Unit 8 Five Traits of the Educated Man 新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材 综合教程 电子教案 第一册

1、Five Traits of the Educated ManReading aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Two: Global ReadingSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementI. Reading aloudRead the following sentences aloud, paying special attention to incomplete plosion.

2、 A plosive which has no audible release is put on the italicized letters.The quite shocking slovenliness and vulgarity of much of the spoken English . proves beyond peradventure that years of attendance upon schools and colleges that are thought to be respectable have produced no impression.They do

3、not read those works of prose and poetry which have become classic because they reveal power and habit of reflection and induce that power and habit in others.1-1Section Three:Detailed Reading Reading aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesII. Audiovisual supplementsWatch the

4、 film episode and then answer the following questions.Questions:1. What do you know about Benjamin Franklin?2. How would you describe Benjamin Franklin after watching the video?Answers for reference:1. Open. 2. Benjamin Franklin was friendly, creative, ambitious, influential, and so on.1-2Section Th

5、ree:Detailed ReadingSection Two: Global Reading Section Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManFilm Episode: Benjamin FranklinReading aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection Two: Glob

6、al Reading Section Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManINTERVIEWEE 1:NARRATOR:INTERVIEWEE 2:Franklin is a wonderful example of a very powerful mind with a very powerful curiosity, immense gifts and considerable flaws in action.He presented t

7、o the world a face of folksy charm, but beneath this surface laid the fire of enormous ambition. The range of Benjamin Franklins achievements is astonishing: the inventor who saved the world from the terrors of lightning, and the diplomat who rescued the American Revolution Hes also the author of on

8、e of the most widely reprinted books since the Bible.Franklin would relish the communication and digital revolution we are going through today. And Im sure he would be one of the first people in America to have created a website and alsoprobably created an online service so he could make money out o

9、f the website because he loved the idea of spreading information, thoughts, discourseHe is the touchstone for, for every single pivotal point in early American history. His signature on the Declaration of Independence, the treaty with France, Constitution is symbolic of Franklins impact on American

10、history. He signed the documents, but he was the documents.He basically was a down-to-earth pragmatic person, somebody who not always practiced what he preached, but always had the the detachment and sense of variety to know his true soul. And understanding Franklins soul is sort of understanding th

11、e soul of America.Reading aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection Two: Global Reading Section Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManINTERVIEWEE 2:INTERVIEWEE 3:INTERVIEWEE 2:Reading

12、aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection Two: Global Reading Section Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManText introduction Structural analysisSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSecti

13、on Two: Global Reading2-1Cultural backgroundThe text is a well-organized piece of exposition developed in a logical order concerned with the five traits of an educated man. The whole essay is characterized by an adequate exposition of the writers viewpoints, a clear structure, and a formal style.I.

14、Text introduction Section Three:Detailed Reading Section Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManText introduction Structural analysisSection Two: Global Reading2-2Cultural backgroundII. Structural analysisSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection O

15、ne:Pre-reading Activities Section Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementParagraph 1This part reveals the relationship between learning and the marks of an educated man, the relationship between learning and education, and that between education and certain traits and capaci

16、ties.Five Traits of the Educated ManParagraphs 2 6 This part gives a brief account of the five key traits of an educated man.Paragraph 7This part tells us that the outline of an educated man may be filled in by whatever knowledge, ability or skills.Text introduction Structural analysisSection Two: G

17、lobal ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading2-3Cultural backgroundIII. Cultural backgroundAn Educated ManA lot of people would agree that an educated man is a man who has received diploma and graduation from a college. But a university is not a birthplace to poets or immortal authors, founders of sch

18、ools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. In short, a university is not the birthplace of an educated man. A university does not promote a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or experimentalist, the

19、economist or engineer. Those of them who did receive a University diploma do not owe their success or education to the University they receivedSection One:Pre-reading Activities Section Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManText introduction S

20、tructural introductionSection Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading2-4Cultural backgroundit from. The true thing that made them become pinnacles of education was their own love for knowledge. Today, men such as Martin Luther, Albert Einstein, and Charlie Chaplin can be added to the list.

21、 Another trait of an educated man is that he is at home with any society and has common ground with every class. An educated man shall not relate only to other educated men. A true educated man knows he may learn more about the anatomy of a fish from a poor fisherman than a Harvard graduate. He know

22、s he may gain knowledge from all walks of life, and does not limit his knowledge input to the ideas of just one class. The idea of an educated man is still sometimes regarded as a social title rather than a task to complete. It is still stereotyped by what one has done, rather than what he is.Sectio

23、n One:Pre-reading Activities Section Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManA question often asked is: “What are the marks of an educated man?” It is plain that one may gain no inconsiderable body of learning in some special field of knowledge

24、without at the same time acquiring those habits and traits which are the marks of an educated gentleman. A reasonable amount of learning must of course accompany an education, but, after all, that amount need not be so very great in any one field. An education will make its mark and find its evidenc

25、es in certain traits, characteristics, and capacities which have to be acquired by patient endeavor, by following good examples, and by receiving wise discipline and sound instructions. Five Traits of the Educated ManSection Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading Ac

26、tivitiesFive Traits of the Educated ManSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementThese traits or characteristics may be variously described and classified, but among them are five that should always stand out clearly enough to be seen by all men. The first of these is c

27、orrectness and precision in the use of the mother tongue. The quite shocking slovenliness and vulgarity of much of the spoken English, as well as not a little of the written English, which one hears and sees, proves beyond peradventure that years of attendance upon schools and colleges that are thou

28、ght to be respectable have produced no impression. When one hears English well spoken, with pure diction, correct pronunciation, and an almost unconscious choice of the right word, he recognizes it at once. How much easier he finds it to imitate English of the other sort! Section Two: Global Reading

29、Section Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated Man Section Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesA second and indispensable trait of the e

30、ducated man is refined and gentle manners, which are themselves the expression of fixed habits of thought and action. “Manners make the man,” wrote Wykeham William over his gates at Winchester and at Oxford. He pointed to a great truth. When manners are superficial, artificial, and forced, no matter

31、 what their form, they are bad manners. When, however, they are the natural expression of fixed habits of thought and action, and when they reveal a refined and cultivated nature, they are good manners. There are certain things that gentlemen do not do, and they do not do them simply because they ar

32、e bad manners. The gentleman instinctively knows the difference between those things which he may and should do and those things which he may not and should not do.Section Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated Man Section Two: Global ReadingSecti

33、on Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesA third trait of the educated man is the power and habit of reflection. Human beings for the most part live wholly on the surface or far beyond the present moment and that part of the future which is quickly to follow it. They do not read th

34、ose works of prose and poetry which have become classic because they reveal power and habit of reflection and induce that power and habit in others. When one reflects long enough to ask the question how? He is on the way to knowing something about science. When he reflects long enough to ask the que

35、stion why? He may, if he persists, even become a philosopher. Section Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManA fourth trait of the educated man is the power of growth. He continues to grow and develop from birth to his dying day. His interests

36、expand, his contacts multiply, his knowledge increases, and his reflection becomes deeper and wider. It would appear to be true that not many human beings, and even not many of those who have had a college education, continue to grow after they are twenty four or twenty five years of age. By that ti

37、me it is usual to settle down to life on a level of more or less contented intellectual interest and activity. The whole present day movement for adult education is a systematic and definite attempt to keep human beings growing long after they have left school and college, and, therefore, to help ed

38、ucate them. Section Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManA fifth trait of the educated man is his possession of efficiency, or the power to do. The mer

39、e visionary dreamer, however charming or however wise, lacks something which an education requires. The power to do may be exercised in any one of a thousand ways, but when it clearly shows itself, that is evidence that the period of study, of discipline, and of companionship with parents and teache

40、rs has not been in vain.Given these five characteristics, one has the outline of an educated man. That outline may be filled in by scholarship, by literary power, by mechanical skills, by professional zeal and capacity, by business competence, or by social and political Section Two: Global ReadingSe

41、ction Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated Manleadership. So long as the framework or outline is there, the content may be pretty much what you will, assuming, of course, that the f

42、undamental elements of the great tradition which is civilization, and its outstanding records and achievements in human personality, in letters, in science, in the fine arts, and in human institutions, are all present. Section Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading

43、ActivitiesSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated Man Section Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educ

44、ated ManA question often asked is: “What are the marks of an educated man?” It is plain that one may gain no inconsiderable body of learning in some special field of knowledge without at the same time acquiring those habits and traits which are the marks of an educated gentleman. A reasonable amount

45、 of learning must of course accompany an education, but, after all, that amount need not be so very great in any one field. An education will make its mark and find its evidences in certain traits, characteristics, and capacities which have to be acquired by patient endeavor, by following good examp

46、les, and by receiving wise discipline and sound instructions.Five Traits of the Educated Man Section Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManThese traits

47、or characteristics may be variously described and classified, but among them are five that should always stand out clearly enough to be seen by all men. The first of these is correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue. The quite shocking slovenliness and vulgarity of much of the spoke

48、n English, as well as not a little of the written English, which one hears and sees, proves beyond peradventure that years of attendance upon schools and colleges that are thought to be respectable have produced no impression. When one hears English well spoken, with pure diction, correct pronunciat

49、ion, and an almost unconscious choice of the right word, he recognizes it at once. How much easier he finds it to imitate English of the other sort! Section Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further

50、 EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManA second and indispensable trait of the educated man is refined and gentle manners, which are themselves the expression of fixed habits of thought and action. “Manners make the man,” wrote Wykeham William over his gates at Winchester and at Oxford. He point

51、ed to a great truth. When manners are superficial, artificial, and forced, no matter what their form, they are bad manners. When, however, they are the natural expression of fixed habits of thought and action, and when they reveal a refined and cultivated nature, they are good manners. There are cer

52、tain things that gentlemen do not do, and they do not do them simply because they are bad manners. The gentleman instinctively knows the difference between those things which he may and should do and those things which he may not and should not do. Section Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed R

53、eadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManA third trait of the educated man is the power and habit of reflection. Human beings for the most part live wholly on the surface or far beyond the present m

54、oment and that part of the future which is quickly to follow it. They do not read those works of prose and poetry which have become classic because they reveal power and habit of reflection and induce that power and habit in others. When one reflects long enough to ask the question how? He is on the

55、 way to knowing something about science. When he reflects long enough to ask the question why? He may, if he persists, even become a philosopher. Section Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four: Consolidation Activities Section Five: Further En

56、hancementFive Traits of the Educated ManA fourth trait of the educated man is the power of growth. He continues to grow and develop from birth to his dying day. His interests expand, his contacts multiply, his knowledge increases, and his reflection becomes deeper and wider. It would appear to be tr

57、ue that not many human beings, and even not many of those who have had a college education, continue to grow after they are twenty four or twenty five years of age. By that time it is usual to settle down to life on a level of more or less contented intellectual interest and activity. The whole pres

58、ent day movement for adult education is a systematic and definite attempt to keep human beings growing long after they have left school and college, and, therefore, to help educate them. Section Two: Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four: Consolid

59、ation Activities Section Five: Further EnhancementFive Traits of the Educated ManA fifth trait of the educated man is his possession of efficiency, or the power to do. The mere visionary dreamer, however charming or however wise, lacks something which an education requires. The power to do may be ex

60、ercised in any one of a thousand ways, but when it clearly shows itself, that is evidence that the period of study, of discipline, and of companionship with parents and teachers has not been in vain.Given these five characteristics, one has the outline of an educated man. That outline may be filled