大学综合英语Unit6 A French Fourth

1、unit 6 text i a french fourth,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,2,warming-up,how much do you know about american culture? national day/ anthem/ flag the star-spangled banner,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,3,short video: barack obamas inauguration address what have you got from this speech?,2020/9/4

2、,free template from 2006,4,questions for discussion:,1. what do you usually do to celebrate national day? 2. suppose you were abroad, would you do anything special to commemorate the occasion? 3. what are the benefits and difficulties/ costs of raising children in a foreign culture?,2020/9/4,free te

3、mplate from 2006,5,background information: globalization makes people can touch their own cultures more easily and children abroad can learn the history of their motherland from school. the culture divide between different countries is less jarring. however, people are less fully immersed in a truly

4、 foreign world.,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,6,language work,文中出现的重难点单词及短语: fold away, expatriate, convey, happen to, confirm， recall， pursue， bring up， sinister， peer， immerse,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,7,fold away : 1) make something into a smaller, neater shape by folding it, usually se

5、veral times these camping chairs can be folded away and put in the trunk. the piece of paper was folded away carefully and tucked into her purse.,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,8,expatriate v. give up residence in ones homeland 移居国外 this immigrants citizenship was revoked and was expatriated becau

6、se he had concealed his criminal record. 这位移民因为隐瞒了犯罪的事实被取消了国籍并被驱逐出境。,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,9, exile特指离开某人的祖国，或因遭到法律上的驱逐非自愿地离开或因形势不利而自愿地离开，例如: when the government was overthrown，the royal family was exiled. 政府被推翻后，皇室遭到驱逐。 expatriate常常是自愿地离开并可能意味着国籍的改变。 deport指由政府下令将某外国人驱逐出境的行为。 extradite用于

7、将被指控罪的人交给对他或她有审判权的国家， 例如:the court refused to extradite political refugees. 法庭拒绝引渡政治避难者。,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,10,refuel: its original meaning is to fill with more fuel for a vehicle but here it means to fill someones mind with more knowledge of their native culture. recharge oil tankers

8、will accompany the containers for trans-ocean refueling. in a society of intense competition, people have to refuel every year to catch up with the rapid renewal of knowledge.,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,11,convey v. communicate or make known; impart交流或使知道;告知 words cannot/ fail to convey how de

9、lighted i was. 言辞无法表达我内心的喜悦。 transmit和convey为近义词。 transmit指由甲地传送到乙地，或指通过介质传送声、光、电等，还指通过传播媒介传送消息等，如: the telegraph company transmits messages to all parts of the world. 这个电报公司可向世界各地拍发电报。 convey指通过天然的或人工渠道，借助传送工具传送不断移动的或大量的物体，用于转义时有表达或转达的意思，如: language conveys thought. 语言表达思想。,2020/9/4,free template f

10、rom 2006,12,happen to: by chance 碰巧，偶然，意外 i happened to be in the market yesterday when a fire started. 昨天发生火灾时，我正好在市场上。 (点拨)happen to还表示“发生(某事件)，对产生影响”，例如： a bad accident happened to that family. 那个家庭发生了不幸的事情。 did you hear what happened to david last night? 你听说大卫昨天晚上发生什么事了吗 ?,2020/9/4,free template

11、 from 2006,13,confirm v. make firmer; strengthen 使更坚强;加强 the recent airplane crash confirms my belief that stronger safety regulations are needed. 最近的坠机事件使我更坚信我们需要更健全的安全法规。 confirm , validate和verify都可表示“证实”。 confirm强调消除疑虑和怀疑，例如: we must never make experiments to confirm our ideas，but simply to contr

12、ol them. 我们不要用实验来验证我们的想法，只需操纵它们就行了。,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,14,validate一般指正式的赋予某物法律效力的行为，但也可以指证实某事的真实性，如理论、声明或判断，例如: the divorce validated my parents original objection to the marriage. 我的离婚证明我父母当初反对这桩婚姻是正确的。 verify表示通过和原件或一已确定的事实比较而得到证实，例如: the bank refused to cash the check until the sign

13、ature was verified. 银行直到签字得到了确认/核实才兑现了这张支票。,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,15,recall v. remember; recollect回想;回忆 the danger recalled him to a sense of duty. 这危险的事唤起了他的责任感。 后接名词、代词、动名词或从句，如： i cant recall your name 我记不起你的名字了。 后面不直接接不定式，若接不定式，则不定式前有how, where等词，如： i cant recall how to do it 我不记得该怎样做

14、了。,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,16,pursue vcontinue继续 she pursued the study of english for five years她持续不断地学了五年英语。 pursue还可表示“追赶，追捕”，例如： the police pursued the stolen vehicle along the motorway. chase 警察在高速公路上追赶被盗的车辆。,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,17,bring up/ call attention to sth/ raise sth

15、.使注意，提出 these are matters that you can bring up in the committee. 这些事你可以在委员会上提出。 (点拨)bring up还包含以下含义: 1)“抚育，教育”，例如: planned parenthood gives mothers more time for study and makes it possible for them to bring up their children in a better way. 计划生育使母亲们有更多时间学习，并使她们可以更好地抚育孩子。 2)“使某人突然停止移动或谈话”，例如: his

16、remark brought me up short with a jerk. 他的话我听后一下子楞住了。,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,18,sinister: suggesting or threatening; evil邪恶的，险恶的 his sinister threat chilled all who heard it. 他这一凶恶的威胁使所有听到的人不寒而栗。 sinister. baleful. malign都含有“凶险，邪恶”之意，但有所区别。 sinister暗含潜在的危险，有种不祥的预兆，如: the kremlin has sinist

17、er connotationsthe aesthetic reality is otherwise. 克里姆林宫带有不祥的含意但是在美学上就不同了。,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,19,baleful含有威胁的意味，指致命的、有毒的或剧毒的性质. the florida eagles are slightly smaller than the others, but they have the same fierce，baleful look. 佛罗里达鹰比其他品种要略小一点，但同样具有凶悍邪恶的外表。 malign意指显示出一种罪恶的性格，性情或倾向的，如

18、: the devil eyed them with jealous and malign leer. 魔鬼用邪恶与嫉妒的目光瞟着他们。,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,20,peer n. person who has the same age as another 同龄人 v. look closely or carefully 仔细看 he doesnt spend enough time with his peers. 他不大与其同龄人交往。 she peered at the tag to read the price. 她细看标签辫认价格。,2020/9/4,free template from 2006,21,gaze , stare , glare, peer和gloat为近义词。 gaze指在惊奇、迷惑、敬畏或赞美等情形下专心地看一长段时间， the tourists gazed at the wide beauty of the countryside. 游客凝视着乡村的自然美景。 stare指因好奇八惊讶而茫然地瞪大眼睛直视某人或某物，或指傲慢、无礼地长时间盯着人看，如: its rude to stare at other people. glare指用愤