Unit2HowReadingChangedMyLife教案讲义

1、精品教学教案Unit 2一、授课时间：第3周3次课；第4周2次课二授课类型：课文分析8课时；习题讲解2课时三.授课题目：How Readi ng Cha nged My Life四授课时数：10五.教学目的和要求：通过讲授课文使大学生了解阅读的重要性和阅读给人们带来的快乐，学会用英语解释句子以达到学以致用的目的。要求学生主动地预习课文，课前准备练习，学会分析文章体裁和进行段落划分。六教学重点和难点：1) 背景知识的传授：Anna Qui ndle n and her major works2) 文章的体裁分析及段落划分；3) 语言点的理解：Word study: un ders ungGram

2、mar Focus: 1)four idioms with if: if only; if not; only if; what if2) a few uses of there as a function word七.教学基本内容和纲要Part One Warm -up1.1 Warm-up Questio ns1. Has your life ever been significantly changed by any particular book?2. What does read ing mean to you?3. How has the Internet changed peop

3、le s way of reading?4. How do you acco unt for such cha nges?1.2 Check-o n Previewdefine the following words in their respective context.1. a small but satisfying spread of center-hall colonials (para.1)2. all those great houses, with their high ceilings and high drama (para.2)3. America is also a n

4、ation that prizes sociability and community(para.11)4. a kind of careerism in the United States that sanctionedreading (para.12)1.3 Objectives1. Understand in which ways reading has changed the author s life.2. Discuss the meaning of readi ng.3. Ide ntify the problems facing readi ng and work on pos

5、sible soluti ons.Part Two Background Information2.1 Anna Qui ndle n2.2 Anna Qui ndle n Major worksPart Three Text Appreciation3.1 Text An alysis3.1.1 Theme of the text3.1.2 Structure of the text3.2 Writi ng Devices3.2.1 Parallelism3.2.2 Metaphor3.2.3 Alliterati on3.2.4 Comparis on and con trast3.3 S

6、entence Paraphrase.Part Four Language Study4.1 Phrases and Expressi ons4.1.1 Word list:4.1.2 Phrases and expressi ons list:4.1.3 Word Buildi ng4.2 Grammar4.2.1 usage of if only ”, “ not ”, 6n ly if”, what if ”Part Five Extension5.1 Group discussi on5.2 Writi ng八、教学方法和措施本单元将运用黑板、粉笔、多媒体网络辅助教学设备等教学手段，主

7、要采用以学生为主体、 教师为主导的任务型、合作型等教学模式，具体运用教师讲授法、师生讨论、生生讨论等方法进 行教学。九作业，讨论题，思考题完成课后练习；多看英语报刊杂志及英语经典小说，扩大阅读量；精听与泛听相结合，逐步提高自己的听力水平；积极参加英语角等有助于提高英语口语的活动；坚持用英语写日记；做一些专四相关练习； 十参考资料：1）杨立民主编，现代大学英语精读（3）第二版，学生用书。北京：外语教学与研究出 版社,2012。2）杨立民主编，现代大学英语精读（3）第二版，教师用书。北京：外语教学与研究出 版社,2012。3）李观仪主编，新编英语教程（第三、四册）。上海：上海外语教学研究出版，19

8、99。4）黄源深，虞苏美等主编，综合英语教程（1-4册）。北京：高等教育出版社，1998。5）高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲，北京：外语教学研究出版社，2000。6）Judy Pearsall 主编，新牛津英语词典。上海：上海外语教育出版社，1998。7）丁往道、吴冰等编著，英语写作手册。北京：外语教学与研究出版社。8）张道真，现代英语用法词典（重排本）。北京：外语教学与研究出版社，1994。9）张道真，温志达，英语语法大全上、下卷。北京：外语教学与研究出版社，1998。十一、课后小结Unit 2 How Reading Changed My LifePart One Warm -up1.1 W

9、arm-up Questions1. Has your life ever been significantly changed by any particular book?2. What does read ing mean to you?3. How has the Internet changed people s way of reading?4. How do you acco unt for such cha nges?1.2 Check-on PreviewPlease define the following words in their respective context

10、.5. a small but satisfying spread of center-hall colonials (para.1)6. all those great houses, with their high ceilings and high drama (para.2)7. America is also a nation that prizes sociability and community(para.11)8. a kind of careerism in the United States that sanctionedreading (para.12)What do

11、you know about the following novels?MiddlemarchA Little Prin cessAnna KareninaGone with the WindRebeccaJane EyreA Tale of Two CitiesMoby-DickPride and Prejudice Kill a Mocki ngbirdObjectives4. Understand in which ways reading has changed the author s life.5. Discuss the meaning of readi ng.6. Ide nt

12、ify the problems facing readi ng and work on possible soluti ons.Part Two Background Information2.1 AuthorAnna Quindlen the Journalist? The New York Timescolu mn ist un til 1994? Pulitzer Prize for Comme ntary in 1992? Newsweek colum nist 1999-2009Anna Quindlen the NovelistFull-time novelist si nee

13、1995Author of five best-selling novels, three of which made into movies A critic of the fast-paced and in creas in gly materialistic n ature of moder n America n life? Every other week, millio ns of readers turn to the back page of Newsweek for Anna Qui ndle n perspectives on events of the day and i

14、ssues of family, work, educati on and social justice. A Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist and bestselling author, Quindlen writes Newsweek s pocolu mn “ The Last Word. ” During the past 30 years, her work has appeared in America in flue ntial n ewspapers and magaz ines and on fiction and non ficti

15、on bestseller lists. Her national bestseller, A Short Guide to a Happy Life,? has sold over one millio n copies. Her first no vel, the critically-acclaimed Object Less ons, was followed by the bestselling One True Thing (which was made into a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Rene Zellw

16、eger). Black and Blue, her third novel, was also a bestseller and a selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club. Black and Blue and her latest New York Times bestseller, Bless in gs, were made into televisi on movies starri ng Mary Stuart Masters on and Mary Tyler Moore. While a colu mn ist for The New

17、 York Times (1981-1994), Quindlen became only the third woman in the paper s history to write a regular column for itsinfluential Op-Ed page( Opposite Editorial page专栏版，特写稿版 一由专栏作者等署名撰 文，与社论版相对 )whe n she bega n the n ati on ally- s yn dicated “ Public and Private. ” collection of those columns, Thi

18、nking Out Loud, was a national bestseller. In Loud & Clear, a collection of her Newsweek and New York Times columns, she combines commentary on America n society and the world at large with reflect ions on being a woma n, a writer and a mother.?In 1992 Qui ndle n was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for c

19、omme ntary. In 1995 she left TheTimes and journalism to pursue a career as a full-time novelist. She is the author of: the childrenbosks, The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After; the coffee tablepictorials, Naked Babies and Sibli ngs; How Readi ng Chan ged My Life; and Imagi ned London, in

20、 which she takes readers on a tour of her favorite English literary places and characters.Some quotes:? If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.? You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work i

21、s all you are.Part Three Text Appreciation3.1 Text Analysis3.1.1 Theme of the textQuestions for thinking:1. What does reading mean to the author?2. What kind of attitudes toward reading bother the author?3. What kind of attitude does the author advocate?3.1.2 Structure of the textParas. 1-9 Reading

22、has been an important part of my life.Paras. 10-15 A crisis faced by reading.Paras. 16-18 There is still hope for reading.Detailed AnalysisPart I: Discussion1. Where did the author spe nd her childhood?2. Why did the author always feel that she ought to be somewhere else?3. Why was it “ a stiff and

23、awkward lunch” ? What did this show about the author?4. How should the author have benefited from reading the six novels in Paragraph 2?5. What did readi ng mean to the author whe n she was young?6. What were the features of Victoria n En gla nd?peace, prosperity, refined sen sibilities and self-c o

24、n fide nce7. Why does the author men ti on these three no vels?8. What are the com mon features of these three no vels?9. Why did the author prefer readi ng to play ing? Traveled across the physical world;? Traveled into my own spiritual world: ide ntity, aspirati on, moralityt Books are my perfect

25、isla nd!10. Why does the author read? Trips to other worlds;? Journey into my own world;?Perfect isla nd (al one to not alon e);?Home, suste nance, great i nvin cible compa nion? Simply because she loves readi ng!Why do you read?Do you ever read simply because you love readi ng?Part I: Paraphrase1.

26、Perhaps restless ness is a n ecessary corollary of devoted literacy. (para.5)Questi ons for thinking:? In what ways was the author restless?addicts? Do you agree with this stateme nt? How do you understand Mark Twain s saying,“ Almost all of the writers are2. There was waking, and there was sleeping

27、. And then there were books, a kind of parallel uni verse in which I might be a n ewcomer but was n ever really a stra nger. (para. 7)Questi ons for thinking:Why did the author parallel wak ing, sleep ing and readi ng?Part I: Words & Expressio ns (1)? wander the world? commit sth to memoryHe committ

28、ed the no tes of that meet ing to memory andthe n burned them.? aspire to sth; aspire to do sthDifferent people aspire to differe nt thin gs.Mary is ambitious eno ugh to aspire to con versati onal flue ncy in Chin ese in two mon ths.We aspire to be the best with in our field.Word-formation: undersun

29、gun derestimatedun derdevelopedun derd oneun derfu ndedun derma nnedunderno urishedun erpaidun derpopulatedun derusedunder- + past participle: not eno ughPart I. ExerciseFill in the blanks.In one corner of the liv ing rooma club chair. I used toon it, readi ng with my skinny legsone of its arms. Of

30、course, I had clear memories of no rmal childhood, the rocks in the creek thatNaylor s Run tofor crayfish and lay ing pennies on the tracks of thetrolley and running tothem whe n the trolley.Part II Discussion:1. What bias do people have aga inst those who read much? Lazy, Aimless dreamer, Loner, Ar

31、roga nt2. What is the something in the American character that is hostile to the act of aimless reading? Readi ng is nothing more tha n a tool for adva nceme nt? Sociability and com mun ity?Go-out-a nd-get-go ing ethos?Admiratio n of men of actionPragmatic traditi on in America character PragmatismP

32、ragmatismKey tenets of pragmatism? Primacy of practiceConcrete thinking rather than conceptualization NaturalismScien tific methods? SkepticismProminent figuresCharles San ders Peirce, William James and Joh n Dewey3. Why can an executive learn far more from Moby-Dick ?4. What do you think of books o

33、n success?5. What are l iterary professi on als opinions of readi ng? Read to address problems? Good and worthy readi ng vs. bad and trivial readi ngWhat is the author s attitddafeerism vs. ReadingCareerism? Read only if there is some point to it? Philosophy or English majors can t do much with what

34、 they learn? Read for purpose and dogged self-improveme ntReading? Read for the fun of readi ng itself? In tellectual pursuits for their own sake? Read for pleasure, spurred on by in terior compulsi on6. What are the traits of the real clan of the book? Read not to judge the readi ng of others but t

35、o take the measure of ourselves ? Love reading for reading s own sakePart II: Words & Expressions pay lip service toPeople pay lip service to their dreams of freedom, but many feel frightened by it.see to it thatWe should see to it that all work done con forms to high sta ndards.suspectv. (para.10)?

36、 suspect sb ofIt is perfectly all right, because the police had not suspected him of robbery.suspectadj. (para. 12)Delegates evacuated the buildi ng whe n a suspect package was found.be suspicious of(para. 11)Two officers on patrol became suspicious of two men in a car.Part III: Discussi on1. What i

37、s thelively subculture of characters” ?2. What does the author mean by quot ing“ Un til I feared I would lose it, I n ever loved to read. Onedoes not love breathing.” ?3. What is the author s attitude toward literary criticism? The truth of readi ng is to be found in its people rather tha n its pun

38、dits and professi on als.Part Four. ReinforcementSummaryWriti ng Tech niq ues1. symbol? e.g. the club chair, the girl2. comparison and contrast? e.g. Reading for pleasure, spurred on by some interior compulsion, became as suspect as getting on the subway to ride aimlessly from place to place. (para. 12)? e.g. I vs. others3. simile and metaphor? e.g. My perfect isla nd.Structure of the Text1. Between paragraphs