高级英语1(何兆熊-史志康)-unit2课件.ppt（纯ppt,不包含音视频素材）

1、Unit 2 Neat People vs.Sloppy People新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材（修订版）高级英语新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材（修订版）高级英语1 1电子教案电子教案3Detailed ReadingContents24516Warm UpGlobal Reading Consolidation ActivitiesText Appreciation Further EnhancementSection 1:Warm Up Look at the two pictures.Think of words which you can use to describe

2、 the states of the rooms.messy,sloppy,untidy,disorderly,dirty,unclean,unorganized neat,tidy,orderly,clean,organized Lead-inBackground Information Section 1:Warm Up1.Which room would you like to work in?2.What is your room like?3.Look at another picture and tell what the picture implies.4.Does Suzann

3、e Britt,author of the text were going to study,think in the same way?Lead-inBackground Information Section 1:Warm UpLead-inBackground Information The picture implies that sloppiness is a moral problem,not just a problem of habit,for sloppy people are also“evil”people.Section 1:Warm Up About the Auth

4、or Suzanne Britt:A poet and essayist,and Assistant Professor of English.Suzanne Britt was born in Winston-Salem,North Carolina.She earned her bachelors degree from Salem College and her masters degree from Washington University.Britt currently teaches literature and writing courses at Meredith Colle

5、ge in North Carolina.Background Information Lead-inSection 1:Warm Up A prolific writer,Britts poems have appeared in quite a few literary magazines;her essays and articles have appeared in various newspapers and magazines,including Newsweek,The New York Times and The Boston Globe.Some of them have a

6、lso been widely reprinted in college textbooks.Britt is author of several books,including Show and Tell(1982),and A Writers Rhetoric(1988).She also advises The Meredith Herald and The Colton Review.Background Information Lead-inSection 2:Global Reading What is the text mainly about?Structural Analys

7、is Main Idea Through a comparison of the peculiarities of sloppy people and neat people in their daily life,the author is trying to convince the readers of the argument that the main distinction between the two types of people is a moral one,and furthermore,sloppy people are even morally superior to

8、 neat people.Section 2:Global Reading Please divide the text into 3 parts and summarize the main idea of each part.Structural Analysis Main IdeaPart I(Paragraph 1)Introduction In Paragraph 1,the author introduces the topic of the text and presents her opinion that“neat people are lazier and meaner t

9、han sloppy people”.Structural Analysis Main IdeaPart III(Paragraphs 6-12)Description of Neat People Paragraphs 6-12 concentrate on the description of neat people.In these paragraphs,neat people are portrayed as cold-blooded,ruthless and very practical.Part II(Paragraphs 2-5)Description of Sloppy Peo

10、ple Paragraphs 2-5 focus on sloppy people who are portrayed as having a high moral standard and ambitious plans.Besides,they are also described as“giving loving attention to every detail”.Section 2:Global ReadingSection 3:Detailed Reading1 Ive finally figured out the difference between neat people a

11、nd sloppy people.The distinction is,as always,moral.1 Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.2 Sloppy people,you see,are not really sloppy.2 Their sloppiness is merely the unfortunate consequence of their extreme moral rectitude.3 Sloppy people carry in their minds eye a heavenly visio

12、n,a precise plan,that is so stupendous,so perfect,it cant be achieved in this world or the next.Neat People vs.Sloppy PeopleQUESTIONSection 3:Detailed Reading3 4 Sloppy people live in Never-Never Land.Someday is their mtier.Someday they are planning to alphabetize all their books and set up home cat

13、alogs.Someday they will go through their wardrobes and mark certain items for tentative mending and certain items for passing on to relatives of similar shape and size.Someday sloppy people will make family scrapbooks into which they will put newspaper clippings,postcards,locks of hair,and the dried

14、 corsage from their senior prom.Someday they will file everything on the surface of their desks,including the QUESTIONSection 3:Detailed Readingcash receipts from coffee purchases at the snack shop.Someday they will sit down and read all the back issues of The New Yorker.4 For all these noble reason

15、s and more,sloppy people never get neat.They aim too high and wide.5 They save everything,planning someday to file,order,and straighten out the world.But while these ambitious plans take clearer and clearer shape in their heads,the books spill from the shelves onto the floor,the clothes pile up in t

16、he hamper and closet,the family QUESTIONSection 3:Detailed Readingmementos accumulate in every drawer,the surface of the desk is buried under mounds of paper and 6 the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling.5 7 Sloppy people cant bear to part with anything.They give loving attention to every

17、 detail.When sloppy people say theyre going to tackle the surface of the desk,they really mean it.8Not a paper will go unturned;not a rubber band will go unboxed.Four hours or two weeks into the excavation,the desk looks exactly the same,primarily because the sloppy person is meticulously creating n

18、ew piles of papers with newSection 3:Detailed Readingheadings and scrupulously stopping to read all the old book catalogs before he throws them away.A neat person would just bulldoze the desk.6 9 Neat people are bums and clods at heart.They have cavalier attitudes toward possessions,including family

19、 heirlooms.Everything is just another dust-catcher to them.10 If anything collects dust,its got to go and thats that.Neat people will toy with the idea of throwing the children out of the house just to cut down on the clutter.QUESTIONSection 3:Detailed Reading7 Neat people dont care about process.Th

20、ey like results.What they want to do is get the whole thing over with so they can sit down and watch the rasslin on TV.Neat people operate on two unvarying principles:Never handle any item twice,and throw everything away.8 The only thing messy in a neat persons house is the trash can.The minute some

21、thing comes to a neat persons hand,he will look at it,try to decide if it has immediate use and,finding none,throw it in the trash.Section 3:Detailed Reading9 11 Neat people are especially vicious with mail.They never go through their mail unless they are standing directly over a trash can.If the tr

22、ash can is beside the mailbox,even better.All ads,catalogs,pleas for charitable contributions,church bulletins and money-saving coupons go straight into the trash can without being opened.All letters from home,postcards from Europe,bills and paychecks are opened,immediately responded to,then dropped

23、 in the trash can.Neat people keep their receipts only for tax purposes.Thats it.12No sentimental salvaging of birthday cards or the last letter aSection 3:Detailed Readingdying relative ever wrote.13 Into the trash it goes.10 14 Neat people place neatness above everything,even economics.They are in

24、credibly wasteful.Neat people throw away several toys every time they walk through the den.I knew a neat person once who threw away a perfectly good dish drainer because it had mold on it.The drainer was too much trouble to wash.And neat people sell their furniture when they move.They will sell a La

25、-Z-Boy recliner while you are reclining in it.Section 3:Detailed Reading11 15 Neat people are no good to borrow from.Neat people buy everything in expensive little single portions.They get their flour and sugar in two-pound bags.They wouldnt consider clipping a coupon,saving a leftover,reusing plast

26、ic nondairy whipped cream containers or rinsing off tin foil and draping it over the unmoldy dish drainer.You can never borrow a neat persons newspaper to see whats playing at the movies.16 Neat people have the paper all wadded up and in the trash by 7:05 A.M.QUESTIONSection 3:Detailed Reading12 17

27、Neat people cut a clean swath through the organic as well as the inorganic world.People,animals,and things are all one to them.They are so insensitive.After theyve finished with the pantry,the medicine cabinet,and the attic,they will throw out the red geranium(too many leaves),sell the dog(too many

28、fleas),and send the children off to boarding school(too many scuff-marks on the hardwood floors).QUESTIONACTIVITYSection 3:Detailed ReadingDoes the article have an effective beginning?Why or why not?(Paragraph 1)Paragraph 1 proves itself a very effective beginning.Instead of drawing a conclusion at

29、the end of the comparison,the author presents it at the beginning in a blunt and unexpected manner.The conclusion has completely overthrown the traditional opinions of the two types of people.Therefore,the beginning succeeds in arousing the readers interest.Section 3:Detailed ReadingWhy does the aut

30、hor repeat the word“someday”so many times?(Paragraph 3)The parallel sentences beginning with the same word“someday”can emphasize the truth that more justifications can hardly be found for the behavior of sloppy people in their present life except offering some beautiful hope that all such will be co

31、mpensated for by their future plans.Section 3:Detailed ReadingWhat rhetorical device does the author employ in such sentences as“They save everything,planning someday to file,order,and straighten out the world”and“the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling?”(Paragraph 4)Hyperbole is used in

32、these sentences to exaggerate the rigidness and impracticability of sloppy people in their life.Section 3:Detailed ReadingWhat is the function of the sentence“A neat person would just bulldoze the desk”in terms of the text structure?(Paragraph 5)The sentence serves as a transition from the descripti

33、on of sloppy people to neat people in the following paragraphs.Section 3:Detailed ReadingWhy are neat people no good to borrow from?(Paragraph 11)Neat people buy anything in expensive little amount and throw away anything theyve used.They dont have anything left that people can borrow from them.Sect

34、ion 3:Detailed ReadingWhat do neat people look like in others mind?What makes the author think that the difference between neat people and sloppy people is moral?(Paragraph 12)They are insensitive and cold-blooded.According to the author,a more humane relationship is reflected in the behavior of slo

35、ppy people.For neat people,the primary concern in their life is to establish a neat but cold and inhuman order even at the expense of the warm and friendly relationship between them and their belongings.Therefore,the author thinks the distinction between the two types of people is moral.Section 3:De

36、tailed ReadingClass Discussions1)Describe two people you know who have very different approaches to being neat and organized.Explain what it is like to be with each of them.2)How would you describe the household in which you grew up?In what ways were your parents very organized?In what areas were th

37、ey disorganized?Section 3:Detailed Readingsloppy:a.careless;untidye.g.a sloppy piece of worksloppy workmanship Section 3:Detailed Readingrectitude:n.honesty and moral uprightnesse.g.strive for rectitude and righteousnessSection 3:Detailed Readingin ones minds eye:in ones imagination or mental viewe.

38、g.Each person as he comes upon the scene is described for us so that we may see him in our minds eye.Section 3:Detailed Readingstupendous:a.of astounding force,volume,degree,or excellence;marvelouse.g.a stupendous error/achievement stupendous sums of moneyTransformation:stupendously ad.stupendousnes

39、s n.Section 3:Detailed ReadingTranslate the following sentences.1)The roar of the explosion was stupendous.（=爆炸声震耳欲聋。）爆炸声震耳欲聋。）2)多愚蠢的行为！多愚蠢的行为！（=What stupendous follies!）Practice:Section 3:Detailed ReadingNever-Never Land:The term“never-never land”,originated in J.M.Barriers Peter Pan,now usually re

40、fers to something dismissiveused when someone is dreaming unrealistically about a utopian future.“Going to Never-Never Land”can also mean going to sleep,or,more darkly,dying.Never-Never Land is a real place,though.The name was first recorded in the late 19th century,describing the uninhabited region

41、s of Australiathen called just“The Never-Never”.The more remote outback regions of the Northern Territory and Queensland are still known by that name.Section 3:Detailed Readingmtier:n.an occupation,a trade,or profession,work or activity for which a person is particularly suitede.g.This was assuredly

42、 not my mtier.Hes found his mtier at last.Synonym:callingSection 3:Detailed Readingalphabetize:v.arrange in alphabetic orderPractice:Translate the following sentences into Chinese.1)The listings are arranged by state and are alphabetized by city.（=表中项目按州编排，以各个城名的字母顺序排列。）表中项目按州编排，以各个城名的字母顺序排列。）2)Plea

43、se alphabetize the documentation by the names of the authors in the bibliography.（=请将索引中的文献书目按作者的姓名字母顺序排列。）请将索引中的文献书目按作者的姓名字母顺序排列。）Section 3:Detailed Readingscrapbook:n.a book with blank pages used for the mounting and preserving of pictures,clippings,or other mementosSection 3:Detailed Readingcorsa

44、ge:n.a small bouquet of flowers worn by a woman at the shoulder or waist or on the wriste.g.a corsage of orchids Section 3:Detailed Readingprom:n.a formal dance held for a high-school or college class typically at or near the end of the academic yearSection 3:Detailed Readingstraighten:v.make or bec

45、ome straighte.g.He helped him straighten his tie.Collocation:straighten up:make ones body straight or upright,especially after one has been bending or droopinge.g.He straightens up,combs his hair and walks into the meeting.Section 3:Detailed Readinge.g.Itll take six weeks to get things straightened

46、out.A legal contract does help to straighten out the mess when things go wrong.straighten out:make organized or tidy Section 3:Detailed Readingtake shape:assume a distinct form;develop into sth.definite or tangiblee.g.The past months have seen the states insurance legislation begin to take shape.Sec

47、tion 3:Detailed Readinghamper:n.a large basket,usually with a cover,used usually for carrying food in,or clothes to be washed(as in the context)e.g.We packed a big wicker hamper and went for a picnic.Section 3:Detailed Readingmemento(pl.mementoes or mementos):n.a reminder of the past;a keepsakee.g.t

48、he Presley napkin,a memento of the singers farewell concertone of the precious mementoes of his Presidency Synonym:souvenir,keepsakeSection 3:Detailed Readingexcavation:n.sorting out things meticulouslyTransformation:excavate v.dig(When people excavate a piece of land they remove earth carefully fro

49、m it and look for very old things such as pots,bones,or buildings which are buried there,in order to discover information of the past.)e.g.The project has excavated and partially restored the hilltop fort.Section 3:Detailed Readingmeticulously:ad.carefully and exactlye.g.The arrangements were planne

50、d meticulously.Synonym:precisely,fastidiously,painstakinglyTransformation:meticulous a.giving or showing great attention to detailse.g.a meticulous young manmeticulous observation of wild animalsHe had prepared himself with meticulous care.Section 3:Detailed Readingscrupulously:ad.carefully,conscien