高级英语_第二册Loving_and_Hating_New_York_教案

1、整理课件 Loving and Hating New York Thomas Griffith 整理课件Aims: 1) Improving students ability to read between lines and understand the text properly; 2) Cultivating students ability to make a creative reading; 3) Enhancing students ability to appreciate the text from different perspectives; 整理课件4) Helping

2、 students to understand some difficult words and expressions;5) Helping students to understanding rhetorical devices;6) Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately.整理课件Teaching Contents: Background Knowledge Exposition Detailed Study of the EssayOrganization PatternStyl

3、e and Language FeaturesSpecial Difficulties整理课件Background Knowledge 1) About the author Thomas Griffith 2) About New York City 整理课件Exposition 整理课件Detailed study on the Essay 整理课件Pre-reading task(Pictures provided here)1) Which one of these pictures are picture of New York City? What does New York Ci

4、ty impress you?2) Discuss with your partner to decide : a) which city you like most and why? b) If you are offered a chance to work or live in another city which is quiet unfamiliar to you , do you want to go there and why? 整理课件Para.1-5 General introduction Setting forth the present status of New Yo

5、rk in the United States and in the eyes of foreigners整理课件Task: Collect evidence to show that “ How the mighty has fallen.” New York = Big Apple = Mighty整理课件 Advertising campaigns publicly praise New York; Many New Yorkers wear T-shirts with a heart design and the works “ I love New York” New York is

6、 trying desperately to regain her lost prestige and status.整理课件Para.2-3 New York Yesterday & Today整理课件New York City Yesterday Top, highest, biggest Leading city sets styles and trends of nation Undisputed fashion authority Looked up to and imitated Todayisnt any moreout of phase with _ as out of

7、 step with lost its undisputed leadership no longer so整理课件Question: 1) From where we can see New Yorks deficiencies as a pacesetter are more and more evident?整理课件“ Nowadays New York is out of phase with American taste “ Nowadays New York connot understand nor follow the taste of the American people

8、and is often in disagreement with American politics. 整理课件“ No longer so looked up to or copied, New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends” Since New York is no longer looked up to or copied as the undisputed fashion authority, it now boasts that it is a city that

9、 resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion) of America, that it is a place where people can escape from uniformity and commonness.整理课件 Building Manhattan television studios Tin Pan Alley Hiring singers and entertainers Sports整理课件2) The technique used to support authors view is_.整理课件Para.4 New Y

10、ork In the eyes of Americans整理课件 Comeback: 1 a : a sharp or witty reply : retort b : a cause for complaint 2 : a return to a former position or condition (as of success or prosperity): recovery, revival staging his ultimate comeback from self-imposed exile整理课件Para5 New York In the eyes of foreigner整

11、理课件Question: Why do many Europeans call New York their favorite city? 整理课件 Cosmopolitan complexities European standards Mixture of many foreigners Many jewelers, shoe stores and designers shops Familiar international names Tense, restless atmosphere; its energetic pulse整理课件“ and designer shops that

12、exist to flatter and bilk the frivolous rich.”These shops are set up to cheat and gratify the vanity of the silly rich people整理课件Para 6 New York Energy, contention and striving整理课件Convention: angry disagreement Striving: trying very hard to achieve or to defeat the othersPut-down: ( informal) a rema

13、rk or criticism intended to make the others feel stupid (令人难堪的话，噎人的话)整理课件“ To win in New York is to be uneasy; to lose is to live in jostling proximity to the frustrated majority.” A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety ( because he is afraid of losing what he has

14、won in the fierce competition); a person who loses has to live among the defeated, who are in the majority in New York.整理课件Para.7 New York In authors eyes整理课件“New York was never Mecca to me” Rhetorical devices employed in this sentence are: _ and _.The author compares New York to Mecca; and Mecca is

15、 standing for _.A place of holy pilgrimage, of a place one yearns to go.整理课件Para 8 New York: Nature整理课件Questions:1) The topic sentence is _.2)The rhetorical device employed in “ Nature constantly yields to man in New York” is _. 3) Are there any other places uses the same rhetorical device as mentio

16、ned above? Whats the function of it?整理课件Para.9 New YorkOpportunities & uncertainness 整理课件Questions:1) What do “Ivy League Schools” refer to?2) Why did writer go and live in New York?整理课件Para.10 New York In young peoples eyes整理课件Question: Why do young people still go to New York? testing themselv

17、es unwilling to surrender to their most common and easily sold talents the fierce competition and challenge standards of excellence demanded整理课件“ But the purity of a bohemian dedication can be exaggerated.” But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be esaggerated.整理课件“ But th

18、e present generation is enough of a subculture to be a source of profitable boutiques and coffeehouses.”As these young writers and artists have distinct cultural patterns of their own, many businessmen open up profitable boutiques and coffeehouses to cater to their special tastes and interests.“ And

19、 it is not all that estranged” “It” probably means _.整理课件Para.11 New York A judging town整理课件 “A market for knowingness exists in New York that doesntt exist for knowledge.” In New York, a shrewd understanding or ability to appraise things is appreciated and paid for and skill and learning by themsel

20、ves are not considered valuable.整理课件Para12 New York An advertising Center整理课件Question: 1) The rhetorical device used in “The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the citys ” is _. And “ The condescending view is the view of _.2) In sentence “So does an attitude which sees.” The author compa

21、res _ to _.整理课件Para 13 New York Lack of cynicism整理课件Task: Collect evidence to show New York is lack of cynicism In sentence “ Men and women do their jobs professionally and, like pilots who from great heights bombed Hanoi ” the author compares_ to _.整理课件Para 14 New York Freedom整理课件Para 15 New York W

22、ounded not dying 整理课件Amenity: the attractiveness and value of real estate or of a residential structureTo succumb to: to fail to resist an attack, illness, temptation整理课件Para 16-18 New York New Yorkers Love整理课件 New Yorker who sees all the faults of the city still prefer to live in New York New Yorks

23、 faults:Trash-strewn streets Unruly school Uneasy feeling or menace The noise The brusqueness整理课件“ He is hopeless provincial” He will always be a New Yorker. His attitude towards and his love for New York will never change“ New York is the spoiler of all other American cities” New York has spoiled a

24、ll the other American cities for him.整理课件Para 19-10 New York International Metropolis整理课件Para.22 New York Loving and Hating An alternating mood整理课件1.exasperate: to excite the anger of; to cause irritation or annoyance to2.exhilarate: to make cheerful; to excite“ The place constantly exasperates, at times exhilarates.” New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but at times it also invigorates and stimulates.整理课件Organization Pattern 1) The thesis: Loving and hating New York or more specifically: Loving and hating New York becomes a matter