全新版大学英语综合教程第二版课件Unit-2
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How did Chen and I become friends?
• When I first arrived he helped me buy what I needed, his way of starting a friendship. I thanked him by taking him out for lunch and discovered we share many attitudes and interests --my way of finding a friend. I saw that he didn’t just spend time with me to improve his English or be seen with a foreigner. He cares about me, and I care about him. So I call him “friend”, but
later than he called me “friend”.
4
• Chinese friends share “things in common”: a task, a class, a hometown. You may or may not like the person, but if he or she can do something for you because of his or her position or job, you ask without the shyness a foreigner feels, enlarging friendship beyond what a North American usually means. For us, friendship can be cut, or die from separation. Chinese are friends even if they haven’t spoken for 20 years. If you shared something at one time, then all your life you are friends. This is the best of “guanxi”, “relationship”, the Wide Web that connects Chinese through time and space. Chinese invented the Internet long before Bill Gates was born.
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• For me, China seems “reversed”. Relationships seem more important than the individuals involved. In North America, an individual is more important than relationships or roles. These two opposite starting points shape reality and expectations. Many say to me, “I hope we can be friends.” And what he or she wants is to practice English. Others want to be my friend because I am a foreigner and they think this makes them look good. This hurts me since I am along here and making friends is what I want, not teaching English every hour of the day or night, or being a prize. I feel used. But for Chinese, “using” is part of friendship.
Unit Two
Text A All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter
1Fra Baidu bibliotek
Text A
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Task Part Ⅱ Comprehension questions Part Ⅲ Language Points Part Ⅳ Post-questions Part V Text Structure Part Ⅵ Translation
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Pre-reading task
• One day Chen and I went downtown. I wanted to buy some supplies. He hates shopping but came along since he speaks better Chinese than me. Also, he is a better bargainer. For these good reasons he offers to help even though it’s boring, since otherwise I would buy the wrong thing. We help each other because we are friends. We started being friends by helping each other. “Is it possible for Chinese and foreigners to become friends?” I’ve been asked this many times. When I first arrived from multicultural Canada, I replied, “Of course!” But now I’m not so sure.
• When I first arrived he helped me buy what I needed, his way of starting a friendship. I thanked him by taking him out for lunch and discovered we share many attitudes and interests --my way of finding a friend. I saw that he didn’t just spend time with me to improve his English or be seen with a foreigner. He cares about me, and I care about him. So I call him “friend”, but
later than he called me “friend”.
4
• Chinese friends share “things in common”: a task, a class, a hometown. You may or may not like the person, but if he or she can do something for you because of his or her position or job, you ask without the shyness a foreigner feels, enlarging friendship beyond what a North American usually means. For us, friendship can be cut, or die from separation. Chinese are friends even if they haven’t spoken for 20 years. If you shared something at one time, then all your life you are friends. This is the best of “guanxi”, “relationship”, the Wide Web that connects Chinese through time and space. Chinese invented the Internet long before Bill Gates was born.
3
• For me, China seems “reversed”. Relationships seem more important than the individuals involved. In North America, an individual is more important than relationships or roles. These two opposite starting points shape reality and expectations. Many say to me, “I hope we can be friends.” And what he or she wants is to practice English. Others want to be my friend because I am a foreigner and they think this makes them look good. This hurts me since I am along here and making friends is what I want, not teaching English every hour of the day or night, or being a prize. I feel used. But for Chinese, “using” is part of friendship.
Unit Two
Text A All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter
1Fra Baidu bibliotek
Text A
Part Ⅰ Pre-reading Task Part Ⅱ Comprehension questions Part Ⅲ Language Points Part Ⅳ Post-questions Part V Text Structure Part Ⅵ Translation
2
Pre-reading task
• One day Chen and I went downtown. I wanted to buy some supplies. He hates shopping but came along since he speaks better Chinese than me. Also, he is a better bargainer. For these good reasons he offers to help even though it’s boring, since otherwise I would buy the wrong thing. We help each other because we are friends. We started being friends by helping each other. “Is it possible for Chinese and foreigners to become friends?” I’ve been asked this many times. When I first arrived from multicultural Canada, I replied, “Of course!” But now I’m not so sure.