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四川外语学院成都学院Chengdu Institute Sichuan International Studies University 教 案20122013 学年第1学期系 英语翻译系教研室(组)大二教研室课 程 名 称英语精读授 课 年 级大二年级授 课 教 师周霜职 称 四川外语学院成都学院教务处制二一二年九月教 案（首页）课程名称英语精读授课专业英语班级2011级翻译方向3、4班授课方式课堂讲授（） 实践课（ ）考核方式考试（） 考查（ ）课程类别 必修课公共必修课（ ） 专业必修课（ ）选修课公共选修课（ ） 专业限选课（ ） 专业任选课（ ）课程总学时108周学时6学时分配课堂讲授 108 学时；实践课 学时教 学目 标二年级精读课是英语专业学生必修课。在一年级精读基础上进一步加强学生基本功训练并提高学生的听、说、读、写、译的语言能力和交际能力。要求学生通过预习能正确回答与课文有关问题，并熟悉文章的语篇结构；通过课堂讲解，要求学生能用简单的英文解释难句；要求学生能用课文学过的词汇、词组和句型在恰当的场合灵活熟练地运用，进一步扩大学生的词汇量；培养学生对语言的敏感性和实际运用能力，提高学生的逻辑推理能力和判断力；加强学生对英语国家文化的了解；培养学生的独立学习、自主学习和研究性学习的能力；为学生升入高年级打下扎实的基本功。达到高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲要求，并通过英语专业四级考试。使用教材教材名称现代大学英语第三册编（著）者杨立民 主编出版社及出版时间外语教学与研究出版社2012年3月指定参考书1 高等学校外语专业指导委员会 高等学校英语专业教学大纲，上海外语教育出版社，北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2000年。2 高校英语专业四级考试大纲修订小组 高校英语专业四级考试大纲2004年新版，上海：上海外语教育出版社，2004年。3. 薄冰 高级英语语法北京：高等教育出版社，1990年。4. 徐克容 综合英语（二）上，北京：外语教学与研究出版社。陈汉生 新编高等学校英语专业四级考试指南，上海：上海外语教育出版社，2005年。 教 案周 次第 3 周，第 1-2 次课授课时间2012年 9 月 17 日授课章节Unit TwoHow Reading Changed My Life本（章）节授课方式课堂讲授（） 实践课（ ）教学时数2授课要点本 （章） 节 教 学 目 标Teaching objectives:1. To make a clear understanding of the main idea of the passage and have own opinion toward reading.2. To learn some conversational words and some useful sentence structures.3. To find out the arrangement and structure of this passage.教 学 重 点 和 难 点1. To learn idioms about “if” and how to use them correctly.2. To learn different meanings and phrases about “There”.3. To analyze sentence structures.思考题或作 业1. What can we gain from reading?2. Why dont people read or read as much as they should today？What does it matter if people dont read?3. What can we do to change the situation.教学内容与组织安排Unit Two Class 1-2I. Background Information1) About the author and the text Anna Quindlen is a US journalist. She has also written a number of novels, short stories and poems. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1953. The present text is an abridged version of the original. 2) Victorian England This refers to the period between 1837 and 1901 when Queen Victoria ruled Britain. She has the longest term of office in the history of Britain.The term “Victorian” is often associated with the style of buildings and furniture of the period, but more importantly with the strict moral attitude toward sex that many people had or pretended to have. This period is called “the empire on which the sun never sets”, which is the strongest period of Britain till 1914.The First World War began from 1914, since then Britain began declining . 3) MiddleMarch米德尔马契The masterpiece of the British woman writer George Eliot 乔治艾略特 (1819-1880), in which the author describes the people living in this Midlands town, reflecting all levels of English society through its many characters. 4) A Little PrincessThis is a childrens story written in 1905 by Frances Hodgson Burnett弗朗西丝霍奇森伯内特(1849-1924), an English playwright and author. The story concerns a pampered girl who is mistreated in a religious school after her father dies in poverty. Many years later, the book was made into a movie starring Shirley Temple 秀兰邓波儿. 5) Anna KareninaIt is a book written by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy 托尔斯泰 (1852-1910), and sonsidered by many people to be one of the greatest novels ever written. It tells the story of Anna Karenina, a married woman who falls in love with a young army officer. War and Peace Bockpecenne/ Resurrection 6) Gone with the WindThis is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949). It tells the story of Scarlett OHara, a beautiful and determined woman who lives on Tara, a large plantation in Georgia during the American Civil War. The story was made into a famous and successful movie in 1939.7) Rebecca蝴蝶梦A 1938 novel written by Daphne du Maurier达夫妮杜穆里埃. Manderley is the name of the fictional house that plays a central role in the book. 8) Jane EyreA novel written by Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), one of the three Bronte sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in all of British literature. Thornfied Hall is the name of the mansion of Mr. Rochester where Jane Eyre is employed as a governess. 9) A Tale of Two Cities This is a book written by English writer Charles Dickens. It describes the French Revolution. The two cities refer to Paris and London.This book means to revel the corruption of Capital society. Charles Dickens is a critical writer, who condemned the complex society in Britain at that time. He wrote certain famous books, such as Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and so on.10) Anna of Green Gables 清秀佳人 Lucy Maud Montgomery（露西.M.蒙哥玛丽）,1874-1942, is a famous Canadian writer.11) Heidi海蒂 A classic childrens tale happened in Swiss Alps by Johanna Spyri.(乔哈娜 斯皮里）12) The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比 A novel written by the American writer F.Scott Fitzgerald 弗司各特菲茨杰拉德 about the relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, a married woman. It describes apparently rich and happy people in the New York of the 1920s who are, in actual fact, bored and disappointed. 13) Emily Dickinson 艾米丽 狄金森 Dickinson (1830-1886) is a US woman poet, whose clever and original work is still very popular today.14) Robinson Crusoe The main character in Robinson Crusoe by the British writer Daniel Defoe丹尼尔 迪福(c.1660-1731). It describes how Crusoe manages to survive on a remote desert island when he is left all alone after a shipwreck. Later, he meets a black man whom he calls Friday who becomes his servant and friend. 199615) Trollpe Anthony Trollope 安东尼特洛勒普(1815-1882) is an English writer whose novels, such as Barchester Towers巴塞特寺院are famous for their description of Victorian England.16) Jamaica Kincaid牙买加琴凯德 （1949）is an American short story writer, who wrote for New Yorker for 20 years.17) Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt(1858-1919) is the 26th American President, in power from 1901 to 1909. He led American people to fight during the Great Depression and the Second World War. 18) John Kennedy John Kennedy 约翰F肯尼迪(1917-1963) was the President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (35th) when he was assassinated. He has tow brothersRobert Kennedy, who was also assassinated in 1968 and Ted Kennedy. 19) Moby-Dick白鲸 A novel published in 1851 by the US writer Herman Melville梅尔维尔 (1819-1891). Considered one of the greatest American novles, the book describes the captain of a whaling ship, Captain Ahab, who risks his life and the lives of his crew in his obsessive pursuit of a powerful white whale named Moby Dick. 20) Johannes Gutenberg Johannes Gutenberg 约翰内斯古登堡 (c. 1398-1468) is the German inventor of movable type.(西方活字印刷)21) Pride and Prejudice A novel published in 1813 by Jane Austin (1775-1817), a British woman writer. Generally regarded as one of the finest works ever w