大学英语unit one 讲义

Unit One Vacations That Nurture a Sense of Place Warm-up Activities1. Lead-in questions1) Do you miss your hometown if you are not a local resident in Shijiazhuang? Apart from your parents or other people you know, is there anything of your hometown that you miss a lot? Which is the place that you want to visit the most besides your own home?2) Have you ever been back to your senior middle school? How do you feel when you saw your old campus again? If not, what is the first thing that pops up in your mind when you think of your middle school?2. Make up a conversationDirections: Imagine you are back to your middle school campus with one of your classmates. Make up a conversation with your partner and try to involve the following information.A: how much do you remember of your campus and its school buildings.B: try to recall your interesting, delighting, depressing, embarrassing experiences on the campusC: would you come back again and explain whyBackground Knowledge1. Sense of PlaceIt is a combination of characteristics that makes a place special and unique. Due to those characteristics, you may hold some very special feelings or perceptions towards this place while others do not. Sense of place may involve your personal experience in a place, such as working in it in all weathers; make a living from it, suffering from its catastrophes, loving its beautiful mornings and evenings, investment of labor and feeling into it made by you, your parents, your grandparents or even your all-but unknown ancestors. The sense of place may also grow from your knowledge of this place and its folklore. For example, the relatives of the passengers aboard MH370 flight may have developed a sense pf place towards Malaysia.2. Sentimental JourneyA sentimental journey is a visit to a place that was once very familiar and that brings back memories of the past. For example, they have taken a sentimental journey to Britain where they had met and fell in love.3. Congregationalism and Congregational ChurchCongregationalism speaks of a form of church government. A congregational church is ruled by the congregation of its members, instead of by bishops or a group of elders. Congregational churches nearly always avoid hierarchy in churches, maintaining that the local church is answerable directly to God, not some man or organization.4. American Colonial ArchitectureAmerican colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated withthe colonial period of the United States, including First Period English, French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Dutch Colonial, etc. These styles are associated with the houses, churches and government buildings of the period from about 1600 through the 19th century. For example, In New England, 17th-century colonial houses were built primarily from wood, following styles found in the southeastern counties of England. Dutch Colonial structures, built primarily in the Hudson River Valley, Long Island, and northern New Jersey, reflected construction styles from Holland and Flanders and used stone and brick more extensively than buildings in New England.Words for Pleasure1. Nurture1) to care for and protect sb/sth while they are growing and developing 养育，养护Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood.父母们想了解把他们的孩子养育成人的最好方法。

These delicate plants need careful nurturing in the greenhouse.这些幼嫩的植物需要在温室里精心培育。

The study looks at ways parents nurture their children.这项研究着眼于父母养育孩子的方法。

2) to encourage a feeling, an idea, a plan or a connection to develop, to encourage sb and help them to succeed 培养，促进，助长To nurture a hope 滋生出愿望To nurture young writers 培养青年作家To nurture the children’s curiosity and creativity 培养孩子的好奇心和创造力To nurture a good relationship with one colleagues 和同事建立良好的关系She had always nurtured great ambitions for her son.她一直在培养她儿子的雄心大志。

She secretly nurtured a hope of becoming famous.她暗暗滋生出成名的愿望。

Their political views are nurtures in the sixties.他们的政治观点形成于60年代。

2. Sentimental1) connected with your emotions 情感上的She kept the letters purely for sentimental reasons.她纯粹是处于情感原因保存这些信件。

The stolen items were of great sentimental value to the family.被偷的物品对这个家庭有极大的情感价值。

2）producing emotions such as pity, romantic love or sadness, which may be too strong or not appropriate; feeling these emotions too much伤感的，煽情的，多愁善感的A sentimental songA sentimental bookA sentimental filmA sentimental love storyA sentimental girlI tend to get very sentimental when I think of my childhood.我总是一想到我的童年就感伤不已。