Unit 3 My Stroke of Luck
Teaching objectives
1)To help students to examine a particular situation in a dialectical way;
2)To help students to get to know the figure of speech, pun;
3)To help students to learn to analyze the text;
4)To help students to learn the language in this text;
5)To help students to develop oral English ability and communicative competence.
Teaching procedures
1)Lead-in activities
2)Cultural Backgrounds
3)Text analysis
4)Structural analysis
5)Language study
6)Exercises
Lead-in activities
1)Think of a person you know who suffers misfortunes but still does whatever he/she can to help others. Describe him/her to your classmates.
2)Do you believe in luck Please explain with your personal experience.
3)What is the most important element when facing difficulties
Cultural information
1. Shakespeare’s Sonnet
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
— William Shakespeare
2. Marriage benefits men more than women.
    Both benefit equally in common areas like sex, companionship and shared work load. Husbands experience better overall health (live longer than if single), whereas a women’s greatest single gain is in money. Marriage will make both men and women richer because they become more efficient in all areas of life! Two living together will not only save significantly by eliminating redundant expenses, but because of increased efficiency, make more money than they do living separately. Long-lasting marriages, some people suggest, is not a cause of financial success, but an effect alongside of financial success. But the truth is that even taking this factor and the eliminating of redundant expenses into account,
the institution of marriage itself provides a “wealth-generation bonus”. This bonus is above and beyond all other factors. God said marriage is good and good it is! Studies have shown, for example, that married men earn incomes 10-40% higher than their single counterparts.
Text I
My Stroke of Luck
Kirk Douglas
Global Reading
I. Text analysis
1.What does the author mean by “my stroke of luck”
Marrying his wife had clearly been a stroke of luck for him, as became clear once again during the air crash crisis.
2.What’s the author’s purpose of writing
To enable the readers to see the many valuable qualities in his wife, or to show his wife’s unyielding character and willingness to help others.
II. Structural analysis
1. How are the events of the text arranged
The account of the latest event is interrupted by a number of flashbacks (some earlier events and experiences). It begins with the air crash, and then it goes back to what had happened before. After this the author resumes the narration of the air crash and subsequent event.
2. Divide the text into parts by completing the table.
Paragraphs
Events
1-2
This part tells the readers what happens to the author and describes how his wife reacts to the accident.
3-4
It describes Anne’s good judgment on previous occasions and her experiences during the Second World War.
5-7
It tells the readers how the author met Anne, fell in love with her and eventually married her.
8
It turns back to his recovery from the crash with his wife’s meticulous care.
9-10
The author recalls how his wife handled her crisis: she never gave in and always tried to help others.
11-13
It describes Anne’s reaction to his stroke and her method to make people move on.
14
The author offers his general comments on Anne’s character with a philosophical remark.
Detailed Reading
Paragraphs 1-2
Questions
1. What happened to the writer (Paragraph 1)
reaction plan
  He was involved in an air crash but luckily survived.
2. What does the author mean by “Another helicopter ride. Just what I needed” (Paragraph 2)
He is being ironic. He means that he did not feel at all like taking another helicopter ride.
Paragraphs 3-4
Questions
1. How do you understand the sentence “She saved me again after my stroke in 1995, whe
n I became depressed and suicidal.” (Paragraph 3)
The word “save” here means “help me out of my depression,” because severe depression can sometimes lead to suicide. So the sentence means “She saved my life again after my stroke in 1995 by helping me get over the depression I was in and preventing me from committing suicide.”
2. How many languages does Anne master (Paragraph 4)
      Four. French, English, Italian, and German.
Paragraphs 5-7
Questions
1. Why did the author feel miffed in his interview with Anne (Paragraph 5)

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