1. Unit 5
Romance

2. What’s love?
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3. Is that …
Love affair
Big house
High degree
Fortune/money

4. Absolutely, NO!

5. However…
When people select their partners, they inevitably assess the candidates by certain criteria, such as …

6. Warm-up
What do you think is/are the most important quality/qualities that your ideal partner should have?

7. witty intelligent ambitious rich a good listener dependable/ reliable
good-looking
ambitious
rich
a good listener
dependable/ reliable

8. Do you think it wise to develop friendship or even love with a pen pal or a key pal? Why or why not?

9. Would you like to have a blind date?

10. Strange man and woman are introduced to meet for the first time
Blind Date
Strange man and woman are introduced to meet for the first time

11. Text organization

12. Text Orgnization Parts Paragraphs Main ideas Paras____ Part 1 Part 2
John Blanchard was expecting someone at Grand Central Station.
2--6
How John Blanchard had fallen in love with Miss Maynell.
7--15
Miss Maynell put Blanchard to a test.
16-17
It was wise of Miss Maynell to give such a test.

13. Part I
What do you think is the reason that John Blanchard came to the Grand Central Station?
Who do you think he was waiting for?
Why did he straighten his uniform?

14. Part II How had Blanchard and Miss Maynell come to know each other?
What had kept Blanchard from meeting her?
Why did Miss Maynell refuse to send Blanchard a photograph?
How would Blanchard recognize Miss
Maynell at their first meeting?

15. Part IV What did Miss Maynell want to find out through the test?
How do you understand Houssaye’s remark “tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are”?

16. Language Points

17. Performing and Guessing

18. stand up from one’s seat
straightened one’s clothes

19. start toward somebody
stand directly behind somebody

20. make one step closer to somebody
stand directly behind somebody

21. square one’s shoulders
hold out a book to somebody
grip a book

22. broaden into a smile

23. Figures of Speech
Simile and Metaphor

24. simile (明喻)
a comparison of one thing to another, using the words “like” or “as”.

25. He is as brave as a lion.
Life is like a box of chocolates.
Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream.

26. metaphor (暗喻)
a suggested/ implied but not stated comparison of one thing to another, but not expressed with the word “like” or “as”.

27. He has a heart of stone.
All the world is a stage, and all the men and women are merely players.
Her husband is a walking wallet that will pay for whatever she likes.

28. Examples in the text ♡ Her eyes were blue as flowers. (L35) (simile)
♡ Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. (L15) (metaphor)
other examples from the text?

29. Assignments