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成人英语教育课程教学大纲高级英语阅读扬州大学外国语学院英语系成人英语教育课程教学大纲 高级英语阅读 课程教学大纲学 分：学 时： 100 适用专业：英语教育课程性质：学科基础课 先 修 课：基础英语 制定日期：2003年4 月 一、本课程的地位和作用高级英语阅读是成教英语专业本科必修的一门专业基础课程，是提高综合运用语言能力的实践课程，是对学习者进行语言技能综合训练，培养其听说读写的自学能力，并在此基础上加强阅读、翻译和写作，扩大知识面，深化语言知识，提高英语思维及参与各类交际活动的实际能力。通过这门课程的教学，为今后学习后继课程打下良好的基础，以便更好地提高中学英语教学水平。二、本课程的教学目标通过本课程的学习，全面提高学生的听说读写译等方面的能力，为国家建设培养出合格的中学英语教师。具体来说，学员应能够：1、基本听懂正常语速的非专题性英语录音材料，能就日常生活中的常见话题进行连贯交谈，能表达自己的思想，语言得体。2、学会分析文章的篇章布局，运用正确的观点评价文章的思想内容，体会不同语体的特点。学习者还应学会抓住文章要点，通过概括大意训练和提高写作水平。3、能根据所给题目在规定时间内完成短文写作。4、从事较高质量的口、笔头翻译实践活动。三、课程教学基本要求和内容 1、教学基本要求： 1）Predicting2）Skimming for gist3）Scanning for specific information4）Dealing with unfamiliar words5）Distinguishing main ideas from details6）Making a summary of the whole text7）Analyzing text organization8）Analyzing the writing style9）Understanding rhetoric in the text 2、主要教学内容：English Book 5Lesson One Salvation重点：(1) Language points: salvation; go on; revival; hardened; escorted and placed; gnarled; lower lights, take somebodys name in vain; a sea of shouting; in the name of; sin and crime; etc.(2) Rhetoric: metonymy (3) The theme of the text(4) Structural analysis of the text(5) Some knowledge from the Bible: sinners, Holy Ghost, revival, Jesus Christ, etc.(6) Word study: surround, strike, bear(7) Grammar: articles难点：In what sense has the author been saved? Lesson Two The Game of the Name重点：(1) Language points: a passing acquaintance; speech community; at first thought; a trivial pursuit; unconsciously assimilated; in turn; Social Identity plus Last Name; be obliged; Your Honor; carry on; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural Analysis of the text(4) Word study: assume, oblige, identify, suspend(5) Grammar: determiners and pronouns难点：Develop Cultural Sensitivity/How to address appropriately/How to address different people in different situations.Lesson Three Thinking of Words重点：(1) Language Points: it is often said that; provided; language mechanism; equip sb. to do sth.; technicalities; mate; missis; madam; lady; miss; be staffed with; turn on; single out; turn sth. over; fish around; prisoners of language etc.(2) Structural analysis of the text(3) Word Study: equip, drop, slip, agree(4) Grammar: adjectives and adverbs难点：Develop Linguistic SensitivityLesson Four 38 Who Saw Murder Didnt Call the Police重点：(1) Language points: respectable; homicide; give a matter-of-fact recitation on; reconstruct the crime; frown on; in the first floor and on the second floor; be shrouded; head up; hold out; distraught; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Writing style: Features of journalistic style(4) Word study: seek, deliberate, exception, involve(5) Grammar: comparison难点：The characteristics of newspaper EnglishLesson Five What Body Language Can Tell You That Words Cannot重点：(1) Language points: adapt to; tip off; contrary to; turn their body away from each other; pigeon-toe inward; be firmly grounded; childlike; stake out; its the cold shoulder; dampen someones ardor; hands off ; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: approach, indicate, dominate, recognize(5) Grammar: tense drills难点：In what cases do we have to use Body Language? / Body LanguageLesson Six Americans and the Land重点：(1) Language points: come at; sweepfrom; from the belching of; be girdled with; farm meager lands; in force; result in; negotiable; indigenous; crop out; rip off; slow drought; etc. (2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Rhetorical notes: personification, transferred epithet, metaphor, etc.(5) Word study: wonder, persist, conduct, maintain(6) Grammar: tense and mood难点：Exposition developmentLesson Seven Mental Depression重点：(1) Language points: most everyone; work out; get a person “down”; take the edge off life; financial setback; out of the blue; accomplished people; social isolation; occupational underachiever; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: experience, lift, provoke, perform(5) Grammar: voice 难点：The differences between undisguised forms and disguised forms of depression; Various reasons for mental depression.Lesson Eight Small Kicks in Superland重点：(1) Language points: kick; clothe sth. in; drugged senses; lift the spirit; drain of; yearn for; television commercial; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: suspect, mix, urge, express(5) Grammar: modal verbs难点：hyperbole, elegant variationLesson Nine Appetite重点：(1) Language points: the keenness of living; have an edge on your longings; bite into; the greatest pitch; an inexhaustible treasure-house of flavors; bludgeon sb.; for that matter; preserve their intensity; for days on end; gorge oneself silly; come into ones own; the divinity of appetite; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: satisfy, perceive, exhaust, deny(5) Grammar: non-finite verbs难点：Expository essay developmentLesson Ten What Is It Like to Be Poor?重点：(1) Language points: It is altogether curious; the shifts; the complicated meanness; the crust-wiping; at a sudden stroke; the extreme precariousness; come over; refrain from pure funk; It is the suburbs, as it were, of the poverty; squalid; annihilate the future; craven panics; down and out; going to the dogs; etc. (2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: complicate, reduce; admit; mind(5) Grammar: non-finite verbs难点：How to understand povertyEnglish Book 6Lesson One Sexism in School重点：(1) Language points: enhance; it is no coincidence that; call on; field researcher; assertive; shortchange; sex desegregation; different than; different from; remain in the dark; be committed to; kind of; equity; equality; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: commit, focus, assert, react(5) Writing style of the text(6) academic reporting; language variation难点： (1) Education is not a spectator sport.(2) a classic case of the squeaky wheel getting the education oil.(3)packing the least educational punchLesson Two Philosophers among the Carrots重点：(1) Language points: Womens Lib; be a traitor to; brown bananas; size up; opt for sth; second (v.); hobgoblin; come out right; Buddha; variety in unity and unity in variety; the symbol of the lotus in Oriental philosophy; indulge in; state of mind; the quintessence of good sense; Whatever is, is good; etc(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: reflect, compete, descend, content(5) Writing style of the text(6) Native words vs. borrowed words难点：(1) A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. (2) All chaos is but order misunderstood.(3) Whatever is, is good.Lesson Three The Power of Habit 重点：(1) Language points: end by; as to; a practical joker; pure and simple; keep us within the bounds of ordinance; walks of life; make the best of it/make the most of; by and by; his betters; subjects of express volitional deliberation; see the matter right; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: appreciate, prevent, fashion, discharge(5) Writing style of the text(6) Parallelism难点：(1) Habit a second nature.(2) Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society.(3) It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions.(4) The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism.Lesson Four The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen重点：(1) Language points: the invisible Japanese gentlemen; Regency; signet-ring; a little distraught; attending to; deserve better of life; solid crutch; the Nelson touch; elaborate courtesy; settle down; you are awfully decorative; you simply dont connect; this is on me; she didnt look like Mrs. Humphrey Ward; evasive; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: evade, observe, endure, engage(5) Writing style of the text(6) Spoken and Written style难点：(1) in a Regency way oval like a miniature(2) She came alongside and raked him fore and aft.(3) It was a humiliating thought, but I was probably about her mothers age.(4) Her Regency counterpart, I suppose, would have borne a dozen children without the aid of anaesthetics, while he would have fallen an easy victim to the first dark eyes in Naples. Lesson Five Language Teaching and Learning重点：(1) Language points: a vehicle of expression; the object of the trip; cognition; production; interaction; prototype; mechanism; the administration; bane; a prolific area of psychological study; abstract reflection; concrete abstraction; winds of change; many flowers blooming, day lilies; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: represent, contribute, operate, level(5) Writing style of the text(6) Personal/Impersonal Style难点：(1) a vehicle that is transporting a persons message somewhere but is not itself the object of the trip.(2) skill-getting/skill-using(3) These blueprints represent the system underlying both reception and expression.(4) Let us look forward to a period of many flowers blooming, day lilies perhaps, but each in its day and hour bringing fragrance to the experience of some.Lesson Six Apology to the Future重点：(1) Language points: by rights; take precedence; a garden planet; irreversible damage; dispose of; addition to fossil fuels; an inevitable warming; the lions share; speak of; the great conflagration; quicksand pits; hair trigger; register a Soviet missile strike; genetic mutations; get around to doing sth; Armageddon; get the hang of sth; pass for; in the final analysis; state of affairs; sell off; slash and burn; dismantle public education from the top down; writ large; shape up; turn the world around; give sb. half a chance; head-on conflict; go to hell in a handbasket; in the midst of; flirt with its own destruction; take sth. for granted; wear out; along the same lines; above all and despite all; a hope against hope; Hollowly; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: dispose, retain, acknowledge, precede(5) Writing style of the text(6) Deviation and norm难点：(1) Its not just what were doing to the environment that speaks of the world we are creating for you, but just as evidently what human beings are doing to one another.(2) Even if you have by some incredible stroke of providence been spared an atomic Armageddon, you will see our handiwork in all the other gruesome legacies we have left you and with which you must try to live-or should I say survive?(3) That in my generation, homo maniacus, the crazy fellow, is busy writing the epitaph for homo sapiens, the supposedly wise fellow with 6,000 years of accumulated human experience to draw from?Lesson Seven Paper Moon重点：(1) Language points: have occasion to do sth.; mournful conferences; comparing prophecies; an intellectual mercenary; the Strategic Defense Initiative; be blessed with; public relation firm; doom-ridden; the market in abstraction; paper moon; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: afford, present, balance, consider(5) Writing style of the text(6) Paralinguistic features难点：(1) Many a person would rather you heard his story than granted his request.(2) it was being sponsored by several alarmed and public-spirited corporations in need of a public-spirited reason to fire, collectively, 50,000 workers.(3) Entire vocabularies of unintelligible jargon-literary as well as military and academic-describe kingdoms of nonexistent thought.(4) “ More jogging shoes,” he said. “ Heavier than adjectives, or even balanced phrases, but still metaphors. Metaphors of power.”Lesson Eight The Case for Greater Clarity in Writing重点：(1) Language points: bring sth. to bear on; abdicate ones responsibility; mental fog; work away; take cover under a long word; cut the cackle; intellectual snobs; snob value; scratch ones head over sth.; telescoped metaphor; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: affect, presume, devote, plea(5) Writing style of the text(6) Cohesion难点：(1) The authors observations are presumed to be pregnant; the reader is to be midwife and bring the child to birth.(2) Mr. Eliot, after all, was dramatizing certain problems of conduct and of human relations and he presented a Psychotherapeutic Sage as moral preceptor.(3) It is jam for the intellectual snobs who relish telling you what the author was really getting at.Lesson Nine Money Madness重点：(1) Language points: antiquated joke; tax-shelters; external security; deny the flesh; mixed messages; working all the shifts; go down the drain; flush down; small-saving outlets; over and above; enough safeguards; show up the big mouth; psychological fiber; etc.(2) Main idea of the text(3) Structural analysis of the text(4) Word study: share, reason, value, shadow, (5) Writing style of the text(6) Euphemism难点：(1) They thrash about in the net society euphemistically terms(2) a rich determined-inadequate person(3) Freudians would probably observe as part of mans psycho-sexual development the powerful anal need to gather more and more greenbacks for their own sake. Advanced English Book II Lesson One Face to Face with Hurricane Camille重点：(1) Introduction to the writing techniques of narration(2) The analysis of the structure of the text(3) The language style, especially the use of the verbs describing Camille:(4) Language Points: lash, pummel, whip, fling open (the door), shovel down,(the wind )mounted to a roar, (wind)lap at ferocity, in one mighty swipe etc, and the words for the damage by Camille: demolish ,damage, storm-shattered (panes), (the house began)leaking, (power)fail, overwhelming,(windows)disintegrate,(the generator was )doused, killed by water, (the house)shudder and shift, (walls)collapse(one wall began crumbling)难点：The structure of the text, the language used by the author, the cultivation of the students ability of mastering and analyzing the textLesson Two Marrakech重点：(1) Introduction to the writing techniques of exposition(2) The ways (cause and effect, classification, and contrasted.) the author used to develop his ideas and topics(3) The features of the language the author used and the slightest meaning showed by the words(4) Language points: No gravestoneonly kind; own literallystand up; All colonial empires; one can hardly look; sore-eyed childrenclouds of flies; In a tropical landscape; It is only because of tourist resorts; square meal, in a cloud, get at, in this connection, It doesnt matter two-pence难点：The writing features of exposition, the language style and how the author presents his own ideas and themesLesson Three Pub Talk and the Kings English 重点：(1) Introduction to the writing techniques of informal essay(2) The advantages and defects showed in the text(3) The language style and how the author established his own arguments(4) Language points: the charm of conversation or just glows; Conversation is not just for making point; Bar friends others lives; they are cattle to beef; Even if our menus Norman English; on its rocks; get up on the wrong side of the bed; tart remarks; descendants of convicts; the Kings English slips and slides; musketeer; etc.难点：The features of informal and formal essays, the language style Lesson Four Inaugural Addresses 重点：(1) The structure of Inaugural Addresses(2) The writing techniques and the language style(3) The understanding of Kennedys basic political policy goals and the function of figures of speech Kennedy used to appeal his allies, enemy and his country men for support and sacrifice(4) Language points: split asunder; a far more iron tyranny; half the globe; instruments of war; instruments of peace; deadly atom; stay the hand; mankinds final war; explore the stars; conquer the deserts; tap the ocean depths; bear the burden; twilight struggle; a more fruitful life; etc.;难点：Structure analysis and figures of speechLesson Seven The Libido for the Ugly重点：(1) Explanation of the text: a subjective, impressionistic or emotional description(3) The ways and methods the author develop his topic (3) The language style and techniques(4) Language points: libido; Parthenon; Presbyterian; I had been through it often before; But somehow I had never quite sensed its appalling desolation; it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke; They have taken as their model a brick set on end; It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror; They meet, in some unfathomable way, its obscure and unintelligible demands; Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth; etc.；难点：The features of structure and the ways the author used to develop his major ideas Lesson Eight The Workers as Creator or Machine重点：(1) Explanation of how the authors way of “cause and effect”, the way of psychological analysis very effective(2) The important historical and background knowledge of alienated worker and work (3) The language features and writing techniques(4) Language points: By the very fact of production, he has risen above the animal kingdom; Work is also his liberator from nature, his creator as a social and independent being