大学英语课程课件lesson6textapprecia.ppt

Part Three,Text Appreciation,ENTER,Text Appreciation,Text Analysis 1. Theme 2. Structure 3. Further Discussion Writing Device Parallelism Sentence Paraphrase,Contents,Text Analysis,The man in the water did not have to give his rings to others; he did not even know these people. He was extraordinary precisely because he was ordinary. He showed what everyone of us could do at that critical moment. The display of his heroism was a song to the beautiful human character.,The end of Theme.,Part 1 (Paras. 13): Part 2 (Paras. 49):,Text Analysis,The terrible air crash in Washington, D.C. that brought people to tears and to attention and the possible reasons for the national sensation.,Its the ordinary man in the water who performed the extraordinary and stunning deeds that created the emotional impact and the enduring wonder.,The end of Structure.,Text Analysis,Mentioned in Paras. 34.,To be continued on the next page.,Question: Who are the heroes in the story?,Two police rescuers and, a young passerby and the man in the water.,Text Analysis,To be continued on the next page.,Question: Who is the greatest hero? Why? The man in the water. Ordinary as he was, he could rise to challenge when the test came. He displayed courage and noble character in human nature at its best.,Text Analysis,Question: In the authors view, do people feel proud or sad about the disaster? Why? They feel proud because man defeated the indifferent natural forces.,To be continued on the next page.,Text Analysis,Question: What is referred to as one of mans natural powers according to the passage? Sacrificing his life for the life of others.,To be continued on the next page.,Question: The fight between the man in the water and the natural forces ended up with the death of the man. Why does the author say he is not a loser?,Text Analysis,He was the best we can do to fight against the indifferent natural forces. Whats more, he never dies in peoples heart.,To be continued on the next page.,What was unusual about the air crash? Why does the author refer to the aesthetic aspect of the clash? What are the things the author mentions to be worth noticing? What does the author mean when he says the human nature was groping and struggling? Why does the author say that the man went unidentified gave him a universal character?,Text Analysis,To be continued on the next page.,Text Analysis,The end of Further Discussion.,How could the man in the water give a lifeline to those who watched him? What does the “lifeline” here symbolize? What does the greatness of the anonymous man actually lie in? What do you think are the strongest human powers endowed with by nature?,Writing Device,parallelism: the use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses,There was the unusual element of the bridge Then, too there was the location of the event And there was the aesthetic crash as well Still, there was nothing very special, except death (Para. 1),What effect do you think it has here?,The end of Writing Device.,Sentence Paraphrase 1,strong, sudden movement of wind,With a sharp and loud noise, Washington, the neatly well-designed city of order was thrown into a terrible confusion.,apposition phrase,go to 2,a sharp, loud and forceful strike of the plane and the bridge, stressing what met the ear,Washington, the city of form and rules, turned chaotic by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. (Para. 1),disordered state of unformed things,Sentence Paraphrase 2,And there was the aesthetic clash as wellblue and green Air Florida, the name of a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks of ice in a black river. (Para. 1),apposition,go to 3,The clash was also a clash of colours, a horrible eye-catching scene.,combination of colours which gave an artistic effect on the horrible scene, stressing what met the eye,Sentence Paraphrase 3,Last Wednesday the elements, indifferent as ever, brought down Flight 90. And on that same afternoon human naturegroping and strugglingrose to the occasion. (Para. 2),Last Wednesday, the bad weather, unconcerned about the consequences it might bring about as always, made Flight 90 fall down. On that same afternoon, human nature, groping for the flotation rings and struggling in the icy water, came to prove its greatness displayed in an unexpected tragedy.,made the plane fall down,go to 4,unconcern about the consequences as always,was able to deal with an unexpected problem, a difficult task,Sentence Paraphrase 4,Of the four acknowledged heroes of the event, three are able to account for their behavior. (Para. 3),go to 5,Only three out of these four heroes lived to tell people what they actually had done and how they had rescued the five survivors.,Sentence Paraphrase 5,On television, side by side, they described their courage as all in the line of duty. (Para. 3),as part of ones duty,Its their duty to be courageous enough to rescue people in the water.,go to 6,Sentence Paraphrase 6,Skutnik added that “somebody had to go into the water”, delivering every heros line that is no less admirable for being repeated. (Para. 3),Skutnik gave a remark that has been said before by many people in similar situations, but it is still admirable.,go to 7,making every heros remark,equally,as a result of,Sentence Paraphrase 7,But the person most responsible for the emotional impact of the disaster is the one known first as “the man in the water”. (Para. 4),being the cause for,go to 8,Sentence Paraphrase 8,His selfishness was one reason the story held national attention; his anonymity another. (Para. 4),go to 9,Parallel structure,Sentence Paraphrase 9,For a while he was Everyman, and thus proof (as if one needed it) that no one is ordinary. (Para. 4),Everyman, the name of a 15th-century English moral play about death and fate of mans soul, generally regarded as the best moral play,The anonymous man really represents the best of human nature. What he did was not the act of a supernatural being, but the act of an ordinary person.,go to 10,Sentence Paraphrase 10,He was there, in the essential, classic circumstance. (Para. 7),go to 11,most important,traditional or long established,What happened that day was a typical situation in which natural forces and man fought against each other. And when elements begin to show their power, you always find man who will fight back. He is always there. We can always expect to find such a hero.,Sentence Paraphrase 11,So the age-old battle began again in the Potomac. For as long as man could last, they went at each other, nature and man. (Para. 7),go to 12,fought,the traditional idea that human civilization is a record of mans gradual conquest of nature,Sentence Paraphrase 12, the one making no distinctions of good and evil, acting on no principles, offering no lifelines; the other acting wholly on distinctions, principles and, perhaps, on faith. (Para. 7),Man, on the other hand, has his moral standards of what is right and wrong. He must behave according to the moral principles and beliefs.,go to 13,Nature has no moral standards. It works on no human principles. It cares nothing about the individual life of man.,Sentence Paraphrase 13,In reality, we believe the opposite, and it takes the act of the man in the water to remind us of our true feelings in this