现代大学英语精读教案UNIT3--DILL-PICKLE

教教 案案 周周 次次第第 13 周 第周 第 1 次课次课授课时间授课时间2011 年年 11 月月 21 日日 授课章节授课章节Lesson Nine Lead in 本 章 节本 章 节 授课方式授课方式 课堂讲授 课堂讲授 实践课 实践课 教学时数教学时数2 学时学时 本本 章 章 节节 教教 学学 目目 标标 1 Explain the pre class work 2 Ask students to acquire key words 3 Ask students to acquire relevant background information 授授 课课 要要 点点 教教 学学 重重 点点 和和 难难 点点 1 Word formation 2 Key words 3 Background information 思考题思考题 或或 作作 业业 1 Preview Text A and analyze the structure 2 Underline the difficult points 教学内容与组织安排教学内容与组织安排 教学目的 教学目的 Time allotment 1 Lead in and warming up 1 class hours 2 Word study 1 class hour 3 Text analysis 6 class hours 4 Grammar and exercises 4 class hours I Background information 教学方法 学生查阅后课上做 教学方法 学生查阅后课上做 presentation 教师补教师补 充 充 Katherine Mansfield Katherine 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 Mansfield s 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 Mansfield s 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 Katherine Mansfield 1888 1923 Pseudonym of Cathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry Born in Wellington New Zealand daughter of a wealthy merchant and Banker Attended Queen s College London from 1903 1906 A talented Cellist Married George Bowden in 1909 but separated shortly after Begin to live with John Murry in 1912 but was only able to marry him till 1918 I love the rain I want the feeling of it on my face Her works 70 odd short stories in five collections In a German Pension Satirical stories on her own experiences in England in Belgium and Bavaria Bliss and Other Stories Her family memoirs The Garden Party and Other Stories Her finest works Posthumous publications The Doves Nest and Other Stories Something Childish and Other Stories Her Style The theme of the unbridgeable gap between the labouring people and the idle rich Finely textured 有质感的 monologue of the central character The psychological make up of modern people 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 of Virginia Woolf A little bit sentimental Feminism 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 women s rights Feminism is mainly focused on women s issues but because feminism seeks gender equality some feminists argue that men s liberation is therefore a necessary part of feminism and that men are also harmed by sexism and gender roles Feminists are person s whose beliefs and behavior s 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 2 3 4 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 5 6 7 Modernism rejected the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking and also rejected the existence of a compassionate all powerful Creator God 8 9 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 教学方法 学生课下查阅课上讲解完 教师补充 P271 第第 4 题题 A to snap 1 to break with a sudden sharp noise e g His neck snapped and he died instantly 2 to open or close something suddenly e g Her eyes snapped open 3 to say something quickly and angrily or in an annoyed manner e g Don t take me for a fool He snapped 4 to take a photo e g I didn t stay long I just took a quick look and snapped a few pictures 5 to make a sharp cracking sound with fingers or teeth e g Their ferocious dog was snappong at me B to fix 1 to fasten firmly e g The chairs are all fixed to the floor 2 to arrange e g We have not yet fixed the time for the meeting 3 to repair or cure e g The doctor said that he could fix my broken nose n an awkward and difficult position e 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 widen e 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 out e g The beggars all stretched out their hands But he had nothing to give n 1 an unbroken length area or expanse e g In front of us was a stretch of extremely bumpy dirt road 2 a continuous period of time e g He often sleeps for almost 20 hours at a stretch D beyond 1 father away than on the far side of e g Our school is just beyond that tall building 2 past or outside the limits reach or scope of e g The lecture was quite philosophical It was completely beyond me E apart 1 separate by a distance e g They are now living apart 2 into parts e g You need special equipment to take this machine apart Apart from 1 except 2 besides 3 some distance away III Word formation 教学方法 教学方法 P266 第第 2 题题 A tion B ing C press 教教 案案 周周 次次第第 13 14 周 第周 第 2 4 次课次课授课时间授课时间2011 年年 11 月月 22 28 日日 授课章节授课章节Lesson Nine Text A 本 章 节本 章 节 授课方式授课方式 课堂讲授 课堂讲授 实践课 实践课 教学时数教学时数6 学时学时 本本 章 章 节节 教教 学学 目目 标标 Students will be able to 1 to improve students reading and comprehension ability 2 to master some new words and phrases and sentence structures 3 to learn the structure of the text 4 to master the grammatical points in the text 5 to analyze the main characters 授授 课课 要要 点点 教教 学学 重重 点点 和和 难难 点点 About the text 1 to divide the text into several relevant parts 2 to analyze the charactiristics of the two main characters 3 to paraphrase some key sentences About the grammar to review the rhetorical question and exclamatory sentence About the figure of speech Symbolism 思考题思考题 或或 作作 业业 Characters analyzing 教学内容与组织安排教学内容与组织安排 教学目的 教学目的 I Lead in Implication of the Title Questions When do people eat dill pickles What s 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 wouldn t 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 doesn t 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 it s 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 woman s perspective Here pickle refers to the whole encounter of the woman Vera s 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 won t 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 man s 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 colorfulDiscussion What is your impression of Vera What is your impression of her friend What do you think accounts for the difference in the perception of Vera s 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 couple s travel plans Why do you think she didn t Do you think people can ever overcome their isolation from one another II Text Lecture A Global Reading 教学方法 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 heroine s sensitivity and the man s insensitivity to others their feelings attitudes and inner motivations The man s egoism prevented him from seeing how greatly their lives had diverged in the six years since they parted 1 Main idea of the text It 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 text Part 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 woman s feelings Part IV Paras 47 51 They recalled the man s boyhood stories together Part V Paras 52 65 The man s selfishness and insensitivity broke the woman s hope to renew their relationship and finally she chose to leave him B Detailed Discussion of the Text 教学方法 教学方法 I Text analyzing 1 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 didn t know her She smiled he frowned She came towards in a dark room She found it incredible that he didn t know her This indicated that they had known each other very well six years ago Incredible He didn t know her p 2 Inference 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 She smiled because she was very glad to see her old friend He frowned because he could not recognize her Frown move one s eyebrows together because one is angry unhappy or confused Frown on upon disapprove sth 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 When he remembered who I was he suddenly looked very excited Light up with suddenly look pleased or happy become cheerful Her face lit up with happiness when she saw her beloved Tom will certainly light up when he sees his new bike 4 You ve changed You ve changed so 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 Loathe hate sb or sth very much abhor detest Loathe doing sth Some men usually loathe going shopping with their wives Shudder tremble shiver quaver quake 6 Then that s settled You were saying the older one grows Settled decided properly dealt with He took up the orange again notice the author s 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 thinking to 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 much This 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 memory The 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 I am still as ignorant as before of the names of flowers although you had told me For all despite in spite of notwithstanding E g He has great power and wealth but is still unhappy for all that For all that although though 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 wasps waving them away flapping at them with his strew hat serious and infuriated out of all proportion to the occasion How she had suffered What happened that afternoon that made Vera suffer He was so childish trivial and ridiculous that he had made a fool of them both out of all proportion to sth in a wrong relation to sth too big high serious etc for sth Here absurd abnormal out of place E g His head is out of proportion to the size of his body The housing prices are out of all proportion to people s income 12 But now as he spoke that memory faded His was the truer p 15 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 She kept thinking of the last two words warm sunshine long for sunshine or the good old days Linger on over stay somewhere longer than necessary or spend longer doing sth than necessary for your enjoyment They lingered over coffee and missed the last bus I love this town so much that I decide to linger on for several days 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 And while she felt warmth at the thought of that wonderful afternoon another scene came into her mind As it were as you might say so to speak E g He is as it were a walking dictionary As it is in reality really 15 Because I know I am never 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 He had lost all that dreamy vagueness and indecision He was no longer unpractical or unrealistic and uncertain what to do with his life Dreamy imaginative but not realistic Indecision hesitation hesitancy irresoluteness irresolution indecisiveness Now he had the air of a man who has found his place in life p 22 Now he looks like a man who has a successful career Air a particular feeling or impression that is given by sb sth the way sb does sth The room had an air of luxury She looked at him with a defiant air There was an air of complete confidence about her Paraphrase At that time the man was much younger full of dreams very unpractical very unclear about what he should do with his life But now he looks like a man who has a successful career 17 I get them made for me by a little man in St James s Street I get these cigarettes specially made for me St James s Street name of a street in London where there are fashionable stores Form the man s life style we can see that he must have made money 18 Para 26 She broke in You ve really been to Russia They both broke in but for opposite reasons Vera was very eager to know about his life in the past