综合英语Book V Unit (4)ppt课件

1、lThe invisibility of the poor in the U.S.A is an undeniable fact, but why is this so? Harrington enumerates succinctly the various causes which can be classified into three categories. See p. 52, students book.lGo over the text within 5 minutes to identify the sentences that show the reasons and the

2、 paragraphs that are concerned with these reasons.lThe normal and obvious causes of the invisibility of the poor: (4-5)lPoverty is often off the beaten track. lBeauty and myths are masks of poverty. lA new kind of blindness about poverty: (6-14)lTransformation of the American city isolates the poor

3、from sight of others. lWell-meaning ignorance keeps concerned and sympathetic Americans from knowing the truth about the poor. lMass production enables the best-dressed poverty to exist. lMany of the poor are the wrong age to be seen. lPolitical invisibility the dispossessed at the bottom of society

4、 cannot speak for themselves. (15-17)lWhat, according to Harrington, has rendered poverty less visible in rural America?lWhat is the evidence to demonstrate poverty?l- towns like the movie sets in the thirtiesl- company houses in rowsl- rutted roadsl- black and dirtyl- unemployed men in the barl- wo

5、men working in a runaway sweatshoplWhat are the beauty and myths that hide poverty?l- the hills, the streams, the foliagelWhat is the poverty hidden? l- a run-down mountain house makes the travelers jealous l- undereducated, underprivileged, lack of medical care, forced into the city life they are b

6、adly adjusted tolProvide evidence that although the poor are living in the central city, they are isolated from contacts with, or sight of, anybody else.l- The poor are living in the miserable housing / slums / tenements or hovels in the central area surrounded by towering, modern buildings so that

7、they are inconspicuous of the sight of anyone else. l- Almost everyone pass through the Negro ghetto or the blocks of tenements - middle-class women on the way to an evening at the theater, the business or professional men driving downtown to work, but they take no notice of the failures, the unskil

8、led, the disabled, the aged, and the minorities, and their children are segregated in suburban schools.lWhy does the author say the middle class take a well-meaning ignorance of the poor?l- Witnessing the slums, tenements or hovels have been replaced by towering, modern buildings, these concerned an

9、d sympathetic Americans assume that the poor are being taken care of and nothing should be worried about.lWhat is the relevance of the benefits of the mass production with the best-dressed poverty?l- It is because of the mass production that make the clothes at the price that can be afforded even by

10、 the poor so that the poor are also decently dressed. Even people with meager incomes can dress well.lHow do you understand “it is much easier in the United States to be decently dressed than it is to be decently housed, fed, or doctored”?lProvide evidence for the decently-dressed poverty.l- No peop

11、le are in work clothes or in rags in the street because of the lockers in the plants, but in slacks and white shirts, or in stylishly cut suit or dress, even though they are hungry. lWhat are the age groups where poverty is more likely to be found? Why are they not easy to be seen?l- the groups of p

12、eople at 65 years of age or better and those under 18l- the aged poor: sick, cant move, live in loneliness, stay in the neighborhood l- the young poor: stay close to their neighborhood, not disturb that of the middle class and remain unnoticed except when they commit gang killinglWhy are the poor po

13、litically invisible? l- They are unable to speak for themselves because they have no face, no voice.l- No politicians care about them because their slums are no longer the centers of powerful political organizations, only those unions without any great political power articulate their needs.lintelle

14、ct and will: l- intelligence and will powerlHow do you account for Harringtons use in para. 2 of the first person singular, which is not found anywhere else in the passage?lWhat is this paragraph about? Or, what is the function of this paragraph?l- transitional paragraph: l the first sentence summar

15、izes the two causes discussed in the previous paragraphs; the third sentence elicits another major cause of the invisible poverty.lCan you see the difference between “neglected, forgotten” and “not seen”?lWhat does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?l- to strengthen his call for the atten

16、tion to the poverty in the U.S.lRead the text and finish doing the multiple-choice questions on page 39 in the workbook within 10 minutes. lThis article seems to be a narration, telling the authors personal experiences of consuming pet food and his observations on human consumption of pet food in th

17、e order of time sequence / in a chronological order. Try to understand his own experiences and observations one after another by completing the table below. whenwhowherewhyfeeling1st time in my youth Neighbors & acquaintances In the SouthPoorNot uncommon, not startling, unavoidable 2nd time in 1

18、953 IClevelandUnemployedSurreptitiously, humiliated, carefully guarded secret Next time in 1956ICollegeNo income Ashamed to admit it Later in late 50sNew recruits when at homeGreat Lakes Illinois Naval Training Center Later experiencePeople Richmond in South Philadelphia, the South, Ozarks, Indian r

19、eservations Cheaper than otherslWork out a bulletin about the poverty problem in China collaboratively. 1 Poverty is often off the beaten track. 42 Beauty and myths are perennial masks of poverty.53 The American city has been transformed, but the poor are increasingly isolated from contact with, or

20、sight of, anybody else.84 This new segregation of poverty is compounded by a well-meaning ignorance.95 Clothes make the poor invisible too. 10,116 Many of the poor are the wrong age to be seen.137 The poor are politically invisible.15-17lWhat are the words illustrating “no face” and “no voice” ?l- no face: no unions, organizations, political parties, or lobbies; atomizedl- no voice: unable to speak for themselves, no legislative programlHow do you understand the sentence “there is not even a cynical political motive for caring about the