Unit2HowReadingChangedMyLife教案讲义详解

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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 Reading Changed 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 Quindlen and her major works 2）文章的体裁分析及段落划分；

3）语言点的理解：

Word study: undersung

? Grammar Focus: 1)four idioms with if: if only; if not; only if; what if

2) a few uses of there as a function word

七．教学基本内容和纲要 Part One Warm – up 1.1 Warm-up Questions

1.Has your life ever been significantly changed by any particular book? 2.What does reading mean to you?

3. How has the Internet changed people’s way of reading? 4. How do you account for such changes? 1.2 Check-on Preview

define 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 nation that prizes sociability and community… (para.11) 4. …a kind of careerism in the United States that sanctioned reading… (para.12) 1.3 Objectives

1. Understand in which ways reading has changed the author’s life. 2. Discuss the meaning of reading.

3. Identify the problems facing reading and work on possible solutions. Part Two Background Information 2.1 Anna Quindlen

2.2 Anna Quindlen’s Major works

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Part Three Text Appreciation 3.1 Text Analysis

3.1.1 Theme of the text 3.1.2 Structure of the text 3.2 Writing Devices 3.2.1 Parallelism 3.2.2 Metaphor 3.2.3 Alliteration

3.2.4 Comparison and contrast 3.3 Sentence Paraphrase. Part Four Language Study 4.1 Phrases and Expressions 4.1.1 Word list:

4.1.2 Phrases and expressions list: 4.1.3 Word Building 4.2 Grammar

4.2.1 usage of “if only”, “if not”, “only if”, “what if” Part Five Extension 5.1 Group discussion 5.2 Writing

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, 1999。 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。

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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

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Unit 2 How Reading Changed My Life

Part One Warm – up 1.1 Warm-up Questions

1.Has your life ever been significantly changed by any particular book? 2.What does reading mean to you?

3. How has the Internet changed people’s way of reading? 4. How do you account for such changes?

1.2 Check-on Preview

Please define the following words in their respective context.

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 sanctioned reading… (para.12)

What do you know about the following novels?

Middlemarch A Little Princess Anna Karenina Gone with the Wind Rebecca Jane Eyre

A Tale of Two Cities Moby-Dick

Pride and Prejudice Kill a Mockingbird Objectives

4. Understand in which ways reading has changed the author’s life. 5. Discuss the meaning of reading.

6. Identify the problems facing reading and work on possible solutions.

Part Two Background Information

2.1 Author

Anna Quindlen the Journalist

? The New York Times columnist until 1994 ? Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 ? Newsweek columnist 1999-2009 Anna Quindlen the Novelist Full-time novelist since 1995

Author of five best-selling novels, three of which made into movies

A critic of the fast-paced and increasingly materialistic nature of modern American life

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Every other week, millions of readers turn to the back page of Newsweek for Anna Quindlen’s perspectives on events of the day and issues of family, work, education and social justice. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author, Quindlen writes Newsweek’s popular column “The Last Word.” During the past 30 years, her work has appeared in America’s most influential newspapers and magazines and on fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists. Her national bestseller, A Short Guide to a Happy Life,

? has sold over one million copies. Her first novel, the critically-acclaimed Object Lessons, was

followed by the bestselling One True Thing (which was made into a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Rene Zellweger). 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, Blessings, were made into television movies starring Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary Tyler Moore. While a columnist for The New York Times (1981-1994), Quindlen became only the third woman in the paper’s history to write a regular column for its influential Op-Ed page( Opposite Editorial page专栏版，特写稿版—由专栏作者等署名撰文，与社论版相对) when she began the nationally-syndicated “Public and Private.” A collection of those columns, Thinking Out Loud, was a national bestseller. In Loud & Clear, a collection of her Newsweek and New York Times columns, she combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflections on being a woman, a writer and a mother.

? In 1992 Quindlen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. In 1995 she left The

Times and journalism to pursue a career as a full-time novelist. She is the author of: the children’s books, The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After; the coffee table pictorials, Naked Babies and Siblings; How Reading Changed My Life; and Imagined London, in 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 is all you are.

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Part Three Text Appreciation

3.1 Text Analysis

3.1.1 Theme of the text Questions 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 text

Paras. 1-9 Reading 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.

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