大学英语精读第五册lesson two two kinds教学设计教案

Introduction of The Joy Luck Club(2)
•It tells stories about four pairs of mothers and daughters---Suyuan Woo and Jing-mei (June); Anmei Hsu and Rose; Lindo Jong and Waverly; Ying-ying St. Clair and Lena. These stories are told by seven voices, those of the mothers and daughters except for Suyuan Woo, who is dead when the story begins in the book.
2014—2015学年第一 学期英语教学设计 1414111班 141411101 柴晓慧
•Background Teaching Content Information
CONTENT
Warm-up activities Background information
Text appreciation
In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film. The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass.
Part three Text Appreciation
Introduction of The Joy Luck Club(3)
The different points of view enable us to look at the bittersweet mother-daughter relations from different angles. The mothers and daughters treat one another cautiously, playing a game of love and fear, need and rejection.
•purse: [ pə:s ] v. 皱起，使缩拢 contract one‘s lips into a rounded shape
crinkly: [ ’kriŋkli ] a. 起绉的,绉褶多的 full of wrinkles.
• fuzz: [ fʌz ] n. 细毛,绒毛filamentous hairlike growth on a plant A peach skin is covered with fuzz. 桃上有一层细毛. •lament: [ lə'ment ] n. 悲叹,悔恨,恸哭 v. 哀悼,悔恨,悲叹 a cry of sorrow and grief ; express grief verbally 1. He deeply lamented the death of his wife. 他对妻子的去世深感悲痛。 2. She's always lamenting the lack of sports facilities in town. 她总是抱怨伦
2. tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument
pathos: [ 'peiθɔs ]
n. 感伤,悲怅,悲情
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others The play is notable for the pathos of its final scene. 该剧以最后一场的哀婉 动人而著称。
Introduction of The Joy Luck Club(1)
•The book comprises a series of shortstory-like vignettes that move back and forth in time and space, between the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and their American-born daughters in California.
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About the author
About the text
born in Oakland, California. Both of her parents were Chinese immigrants.
She is a Chinese American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film. The book has been translated into 35 languages.
The conflicting plot drawn from her own experiences
Tragedy struck the Tan family when Amy's father and oldest brother both died of brain tumors within a year. Mrs. Tan moved her surviving children to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school, but by this time mother and daughter were in constant conflict.
GLOSSARY
•mah-jongg 麻将
•dim sum:[ 'dim'sʌm ]
finalist: [ 'fainəlist ]
n. <汉>点心
n. 参加决赛者 a contestant who
reaches the final stages of a competition The judges awarded both finalists equal points. 裁判员 判定决赛双方分数相同 bittersweet: a. 又苦又甜的,苦乐参半的
Her father, John Tan, was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister who came to America to escape the turmoil of the Chinese Civil War. Her mother, Daisy, had divorced an abusive husband in China. She was forced to leave her children behind when she escaped on the last boat to leave Shanghai before the Communist takeover in 1949. Her marriage to John Tan produced three children, Amy and her two brothers.
cliche: [ 'kli:ʃei; kli:'ʃei ] compelling: [ kəm'peliŋ ] 1. driving or forcing
n. 陈腔滥调a trite or obvious remark
Cliche is a feature of bad journalism. 使用套语是拙劣的新闻体的特点. a. 强制的,强迫性的,令人注目的,引起兴趣的
drawn together by the shadow of their past—meet in San
Francisco to play mah-jongg, eat dim sum and tell stories. They call their gatherings the Joy Luck Club.
“Two Kinds” is fiction. Although
this passage is taken from a novel, it can be read as a complete short story. It has a complete plot of its own.
The main characters in this story are the daughter by the name of Jing-mei (her English name is June) and her mother (Suyuan, its meaning in Chinese is 宿愿). There are some minor characters including the girl’s father, Suyuan’s friend, Lindo, the latter’s daughter, Waverly and the piano teacher, Old Chong.
Introduction of The Joy Luck Club(4)
The mother-daughter relationships are a mixture of love and hostility, expectations and disappointments, conflict and reconciliation. When the daughters become older and more mature, they begin to reconsider their identity and reevaluate their cultural heritage. They discover that their mothers are “in ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱheir bones”, and that heritage is not something they can ignore and shake off easily.
敦缺少体育设施.
Part two Background information
The Joy Luck Club, from which “Two Kinds” is taken, explores conflicts between two generations and two different cultures. Set in China and in the United States, the novel is woven by stories of four Chinese mothers and their four daughters. Four Chinese women, who have just arrived in the United States and who are
The
Joy Luck Club
Her first book, won her The National Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Award in 1989.
The Kitchen God's Wife (1991) two books for children, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat two novels The Hundred Secret Senses (1995) and The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001).