《标准大学英语u》PPT课件.ppt

1、Language in Use,1 Rewrite the sentence from the passage The Eiffel Tower,2 Look at the sentences and answer the questions,3 Complete the sentences with suitable expressions,4 Translate the paragraphs into Chinese,5 Translate the paragraphs into English,unpacking complex sentences 1. Look at the sent

2、ence from the passage The Eiffel Tower. The Crystal Palace, made of iron, erected for the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, covers the largest area; the Brooklyn Bridge, completed in steel in 1883, has the longest span; and the Eiffel Tower, made of steel and started in 1887, reaches the greatest hei

3、ght.,Language in Use,You can rewrite it in a diagram like this:,Language in Use,Language in Use,Language in Use,Now rewrite the sentence from the passage The Eiffel Tower in the diagram below. Bouguereau, the academic painter; Garnier, the architect of the Opra; Dumas, Jr., the novelist; Gounod, the

4、 composer; Leconte de Lisle, the poet; Prudhomme, the essayist; Guy de Maupassant, the novelist, all signed a resounding letter of indignant protest to the Minister of Public Works in an attempt to stop the horror.,Language in Use,Language in Use,Bouguereau,Garnier,Dumas, Jr.,Gounod,Leconte de Lisle

5、,Prudhomme,Guy de Maupassant,all signed resounding letter of indignant protest to the Minister of Public Works in an attempt to stop “the horror”,the academic painter,the architect of the Opra,the novelist,the composer,the poet,the essayist,the novelist,2. Look at the sentences from the passage The

6、Eiffel Tower and answer the questions. 1 Sir Joseph Paxtons Crystal Palace not only served royally the Great Exhibition but, being demountable, was transferred afterwards to Sydenham, where it was used for sculpture, painting and architectural exhibits, and for concerts until November 1936, when it

7、burned, a lost symbol of happiness and brotherhood. (a) What was transferred to Sydenham? The Crystal Palace. (b) Why was it possible for it to be transferred? It was demountable.,Language in Use,1 Sir Joseph Paxtons Crystal Palace not only served royally the Great Exhibition but, being demountable,

8、 was transferred afterwards to Sydenham, where it was used for sculpture, painting and architectural exhibits, and for concerts until November 1936, when it burned, a lost symbol of happiness and brotherhood. (c) What was the Palace used for in Sydenham? It was used for sculpture, painting and archi

9、tectural exhibits and for concerts until November 1936. (d) What burned? The Crystal Palace.,Language in Use,2 Monsieur Eiffel extolled its utility as a military lookout, the salubrity of the air at its top, its uses as a laboratory to experiment with wind and gravity, but the innerspring to its con

10、struction was to demonstrate that France, 100 years after the revolution, was a leader of the technical world, capable of realizing the dream of a tower 300 meters high, almost 1,000 feet. (a) What uses did Monsieur Eiffel praise the Tower for? He extolled its utility as a military lookout, the salu

11、brity of the air at its top, and its uses as a laboratory to experiment with wind and gravity.,Language in Use,2 Monsieur Eiffel extolled its utility as a military lookout, the salubrity of the air at its top, its uses as a laboratory to experiment with wind and gravity, but the innerspring to its c

12、onstruction was to demonstrate that France, 100 years after the revolution, was a leader of the technical world, capable of realizing the dream of a tower 300 meters high, almost 1,000 feet. (b) What was his main motivation in constructing the Tower? To demonstrate that France was a leader of the te

13、chnical world. (c) What did he say France was capable of doing? Realizing the dream of a tower 300 metres high, almost 1,000 feet.,Language in Use,3 They went to look at the Tower as much as to look from it, to look inside, at its filigree of steel, as much as to point out the other monuments of the

14、ir city. (a) What reasons did people have for visiting the Tower? To look at and from the Tower. (b) What could they look at inside the Tower? Its steel framework. (c) How could they point to other monuments in Paris? By ascending it and getting a view of the city.,Language in Use,collocations 3. Co

15、mplete the sentences with suitable expressions from the box. Sometimes more than one collocation is possible. 1 Many people cannot _ _ _ architecture, in fact they find it abstract and confusing.,Language in Use,make,sense,of,2 To be an architect, you need to _ many practical _ as well as theoretica

16、l knowledge. 3 He said that his country will not _ _ to what is happening in the area and is deeply concerned over the security situation there.,Language in Use,acquire,skills,indifferent,remain,4 Despite the financial crisis, we _ _ that we can meet our long-term financial goals. 5 We are well awar

17、e of the _ _ on peoples health of working in a noisy office.,Language in Use,adverse / harmful / negative,effects,remain,confident,6 The architects had a few problems with the builders but a(n) _ _ approach helped solve them. 7 They have the habit of _ _ some money each month towards buying a new fl

18、at.,Language in Use,leaving / setting,aside,common,sense,8 _ _ the Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport, what else has Norman Foster designed?,Language in Use,Aside,from,Additional activity Fill in the blanks using proper words from the collocation box. 1 The rude man. He just _ aside

19、 my request. 2 Where can we acquire further _ on these scholarships?,Language in Use,brushed,information,3 You are right in a _, but equally you are wrong. 4 Some people find acquiring a foreign _ very difficult. 5 What has he written? I cant _ any sense of it.,Language in Use,sense,language,make,6

20、These are not small changes they will surely have _ effects on the university. 7 Shes a fine teacher she has certainly had a beneficial _ on some of the least cooperative students.,Language in Use,far-reaching,effect,8 Her expression remained _. She either has no feelings or hides them very well. 9

21、In no _ of the word can you say I enjoyed that film. 10 _ that aside for a moment and help me with this.,Language in Use,unchanged,sense,Leave / Set,4. Translate the paragraphs into Chinese. But architecture as a process and a means has other meanings. So much of architecture has the best intention

22、of creating pleasure or a sense of satisfaction, even if it doesnt always succeed. It may be the moderate pleasure of combining form with function. The shanty towns in Rio or Mumbai demonstrate an organic architecture which has no overall layout or prescribed plan, and no obvious logic, but its func

23、tion is to protect and shelter the inhabitants who would otherwise live in discomfort on the streets.,Language in Use,然而，作为一种工业流程和手段，建筑艺术还有其他的意义。就算不一定能做到，那么多的建筑艺术还是一心一意要给人创造愉悦感或满足感。这种愉悦感可能是形式和功能的完美结合所带来的那种适度的愉悦。里约热内卢和孟买的棚户区向我们展示了一种有机建筑，它们没有总体布局，没有既定的规划，也没有什么明显的逻辑，但它们可以为居民遮风挡雨，为他们提供安身之所。如果没有这些棚屋，他们就得

24、露宿街头，过着颠沛流离的生活。,Language in Use,Presumably, even the architects who designed the tower blocks of flats in the war-damaged cities of Britain in the 1960s and 1970s aspired to combine the economy of space to the maximum effect and for the benefit and pleasure of the people who were going to live there

25、. There was nothing malign about their intentions, even though they were over-optimistic about the simplicity of imposing a new relationship between the space and the occupiers.,Language in Use,或许20世纪60、70年代那些为被战火摧残的英国城市设计公寓塔楼的建筑师们也想最大限度地节约空间，同时保障入住居民的利益，并给他们带来居住的愉悦感。他们的愿望是美好的，但是他们过于乐观，以为可以简单地在空间和居住

26、者之间强行建立起一种新的关系。,Language in Use,In the end, it wasnt the neo-brutalism of the style or the materials square forms made of reinforced concrete, often located with little or no regard to the environment, and rising 20 or 30 floors into the cloudy British skies which brought criticism and scorn on this

27、 modernist architecture. It was the absence of gardens, shops and a sense of community which challenged and finally defeated this idealistic attempt to define a new way of living in cities.,Language in Use,最终，让这种现代主义建筑备受批评和蔑视的并不是风格和材料上的新野性主义用强化混凝土浇铸的方形建筑，选址几乎不顾及对环境的影响，二三十层拔地而起，直插英国阴云密布的天空，而是因为这种建筑没有

28、花园，没有商店，没有社区的感觉，正是这一点使得那些建筑师重新定义都市生活的理想主义尝试遭遇挑战，并最终彻底失败。,Language in Use,5. Translate the paragraphs into English. 新的国家博物馆建成之后，一些市民和建筑师对于在一群极其美丽精巧的古建筑中建造一座现代建筑感到愤怒。其高昂的维护费用和古怪的形状也引发了大量的批评。显然，许多人对在这个古城中涌现的时髦的现代建筑感到不舒服。不过，也有不少艺术家和市民觉得这些批评没有看到该建筑的美和艺术上的成熟。 ( indignant; exquisite; an outburst of; erect;

29、 do justice to),Language in Use,When the new National Museum was completed, some citizens and architects were indignant at the appearance of a modern building amidst the most beautiful and exquisite ancient buildings of the city. There was also an outburst of criticism of its high cost of maintenance and its strange shape. Obviously, some people felt uncomfortable with such fashionable modern buildings being erected in the city. But on the other hand, many artists and citizens believe