Unit 13 One of These DaysPart 1 Communicative ActivitiesAims:1. Learning about the background information of the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez2. Learning to talk about the personalities and personal sketches3. Practicing using language through role-play and drama activities1. Interactive listening and speakingLearning suggestions:1. Listen to the recording for several times until get enough details.2. Complete Task A (Answers: 1-a 2-b 3-c 4-c 5-a 6-c )3. Read Task B for personal sketches and listen to the recording again. Work with your friends discussing your notes and descriptions.…Notes:1. Notes about the author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a well known Latin American novelist, short story writer, screen writer and journalist. His most famous novels are Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) (1982 Nobel prize laureate) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).2. Notes about the country Colombia. Official Name: Republic of Colombia. It is the fourth-largest country in South America. (哥伦比亚). Don’t confuse it with Columbia as derived from Christopher Columbus who discovered Americas in the 15th century.)Scripts:Early life of Gabriel Garcia MarquezGabriel Garcia Marquez is a well known Latin American writer. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in literature for his famous novel Hundred Years of Solitude. Today we are going to talk about his early life, and show how this part of his life influenced his works.Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1928 in a town called Aracataca in Northern Colombia. At first, he was raised by his maternal grandparents as it was quite common at that time if one’s parents were poor and struggling. This part of lifehad powerful influence on his later life as a writer. He put many of his interesting details of his life at this stage in the characters of his novels.Let’s take a look inside his grandparent’s family. The most important relatives of Garcia Marquez were undoubtedly his grandfather and grandmother. His grandfather was a Colonel. He lived in Aracataca, a banana town by the Caribbean, a village which he helped found. The Colonel was something of a hero to the local people, for among other things, he advocated the rights for the ordinary people and their families, and fought hard against oppression and social injustice in the country. His grandfather was a very complex and interesting an, but also an excellent storyteller who had led quite an intriguing life. When he was young he shot and killed a man in du duel, and it is said that he had fathered over sixteen children. He would speak of his wartime bloody fighting as if it was “almost pleasant experiences, and a sort of youthful adventures with guns. The old Colonel taught the young Gabriel lessons from the dictionary, took him to the circus each year, and was the first one who introduced his grandson to ice --- a miracle to be found in the village store. He also told his young grandson that there was no greater burden than to have killed a man, a lesson that Garcia Marquez later put into the mouths of his characters.His grandmother was also an outstanding woman, and was no less an influence on the young Garcia Marquez than her husband. She was impressively full of superstitions and folk beliefs. She filled the house with stories of ghosts and folk tales –all of which were studiously ignored by her husband, who once said to young Garbriel, “Don’t listen to that. Those are women’s beliefs” And yet listen he did, for his grandmother had a unique way of telling stories. No matter how fantastic or unbelievable her stories were, she always delivered them as if they were the truth. It was a deadpan style that, some thirty years later, her grandson adopted for his greatest novel Hundred Years of Solitude.Garcia Marquez’s parents were more or less strangers to him for the first few years of his life, and the reason behind this is quite interesting. His mother was one of the two children born to the Colonel and his wife. She was a spirited girl but unfortunately fell in love with a man named Gabriel Eligio Garcia. “Unfortunately”, for Garcia was disliked by her parents. Among other things, Garcia had a reputation as a philanderer, the father of four illegitimate children. He was not exactly the man the Colonel had envisioned who should have won the heart of his daughter --- and yet he did, wooing her with violin serenades, love and poems, countless letters --- even telegraph messages. They tried all they could to get rid of the man, but he kept coming back, and it was obvious that their daughter was committed to him. Finally they surrendered to his romantic tenacity, and the Colonel gave her hand in marriage to the former medical student. In order to ease relations, the newlyweds settled in the Colonel’s old hometown. And this tragic-comic story was later adapted to his famous novel Love in the Time of Cholera.Now I’m going to talk about his school life …B DiscussionAnswer for referencePeople in Marquez’s early life SketchHis grandfather A complex and intriguingperson, a Colonel, and politicalactivist who helped found thetown, fought hard for socialinjustice, something of a hero tothe local people, had manyinteresting wartime stories,caring and loving for youngMarquez, biased againstwomen’s superstitious stories,father over 16 children when hewas young…His grandmother An outstanding woman, full ofsuperstitions and folk tales,excellent in the skills ofstory-telling, no matter howfantastic or unbelievable, shealways delivered them as if theywere true, in a deadpan style, thestories and styles later enteredher grandson’s famous novelHundred Years of SolitudeHis mother a high spirited girl, who pursuedher true love in spite of herparents’opposition, and finallysucceeded in her marriage.His father A young philanderer though, hadtrue love for Marquez’s mother,pursuing her in spite of herparents’opposition, a cleversuitor, the love story laterentered Marquez’s novel Love inthe Time of Cholera2. Role-playWork with your friends. Read the two excerpts carefully and turn the first excerpt into a dialog and the second excerpt into a short play.3. Learning phrasesAnswers for reference(1) maternal grandparents: grandparents on one’s mother sideThen who are one’s patriarchal parents? Grandparents on one’s father’s side(2) illegitimate children: children born out of wedlock(3) spirited girl: a girl who is lively and determine, full of encourage or energy(4) win the heart of sb. be accepted and loved by sb.(5) deliver the story in a deadpan style the story is told in a very serious manner as if something was true (actually it is not, such as a ghost story, or some superstitions)(6) father over 16 children be a father for over 16 children(7) envision him as someone to win the heart of their daughter imagined that the young man could be loved by their daughter(8)surrender to his romantic tenacity(the parents) gave in to the young man’s tenacious pursuit of their daughter (when discovering that their daughter was committed to win)(9) give her hand to sb (usually the father) allows her daughter to marry sb.(10) sb has a reputation as a philanderer someone is known for frivolous love3. Language pointsLook up the following words and phrases in the dictionary.illegitimate, envision, woo, serenade, surrender, tenacity, woo…with; commit to; win the heart ofPart 2 Reading and Language Activities Aims(1) Learning to understand the development of plot in short story reading(2) Learning to write plot analysis through reading,discussion, and writing practice.(3) Learning to use the phrases, and interpret sentences, and description1.Pre-reading tasks(1) Please refer to /wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez.for information about the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his political attitudes. (2) Discuss the following questions with your friends:How would you feel if a dentist pulls out a tooth from a patient without using anesthesia? And why does he want to do so?2. Reading suggestions: Learning how to do active readingThere are times when you just cannot afford to skim through or scan through the text but need to get an in-depth understanding of the text that you read and hence you needto make sure you're actively involved with the text while reading it. There are four important points that you need to keep in mind during active reading which are as follows:Underlining / Highlighting: Identify the most important parts of the text according to your own understanding and highlight or underline them using a pencil or a marker while you are reading. You can even use different colors to highlight diverse aspects of the text.Note Key-words: Jot down the headings as you read and detail using one or two keywords for each point.Questions: Before you start reading prepare for your reading by writing down all the questions you want the material to answer. This helps you to read accordingly and ensures you get the answers to all your questions and don't get distracted while reading.Summaries: After you've read one complete section of the text, summarize that portion in your own words. Later, go through the text again to check how accurate your summary is and modify / upgrade it in case you've left out any details.3. Reading ComprehensionA. DiscussionLearning suggestionsRead the story, followed by discussion with your friends on the theme of the story. You may choose from the list of suggestions, but also may suggest their own points. Reasonable choices include: revenge, punishment, political corruption, power, and even the last two: medical malpractice, or dire conditions of dental services, could be possible interpretations. Find evidence from the text. There is no need to get a "standard answer"Answers for reference1)Open-ended answer, but here's some reference for guiding the discussion:2)The mayor represents political corruption, murdering, and social oppression. So Escovar despised him, reluctant to serve him.3)We may infer from the story that Escovar did it on purpose, out of malignity (rancor). He said quietly when he pulled the infected tooth out of the mayor's mouth, "Now you'll pay for our twenty dead men." However, the author described Escovar's operation "Without rancor, rather with a bitter tenderness...".4)What he means is that he was an absolute power over the town.B. AnalysisRead the text carefully and intensively. Based on the three guidelines in the table for discussion and work individually write an analysis in reply to the question “What does this change tell us?”Answers for referenceStages Power balanceEvidence1 The major is more powerful than Escovar.He said if Escovar did not serve him, he would shoot him. Escovar wasready for a gun fight (be got his revolver ready), but he abandoned thisidea; maybe he realized that it was useless to have a gunfight now with themayor. He was powerless. He had to serve him.2 The mayor is less powerful than Escovar.The situation gradually changes as the mayor came in, greeting him "goodmorning", to which Escovar responded coldly. When the mayor took thedental seat, the situation was completely reversed. The mayor was put atmercy of Escovar now. He inspected his infected tooth, and pulled itwithout using anesthesia. The mayor suspected his intention, but he had noreason for refuse him. So he had to suffer the pains of having his toothpulled out. The detailed description of his painful suffering reveals howEscovar punished him, and took revenge on the enemy of the town whoowed blood debt of 20 citizens. He made use of his medical knowledge andskills to reverse his previously powerless situation even though he was onlya dentist, without a degree.3 The mayor resumes his power.But when the operation was finished, the mayor reversed the situation now.He was still polite at the beginning in his casual military solute, stretchinghis legs toward the door, and asked Escovar to send him the bill. Butobviously he returned to his power at the end when h e said “it was thesame damn thing”, meaning that be was an absolute power in this town.What does this change tell us?The story illustrates how professional knowledge and skills can temporarily change the power relationship between a dictator and ordinary citizens. In this power struggle, the political power seems to be strong, but not absolute. One of these days, it will fall at the mercy of something more powerful.4. ClozeAnswers for reference(1) degree (2) refuses (3) shoot (4) infected(5) deliberately (6) bill (7) powerful (8) supplied (9) reverses (10) extracted (11) torture (12) temporary5. Translation of the text总有那么一天星期一清晨，温暖无雨。