Lesson Two The Game of the Name 高英5, 第二单元,课后答案

Lesson Two The Game of the Name

I. General Arrangement

1. Class Hours 9

2. Teaching Content

1) Background;

2) Language points

3) Structural Analysis of the Text;

4) Topic discussion

5) Exercises

6) Homework: Dictation; Recitation; Writing.

3. Objective: The text gives us some useful general ideas on the particular aspect of

American culture, especially some basic rules in this aspect. By

learning the text, the students are supposed to know something about

the addressing rules of the English-speaking countries. More

significantly, the text will help increase the students‟ cultural

awareness or cultural sensitivity, which, many language teachers have

come to realize, should be made one of the goals in teaching.

4. Methods to be applied:

1) Questions and answers (comprehension of the text)

2) Pair work (greeting practice)

3) Oral presentation (talking about Chinese greeting customs)

II. The Important Points

1. Language points: a passing acquaintance; speech community; at first thought; a

trivial pursuit; unconsciously assimilated; in turn; Social Identity plus Last Name;

be obliged; Your Honor; carry on; etc.

2. Main idea of the text

3. Structural Analysis of the text

4. Word study: assume, oblige, identify, suspend

5. Grammar: determiners and pronouns

III. The Difficult Points

1. Develop Cultural Sensitivity.

2. How to address appropriately/How to address different people in different

situations.

IV. Detailed Study of the Text

1. What rhetorical device is employed in the title “The Game of the Name”?

a. metaphor The matter of address is compared to a game. Why a game? Rules.

b. assonance: agreement between stressed vowels in two words, also called echo,

half-rhyming, as in “sharper, garter” “hark, lark”. Assonance produce s a pleasant effect on the reader when he reads aloud. There is something musical involved, that is euphonious, while the problem of address is a serious matter, the writer is in a sense humorous about it while most of the time he is serious.

As a game, apart from rules, it is amusing sometimes. The devices are very well interwoven to produce the desired effect.

2. a passing acquaintance: only a nodding/casual acquaintance, someone I only know slightly.

Acquaintance 1) [u] He has some acquaintance with Ger man, but doesn‟t speak it fluently.

having a bowing/nodding acquaintance with: have some

acquaintance with ( a person, a subject)

(up)on ( further) acquaintance: when known for a further period of

time

2) [c] person with who is acquainted, person whom one knows (less

intimately than a friend) e.g. He has a wide circle of

acquaintances.

*make sb‟s acquaintance, make the acquaintance of sb.

*types of relationship between people: ignorance, knowledge, acquaintance,

friendship, intimacy, kinship.

3. “a nice day” or “ good morning” – Such utterances are not intended to transfer information, but to establish or maintain a social relationship. This use of language is called the social function of language.

补充：Functions of language（胡壮麟等《语言学教程》P10：）:

1）Phatic 2) Directive 3) Informative 4) Interrogative 5)Expressive 6)

Evocative

7) Performative

4. reassure sb.: set sb‟s mind at ease, remove sb‟s fears or doubts The collocation in the text is derived fr om “assure”. assure sb. of sth. (that…)

5. at the same time that (or when). Without same, use “when”

6. at first thought, at second thought A second though reassured me. (at first sight)

7. Forms of address reveal…speech community.

*Forms of address reflect what we think of the relationship between other members of our speech community and us. (disclose many personal judgments we pass on other members of our speech community). e.g. If I address a person as “sir”,

respect, or distance.

* address (v.): speak to by using a particular form of address

address sth. to : send ( a remark, complaint etc.) to: Please address all enquiries to this office.

Please address complaints to the manager not to me.

address oneself to (formal): work at, apply oneself to, be busy with; e.g. It‟s time we addressed ourselves to the business in hand.

*reveal: The doctor didn‟t reveal to him his hopeless condition.

Research has revealed him to be/ revealed that he was the father of 12 children.

8. relative ages: being young or old in comparative rather than absolute terms

*the relative advantages of two methods/gas and electricity for heating

relative to: referring to; having a connection with the facts relative to this problem the papers relative to the case