Translation可是当我手里拿着肯德基炸鸡走出车库时.ppt

1、,New Horizon College EnglishReading read for detailed information; share ideas about the gun violence; talk about the darker side of society; expand vocabulary on the present topic; make presentation on a given topic.,Lead In: video watching,Watch the video clip concerning the gun violence and talk

2、about: 1. What are the causes for the gun violence in America? 2. What measures can be taken to cope with the gun violence?,social disorder, racial discriminations, crimes, take adequate measures, educate the ordinary people, make money in a legal and moral way,Lead In: video watching,Tips:,Kentucky

3、 Fried C_, known as KFC in the US, is the worlds most popular chicken restaurant chain. The company originated and still has its h_ in the US. It now has more than 30,000 restaurants worldwide.,Background Information: KFC,hicken,eadquarters,Global Comprehension,I. Main idea One night two a_ young me

4、n robbed me of money, watch and even KFC. Next day, I went to look through the mug shots at the police station, affected with the i_ that these young men, like a raging current, were eating at the foundations of what we had held dear.,rmed,mpression,Global Comprehension,II. Reading for detailed info

5、rmation,Read the text carefully and try to answer each of the following questions for better understanding of the text. You are greatly encouraged to find the exact place for the answer.,Why are most victims of armed attacks unable to identify their offenders according to the writer?,1,Global Compre

6、hension,Because they focus their attention on the guns rather than on their users during the encounter.,What did the method the robbers used in robbing him suggest according to a police officer?,2,Global Comprehension,They might have committed a number of robberies in the area over the past few mont

7、hs.,What damage do these young men do to our society according to the writer?,3,Global Comprehension,They are bit by bit destroying the basic ideas we hold dear: our freedom to move about; the fruits of labor ; our lives and those of people we value.,What does the writer mean by saying “some day, we

8、 will have to face this river and seek the depths of its discontent”?,4,Global Comprehension,He means that some day we will have to deal with these young men and try to find out the cause of their discontent.,Cultural Reflection,Discussion questions: What kind of violence exists now in our country?

9、What are the causes for this phenomenon? What can be done to cope with this problem?,Language Study: long sentence,Read the following sentence and translate it into NATURAL Chinese. But, as I walked out of the garage, KFC chicken in hand, a portly, unshaven young man in a stocking cap and dark nylon

10、 jacket emerged from the shrub by the parking pad and put his pistol between my eyes. Translation:可是当我手里拿着肯德基炸鸡走出车库时，一个肥壮、留着短髭、头戴绒线帽、身穿深色尼龙夹克的年轻人从停车处旁边的灌木丛中钻 出来，把手枪顶在我的双眼之间。,Now translate it back into English. 可是当我手里拿着肯德基炸鸡走出车库时，一个肥壮、留着短髭、头戴绒线帽、身穿深色尼龙夹克的年轻人从停车处旁边的灌木丛中钻出来，把手枪顶在我的双眼之间。 But, as I, a po

11、rtly, unshaven young manemerged fromand put. Expressions:留着短髭unshaven,Language Study: long sentence,Language Study: words recognize and master words and expressions of high communicative value; learn about essay.,Reading Skills,Reading between the Lines Reading between the lines means drawing unders

12、tanding about the authors ideas from what is written and from what is not written. Writers dont always express all their thoughts openly, either as a matter of style, or because they assume we know and share their opinions-or because they arent sure how to express themselves.,Reading Skills,Reading

13、between the Lines To draw inferences about the authors ideas we have to be very careful with what is advised in the following. 1) You have to make use of context clues, common sense and our knowledge of the world. 2) Connect ideas and draw conclusion from the reading passage.,Reading Skills,Reading

14、between the Lines 3) Form and test what you have understood between the lines. The reading act is a two-way communication between the reader and the writer about understanding, forming ideas, testing your ideas during the reading of the passage, correcting or changing your own ideas and understandin

15、g and, finally, you are able to get what the writer is driving at or communicating.,Reading Skills,Reading between the Lines Example: Hey, I said, just take it. As I spoke, I set the KFC box on the planter beside the pathway, contriving as I did so to toss my house keys into a bush. (Para. 3, Passag

16、e A, Unit 7) Question: Why did the writer toss his house keys into a bush? Possible answer: He would not let the robbers to have his keys to the house.,能够 犯罪统计数据 棕色把手 枪支控制 人性 想象的抢劫 故意略掉 免遭暴力 加油站,a brown handle gun control crime statistics immune to violence human nature is capable of the imagined ro

17、bbery intentionally omit a gas station,Match-up,Vocabulary Expansion,The essay is essentially true, a piece of non-fiction. Essays may be descriptive, use narration, propose solutions to problems, elucidate the inner workings of complicated creations of nature and/or humanity.,Essay,Writing Skills,Essays may be creative in the sense that the authors have creatively explained their points of view,