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1、 Loving and Hating New York Thomas Griffith Aims: 1) Improving students ability to read between lines and understand the text properly; 2) Cultivating students ability to make a creative reading; 3) Enhancing students ability to appreciate the text from different perspectives; 4) Helping students to
2、 understand some difficult words and expressions;5) Helping students to understanding rhetorical devices;6) Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately. Teaching Contents: Background Knowledge Exposition Detailed Study of the EssayOrganization PatternStyle and Language
3、FeaturesSpecial Difficulties Background Knowledge 1) About the author Thomas Griffith 2) About New York City Exposition http:/www.stanford.edu/arnetha/expowrite/info.html Detailed study on the Essay Pre-reading task(Pictures provided here)1) Which one of these pictures are picture of New York City?
4、What does New York City impress you?2) Discuss with your partner to decide : a) which city you like most and why? b) If you are offered a chance to work or live in another city which is quiet unfamiliar to you , do you want to go there and why? Para.1-5 General introduction Setting forth the present
5、 status of New York in the United States and in the eyes of foreigners Task: Collect evidence to show that “ How the mighty has fallen.” New York = Big Apple = Mighty Advertising campaigns publicly praise New York; Many New Yorkers wear T-shirts with a heart design and the works “ I love New York” N
6、ew York is trying desperately to regain her lost prestige and status. Para.2-3 New York Yesterday its energetic pulse “ and designer shops that exist to flatter and bilk the frivolous rich.”These shops are set up to cheat and gratify the vanity of the silly rich people Para 6 New York Energy, conten
7、tion and striving Convention: angry disagreement Striving: trying very hard to achieve or to defeat the othersPut-down: ( informal) a remark or criticism intended to make the others feel stupid (令人 难 堪 的 话 ， 噎 人 的 话 ) “ To win in New York is to be uneasy; to lose is to live in jostling proximity to
8、the frustrated majority.” A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety ( because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition); a person who loses has to live among the defeated, who are in the majority in New York. Para.7 New York In authors eyes “Ne
9、w York was never Mecca to me” Rhetorical devices employed in this sentence are: _ and _.The author compares New York to Mecca; and Mecca is standing for _.A place of holy pilgrimage, of a place one yearns to go. Para 8 New York: Nature Questions:1) The topic sentence is _.2)The rhetorical device emp
10、loyed in “ Nature constantly yields to man in New York” is _. 3) Are there any other places uses the same rhetorical device as mentioned above? Whats the function of it? Para.9 New YorkOpportunities to cause irritation or annoyance to2.exhilarate: to make cheerful; to excite“ The place constantly ex
11、asperates, at times exhilarates.” New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but at times it also invigorates and stimulates. Organization Pattern 1) The thesis: Loving and hating New York or more specifically: Loving and hating New York becomes a matter of alternating moods, often in the sa
12、me day. 2) The thesis developed by both objective and emotional description of New York and the life and struggle of New Yorkers 3) The structural organization of this essay: clear and simple Style and Language Features1) Full of American English terms, phrases and constructions. T-shirt holdout com
13、eback put-down expense-account adman high-rise measure up 2) Use of various rhetorical devices: metaphor personification metonymy transferred epithet alliteration simile synecdoche irony euphemism Special Difficulties Understanding Some terms/phrases/structures out-of-phase television generation economy of effort wrong side sitcoms cloned and canned Mecca Ivy League schools commercial Broadwayoff-Broadway/off-off-Broadway Madison Avenue/Wall Street like seeks like Wasps
高级英语-第二册Loving-and-Hating-New-York-教案
