Electronic Teaching Portfolio Book Three

Unit Two: Love

Part I Get Started

Section A Discussion

▇ Sit in groups of threes or fours and discuss the following questions.

1) Do you think love and marriage are important matters in our life? Why or why not? 2) Dating and courtship is a common scene at college now. What do you think of it?

3) What do you think are the most important factors that contribute to a stable love relationship? Give your reasons.

▇ Answers for reference:

1) Yes. It is human nature to feel attraction and affection between different sexes. A life without love is often

regarded as imperfect. Those who are in love would long to stay together, and families resulting from love usually lay the foundation for a stable society.

2) It’s OK to start dating at college, because college students are already grown-ups in the legal sense. No

one has the right to interfere in such private matters. However, students’ top priority at college is to study and acquire knowledge and skills for their future careers. Dating and courtship will interfere with their studies. Therefore, some students tend to hold themselves back even if there are opportunities to start a romantic relationship.

3) Many factors may contribute to a stable love relationship. Wealth, social status, appearances, family

background, etc. may be considered as the external factors, which may help promote a love relationship. Wisdom, knowledge, character, personalities, etc. are the internal factors. Love based on external factors alone may not last long. Love based on the internal factors will survive whatever challenges or crises it may encounter. When two persons are in love, they should respect each other and be honest and faithful to each other. In essence, trust and understanding are the key factors that contribute to a successful love relationship.

Section B Quotes

▇Study the following quotes about love. Which quote(s) do you like best? Why?

⊙The course of true love never did run smooth.

—— William Shakespeare

Interpretation:

Shakespeare believes that a true relationship is not easy to establish. People have different personalities, concepts of value, preferences of life style, etc. When two persons of the opposite sex develop a love relationship, they have to try their best to understand each other and reconcile with each other.

William Shakespeare

About William Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare (1564-616): an English writer of plays and poems, who is generally regarded as the greatest of all English writers. His many famous plays include the tragedies Romeo and Juliet (《罗密欧与朱丽叶》), Hamlet (《哈姆雷特》), Julius Caesar (《裘力斯·凯撒》), Macbeth (《麦克白》), Othello (《奥

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瑟罗》), and King Lear (《李尔王》); the comedies A Midsummer Night’s Dream (《仲夏夜之梦》), Twelfth Night (《第十二夜》), and As You Like It（皆大欢喜》).

⊙To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

—— Bertrand Russell

Interpretation:

Here Russell emphasizes the importance of an active attitude towards love. We should not be afraid to fall in love just because it is not easy to find true love or just because of any possible setbacks. A life without love is as dull as a dying man because he lacks the energy and passion to enjoy life.

Bertrand Russell

About Bertrand Russell:

Bertrand Russell (1872-970): a British philosopher and mathematician who developed new ideas connecting mathematics and logic. He is also known for being a pacifist (和平主义者). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.

⊙Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl — no superior alternative has yet been found.

—— Sir Winston Churchill

Interpretation:

The quotation emphasizes that true love is the only basis upon which a happy family is built. Only when the man and the woman love each other dearly and devotedly can they endure trials and tribulations in their common effort to build up a happy family.

Sir Winston Churchill

About Sir Winston Churchill:

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-965): a British statesman, soldier, and author who was Prime Minister during most of World War II and again from 1951 to 1955. He is remembered and admired by most British people as a great leader who made possible Britain’s victory in the war. He is also famous for the many speeches he made during the war. In 1953 Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his writing and oratory (演讲术).

⊙It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

—— Mother Teresa

Interpretation:

The quotation tells us the significant role that love plays in everything we do in life. Whatever we do, we should put adequate love into it so that others can feel our love and be affected by our love. What we can offer to others may be insignificant, but as long as there is love in it, the benefit will be significant. Here, love is

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understood in a broad sense.

Mother Teresa

About Mother Teresa:

Mother Teresa (1910-997): an Albanian (阿尔巴尼亚) Roman Catholic nun (修女) who lived in India, where she worked to help the poor and the sick in the city of Calcutta (加尔各答). She won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979, and people think of her as a typical example of someone who is kind, unselfish, and morally good.

Section C Watching and Discussion

▇ He's Just Not That Into You is a 2009 romantic comedy film about how nine people in Baltimore deal with their romantic problems. Watch the following video clip extracted from this film and then complete the tasks that follow:

1. Pay attention to what the woman says in the video clip and fill in the missing words.

I. See, you can’t keep being nice to me and I can’t keep pretending like this is something that it’s not. We’ve been together over seven years. You know me. You know who I am. You either wanna marry me or you don’t.

II. …for every woman that has been told by some man that he doesn’t believe in marriage and then six months later, he’s married to some twenty-four-year-old that he met at the gym. III. It’s coming from the place that I have been hiding from you for about five years. About five years because I haven’t wanted to seem demanding, and I haven’t wanted to seem clingy or psycho or whatever. So I have never asked you.

2. What can you infer from the conversation between the man and the woman in the video clip? ▇Answers for reference: (Open.)

Script：

BETH：Now. I want you to stop doing anything nice. NEIL: This feels like a trick.

BETH: No. No. I just, I just need you to stop being nice to me — unless you’re gonna marry me after. (Neil laughs.)

BETH: Is that funny? Do you think that’s funny? NEIL: No. I guess it is not funny.

BETH: See, you can’t keep being nice to me and I can’t keep pretending like this is something that it’s not.

We’ve been together for over seven years. You know me. You know who I am. You either wanna marry me or you don’t.

NEIL: Or there is the possibility that I mean it when I say I don’t believe in marriage.

BETH: Bullshit! Bullshit! Come on! Bullshit for every woman that has been told by some man that he doesn’t

believe in marriage and then six months later, he’s married to some twenty-four-year-old that he met at the gym. It’s just — it’s Bullshit.

(Beth tries to hold back her tears. Neil looks stunned and goes to her.) NEIL: Where is this coming from?

BETH: It’s coming from the place that I have been hiding from you for about five years. About five years

because I haven’t wanted to seem demanding, and I haven’t wanted to seem clingy or psycho or

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whatever. So I have never asked you. But I — but I — I have to. I mean, are you — are you ever going to marry me?

Part II Listen and Respond

Section A Word Bank (无) Section B

Task One: Focusing on the Main Ideas

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions according to the information contained in the listening passage.

1) Where did the woman see the three old men?

A) In front of her store. B) In her front yard. C) In her dream. D) In her doorway.

2) Who were the three old men respectively?

A) Success, Hope and Wealth. B) Faith, Hope, and Love. C) Wealth, Faith and Success. D) Love, Success and Wealth. 3) Whom did the family invite in?

A) Wealth. B) Love. C) Success. D) All of the above.

4) How many of the old men would like to go into the house?

A) One. B) Two. C) Three. D) Four.

5) What is the main idea of the passage?

A) Where there is love, there is wealth and success. B) One cannot live without wealth, love and success. C) Love is as important as wealth and success.

D) Wealth and success are what people pursue most eagerly. ▇ Answers for Reference: 1) B 2) D 3) B 4) C 5) A

Section C Task Two: Zooming in on the Details

▇Listen to the recording again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard.

1) The woman thought that the three old men must be ____________, so she invited them to come in and have

something __________.

2) The old men said that they did not go into a house ________________.

3) The husband wished to invite ________________, but the woman did not agree and wished to have

_____________ , while their daughter suggested: “____________________________________?”

4) The woman came out and asked: “Which one of you is________? Please come in and be our________.” 5) The other two old men also got up and followed, which_________ the woman.

6) One old man told the woman: “If you had invited _________ or _________, the other two of us would

__________.”

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