tpc-现代大学英语精读第二版book2unit1推荐课件

1、Another School Year What For? John Ciardi Another School Year What For? John Ciardi12021/8/22R einforcementT ext AnalysisAnother School Year B ackgroundWarming upUnit 122021/8/22Questions / ActivitiesCheck-on PreviewObjectivesAnother School Year Unit 1Warming up32021/8/22Warming upQuestions / Activi

2、ties Do you remember the orientation sessions you had when you first came to university? Lets do something similar. Divide into four groups: Group A: President of the University Group B: Registrar of the University Group C: Senior student Group D: Freshman Now choose your group! 42021/8/22Warming up

3、Questions / Activities Group A: Work out a 3-minute welcome speech to the freshmen at the orientation. Group B: Work out 10 reasons why students should go to this university. Group C: Work out 10 reasons why students should stay at this university. Group D: Work out 5 questions for the President, Re

4、gistrar, and senior student respectively. You can cooperate in a group, but you will be assigned to different groups later. Group Tasks52021/8/22Warming upQuestions / Activities One student from each of groups A-D will form new groups (1-6). Role-play in each group. The President gives a welcome spe

5、ech. The Registrar talks about the advantages of the university. The senior student talks about his/her experiences at the university and gives advice to the freshman. The freshman asks questions and the others answer. Orientation Scenario 62021/8/22Warming upQuestions / Activities The teacher will

6、pick up one student from role groups A-C and ask them to present to the class. The rest of the class will all be freshmen present at the orientation. Fire on! Re-Grouping72021/8/22Warming upQuestions / Activities What do you go to college for? How has your first semester in university changed you? D

7、o you now have new visions of the purpose of university? Sum Up82021/8/22Check-on PreviewWrite down the words according to the corresponding explanations. f_s_p_s_l_c_e_all the teachers of a university or collegeto be enoughshowing the ability to understand things clearly and deeplyan uncivilized hu

8、man beingin a basic meaning of a wordto state something is correctto officially arrange to join a universityWarming up92021/8/22Objectives Understand the occasion and stylistic features of the speech Think about the question of the purpose of university education Know something about the author Solv

9、e your own questions about the textWarming up102021/8/22BackgroundGenreAuthorAnother School Year Unit 1112021/8/22BackgroundHis LifeJohn Ciardi1916-1986ua child of Italian immigrantsuBegan his career teaching English at the University of Kansas City uJoined the US Air Force in 1942, served as a gunn

10、er in fighter planesuwent on to teach at Harvard University in 1946 uin 1953 accepted a position at Rutgers Universityuin 1961, gave up teaching and devoted himself to his own literary endeavors.122021/8/22BackgrounduPoet, translator, etymologistuMajor works: First book of poems, Homeward to America

11、, 1940 Other Skies, focusing on his war-time experience, 1947 How Does a Poem Mean, a standard textbook for high school and college poetry courses Translation of Dantes Divine Comedy (The Inferno, 1954; The Purgatorio, 1961; The Paradiso, 1970)uInfluence: A very popular poet Poetry editor of Saturda

12、y Review from 1956 to 1972 Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member and former president of the National Institute of Arts and LettersHis Influence132021/8/22BackgroundGenreOrientation speechperiod of time at the beginning of the academic year at a university during which a v

13、ariety of events are held to orient and welcome new students. The orientation helps new students to organize their classes, acclimate to student life, and introduce themselves to other new students. Speeches are often given at orientation by presidents or acclaimed professors of the university. Audi

14、enceCollege freshmenStylecolloquial, familiar; first humorous, mildly sarcastic; later serious and earnest142021/8/22DetailedAnalysisStructureThemeAnother School Year Unit 1Text Analysis152021/8/22Text AnalysisThemeWhat is the purpose of university education? u University education has a two-fold pu

15、rposeTo provide students with technical & professional trainingTo educate students to become civilized human beings162021/8/22Text AnalysisStructure172021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Main Idea Retell the teachers encounter with the student. Occasion, students appearance & quest

16、ion, what the teacher has in mind and what he says, students response What is the students attitude towards reading Shakespeare and towards the teacher? Find textual evidence. What is the teachers attitude towards the student? Find textual evidence. How does the teacher try to explain to the student

17、 the importance of reading literature? How do you understand the teachers differentiation of the three eight hours and his emphasis on the last third besides work and sleep?182021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Sentence ParaphraseIt would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but i

18、t would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history. (para. 2)Paraphrasing: The B. S. certificate would be officialproof that the holder had special knowledge ofpharmacy, and it would also be proof that he had beenput in touch with some prof

19、ound ideas of the past. To be official proofConcentrate ones effort in a special activity or fieldPut in touch with192021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Sentence ParaphraseI could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasnt going to be around long enough for it to matter. (

20、para. 3)Paraphrasing: I didnt actually say all this to him, because Ididnt think he would stay at college/in my class very long,so it wouldnt be very important whether or not he knewwhat university education was for. Around where? 202021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Sentence ParaphraseY

21、ou will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that thebull doesnt jump the fence, or that your client doesnt go to theelectric chair as a result of your incompetence. (Para. 5)Paraphrasing: You have to take responsibility for the work you dousing your professional skills. If you are a

22、 pharmacist, you shouldmake sure that medicine is not mixed with poison; if you are anengineer, you should make sure that the fence you design isstrong enough to keep our bulls. If you are a lawyer, you shouldmake sure that your innocent client is not sentenced to deathbecause you lack adequate skil

23、l and knowledge to defend him. Attend to, take care of212021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Sentence ParaphraseYoure going to be badly stuck for something to do when you are not signing checks. (Para. 8)Paraphrasing：(If you dont have any other goal in lifeapart from making money,) you wil

24、l have nothinginteresting and meaningful to do when you are notpaying for your shopping.Pay for thingsUnable to find222021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Words & ExpressionsWordsPhrasesSentence PatternWordscertify；enroll；generate；rear；sufficePhrasesbe fresh out of/from; point to; be n

25、ew to the faculty; reach for; specialize in; be around; be exposed to; average out; more or lessSentence Patternbe usefully employed; go through; see to; stay out of; do with; preside over; maintain contact with; be out to do ; be stuck for GrammarAs if + adj/participles/to do/prep. phrase232021/8/2

26、2Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Exercises Translate the following sentences: 1. 刚从学校毕业，他们遇到了一系列的问题，也有很多机遇。 Fresh out of college, they were exposed to a series of problems as well as plenty of opportunities. 2. 不管学习何种专业，大学生都应该接受人文通识教育。College students should have humanistic liberal education,

27、whatever they specialize in. 3. 请确保所有同学都收到了考试延期的通知。Please see to it that all students have been notified of the delay of the exam.242021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Exercises4. 人的财富各有多少，但幸福感都是差不多的。People may differ greatly in wealth, but their sense of happiness tends to average out. 5

28、. 没有什么语言能表达我的悲伤。No words will suffice to convey my grief. 6. 卖火柴的小姑娘伸出手去，似乎想要努力抓住火光中慢慢消逝的祖母。（as if + different patterns）The little match girl reached out her hand, as if trying to/ desperate to / determined to / in an attempt to grab her grandmother fading in the light. 252021/8/22Text AnalysisDetai

29、led AnalysisPart II: Main Idea How does the writer present his argument in the 2nd part? Education is an essential part of the purpose of university & the consequence of refusing to be educated In order to be educated, one needs to learn from the past (example: MIT) Books are an important carrie

30、r of the past, and provide people with a variety of lives. The mission of university is to educate the students. 262021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II: Sentence ParaphraseYou are on your way to being that new species of mechanized savage, the push-button Neanderthal. (para.9)new type of h

31、umans who are primitive and uncivilized although they can work machinesParaphrasing: You will become an uneducated person who can only work machines and operate mechanical equipment, not knowing anything about literature, philosophy, history, or art.272021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II:

32、Sentence ParaphraseIf you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for the continuity of the fine arts, for that lesson of mans development we call historythen you have no business being in college. (Para.9) Paraphrasing: If you dont want to improve your mind and broaden your ho

33、rizon by studying a little literature, philosophy, the fine arts and history, you shouldnt be here at college. 282021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II: Sentence ParaphraseOur colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life forms, but it cannot be said that they went to college; rather th

34、e college went through themwithout making contact. (para.9) Paraphrasing: Our colleges always produce such people who canoperate machines but who cannot think. We cannot help that. Butwe cant say that these people have received a proper collegeeducation. It is more accurate to say that these college

35、 years havejust passed them by without leaving anything on them.Mechanized savage; push-button Neandethal292021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II: Sentence ParaphraseThere is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized hu

36、man. (Para.10)Paraphrasing: To become a civilized person, you need to know many things, and you cannot find out everything by yourself, because your life is too short. 302021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II: Sentence ParaphraseIf you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your

37、 own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. (Para.12) Paraphrasing: If you are too anxious to leave school early (so that you can start to make money) , (

38、or if you are) too ignorant to see your limitations, to accept some of the thinking of the great men as something that will help cultivate in you the quality of being a human being, you do not deserve to be called a well-educated and cultured citizen of a democratic society. 312021/8/22Text Analysis

39、Detailed AnalysisPart II: Sentence ParaphraseA university has no real existence and no real purpose except as it succeeds in putting you in touch, both as specialists and as humans, with those human minds your human mind needs to include. ( Para. 14)Paraphrasing: The purpose of a university is to ex

40、pose its students to the best of human thoughts that they need to learn both as professionals and as civilized human beings. If a university cannot succeed in doing this, it should not exist at all.322021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II: Sentence ParaphraseThe faculty, by its very existenc

41、e, says implicitly: “We have been aided by many people, and by many books, in our attempt to make ourselves some sort of storehouse of human experience.” (Para. 14) Paraphrasing: We need the faculty because these teachers have a lot of human experience to pass on to young students, and they are able

42、 to do so because they have been helped by many people and many books in the past. 332021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II: Words & ExpressionsWordsPhrasesSentence PatternWordssay; acquirePhrasesput sb. in touch with; have no business doing; on ones way to; be true of; add to; in essenc

43、e; in our attempt to do sth.Sentence PatternThe chances are Grammar342021/8/22Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II: ExercisesTranslate the following sentences: 我就快完成报告了。 Im well on my way to completing this report. 2. 父母没有权利阅读孩子的私人邮件。 Parents have no business reading their childrens private mails.3

44、. 两国在这次峰会上不大可能达成协议。The chances are that the two countries will not be able to reach an agreement at the summit meeting. 4.一个人幸福与否取决于财富以外的很多其他因素；这个道理放之四海而皆准。There are many factors in determining whether ones happy or not other than wealth; this is true of everyone everywhere. 352021/8/22Another Schoo

45、l Year Unit 1Reinforcement362021/8/22ReinforcementQuestion asked: why do students trained for professional skills need to read literature?Answer provided: university has tow-fold purpose, training and educationPractical approach: education determines how you live your lifeArgumentative approach: a c

46、ivilized human being needs to be educatedMeans to be educated: learning from the past, esp. through booksRestatement of the argumentRevisiting the Argument 372021/8/22ReinforcementGroup WorkIn the following slides are a list of mottos from some of the most prestigious universities both in and outsid

47、e China. What do you think of their mottos? Do their mottos express their missions adequately? What do you think of their missions? Based on your understanding of the purpose of college education, design a concise and expressive motto for your university and provide a mission statement along with it. Translate your motto into Chinese. 382021/8/22Mission of Harvard Education at Harvard shou