1. Never Say Goodbye

2. Pre-reading question
Have you family ever moved from one place to another? If you have, how did you feel when you were going to be away from the old house for good?
Where are you from? How did you feel when you had to leave your friends and family for university?

3. Text Analysis
Part I (para1-4) The problem the author was confronted with.
Part II (para5-13)Grandpa illustrates the meaning of “never say goodbye”.
Part III (para14-20)The author’s understanding of “never say goodbye”.

4. Part One: (Paragraphs 1-4)
Main idea:
bringing up the problem the author was confronted with: it is hard to overcome the sadness as the moment of parting drew near. So he turned to his grandpa for help.

5. Para one
Why was the author seized with the anguish of moving from his home?

6. Language points confront Anguish brief as it was gracefully
Be touched with

7. Paragraph 2-4
Why did his grandfather advise him not to use the word “goodbye” to friends?

8. Language points
haven
porch
shudder
well
Have one thing in common

9. Part Two: (Paragraphs 5-13)
By narrating his sad experience of the loss of his eldest son during the war, grandpa illustrates how one can overcome the sad feeling resulting from the loss of someone dear to him by recalling not the moment of parting but the happy times spent together.

10. Questions
Why did the author’s grandfather take him to see the rosebush in the front yard?

11. How to comprehend the last sentence of Para 9?
It is not only the roses that are beautiful, Billy. Also, it is that special feeling you deeply cherish that makes them beautiful.

12. Language Points
Look into
hand in hand
conspicuously
It isn’t … that…

13. Para 10-13: The telling of the story related to the rosebush
Para 10-13: The telling of the story related to the rosebush. The message of the text is conveyed in Para. 13

14. Language Points
Hoarse
Evil
Tiny
Give in to
part

15. Para 14-20
These tell us about the illness of grandfather, about how the author bid farewell to his grandfather and how he responded to grandpa’s death.
Why did grandfather want his bed to be next to the window?