全新版大学英语第1册Unit1课件

Global Reading: Scanning
Scan Text A and find out all the time words, phrases and clauses.
Global Reading: Scanning
narration in chronological sequence按照时间顺序叙述
For Part 1 para1
agony: n. very great pain or suffering of mind or body(often used in the patterns:agony of; in agony
Many people lay there screaming in agony after the bomb explosion I was in an agony of doubt. 我疑虑不安，十分痛苦。
For Part 1 para1
I hated the assignments to turn out long, lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write.
Paraphrase the sentence. I found it painful to write long, boring essays as required by teachers; neither did teachers enjoy what I wrote.
Warm-up questions
1. Do you like writing? Why or why not? 2. What's the purpose of writing?
Unit 1
When we are writing we are often told to keep our readers in mind, to shape what we say to fit their tastes and interests. But there is one reader in particular who should not be forgotten. Can you guess whBaidu Nhomakorabea?
For Part 1 para1
take hold: become established
The idea of one child has taken hold in many Chinese families. 老习惯是很难摆脱的。这就是为什么你要在习惯养成 前戒烟。 Old habits die hard. That’s why you should stop smoking before the habit takes hold.
Part Division of the Text
Parts 1
Para(s) 1~2 Main Ideas
Baker was bored by everything associated with English courses, including his new English teacher.
The American Educational System In the United States, education is the responsibility of individual states, not of the federal government, so Detailed Reading requirements may vary from one state to another. The following is a generalization:
For Part 1 para1 Until then I’d been bored by everything associated with English courses. What can we infer from this sentence? Up to then, Baker had had no interest in things related to English courses.
recall rigid
severe violate
respectable
sequence tetious
Words & Phrases
face up to hold back off and on out of date put down take hold turn in turn out what’s more
For Part 1 para1 turn out: 1) come out or gather as for a meeting, public event, etc.出现 2) prove to be结果是；证明是 3) shut off关闭 4) produce; make生产；制造 Match the above definitions with the sentences below. A large group of protesters have turned out. The school has turned out some great scholars. Turn out the light before you go to bed. The plan turned out a failure.
For Part 1 Para1 True or False
True or False 1. Baker had never thought of becoming a writer until ( F ) he was in the eleventh grade. As a child in Belleville, he had thought of becoming a writer from time to time. 2. Teachers found it painful to read students’ long and lifeless essays. ( T )
Baker found himself attracted by one particular topic and wrote about it for his own enjoyment.
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3~5
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6~9
The experience of writing the essay helped Baker discover his talent for writing and realize what he wished to do in life.
kindergarten: under 5 years old elementary / primary school (grades 1~6): 6~11 years old
junior high / middle school (grades 7~8): 12~13 years old senior / high school (grades 9~12): 14~17 years old college, institute, academy (学院), university
Text A Writing for Myself
Russell Baker
Russel Baker -- Who?
• Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his autobiography, Growing Up(1982).
For Part 1 para1
associate: vt. join or connect together; connect or bring in the mind
我们总是把埃及与金字塔联系起来。 We often associate Egypt with pyramids. I can’t associate this gentle young woman with the radical political essays she has written. Jim wished to forget everything associated with his former life.
3. Before Mr. Fleagle became the English teacher for Baker’s class, the English course had been interesting.
( F ) From the words “another cheerless year” we can see the English course had been quite boring. 4. In Baker’s opinion, Mr. Fleagle was really a formal, rigid and out-of-date teacher only because of Fleagle’s manner of speaking. ( F ) Besides the manner of speaking, Fleagle’s appearance and dress also showed that he was a dull and rigid teacher.
Vocabulary
Words & Phrases
agony associate command extraordinary image reputation scan tackle vivid
anticipate avoid compose finally inspire
assign career distribute formal
For Part 1 Para2
When our class was assigned to Mr. Fleagle for third-year English I anticipated another cheerless year in that most tedious of subjects. Mr. Fleagle had a reputation among students for dullness and inability to inspire. He was said to be very formal, rigid and hopelessly out of date. To me he looked to be sixty or seventy and excessively prim. He wore primly severe eyeglasses, his wavy hair was primly cut and primly combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white shirts. He had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he seemed a comic antique.
For Part 1 para1
off and on (or on and off): from time to time; now and again; irregularly
It has been raining on and off for a week. That’s why the clothes feel damp. As her patient slept soundly during the night, Nurse Betty was able to doze off and on in a bedside chair.
since my childhood in Belleville (Para. 1) until my third year in high school (Para. 1) until then (Para. 1) when our class was assigned to Mr. Fleagle for third-year English (Para. 2) late in the year (Para. 3) until the night before the essay was due (Para. 3) when I finished (Para. 6) next morning (Para. 6) two days passed (Para. 6) when I saw him lift my paper from his desk ... (Para. 6) when Mr. Fleagle finished (Para. 9)