现代大学英语精读教案UNIT3 DILL PICKLE.doc

教 案周 次第13 周，第1次课授课时间2011年11月21日授课章节Lesson Nine Lead in本（章）节授课方式课堂讲授（） 实践课（ ）教学时数2学时授课要点本 （章） 节 教 学 目 标1. Explain the pre-class work2Ask students to acquire key words 3. Ask students to acquire relevant background information教 学 重 点 和 难 点1.Word formation2.Key words3.Background information 思考题或作 业1Preview Text A and analyze the structure.2Underline the difficult points.教学内容与组织安排（教学目的： ）Time allotment1. Lead-in and warming-up 1 class hours2. Word-study 1 class hour3. Text analysis 6 class hours4. Grammar and exercises 4 class hoursI. Background information（教学方法：学生查阅后课上做presentation, 教师补充）Katherine MansfieldKatherine Mansfield, pen name of Kathleen Mansfield Murry, was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888. When she was studing at Queens Colloge, London, she met D. H. Lawrence and John Middleon Murry, a famous critic, whom she later married. Mansfields family memoirs were collected in Bliss, which secured her reputation as a writer. In the next two years, she did her best work, the peak of her achievement being the Garden Party, which she wrote during the final stages of her illness. She died of tuberculosis in 1923. Mansfields creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, all of which were reflected in her works with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters. Her short stories were also notable for their use of stream of consciousness.v Katherine Mansfield(1888-1923) Pseudonym of Cathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murryv Born in Wellington, New Zealand, daughter of a wealthy merchant and Bankerv Attended Queens College, London, from 1903-1906v A talented Cellistv Married George Bowden in 1909 but separated shortly afterv Begin to live with John Murry in 1912, but was only able to marry him till 1918v I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face Her worksv 70-odd short stories in five collectionsv In a German Pension Satirical stories on her own experiences in England, in Belgium and Bavariav Bliss, and Other Stories Her family memoirsv The Garden Party and Other Stories Her finest worksv Posthumous publications The Doves Nest and Other Stories Something Childish and Other StoriesHer Stylev The theme of the unbridgeable gap between the labouring people and the idle richv Finely textured (有质感的)monologue of the central characterv The psychological make-up of modern peoplev Her prose style is delightful, and the choice of diction is always so careful and appropriate I was jealous of her writing, the only writing I have been jealous ofv Virginia Woolfv A little bit sentimentalFeminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of womens rights. Feminism is mainly focused on womens issues, but because feminism seeks gender equality, some feminists argue that mens liberation is therefore a necessary part of feminism, and that men are also harmed by sexism and gender roles. Feminists are persons whose beliefs and behaviors are based on feminism.Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Modernism was a revolt against the conservative values of realism.234 Arguably the most paradigmatic motive (motif) of modernism is the rejection of tradition and its reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new forms.567 Modernism rejected the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking and also rejected the existence of a compassionate, all-powerful Creator God89 in favor of the abstract, unconventional, largely uncertain ethic brought on by modernity, initiated around the turn of century by rapidly changing technology and further catalyzed by the horrific consequences of World War I on the cultural psyche of artists.II. Key words（教学方法：学生课下查阅课上讲解完，教师补充。P271 第4题 ）A. to snap(1) to break with a sudden sharp noisee.g: His neck snapped and he died instantly.(2) to open or close something suddenlye.g: Her eyes snapped open.(3) to say something quickly and angrily or in an annoyed mannere.g: “ Dont take me for a fool.” He snapped.(4) to take a photoe.g: I didnt stay long. I just took a quick look and snapped a few pictures.(5) to make a sharp cracking sound with fingers or teethe.g: Their ferocious dog was snappong at me.B. to fix(1) to fasten firmlye.g: The chairs are all fixed to the floor.(2) to arrangee.g: We have not yet fixed the time for the meeting.(3) to repair or curee.g: The doctor said that he could fix my broken nose.n. an awkward and difficult positione.g: His wife divorced him, and his son is only three. He is now in a terrible fix.C. to stretch(1) to lengthen or widene.g: The beauty of this material is that you can stretch it like rubber.(2) to extend from one place to another or across a given space or time.e.g: This new railway will stretch over five provinces.(3) to reach oute.g: The beggars all stretched out their hands. But he had nothing to give.n. (1) an unbroken length, area or expansee.g: In front of us was a stretch of extremely bumpy dirt road.(2) a continuous period of timee.g: He often sleeps for almost 20 hours at a stretch.D. beyond(1) father away than; on the far side ofe.g: Our school is just beyond that tall building.(2) past or outside the limits, reach, or scope ofe.g: The lecture was quite philosophical. It was completely beyond me.E. apart(1) separate by a distancee.g: They are now living apart.(2) into partse.g: You need special equipment to take this machine apart.Apart from(1) except(2) besides(3) some distance awayIII. Word formation（教学方法： P266 第2题 ）A. tionB. -ingC. -press教 案周 次第 1314 周，第 2-4 次课授课时间2011年11月22-28日 授课章节Lesson Nine Text A本（章）节授课方式课堂讲授（） 实践课（ ）教学时数6学时授课要点本 （章） 节 教 学 目 标Students will be able to:1. to improve students reading and comprehension ability2. to master some new words and phrases and sentence structures3. to learn the structure of the text4. to master the grammatical points in the text5. to analyze the main characters教 学 重 点 和 难 点About the text1. to divide the text into several relevant parts2. to analyze the charactiristics of the two main characters3. to paraphrase some key sentencesAbout the grammarto review the rhetorical question and exclamatory sentenceAbout the figure of speechSymbolism思考题或作 业Characters analyzing教学内容与组织安排（教学目的： ）ILead-inImplication of the Title Questions:When do people eat dill pickles? Whats the main function of dill pickles? Normally, people usually eat them during the meals in order to stir up their appetite.Question: How does a dill pickle taste?A dill pickle tastes sour, spicy, bitter and sweet.Implication: It symbolizes the feeling of Vera, a mixture of flavors.Question: After you tasted dill pickles, would you enjoy them a lot?After you tasted dill pickles, you wouldnt enjoy them very much, because they are not a luxury. They only serve as appetizer. You would not use them as a main course. They are very sour but something about them makes you have to finish them. You rarely ever see a half eaten pickle. The story has a weird conversation between two past lovers who made plans to do things together. They split and the guy accomplished the plans by himself and is telling her about them. She obviously doesnt like him any more and shows little interest in his story. She always wanted to go to Russia and now that he has gone there without her she could care less. She is now applying her feelings toward him to Russia. The dill pickle symbolizes the changes she has had like a cucumber changing flavor when its pickled.A dill pickle is rather bitter in taste and throughout the whole conversation the reader gets the impression that Vera is sort of bitter towards the man she is talking to. For example, he looks back on all of the fond memories he has had with Vera, but Vera is bitter about something that happened there.From the womans perspective Here pickle refers to the whole encounter of the woman. Veras life is very dull. So the meeting serves as an appetizer just as a stone is thrown into the motionless water and stirs up various desires to break the dull life of Vera. On the whole, a dill pickle appeals to you with attractive colors: greenish jar, red chili. But once you open the jar, one is enough and you wont finish the whole jar, which implies that the meeting will not bring Vera full satisfaction. In the text, Vera is looking forward to the meeting with the man, but it turns out to be no satisfaction at all.From the mans point of view:In his life, Vera is just an appetizer, not a main course, meaning she is not a person that the man would like to spend the whole life with. She only makes his dull life a little colorfulDiscussionWhat is your impression of Vera?What is your impression of her friend?What do you think accounts for the difference in the perception of Veras friend?Do you think you would perceive him differently if you knew his thoughts?Why do you think he is not given a name? Do you think he was ever truly in love with Vera?Was he still in love with her?Why do you think he carried out the couples travel plans?Why do you think she didnt?Do you think people can ever overcome their isolation from one another?II. Text LectureA. Global Reading（教学方法： ） Setting of the story: in a restaurant Protagonists: Vera and her ex-lover (his name was never told) Theme of the story: about the relationship between lovers: the heroines sensitivity and the mans insensitivity to otherstheir feelings, attitudes and inner motivations. The mans egoism prevented him from seeing how greatly their lives had diverged in the six years since they parted.1. Main idea of the textIt is about a young man and a young woman, who had been lovers, met each other after six years of separation. As they sat and reminisced, we understand what had happened six years ago that led to the end of their relationship. Now, six years later, they had the opportunity to renew their relationship, but somehow they separated again.2. Structure of the textPart I (Paras.1-4): A couple of former lovers met in a restaurant six years after they departed.Part II (Paras.5-21): They recalled their past days spent together.Part III (Paras.22-46): The man showed off his travelling experiences without noticing the womans feelings.Part IV (Paras.47-51): They recalled the mans boyhood stories together.Part V (Paras.52-65): The mans selfishness and insensitivity broke the womans hope to renew their relationship and finally she chose to leave him.B. Detailed Discussion of the Text（教学方法： ）I. Text analyzing1. And then, after six years, she saw him again.From this very first sentence we can infer that:a.) She had met him before. In fact they must have known eache other quite well although the exact nature of their relationship was not clear at this point.b) For some reason, they had not seen each other for six years.2. He was peeling an orange.To peel an orange: to take off the peel of an orange, c,f:To peel potatoes; to husk the rice; to shell the peas; to weed the garden; to skin a cat; to gut the fish; to dust the tables.3. He didnt know her. She smiled, he frowned. She came towardsin a dark room.She found it incredible that he didnt know her. This indicated that they had known each other very well six years ago.Incredible! He didnt know her. (p.2)v Inferencev the relationship between them had been unusual. At least this indicated that they had known each other very well six years ago.She smiled, he frowned. (p. 2)v She smiled because she was very glad to see her old friend. He frowned because he could not recognize her.v Frown: move ones eyebrows together because one is angry, unhappy or confused.v Frown on/upon: disapprove sth.v e.g. My parents always frown on late nights out. (or on the use of tea bag).He closed his eyes an instant, but opening them his face lit up as though he had struck a match in a dark room. (p. 2)v When he remembered who I was, he suddenly looked very excited.v Light up (with): suddenly look pleased or happy; become cheerfulv Her face lit up with happiness when she saw her beloved.v Tom will certainly light up when he sees his new bike.4. “Youve changed. Youve changedso well before.”When the man said Vera had changed very much, what do you think he really meant to say?Did Vera really look well?(No, she was not feeling well. She counld not bear the cold weather. She shuddered often from the cold. And she was beginning to feel the effect of her growing age. Quite likely she was sick at that time.)5. “Loathe it.” She shuddered. “And the worst of it is that the older one grows” (p. 8)v Loathe: hate sb or sth very much =abhor, detestv Loathe doing sth: Some men usually loathe going shopping with their wives.v Shudder: tremble, shiver, quaver, quake6. Then thats settledYou were saying-the older one grows.Settled: decided; properly dealt withHe took up the orange again: notice the authors descriptions of minute detail. Do you think it is a significant detail?You were saying: an expression used to encourage someone you just interrupted to cintinue to speak. Why did he interrupt her in the first place?(He just did not want to encourage Vera to talk about herself. He wanted to turn the subject back to himself.)7. But she was thinkingto exasperate her six years ago.Vera well remembered this trick of his-the trick of interrupting her.This trick of his: more emphatic than his trick.e.g: I like that car of yours. It looked so beautiful.To exasperate: to annoy, to vex, to irritate very muchThis is perhaps the first clue that the man and Vera were lovers six years ago, but the author is in no hurry to tell the raders the truth. She continues to keep them in suspense.8. “The colder!” he echoed her words, laughing too.D you think it a natural response from someone who was supposed to have been madly in love with her as we found out later?9. a haunting memoryThe man begins to reminisce. What specific scenes does he recall? What do his memories reveal?10. I am still just as ignorant for all your telling me. (p. 13)v I am still as ignorant as before of the names of flowers although you had told me.v For all: despite, in spite of, notwithstandingv E.g. He has great power and wealth, but is still unhappy for all that v For all that: although, thoughv E.g. He is still unhappy for all that he has great power and wealth.the afternoon in Kew Gardens 11.behaving like a maniac about the waspswaving them away, flapping at them with his strew hat, serious and infuriated out of all proportion to the occasion. How she had suffered.v What happened that afternoon that made Vera suffer?v He was so childish, trivial, and ridiculous that he had made a fool of them both.v out of all proportion to sth: in a wrong relation to sth; too big, high, serious etc. for sth; Here：absurd, abnormal; out of placev E.g. His head is out of proportion to the size of his body.v The housing prices are out of all proportion to peoples income.12. But now, as he spoke, that memory faded. His was the truer. (p. 15)v Now, that memory about the ridiculous scene gradually disappeared. His memory was more accurate. They did have a good time that afternoon.That memory faded: that memory about the ridiculous scene gradually disappeared. After all, it was a wonderful afternoon.His was the truer: His memory was the truer one. They did have a good time on the whole that afgernoon.13. Her thoughts lingered over the last two words. (p. 16)v She kept thinking of the last two words, “warm sunshine.” (long for sunshine, or the good old days?)v Linger (on/over): stay somewhere longer than necessary, or spend longer doing sth than necessary for your enjoymentv They lingered over coffee and missed the last bus.v I love this town so much that I decide to linger (on) for several days.v Linger in (a place): The scent of her perfume lingered (on) in the room. 14. And in the warmth, as it were, another memory unfolded. (p. 16)v And while she felt warmth at the thought of that wonderful afternoon, another scene came into her mind.v As it were: as you might say; so to speakv E.g. He is, as it were, a walking dictionary.v As it is: in reality, really15. Because I know I amnever will love me.Now we know that they had been in love before.16. He was certainly far better looking now than he had been then. He had lost all that dreamy vagueness and indecision. Now he had the air of a man who has found his place in life. (p. 22)Vera is secretly comaparing the man now with what he was six years ago, and her conclusion is the man has chagen for the better. He has become better-looking and much richer, and more mature.v He had lost all that dreamy vagueness and indecision:v He was no longer unpractical or unrealistic and uncertain what to do with his