文档介绍:Unit2
Watch the video and answer the following questions.
1. What’s wrong with the young boy?
2. Can you imagine the life of growing younger?
Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 1
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He is not like normal people. He is not growing older, but growing younger.
Open.
Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 2
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Daisy: Do you remember me? I’m Daisy.
Benjamin: I’m Benjamin.
Daisy: It’s nice to meet you, Benjamin. Would you mind if I sit with you? I would love to hear you play.
Benjamin: Do I know you?
Voiceover: And every day, I would stop by to make sure that he fortable.
Benjamin: No, I didn’t.
Nurse: You just finished eating.
Benjamin: Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing! You’re all fucking liars!
Nurse: He doesn’t believe he just had his breakfast.
Daisy: Now, why don’t we see if we can’t find something else for you to do?
Video Script1
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Video Script2
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Benjamin: I have a feeling there’s a lot of things I can’t remember.
Daisy: Well, like what, sugar?
Benjamin: It’s like there’s this whole life I had, and I can’t remember what it was.
Daisy: It’s okay. It’s okay to forget things.
Voiceover: Many times, he would simply forget who or where he was.
Nurse: There he is. He’s up there on the roof.
Voiceover: It wasn’t easy.
Daisy: Benjamin!
Benjamin: I can see everything! I can see the big river!
Daisy: That’s right. You can see everything, sweetheart.
Video Script3
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Benjamin: I can see the graveyard where Mama’s buried,
and all those other people.
Daisy: I want you e down!
Benjamin: What if I could fly?
Daisy: I knew a man who could fly. e down, and
I’ll tell you all about him.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up ent