高级英语第二课

Lesson 2

Hiroshima- the “Liveliest” City in Japan

The first period (3 hours)

I. Teaching objectives

1. Background knowledge

2. Paragraphs 1 to 7

II. Difficult and important points

1. background knowledge

2. vocabulary and difficult sentences to understand

3. language style

4. idea of each part

III. Classroom activities

1. explaining

2. discussing

3. summarizing

Step for teaching

Detailed Study of the Text

Hiroshima—the “liveliest”city in Japan: The word “liveliest”is put in quotation marks to show that this is what the city is said to be and the writer perhaps consider it ironic to use the word “liveliest”to describes a city that had been atomized.

“Hiroshima! Everybody off!”

off: down from

Everybody should now get off the train. These words were chanted by the stationmaster to inform the passengers that the train had arrived at its terminal destination and all passengers were to detrain.

That must be……slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station:

“must”here expresses strong probability as the author did not understand Japanese and could not have been sure.

In the Japanese stationmaster’s uniform:

In: (of dress) wearing something e.g. in white; in mourning; in rags; in silk

Stationmaster: the official in charge of a railway station

slipped to a stop: came to stop smoothly and effortlessly, in a gliding manner slide, slip, glide

slide implies accelerated motion without losing contact with the slippery surface.

Slip often suggests involuntary rather than

voluntary, sometimes even definitely implying a loss of footing and a fall.

Glide rather close to slide, means to move smoothly, quietly and continuously as is characteristic of dances. e. g. Plane glided down to the airfield.

4. And secondly, because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of and thoughts on my mind…… might say:

I had a lump in my throat: I was choked with emotion; I was so overcome with emotion that I could not speak or think clearly.

A lump in one’s throat: a feeling of pressure in one’s throat, caused by repressed emotion

A lot of asd thoufhts on my mind: I was troubled about some sad events; I was occupying with some sad thoughts.

On one’s mind: occupying one’s thoughts, esp. as a source of worry

To have do with: to be a concern of ; to be about; to be onenected with

My sad thoughts had no connection with what the statinmasrter might say.

5. The very act of stepping on this soil…… any reportorial assignment I’d previously taken: 1) very: itself and nothing else

2) stepping on this soil: putting my feet down on this soil; landing in Hiroshima

3) far greater: adverbial modifiers of adj. of adv. in the comparative degree

Far more; even more; still more; a lot more; much more; two-years older; a head taller 4) adventure: an unusual journey or an exiting or remarkable experience

5) reportorial assignment: reporting work for a newspaper

6) The fact that I was now in Hiroshima was in itself a much more exciting experience for me than any I and takes or any reporting work I had done in the past.

6. Was I not at the scene of the crime?:

1) scene: place of an actual event

2) the crime: the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima

3) Rhetorical questions are usually asked only of effect, as to emphasize a point, no answer being expected.

4) I was now at the place where the first A-bomb was dropped.

7. Information provided in the first paragraph: 1) The author was here on a reportorial