2022年全新版大学英语第一册ValentineStory爱情故事

1、全新版大学英语第一册 Valentine Story 爱情故事Good morning, honorable teachers, judges, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Xia Wenjing, from the foreign language department. Right now I am teaching Experiencing English Book Two. Today I am going to share with you a particular unit of this book, that is, Unit 8 Love

2、and Friendship. Text B Love beyond the grave. As we all know, there are two themes for this unit: Love and Friendship, in Text B we will be centering on love and appreciate a moving love story between two lovers.Slid.5 First, lets see our teaching objectives. Here as we can see, altogether we will a

3、chieve four objectives. To begin with, we will enable students to grasp the general idea of the text through text analysis；then we will learn some cultural notes, which are closely related to the text; In addition, Several grammatical points will be reviewed. For example, the “must have done” patter

4、n. Last but not the least we conduct a series of reading, writing and translating activities, focusing on the language points and the writing of invitation. I hope you all will enjoy todays lecture. Slide6.Next Slide. Here lets get a glimpse of the lectures teaching procedures. Of course, I will get

5、 you ready for the coming lecture by asking you several questions and guide you toward our main topic for today. Secondly, in order to enable you to fully understand the text as a whole, I will introduce the love story briefly to you, so that you may be interested in the lecture. Then to promote fur

6、ther appreciation of the text it is extremely necessary for us to be aware of the associated cultural notes. After our preview of the lecture, we go on to learn the text analysis. For this part, we are expected to identify some new words, phrases and paragraph. By doing this, we are arriving at the

7、goal of studying the text in detail. Based on what we have learned above, some noticeable grammatical points will be discussed later to refresh your understanding. Finally, the most important part for this lecture is to learn to write a formal invitation in English. So much for the teaching procedur

8、es, lets begin our wonderful view of this class.Slide7:Ok, lets get down to our business. First, look at the picture on the right. What can you see in this picture? Yeah. We can see a bunch of flowers. In addition, we can see that a young man is presenting the roses as a gift to a woman and the woma

9、n is ready to accept it. ” What does the flowers stand for? They symbolize true love. Besides flowers, what else do you know can best stand for love? Think it over and tell me. Yeah, jewelries. For example, diamonds, rings and bracelet etc.Slide 8: We have already known we can express our true love

10、toward others by offering roses and jewelry. However, how can we achieve good relationship with the one you love. As a matter of fact, the Four letters comprising the word “LOVE” best illustrate the underlying meaning of love. As we can see in this graphic. L stands for “listen”, which means we are

11、expected to the one we love and promote better communications, so that we can get a better understanding of each other. O refers to “OBLIGAGTE”, those who involved in love should maintain affection by caring about each other instead of being selfish. V means “VALUED”，that is respecting each other an

12、d treat each other equally. E is the initial letter of “Excuse”, indicating that in order to achieve harmonious relationship, a sense of forgiveness should be developed between lovers. As I mentioned above a single letter love contain abundant philosophical ideas about love and we do come to realize

13、 it is fairly difficult to accomplish love. However after learning this article we may have a deep insight in maintaining love.Slide 9: The article is a touching love story between a young woman named Rose and her husband. The love each other and care about each other affectionately. Every year, Ros

14、e will receive a bunch of rose with a note from her husband on Valentines Day. Unfortunately, however, his husband passed away and she was in deep sorrow. It never occurred to her that she was able to be given the flowers as usual even after his husbands death. Moved in tears, she asked the florist

15、who sent them. It turns out her husband had ordered them for that year and many future years before he died. Roses husbands love accompanies her all the way until he was buried in the grave. Their great love lasts forever.Slide 10: After we have grasped the general idea of this article, lets turn to

16、 the text. In order to understand the article completely, it is advisable to learn some notes. For this part, we will learn: first, The origin of “St. Valentines Day”. Secondly The functions of Flowers in American Culture . Slide 11: Here, we take a look at St. Valentines Day. Its a traditional fest

17、ival for lovers, which falls on February 14th annually. In Chinese we translated as “圣瓦伦西节”,like Chinese “七夕”. On this day, men usually buy roses for their sweetheart, expressing his deep love, in return for this, women often present chocolates with a shape heart to show appreciation.Amusingly, ther

18、e is also a story concerning Valentines Day. In ancient Rome, there was a king called Claudius, he was a terrible King, and he started many wars. One day, he asked all the young men in Rome to join the army and fight for him, so many young men in Rome had to leave their girlfriends and wives, and th

19、ey were so sad that they couldnt fight anymore. When the king Claudius saw this, he became very angry, and he banned marriage and all the weddings in church. But, the king Claudius couldnt stop the young people to fall in love with one another, they found priest Valentine；Priest Valentine helped som

20、e young people to get married secretly in his church, then many young people came and had their weddings in priest Valentines church. Eventually, the king Claudius heard about it, and he put priest Valentine in jail and tortured him, until priest Valentine died on the 14th of Feb. After many years,

21、in honor of priest Valentine, people make the 14th of Feb Valentines Day!Slide 12: The giving of flowers on special occasions is very important in American culture. These flowers are usually given by the male to the female, especially to sweethearts on St. Valentines Day, to bride on Wedding Ceremon

22、y, or to mothers on Mothers Day. They are symbols of love, care and gratefulness. Slide 13: Since we have known some cultural note related to the article, we are ready to learn it in detail. Now lets analyze some difficult sentences. First, in paragraph 2 we got this sentence:” My love for you will

23、always grow with each passing year.” This sentence appears on the note attached to the roses for Rose. It shows a mans love for his sweetheart. “You” refers to her wife “rose”, with each passing year is a prepositional phrase to show accompaniment. “Passing year” means the year passing by. Passing i

24、s a present participle functions as a pre-modifier. We have more examples like: waiting car（等待旳汽车）; sleeping dog(熟睡旳小狗); missing girl(失踪旳女孩).We can paraphrase the sentence like this:” As time goes by,my love for you will become deeper and deeper”Slide 14 In paragraph 4, we see this sentence” She tri

25、mmed the stems, and inserted them symbolically in a very Special vase.” Trim means “to decorate; ornament”, we know “trim ones hair” or “trim the Christmas Tree” etc. Insert means “to put sth into sth” for example we can insert a key into the key slot or we may insert a word in the sentence. “symbol

26、ically” is a adverb, showing the manner and meaning “in a solemn way” The special vase is a symbol of her husbands love. We can paraphrase the sentence like this:She decorated the flowers and put them in a vase which means special to her.Slide 15 We have tackled some difficult sentences and paved wa

27、y for learning of paragraphs.Now lets take a short paragraphs quoted from the article. This paragraph describes Roses astonishment when she saw the unexpected rose delivered by the florist. You see there are some blanks in the passage. So you are required to fill in the blanks with proper words in t

28、he box.As we all know, in CET-4, we have to select 10 words from 15 words to fill in the blank. Now we are doing the similar practice. The first sentence needs a predicate verb so we choose between the two words “brought” “discover” and “explain”. After further analysis we know “brought” is more app

29、ropriate in meaning. So we choose brought. The second blank is easy, because we need a noun to form a prepositional phrase “in +noun”. Consequently, astonishment is suitable here. In the same way, it is comparatively to figure out the answers to the other blanks. They are “delivered; explain; unexpe

30、ctedly and intense”Slide 16 Next we take a review of the grammatical points in this article. Generally speaking, we are focusing on model verbs plus present perfect tense, take “must have done” for example to indicate you are sure that someone did something in the past. Usually there are some eviden

31、ce closely associated with the judgment. Slide 17 Similar expressions can be found like:” Should have done”; “Could have done”; “might have done” 1)Should have done indicates someone should do sth in the past, but actually we did do it”(本应当做而未做); For example we should not have made such silly mistak

32、es. 2)Could have done means“someone were able to do sth but we didnt do it ”(而事实上并未做); For example He could have gone to a key university without his fathers objection. 3)Might have done shows“some did sth in the past but you are not sure about it.”(委婉旳推测) For example, he might have finished his hom

33、ework.Slide 18 Next slide, lets do some practice. You are expected to fill in the blanks with the words we have mentioned above like” Must have done”; “Should have done”; “Could have done” and “Might have done”. The first one is easy, since we can get a clue from the preposition “for”, which indicat

34、es reason. That is to say, the speaker is very certain about his judgment. Therefore we choose must have done. The second one, Tom is said to be very lazy. He should finish the work yesterday, but he did not. So we choose “should have done” .The third one means he was able to pass the exam, but due

35、to carelessness, he failed. So could have done is proper here. The fourth one indicates the possibility of giving help. But the speaker is not very sure, so might have done could be used here. After the practice we must have a better understanding of the text.Slide 19-20 During the past 20 minutes,

36、we analyze the article in detail. Now lets do some translation practice. You know translation; especially Chinese-English translation is much more difficult in CET-4 examination. We should do more practice and improve our skills of translation.When we are doing the first one, pay attention to the tr

37、anslation of “一束花”, which can be translated as “a bunch of flowers” and “提前”, which can be translated as “in advance”. “情人节” s translation is “St. Valentines Day”. During translation, we should ensure the correct spelling and capitalization of each word. In addition we should use present perfect ten

38、se indicating the completion of the action “order”. Next sentence contains a conditional clause which led by “if”. And there is also a set phrase “youd better” to show suggestion. “to make others happy” could be translated into “to cheer sb up”. If you pay attention to these three key points, you wi

39、ll do well in translation. Slide 21 Here we can generalize the tips of translation: 1. understand the original sentence and dont neglect even a small part of the translation. 2. pay special attention to the voice, tense, gender, number and spelling. Make you can meet the basic standards.3. After tra

40、nslation, you have to check it out whether there are any mistakes. Read it out to yourself and use your language sense to proofread it. Thats some general principles of translation. You all should bear them in mind and apply them to practical translation. I hope these tips will be useful.Slide 22 fi

41、nally we came to the most important part of this lecture. I mean we will learn how to write a formal invitation in English. First we see a sample, and you got a rough idea, then the special format of invitation will be introduced. Later, I will suggest some basic patterns. In the end you are require

42、d to write an invitation by yourself.Slide 23 Now lets see a sample to find out what an invitation consists of? On the top, “19th Oct., 1999” shows the time of writing. Right under the time, there is salutation to show politeness. At the beginning, we should state clearly and specifically about time

43、 and place of the event, which are the most important information. If time and place are not appropriate, people invited possible will not accept it. Next, you may write about the content of the invitation. It may not be one item, but you should put the most important one in the front. In the end, w

44、e can see complimentary closing “Cordially yours” and signature “Kitty”.Slide 24 After we get to know a sample, we can summarize the format of a formal invitation: First, Secondly, Salutation e.g. Dear Mr. Green and Mrs Green Thirdly, Body of the invitation. In this part we should state clearly abou

45、t time, place, event, requirements. Fourthly, .Complimentary closing and Signature are indispensable. So dont forget about it .Slide 25 While we are writing an invitation, we should not only conform with the format but select some frequently used sentences to show familiarity and courtesy.Here are some sentences which might be useful in your wr