The Making of a Surgeon

Dr. Nolen

Text

A famous surgeon tells about the importance of self-confidence from his own experience.

Unit 6

The Making of a Surgeon

Useful expressions Text interpretation Word family Sentence structure Translation Reading skill Guided writing Homework

Useful expressions

Plastic surgery The Making of a Hero

城镇居民 紧急呼叫 松懈 (努力 ) 念叨过去 A confidence man

整形外科 钢铁是怎样炼成的 City residents Emergency call Relax one’s efforts Dwell on the past 骗子，欺诈者

Useful expressions

预支收入 简单 /不费力 背后捅刀 A belly laugh 肺穿孔 人非圣贤 独家代理

Anticipate one’s income

No sweat. Stab sb. in the back 捧腹大笑 A punctured lung To err is human. Sole agent

Text interpretation

Warm-up questions

1. Self-confidence is the first requisite to

great undertakings. What is your

comment?

2. Are you a self-confident person?

3. How can a diffident person become self-

confident?

Text interpretation

Answer the questions

Ⅱ Comprehension 2 on p.144

What type is the text, generally?

A. narration B. exposition C. description D. argumentation

记叙文说明文描述文议论文

Text interpretation

What is the main idea of the text?A famous surgeon tells about the importance

of self-confident from his own experience.

The text is mainly in the pattern.

A. general-specific

B. problem-solution

C. cause-effect

D. compare-contrast

总分问题 -解决因果比较 -对比

Text interpretation

Try to summarize each paragraph:

1. I asked myself the question: What makes a surgeon?

2. The answer, I concluded, was self-confidence.

3. During the first months I was diffident and indecisive.

4. In the last month I grew confident and decisive.

5. In the operating room I was equally confident.

6. Nor was I afraid of making mistakes.

7. A surgeon needs conceit to encourage himself.

Part division

Main IdeasParasParts

1 1-2

2 3-6

Argument: Confidence makes a surgeon.

Exemplification: Contrastive states of mind in the first few months and last month of my residency.

3 7 Restatement: A surgeon needs conceit.

Text interpretation

Text interpretation

1. How does a doctor recognize the point in time when…

2. …I asked myself this question on more than one

occasion.

3. ---then, and not until then, you are indeed a surgeon.

4. I was nearing that point.

5. The first few months of the year I had…

6. Often, after I had told Walt or Larry what to do…

7. More than once …after lying awake for an hour, I’d get

out of bed…

8. It was the only way I could find the peace of mind…

Text interpretation

9. …any decision I’d made was bound to be a sound one.10. In the operating room I was equally confident.11. I ‘d sweated through my share of stab wounds of the

belly…12. …even one year earlier---I wouldn’t have been able to

live with myself if I had had to take sole responsibility for a mistake in judgment.

13.…they were part of a surgeon’s life.14. I could accept this fact with calmness … chances were

that no other surgeon could have, either.15.He needs it to encourage him in trying moments when

he’s bothered by …

Text interpretation

Self-confidence is the making of a surgeon.

In the past… Now…

Mistakes! No! They are part of a surgeon’s life…

① ② ③

④

Text interpretation

1. The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

成功的秘诀是目标坚定。

4. Behind every successful man there are a lot of unsuccessful years.每个成功者的身后，都有许多不成功的岁月。

2. Success is never final and failure never fatal. 没有最终的成功，也没有致命的失败。

3. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures.绝大多数的失败均因缺乏自信。

Word family

Physician, diffident, residential, conclusive, inference,

incompetence, emerge, run into, confront, dreadful,

fearless, frequency, tension, tense, light-hearted,

considerable, consideration, dweller, inhabitant,

populate, foresee, foretell, predict, perspiration,

sweater, thrust, poke, complex, fraction, unavoidable,

erroneous, sole, unshared, irresponsible, response,

respond, responsive, arrogant, modesty…

More words on pp 147-8

Sentence structure

1. Clauses introduced by once: Once I had made a considered decision, I no

longer dwelt on it.

2. …have no/…trouble/difficulty (in) doing… Dr. Nolen used to have trouble sleeping.

3. Double negative There is no surgical patient I cannot treat.

Do the exercises on pp 149-51

Translation

1. If/As long as you keep (on) trying, you will be able to resolve this difficult problem sooner or later.

2. We anticipate encountering/that we will encounter resistance to our plan/our plan will meet with resistance.

3. Jim’s friends said that the noise pollution in their city was terrible, but they had to live with it.

4. At first Tom thought that with his knowledge, skill and experience he was bound to find a satisfactory job.

Translation

5. It would be wise/advisable to handle this delicate problem with calmness and patience.

6. Dick thought that if he wasn’t able to take the machine apart, chances were that no other worker in the plant could, either.

7. Do you think bus drivers should take full responsibility for the passengers’ safety.

8. You needn’t dwell on your mistakes in judgment any more. What’s important is to try your best to avoid repeating them.

Reading Skill

Reading for implied meanings

Authors do not always present their ideas or describe things using exact terms or explicit expressions. Sometimes they prefer to write in a more subtle and implicit way.

(p. 154, Book 2)

Guided writing

Parallelism

Parallelism is used for the following effects: to gain emphasis; to create a pleasant rhythm in a prose passage; and to cut down on the number of words needed to express an idea. E.g. I came, I saw, I conquered.

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