蒙大综合英语课件Unit2-3-text appreciation

1、Part ThreeText AppreciationENTERText AppreciationI. Text Analysis 1. Theme2. Structure3. Further DiscussionWriting Devices 1. Contrast 2. InnuendoIII. Sentence ParaphraseContentsText AnalysisThe idea of racism is a theme in the story, for the implication of the husbands racism is what causes the cou

2、ple to quarrel. The wife dislikes her husbands beliefs that African Americans are different from whites. He maintains that it is not that he is prejudiced against African Americans, but that they come from a different culture and they even have their own language. The husbands negative response to A

3、nns question of whether he would marry her were she African American indicates the pervasive and destructive nature of his racism.Theme of the TextThe end of Theme. Part 1 (Para. 1 ):Part 2 (Paras. 251):Part 3 (Para. 52 ):Text AnalysisStructure of the TextThe husband and wife maintain a harmonious r

4、elationship with each other.The husband is questioned by his wife about his view on a white persons marrying a black person. He has a strange feeling of uneasiness in the dark.The end of Structure. Text AnalysisTo be continued on the next page.Question: Is the quarrel between the husband and wife an

5、 ordinary quarrel? What does the talk touch upon? Who do you think is responsible for the quarrel?It touches upon the issue of racism.Text AnalysisTo be continued on the next page.He was a hypocrite and a terrible racist.Question: Is the husband a considerate and honest man? What kind of man is he?

6、Text AnalysisQuestion: Does the man oppose marriage between a black and a white? What are his arguments? To be continued on the next page.He opposes the marriage between a black and a white.His basic arguments are that blacks and whites have different cultures. They cannot know each other. Text Anal

7、ysisQuestion: What kind of woman is the wife? Is she too critical? What does she think the marriage between blacks and whites?She is honest and square. She thinks the marriage between a black and a white is perfectly natural, if they love each other.To be continued on the next page.Question: Why doe

8、s the woman corner her husband by keeping asking him whether he would marry her if she were black?Text AnalysisShe seems to have found that her husband has subtle racist nature.To be continued on the next page.Text AnalysisQuestion: Do you think the husband knows his wife very well?He seems to under

9、stand her wife well and is confident of manipulating any awkward situation. But actually, to him his wife is a stranger. To be continued on the next page.When the husband got the look where the wife pinched her brows together and bit her lip, he knew he should keep his mouth shut. But he never did.

10、Instead, it made him talk more. What can you infer from the above description?“Listen, I went to school with blacks, and Ive worked with blacks and weve got along just fine. I dont need you coming along now and implying that Im a racist.” What can we conclude about the husband?Text AnalysisFurther D

11、iscussion About the TextTo be continued on the next page.When he said “They even have their own language”, what did the husband imply?When the wife said “but if they love each other?”, the husband thought “Oh, boy”. What was he actually thinking?He was angry with her for resorting to the trick of re

12、peating his words so that they sounded hypocritical. Do his words sound hypocritical or is he hypocritical?Text AnalysisThe end of Text Analysis. Further Discussion About the TextII. Writing Devices appearance innermost beinghypocriticalHe is excited by her anger to challenge her.His concern for her

13、 is for her appreciation.Send her away to stop the conversation as he is tired of it.He felt ashamed that he had let his wife get him into the fight. He knew that he had to come up with the right answer Contrast considerate: pitch in on the housework, come to the aid out of concern,ask to complete t

14、he dish-washingScan the text and list out the related information.The end of Contrast.Contrast: to show the hypocritical nature of the husband and the subtlety of his racist natureInnuendo: an indirect or subtle, usually derogatory implication in expression; an insinuationWriting DevicesHe thought o

15、f years they had spent together, and how close they are, and how well they knew each other (Para. 43)InnuendoThe room was silent. His heart pounded the way it had on their first night together, the way it still did when he woke at a noise in the darkness and waited to hear it againthe sound of someo

16、ne moving through the house, a stranger. (Para. 52)The end of Writing Devices. Sentence Paraphrase 1All the things considered, he thought it was a bad idea. (Para. 2)absolute constructiongo to 2Sometimes his wife got this look where she pinched her brows together and bit her lower lip. (Para. 4)“Whe

17、re” is used to indicate a relative clause. It can be used after words referring to an aspect of a situation, or a stage in sth.Sentence Paraphrase 2 He squeezed to see how deep the wound was. (Para. 18)Noun clause introduced by “how” functions as the object of “see”.go to 3Pun: “Wound” refers to bot

18、h the cut and injury to feelings.Sentence Paraphrase 3“Yes, different,” he snapped, angry with her resorting to this trick of repeating his words so that they sounded hypocritical. (Para. 16) spoke abruptly and sharplygo to 4to turn to the help of the trick adjective phrase as subject complementappositive structure linked by “of”Sentence Paraphrase 4While he was at it, he decided, he might as well mop the floor. (Para. 42) go to 5had betterhe was doing the dishesSentence Paraphrase 5He thought the years they had spent together, and how close they were, and how well they k