新编英语教程4 Unit 9

3) Answer comprehensive questions
• (1).A town is a thing like a colonial animal. • (2)A town has a whole emotion. • (3)News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can cal it over the fences. • (4)….the nerves of the town were pulsing and vibrating with the news … • (5)The news swept on past the brush houses, and it washed in a foaming wave into the town of stone and plaster.. • (6)…the doctor grew stern and judicious… • (7) And the doctor‟s eyes rolled up a little in their fat hammocks and he thought of Paris.. •
Contents
l Detailed study of Text I & II l Oral work: • Role-play: borrowing a Book • Interaction activities: Snobbishness in Human Relationships l Guided writing: • Basic writing techniques—expansion of nouns; • Composition writing—expansion of verbs; • Letter writing—answering a letter confirming a verbal arrangement
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The supporting details
• • (1) A town is like a colonial animal.(the environment in whichBaidu Nhomakorabeathe news travels) • (2) The nerves of the town were pulsing and vibrating with the news.(the spread of the news) • (3) The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it.(the essence of human nature) •
• ² roll (sleeves, trousers) up/ roll over (on the bed)/ roll (the window)down/ (green pastures )roll away(into the distance)/ a rolling stone gathers no moss: a person who often changes jobs, does not have any responsibilities. • ² a semblance of • ²capital • ² take one‟s place/ take the place of • ²the essence of stand in the way/ get in the way • ² stir(sb.s memory, imagination, memories, emotions)// stir oneself to do sth.//stir up(trouble, dust) • ² withhold (payment, facts, evidence, information, e.g.)
• The gallery of characters in the writing: • --ordinary working-class women who are eager to let others share what they know, • --priests who try to raise money for one reason or another, • --shopkeepers whose only concern is to sell their wares for a good profit, • --doctors who “cure” the sick often for their own gain, • --beggars who love on alms, • --pearl buyers who are except at buying valuable pearls at the lowest possible price
4) What‟s the text about?
• --This excerpt is a good example of creativity in writing. It describes the psychology of various kinds of people just before Kino, a poor fisherman, goes to the town to sell the Pearl of the World, which he has found in the sea. •
4) Language points
• ² could not afford to buy/ pay for • ² sting (n.)/ sting(v.): stung, stung • ² mystery to be solved/ a problem to be discussed • ² (clause) more than (clause) • ² strangle out • ² for that matter • ² neither … nor …
• ² precipitate: to make sth happen more quickly, e.g. the economic crisis was ~d by the U.S. inability to deal with the budget deficit.//to force sth. or sb. into a particular state or condition, e.g. The rise in the value of oil ~d a world economic crisis. • ² all manner of : every kind of • e.g. All manner of measures have been taken to improve the emergency treatment service in that hospital.
Text I Pre-reading activities
• 1) Group work: Talk about human nature: • --people tend to like to get something for nothing • --people frequently daydream, hoping to become rich and prosperous overnight • --the moneyed class, in order to make more money, resort to unfair means to extort as much money as possible from poor, powerless people. • --people‟s desires are insatiable • --people are snobbish especially in moneyoriented society
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While-reading activities
• Listen to the tape for general info • Study the text in detail • 1) A summary of the main ideas in one sentence: • Kino, a poor fisherman, has just found a very large and valuable pearl and is going to the nearest town to sell it. All of a sudden, all manner of people grow interested in him.
• (8)..and it made them giggle a little, ...who is suddenly lucky. • (9)For there were not many buyers really—there was only one, and he kept these agents in separate offices to give a semblance of competition. • (10) …a fisherman in despair had given his pearls to the church. • (11)…their eyes squinted a little and their finger-tips burned a little, … • (12)The essence of pearl mixed with essence of men and a curious dark residue was precipitated. • (13) Every man suddenly became related to Kino‟s pearl,… • (14)The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom and the town swelled and puffed with the
2) Appreciate 三字经
• See word
3) Pair work
• Have you ever known some snobbish people? What are they like?
• Judging people by appearance • Worshipping money above everything else • Paying great respect to people of high social rank or of great wealth or power • Despising people who are of a “low” social position • Keeping away from those he/she feels to be of “lower” social class • Being proud of his/her own high social position/ profound learning • Pretending to have social importance and perhaps intellectual superiority • Imitating, cultivating, slavishly admiring the behavior of those of high social rank, great wealth, etc. • Being ashamed of having socially inferior connections