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Unit 10,Being Honest and Open,Questions & AnswersWatch & Discuss,Pre-reading Activities,How to apply to our real life the typical expressions and patterns taken from the text,Expressions & Patterns,Main idea and devices for developing it,Text Analysis,Detailed study of the text,Language points,Tips for Para. Writing,Paragraph Writing,Listening and discussion,Listen to the news report, and try to grasp the main idea of the passage.,听力原文:,Parents are a childs first teachers. But some parents never learned from good examples. In New York City, a nonprofit agency called Covenant House tries to help homeless young mothers become good parents.(SOUND)The twelve or so teenagers who live at the shelter attend parenting classes four days a week. The class is called Mommy and Me.Teacher Delores Clemens is a mother of five and a grandmother. She teaches basic skills, like how to give a baby a bath and how to dress a baby depending on the season.She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby. The mother said that would only make the child needy and overly demanding.,DELORES CLEMENS: I said Thats not true. You have to hold your baby! He is crying for a reason. If you never pick him up, hes going to keep crying. Pick your baby up. Cuddle your baby. Hug him! And she started to doing that. They just want a little cuddling and a little love. And it works! LaughsDelores Clemens says her students also learn how to be good mothers by letting themselves be mothered.DELORES CLEMENS: Im doing something for them that never has been done for them before.Around three hundred fifty teenage mothers graduate from Covenant Houses Mommy and Me class every year.In class on this day, with her baby son, is Natasha. She lived on the streets. She is glad not only for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House. As she told reporter Adam Phillips, she is also glad for the help they offer in seeking a more secure life.,NATASHA: They help you do your resume, your cover letter and everything you need for a job interview, and they help you find a job whatever youre interested in.REPORTER: Did you go to high school?NATASHA: Yes. I did.REPORTER: Did you graduate?NATASHA: No, I didnt. I was in my last year and then, I got pregnant and I got lazy.REPORTER: You look like you are willing to accept responsibility for that.NATASHA: Yes, I am, and I want to finish.Some teenage mothers wish they could be children themselves again. Eighteen-year-old Placida knows that feeling. She says being a mom is hard.PLACIDA: Because you have to get up every two hours in the middle of the night, and you cant go out and say I am going to buy this for myself. No. I have to buy Pampers, clothes and food. So now its two. Its not only one. So its very hard.The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen. That is higher than other developed countries, as well as some developing ones. By comparison, northern neighbor Canada has fourteen births and southern neighbor Mexico has eighty-two.,Text Analysis:,Main idea of each part:part I: 1-2Part II: 3Part III:4-13Part IV:14,An introduction which tells us what integrity means.,The writer feels worried that in current society integrity is in short supply.,Three principles.,The conclusion tells us the components of integrity are and what integrity means.,Expressions :,middle ground a position which is between two very different ones 中间道路;折中The negotiators could find no middle ground. 会谈者没有寻找到中间道路。You have to decide either to stay at home or to go out with me. There is no middle ground. 你要么待在家里,要么跟我走,没有折中的办法。,sell out (to) do sth. that is disloyal to ones principles or beliefs 出卖(原则或信念等)They spoke of people who had sold out to the enemy. 他们提到了那些背叛投敌的人。The leaders of the trade union were charged with selling out to the managers. 工会领导被指责背叛了自己的立场,倒向了雇主。,at hand 1. being considered 在考虑中What he said has nothing to do with the question at hand. 他所说的与眼下的问题无关。Peter turned his attention to the task at hand. 彼德将注意力转向手上的工作。2. near in time or place 即将到来;近在手边Having the right equipment at hand will be very helpful. 将适当的器具放在手边将会大有帮助。Dont worry; help is at hand! 别担心,马上就有人来帮忙,the bottom line the most important factor; the main or essential point 重要因素;关键的东西The bottom line is that its not making any money. 关键是这不赚钱。The bottom line is that it did not get the best out of everybody. 关键是它不能充分发挥每个人的作用。,demand of expect sth. from sb. or sth. 期待;要求She demands little of others but much of herself. 她对别人要求不高,但对自己要求很高。Some parents demand too much of their children. 有些家长对孩子要求太高。,stand for 1. support a set of aims or principles 主张;支持This party stands for equal treatment in employment and fair trading. 这个党派主张平等就业和公平贸易。This decision goes against everything I stand for. 这个决定与我所主张的相违背。2. represent 代表;象征The pigeon stands for peace. 鸽子象征和平 。What does ATM stand for? ATM代表什么?,confront with bring face to face with; force to deal with or accept the truth of 面对;对质Fearless hunters confront wild animals with bravery. 胆大的猎人勇敢地面对野兽。When the police confronted her with the evidence, she admitted that she was guilty. 当警察拿出证据与她当面对证时,她承认自己有罪。,think of 1. consider sb. and their needs or situation 考虑;为.设想I was thinking particularly of the children when I chose the house. 我选择这房子主要是为孩子着想。You are always thinking of other people. 你总是替别人着想。2. remember sb. or sth. 想起;回忆起On her way to school Sandy thought of her brother Bill. 在上学的路上,桑迪想起了她哥哥比尔。I cant think of the name of the song. 我想不起那首歌的名字了。,Language points:,Language Point 1 Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show. (Para. 1)| Meaning: Life is like a field that is covered with fresh snow. When I walk on it, the snow will show every step. Where here is a conjunction used to talk about a particular place. More examples: Stay where you are.站在那儿。This is where I hide the key.这是我藏钥匙的地方。Other usage:1) in or to any placeGo where you like.去你喜欢的地方吧。You cant sit where you like.你不能想坐哪儿就坐哪儿。2) while or whereas Where others might have been satisfied, he had higher ambitions.别人可能感到满足,而他却有更大的抱负。,Language Point 2 They understood instinctively that integrity involves having a personal standard of morality and boundaries that does not sell out to convenience and that is not relative to the situation at hand. (Para. 2)Meaning: They knew by instinct that being honest means that one should have his own standard of right or wrong and know his limits, and that the personal standard should not be given up for ease or comfort, or changed by the present situation.Please notice that both the second and the third that-clause, that does not. and that is not ., modify the word standard.,Language Point 3A good test for this value is to apply what I call the Integrity Triangle, which consists of three key principles. (Para. 3)Meaning: If you want to see how important integrity is, just use what I call the Integrity Triangle, which is made up of three important principles. Here what is used to introduce a special kind of relative clause called nominal relative clause. This kind of clause functions like a noun group. It can be used as the subject, object, or complement of a verb, or the object of a preposition.That is a very good account of what happened.这是对所发生的事作出的最好的解释。What impressed me most was his sincerity.我印象最深的是他的真诚。This is what

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