《新视野》第三册第五单元
Unit 5
Section A Graceful Hands
1. Pre-reading
1.1 Background information(no background information for this section)

1.2 Topic-related listening
1. 3 Topic-related discussion
2. While-reading
2.1 Global reading
2.1.1 Understand the major details of the text
1) How does the writer know that Mrs. Clark will die tonight (From Mrs. Clark's medical chart and the report she received from the preceding shift.)
2) Why did Mrs. Clark send her family home that night (Because she didn't want them to suffer from the experience of seeing her die.)
3) What does the writer mean by saying that both she and Mrs. Clark become aware that this is a special moment between two human beings (She means that they both realize that Mrs. Clark is dying and as human beings this is an unavoidable and very special moment.)
4) Why does the writer notice and mention Mrs. Clark's fingers several times (Because Mrs. Clark's fingers are very long and graceful, which catches the writer's eyes easily. )
5) What does the writer want to show us by using words as large head, skeleton body, dark yellow skin and exaggerated bones to describe Mrs. Clark (To show us a true-to-life picture of Mrs. Clark at the end of her life.)
2.1.2 Understand organization of the text
1) Main idea of the text
The story deals with a doctor's view of a terminally ill grandmother as a terrible-looking lady with graceful hands from the outset but a considerate lady with graceful heart and mind in the end.
2) Text structure analysis
Part One (Paras. 1-4) I attend to a dying patient, who is very thin. Even, she has no enough strength to ______________. (swallow some water)
Part Two (Para. 5) The patient is_________ , too weak for anything. (seriously ill)
Part Three (Paras. 6-7) Driven by my thoughts, I exchange with the patient, who is able to utter only broken sentences. Though, I begin to see what a ______________grandmother she is. (kind and considerate)

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