现代大学英语精读第二版Unit 6

3.让我们同意对方可以有不同意见吧。我们 起码在一点上意见是一致的，我们同意不采 取暴力，我们同意我们的分歧必须和平解决。
Let’s agree to disagree.
We at least agree on one thing: We agree not to use force. We agree that we must settle
• What did the author learn about the center of the world (the rock)? How did he feel toward it?
• What are the two learning moments of the author? What did he learn?
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Source of the text: Beyond Experience: An Experiential Approach to Cross-cultural Education
Bechelder’s view on cross-cultural education
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Setting: a small village in the central area of Brazil Protagonists: an American traveler (“I”), several Brazilian people Theme of the story: What do you think?
Warming up
Vocabulary Revision
Match the words with their correct meanings in the text.
1. assure 2. encounter 3. spout 4. occasion 5. potential
a. the possibility that sth. will have a positive effect b. to send out with great force; gush c. to tell sb. that sth. is sure to happen d. a special or particular time e. to meet sb. or experience sth.
5.我可以向你保证，她是一个非常随和的人。 我从来没有见过她发脾气。
I can assure you. She is a very agreeable person. I have never seen her lose her temper.
6. 一位亲眼看见那个妇女被汽车轧过的年 轻人同意出庭凭证。我很欣赏他的勇气。
culture. It is the belief that one particular race or nationWalityB
of people is superior to all others.
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Ethnocentrism
Why are people ethnocentric?
one’s own immediate center of the world to the center of someone else’s world
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Background Genre
A Short Story
Plot: “My” experience in a small Brazilian village and what “I” concluded.
College education should see to it that our
students are able to do critical thinking.
8. 你们在预习功课的时候，一定要尽量试 试，看你是否能提出重要的问题来，是否能 作出有意义的评论。
While you are preparing your lessons, you
– "ethnocentrism" basically refers to judging other groups
from one’s own cultural point of view, or misinterpreting
other cultures because one uses the concepts of his own
Background
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The goals of education:
a. “to open up possibilities for discovery” b. “to expand learning and the chance for mutual
acceptance and recognition” c. to offer students a cross-cultural perspective: from
➢ Lack of cross-cultural awareness
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Background Culture Tips Multiculturalism
Definition: a situation in which all the different cultural or racial groups in a society have equal rights and opportunities, and none is ignored or regarded as unimportant.
2.今天，多数人看问题都有了新的角度，他
们不再认为主要是国内生产总值（GDP）标 志一个国家的幸福了。 GDP:
Gross Domestic Products 标志：
mark, symbolize, represent, show
Today, most people have got a new perspective. They no longer accept the view that mainly GDP marks the happiness of a nation.
The Green Banana
Donald Bechelder
Vocabulary Exercise –Translation
1. 当我们到达目的地时，我们发现这块地上已 经没有任何建筑，只有一些石头散落在地上。 没有人能认出这是一段可以追溯到千年以前 的城墙。
When we reached our destination, we found nothing standing on the ground except some rocks scattered here and there. Nobody would be able to recognize it as part of the city wall a thousand years ago.
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Warming up Retelling
• Retell the first 4 paragraphs referring to the following points:
• What happened to the author’s old jeep in Brazil? How did the villagers help repair it?
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Background Culture Tips
Ethnocentrism
What is ethnocentrism?
– "Ethnic" refers to cultural heritage, and
– "centrism" refers to the central starting point or the tendency of people to put their own group at the center.
A young man who saw the woman run over by the car has agreed to appear in court as witness. I admire his courage.
7. 大学教育应该设法保证我们的大学生有 进行批判性思维的能力。
our disputes peacefully.
4.桂林向来被我们称为最美的地方，我以前
怀疑这种说法。现在我完全同意他们了。一 切都美极了，尤其是那些千姿百态的石峰。
Guilin has always been regarded by our people as the most beautiful place in our country. I used to have my doubts, but now I totally agree with them. Everything is so beautiful, especially the rock formations in all those different shapes.
Upon careful reflections on this issue, I’ve
come to realize that we must make sure that
our students not only can make a living, but
also know how to live.
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The Green Banana
Theme
Structure
Detailed Analysis
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Text Analysis
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Theme
• We should respect all civilizations in the world. Wisdoms are to be discovered with an open mind to other cultures.
10. 有一次我修好了一个漏气的自行车胎，爸 爸拍拍我的肩膀，逗我说我是家里的天才，有 当机械师的潜力。他的话引起了全家人的大笑。
Once I fixed my bike tire/tyre which was leaking. My Dad patted me on the shoulder and teased me saying that I am the family genius and have the potential of a good mechanic. What he said set the whole family laughing.
must try your best to see if you can raise
some significant questions and give
meaningful comments/criticisms.
9. 在对这个问题进行仔细思考以后，我认 识到，我们必须确保我们的学生不但能谋生， 还能懂得怎样生活。
• What’s the use of the green banana in the text? What does it symbolize?
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The Green Banana
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Culture Tips
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Backgrou nd
Genre
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➢ Limited life experience:
People will never be able to experience every life situation of everyone around the world, so assumptions about life have to be based on existing limited experience. It is normal to assume things and interpret new experience and others’ behavior on the basis of one’s own experience.