英语时文泛读第四册Unit 1 Text A

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Background Information
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• The British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC) is the world’s largest broadcaster. Incorporated in the UK by government charter, it employs 28,500 people in that country alone and has an annual budget of more than £4 billion. The BBC is a quasiautonomous statutory corporation as a public service broadcaster and is run by the BBC Trust; it is, per its charter, supposed to “be free from both political and commercial influence and answer only to its viewers and listeners”. BBC Newsgathering is the largest news system through its regional offices, foreign correspondents and agreements with other news services.
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• Sceptics or converts? • Under representation of women in sport, and football,
is by no means an uncommon thing, you only have to look at the back pages of any newspaper to realise that, but after the success of Euro 2005, the times may be changing. • Record attendances, impressive form, good TV ratings and an array of talent, all proved to propel the women’s game into the limelight for a short time. • Sceptics/skeptics
• Revere • Reverence • Reverent • Reverend
Cultural Notes
• The phrase “The Beautiful Game” as a synonym for football was first coined by Didi, a Brazilian superstar footballer. In 1977 Pelé, one of football’s greatest superstars, named his autobiography My Life and the Beautiful Game. The book’s dedication read “I dedicate this book to all the people who have made this great game the Beautiful Game”. The phrase has now entered the language as a colourful description for association football and as such was used as part of the title for the 13-part series charting the history of the game: History of Football: The Beautiful Game.
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• It comes as little surprise that football has now replaced netball as the most popular female sport in England.
• When the FA took over the running of the women’s and girls’ game in 1993, there were just 11,200 registered players.
• BBC/Birmingham is one of the production centres of the BBC.
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II. Text A
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• Brainstorm of vocabulary • Questions to think about: • The origin of football • Gender equality and sports • The future of women’s sports • men’s football team in China? • Corruption in sports [China and the world]
Difficult sentences
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• For a country which claims the beautiful game as its heritage, why is it that the US women are more revered than our own?
Football
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I. Overview
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• In this unit, you will read 3 passages about football as an international sport, but from unusual perspectives.
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英语时文泛读
Current News Articles for Extensive Reading
BOOK IV
Tasks for the spring semester:
• Unit 1, 3, 4, 7; (17 weeks, May Day Holiday off, 16 weeks)
the U.S.? • What kind of change did Euro 2005 bring to women’s
game? • What progress did the women’s game make? What are
the setbacks? • According to Steve Shipway, what happened to BCLFC?
a time to discuss how to read novels)
• One article reading per week; hand in outline, answer the questions, or summary. • Quiz after each unit.
• TEM 4 (7 weeks before the test). Some practice every week.
• Today that figure stands well over 100,000. • Yet despite this rise, it still lags behind
countries such as the United States where there are 7.8 million players.
quotes; anaystical reading notes, comparative readfing notes. ).
• Novels: • One of your own choice and hand in the written task as required in the last semester. (we will find
What does this reveal? • What happened to Fulham? • What are the consequences of the present situation with
women’s game in Britain? • What kind of tone does tห้องสมุดไป่ตู้e article end with?
Text A
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Women’s Football Popularity on the Rise
• Football has now replaced netball as the most popular female sport in England.
Focus of this session
• Recommended Book reading: books in the humanities and social sciences; critical reading. (the main argument, organization, to ask questions, etc)
• We will find a time to discuss how to read books in the humanities and in the social sciences. • The Chrysanthemum and The Sword by Ruth Benedict; • Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman; • The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order by Samuel P. Huntington; • The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, 1963. • The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber • Reading report of each book (requirements to be sent separately--reading notes with words and
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Background Information
Author
• Jaskirt Dhaliwal
• Jaskirt works as a freelance photographer and journalist, including work for BBC Asian Network and BBC Birmingham. She specialises in portraiture and telling stories through her images and bodies of work, such as the Award winning Women’s Football body of work which focuses on the identity of women’s football and female footballers.
Timed Reading
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• 6’ first reading • Summary • Subject matter? Problem? Solution? • Reflection on the language
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• Which is more popular in England, football or netball? • Which country respects female footballers more, Britain or
Structure
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• This unit will give you a glimpse of the game of football (soccer) with special focus on women’s football, World Cup and Cuju in ancient China.