，当然了，我越不高兴，就越难集中精力。 more and more 越来越……。如： He became more and more interested in playing tennis. 他越来越喜欢打网球。 E-commerce has become more and more popular. 电子商务越来普及。

2. I turned around and glared at the person who was singing. 我转身怒视着那个哼唱的人。 glare at 怒视。如: The fighting men were glaring at each other. 两个打斗的男人愤怒地对视着。 The angry father glared at his son. 愤怒的父亲瞪着儿子。

3. The fact that she looked like a sensitive, friendly girl didn’t matter. If anything, it made me even angrier. 虽然她看上去是一个敏感、友善的女孩子，但这并没有用，反而令我更加恼火。 1）句中that 所引导的是一个同位语从 句。 紧跟在名词之后并说明该名词是指何人何物的词语称为同位语。

句中的the father of one of my co-workers, 是Mr. Wang 的同位语。 Mr. Wang, the father of one of my co-workers, is 94 years old and is still healthy. 王先生，我同事的父亲，今年94岁了还很健康。 句中的the father of one of my co-workers, 是Mr. Wang 的同位语。 注：同位语从句与定语从句在结构上很相似，但同位语从句是用来解释先行词，表示其内容的；而定语从句则是用来修饰先行词，说明其性质和特征的。

I made a promise that if anyone set me free I would make him very rich. 我许下一个诺言：谁能还我自由，我就使他很富有。 （同位语从句） The mother made a promise that pleased all her children. 母亲许了一个使孩子们全都非常高兴的诺言。 （定语从句）

2）if anything 如果有什么不同的话。如： If anything, my new job is harder than my old one. 如果有什么不同的话，我的新工作比原先的工作更累了。 No, it isn’t better; it’s worse if anything. 没有好起来，如果有什么不同的话，那就是更糟糕了。

4．If Jenny hadn’t been a kind person who was willing to forgive my shortcomings, I would never have experienced such true friendship. 珍妮要不是如此体贴，如此宽容，我就永远不会享受到如此真挚的友谊。 本句中使用了虚拟语气。虚拟语气表示的事情并非事实，因此需要使用与陈述语气不同的动词形式。在表示现在或未来的虚拟条件句中，谓语形式如下（斜体部分）：

1)表示现在或未来的虚拟形式。如： If I were you, I would teach him a good lesson. 我若是你，我就要好好教训他一顿。 （我不可能是你。） 2)表示过去的虚拟形式。如： If the weather had been nice yesterday, we would have gone for the picnic. 如果昨天天气好的话，我们就去野餐了。 （事实是昨天天气很坏。）

Homework 1. Complete Exercise 6 on page 15. 2. Writing and speaking 1) Make notes about the first time you met someone. who/when/where you met

Xiaoming (my new neighbour), last month, in the street What he/she was doing picking up a button that had come off his shirt what he/she said or did asked about my family/showed me his pet parrot in its cage what he/she seemed like cheerful, a bit shy

2) Prepare to tell others about Xiaoming. Example: I met my new neighbour, Xiaoming for the first time last month in the street. He was…

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