大学英语课程课件lesson6textappreciation-PPT课件

1、Part ThreeText AppreciationENTERText AppreciationText Analysis 1. Theme2. Structure3. Further DiscussionWriting DeviceParallelism Sentence ParaphraseContentsText AnalysisThe man in the water did not have to give his rings to others; he did not even know these people. He was extraordinary precisely b

2、ecause 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.ThemeThe end of Theme. Part 1 (Paras. 13):Part 2 (Paras. 49):Text AnalysisStructureThe terrible air crash in Washington, D.C. that brought pe

3、ople 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 AnalysisMentioned in Paras. 34.To be continued

4、 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.Further DiscussionText AnalysisTo 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

5、when the test came. He displayed courage and noble character in human nature at its best. Text AnalysisQuestion: 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

6、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

7、not a loser?Text AnalysisHe 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

8、 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 AnalysisTo be continued on the next page.Text AnalysisThe end of Further Discussion. How

9、 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 Deviceparallelism: the use of identical or equiv

10、alent syntactic constructions in corresponding clausesThere was the unusual element of the bridgeThen, too there was the location of the eventAnd there was the aesthetic crash as wellStill, there was nothing very special, except death(Para. 1) ParallelismWhat effect do you think it has here?The end

11、of Writing Device. Sentence Paraphrase 1strong, sudden movement of windWith a sharp and loud noise, Washington, the neatly well-designed city of order was thrown into a terrible confusion.apposition phrasego to 2a sharp, loud and forceful strike of the plane and the bridge, stressing what met the ea

12、r 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 thingsSentence Paraphrase 2And there was the aesthetic clash as wellblue and green Air Florida, the name of a flying garden, sunk down among

13、gray chunks of ice in a black river. (Para. 1)appositiongo to 3The 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 eyeSentence Paraphrase 3Last Wednesday the elements, indifferent as

14、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 th

15、e flotation rings and struggling in the icy water, came to prove its greatness displayed in an unexpected tragedy.made the plane fall downgo to 4unconcern about the consequences as alwayswas able to deal with an unexpected problem, a difficult taskSentence Paraphrase 4Of the four acknowledged heroes

16、 of the event, three are able to account for their behavior. (Para. 3)go to 5Only 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 5On television, side by side, they described their courage as all in the l

17、ine of duty. (Para. 3)as part of ones dutyIts their duty to be courageous enough to rescue people in the water.go to 6Sentence Paraphrase 6Skutnik 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

18、that has been said before by many people in similar situations, but it is still admirable.go to 7making every heros remarkequallyas a result ofSentence Paraphrase 7But the person most responsible for the emotional impact of the disaster is the one known first as “the man in the water”. (Para. 4) bei

19、ng the cause for go to 8Sentence Paraphrase 8His selfishness was one reason the story held national attention; his anonymity another. (Para. 4)go to 9Parallel structure Sentence Paraphrase 9For a while he was Everyman, and thus proof (as if one needed it) that no one is ordinary. (Para. 4) Everyman,

20、 the name of a 15th-century English moral play about death and fate of mans soul, generally regarded as the best moral playThe 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 10Sentence Paraphrase

21、10He was there, in the essential, classic circumstance. (Para. 7)go to 11most 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

22、fight back. He is always there. We can always expect to find such a hero.Sentence Paraphrase 11So 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 12foughtthe traditional idea that human civilization is a record of

23、mans gradual conquest of natureSentence 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

24、 and wrong. He must behave according to the moral principles and beliefs.go to 13Nature has no moral standards. It works on no human principles. It cares nothing about the individual life of man.Sentence Paraphrase 13In reality, we believe the opposite, and it takes the act of the man in the water to remind us of our true feelings in th