新视野大学英语(第三版)读写教程第二册教案完整版
长篇情感故事-深圳大学分数线
New Horizon
College English
BOOK 2
(3rd Edition)
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Unit 1 An Impressive English Lesson
课型 :□ 理论课 √ 理论、实践课 □ 实践课
课时分配: 6
教学环境 :多媒体教室
教学目标:
After studying
this unit, the students are expected to be able
to:
1. understand the main idea and structure
of Section A and Section B;
2. master the key
language points and grammatical structures in the
texts
3. talk about language teaching and
learning and express their opinions about current
way of teaching in an English class;
4.
read with the skill ―finding key ideas in
sentences;
5. write a composition with three
main parts: introduction, body and conclusion.
Key Issues:
1. Vocabulary
Tedious, absorbed, allergic, capture,
condense, exceed, distinguish, distinctive,
complimentary, complementary, proclaim,
evidently, adequate, competent, adjust,
beneficial
2. Skills
Learn to read
with the skill ―finding key ideas in sentences and
write a composition
with three main parts:
introduction, body and conclusion.
Potential Problems and Difficulties
●To
talk about language teaching and learning
●write a composition with three main parts:
introduction, body and conclusion.
●To apply
the phrases and patterns
Methodology:
A combination of traditional teaching methods
with the communicative approach will
be
adopted. Special attention should be paid to
classroom interaction like
questioning and
answers. Small group works are always needed while
discussing the
questions and the difficult
translation practice. More encouragement is needed
and
more guidance will be given in their
extracurricular study.
Teaching Aids: Visual
aids, projector, stereo and microphone
Group work and pair work
Conduct of Tasks
and Activities
(师生互动方式Mode of Interaction;
学习策略Learning Strategies)
Students-centered,
Task-based teaching and learning
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
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I. Greeting
and warming-up questions discussion.
1. What
are the key factors that help people learn English
as a foreign language?
2. Do you have any
problem in English learning?
3. Do you think
grammar is important in English learning?
II.
Listening and discussing.
1. Listening
practice.
2. In your opinion, what is the
most effective way to learn English?
III.
Listening to a talk and answer questions on page 2
Step 2 Section A An Impressive English
Lesson
I. Cultural background American
university education
is Communicative
Language Teaching?
A type of teaching
method;
Develop the communicative ability as
well as the knowledge of grammar;
Learning by
doing;
Make classroom situation of real
foreign language environment.
2. What are
the features of Communicative Language Teaching?
Communicative competence is the goal;
An
integration of grammatical and functional
teaching;
Accuracy is secondary to conveying
a message;
Focus on communicative and
contextual factors in language use;
Learner-
centered and experience-based.
3. What is the
role of teacher in Communicative Language
Teaching?
A facilitator of students’
learning;
A manager of classroom activities;
An advisor of students’ questions;
A co-
communicator in the communicative activity.
II. Language Points
Words and expressions
1. oddity: n. [C] a strange or unusual person
or thing 怪人;怪物;奇特的东西
With his neat suits on,
he felt like an oddity walking in this poor
neighborhood. 穿
着笔挺的西装走在这个贫民区里,他觉得自己就像个怪物。
2. oblige
The word oblige is most
commonly used in the expression befeel obliged.
1)
befeel obliged to do sth. 指“感到有责任做某事”。
例如: He felt obliged to help his mother, even
if it meant leaving college.
他觉得有
责任帮助母亲,即使这意味着他要离开大学。
2) befeel
obliged to . 指“对某人或某事心存感激”。
例如: Thank you
very much, doctor. I am extremely obliged to you.
医生,非常谢
谢您。对您,我深表感谢。
3. How was it?
(spoken) often used in conversation to ask sb.
about their opinion or
experience of sth.
怎么样?(口语常用表达,用于询问看法或经历)Did you watch
the movie
last night? How was it? 你昨天晚上看那部电影了吗?感觉怎么样?
I was told that you had traveled to many places in
Asia recently. How was it? 有人
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告诉我你最近跑了亚洲的很多地方,旅行怎么样?
4. full of: (followed by abstract nouns)
feeling or showing a lot of particular emotion
or quality (感觉、表达或表现出)充满某种情感(特质)的 full of
excitementenergyhopehappinesspraise
充满兴奋活力希望幸福赞美 The
teacher was full of praise
for the homework that the students had done.
老师对学生
们完成的功课赞不绝口。
Lucy is a happy child
and always full of life. 露西是个快乐的孩子,总是充满了活
力。
5. “It was, like, whoa!” means “It was really
great!”. “It was like …” is an informal
expression in conversation, very common for
young people who are lazy and
incapable to
reference their ideas.
The expression is
usually followed by an adjective or an
exclamation. It was, like,
marvelous! 简直奇妙极了!
(It was like) Whoa! How come you got a
hundred percent correct on such a hard test?
哇! 这么难的考试你怎么都全答对了?
Note: Whoa is
specifically used to show that people are
surprised or think something
is very
impressive. It can be used in different contexts.
For example: ﹒
To describe something that
you’re not quite sure how to describe: That car is
so cool,
it’s like, whoa.
To express
surprise: Whoa! It’s really amazing!
To
indicate a desire to end what someone is talking:
Whoa, OK, that’s enough.
6. And that was
it. (Para. 4)
Meaning: And that was
everything she said, without even mentioning any
details of
her wonderful experience in Europe.
That was it.: often used in conversation to
say that sth. is completely finished or that a
situation cannot be changed
就这样(指某事彻底结束或形势不能更改)
That was it. I could no
longer hope for a promotion, and my boss didn’t
even want to
see me again.
就这样吧,我的升职再也没指望了,我的老板甚至不想再见到我。
That’s it. There
is nothing more we can do. 就这样吧,我们也再没有别的办法。
7. distinguished, distinctive, distinct
这三个词词形相近,但意思有很大的差别,不能互换使用。
1)
distinguished指“卓越的;杰出的;著名的”。
例如: His
grandfather had been a distinguished university
professor. 他的祖父曾是
一位杰出的大学教授。
2) distincti
ve指“(特征、性格或外表)独特的,有明显不同的”。强调“表示差
别的”、“有特色的”、“特殊
的”。
例如: Irene had a very distinctive voice.
艾琳有一个非常独特的声音。 Can you
find the distinctive
watermarks of this stamp? 你能看到这枚邮票上明显的水印吗?
Pupils in Hong Kong usually have distinctive
badges on their school uniforms.
在香
港,小学生的校服上常戴有颇具特色的徽章。
3
)distinct表示“分明的;明了的;清楚的”。
例如: I have the
distinct feeling that my friend did not realize
what was happening.
我明显感到我朋友并未察觉所发生的一切。
The photo you took in Hong Kong Cultural
Centre is not distinct enough. 你在香港
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文化中心拍的那张照片不够清晰。
She has a distinct pronunciation. 她的发音清楚。
There is a distinct smell of smoke in my room.
我的房间里有一股明显的香烟味。
distinct的另一个词义是“明显不同的;有区别的”。例如: Our interests
were quite
distinct from those of them.
我们的兴趣与他们的兴趣截然不同。
现将distinct和distinctive
用在一个句子里,以便区分: One of the distinctive
features
of this book is its distinct illustrations.
这本书很明显的特点之一就是其具
有清楚明了的图解。
8. proclaim,
claim
1)
proclaim是正式宣告或公开宣告,“宣告”的中文意思比“声明”要严肃。例
如: The
government has proclaimed a new law. 政府已公布了一项新法令。
They
proclaimed that he was a traitor.
他们宣称他是叛徒。 The ringing bells proclaimed
the
birth of the prince. 响亮的钟声宣布了王子的诞生。
2)
claim是根据权利声明,根据权利要求索赔,根据权利认领。
(1)
声称;断言;主张。例如: They claim to have discovered a cure
for the disease.
他们声称已经发现了治疗此病的方法。 She claimed
that the ring was stolen, not
lost.
她声言那只戒指是被偷的,而不是遗失的。
(2) 要求;索赔。例如: The old
man claimed the land. 老人要求得到这块土地。
I claim
payment from my friend. 我要求我的朋友付款。
re是动词expose的名词形式,动词expose常用于短语beget exposed
to
中,表示“接触;体验”。
例如: Some children are
never exposed to classical music.
有些孩子从来没有接触
过古典音乐。
Having been exposed to
all kinds of dangers in the forest, the girl felt
helpless and
began to cry.
那个女孩在森林里体验了各种危险后,感到很无助,就哭了起来。
10. adequate,
abundant
1)
adequate表示“在数量或质量上足以满足特定的标准”,强调刚好够用、没有
多余。
例如:He doesn’t earn a large salary but it is
adequate for his needs. 他挣钱不多,
但也够用了。
2)
abundant表示“充裕;绰绰有余”,强调数量很多或充足有余。 例如: We have
abundant proof of his guilt. 我们有他犯罪的充分证据。
Collocation note: In
Paragraph 7, we have two
collocation pairs with the same word:
advancedproper
vocabulary for our attention.
11. adjust, adapt
1)
当表示“适应…环境”时,adjust和adapt差不多。常与to搭配。可以说adjust
(f ) to sth.和adapt (f ) to
sth.。其中adjust和adapt互为同义词。
例如: Once you get to
the United States, you will have to adjust
yourself to a
completely new lifestyle.
一旦你到了美国,你就需要进行调整,以适应美国全新
的生活方式。
The
children found it hard to adapt to the new school.
这些孩子们发现很难适应这
所新学校。
The body adjusts
itself to changes of temperature. 身体会自行适应温度的变化。
Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-
order, and adjust, while intellect examines,
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ponders,
wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines.
智力寻求的是理解、运用、整
合和调节,而才学是审视、思考、探究、形成理论、批判和想象。
2
)adjust作及物动词用时,还有“调节;使…适合;校准”之意,而adapt不表
示此意。
例如: adjust a radio (dial) 调准收音机的选台指针 adjust color
on a TV
调整电视的色彩 adjust one’s tie in a mirror
照镜子整理领带 adjust a telescope to
one’s eyes
调节望远镜使之适合眼睛观看 adjust a clock 调准时钟
3) adapt作及
物动词时,还有“(改装)使适合;改编”之意,其同义词是modify,
不是adjust。例如:
These teaching materials can be adapted for older
children. 这
些教材修订一下可以给大一点的孩子用。 He adapted his
old car engine to the boat.
他把他的旧汽车上的引擎用到那只船上。
12. beneficial常与to连用,引出对谁有利、有帮助、有用。
例如:
Cycling is highly beneficial to health and the
environment. 骑自行车对身体
和环境都大有裨益。
Collocation note: In Paragraph 7, we have come
across competent communication
and here we
have precise communication and beneficial
communication. In Paragraph
2 of Text B
careful readers will not miss adequate
communication skills. For more
collocation
pairs, please refer to the notes on collocation
for this unit.
Useful expressions
Practical Phrases
1. befeel obliged to do
sth. (因形势、法律、义务等等关系而)非做不可,迫使
2. fresh
from 刚从„„来的;刚有„„经历的
3.
distinguish between 区分;辨别
4.
getfeelbe lost 迷惘;困惑;不知所措
5.
look upon sbsth. As 把某人物看作
6. be
equipped with sth. 以„„为装备;配备
III. Functional Patterns and Functions &
Usages
sbsth. dois sth. , then perhaps …
用于表述“在特定条件下可能发生的事情”。
2. sb fail to do sth….,
while sb should do sth…. 用于表述“实际情况与预期的反差”。
3.
While isdoes …, sbsth. else isdos
…用于表述“人与人之间或事与事之
间的反差”。
Step Three
Language application 45 minutes
1. Writing
devices:
Simile
Simile is a figure of
speech that compares two different things and the
comparison is
indicated by the word as or
like. Examples:
Learning grammar and a good
vocabulary is just like driving with a road map in
a
well-conditioned car.
A poem: My Love
Is Like A Red Red Rose
我的爱人像朵红红的玫瑰
----Robert Burns 罗伯特•彭斯 Practice
a.
生活像一具大秋千(swing),总在开心和忧愁间摇摆(dangle)。
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Life is like a big
swing, dangling between the depths of happiness
and sadness. b.
生活没有目标犹如航行没有指南针(compass)。
Living without an aim is like
sailing without
a compass.
c. 婚姻就像一座城堡(beleaguered
fortress),外面的人想进去,里面的人想出来。
Marriage is like a
beleaguered fortress: those who are without want
to get in, and
those within want to get out.
2. How to write a college essay:
An
essay normally has three main parts: Introduction,
body and conclusion.
Introduction: The
introduction part is usually one short paragraph
that introduces the
topic to be discussed and
the thesis statement. A thesis statement can be an
opinion, an
attitude or a stand about the
topic.
Body: The body is the main part of an
essay. It may contain several short paragraphs
that use the development methods of examples,
narrative, cause and effect,
comparison and
contrast, classification, argumentation, etc.
Conclusion: The conclusion wraps up the
discussion of a certain topic. It can briefly
summarize the main points discussed and can
also restate the thesis statement by
using
different words and structures. At the end of the
conclusion, the writer’s final
thoughts on the
topic may be added such as a predication, a
suggestion, or a warning.
Writing
practice
Directions: Write an essay of no
less than 150 words on one of the following
topics.
One topic has an outline you can
follow.
Topic: Grammar, a headache to me
Introduction: Thesis statement: English
Grammar is a big headache to me.
Body:
Example: The difference between used to and be
used to
Conclusion: I’m allergic to learning
English grammar.
More topics:
•
Learning English through imitation repetition
• Learning English with without grammar
IV. Structure Analysis:
Main idea
of section A: this text is a narrative that talks
about the author’s personal
experience in
giving an effective English lesson to his son. He
claims that students
can learn better if they
are properly taught.
Part I (Paras. 1-5)
This part introduces the background of the story.
It presents the
thesis statement: Students
unfairly bear the bulk of the criticism for these
knowledge
deficits because there is a sense
that they should know better.
Part II
(Paras.6-13) This part contains two major sections
to support the author’s
point of view. The
first section claims that students should not be
blamed for their
language deficiency due to
two major reasons:1) they are misled by the
language
environment;2) they are not learning
the language adequately and efficiently in school.
The second section elaborates the author’s
personal opinion about the importance of
grammar and vocabulary, by way of metaphors.
Para. II (Para. 14-17) Toward the end, the
author narrates another incident where
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his son unconsciously
uttered a grammatically perfect sentence with a
subjunctive
mood and he’s proud of his son.
Step 3 Language points
Detailed
study of the text
1. If I am the only parent
who still corrects his child’s English, then
perhaps my son is
right. To him, I am a
tedious oddity: a father he is obliged to listen
to and a man
absorbed in the rules of grammar,
which my son seems allergic to. (Para. 1)
Meaning: My son is probably right if there is
no other parent like me who still
corrects his
child’s mistake in English. To my son, I am a
boring and strange father,
who he has to
listen to I am also the one who pays lots of
attention to grammar rules,
which he doesn’t
seem to like.
2. She nodded three or four
times searched the heavens for the right words,
and then
exclaimed, it was like, whoa!
Meaning : she nodded her head three or four
times, tried to find the right words in her
mind and then shouted with excitement it was
like whoa!
Meaning beyond words: Since the
student was not quite sure how to exactly describe
her travel experience, the tone of the author
is somewhat sarcastic. The author
intended to
send out the message that the student was
incompetent regarding the
selection of her
English vocabulary.
search somewhere for
sth.: try to find sth. in some place 在某地方搜寻某物
The robber reached out and searched the back
pocket of my trousers for anything
valuable.
那个盗贼伸手搜我裤子后面的口袋以寻找值钱的东西。
Note The heavens
means the sky: here search the heavens for the
right words
the student
tried hard to find
suitable words to describe what she saw and
experienced when
traveling in Europe.
civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman
architecture were captured in
condensed non-
statement. (para.4)
Meaning: The civilization
of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were
just
described in one word rather than a
complete statement because of her inability to
choose appropriate words to express herself 。
4. My student ―whoa‖ was exceeded only by my
head-shaking distress. (para. 4)
Meaning: My
head-shaking distress at her inability to express
properly was even
greater than her slang term
whoa, one word, which did not make any statement
to
describe the civilization of Greece and the
glory of Roman architecture.
Meaning beyond
words: The word exceed states explicitly that the
authors worry
about his student's language
inability was much more intense than her
excitement.
5. Surely students should be able
to distinguish between theirtherethey're on the
distinctive difference between complimentary
and complementary (para. 5)
Meaning: Of
course, students should be able to recognize and
understand the
differences between their
therethey're on the obvious difference between
complimentary and complementary distinguish:
recognize the differences between
things 区别;辨别
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A formal
education with emphasis on history literature and
culture helps a person
learn how to
distinguish right from
wrong着重于历史、文学和文化的正规教育能帮
助一个人学习如何明辨是非。
distinguish between: recognize and understand
the difference between two or more
things or
people区分;辨别
The ability to read in a critical
way involves the ability to distinguish between
facts
and the writer’s opinions or interpretat
ions.批判性阅读能力包括区分什么是事实,
什么事作者自己的看法或解释能力。
★distinctive: a. easy to recognize because of
being different from other people or
things of
the same type与众不同的;特殊的;特别的
The distinctive
design of a product provides a powerful
competitive advantage over
other products.
一个独特的产品设计具有比其他产品更强有力的竞争优势。
6. For example
signs in grocery stores point them to the
stationary, even though the
actual stationery
- pads, albums and notebooks - are not items
nailed down. (para. 6)
Meaning: For example ,
signs of merchandise in grocery stores lead
students to
the ―stationary‖ department
selling stationery like pads =, albums and
notebooks.
However, these displayed stationery
items are movable but not nailed down.
Meaning beyond words: Taking the wrong spelled
signs in grocery stores as an
example, the
author argues that it is not students’ fault. The
verb phrase nail down is
cleverly used to
describe the funny situation: movable ―stationery‖
items are under
the sign of unmovable
stationary distinct spelling mistake between the
two words.
Here you are surrounded by great
resource: interesting students from all over the
country, a learned and caring faculty, a
comprehensive library, great sports facilities,
and student organizations covering every
possible interest from the arts to science, to
community service and so on. (para4)
7.
Therefore, it doesn’t make any sense to criticize
our students (para. 6)
Meaning: So, there's
no good reason to criticize our students. Which is
unfair to them.
8. Moreover, the younger
teachers themselves evidently have little
knowledge of these
vital structures of
language because they also went without exposure
to them. (para.
7)
Meaning: In addition,
the young teachers obviously know little about
these important
structures of language since
they also didn’t have the chance to deal with them
in their
prior learning experiences.
moreover: ad. (fml.) in addition-used to
introduce information that adds to or supports
what has previously been said 而且;再者;此外
Moreover, they become more concerned about
their health as they grow older.
此外,
随着年龄的增长,他们更加关注自己的健康。
9. The chance came
when one day I was driving with my son. As we set
out on our
trip, he noticed a bird in jerky
flight and said, ―It's flying so unsteady.‖ (para
. 8 )
Meaning: The opportunity to teach him
English came when we were both on a car
heading for our trip. On seeing a bird flying
unsteadily, he commented that the bird
was
flying unsteady. jerk: n. [C] a sudden quick
movement 猛的一动;猝然一动
The old bus started with a
jerk, so the passengers shook a sudden.
那辆旧的公共汽
车猛地一动,车上的乘客都突然摇晃了一下。
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jerky: a. moving roughly
with many starts and stops (在进行中)不平稳的,颠簸
的
After the bus came to a jerky halt, the
passengers got the hurriedly.
公共汽车颠簸着
停下来以后,乘客们都匆忙下车了。
10. Curious about
my correction he asked me what an adverb was.
Slowly, I
said, ―it's a word that tells you
something about a verb.‖ It led to his asking me
what
a verb was. I explained, ―Verbs are
action words; for example, Dad drives the truck.
Drive is the verb because it's the thing dad
is doing.‖ (para. 9)
Meaning: fascinated by
my correction, he wondered what an adverb was.
After he got
the answer, he went on with the
question of a verb. To explain vividly to him, I
used
the example of driving: an action I was
doing. Meaning beyond words: The boy was
very
alert to something new or interesting. His
learning experience illustrates that
learning
grammar is not necessarily boring.
11. Then,
out of his own curiosity, he asked me if other
words had names for their use
and functions.
(para. 10)
Meaning: After that, because of
his curiosity, he asked me if other words also had
specific names for their use and the roles
they play.
out of curiosity: because of
curiosity 出于好奇
She decided to follow him out
of curiosity.出于好奇,她决定跟踪他。
12. Perhaps,
language should be looked upon as a road map and a
valuable possession:
often study the road map
(check grammar) and tune up the car engine (adjust
vocabulary). Learning grammar and a good
vocabulary is just like driving with a road
map in a well-conditioned car (para. 11)
Meaning: Maybe, you should regard language as
a road map and a very precious
property you
have. You should often look at the road map
(review grammar) and
make small changes to
your car engine (improve vocabulary).
Meaning
beyond words: The road map and the car are used
metaphorically to mean
that grammar and
vocabulary are powerful devices that will enable
you to freely
explore in the language world.
13. Equipped with grammar and a good
vocabulary, you have flexibility and excellent
control. (para. 12)
Meaning beyond words:
Just as traveling with a road map and a good car,
with the
help of grammar knowledge and a large
vocabulary, you will feel more comfortable
and
confident when using the English language.
be
equipped with sth: be provided with the things
that are needed for a particular kind
of
activity or work 以…为装备;配备…
All dormitory
rooms are equipped with high speed internet
access.宿舍所有的房间都
配备了高速互联网。
Step 4
Question discussing
1. What are the most
important factors that encourage students to learn
English?
2. Do you think English grammar
helps you a lot in learning English? Why or why
not? 3. In what ways can teacher improve the
technique of teaching grammar? 4. How
can
students more effectively enlarge their
vocabulary?
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Step 5 Review & Exercises
presentation --- Reproduction
3. Exercises
4. Exercises 3,4,5,6,7
(Ss give answers
and raise questions they may have and T explains
the difficulties)
ses 8,9--- writing and
translation.
Assignments: 1) review Section
A; 2) Exercises in Section B; 3) speed reading
6 Step 6 Listening practice
Assignments: 1) Story retelling in Unit 1;
2) Pair work --- practice model dialogs in
unit 1 in the Listening and Speaking Book;
3)
Preview the new words in unit 2;
―――――――――――――――自我评价问题――――――――――― ――
Questions for Self-evaluation:
1.
Can I understand the text fully?
2. Have I
memorized the new vocabulary and can I put them
into use?
3. Do I understand better how to
become a successful language learner?
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Unit 2
College—The ladder to success?
课型 :□ 理论课
√ 理论、实践课 □ 实践课
课时分配: 6
教学环境 :多媒体教室
教学目标:
Teaching Aims:
After studying
this unit, the students are expected to be able
to:
1. understand the main idea and structure
of Section A and Section B;
2. master the key
language points and grammatical structures in the
texts
3. talk about significance of the
humanities and gain more insights into life and
society and be aware of cultural and religious
differences;
4. read with the skill ―reading
for major details‖;
5. write a composition to
introduce the advantages of something with three
main parts:
introduction, body and conclusion.
Key Issues
1. Vocabulary
accounting, boost, defect, persist,
accelerate, dominant, compel, elegant,
spectacular,
insight,liable,reservoir, in
succession, speculate abouton, invest . with, in
the
company of
2. Skills
● Learn to
read with the skill ――reading for major details‖
and focus on how the
advantagesdisadvantages
are introduced.
Potential Problems and
Difficulties
●To talk about significance of
the humanities
●write a composition to
introduce advantages and disadvantages of some
topic.
●To apply the phrases and patterns
Methodology
A combination of
traditional teaching methods with the
communicative approach will
be adopted.
Special attention should be paid to classroom
interaction like
questioning and answers.
Small group works are always needed while
discussing the
questions and the difficult
translation practice. More encouragement is needed
and
more guidance will be given in their
extracurricular study.
Teaching Aids:
Visual aids, projector, stereo and microphone
Group work and pair work:
Conduct of
Tasks and Activities
(师生互动方式Mode of
Interaction; 学习策略Learning Strategies)
Students-centered , Task-based teaching and
learning
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Step 1 Lead-in
I. Greeting and warming-
up questions discussion.
1. How do you think
of your current major? If you were given a second
chance to
choose your major, what would you
select and why?
2. What liberal arts
humanities courses do you learn in college? Do you
think they
are necessary for your education?
II. Listening and discussing.
1.
Listening practice.
2. In your opinion, what
are the most important skills you learned in high
school? III.
Listening to a talk and answer
questions on page 30.
Step 2 Section A
An Impressive English Lesson
I. Background
information
1. the humanities
The
humanities are a group of academic disciplines
that study the human condition,
using methods
that are primarily analytical, critical, or
speculative. Therefore, they are
distinguished
from the approaches of the natural sciences. The
humanities, called
social sciences, include
history, anthropology, communication studies,
cultural studies,
law, language, literature,
philosophy, religion, music and theater, etc.
Through
exploration of the humanities,
students learn how to think creatively and
critically, to
reason, and to ask questions.
Because these skills allow students to gain new
insights
into everything from poetry and
paintings to business models and politics,
humanistic
subjects have been at the heart of
a liberal arts education. Today, humanistic
knowledge continues to provide the ideal
foundation for exploring and understanding
the
human experience.
2. self-awareness
Self-awareness isn’t a quality that you
demonstrate by telling a story, but rather it has
to do with how you tell the story and your
ability to communicate what you learned.
Being
able to explain to the admissions committee why
you value one
accomplishment above others,
what you learned from a setback, or the deeper
meaning of your career goals, is evidence of
self-awareness. Furthermore, the
self-aware
individual has knowledge of both his strengths and
weaknesses.
II. Useful expressions and
Practical Phrases
1. major in
主修(某一)科目
2. in succession 连续发生
3. be bound to 肯定会,注定
4.
stand up for 支持,维护
ate about
推测,猜测
6. invest sb. wth sth.
赋予(某人某物)以某种性质
7. be liable to
可能易于做某事
III. Functional Patterns and
Functions & Usages
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. isare more and more
seen as … rather than … 用于表达“人们对某一事物
的看法的变化”。
+ N., sth. now … 用于表达“今昔对比”。
3. If
sb. only do sth. If sb. do sth. alone, it’s
likely that … sb. are liable to
…用于表
达“如果只做„„可能出现的后果”。
Ⅳ.Structure
Analysis:
Main idea of section A: this text
is a narrative that talks about the author’s
personal
experience in giving an effective
English lesson to his son. He claims that students
can learn better if they are properly taught.
Part I (Paras. 1-5) Part I provides the
background information of the argument. By
moving away from the humanities and taking
some ―hard-skill courses instead,
students
think it would improve their chance of finding a
job. Because of the
economic downturn, this
trend is likely to persist and even accelerate.
However, the
humanities play a significant
role in people’s lives and can’t be ignored.
Part II (Paras.6-9) Part II presents the
author’s argument to stand up for the true
value of the humanities: studying the
humanities can improve our ability to read and
write, invest us with great insight and self-
awareness, thereby releasing our creative
energy and talent, and provide the scope of
possibilities that are widely open to us. It
also suggests that inner insight, combined
with technical knowledge, is ideal for the
establishment of a good career.
Part III
(Para. 10) Part III summaries the main ideas
stated in the argument: The
humanities help to
create well-rounded human beings with inner
insight and
understanding of the passions,
hopes and dreams common to all humanity
Step 3 Language points
Detailed study of
the text
1. When the going gets tough, the
tough take accounting. (Para. 1)
Meaning:
When conditions or situations become difficult,
determined people choose
to study the subject
of accounting, hoping they can more easily find a
job in the
future.
★When the going gets
tough: when the situation becomes difficult
当形势变得严峻
时
When the going gets tough, women
can get as tough as men.
当形势变得严峻时,女
人可以变得跟男人一样坚强。
★accounting: n.
[C] the work of accountants or the methods they
use会计; 会计学
Students’ major objective is to be
financially well off. Accordingly, today the most
popular course is not literature or history
but accounting.
学生的主要目的是经济上
富裕。因此,当今最流行的课程不是文学或历史,而是会计。
★take accounting: choose to study the subject
of accounting 选择学会计
2. When the job market
worsens, many students calculate they can’t major
in English
or history. (Para. 1)
Meaning:
When there are fewer job openings, many college
students make a
judgment from the situation
and think they can’t study English or history as
their
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major.
★calculate: vt.
1) make a judgment about
what is likely to happen using the available
information 估
计;预测;推测
It’s difficult to
calculate the long-term effects of these changes
in the law. 这些法律
上变化带来的长期影响是难以预测的。
2) find
out how much sth. will cost, how long sth. will
take, etc. by using numbers 计
算;核算
Nowadays the accountants in the enterprise use
computers to calculate the cost of
production
with accuracy. 如今,企业财务人员利用电脑来计算准确的生产成本。
★major in: study sth. as your main subject at
college or university 主修(某一)科
目
The high
demand for persons with knowledge about computers
is why I chose to
major in computer science at
the university.
对具有电脑知识人才的高需求是我选
择在大学主修计算机科学的原因。
ists to
engage in basic research, not applied research.
产业领导者们希望科学家们
从事基础研究,而不是应用研究。
★bet : (bet,
bet) vt. be fairly sure that sth. is true, that
sth. will happen, etc., although
you can’t
prove this 肯定
I bet the train will be late.
我敢打赌,列车会晚点。
v. risk money on the result of a
race, game, competition or other future event
下赌注;
与„打赌 I bet my life that he will take my
money and leave. 我敢用我的命打赌,他
将拿着我的钱离开。
5.
In other words, a college education is more and
more seen as a means for economic
betterment
rather than a means for human betterment. (Para.
2)
Meaning: In other words, a college
education is more considered as a method to
improve students’ economic status rather than
improve human nature or behavior.
6. This is
a trend that is likely to persist and even
accelerate. (Para. 2)
Meaning: Very likely,
the trend will continue to exist and even go
faster than ever.
★persist: vi. (fml.)
continue to exist 继续存在;持续
1) If the bad
weather persists, the farmers will suffer great
losses this year. 如果恶劣
天气持续,农民今年将遭受巨大的损失。
2) continue to do sth., although this is
difficult, or other people oppose it 坚持;执意
Students must persist in their efforts if they
wish to do well. 学生如果想取得好成绩
就必须坚持努力。
★accelerate: v. happen or make sth. happen at a
faster rate (使)
加快;促进
Human activities can
cause or accelerate permanent changes in natural
systems. 人类
的活动可能导致或加速自然系统的永久变化。
7. Over
the next few years, as labor market struggle, the
humanities will probably
continue their long
slide in succession. (Para. 3)
Meaning: For
the next few years, as the going gets tough with
labor markets, the
subjects of the humanities
will continue to shrink and worsen for a long time
each
year.
Note: It might be worthwhile
to have a review of the word slide used as a noun
or a
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verb:
n. [usu. sing.] a situation in which sth.
gradually gets worse or sb. develops a problem
(情况) 变糟,恶化;(人)出现问题
School administrators
were unable to explain the slide in students’
performance. 学校
管理人员无法解释学生成绩下降的原因。
v.
gradually become worse, or begin to have a problem
逐渐破坏;开始出现问题
Students’ test scores started to
slide in the mid-1990s. 20世纪90年代中期,学生的
考分开始下降。
★succession: n. [sing.] a series of people or
things of the same type 一连串,一系列
(同类型的人或物) After
graduation, he took a succession of low-paid jobs.
毕业
后他干了一连串报酬低微的工作。
★in succession:
happening one after the other without anything
different happening
in between 连续发生地;接连发生地
She is an accomplished athlete and won the
championship four times in succession.
她是一个成功的运动员,连续四次获得冠军。
8. There already has
been a nearly 50 percent decline in the portion of
liberal arts
majors over the past generation,
and it is logical to think that the trend is bound
to
continue or even accelerate. (Para. 3)
Meaning: Based on the factor that there
already has been about 50 percent decrease in
the numbers of students majoring in liberal
arts over the past years, it is reasonable to
think that the trend will surely continue or
even speed up. ★liberal: a.
1) (~arts)
school or college subjects that give students a
general education and
teach them to think
rather than those subjects that develop practical
skills 文科
The liberal arts are college or
university subjects such as history, languages and
literature but not science.
文科是学院或大学的如历史、语言和文学之类的学习课
目,而不是理科学科。
2)
accepting different opinions and ways of behaving
and tending to be sympathetic to
other people
心胸宽广的;开明的
She is known to have liberal views
on divorce. 人们知道她对离婚持有开明的观点。
★logical: a.
connecting ideas or reasons in a sensible way
合乎逻辑的;合理的
It is logical to think that when
people are deprived of their familiar surroundings
they
will feel disoriented.
脱离熟悉的环境时,人们会感到迷失方向,这样想是符合逻
辑的。
★bound: a.
(~to) sth. that is bound to happen will almost
certainly happen 一定的;
几乎肯定的 The weather is
bound to get better tomorrow. 明天的天气肯定更好。
9.
Once the dominant pillars of university life, the
humanities now play little roles
when students
take their college tours. These days, labs are
more vivid and
compelling than libraries.
(Para. 3)
Meaning: The humanities that once
dominated university life now play a trivial role
when students have their college visits;
nowadays, labs are more eye-catching and
fascinating than libraries.
★dominant:
a. more important, powerful, or successful than
the other people or
things of the same type
有优势的;占统治地位的
Unemployment rate will be the
dominant issue at the next president election.
失业率
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将是下次总统选举中的主要话题。 ★pillar: n. [C]
1) a
very important part of a system of beliefs or
ideas (信仰或思想)非常重要的
部分 Equality is one of the
pillars of a stable society. 平等是一个稳定社会的支柱
之一。
2) a thick strong upright post that supports
part of a building 柱子;支柱
Eight massive stone
pillars supported the roof. 八根巨大的石柱支撑起房顶。
★vivid: a. having or producing very clear and
detailed images in the mind 清晰的;
生动的
He
gave a very vivid and often shocking account of
his time in prison. 他描述了他在
监狱的往事,非常生动,也非常令人震惊。
★compel: vt. force sb. to do sth. 强迫;迫使
As a school boy, he was compelled to wear
shorts even in winter.
当他还是一个在校
的小男孩时,即使在冬天他也被迫穿短裤。
★compelling:
a. interesting or exciting enough to keep your
attention completely 有
强烈吸引力的;引人入胜的
Steve
Job’s life makes a compelling story.
史蒂夫•乔布斯的一生是一个引人入胜
的故事。
10. Here, please
allow me to stand up for and promote the true
value that the
humanities add to people’s
lives. (Para. 4)
Meaning: I here ask for your
permission to let me defend and advertise the true
value
that the humanities bring to people’s
lives.
★stand up for: support or defend a
person or an idea when they are being attacked
支
持;保卫;维护
Mary stood up for me at the
meeting, sparing me some embarrassment.
玛丽在会议
上支持了我,使我免受了一些尴尬。
★promote: vt.
support or encourage sth. 支持;鼓励;提倡
To
acknowledge other cultures will promote good will
among people of different
backgrounds.
承认别人的文化会促进不同背景的人之间的友好亲善。
11. Since ancient
times, people have speculated about the mystery of
those inner
forces that drive some people to
greatness and others to self-destruction. (Para.
4)
Meaning: Ever since ancient times, people
have thought carefully and seriously why
the
mysterious forces coming from their inner world
could be so powerful that it
could make some
people great while others morally deteriorate.
★speculated about on: make guesses about the
possible causes or effects of sth.
without
knowing all the facts or details 猜测;推测
It’s
too early to speculate about the outcome of the
negotiations between the workers
union and the
company’s leadership.
要推测工会和公司管理层之间的谈判结果,
还为时过早。
★mystery: n.
[C, usu. sing.] sth. that you are not able to
understand, explain, or get
information about
不可思议的事物;无法解释的事物;谜
No one had ever been able
to explain the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.
从来没有
人能够解释百慕大三角之谜。
★destruction: n. [U]
damage that is so severe that sth. stops existing
or can never
return to its normal state
毁灭;摧毁;破坏
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The destruction caused by too many cars and
the death of millions of people shook
the
foundation of Western idealism.
太多的战争所造成的破坏和数以百万计人的
死亡动摇了西方理想主义的基础。
12.
This inner drive has been called many things over
the centuries. (Para. 4)
Meaning: Over the
past centuries, many different names have been
used to describe
this inner force of human
beings.
13. The famous psychologist, Sigmund
Freud, called it the ―unconscious mind‖ or,
more familiarly, ―instinct‖. (Para. 4)
Meaning: Sigmund Freud, a famous psychologist,
named it the unintentional mind or,
more
familiar to us, natural ability to know something.
★unconscious: a. relating to or coming from
the part of your mind in which there are
thoughts and feelings that you do not realize
you have 潜意识的;下意识的;无意
识的
I don’t know if
he noticed my unconscious desire.
我不知他是否注意到我潜意识的
愿望。
14. From the beginning
of time, this inner aspect of our being, this
drive that can be
constructive or destructive,
has captured our imagination. (Para. 5)
Meaning: Since ancient times, it is this very
inner force of our being, either
constructive
or destructive, that has stimulated our
imagination.
★destructive: a. causing severe
damage or harm 破坏性的;毁灭性的
Lack of trust is
very destructive in a relationship.
缺乏信任在人际关系中是很具有
破坏性的。 15. The stories of this
amazing struggle have formed the basis of cultures
the world over. (Para. 5)
Meaning: It is
these stories about this fascinating inner
struggle of human beings that
have laid the
foundation of the world cultures. 16.
Historians、architects、authors、
philosophers
and artists have captured the words, images and
meanings of this inner
struggle in the form of
story、music、painting、architecture、sculpture、
landscape
and traditions. (Para. 5)
Meaning: Our historians、architects、authors、
philosophers and artists have
successfully
caught the words, images and meanings of this
mysterious inner force by
way of
story、music、painting、architecture、sculpture、
landscape and traditions.
★architect: n. [C]
sb. whose job is to design buildings 建筑师
He
is the architect of this building, and he’s always
on the construction site.
他是这
个大楼的建筑师,他总出现在施工现场。
★philosopher: n.
[C] sb. who studies and tries to explain the
meaning of things such
as life, knowledge, or
beliefs 哲学家;哲人
Plato was a Greek philosopher.
柏拉图是希腊哲学家。
★in the form of: in the way sth.
is or appears to be 以„形式;以„方式
They received a
benefit in the form of a tax reduction.
他们通过减税的方式获益。
★landscape: n. [C]
1) a
photograph or a painting showing an area of
countryside or land 风景照;风景画
2) an area of
land that is beautiful to look at or has a
particular type of appearance
(陆上的)风景,景致,景色
The landscape is dotted with the tents of
campers. 露营者的帐篷点缀了风景。
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17. These men and women
developed artistic ―languages‖ that help us
understand
these aspiration and also educate
generations. (Para. 5)
Meaning: The artistic
works and masterpieces created by these men and
women help
us understand the strong desires
and beautiful dreams of human beings and also help
educate future generations.
18. This
fertile body of work from ancient times, the very
foundation of civilization,
forms the basis of
study of the humanities. (Para. 5)
Meaning:
The large amount of work filled with rich ideas
and imagination from
ancient times — the
fundamental components of civilization — provides
the basis of
the study of the humanities.
★fertile: a.
1) able to produce good ideas or
results 富有成果的;富有想象力的 A poet must
have a
fertile imagination. 诗人必须有丰富的想象力。 2) able to
produce good
crops or plants (土地)
肥沃的,富饶的Fertile soil helps Canada rank among the
world’s leading wheat producers.
肥沃的土壤帮助加拿大跻身世界主要小麦生产
国。
a the body of
sth.: a large amount or mass of sth., esp. sth.
that has been collected 大
量的某物
Acquiring a
language is learning a skill, not collecting a
body of information. 学语言
是学习技能,而不是获取大量的信息。
19. Studying the humanities improves our
ability to read and write. No matter what
we
do in life, we will have a huge advantage if we
can read complex ideas and
understand their
meaning. We will have a bright career if we are
the person in the
office who can write a clear
and elegant analysis of these ideas! (Para. 6)
Meaning: Studying the humanities helps us
improve our reading and writing ability.
In
whatever situation, it is a great advantage if we
understand complex ideas through
reading. To
illustrate, if we are the person in the office who
can write and analyze
those complex ideas in a
logical, clear, intelligent yet simple manner, we
will have a
promising career. ★elegant: a.
1) very intelligent yet simple (想法或计划)巧妙的,简洁的
The document impressed me with its elegant
simplicity. 该文件给我留下了精辟简
明的深刻印象。 2) beautiful,
attractive and graceful 优美的;高雅的
Patricia
looked beautiful and elegant as always.
帕特里夏看上去总是那么美丽优雅。
★analysis: n. [C, U] a
process of studying or examining sth. in detail in
order to
understand it or explain it 分析
I’m interested in Clare’s analysis of the
situation in China. 我对克莱尔对中国形势
的分析很感兴趣。
20. Studying the humanities makes us familiar
with the language of emotion and the
creative
process. (Para. 7) Meaning: We get more familiar
with the expressions of
emotion and the
process of creation by studying the humanities.
21. In an information economy, many people
have the ability to produce a useful
product
such as a new MP3 player. (Para. 7)
Meaning:
In an economy driven by information, many people
are capable of
producing a useful commodity
like a new MP3 player.
22. Yet, very few
people have the ability to create a spectacular
brand: the Ipod. (Para.
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7)
Meaning: But
very few people have the ability to create an
extremely impressive
product name such as the
Ipod. (Para. 7)
★spectacular: a. extremely
impressive 引人入胜的;非常壮观的 There was a
spectacular
sunset last night. 昨晚的日落极其壮观。
★brand: n. [C]
a product or group of products that has its own
name and is made by
one particular company
品牌;商标
The Beatles are probably one of the
most spectacular brands of musicians in the world.
披头士可能是全世界音乐界里最吸引人的品牌之一了。
23. Most
importantly, studying the humanities invests us
with great insight and
self-awareness, thereby
releasing our creative energy and talent in a
positive and
constructive manner. (Para. 7)
Meaning: The most important advantage for us
to study the humanities is that it
enables us
to become more analytical and self-aware;
therefore, our creativeness and
talent are
brought out in a positive and constructive way.
★invest: v. use your money with the aim of
making a profit from it 投资
He invested all
our profits in gold shares. 他把我们所有的利润都投资进了黄金股。
★invest sb. sth. with sth.: (fml.) give sb.
or sth. a particular quality 赋予(某人或某
物)以(某种性质)
Nature has invested these animals with a
capacity for not showing fear.
自然界赋予
了这些动物不显露恐惧的本领。 ★insight: n.
1) [U]
the ability to notice and understand a lot about
people or situation 洞察力;领
悟力
It was an
interesting book, full of fascinating insight into
human nature. 这是一本有
趣的书,充满了对人性绝妙的洞察力。
2)
[C, U] a sudden clear understanding of sth., esp.
sth. complicated 顿悟;洞悉;见
解
Her research
has given us some insight into what sparks a
teenager’s curiosity. 她的
研究是我们顿悟到什么会引起青少年的好奇心。
★thereby: ad. (fml.) because of or by means of
what has just been mentioned 因此;
从而;借此
We
started our journey early, thereby avoiding most
of the traffic. 我们早早地开始
了我们的旅程,从而避开了交通堵塞的高峰期。
24. Perhaps the best argument in favor of the
humanities in the scope of possibilities
that
are widely open to us. (Para. 8)
Meaning: The
most valid argument to support the humanities is
perhaps they can
provide us with a wide range
of opportunities.
★in favor of: supporting a
person or an idea, proposal, etc. that you believe
is right
支持;赞同
Congress has decided in
favor of a $200 million housing development.
美国国会已
决定赞成一个两亿美元发展住房的计划。
★the scope of:
the range of 范围
The Student Association has
promised to widen the scope of activities.
学生会已承
诺要扩大活动范围。 25. Did you know that James
Cameron, world-famous director
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
of the movie, Titanic,
graduated with a degree in the humanities? So did
Sally Ride,
the first woman in space. So did
actors Bruce Lee, Gwyneth Paltrow, Renee
Zellweger and Matt Damon. Dr. Harold Varmus,
who won Novel Prize for Medicine,
studied the
humanities. Even Michael Eisner, Chairman of the
Disney Company,
majored in the humanities.
(Para. 8)
Meaning Beyond words: All these
famous people should attribute their success to
their previous study of the humanities, which
invested them with great insight and
self-
awareness.
26. Famous people who studied the
humanities make a list indeed. It’s easy to see
the
humanities can prepare us for many
different careers and jobs we can undertake,
whether medicine, business, science or
entertainment. (Para. 8)
Meaning: It is true
that famous people who studied the humanities can
make up a long
list. Obviously, the humanities
enable us to engage in many different careers and
jobs,
no matter whether they are medicine,
business, science or entertainment.
★prepare…for…: make sb. ready and able to deal
with a future event 使„做好准备
(应对未来)We now need to
prepare them for the digital economy.
我们现在需要
让他们为数码经济做好准备。
★undertake: vt.
(undertook, undertook) agree to be responsible for
a job or project
and do it 承担;着手做 Dr. Johnson
undertook the task of writing a comprehensive
English dictionary. 约翰逊博士着手写一本详尽的英语词典。
27. If we study only mathematics, it’s likely
we will be a candidate only for jobs as a
mathematician. (Para. 8) Meaning: If we study
only mathematics, very possibly we
will be a
person who only competes for jobs as a
mathematician.
★candidate: n. [C] sb. who is
being considered for a job or is competing in an
election 候选人
One US corporation offered a
large sum of money in support of a US presidential
candidate at a time when the company was under
investigation.
一个美国公司在接
受调查期间为某个美国总统候选人提供了大量的金钱支持。
28. If
we include studying the humanities, we can make
breakthroughs on many
barriers and are limited
only by our efforts and imagination. (Para. 8)
Meaning: If we also study the humanities, we
can successfully remove many
obstacles on our
way and still develop our potential unless we
don’t try enough and
lack imagination.
★breakthrough: n. [C] a discovery or
achievement that comes after a lot of hard work
突破;重大发现;重大成就
Scientists have made more
than one major breakthrough in the treatment of
cancer.
科学家在治疗癌症方面取得了不止一个重大突破。
★barrier:
n. [C] anything that prevents progress or makes it
difficult for sb. to achieve
sth. 障碍
The
new president advocated the removal of trade
barriers for his country. 那位新总
统主张为他的国家消除贸易壁垒。
29. Of course, nowadays, if we study the
humanities alone, we are liable to miss many
opportunities. (Para. 8) Meaning: It is for
sure that nowadays if we study the
humanities
alone, we are likely to miss many chances or
opportunities.
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★liable: (be ~ to do sth.) likely to do sth.
in a particular way because of a fault or
tendency 可能(易于)做某事的
Many parts of the
country are liable to suffer from flooding.
该国的许多地方已遭水
灾。
30. Each one of us needs to
become technically and professionally skilled as
possible
to help meet the needs of modern
life. (Para. 9)
Meaning: To satisfy the needs
of modern life, all of us need to try our best to
become
technically and professionally
skillful.
31. In fact, increasingly a pairing
of technical knowledge and inner insight is seen
as
the ideal in the establishment of a career.
(Para. 9)
Meaning: In fact, a combination of
technical knowledge and inner insight is
increasingly lokked upon as the ideal mode for
starting a career.
★establishment: n. [U] the
process of starting or creating sth. such as an
organization
建立;创立;设立 We support their
struggle for the establishment of a new
international economic order.
我们支持他们为建立国际经济新秩序而斗争。
32. If I were the Dean
of Admissions at a medical school and two people
applied to
our school, both having the
required basic scientific courses, one a
philosophy major
and the other solely a pre-
med student, the philosophy applicant would be
chosen.
(Para. 9)
Meaning: Suppose I were
the Dean of Admissions at a medical school and I
were
recruiting two applicants. Both of them
took the required basic scientific courses, but
one is a philosophy major and the other just
pre-med. I would surely choose the one
with
the philosophy background.
★sole: a. (only
before the noun) the only one of a particular type
唯一的;仅有的
The sole purpose of his trip was to
attend a concert at Carnegie Hall.
他此行的唯一
目的是参加在卡内基厅举行的一场音乐会。
★solely: ad.
involving nothing except the person or thing
mentioned 只;唯一地;仅
仅
Scholarships are given
solely on the basis of financial need.
奖学金的颁发只根据财
物的需要。
★pre-med: a. (AmE)
relating to classes that prepares a student for
medical school, or
to the students who are
taking these classes 医学院预科的;针对医学院预科生的
My
sister wants to become a doctor, and she’s now a
pre-med student. 我妹妹想成为
一名医生,她现在是医学院的预科生。
33. In summary, the humanities helps to create
well-rounded human beings with
insight and
understanding of the passions, hopes and dreams
common to all humanity.
(Para. 10)
Meaning: To summarize, with the help of the
humanities, we can create all-rounded
people
who are insightful and well understand the
passions, hopes and dreams
common to all
humanity.
★well-rounded human beings: human
beings with a range of interests and skills and a
variety of experience 全面发展的人
34. The
humanities, the ancient timeless reservoir of
knowledge, teach us to see things
differently
and broaden our horizons. They are as useful and
relevant in our modern
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age as they have always
been. (Para. 10)
Meaning: The humanities, the
ancient timeless resource of knowledge, teach us
to see
things from different perspectives and
to expand our horizons, which is useful and
related to our modern life, just as it has
always been.
★reservoir: n. [C]
1) a
large quantity of sth. that can be used 积蓄;储蓄
Colleges are a reservoir of talents for
companies. 大学是企业的人才库。
2) an artificial or
natural lake where water is stored so that it can
be supplied to the
houses in an area
(人造的)水库;(天然)蓄水湖
If it rains heavily, the
reservoir will overflow. 如果下大雨,水库里的水将会溢出来。
35. Doesn’t it make sense to spend some time
in the company of the humanities, our
outstanding and remarkable treasure of
knowledge? (Para. 10)
Meaning: Isn’t it
reasonable to spend some time with the humanities,
our extremely
good and marvelous treasure of
knowledge?
★in the company of: in sb’s
company; with sb. 和某人在一起
She caught sight of
her grandson, in the company of three other boys
of similar age,
going into the narrow alley
which led to the railway.
她看见她的孙子和其他三个年
龄相仿的男孩一起,进入了那条通向铁路的狭窄小巷。
★outstanding: a. extremely good or impressive
杰出的;出众的;显著的
His performance in charitable
activities was outstanding. 在公益活动方面,他的表
现非常出色。
6. Who knows how famous YOU might become!
Meaning: No one can tell how
famous you will
be!
Step 4 Question discussing
1.
What are the main factors that affect students’
decision on choosing their majors?
2. Why are
there more science majors than liberal arts majors
in college today?
3. Should schools give
more support to the study of the humanities? Why
or why not?
Step 5 Review & Exercises
presentation
3. Exercises
4.
Exercises 3,4,5,6,7
(Ss give answers and
raise questions they may have and T explains the
difficulties)
ses 8,9--- writing and
translation.
Assignments:
1) review
Section A;
2) Exercises in Section B;
3)
speed reading
Step 6 Listening practice
Assignments:
1) listening skills:
Understanding the problem-solution pattern in the
Listening and
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Speaking Book;
2) Pair work --- practice
model dialogs in unit 2;
3) Preview the new
words in unit 3;
―――――――――――――――自我评价问题――――――――――― ――
Questions for Self-evaluation:
1. Can I
understand the text fully?
2. Have I
memorized the new vocabulary and can I put them
into use?
3. Do I understand what a college
education means to humanities?
Resources and Materials:
全新版大学英语长篇阅读2,上海外语教育出版社,李荫华
新视野大学英语读写教程(第三版),外语教学与研究出版社,郑树棠
大学英语语法,外语教学与研究出版社大学英语,袁懋梓
大学实用英语写作教程,北京理工大学出版社,汪宏 教参
References
新视野大学英语教师用书, 郑树棠, 外语教学与研究出版社,2015年 Motivating
Students to Normal University Press.2004
Classroom Michael ai Foreign Language
Education
Press.2005
课后记录 After Class
Notes
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Unit 3 Discovery of a
new life stage
课型 :□ 理论课 √ 理论、实践课 □ 实践课
课时分配: 6
教学环境 :多媒体教室
教学目标:
Teaching Aims:
After studying this unit,
the students are expected to be able to:
1.
to understand the main idea and structure of
Section A and Section B;
2. to master the key
language points and grammatical structures in the
texts
3. to talk about language teaching and
learning and express their opinions about
current way of teaching in an English class;
4. to read with the skill ―finding key ideas
in sentences‖;
5. to write a composition with
three main parts: introduction, body and
conclusion.
Key Issues:
1.
Vocabulary
parallel, previous, sensible,
radical, agenda, frame, spouse, stability,
proportion,
rebellion, resent, resort,
allowance, transition, predict, version, boom
2. Skills
● Learn to read with the skill
—finding key ideas in sentences and write a
composition with three main parts: introduction,
body and conclusion.
Potential Problems
and Difficulties
●To talk about language
teaching and learning
●write a composition
with three main parts: introduction, body and
conclusion. ●To
apply the phrases and patterns
Methodology:
A combination of
traditional teaching methods with the
communicative approach will
be adopted.
Special attention should be paid to classroom
interaction like questioning
and answers.
Small group works are always needed while
discussing the questions
and the difficult
translation practice. More encouragement is needed
and more
guidance will be given in their
extracurricular study.
Teaching Aids:
Visual aids, projector, stereo and microphone
Group work and pair work
Conduct of Tasks
and Activities
(师生互动方式Mode of Interaction;
学习策略Learning Strategies)
Students-centered,
Task-based teaching and learning
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
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I. Greeting
and warming-up questions discussion.
1. What
is the ideal university like in your eyes?
2.
What are your expectations of your spouse?
3.
In your opinion, what is your ideal life?
II. Listening and discussing.
1.
Listening practice.
2. What should we do to
face our parents as children?
Step 2
Section A An Impressive English Lesson
I.
Usage note:
1. sensible, sensitive
sensible 表示―明智的‖,如:a sensible person(一个明智的人),a
sensible plan
(一个切合实际的计划)。
A sensible
person makes good decisions and adjustments based
on reason rather than
emotion.
一个明智的人会根据理智而不是情感来做出合理的决定和判断。
sensible
还可以表示―知道的;觉察的
be sensible of … 表示―感知某事;察觉到某事‖。
例如:
I am sensible of the suffering you are
undergoing. 我清楚你正在经历的痛苦。
sensitive
在词义上表示―敏感的;易受影响的‖。例如:
A sensitive person is
easily upset by other people’s remarks or
behavior. 敏感的人很
容易因他人的言论或行为而生气。
You
shouldn’t be so sensitive about what people say.
你不应该对别人说什么如此敏
感。
sensitive to
表示―对…过敏的;对…理解的‖。例如:
Unfortunately, she is
sensitive to penicillin, and I doubt whether any
other drug will
help her.
不幸的是,她对青霉素过敏,我不能确定是否有其他药物可以帮助她。
We are trying
to make people more sensitive to the difficulties
faced by working
mothers.
我们正在努力使人们更理解上班族妈妈所面临的困难。
2. tend to do sth
usu. do a particular thing 倾向于;往往会;易于做某事
People tend to need less sleep as they get
older. 随着年纪的增长,人们需要的睡眠
会变少。
Because my car
tends to overheat in the summer, I frequently have
to turn on the AC
to help the engine cool
down.
因为我的车往往在夏天会过热,所以我得常将空调打开,以帮 助引擎冷却。
3. peculiar, characteristic, unusual
peculiar, characteristic 和unusual
都可用作形容词,都含有表示―有特点的;有
特色的‖等意 思,但有细微差别。
从词义上说,peculiar
着重―独特性‖,强调―与众不同的‖特征;characteristic 常
强调所指
性质的典型性,也可以表示这些性质使某一事物区别于其他的事物;
unusual 强调―少见的‖,
与通常的情况―截然不同的‖或―未曾预料的‖特征。例
如: The wine has a
peculiar taste. 这种酒有种独特的味道。
It’s
characteristic of her that she never complained.
从来不发牢骚是她的个性。
It was not unusual for me to
come home at two or three in the morning.
凌晨两三点
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回家对
我来说是很平常的事。
II. Structure Analysis:
Main idea of section A: this text is a
narrative that talks about the author’s personal
experience in giving an effective English
lesson to his son. He claims that students
can
learn better if they are properly taught.
Part1 (Para. 1) Explains how the traditional way
labeled previous life stages:
childhood,
adolescence, adulthood and old ages
Part 2
(Paras.2) This transitional paragraph claims that
the way of viewing different
life stages is
changing.
Part 3 (Paras3-5) Introduces a new
life stage, the odyssey years, using comparison
and contrast. Specifically, Paragraph 3
describes what young people used to do after
college. Paragraph 4 presents young people’s
assumption of adulthood people today.
Paragraph 5 compares the image of young people
today in the past and present.
Part 4
(Paras6-10) This part exclusively deals with the
characteristics of the
odyssey years such as
young people’s rebellious reaction, parents’
feelings toward
the growing children, no new
guidelines, young people holding traditional
aspirations
and so on
Step 3
Language points
Detailed study of the text
1. Most of us know about the phases of life
which we label to parallel different age
groups and life stages: childhood,
adolescence, adulthood, and old age. (Para. 1)
Meaning: Most of us know about the different
life stages that we describe according
to
different age groups: childhood, adolescence,
adulthood, and old age.
2. We think of
infancy before childhood and middle age before old
age, with each
unique phase bringing it’s own
peculiar set of challenges. (Para. 1)
Meaning: We sequence the life stages of
infancy, childhood, middle age and old age
according to their natural order, with each
particular life stage facing its own featured
challenges.
3. These challenges can be
overcome by acquainting ourselves with them, such
as the
child’s need to learn, the adult’s need
to find the right career and build a family, and
the senior’s need for support and good health
care. (Para. 1)
Meaning: By familiarizing
ourselves with the particular challenges such as
the needs
for different age groups: child,
adult, and senior, we can surely overcome all
these
challenges.
Meaning beyond words:
If we stay positive and optimistic, we’ll
successfully handle
the challenges at
different life stages.
4. Interestingly,
ideas about the stages of life are changing.
(Para. 2)
Meaning beyond words: Since the
sentence states that the ideas about life stages
are
changing, it’s predictable that the
following text will focus on this topic.
5.
In previous times, people didn’t have a solid idea
of childhood as being separate
from adulthood.
A hundred years ago, no one thought of
adolescence. (Para. 3)
Meaning: In the past,
people didn’t have a clear concept about
separating childhood
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from adulthood. Children
were simply seen as youngsters. Likewise, people
didn’t
think about the life stage of
adolescence a hundred years ago.
6. Until
recently it was understood as a norm that their
induction to adulthood was
completed as soon
as they graduated from college. They would now
find a sensible
job which would lead to a
career. (Para. 3) Meaning: People used to consider
it
normal: As soon as students graduated from
college, they would become part of the
adult
community and find a practical and reliable job
toward a career.
7. Then during this career
they would start a family, ideally before they
turned 30.
(Para. 3)
Meaning: While
working on their career, they would get married to
start their own
family, preferably by age 30.
8. Today we have an equivalent need to
recognize a new phase of life that comes after
high school graduation, continues through
college, and then leads to starting a family
and having a career, the so-called odyssey
years. (Para. 4)
Meaning: Today we are also
required to recognize a new life stage which
starts from
high school graduation through
college till they settle down with a family and a
career.
This new phase might be called the
odyssey years, the years of self-discovery unfair
to them.
9. Recent trends show radical
changes as young people are following a different
agenda. (Para. 4)
Meaning: As young
people are living a different lifestyle, the
society has gone
through tremendous changes.
Meaning beyond words: Young people tend to behave
rebelliously, which is contrary to the
traditional way and beyond the expectations of
their parents.
10. They take breaks from
school, live with friends and often return to
living with
their parents.(Para. 4) Meaning:
They stop going to school for a while, live with
friends and often even return to living with
their parents.
11. Similarly they fall in and
out of love, quit one job and try another or even
shift to a
new career.(Para. 4)
Meaning:
Likewise, they fall in and out of love, give up
one job and try another, or
change to a
completely different profession.
Meaning
beyond words: Before they finally settle down,
college graduates need to
accumulate life
experiences – to discover themselves during their
odyssey years.
12. So, we need to recognize
this new stage, the odyssey years, which many now
consider to be an unavoidable stage in
reaching adulthood. (Para. 4)
Meaning:
Therefore, it is necessary to recognize this
unavoidable new stage, where
young people
explore life in order to reach adulthood.
13.
People who were born prior to the 60s or 70s in
the last century tended to frame
their concept
of adulthood based upon achieving certain
accomplishments: moving
away from home,
becoming financially independent, finding the
right spouse and
starting a family. (Para. 5)
Meaning: People born before the 1960s or 1970s
were likely to define the term
adulthood
according to certain accomplishments, such as
moving away from home,
having financial
independence, and starting a family with a good
husband or wife.
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14. But that emphasis on
stability did not remain static. Today, young
people are
unlikely to do the same. (Para. 5)
Meaning: However, stability didn’t stay the
same forever since young people today
are
doing things differently from their parents.
15. During the odyssey years, a high
proportion of young people are delaying
marriage, childbearing, and even employment.
(Para. 5)
Meaning: Many young people postpone
getting married, having children and taking a
job during their odyssey years.
16. The
odyssey years can saddle young people with
enormous pressure to move
forward quickly.
(Para. 6)
Meaning: The odyssey years can make
young people feel much stressed to move
ahead
quickly.
17. As the sole heir and focus of
their parents’ expectations, hopes and dreams,some
react with rebellious and prideful attitudes
and behavior toward their parents.(Para. 6)
Meaning: Being the only heir and focus of
their parents’ expectations, hopes and
dreams,
some young people behaved rebelliously and proudly
toward their parents.
18. They often resent
the pressure they’re feeling and keep a distance
from their
parents or even run away from home.
(Para. 6)
Meaning: They often feel upset
about the stress they have and stay away from
their
parents or even secretly leave home.
19. Their confusion comes from the
difficulties to make parents understand them and
the fluid journey of discovery they need in
this phase of their lives. (Para. 6)
Meaning:
They get confused because it’s hard to communicate
with their parents and
also because the
journey of self-discovery they need in this
particular life stage is full
of uncertainty.
20. To get away from this confusion and upset,
many young people resort to computer
games,
iPod, iPhone, or iPad to help distract them from
their pain and stress. (Para. 6)
Meaning: In
order not to be bothered by this confusion and
frustration and to forget
about their pain and
stress, many young people turn to computer games,
iPods,
iPhones or iPads. .Meaning: Their
parents become more restless as well.
Meaning
beyond words: As their grown children would not
listen to their advice,
parents are getting
more worried about what direction their children
may move to.
22. They may make allowances for
a transition phase from student life to adult
life,
but they get upset when they see the
transition of their grown children’s lives moving
away from their expectations and stretching
five years to seven years, and beyond.
(Para.
7)
Meaning: Parents may accept their grown
children to delay the transition period from
life to adult life, but they are frustrated
when they find their children moving away
from
what they expected and when they extend the period
to too many years.
23. The parents don’t even
detect a clear sense of direction in their
children’s lives.
They look at them and see
the things that are being delayed. (Para. 7)
Meaning: The parents even lose track of their
children’s lives, so they just look at
them
and see how the things that should be done are
being postponed.
Meaning beyond words:
Parents are very worried about their grown
children’s future
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but don’t know what to
do to help.
Step 4 Question discussing
1. What are the most important factors that
encourage students to learn English?
2. Do
you think English grammar helps you a lot in
learning English? Why or why
not?
3. In
what ways can teacher improve the technique of
teaching grammar? 4. How can
students more
effectively enlarge their vocabulary?
Step 5 Review & Exercises
presentation --- Reproduction 3.. Exercises
4. Exercises 3,4,5,6,7
(Ss give answers
and raise questions they may have and T explains
the difficulties)
ses 8,9--- writing and
translation.
6. Assignments:
1) review
Section A;
2) Exercises in Section B;
3)
speed reading
Step 6 Listening practice
Assignments:
1) Story retelling in Unit
3;
2) Pair work --- practice model dialog in
unit 3 in the Listening and Speaking Book;
3)
Preview the new words in unit 4;
―――――――――――――――自我评价问题――――――――――― ――
Questions for Self-evaluation:
1. Can I
understand the text fully?
2. Have I
memorized the new vocabulary and can I put them
into use? 15. Do I
understand better how to
become a successful language learner?
Resources and Materials:
全新版大学英语长篇阅读2,上海外语教育出版社,李荫华
新视野大学英语读写教程(第三版),外语教学与研究出版社,郑树棠
大学英语语法,外语教学与研究出版社大学英语,袁懋梓
大学实用英语写作教程,北京理工大学出版社,汪宏 教参
References
新视野大学英语教师用书, 郑树棠, 外语教学与研究出版社,2015年 Motivating
Students to Normal University Press.2004
Classroom Michael ai Foreign Language
Education
Press.2005
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Unit 4 Dance with love
课型 :□ 理论课 √ 理论、实践课
课时分配:6
教学环境 :多媒体教室
教学目标 :
Teaching Aims:
After studying this unit, the students are
expected to be able to:
1. understand the
main idea and structure of Section A and Section
B;
2. master the key language points and
grammatical structures in the texts
3. talk
about romance love and express their opinions
about modern dating practice;
4. read with
the skill how the story develops with the details;
5. write a narrative with
a rough draft.
Key Issues
1. Vocabulary
expel
cautious romance ambitious pessimistic honey-mood
gaze weird tempt semester
consequently
deserve propose confess come over sb.
2.
Skills
● Learn to read how the story develops
with the details;
● Write a narrative with
a rough draft.
Potential Problems and
Difficulties:
●To talk about romance love
●To master the essay writing skill
●To
apply the phrases and patterns
Methodology:
A combination of traditional
teaching methods with the communicative approach
will
be adopted. Special attention should be
paid to classroom interaction like questioning
and answers. Small group works are always
needed while discussing the questions
and the
difficult translation practice. More encouragement
is needed and more
guidance will be given in
their extracurricular study.
Teaching Aids:
Visual aids, projector, stereo and microphone
Group work and pair work
Conduct of
Tasks and Activities
(师生互动方式Mode of
Interaction; 学习策略Learning Strategies)
Students-centered, Task-based teaching and
learning
Teaching Procedures
Step 1
Lead-in
I. Greeting and warming-up questions
discussion.
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1. What’s your opinion about the modern dating
practice?
2. Do you have any experience in
dating?
3. What’s your understanding of true
love?
II. Listening and discussing.
1.
Listening practice.
2. Do you think it’s a
good idea to date someone at college? Why or why
not?
III. Listening to a passage and fill in
the missing words.
Step 2 Section A
I. New words
expel, cautious, romance,
ambitious, pessimistic, propose, gaze, weird,
tempt,
semester, consequently, deserve,
confess, come over sb.
II. Useful expressions
and Practical Phrases
1. head for
朝„„前进,向„„去
2. love at first sight
一见钟情
3. with no component of fun
没有一丝新鲜感
4. whisper sweet words in
the ear 在耳边甜言蜜语
5. sure
enough 果然、果真
6. propose
marriage 求婚
III. Functional Patterns and Functions &
Usages
1. sth. (a feeling) comes over sb.
When sb. does sth.
用于表达“某人在特定情境下突然受到某种情感的影响”。
2. True, „, but
sb. does sth. the truth is„
用于通过让步的方式,表达“某人与某种普遍认同观点相异的情况”。
3. Despite
sth., at one’s core, sb. is „ 用于表达“某人最本质的一面”。
IV. Structure Analysis:
Main idea
of section A: this text is a narrative that tells
romantic story about the
author herself.
Part I (Para. 1) This part is the introduction
which prepares for the topic of love.
The
narrator now has two daughters who are at the age
of dating. They believe that
their parents had
a romantic story heading for marriage from the
very beginning.
However, It’s not completely
true. She started dating Butch not for love but
for fun
because she wanted to get away from
her boring college life.
Part II
(Paras.2-10) This is the major part of the
narrative. It is interspersed with
flashbacks
of the narrator’s dating experiences. The story
records the long journey of
love in a time
sequence and describes in detail how she felt
about Butch and how they
together went through
ups and downs for seven years before they finally
got married.
Part III (Para. 11) This
part echoes the beginning of the narration to
reiterate that
their love actually started
with a casual attraction only but bloomed into a
mature love
for life. Having weathered the
storm of love, their marriage now has turned out
to be a
long, romantic, sometimes crazy, love
story, which sums up a 29-year long
honeymoon.
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Step 3
Language points
Detailed study of the text
1. I smile at my two lovely daughters and they
seem so much more mature than we,
their
parents, when we were college sweethearts. (Para.
1)
Meaning beyond words: Married to her
college sweetheart, the author now is happy
with her family and two grown daughters.
Note: College sweethearts refer to someone
with whom one is in love and by whom
one is
loved at college; sweetheart is equivalent to
lover,darling, beloved, or dear.
For example:
Well done, sweetheart, we are all so proud of
you. 做得好,宝贝,我们以你为荣。
My husband is the greatest
guy in the world; he was my college sweetheart.
我丈夫
是世界上最棒的,大学时他就是我的恋人。
He tries to locate
his former sweetheart Melina from whom he has
heard nothing for a
very long time.
他在努力寻找他以前的恋人梅利娜,他已经很久没有她的消息了。
2. Linda, who’s
21, had a boyfriend in her freshman year she
thought she would marry,
but they’re not
together anymore. Melissa, who’s 19, hasn’t had a
steady boyfriend
yet. My daughters wonder when
they will meet “The One”, their great love.(Para.
1)
Meaning beyond words: Her two daughters
are at the age of just dating, but they seem
to be very mature wondering when they will
meet their true love.
3. They think their
father and I had a classic fairy tale romance
heading for marriage
from the outset. (Para.
1) Meaning beyond words: Her daughters consider
their
parents’ marriage a typical conventional
romance because they think it aimed at
marriage from the very beginning. Usage note:
classic, classical
1 classic
用作形容词表示“经典的;精彩的;一流的”。例如:
Death on the Nile is
one of the classic works of Agatha Christie.
《尼罗河上的惨案》
是阿加莎•克里斯蒂的经典作品之一。
口语中也会用到classic
这个词。当你看到一场精彩的演出时,就可以说“That’s
classic!”来表达赞美。
classic 用作形容词也表示“典型的;标准的”。例如:
London is the
classic example of the scattered city.
伦敦是标准分散型的城市。
This statement was a classic
illustration of British politeness.
这项陈述是对英国礼
貌的一个典型说明。 classic
也可用作名词,表示“文学名著;经典作品;杰作”。
例如:
We have all
the standard classics of Hayao Miyazaki at home.
我们家有宫崎骏的所
有的经典作品。
2 classical
不能用作名词,只能用作形容词,表示“古典的;经典的”。例如:
I spend a lot
of time reading and listening to classical music.
我花了很多时间阅读
和聆听古典音乐。
Classical music is
music written by composers such as Mozart and
Beethoven. 像莫
扎特和贝多芬所创作的音乐称为古典音乐。
莫扎特和贝多芬所创作的音乐属于古典音乐(classical music),
但这些古典音乐经
久不衰,有永久的意义和价值,所以这些音乐也可称为经典的音乐(classic
music)。
反之,在前面有一例中说可口可乐瓶子的设计是精彩的,一流的,所以是经典
(
classic)之作,但很明显可口可乐瓶子的设计不是古典的(classical)设计。所
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以,经典的(classic)作品不一定就是古典的(classical)作品。
Note: Classic fairy-tale romance is used to
describe a romance blessed with unusual
happiness. Colloquially, a fairy tale can also
refer to any story extremely unlikely to
be
true.
4. Perhaps, they’re right but it didn’t
seem so at the time. (Para. 1)
Meaning: My
daughters’ perception may be right, yet our
romance back then was
actually not like what
they have assumed.
5. In a way, love just
happens when you least expect it. Who would have
thought that
Butch and I would end up getting
married to each other? He became my boyfriend
because of my shallow agenda: I wanted a cute
boyfriend! (Para. 1)
Meaning: Love comes your
way when you don’t really expect it. No one
thought that
Butch and I would finally get
married. He became my boyfriend simply because I
would like to fulfill my shallow wish: to have
an attractive boyfriend in college.
Meaning
beyond words: Here is the suspense of the story –
the author gives a broad
hint that she will
tell us how she and her husband got married at
last.
6. We met through my college roommate
at the university cafeteria. That fateful night,
I was merely curious, but for him I think it
was love at first sight. (Para. 2)
Meaning:
At the school dining hall that important night, we
were introduced to each
other through my
roommate. I met Butch just out of curiosity, but
he seemed to fall in
love with me as soon as
he saw me.
7. ―You have beautiful eyes,‖ he
said as he gazed at my face. (Para. 2)
Meaning beyond words: The author was obviously
attractive to Butch since he tried to
please
her by praising her eyes.
8. He kept staring
at me all night long. (Para. 2)
Note: Both
gaze at and stare at mean “looking at something
fixedly for a long time
because of being
attracted, surprised, or thinking, etc.”. Stare at
usually has the
additional meaning of with
eyes widely open‖. Also, it usually implies with
great
attention; gaze at usually implies in a
dreamy and unaware state of mind.
9. I really
wasn’t that interested for two reasons. First, he
looked like he was a really
wild boy, maybe
even dangerous. Second, although he was very cute,
he seemed a
little weird. (Para. 2)
Meaning beyond words: She wasn’t interested in
him because she got the impression
that he was
wild and strange, which illustrates that she
didn’t know much about him at
the beginning.
Therefore, it’s not true that their romance was
heading for marriage
from the start.
10.
Riding on his bicycle, he’d ride past my dorm as
if “by accident” and pretend to
be surprised
to see me. I liked the attention but was cautious
about his wild, dynamic
personality. (Para. 3)
Meaning beyond words: She understood his
little trick: trying to see her by
manufacturing excuses. Though she was happy to
be the focus of his attention, she
was also
very alert to his wild and dynamic personality.
11. He had a charming way with words which
would charm any girl. (Para. 3)
Meaning: He
knew how to please and attract girls because what
he said was always
pleasant to their ears.
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12. Fear
came over me when I started to fall in love. His
exciting “bad boy image”
was just too tempting
to resist. What was it that attracted me?(Para. 3)
Meaning: I was in an awkward position: I
started to fall in love with him, but I was
also afraid of that. His bad boy image was too
attractive to resist, but at the same time
it
was somewhat fearful. So, what exactly was it in
him that attracted me?
Note: Tempting is a
present participle of the verb tempt, used as an
adjective to
describe the effect that
something has on someone’s feelings.
For
example, if you find something
temptingcharmingdisgustingfrightening, it
means it temptscharmsdisgustsfrightens you.
In English there are a group of words
describing an effect that something has on your
feelings and ideas. For example:
a
tempting job offer 一个诱人的工作机会
an alarming
increase in racial hostility 种族仇视的惊人增长 a welcoming
smile 热
情的微笑 a surprising number of 数量惊人的
13. I always had an excellent reputation. My
concentration was solely on my studies
to get
superior grades. But for what? (Para. 3)
Meaning: I was an outstanding student who only
concentrated on studies in order to
get
excellent grades. But so what? Shouldn’t a good
student also have fun?
14. College is
supposed to be a time of great learning and also
some fun. I had nearly
achieved a great
education, and graduation was just one semester
away. But I hadn’t
had any fun; my life was
stale with no component of fun! I needed a
boyfriend. (Para.
3)
Meaning: College is
definitely a nice place for education but should
have some fun as
well. Throughout my years at
college, I had devoted all my time to study but
hadn’t
had any fun yet. Now that I was
graduating, I wanted to have a boyfriend to enrich
my
college life.
15. Not just any
boyfriend. He had to be cute. My goal that
semester became: Be
ambitious and grab the
cutest boyfriend I can find. (Para. 3)
Meaning: The one I wanted to date was not just
an ordinary boy; he had to be
handsome,
pleasant and attractive. My ambition for that
semester, therefore, was to
find the cutest
boyfriend at college.
16. I worried what he’d
think of me. (Para. 4)
Meaning beyond words:
Her concern about how Butch would look at her
shows that
she was becoming more interested in
him and cared about his real thinking.
17.
True, we lived in a time when a dramatic shift in
sexual attitudes was taking place,
but I was a
traditional girl who wasn’t ready for the new ways
that seemed common
on campus. (Para. 4)
Meaning: It is true that we lived in an era
when sexual attitudes were changing
dramatically, but since I was traditional, I
wasn’t ready for the new sexual practice
seemingly common on campus.
18. Butch
looked superb! I was not immune to his
personality, but I was scared. (Para.
4)
Meaning: Butch looked extremely wonderful. I
was surely influenced by his
personality, but
I felt scared.
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19. The night when he announced to the world
that I was his girlfriend, I went along
with
him. (Para. 4)
Meaning: That night when my
boyfriend announced publicly I was his girlfriend,
I did
not have any objection. Meaning beyond
words: She has apparently changed her
perception of Butch, from being merely curious
about him at first to becoming
cautious about
his wild, dynamic personality later; from being
fearful of failing to
resist his ―bad boy
image‖ to approving of being his girlfriend.
20. And then I suddenly thought: ―Oh my gosh!
Am I his girlfriend? How did that
happen?‖
(Para. 4)
Meaning beyond words: All of a
sudden, she realized that she had made a mistake
because she was not really ready to have a
boyfriend yet.
Note: ―Gosh‖, as an
interjection, is used to express surprise. For
example:
Gosh, I didn’t expect to see you
here! 天哪,我没想到在这里见到你! Gosh, it’s so
cold.
天哪,太冷了!
Gosh, there’s a lot of noise.
天哪,这儿真吵。
21. Then he whispered sweet words in
my ear and said, ―I’m going to marry you one
day and I will be a lawyer. You will see.‖
(Para. 4)
Meaning: Then he quietly said sweet
words in my ear and said that he would marry
me and I could eventually see him become a
lawyer.
22. I was laughing inside and said to
myself, ―I’d never marry this guy. He’s a rebel
without a good future. He’s my boyfriend
because I hate my boring student life. I just
want to have fun.‖ (Para. 5)
Meaning:
Though I agreed to be his girlfriend, from my
heart, he was just a rebellious
boy without a
bright future. Therefore, I was not very serious
about our relationship.
To me, the only
purpose to date him was to get away from my boring
student life.
23. Sure enough, the following
month, I found out he had failed all his courses.
(Para.6) Meaning: Just as I had expected, he
didn’t pass any of his courses.
24.
Consequently, he was going to be expelled from the
university. (Para. 6)
Meaning: As a
consequence, the university was going to dismiss
him from the school.
25. To my disgust, he
seemed resigned to his fate. I knew there was
hope, so I led him
to the college secretary
for reconsideration. (Para. 6)
Meaning: What
upset me was that he seemed to accept his fate. As
I knew there was
still a hope, I took him to
the college secretary to see whether the decision
could be
changed.
26. You are going to
graduate with a BA in political science from UPenn
and proceed
to the College of Law,‖ I told
him, lodging an appeal on his behalf, which was
approved. (Para. 7)
Meaning beyond words:
What she did for her boyfriend indicated their
relationship
had come to a new stage. Besides
encouraging him to consult with the college
secretary and submitting the appeal on his
behalf, she also planned for his future
career. She told him he had to continue his
studies at law school. Note: Besides a
noun,
―proceed to‖ can also be followed by a verb
phrase. For example:
Having said how much she
liked my idea, she then proceeded to make critical
comments about it.
说完她是多么喜欢我的点子,她接着就提出了批评性的意见。
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27. Butch was granted
reconsideration. And, once we became steadies, he
coordinated
his studies and social life,
passing all of his classes. He eventually studied
law. (Para.
7)
Meaning beyond words: Here
we see the turning point of the relationship
between the
two. Her suggestions did work well
with Butch since he was granted reconsideration.
As Her suggestions did work well with Butch
since he was granted reconsideration.
As soon
as they became steady lovers, Butch balanced his
studies and social life and
passed every
course. Finally, he studied law as had been
planned.
Note: Steady can also be used as a
noun, as is in the text. It’s an old-fashioned
American way to describe a boyfriend or
girlfriend that someone has been having a
romantic relationship with.
28. Despite
Butch’s somewhat wild character, at his core, he
is always a perfect
gentleman and deserves a
lot of credit for that. (Para. 8)
Meaning: In
spite of Butch’s a little wild character, he was
always a perfect gentleman
in essence, for
which he should be given recognition.
29.
True, he’d sometimes take the liberty of
displaying his love by planting a kiss on
my
lips right in front of my astonished friends who
watched and disapproved. (Para.8)
Meaning:
Without my permission, sometimes he would press a
kiss on my lips to
show his love in front of
my friends, who were astonished and resented what
he did.
Note: “Plant a kiss” is a figurative
use of the word plant, which means an intimate and
publicly demonstrative kiss showing his love
to all who are watching.
30. But the truth is
we had a pure and responsible relationship for
seven full years.
Sitting by the palm trees,
hand in hand, we would listen to romantic songs,
watch the
sunset, and weave dreams of being
together with children of our own, forever. (Para.
8)
Meaning beyond words: Butch showed
much respect for her conservative perception
of love. For seven years, they just enjoyed
their romance in a traditional way.
31. Two
years passed in a blur. One day, Butch took me by
surprise as he knelt down
and proposed
marriage holding a dozen red roses! (Para. 9)
Meaning: Two years passed so quickly that I
didn’t really remember everything
clearly. One
day, I was startled when Butch, holding a dozen
red roses, knelt down to
propose marriage.
Note: propose to sb. = propose marriage to sb.
32. Filled with deep emotion, I confessed my
love for him, “How
roooomaaaantic!!”(Para. 9)
Meaning: I admitted my love for him with deep
affection.
It was super romantic!
Meaning
beyond words: She was so happy and thrilled to
accept Butch’s marriage
proposal that she said
the word romantic in a slow and exaggerated way.
Note: In informal writing, people would
emphasize something in a similar way. For
example:
Thank you soooooo much!
真是太太太感谢您了!
33. Then my brain woke up from
fantasy land. I cried out, “Good heavens. No!
We’re
too young to tie the knot. We haven’t
even graduated from college yet!” I really loved
him but was pessimistic about our chances for
success.(Para. 9)
Meaning beyond words: All
of a sudden, she woke up from the romantic scene.
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Though she
already accepted love from Butch and confessed her
love for him, she
was not sure whether they
would get married and have a happy ending as they
were
still college students.
Note: It
isn’t clear whether this expression tie the knot
derives from an actual knot
used in marriage
ceremonies or whether the knot is merely symbolic
of a lasting unity.
Knots have a place in many
cultures and usually symbolize unbreakable
pledges.
Actual knots have certainly been used
in marriage ceremonies for some time. The
word
knot, although not in the phrase tie the knot, has
been associated with marriage
since at least
the 13th century.
34. We married five years
later. (Para 10)
Meaning beyond words: Though
she was pessimistic about their chance for success
of
love, she accepted Butch’s proposal. They
got married five years later, which
illustrates their deep and true love for each
other.
35. Our faithful journey of love and
learning took us down rocky roads of hardship
and on smooth easy-going highways. (Para. 11)
Meaning: Our devoted and faithful love guided
us both in times of happiness and also
in
times of hardship. Note: The word rocky comes from
the noun rock combining
with -y. A rocky road
refers to a road full of rocks, uneven or not
flat. Words of this
group include: muddy,
stony, grassy, snowy, rainy, etc.
36. It is a
long, romantic, sometimes crazy, love story that
sums up a 29-year long
honeymoon together as a
couple who are still madly in love with each
other. (Para.11)
Meaning beyond words: She
felt very proud of her long-lasting romantic,
sometimes
even crazy love, which was just like
a 29-year long honeymoon for her and her
husband.
37. Our love commenced with a
casual attraction but bloomed into a mature love
and
rich life. (Para. 11)
Meaning beyond
words: Completely beyond her expectation, love
came to her as she
started with a casual date
but ended up growing into a mature love and rich
life.
Note: We usually use commence doing
sth. or commence with sth. Also, in the US,
the official collegeuniversity graduation
ceremony is called “commencement”. The
word
refers to the completion of one’s education and
the beginning of one’s new adult
life.
Note: The phrase “bloomed into a mature love
and rich life” in the text is used
figuratively, meaning their love was just like
blossoms on a tree.
All dormitory rooms are
equipped with high speed internet
access.宿舍所有的房间都
配备了高速互联网。
Step 4
Question discussing
1. Do you have any
experience in dating? 2. What’s your understanding
of true love?
3. Do you think it’s a good
idea to date someone at college? Why or why not?
Step 5 Review & Exercises
presentation --- Reproduction
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
3. Exercises
4.
Exercises 3,4,5,6,7
(Ss give answers and
raise questions they may have and T explains the
difficulties) 5.
Exercises 8,9--- writing and
translation.
6. Assignments:
1) review
Section A;
2) Exercises in Section B;
3)
speed reading
Step 6 Listening practice
Assignments:
1) Story retelling in Unit
4;
2) Pair work --- practice model dialog in
unit 4 in the Listening and Speaking Book;
3)
Preview the new words in unit 5;
―――――――――――――――自我评价问题――――――――――― ――
Questions for Self-evaluation:
I
understand the text fully?
I memorized the
new vocabulary and can I put them into use? I
know
how to write a narrative?
Resources and Materials:
全新版大学英语长篇阅读2,上海外语教育出版社,李荫华
新视野大学英语读写教程(第三版),外语教学与研究出版社,郑树棠
大学英语语法,外语教学与研究出版社大学英语,袁懋梓
大学实用英语写作教程,北京理工大学出版社,汪宏 教参
References
新视野大学英语教师用书, 郑树棠, 外语教学与研究出版社,2015年 Motivating
Students to Normal University Press.2004
Classroom Michael ai Foreign Language
Education
Press.2005
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
Unit 5 Spend
or Save -The student's dilemma
课型 :□ 理论课
√ 理论、实践课
课时分配:6
教学环境 :多媒体教室
教学目标
:
Teaching Aims:
After studying this unit,
the students are expected to be able to:
1.
understand the main idea and structure of Section
A and Section B;
2. master the key language
points and grammatical structures in the texts
3. Learn how to write a comparison contrast
essay with the subject-by-subject
pattern;
4. Learn the reading skill of denotation and
connotation.
Potential Problems and
Difficulties
●To talk about money spending
and saving
●To master the essay writing skill
●To apply the phrases and patterns
Methodology:
A combination of traditional
teaching methods with the communicative approach
will
be adopted. Special attention should be
paid to classroom interaction like questioning
and answers. Small group works are always
needed while discussing the questions
and the
difficult translation practice. More encouragement
is needed and more
guidance will be given in
their extracurricular study.
Teaching
Aids: Visual aids, projector, stereo and
microphone
Group work and pair work
课堂学习任务与活动的组织Conduct of Tasks and Activities
(师生互动方式Mode of Interaction; 学习策略Learning
Strategies)
Students-centered, Task-based
teaching and learning
Teaching
Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
I. Greeting
and warming-up questions discussion.
you
prefer to spend or save money?
will you
budget your money?
will you be a smart
consumer?
II. Listening
Listening to a
passage and fill in the missing words.
Step 2 Section A
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
I. New words
1.
Defy违反违抗;不服从
This celebration of Thanksgiving
defies tradition.这个感恩节庆典仪式没有遵循传
统.
2.
contradict与…抵触;与…矛盾;违背
The article flatly
contradicts their claims.这篇文章与他们的主张截然相反。
3.
recession (经济)衰退,萧条
4. grave严重的;重大的;严峻的
5. nasty不友善的;不好的;恶毒的
Many drivers think
bat most passengers are very pleasant, although
occasionally they
can be
nasty.很多司机认为,虽然偶然会有一些乘客不太友善,但大部分的乘客
都很和蔼友好。
6. resume(中断之后)继续,重新开始 gap差距;差额;差别
On
television, we can see many demonstrations against
the ever-growing gap between
the ―super
rich‖and the ―struggling middle
class‖.我们在电视上可以看到许多
示威活动,抗议―超级富豪‖和―挣扎的中产阶级‖之间的差
距越来越大。
7. disguise 装扮;假扮
8. invade
(尤指不受欢迎地)大量涌入,蜂拥而至
Every summer, the quiet
seaside town is invaded by
tourists.每年夏天,这个安静的
海边小镇都有大量游客涌入。
(从某物中)得到,获得
10. ingredient(完成某事
的)要素,因素.成分
11. hinder 阻碍;妨碍;阻止
12.
legal法律的;与法律有关的. 合法的;法律规定的
13.
choppy波浪起伏的;波浪滔滔的
14. echo附和(别人的观点)
Lily
and Lucy are twins,and their views often echo each
other.莉莉和露西是一对双
胞胎,她们的意见常互相呼应。
II.
Useful expressions Practical Phrases
1. refer to 提到;淡到
2.
take stock (of sth.) (对形势)作出估计(判断)
3. on track 在(可能通向成功的)轨迹上
4. put off: 推迟某事;使某事延期
5. consult with sb. 与某人商量
III. Structure Analysis:
Main idea
of section A: This is a comparison and contrast
essay that depicts how
the government and
banks as well as commercial ads keep sending out a
paradox of
two opposite messages every day:
One is to encourage people to spend money and the
other is to persuade people to save money.
Part I (Paras. 1-2) This part serves as an
introduction to the essay topic
save
Part
II (Paras. 3-6) Part II relates their
psychological and social consequences.
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
Part III
(Paras. 7-9) This part concludes the essay.
Step 3 Language points
Detailed study of
the text
1. I think that the messages we get
from our environment seem to defy common
sense
and contradict each other. (Para. 1)
Meaning:
In my opinion, the messages we get in our daily
life about the question
I spend or should I
save?are against common sense and they often don't
agree with each other.
Note: College
sweethearts refer to someone with whom one is in
love and by whom
one is loved at college;
sweetheart is equivalent to lover,darling,
beloved, or dear.
government tells us to
spend or we'll never get out of the recession.
(Para. 1)
Meaning beyond words: To help the
country recover from the economic recession, the
government is encouraging people to spend,
which will help stimulate production, job
markets and bank liquidity.
3. At the same
time, they tell us that unless we save more, our
country is in grave
danger. (Para. 1)
Meaning: Meanwhile, they warn us that if we
don't save more money the economic
recession
will grow and severely harm our country.
unle
ss作连词,表示―除非…;如果不…‖,引导条件状语从句,意为―如果某个
条件不出现,某件事就不
会进行‖。
4.Banks offer higher interest rates so
we increase savings. Then the same banks send
us credit card offers so we can spend more.
(Para. 1)
Meaning beyond words: Here is the
or saveparadox. On one hand, the
government
tells us to spend, and, on the other hand, they
want us to save more.
While the banks offer
high interest rates to attract us to deposit
money, they send us
credit cards to encourage
us to spend.
5. Here's another familiar
example: If we don't pay our credit card bill on
time, we get
demanding, nasty emails from the
credit card company saying something like:
failure to pay is unacceptable. Pay
immediately or you'll be in trouble!
Meaning:
If we fail to pay our credit card billion times,
the credit card company will
send us harsh and
unfriendly email messages to warn us that either
we pay at once or
we'll get penalties. .
6.Then, as soon as we pay, we get a follow-up
email in a charming tone telling us
how
valuable a customer we are and encouraging us to
resume spending. (Para. 2)
Meaning: To lure
us into more spending, once our credit card bill
is paid, a follow-up
email in an entirely
different tone will be sent to us, claiming that
we are valuable
customers.
7. The paradox
is that every day we get two sets of messages at
odds with each other.
(Para. 3) Meaning: The
contradiction is that every day we get two sets of
messages
disagreeing with each other.
8.0ne is the
Meaning: One reflects a
viewpoint of tolerance, spend, get it now. You
need
this
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
9.The other we could call an
Suspend your
desires. Avoid luxuries. Control your appetite for
more than you truly
need.
Meaning: We
could call the other one an
hard and save
money, stop having too many desires, avoid
spending too much, and
limit our purchases to
what we really need.
10. This message comes
to us from many sources: from school, from
parents, even
from political figures referring
to
Meaning: We get this kind of message from
many sources such as school, parents, and
even
politicians who like to talk about traditional
values.
11. Advertisements invade our daily
lives. We are constantly surrounded by the
message to spend, spend, spend. (Para. 4)
Meaning: Our daily lives are flooded with
advertisements. Very often we find
ourselves
enclosed by advertisements that lure us into
spending.
12. It's been calculated that by
the age of 18, the average American will have seen
600,000 ads; by the age of 40, the total is
almost one million (Para. 5)
Meaning beyond
words: Americans grow up seeing countless
advertisements, and this
continues throughout
their life time.
13. Each advertisement is
doing its utmost to influence our diverse buying
decisions,
from the breakfast cereal we eat to
which cruise line we will use for our vacation.
(Para. 5)
Meaning beyond words:
Advertisements are everywhere and have invaded
people's
life.
14. There is no shortage
of ideas and things to buy (Para. 5)
Meaning:
There are plenty of ideas of what to buy and how
to spend money. shortage:
短缺;不足;缺乏
15.
Now, of course, we don't remember exactly what the
products were, but the
essential message is
cemented into our consciousness, good to satisfy
your
desires. You should have what you want.
You deserve the best. So, you should buy it -
now! (Para. 5)
Meaning beyond words:
Advertisements are very effective in talking
people into
buying things. Though it's hard to
remember all of the products in advertisements,
these messages have already been hammered into
our heads. The messages tell us that
we
deserve the best and we are entitled to what we
want.
16. A famous advertisement said it
perfectly,
I do what makes me feel good. I
derive pleasure from nice things and feel
nourished
by them. I used to put things off.
Not anymore. Today I'll buy new ski equipment,
look at new compact cars, and buy that camera
I've always wanted. I live my dreams
today,
not tomorrow.
Meaning beyond words: The
advertisement is trying to send out the message:
It is no
wrong for people to be self-centered
and buy everything they want right now. Enjoy
life today! The underlying purpose is to
persuade people to spend.
17.What happens as
we take in these contradictory but explicit
messages? What are
the psychological and
social consequences of this campaign to control
our spending
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
habits? (Para. 6)
Meaning beyond words:
Since people are surrounded by these contradictory
but clear
messages, there must be some
psychological and social consequences. For
instance,
some people may spend more while
others may save more, depending on how much
they get influenced.
18.0n one hand, we
want more things because we want to satisfy our
material
appetite. Most of us derive pleasure
from treating ourselves. (Para. 6)
Meaning:
Most of us become happy when we treat ourselves,
so we always want to
have more things to
satisfy our material desires.
19. Anyway,
many of the skills you need as a successful
student can be applied to
your finances.
Consider your financial well-being as a key
ingredient of your
university education as
money worries are extremely stressful and
distracting. (Para.
7)
Meaning beyond
words: It is not difficult to avoid a financial
disaster if you apply the
skills you already
have for being a successful student. Be aware that
financial stability
is of crucial importance
to your college life since money worries could
bring you
down.
20. They can make you
feel terrible and hinder your ability to focus on
your prime
objective: successfully completing
your education. (Para. 7)
Meaning: Money
worries can make you feel terrible and distract
you from your main
objective: successfully
completing your education at college.
21. How
can you be a smart and educated consumer? Many
schools, community
organizations, and even
some banks offer financial literacy classes.
(Para. 8)
Meaning: To become a consumer who
is clever and acquires relevant knowledge, you
can take some financial literacy classes where
you learn basic concepts of finance.
These
courses are offered by many schools, community
organizations and some
banks.
22.
Consider consulting with your school's financial
aid office or seek input from your
parents or
other respected adults in setting up a budget.
(Para. 8)
Meaning: In planning how to use
your money wisely, you may discuss your financial
situation with your school's financial aid
office or get advice from your parents as
well
as from respected others.
23. An additional
option is finding a partner to help you stay on
track and find
pleasure in the administration
of your own financial affairs. (Para. 8)
Meaning: Another choice is to find a partner
who can help you stay in the right
direction
of your own financial management and get pleasure
from doing it.
24. Most importantly, if you
find yourself getting into financial trouble,
don't let your
ego get in your way; urgently
get help with tackling your problem before it
spins out
of control and lands you in legal
troubles. (Para. 8)
Meaning: The most
important thing is not to feel embarrassed to ask
for help if you
find yourself getting into
financial trouble, and you should do it quickly to
retain
control and avoid breaking the law.
25. As you learn to balance spending and
saving, you will become the captain of your
own ship, steering your life in a successful
and productive direction through the
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
choppy waters. (Para. 9)
Meaning: When you learn to keep a balance
between spending and saving, you are in
control of your own financial situation, which
will lead you to a successful and
productive
life despite the twist’s and turns on your way to
the financial goal.
Note: Here captain of
your own shipis figuratively compares your
capability to balance spending and saving to
the situation of sailing in the sea. If you
are in control of your financial situation,
you, the captain, can surely steer your own
ship of life smoothly.
Step 4
Question discussing
1. How can students
handle their money efficiently?
2. How do you
know whether you are overspending or not?
3.
What are some of the effective techniques used to
promote the selling of various
products?
Step 5 Review & Exercises
presentation --- Reproduction
ses
4.
Exercises 3,4,5,6,7
(Ss give answers and
raise questions they may have and T explains the
difficulties)
ses 8,9--- writing and
translation.
6. Assignments:
1) review
Section A;
2) Exercises in Section B;
3)
speed reading
Step 6 Listening practice
Assignments:
1) Review Unit 5;
2)
Pair work --- practice model dialog in unit 5 in
the Listening and Speaking Book;
3) Preview
the new words in unit 6;
―――――――――――――――自我评价问题――――――――――― ――
Questions for Self-evaluation:
I
understand the text fully?
I memorized the
new vocabulary and can I put them into use?
I know how to write a comparison contrast essay
with the subject-by-subject
pattern?
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
Unit 6 Less is more
课型 :□ 理论课 √
理论、实践课
课时分配:6
教学环境 :多媒体教室
教学目标 :
Teaching Aims:
After studying this unit,
the students are expected to be able to:
1.
understand the main idea and structure of Section
A and Section B;
2. master the key language
points and grammatical structures in the texts
3. talk about is more always better than less?
4. read with the skill ―reading between the
lines
5. write a report on decision-making.
Key Issues:
1. Vocabulary
Rival, imperial, raid, opponent, genius,
veteran, publication, investigate, profit,
protest,
cling, underneath, prune, discard,
prejudice
2. Skills
● Learn to read
with the skill ―reading between the lines‖
and write write a report on decision-making.;
Potential Problems and Difficulties:
●To talk about is more always better than
less?
●write a report on decision-making.
Methodology:
A combination of
traditional teaching methods with the
communicative approach will
be adopted.
Special attention should be paid to classroom
interaction like questioning
and answers.
Small group works are always needed while
discussing the questions
and the difficult
translation practice. More encouragement is needed
and more
guidance will be given in their
extracurricular study.
Teaching Aids:
Visual aids, projector, stereo and microphone
Group work and pair work
Conduct of
Tasks and Activities
(师生互动方式Mode of
Interaction; 学习策略Learning Strategies)
Students-centered, Task-based teaching and
learning
Teaching Procedures
Step 1
Lead-in
I. Greeting and warming-up questions
discussion.
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
1. In your opinion, what is an irrational
behavior? Give some example.
2. What do you
think may cause people’s irrational behavior?
3. Are you irrational? Why or why not?
II. Listening and discussing
Step 2
Section A Door closer, are you?
I. Main Idea
and Structure Main idea of each part
Part I
(Paras. 1-3) introduction
Part II (Paras. 4)
transition
Part. III (Para. 5-9) body
Part.4 (Para. 10-12) suggestions
Part. 5
(Para. 13-14) conclusion
II. Language Focus
Practical Phrases
1. impose sth. on sb.
将„强加于
2. be featured in 被特写;在„中专题介绍
3. be attached to sth. sb. 喜欢(依恋)某物或某人
4. revolve around 围绕;以„为主题
5. pay a big
price 花很大代价
6. come in handy 派上用场
7. be
measured in sth. 用某事来衡量
III. Functional
Patterns and Functions & Usages
1. The next
time sb. is doing sth, ask oneself the question: …
用于表达“某种情景下
某人应该反思”。
2. Sb. or sth. is a
rare exception to sb. else, who that…
3. Sb.
would probably protest that…, but according to sb.
else, that isn’t the true factor.
用于表达“对某种观点或分析的否定”。
Step 3 Structure
analysis
Step 4 Text explanation
1.
The next time you are complaining about others,
who seem to be unfriendly to you,
ask yourself
the question: How do you often treat them in
return?
Meaning:
下次你要在抱怨他人,认为他们对你不友好时,不妨问自己这样一个
问题:你平常对他们如何?
2. General Xiang Yu was a rare exception to
the norm, a veteran leader who was
highly
respected for his so many conquests and who
achieved the summit of success.
(Line 5,
Para.3)
对墨守陈规的人来说,项羽将军是一个罕见的异于常人的人,他是一位资深的首领,由于他征战无数并达到了成功的顶峰,他深受尊敬。
3. They would
probably protest that they were clinging to the
doors to keep future
options open, but,
according to Dr. Ariely, that isn’t the true
factor. (Line 6, Para.7)
他们可能会争辩说,他们抓住这些门是为将来
多留一些机会。但是,据阿雷利博
士说,这不是真正的原因。
Step 5
Review & Exercises
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
Review
Exercises
1-7
(Ss give answers and raise questions they
may have and T explains the difficulties)
xxix.
Exercises 8-11- writing
Step 6 Section B when enough is enough
I
Reading Skills ---How to Read in Thought Groups
II Text comprehension
Assignments:
1) review Section A;
2) Exercises in
Section B;
3) speed reading
Listening
practice
Assignments:
1) Story
retelling in Unit 2;
2) Pair work ---
practice model dialogs in unit 2 in the Listening
and
Speaking Book;
3) review;
―――――――――――――――自我评价问题――――――――――― ――
Questions for Self-evaluation:
I
understand the text fully?
I memorized the
new vocabulary and can I put them into use?
I understand better how to become a successful
language leaner?
Unit 7
Women: Making a difference
课型 :□ 理论课 √ 理论、实践课
新视野大学英语第二册(第三版)教案
课时分配:6
教学环境 :多媒体教室
教学目标 :
Teaching Aims:
After studying
this unit, the students are expected to be able
to:
1. understand the main idea and structure
of Section A and Section B;
2. master the key
language points and grammatical structures in the
texts
3. talk about women’s role in modern
life?
4. read with the skill ―predicting the
author’s ideas.
PART1
Understanding
and Learning
0verview
This unit
aims at exploring a current social issue: gender
roles, a topic that could spark a lot
of
debates and arguments. Text A gives students a big
picture of a how women have played an
important role at the management level, along
with their challenges and frustrations. Text B
portrays a happy full-time housewife who
considers her job at home absolutely important.
The
implication of it is that the job of a
housewife should be respected. The two articles
are
theme-bound since both relate the topic of
the role played by women, though one is at work
and
the other at home. The writing style of
the two texts is very different as well. One is a
featured
article on female working styles by
way of presenting various scenarios at work,
blended with
many direct speeches and present
verb tenses such as says, report, agrees,
proclaims, feels, pauses
when referring to the
past; the other is a narrative about the author's
personal experience of being a
housewife.
Though the language used in both texts is somewhat
casual, the tone of the first one is
more
serious and in a report style. Women's working
style and way of thinking are clearly depicted,
which will surely provoke an interesting
debate on gender issues among students. The
different
episodes can serve as a springboard
for in-depth class discussion. Activities may
revolve around
the main theme of the unit:
Should women stay home or work outside?
Section A
Women at the management level
Background Information
women leaders
In today's economy, women are a strong force in
the workplace. Gone are the days of men
working outside and women staying at home.
Women are filling the ranks in many professions
and many top companies. Many of today's global
business leaders and powerful entrepreneurs are
women. Indeed, women are increasingly working
in upper management roles, serving as leaders in
a variety of settings. Interestingly, research
says women behave more emotionally in certain work
situations. Regardless of what the studies
say, the data support the benefits of gender
diversity at
the workplace. So what does such
diversity in the workplace mean? It means that it
is beneficial to
not only hire but also retain
female employees. The text vividly unfolds how
females are working
in different business
sectors at the management level.
Detailed
study of the text
1 When Monica applied for a
job as an administrative assistant in 1971, she
was asked whether
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she would rather work
for a male or a female attorney. (Para. 1)
Meaning: Monica was like to work for a male
when she applied for a male or a female lawyer
when she applied for a managing job at a law
firm in 1971.
★administrative: a. relating to
the work of managing a company or
organization行政的;管理的
Although administrative
positions may pay more than teaching salaries,
they often require more
hours on the
job.虽然行政工作的薪金比教学工作更多,但它们却往往需要更多的工作时间。
Sentence structure Note
would rather'‘句型
1 would rather的意思是“宁愿;宁可;更;最好;还是…为好”,后接动词原形,表
示优先选择的
一种方式。其否定形式是would rather not do sth.,
would rather没有人称和数的变化,所有的
人称一律用would rather。例如:
If you t he would rather be alone, we'll all leave
here.如果你他
宁愿独自呆着,那我们会都离开这儿。
would rat
her后接从句时,从句中的谓语动词用一般过去时,表示希望或宁愿某人按某特
定的方式做某事,这个
结构常常表达的是现在或将来的行为。例如:I'd rather you didn't make
any comment on the issuer for the time
being.我想目前你还是不要对此事反羞任何评论。
2 felt that a male-
bossfemale-employee relationship was more natural,
needing no personal
accommodation
whatsoever.
Meaning: I felt that there was no
need to compromise in a relationship between a
male boss and a
female employee since it was
more nature.
★employee: n. [C] sb. who is paid
to work for sb. else受雇者;雇员
Knowing what an
employer is looking for potential employee can
help someone to prepare for an
interview.了解雇主在寻找什么样的潜在雇员可以帮助人们准备面试。
★accommodation: n.
1) [sing., U](fml.) a
change in behavior or attitude that helps people
work together or end a
disagreement迁就;通融;调和
The two sides failed to agree on every point
but they settled on an accommodation for their
differences.双方未能对所有的意见都达成一致,但对他们的分歧达成了和解。
2) [U] a place for sb. to stay, live, or
work住处;工作场所
Having decided to find an
appropriate accommodation, we set about contacting
all the rental
agencies in the
city.我们决定要找一个合适的住处之后,就开始联络这个城市所有的租赁公司。
3
But 20 years later, when she was asked the same
question, she said,
that female bosses are
much more accessible to their employees; they're
much more sensitive and
intimate with their
employees.
Meaning: However, when she was asked
the same question 20 years later; she responded
that it
was a nice surprise to find out that
female bosses had been much easier to approach,
more
understanding, and closer to their
workers.
Meaning beyond words: Her answer was
entirely different from what she had responded 20
years before. It can be assumed that she
gained this particular feeling gradually.
4 Female bosses today are still finding they
face subtle resistance. (Para. 2)
Meaning
beyond words: Female bosses today are still
experiencing gender discrimination,
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though it may not always
be obvious or noticeable.
5 There is
still a segment of the population, both men and,
surprisingly, women who report low
tolerance
for female bosses. (Para. 2)
Meaning: A
portion of people, men and, unexpectedly, even
women stare that they can hardly
bear working
with female bosses.
★segment: n.[C] a part of
sth. that is different from or affected
differently from the whole in
some way 部分;段;片
Black people constitute the poorest segment of
society in the country.黑人在该国社会中构成了
最贫穷的阶层。
★tolerance: n.
1) [U] willingness to want
people to do, say, or believe what they want
without criticizing or
punishing them忍受;容忍;宽容
Tolerance is the quality of allowing other
people to say and do as they like, even if you do
not
agree with it or like
it.宽容是一种素质,它允许其他人说和做他们喜欢的事,即使你不同意或
不喜欢。
2)
[C, U] the degree to which sb. can suffer pain,
difficulty, etc. without being harmed or
damaged(对痛苦、困难等的)忍受程度,忍耐力
These students
tend to have a poor tolerance for frustration and
give up easily when tasks become
difficult.这些学生往往对挫折的承受力差,在任务变得困难时会轻易放弃。
6 The growing presence of female bosses has
also two major questions that revolve around
styles:
Do men and women and, if so, is that a
good thing? (Para. 2)
Meaning:With the number
of female bosses increasing, two questions have
been raised in terms
of styles: Do men and
women work differently? Are the differences good
for management if there
are any?
7
Monica is disposed to think so, on both counts.
Now a 40-year-old mother of four, she is
president of a public sector labor union with
45,000 members. (Para. 3)
Meaning: Monica, a
40-year-old mother of four children and president
of a public sector labor
union with 45,000
members, is inclined to look at these two points
positively: Women do manage
differently from
men and that is a good thing.
★dispose: vt.
1)(~rd sth.) (fml.) make sb. more likely to
have particular feelings or thoughts 使(某人)
较倾向于
The body releases a chemical that disposes you
toward sleep.体内释放出一种使人昏昏欲睡的化
学物品。
2)(~of)
get rid of sth., esp. sth. that is difficult to
get rid of丢弃,处理(尤指难以处理的东西)
Litter should be
disposed of thoughtfully.废弃物应仔细地处理。
★disposed:
a. likely to behave or think in a particular
way有…倾向的
He was a man o f good character and
was not disposed to violence.他人品很好,没有暴力倾向。
★be
disposed to do sth.: be willing to do
sth.愿意做某事;乐于做某事
His father was a large,
comfortable-looking man who wasn't disposed to
make a fuss.他父亲个子
高,看上去很舒服,不像是会大惊小怪的人。
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★on both
counts: in both ways在两个方面
I thought he
was a kind and honest person, but I was wrong on
both counts. 我原以为他是个善
良、诚实的人, 但这两点我都想错了。
★sector: n. [C] a part of an area of activity,
esp. of business, trade, etc.(尤指商业、贸易等的)部
门,行业
In the financial sector, investors insurance
companies both have lost a lot of money.在金融行业,
银行和保险公司的投资者都损失了很多钱。
Note public
sector labor union(also public sector trade union)
refers to a labor union
which primarily
represents the interests of employees within
public sector (government-owned,
supported or
regulated) organizations. Public sector union has
become some of the larger or more
influential
unions in certain areas of the world in recent
times as private sector union membership
has
declined sharply.
8 preceding
me,
coming in. I have a more flexible
style-not soft, just more
understanding.
Meaning: She said that she was
perhaps different from the previous male managers
in relation
with the employees because she
knew what it meant when someone had to make a
phone call
telling her that he or she wouldn't
go to work due to the illness of their child. She
added that she
was more flexible and
understanding but not weaker in terms of working
style.
Meaning beyond words: In a broad
sense, female bosses are better than male bosses
in
boss-employee relations because they are
more understanding and tend to show more
consideration to their employees.
★precede: vt. (fml.) happen or exist before
sth. or sb., or come before sth. else in a
series先
于…(发生或存在)
A planning session at
11:30 will precede the lunch discussion.
11:30召开计划会议,随后是午餐
讨论。
9 The man who is
Monica's assistant agrees,
a consensus. People
are happy and flourish because they have an input
into decisions and they are
not mere
bystanders; their energies are harnessed. On the
other hand, consensus takes longer.
(Para. 3)
Meaning: The man who is Monica's assistant
holds the same opinion that she usually gives
people
more rights and is always seeking
agreement. Since people have their voice heard in
decision-making and are not playing the role
of a witness only, they feel happy and successful.
In
this way, their energies are utilized.
However, it takes more time to reach an agreement.
Meaning beyond words: Again, female bosses
would seek more accommodation and agreement
than male bosses, which helps to bring
employees' initiative into full play.
★flourish: vi.
1) develop well and be
successful繁荣;兴旺;成功
Honesty is one of the bases
of any good relationship and no real relationship
can flourish without
it.诚信是任何良好关系的基础之一,离开它没有一种真正的关系能蓬勃发展。
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2)grow well
and be very healthy茁壮成长
Very few plants will
flourish without enough water.没有足够的水,极少有植物能茁壮成长
★harness: vt. get control of sth. in
order to use it for a particular purpose利用; 控制
The private business sector was to be
harnessed to stabilize and to increase local
employment.私
营企业将被用来稳定和增加当地的就业。
10
So, are the differences symbolic or real?
Plausible studies suggest that men are typically
hierarchical, goal-oriented and feel entitled.
Women, by contrast, manage diplomatically, and
share power. (Para. 4)
Meaning: So, the
question is whether the differences between male
and female managers are
representative or
real? According to acceptable studies, men like to
seek social status, work for
goals and be
given authority. On the other hand, women manager
with skill and flexibility like to
share
authority.
Meaning beyond words: In terms of
management skills, this part highlights the
differences
between male and female bosses.
The plausible reasons may possibly be traced to
the respective
character traits of both sexes.
★symbolic: a. important but not having any
real effect象征的;象征性的
People threw flowers into
the river between the two countries as a symbolic
act o f
brotherhood.人
们把花扔进两国间的那条界河,这象征着两国之间的兄弟情义。
★plausible: a. reasonable and likely to be
true可能正确的;有道理的
A more plausible explanation
would seem to be that people are fed up with the
Conservative
government一个更合理的解释似乎是人们已厌倦了保守党政府。
★hierarchical: a. dividing people or things
into levels of importance按等级划分的
A hierarchical
structure merely defines who is in charge o f what
and is accountable to
whom.按等
级划分的结构仅仅能定义谁负责什么和谁对谁负责。
★diplomatic: a.
1) dealing with people
politely and skillfully without upsetting
them讲究手腕的;灵活变通的
He managed to beat me at
every argument as he was more than my match in
diplomatic
shrewdness.他成功地击败了我的每一个论点,因为他比我更灵活变通。
2)
relating to or involving the work of
diplomats外交的;从事外交工作的
To avoid a possible
invasion by its neighbor, the country is seeking
help through diplomatic
channels.为了避免其邻国可能的入侵,该国正在寻求通过外交途径获得帮助。
★diplomatically: ad.讲究宁腕地; 灵沽变通地;外交地
You
can say it diplomatically and with love by telling
your kids the reasons why you had to cancel
the plan for a
party.你可以灵活地、满怀爱心地告诉你的孩子为什么你不得不取消聚会计划。
Note
Goal-oriented is a compound adjective. A goal-
oriented person or team works hard to
achieve
good results in the tasks that they have been
given; a goal-oriented plan or activity is
based on a number of things that must be
achieved. The word oriented means giving a lot of
time,
effort and attention to one particular
thing. It can be combined with different nouns to
derive
different meanings such as family-
oriented and export-oriented.
11 That
point of view is often challenged and argued. Some
proclaim that men and women of
similar
backgrounds, experience and aspirations basically
manage in the same way. (Para. 4)
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Meaning: The real
differences between male and female managers often
spark arguments. Some
people declare that
generally speaking, men and women of similar
backgrounds, experience and
ambitions manage
in the same way.
12 This view is echoed
by younger women, especially those who have
encountered little gender
discrimination. That
was certainly the lesson for Nicole. (Para. 4)
Meaning: This view is agreed upon by young
women, especially those who have seldom been
treated unfairly. Nicole certainly learned a
lesson from her experience.
Meaning beyond
words: The implication is that men and women do
manage differently. Only
young women who have
never encountered gender discrimination would
assume there is no
difference between male and
female managers. Nicole's personal experience
would serve as a
lesson for young women.
★discrimination: n. [U] the practice of
treating one person or group differently from
another in
an unfair way歧视
Though I face
discrimination as a female, I will never give in
to pressure to stop trying my best to
succeed.
虽然作为女性我受到歧视,可是我绝不会屈服于压力,我会尽最大的努力来取得成
功。
13 When her father died of a heart attack, she
was an employee at a petroleum products export
company. She quit and took over her family's
160-acre fruit farm in St. David's County. (Para.
4)
Meaning: When her father died due to a
heart attack, Nicole stopped working for an export
company of petroleum products and took control
of her father's 160-acre-fruit farm in 's
County.
★export:
n. [U] the business
of selling and sending goods to other countries出口
They are now manufacturing more goods for
export.他们现在正在生产更多的产品以供出口。
v. sell goods to
another country出口
Their flowers are exported
around the world.他们的花卉出口到世界各地。
★take over:
take control of sth.接管;接任;接受
In the event of
strike, the army will take over the responsibility
for fighting the fires.万一发生罢
工,军队将接管灭火的责任。
Note: This is also a figurative use of the
fireswhich means disperse the
strikes
14 On her first day in the field, a worker
called her
shaking with anger,erect and said,
'You wouldn't have called my
father darling
and you're not going to take that liberty with me.
If you do, I'll fire you.
Meaning beyond words:
Nicole's personal story about how one of her
workers addressed her on
her first day in the
field depicts gender discrimination-based
disrespect: Men would instinctively
think they
are superior to women, so the male worker didn't
show the appropriate respect to his
boss,
Nicole.
★erect:
a. in a straight upright
position直立的;垂直的
He's very tall and erect for
his 78 years.年已78岁的他非常高大挺拔。
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vt. put sth. in an
upright position竖起
Officials plan to erect a
monument in the spacious square in the center o f
the city官员们计划在
市中心宽阔的广场上竖起一座纪念碑。
★take a
libertyliberties with sb.: (old-fashioned) treat
sb. without respect by being too friendly
too
quickly与某人相处时太放肆
You mustn't take liberties
with the young women.你切勿对年轻女士太随便。
15 When
women work for women, a different dynamic often
takes over. (Para. 5)
Meaning beyond words:
When women work for their female bosses, they can
always see and
experience different working
and communication styles from those adopted by
their male bosses.
Note: Here, means the set
of forces that exist in a situation, especially a
relationship, and affect how it changes or
develops. For example: There's a very supportive
dynamic between the members of the
group.组员们之间互相支持,互相鼓励。
16 Susan, a cashier
in a Toronto auction house, says that she has
explored friendships with some
of her female
bosses and feels she can rely on them more. (Para.
5)
Meaning beyond words: Susan has established
friendships with some of her female bosses and
feels she can trust them more than male
bosses.
★auction: n. [C,U]a public meeting
where land, buildings, paintings, etc. are sold to
the person
who offers the most money for
them拍卖
After the housing market crashed, many
bank-owned houses were sold far below their market
value at auctions.房屋市场崩溃后,许多被银行收回的房屋以远低于其市场价的价
格在拍卖会
上被售出。
17 While women may feel
more at ease with a female boss, men often have to
make concessions
to the new working styles.
(Para. 5)
Meaning: Although women feel more
comfortable and relaxed with a female boss, men
often
have to make changes in their behavior
to adapt to the different working styles.
Meaning beyond words: The fact that men have
to adjust themselves when they have a female
boss is probably because of some psychological
reason which makes them feel somewhat hard to
get along with the opposite sex.
★feel at
ease with sb.: feel relaxed with sb., esp. in a
situation in which people might feel a little
nervous(与某人在一起)感到放松,不拘束
If you want to get
well again, it is essential to feel at ease with
your
therapist.如果你想恢复健康,
很重要的一点是你跟你的治疗师在一起时感到很放松。
★concession: n. [C] a change in your behavior
that you make because of a particular situation or
idea妥协; 迎合
As a concession, Mother let
Nell stay up an hour longer at his computer
games.作为妥协,母亲让
内尔多玩一个小时的电脑游戏:
★make a
concessionconcessions to: allow sb. to have sth.
in order to reach an
agreement为对
某事或某想法取得一致意见作出妥协
Our company
has made a concession to them in order to reach a
settlement and to continue with
business as
usual.为了达成和解并继续往常的业务,我们公司已对他们作出妥协。
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18 Brian, a
marine biologist, says,
to relax around a
female manager. In fact, my relations with her
were much more
businesslike.
Meaning:
Brian, a marine biologist, says that it took him a
couple of years before he felt at ease
working
around a female manager. Anyway, his relations
with her were of a business type only.
★marine:
a. (only before noun) relating to
the sea and the creatures that live
there海洋的;海产的;海生的
Sadly, our beaches are full o
f trash, the sea is polluted, and marine life is
endangered.很不幸,我
们的海滩上全是垃圾,海洋受到了污染,海洋生物受到了威胁。
n. [C] a soldier who serves on a ship水兵;
(英国美国)海军陆战队士兵
From a letter in his pocket, an
emergency room nurse learned动at his son was a
marine stationed
in North Carolina.从他口袋里的一封信中,
急诊室护士了解到,他儿子是驻扎在北卡罗来纳
州的海军陆战队士兵。
★businesslike: a. effective and practical in
the way that you do things处事务实的;有效率的;讲
究实际的
To teach the students good business manners,
this activity was handled in a businesslike
manner.
为了培养学生良好的商务礼仪,这项活动是以务实的方式进行的。
Note
The word businesslike, as explained above, is
different from words like childlike. Similar
words for your attention:
lifelike(逼真的;栩栩如生的),warlike(好战的;善武的).
19
To some extent, the male-female differences come
down to conflicting styles. (Para. 6)
Meaning:
To some degree, the male-female differences in
management lie in contradicting
working
styles.
★extent: [sing., UJ the degree to
which sth. happens or is likely to happen程度;限度;范围
There is disagreement about the extent of
American influence in
Europe.关于美国对欧洲的影响
程度人们说法不一。
★to some
extent: used to say that sth. is partly but not
completely true在某种程度上
We all tend to remember
to some extent the good times and forget the
bad.我们都在一定程度上
会记住美好的时光,而忘记痛苦的时刻。
★come down
to: if a complicated situation or problem comes
down to sth., that is the single most
important thing归结为
The decision whether or
not we can go on a vacation to Europe comes down
to money in the end;
that is, how much money
we can afford.我们能不能去欧洲度假的决定最终都归结到钱,即我
们能拿出多少钱。
20 One female vice-president discussed
the time she burst into tears during a meeting.
think that tears are a nuclear weapon in a
conventional war. They take exception to a woman
crying, inferring that she's feeling unhappy
or violated.
Meaning: One female vice-president
talked about the time when she could not hold back
her tears
at a meeting. She said that men
considered women's tears just as unfair weapons.
They were angry
at women who were crying and
thought that these women felt unhappy or offended.
★vice-: prefix used with the name of a senior
job title for referring to the person holding a
job
immediately below that
one表示“副”(用于高级职位的名称前,表示仅次于这个职位的职位)
The vice-
president is now in control of the school since
the president is ill at home.现在是副校长
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在管理学校,因为校长生病在家。
★burst into: suddenly begin to make a sound,
esp. to start singing, crying, or
laughing突然迸发
(尤指开始唱歌、哭、笑等)
Before Mary even
finished telling the anecdote, I couldn't help but
burst into
laughter.还没等玛丽
说完她那个有趣的故事,我就忍不住爆发出大笑。
★take
exception to sth.: be angry or upset because of
sth.因某事而生气(烦恼)
I take great exception to
having such poor service here.我对这儿糟糕的服务表示强烈不满。
★infer: vt. form an opinion that sth. is
probably true because of information that you
have(根据
资料)推断,推定
From the evidence which
the police collected so far, we can infer that the
victim knew her
killer.
我们可以从警察至今收集的证据推断出被害人认识凶手。
★violate:
vt.
1)do sth. that makes sb. feel that they
have been attacked or have suffered a great loss
of respect打
扰;侵犯;侵害
The media regularly
violates people's privacy.媒体经常侵犯人们的隐私。
2 )
disobey or do sth. against an official agreement
law, principle, etc.违背;违反;侵犯
Thirty-four
protesters were arrested for violating criminal
law.三十四名抗议者因违反刑法而
被捕。
21 The men
failed to understand that what prompted her tears
was not hurt but genuine rage. (Para.
6)
Meaning: The men did not know what made women
cry was not being hurt but their anger.
22 valid rage that has no appropriate
release,
offense or by veiling their feelings
to appear
composed.
Meaning: She says that
women cry because they have nowhere to release
their reasonable anger.
While women cry, men
seek to release their anger by continuing with
their attacks on women or
by hiding their
feelings to look calm.
Meaning beyond words:
This example further contrasts the different
working styles between
men and women,
triggered by their personality traits.
★valid:
a.
1) reasonable and generally
accepted有根据的;令人信服的
Police officers must have
a valid reason for stopping
motorists.警察必须有正当的理由来拦截
司机。
2) legally or
officially acceptable有效的;正式认可的
Your return
ticket is valid for three months.您的回程机票有效期为三个月。
★offense: n.[U] (BrE offence) the act of
offending or displeasing得罪;冒犯行为
The attorney
said his client committed the offense because he
was out o f control over his
emotions, so he
pleaded
insanity.律师说他的当事人因无法控制自己的情绪而做出冒犯行为,因
此称其属于精神失常。
★veil:
vt. hide sth. behind sth. else遮盖;掩饰
It was a gray morning with the drizzle
beginning to veil the
hills.这是一个灰蒙蒙的早晨,细雨开
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始笼罩山峦。
n. [C] a thin
piece of material that women wear to cover their
faces面纱
Some women wear veils for religious
reasons to prevent strangers from seeing their
faces.有些妇
女出于宗教原因戴面纱,不让陌生人看到她们的脸。
★compose:
vt.
1)(~oneself) make oneself calm after being
angry, upset, or nervous使自己镇静下来
Standing in
front of the platform, she took a moment or two to
compose herself and then walked
a few steps
toward her
audience.站在舞台前,她用了片刻的时间让自己镇定下来,然后向前朝
观众走了几步。
2) (be ~d of) be formed from a number of
substances, parts, or people由…组成
Water is
composed of hydrogen and oxygen.水由氢和氧组成。
★composed: a. calm and relaxed镇静的;镇定的
To
everyone's surprise, Tom came out fairly composed
after a heated argument with his opponents.
出乎所
有人的意料,汤姆与他的对手进行了激烈的争论后,出来时仍相当镇定自若。
23
Deborah, president of a firm with its headquarters
in Toronto, says that even if men do
understand, they sometimes react differently
to the identical information and to her
cooperative
management style. (Para. 7)
Meaning: According to Deborah, president of a
firm with its main office located in Toronto, even
if men do understand why women cry, they
sometimes react differently to similar information
and
to her collaborative style.
★headquarters: n. [p1.] the main building or
offices used by a large company or
organization.总
部; 总公司;总办事处
The
international investment company, which has its
headquarters in New York, has three
branches
in New York, one in Canada and five in Spain.总部设在纽
约的那家国际投资公司在纽
约有三家分公司,在加拿大有一家,在西班牙有五家。
★identical: a. exactly the same, or very
similar完全相同的;非常相似的
Physically, the two
brothers were almost identical, but they were
worlds apart in their approach to
life.两兄弟虽然长得非常像,但他们的生活方式却有天壤之别。
★cooperative: a. willing to cooperate合作的
Employees who feel valued are more productive
and cooperative.感到受重视的雇员工作效率会
更高,合作精神会更强。
24 Deborah says that her authority is
sometimes undermined by perceptions about her
gender.(Para. 8)
Meaning: According to
Deborah, her authority is sometimes weakened by
biased opinion of
women.
25 It stems
from the whole social context of traditional roles
for men and women,she
to do things, but
perhaps you wouldn't take as much notice as when
Dad told you to do things. Men also have a
stronger urge to control,
Meaning: She says
that people's different reactions toward female
bosses and male bosses come
from our social
background:the traditional roles for men and
women. People would pay more
attention to what
their dad told them to do than what their mom
would tell them. Men also have a
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stronger desire to
control.
★stem from: develop as a result of
sth. else源于;来自;由于…发生
His love o f writing, he
believes, stems from his analytical training at
university.他认为他对写作
的热爱源于他在大学所接受的分析能力训练。
★context: n. [C, U]
1) the situation,
events, or information that are related to sth.
and that help you to understand
it场
合;周围情况;环境;背景
Indeed, the local people's
attitude toward the same policy varies over time
and with a changing
social
context.确实,当地人民对同一政策的态度随着时间和社会背景的变化而变化。
2) the
words that come just before and after a word or
sentence and that help you understand its
meaning上下文;语境
You have to make full use o
f the clues given by the story's context, your
common sense and
knowledge可the
world.你必须充分利用故事的上下文,以及你的常识和你对世界的了解。
26
For female bosses, the great expectation of some
female employees is one more obstacle.
Junior
women assume a female boss will promote them more
quickly than a man would. (Para. 9)
Meaning
beyond words: As female bosses manage more
diplomatically and often seek consensus,
female employees usually expect to get
promoted more quickly by women bosses. This is
another
obstacle for female bosses.
27 But, they also expect female bosses to be
more
your own stuff?' or 'Why can't you do
your do your own filling?' one senior female
executive.(Para.9)
Meaning beyond words:
Female employees, however, would also expect
female bosses to do
more by themselves for the
purpose that they won't be bothered. This
expectation by female
employees is an act of
undermining Deborah's authority, and it implicitly
attests to disrespectful
behavior toward her
as a boss.
★scan: vt.
1) use a piece of
equipment to read and store information in digital
form扫描
The entire paper contents o f all
libraries will eventually be scanned into
computers.所有图书馆
的文本资料最终将被扫描进电脑。
2)
(also~through) read sth. very quickly in order to
get important or interesting
information粗略
地看;浏览
Scan the newspaper
article and make a note of the main
points.把报纸上的文章粗略地看一下,
并把要点记下来。
Usage NOTE
scan, skim
scan和skim都可译为“浏览、快读”,都可用作及物和不及物
动词,但实际上它们有显
著的差别。
1
scan指“查读”,是根据需要快速扫描出相关的细节。
scan用于此义时,可用作及物和不及物动词。例如:
She scanned the
advertisement pages of the
newspapers.她很快地查读了报纸上的广告页。
2 skim与scan不同,是“略
读”,指的是跳过文章的具体细节不看,在短时间内迅速掌握
文章的主旨和大意。
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例如:I only
skimmed the headlines of the newspaper every
morning.每天早晨我只是浏览一
下报纸的大标题。
比较:
When
reading a passage, our English teacher always
tells us to skim the passage first in
order to
get the general idea and then scan the passage
again in order to find the specific
informatio
n.在阅读文章时,我们的英语老师总是告诉我们先略读文章以获取文章的大意,然
后查读以获得所需的
具体信息。
Usage NOTE
scan, skim
scan和
skim都可译为“浏览、快读”,都可用作及物和不及物动词,但实际上它们有显著的
差别。
1 scan指“查读”,是根据需要快速扫描出相关的细节。
scan用于此义时,可用作及物和不及物动词。例如:
She scanned the
advertisement pages of the
newspapers.她很快地查读了报纸上的广告页。
28 On the other
hand, there is no dispute that a few decades ago
they would rarely have had a
female boss in
the workplace. (Para. 10)
Meaning: Despite
female employees' too many expectations, one thing
that goes beyond any
disagreement is that the
condition would not have in place a few decades
ago-they could hardly
get a woman as their
boss.
★dispute: n. [C, U] a serious argument
or disagreement争论; 辩论;争端;纠纷
There is no
dispute that family and relatives are the primary
source of support for senior people at
home.家人和亲属是居家老人的主要支柱,这是不争的事实。
Sentence
structure NOTE
pute that…结构与结构(B2U2,Text
B)属
于同一句型,基本用法相同.
29 Nina, a management
consultant says she's vaguely optimistic.
before I die, when we recognize that the best
management styles will be composed of the best
that
both genders bring to the table…”Well,
she pauses, maybe not before she dies, perhaps in
her
daughter's lifetime. (Para. 10)
Meaning beyond words: Nina, a management
adviser says she's kind of optimistic that
someday, before she dies, people will
understand the best management styles come from
the
combination of the best provide by of both
genders. However, she gives the hint that maybe
this day won't come soon; perhaps it will
happen in her daughter's lifetime.
★consultant: n. [CJ sb. whose job is to give
advice on a particular subject顾问
He's left his
job as a computer programmer and is now working as
a consultant for a German
firm.
他已不做电脑程序员的工作,现在在一家德国公司做顾问。
★vague: a.
unclear because sb. does not give enough detailed
information or does not say exactly
what they
mean含糊的;不明确的;不清楚的
The news they've released
about the flood is vague and
incomplete.他们发布的有关水灾的消息
含糊且不完整。
★vaguely:
ad.
1) in a way that is not clear模模糊糊地;不明确地
Always 1 was taught that money was not the
most important thing in life, so 1 will feel
vaguely
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uncomfortable i f there is too much of it on h
and.我总是被教导说,钱不是生活中最重要的东西,
所以如果我手里有太多的钱,我会隐约地感到不
舒服。
2) slightly稍微;有点
The interview made
him look vaguely ridiculous.他在面试中表现得有点滑稽可笑。
Structure analysis and writing
Focus
on an example essay
By reading women's working
styles in the feature report, students can see
that a feature
contains a lot of background
information, anecdotes, interviews, and specific
examples一a useful
tool when writing a feature.
The example essay is one of the most basic essays
in academic
writing, but it can be extremely
difficult if students have never written one or do
not know what to
write about. An example essay
has the same purpose: to use specific instances or
actual cases to
convince the readers that a
particular point is true. In an example essay,
students support their
point by illustrating
it with examples. When used well, examples make
writing more persuasive,
thus increasing the
chances readers will understand and believe the
point. Like other writing
modes, the point in
an example essay is reflected in the thesis
statement. For example:
1 My female boss'
leadership ability is apparent in her
relationships with her employees.
2 My male
boss' personality is intolerable: stubborn, bad-
tempered, and suspicious.
3 My new co-workers
are uncooperative, incompetent; and inconsiderate.
Once students have finished writing a
thesis statement, they can start writing examples
in the
following paragraphs. Generally
speaking, each body paragraph gives one specific
and extended
example to support one of the
sub-points mentioned in the thesis statement. Of
course, students
may want to give numerous
examples to illustrate their point, which is fine.
However, it totally
depends on what kind of
topic they are dealing with. For instance, suppose
the thesis statement is
Probably not. In
short, thesis statements that state or imply
examples; otherwise, just use a few but more
developed examples. The following paragraph from
Text A exemplifies how to support a thesis
statement with a specific and detailed example:
To some extent, the male- female differences
come down to conflicting styles. One female
vice-president discussed the time she burst
into tears during a meeting.
nuclear weapon in
a conventional war. They take exception to a woman
crying, inferring that she's
feeling unhappy
or violated.
hurt but genuine rage. we cry,
it's because we have all this valid rage that has
no
appropriate release,she says. cry; men get
relief by going on with the offense or by
veiling their feelings to appear
composed.
Analysis of the whole text structure
Text A is a feature report on female bosses in
the workplace. It has brought us various
scenarios where female managers show their
unique working styles toward their employees,
coupled with male managers' contrastive way of
performance. The text consists of six major parts.
Part One (Paras. 1-2) serves as the
introduction of the text. Paragraph 1 starts with
Monica's
story. Twenty years later, she
changed her preference from working for a male
boss to a female
boss. Paragraph 2 raises two
questions concerning working styles: 1 ) Do men
and women manage
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differently? 2) If so, is that a good thing?
Part Two (Para. 3) presents the unique working
style of a female boss: Delegate power and
always look for a consensus. As a result,
employees are happy and flourish because they have
input into decisions instead of being passive
bystanders; their energies are put to use. On the
other
hand, consensus takes longer.
Part Three (Paras. 4-5) explores the differences
in working styles between male and female
bosses. Paragraph 4 exclaims that men are
typically hierarchical, goal-oriented and feel
entitled
while women manage diplomatically and
skillfully, but some young people proclaim that
women
and men basically manage in the same
way, using Nicole's example. Paragraph 5
illustrates the
two different scenarios: Women
feel more at ease with their female boss, but it
takes a long time
for men to feel comfortable
around their female boss, taking the examples of
Susan and Brian.
Part Four (Paras. 6-8)
analyzes reasons why male and female bosses manage
differently.
Paragraph 6 uses the example of a
female vice-president, who burst into tears at a
meeting because
she felt angry, but men don't
understand and they consider crying similar to
using a nuclear
weapon in a conventional war.
Paragraph 7 asserts that even if men understand
they would react
differently to the similar
information. With Deborah's personal experience,
Paragraph 8 explains
that the difference stems
from the whole social context of traditional roles
for men and women.
Part Five (Para. 9)
discusses the obstacles a female boss also faces:
Female employees expect
their female boss will
more quickly promote them; on the other hand, they
hope their female boss
can take care of her
own work without bothering them.
Part Six
(Para. 10) concludes the feature report with the
example of Nina. Nina is somewhat
optimistic
about the future, hoping the day will come soon
when people recognize the best
management
styles are composed of both male and female.