1、Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEENTERLesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEI.Text Analysis 1.Theme 2.Structure 3.DiscussionII.Writing Devices 1.Language Style&Tone 2.MetaphorIII.Sentence ParaphraseLesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEThe author tries to clarify the purpose of a un
2、iversity:to put the students in touch with the best civilization that human race has created.Theme The end of Theme.Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEPart 1(Paras.1 ):Part 2(Paras.):Structure8914The writer describes his encounter with one of his students.The author restates what he still bel
3、ieves to be the purpose of a university:putting its students in touch with the best civilizations the human race has created.The end of Structure.Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWE DiscussionAs a college student,what do you think of the question put forward by the author?Give your own answer
4、 to the question,and compare it with the authors.After finishing reading the whole text,how do you evaluate the authors answer?To be continued on the next page.Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWETo be continued on the next page.IntroductionHe introduces the topic with his encounter with a stu
5、dent and with two questions:Why should we go to university?Why should we learn literature,arts,philosophy,politics,etc.?Then he proceeds to give evidence to support his view:Evidence A:distinction between technical training and universityEvidence B:How to spend the 8 hours of leisure time will decid
6、e whether you are capable of penetrating insight,whether you can be democratic,tasteful and above all,whether you can raise a civilized family.How does the writer present his argument?Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEThe end of Discussion.Answer/topic sentence:the business of the college is
7、 to put you in touch with what the best human minds have thought.Evidence C:Nobody gets to be a human being unaided,and books can aid us in becoming a civilized human,both in terms of techniques of mankind,and in terms of spiritual resources.Conclusion Reiteration and summary:the function of univers
8、ity and its faculty.Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWELanguage Style&ToneThe end of Language Style&Tone.Style:Colloquial,familiar style Tone:Humorous and mildly sarcasticBy way of using By way of using direct speechdirect speechBy way of using By way of using metaphorsmetaphorsLesson 1 Anoth
9、er School YearWhat For?BTLWEMetaphorMetaphor:A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is u s e d t o d e s i g n a t e another,thus making an implicit comparison.Part of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class,sat down(Para.1)N
10、ew as I was to the faculty,I could have told this specimen a number of things.(Para.2)That is about what I said,but this particular pest was not interested.(Para.7)The end of Metaphor.Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWE I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the Univ
11、ersity of Kansas City.(Para.1)I had just completed my graduate studies and began teaching at the University of Kansas City.go to 2to have just come from a particular place,to have just had a particular experience,e.g.students fresh from collegeLesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEI could have p
12、ointed out that he had enrolled,not in a drugstore-mechanics school,but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science.(Para.2)Subjunctive mood:I didnt point it out in fact.go to 3I could have told him that he was now not getting training for
13、 a job in a technical school but doing a B.Sc.at a university.to intend to do sth.to indicate,register,or showLesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEHere the word education is used in a broad sense,which involves not only the process of acquiring knowledge and developing skills,but also that of i
14、mproving the mind.go to 4That is to say,he had not entered a technical training school but a university and in universities students enroll for both training and education.(Para.2)What is the difference between training and education,according to the writer?Training is preparation for a job,or a car
15、eer,such as the training in a certain skill.Education,on the other hand,is learning to develop ones mental and moral powers.Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWE“For the rest of your life,”I said,“your days are going to average out to about twenty-four hours.”(Para.4)to come to an average or or
16、dinary level or standard,esp.after being higher or lowerMore examples:Meals at the university average out to about 10 yuan per day.The restaurants monthly profits averaged out at 30%last year.go to 5Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEYou will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspiri
17、n,that the bull doesnt jump the fence,or that your client doesnt go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence.(Para.5)go to 6You have to take responsibility for the work you do.If youre a pharmacist,you should make sure that aspirin is not mixed with poisonous chemicals.As an engineer,y
18、ou shouldnt get things out of control.If you become a lawyer,you should make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to death because you lack adequate legal knowledge and skill to defend your client.Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEIn addition to all other things these professions offer,t
19、hey provide you with a living so that you can support a familywife and children.Noun clause,used as predicativego to 7Along with everything else,they will probably be what puts food on your table,supports your wife,and rears your children.(Para.5)Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEI hope that
20、 your income will always be enough.go to 8They will be your income,and may it always suffice.(Para.5)Inverted sentence,used in a blessing.e.g.May they live long!Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEgo to 9“I hope you make a lot of it,”I told him,“because youre going to be badly stuck for someth
21、ing to do when youre not signing checks.”(Para.8)Notice the sarcastic tone of the writer.If you dont have any goal in life apart from making money to satisfy your desire for material riches,go ahead and make a lot of it.not to know what to do in a particular situationLesson 1 Another School YearWhat
22、 For?BTLWEMore examples:Youve no business telling me what to do.She has no business reading your mail.go to 10If you have no time for Shakespeare,for a basic look at philosophy,for the continuity of the fine arts,for that lesson of mans development we call historythen you have no business being in c
23、ollege.(Para.9)to have no right to do sth.,shouldnt have been/be doing sth.Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEIf you are too anxious to make money,too ignorant to see your limitations,then you couldnt regard those great peoples minds as a gift to your humanity,and thus you cant be a developed
24、 human.go to 11If you are too much in a hurry,or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations,to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle,or Chaucer,or Einstein,you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy.(Para.12)“too to”structureobject of th
25、e verb“accept”Lesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWE when I say that a university has no real existence and no real purpose except as it succeeds in putting you in touch,both as specialists and as humans,with those human minds your human mind needs to include.(Para.14)“except”used as a conjuncti
26、ve,introducing an adverbial clause The end of Sentence Paraphrase.both as specialists and as humans:as persons who havespecialized and are trained in a certain subject or skill andas civilized creatures and thinking animalsLesson 1 Another School YearWhat For?BTLWEThis is the end of Part Three.Please click HOME to visit other parts.
