高級英語love-and-hate-New-York教案

1、1.Teaching plan 1.1Teaching aims and demands 1To familiarize students with expository writings 2To familiarize students with American culture mentioned in the text 3To enable students to appreciate the writing style of the text 2.Key points and Special difficulties 1Words and expressions for details

2、 see the text 2Writing Style Expository writing 3Background knowledgesNew York,Manhattan,The big apple,Ivory League schools 3.Teaching methods 3.1Communication approach 交際法 3.2Behaviorism 行為主義 3.3Consructivism 建構(gòu)主義4.Teacher asking questions about the contents of the text 1In what fields can New York

3、 no longer be regarded as the leading American city. 2What are its deficiencies as a pacesetter. 3Why do many Europeans call New York their favorite city. 4Why do many young people still go to New York. 5Does the writer really both love and hate New York.Cite examples to back up you analysis. 6Why i

4、s New York called an international metropolis. 5.Teaching procedures 5.1Review “ If you love him, bring him to New York, for its heaven; if you hate him, bring him to New York, for it s hell.” Beijingers in New York 5.3Culture points and background knowledge 1The Big Apple-New York “ Big Apple ” ; “

5、 City that Never Sleeps ” : a city of superlatives Americas biggest; its most exciting; its business and cultural capitals; the nations trendsetter New York is the most populous city in the United States. It is Americas business and cultural capital,and the nations trendsetter. As a leading global c

6、ity,New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. Located on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a state county. 2Manhattans As a center of culture

7、 and commerce,Manhattan is a hotbed of activity with an unending list of things to see and to do.Residents and visitors alike cans hard to believe so much energy and activity fits into this small island,a mere 23.7 square milesor 61.4aquare kilometers （3）World Trade Center The original World Trade C

8、enter was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2022 during the September 11 attacks （4）Central Park Central Park is a beautiful green oasis in the middle of New Yorks

9、concrete desert. It is surprisingly big ,with lakes and woods ,as well organized recreation areas （5）Times Square-時報廣場Times Square, confined as The Crossroads of the World, is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway theater district, one of the worlds busiest pedestrian intersections, and a maj

10、or center of the worlds entertainment industry. （6）Wall Street Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym f

11、or the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or signifying New York-based financial interests. It is the home of the New York Stock Exchange, the worlds largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies.Several other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the

12、Wall Street area, including NASDAQ, the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock Exchange. Anchored by Wall Street, New York City is one of the worlds principal financial centers. （7）Ivory League schools 常春藤高校聯(lián)盟Brown University,Colombia University,Corn

13、ell University, Dartamouth University,Harvard University ,Princeton University,University of Pennsylvania,Yale University （8）Broadway 百老匯大道Broadway is a street in the U.S.state of New York.Perhaps best known for that runs through the borough of Manhattan ,it actually runs 24kmthrough Manhattan and t

14、he Bronx,exiting north from the city to run an additional 29km through the municipalities Yonkers,Hastings-On-Hudson,Dobbs Ferry,Irvington,Tarrytown and terminating north of sleepy Hollow in Westchester County. 9Tin Pan Alley A district associated with musicians, composers, and publishers of popular

15、 music. The term was coined after West 28th Street in New York City where music publishers were formerly centered. It eventually became generalized to refer to the whole music industry. It, popular in the past, is less used today. The corresponding term in the UK is Denmark Street in London. 10Brief

16、 Introduction of Thomas Griffith Thomas Griffith was born in Tacoma, Washington on December 30, 1915, and died in New York City in 2022. When he was 7 years old , he was raised in a Seattle boarding house with his brother and sister, sent there by their father after their mother died. He graduated f

17、rom Roosevelt High School 羅斯福高中 in 1932, much later he was named outstanding graduate at the school s 50th anniversary celebration. As a student at the University of Washington 華盛頓高校 , Mr. Griffith met his future wife, Caroline Coffman Griffith. In 1975, he was awarded the UW School of Communication

18、s Alumni Award for Achievement. Griffith started his career at The Seattle Times in 1936, working as a reporter and then as assistant city editor before accepting a Nieman Fellowship 尼曼獎學(xué)金at Harvard University in 1942. He joined Time Inc the next year and stayed for three decades, retiring in 1972 a

19、s editor of Life magazine. During that time, he gained the respect of Time Inc.s outspoken and politically conservative founder, Henry Luce, who reportedly took to calling Mr. Griffith the loyal opposition. Griffith was known in the organization as the “ house liberal” . He was also a staff contribu

20、tor to Fortune magazine and columnist of Atlantic Monthly. He was an uprooted westerner who called New York home His works: Harry and Teddy: the Turbulent Friendship of Henry and his Favorite Reporter, Teddy1995. How True: A Skeptics Guide to Believing the News 1974. The Waist-High Culture 1959 :Ame

21、rican culture. 5.4Detailed explanation of text pathetic Para. 1, Line 3: pitiful, lamentable, brag Para. 1, Line 4: talk with excessive pride, assert boastfully, a boaster, a braggart. E.g.: She bragged that she could run faster than I. Hes been bragging about his new car. bush Para. 1, Line5: secon

22、d-rate. E.g.: Reviewers here have tended to see in him a kind of bush D.H. Lawrence. beget Para. 2, Line 2: create, produce, cause. E.g.: War begets misery and ruin holdout Para. 2, Last sentence: a place that holds out, that continue resistance, not yielding to the trend and fashion pacesetter Para

23、. 3, Line 1: a person, group, or thing that leads the way or serves as a model sitcoms Para. 3, Line 6: Radio or television comedy series that involves a continuing cast of characters in a succession of episodes. Often the characters are markedly different types thrown together by circumstance and o

24、ccupying a shared environment such as an apartment building or workplace. Typically half an hour in length and either taped in front of a studio audience or employing canned applause, they are marked by verbal sparring and rapidly resolved conflicts. Nashville Para. 3, Line 8: capital of Tennessee S

25、tate and center of and country music rock-and-roll. comeback Para. 4, Line 3: return to some previously successful activity. E.g.: The old actor made a successful comeback after twenty years. bilk Para. 5, Line 8: cheat, defraud, swindle. E.g.: He bilked us of all our money. frivolous Para. 5, Line

26、8: silly, trivial billing Para. 6, Line 6: advertising, promotion jostle Para. 6, Last sentence: push and shove Mecca Para. 7, Line 1: A city of western Saudi Arabia near the coast of the Red Sea. The birthplace of Muhammad, it is the holiest city of Islam and a pilgrimage site for all devout believ

27、ers of the faith. qualify Para. 8, Line 1: limit, modify, restrict tint Para. 8, Line 4: color lightly. E.g.: She tint each flower in her painting a different color. The sunset has tinted the sky with pink. gaudily Para. 8, Line 5: brightly and showily jagged Para. 8, Line 6: having a sharply uneven

28、 outline or surface gamely Para. 8, Line 7: courageously, bravely encroach Para. 8, Line 8: advance beyond the proper limit, take anothers possessions or rights gradually and stealthily. E.g.: The sea is gradually encroaching on the land. carnival Para. 8, Last sentence: Final celebration before the

29、 fasting and austerity of Lent in some Roman Catholic regions, festival or revel beckon Para. 9, Line 1: signal by nodding or waving, attract. E.g.: He beckoned to me from across the street. diversion Para. 9, Line 8: recreation banal Para. 10, Line 2: repeated too often, common. E.g.: a banal remar

30、k constrict Para. 10, Line 4: restrict the freedom of, compress squalor Para. 10, Line 9: dirtiness. E.g.: There is indescribable squalor in those books. Broadway Para. 10, Line 9: The principal theater and amusement district of New York City, on the West Side of midtown Manhattan centered on Broadw

31、ay. precinct: neighborhood, surrounding area bohemian: a person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behavior; a descriptive term for a stereotypical way of life for artists and intellectuals who live in material poverty because they prefer their art or their

32、learning to lesser goods. fringe: outside boundary boutique: a shop that sells womens clothes and jewelry invoke: use, apply deplore: regret strongly, show strong disapproval of. E.g.: Somehow we had to master events, not simply deplore them. Henry A. Kissinger. ancillary: helping, supporting condes

33、cend: deal with people in a patronizing superior manner, lower oneself malleable: easily controlled, easily influenced. turnstile: Please see the right picture cynicism: an attitude of scornful negativity, esp. a general trust of others. hype: excessive publicity, exaggerated claims made in advertis

34、ing scruple: uneasiness, hesitation. E.g.: He has absolutely no scruples; hell do anything to get what he wants. sustain: provide for, maintain. E.g.: Hope alone sustained him in his struggle. adjoin: lie adjacent to. E.g.: There is a family of poor folk who have rented from the landlady a room whic

35、h does not adjoin the other rooms, but is set apart in a corner by itself. amenity: sth. that contributes to physical or material comfort. E.g.: A sauna in the hotel would be a useful amenity. tawdriness: tasteless showiness astir: moving about, being in motion. cabana: a small tent used as a dressi

36、ng room beside the sea or a swimming pool. Please see the picture antiseptically: antiseptical: thoroughly clean, free from disturbance enclave: an enclosed territory hassle: angry disturbance, disorderly fighting, turmoil congenial: friendly, sociable. E.g.: In the next year he obtained, through th

37、e good offices of an old friend, a post with a publishing firm which, though not highly paid, he found more congenial. bracing: refreshing, exciting encase: enclose in a case fleeting: lasting for a very brief time taunt: reproaching, ridicule mongrel: a cross between different breeds, groups or var

38、ieties. tumultuous: turbulent, noisy, wild initiation: beginning, entry. turf: area claimed by a gang forbearance: tolerance and restraint, patience. E.g.: I have shown enough forbearance toward him. exasperate: irritate, infuriate. E.g.: She was exasperated at his stupidity. exhilarate Para. 22, Li

39、ne 3: stimulate, invigorate, cause to feel happily energetic. E.g.: We were exhilarated by the cool, pine-scented air. the Big Apple Para. 1, Line 1: a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its po

40、pularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau,known now as NYC & Company. out of phase Para. 2, Line 3: also “ out of sync ” , unsynchronized, uncoordinated. Common Denominator Land Para. 2, Last sentence: a place with no unique quality of a

41、ny kind “ common denominator ” : 公分母, an attribute that is common to all members of a category more inspired architecturally Para. 3, Lines 2-3: more excellent in architecture as to suggest divine inspiration Arturo Toscanini Para. 3, Line 5: 1867 1957, Italian conductor. Toscanini entered a conserv

42、atory at age nine, studying cello, piano, and composition. He began his professional life as a cellist. Principally known for his readings of Verdis operas and Beethovens symphonies, he also gave remarkable performances of the music of Richard Wagner. The NBC Orchestra was formed for him in 1937, an

43、d he conducted it until his retirement in 1954. NBC Symphony Orchestra Para. 3, Line 5: a radio orchestra established by David Sarnoff of the National Broadcasting Company especially for conductor Arturo Toscanini. The NBC Symphony performed weekly radio concert broadcasts with Toscanini and other c

44、onductors and served as house orchestra for the network, beginning November 13, 1937 and continuing until 1954 Johnny Carson Para. 3, Line 7: 1925 2022, host of TVs The Tonight Show for nearly 30 years, from 1962 to 1992. His popularity was so great that he was inducted into the Television Hall of F

45、ame in 1987, years before his retirement. preempt the airways from California Para. 3, Lines 7-8 “ preempt” : take the place of of, have precedence over “ the airways” : the scheduled radio and TV programs in proximity to Para. 6, Last sentence: close to. E.g.: The sum is in close proximity to the a

46、mount of revenue. Frederick Law Olmsted Para. 8, Line 9: 1822 1903, U.S. landscape architect called the founder of American landscape architecture and the nations foremost parkmaker by the National Park Service. measure up Para. 9, Line 4: prove capable or fit, meet requirements. E.g.: If she doesnt

47、 measure ll just have to leave. up to the job, sheIvy League Para. 9, Line 5: an association of 8 universities and colleges in the northeast United States, comprising Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. Alfred Kazin Para. 9, Line 8: 1915

48、 1998, U.S. literary critic. His sweeping historical study of modern American literature, On Native Grounds 1942, won him instant recognition. Much of his criticism appeared in Partisan Review, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. John Sebastian Bach Para. 9, Line 9: 1685 1750, the most renowned me

49、mber of a distinguished family of German musicians and composers, is considered one of the greatest composers in history. His most famous works include The Brandenberg Concertos 勃蘭登堡協(xié) 奏曲 , Well-Tempered Clavier 十二平均律曲集 and Art of the Fugue賦格的藝術(shù) . SoHo: a neighborhood in the Manhattan borough of New

50、York City. In the 1840s and 1850s, it was an area with more bars and brothels than anywhere else in the city. In the mid-20th century, artists began to move in. Seeking to identify their group geographically, they consulted a city Planning Commission map that described the area as South of Houston,

51、Houston being Houston Street. This was shortened to SoHo, the group voted to call itself the SoHo Artists Association and the name for the neighborhood stuck. catchy jingles: Examples like Wrigley s Doublemint Gum: “ Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun” ; McDonalds: You Deserve a Break Today World

52、 A Coke ”“ ; Coca-Cola Company: Id Like to Buy The expense-account : an arrangement whereby certain expenses of an employee in connection with his work are paid for by his employer. feed on: live on. E.g.: Bats fly at night and feed on insects. play host to: receive and entertain. E.g.: The harbor i

53、s busy night and day, within a year playing host to freighters from more than 30 countries and regions. Ellis Island: small island in Upper New York Bay former examination center for immigrants seeking to enter the US. reckon with: take into account. E.g.: The third-party movement is a force to be r

54、eckoned with during the primaries. jarring juxtapositions “ jarring ” : conflicting, colliding jar: affect in a disagreeable way. E.g.: The iron gate jarred when he opened it. “ juxtaposition ” : positioning together, side-by-side position. 5.4.3Grammar 5.4.4Sentence analysis Para. 1: NY has fallen.

55、 how the mighty has fallen Para. 1, Lines 3-4: from the Bible. Composed by King David to grieve over the death of Jonathan and Saul. “How the mighty have fallen in battle. Jonathan lies slain on your heights. Para. 2: New York isn t the top anymore. Para. 3: New York is not a pacesetter architecture

56、, leisure industry, sports Para. 4: There are many other better cities than New York. Para. 5: Why many Europeans call New York their favorite city. Para. 6: Multifaceted life in New York. Para. 7: My feeling towards New York. Para. 8: Natures pleasures are much qualified in New York. Para. 9: Why I came