1. Unit 5 Romance

2. What’s love? ？？？？

3. Is that … Fortune/money High degree Big house Love affair

4. Absolutely, NO!

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

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

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

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

11. Text organization

12. PartsParagraphsMain ideas Part 1 Paras____ Part 2 Paras____ Part 3 Paras____ Part 4 Paras____ 1 2--6 7--15 John Blanchard was expecting someone at Grand Central Station. How John Blanchard had fallen in love with Miss Maynell. Miss Maynell put Blanchard to a test. 16-17 It was wise of Miss Maynell to give such a test.

13. 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? Part I

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. 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”? Part IV

16. Language Points

17. make one’s way (to/towards): go Early in the morning the hunter made his way into the woods.

18. reflect: be a sign of, show Does this letter reflect how you really think? 这封信是否表达了你真实的想法？ Her work reflects intelligence. 她的工作显示出她的智慧。

19. reflect on: to form or express carefully considered thoughts about He reflects on his country's place in history.

20. locate: find the exact position of locate Albany on the map We located the shops and the post office as soon as we moved into the town.

21. bud: to develop or grow from or as if from a bud Trees are budding to welcome the spring season.

22. haunt: to come to mind continually; obsess: a riddle that haunted me all morning The murderer was constantly haunted by the face of the man he killed.

23. take a chance (on sth.): attempt to do sth. in spite of the possibility of failure; take a risk You take a chance on the weather if you spend your holiday in the UK.

24. We can’t take a chance. We must be 100% sure. I haven’t booked a ticket. I’m taking a chance on the theater not being full.

25. disgust: cause a strong and often sick feeling of dislike The bad fish had a disgusting smell. We're all disgusted at the way her husband has treated her.

26. schedule: 1) arrange for sth. to happen or to be done at a particular time (usu. used in the following patterns: be scheduled to do sth., be scheduled for sth.) Chinese astronauts are scheduled to travel to outer space in the next few years. A fireworks display is scheduled for New Year’s Eve.

27. 2) a list or statement of things to be done, dealt with, etc. The school’s schedule is made up of 12 weeks of classroom instruction and 12 weeks of paid work experience.

28. go one’s way: go in sb.’s direction I’m going your way. May I give you a ride? I wasn’t sure whether he was going my way or not, so I decided to go home by myself.

29. more than a little: very To be frank with you, he is more than a little stupid.

30. If you tell your father what you’ve done, he’ll be more than a little angry. Cf. not a little: much, a lot of It has given me not a little anxiety.

31. identify: recognize or say who or what sb. or sth. is Dead bodies in the plane crash were identified by dental records. The visiting scholar spoke English with such a perfect accent that it was hard to identify his origin.

32. Under such conditions, we can identify body A with body B. identify (oneself) with sb./sth. identity card (abbr. ID card)

33. Figures of Speech

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

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

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

37. 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.

38. 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?

39. The End