Unit16MyForeverValentine大学英语课件.ppt

* Valentine A greeting card sent to arrive on Saint Valentine’s Day ( February 14th), declaring one’s love for sb. , but usually without giving the name of the sender; a sweetheart chosen on this day Examples: On Saint Valentine’s Day, my daughter received quite a number of Valentines. The writer’s father is her forever valentine. Q: Give typical examples to prove that the narrator’s father showed particularly profound love for her on Valentine’s Day. Q: Why does the writer focus her accounts and descriptions on her first recollection of the magic and on the last card and gift from her father? Para?-Para? Para?-Para? Para?-Para? Main Idea ? - ? Part Division 1-2 3-10 11-12 Give a brief account of the leading character. Provide the detail how the father showed profound affection for his daughter on Valentine’s Day. She will never forget her father and his kindness to her. 1 The traditional holidays in our house when I was a child were spent timing elaborate meals around football games. My father tried to make pleasant chitchat and eat as much as he could during half time. At Christmas he found time to have a cup or two of holiday beer and do his holly shaped bow tie. But he didn’t truly shine until Valentine’s Day. 2 I don’t know whether it was because work at the office slowed during February or because the football season was over. But Valentine’s Day was the time my father chose to show his love for the special people in his life. Over the years I fondly thought of him as my “Valentine Man.” 3 My first recollection of the magic he could bring to Valentine’s Day came when I was six. For several days I had been cutting out valentines for my classmates. Each of us was to decorate a “mailbox” and put it on our desk for others to give us cards. That box and its contents ushered in a succession of bittersweet memories of my entrance into a world of popularity contests marked by the number of cards received, the teasing about boyfriends