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1、高級英語love and hate New York教案1.Teaching plan1.1Teaching aims and demands(1)To familiarize students with e_pository writings(2)To familiarize students with American culture mentioned in the te_t(3)To enable students to reciate the writing style of the te_t1.21.32.Key points and Special difficulties(1)

2、Words and e_pressions (for details see the te_t)(2)Writing Style (E_pository writing)(3)Background knowledges(New York,Manhattan,The big le,Ivory League schools)3.Teaching methods3.1munication roach交際法3.2Behaviorism 行為3.3Consructivism 建構(gòu)4.Teacher asking questions about the contents of the te_t(1)In

3、what fields can New York no longer be regarded as the leading American city?(2)What are its deficiencies as a pacesetter?(3)Why do many Europeans call New York their favorite city?(4)Why do many young people still go to New York?(5)Does the writer really both love and hate New York?Cite e_les to bac

4、k up you analysis.(6)Why is New York called an international metropolis?5.Teaching procedures5.1Review5.2Lead-in“If you love him, bring him to New York, for its heaven; if you hate him, bring him to New York, for its hell.”Beijingers in New York5.3Culture points and background knowledge(1)The Big le

5、-New York“Big le”; “City that Never Sleeps”: a city of superlatives Americas biggest; its most e_citing; its business and cultural capitals; the nations trendsetterNew York is the most populous city in the United States.It is Americas business and cultural capital,and the nations trendsetter.As a le

6、ading global city,New York e_erts a significant impact upon merce, 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.(2)ManhattansAs a center

7、of culture and merce,Manhattan is a hotbed of activity with an unending list of things to see and to do.Residents and visitors alike cant help but tape into the e_citement and energy surrounding them from dining at restaurant in Union Square,to seeing dynamic theater on and off Broadway,to shopping

8、in NoLita or on the East Village.From Battery Park downtown to the Cloisters uptown,there are diversions everywhere worth discovering.Its hard to believe so much energy and activity fits into this small island,a mere 23.7 square miles(or 61.4aquare kilometers)（3）World Trade CenterThe original World

9、Trade Center was a ple_ with seven buildings featuring landmark t towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States.The ple_ opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 20_1 during the September 11 attacks （4）Central ParkCentral Park is a beautiful green oasis in the middle of New Yorks conc

10、rete desert.It is surprisingly big ,with lakes and woods ,as well organized recreation areas（5）Times Square-時報(bào)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 major cen

11、ter of the worlds entertainment industry.（6）Wall StreetWall 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 bee a metonym for the finan

12、cial markets of the United States as a whole, or signifying New York-based financial interests.It is the home of the New York Stock E_change, the worlds largest stock e_change by market capitalization of its listed panies.Several other major e_changes have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area

13、, including NASDAQ, the New York Mercantile E_change, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock E_change.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,Cornell University, Dar

14、tamouth 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 the Bron_,e_iting nort

15、h 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.(9)Tin Pan AlleyA district associated with musicians, posers, and publishers of popular music.The term was coin

16、ed 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.(10)Brief Introduction of Thomas Gri

17、ffithThomas Griffith was born in Taa, Washington on December 30, 1915, and died in New York City in 20_2.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 from Roosevelt High School(羅斯福高中）i

18、n 1932, much later he was named outstanding graduate at the schools 50th anniversary celebration.As a student at the University of Washington(華盛頓大學(xué)）, Mr.Griffith met his future wife, Caroline Coffman Griffith.In 1975, he was awarded the UW School of munications Alumni Award for Achievement.Griffith

19、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 ne_t year and stayed for three decades, retiring in 1972 as editor of Life magazine.During that tim

20、e, 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 contributor to Fortune magazine and columnist of Atlant

21、ic Monthly.He was an uprooted westerner who called New York homeHis works:Harry and Teddy: the Turbulent Friendship of Henry and his Favorite Reporter, Teddy(1995).How True: A Skeptics Guide to Believing the News (1974).The Waist-High Culture (1959 ):American culture.5.4Detailed e_planation of te_t5

22、.4.1Vocabularypathetic (Para.1, Line 3): pitiful, lamentable,brag (Para.1, Line 4): talk with e_cessive 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): second-rate.E.g.: Reviewers here have t

23、ended 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 ruinholdout (Para.2, Last sentence): a place that holds out, that continue resistance, not yielding to the trend and fashionpacesetter (Para.3, Line 1): a person, group, or thin

24、g that leads the way or serves as a model sits (Para.3, Line 6): Radio or television edy 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 occupying a shared environment such as an ap

25、artment building or workplace.Typically half an hour in length and either taped in front of a studio audience or employing canned lause, they are marked by verbal sparring and rapidly resolved conflicts.Nashville (Para.3, Line 8): capital of Tennessee State and center of and country music rock-and-r

26、oll.eback (Para.4, Line 3): return to some previously successful activity.E.g.: The old actor made a successful eback after twenty years.bilk (Para.5, Line 8): cheat, defraud, sdle.E.g.: He bilked us of all our money.frivolous (Para.5, Line 8): silly, trivialbilling (Para.6, Line 6): advertising, pr

27、omotionjostle (Para.6, Last sentence): push and shoveMecca (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 believers of the faith.qualify (Para.8, Line 1): limit, modify, r

28、estricttint (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 showilyjagged (Para.8, Line 6): having a sharply uneven outline or surfacegamely (Para.8, Line 7): courageously, bra

29、velyencroach (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 fasting and austerity of Lent in some Roman Catholic regions,

30、 festival or revelbeckon (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): recreationbanal (Para.10, Line 2): repeated too often, mon.E.g.: a banal remarkconstrict (Para.10, Line 4): restrict the freedom of, presssqualor

31、 (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 Broadway.precinct: neighborhood, surrounding areabohemian: a person with arti

32、stic 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 learning to lesser goods.fringe: outside boundaryboutique: a shop that se

33、lls womens clothes and jewelryinvoke: use, lydeplore: regret strongly, show strong disroval of.E.g.: Somehow we had to master events, not simply deplore them.(Henry A.Kissinger).ancillary: helping, supportingcondescend: deal with people in a patronizing superior manner, lower oneselfmalleable: easil

34、y controlled, easily influenced.turnstile: Please see the right picturecynicism: an attitude of scornful negativity, esp.a general trust of others.hype: e_cessive publicity, e_aggerated claims made in advertisingscruple: uneasiness, hesitation.E.g.: He has absolutely no scruples; hell do anything to

35、 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 which does not adjoin the other rooms, but is set apart in a corner by itself.amenity: sth.that contr

36、ibutes to physical or material fort.E.g.: A sauna in the hotel would be a useful amenity.tawdriness: tasteless shoessastir: moving about, being in motion.cabana: a small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.Please see the pictureantiseptically:antiseptical: thoroughly clean

37、, free from disturbanceenclave: an enclosed territoryhassle: angry disturbance, disorderly fighting, turmoilcongenial: friendly, sociable.E.g.: In the ne_t year he obtained, through the good offices of an old friend, a post with a publishing firm which, though not highly paid, he found more congenia

38、l.bracing: refreshing, e_citingencase: enclose in a casefleeting: lasting for a very brief timetaunt: reproaching, ridiculemongrel: a cross between different breeds, groups or varieties.tumultuous: turbulent, noisy, wildinitiation: beginning, entry.turf: area claimed by a gangforbearance: tolerance

39、and restraint, patience.E.g.: I have shown enough forbearance toward him.e_asperate: irritate, infuriate.E.g.: She was e_asperated at his stupidity.e_hilarate (Para.22, Line 3): stimulate, invigorate, cause to feel hily energetic.E.g.: We were e_hilarated by the cool, pine-scented air.5.4.2Termsthe

40、Big le (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 popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional caign by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau,known now as NYC & pany.ou

41、t of phase (Para.2, Line 3): also “out of sync”, unsynchronized, uncoordinated.mon Denominator Land (Para.2, Last sentence): a place with no unique quality of any kind “mon denominator”: 公分母，an attribute that is mon to all members of a category more inspired architecturally (Para.3, Lines 2-3): more

42、 e_cellent in architecture as to suggest divine inspirationArturo Toscanini (Para.3, Line 5): 18671957, Italian conductor.Toscanini entered a conservatory at age nine, studying cello, piano, and position.He began his professional life as a cellist.Principally known for his readings of V erdis operas

43、 and Beethovens symphonies, he also gave remarkable performances of the music of Richard Wagner.The NBC Orchestra was formed for him in 1937, and he conducted it until his retirement in 1954.NBC Symphony Orchestra (Para.3, Line 5): a radio orchestra established by David Sarnoff of theNational Broadc

44、asting pany especially for conductor Arturo Toscanini.The NBC Symphony performed weekly radio concert broadcasts with Toscanini and other conductors and served as house orchestra for the work, beginning November 13, 1937 and continuing until 1954 Johnny Carson (Para.3, Line 7): 192520_5, host of TVs

45、 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 Fame 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”: t

46、he scheduled radio and TV programsin pro_imity to (Para.6, Last sentence): close to.E.g.: The sum is in close pro_imity to the amount of revenue.Frederick Law Olmsted (Para.8, Line 9): 18221903, U.S.landscape architect called the founder of American landscape architecture and the nations foremost pa

47、rkmaker by the National Park Service.measure up (Para.9, Line 4): prove capable or fit, meet requirements.E.g.: If she doesnt measure up to the job, shell just have to leave.Ivy League (Para.9, Line 5): an association of 8 universities and colleges in the northeast United States, prising Brown, Colu

48、mbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.Alfred Kazin (Para.9, Line 8): 19151998, U.S.literary critic.His sweeping historical study of modern American literature, On Native Grounds (1942), won him instant recognition.Much of his criticism eared in Partis

49、an Review, The New Republic, and The New Yorker.John Sebastian Bach (Para.9, Line 9): 16851750, the most renowned member of a distinguished family of German musicians and posers, is considered one of the greatest posers in history.His most famous works include The Brandenberg Concertos （勃蘭登堡協(xié)奏曲, Wel

50、l-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 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 ge

51、ographically, they consulted a city Planning mission map that described the area as South of Houston, 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: E_les like Wrigleys Doubl

52、emint Gum: “Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun”; McDonalds: You Deserve a Break Today“; Coca-Cola pany: Id Like to Buy The World A Coke”e_pense-account : an arrangement whereby certain e_penses of an employee in connection with his work are paid for by his employer.feed on: live on.E.g.: Bats fly

53、 at night and feed on insects.play host to: receive and entertain.E.g.: The harbor is 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 e_amination center for immigrants seeking to enter the US

54、.reckon with: take into account.E.g.: The third-party movement is a force to be reckoned with during the primaries.jarring ju_tapositions “jarring”: conflicting, colliding jar: affect in a disagreeable way.E.g.: The iron gate jarred when he opened it.“ju_taposition”: positioning together, side-by-si

55、de position.5.4.3Grammar5.4.4Sentence analysisPara.1: NY has fallen.how the mighty has fallen (Para.1, Lines 3-4): from the Bible.posed 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 isnt the any

56、more.Para.3: New York is not a pacesetter (architecture, 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

57、are much qualified in New York.Para.9: Why I came to and lived in New YorkPara.10: Why many young came to New York.Para.11: New York judges.Para.12: Admen set the tone yet see the public impersonally.Para.13: Lack of cynicism among the younger people and that of clear boundary between serious and po

58、pular arts.Para.14: Freedom and loneliness characterize New York.Para.15: New York is wounded yet not dying.Para.16: New Yorkers prefer New York and whyPara.17: New Yorkers only want to live in New York.Para.18: What in New York attract New Yorkers.Para.19: New York is a mongrel city.Para.20: New Yo

59、rk is another UN.Para.21: New York is a city of diversity and contrast.Para.22: Loving and hating New York alternate.5.4.5Writing skillsE_pository writingCentral theme: 1st sentence of the last paragraph (Loving and hating New York bees a matter of alternating moods, often in the same day.)1-5paragr

60、aphs: general introduction the present status of NY city in the US and in the eyes of foreigners(1) NY has fallen.(Para.1)(2) NY isnt the anymore(3) NY isnt a pacesetter anymore (Para.2)(4) NY isnt a “good”city.(5) eal of NY: charged, nervous atmosphere, vulgar dynamismLast sentence of Para.5: Trans

61、itionPara.6 the end: objective and emotional description of NY, the life and struggle of New Yorkers.More on love for NY and few on hatred for NY.5.4.6Students ask teacher questions(10)6.Activities conducted which are related to the contents of the te_ts6.1 Discussion(36.2 Peers6.3 Speech(3s6.4 Deba

62、tes(2s6.5 Presentation(3items6.6 Dubbing6.7 Language Party6.8 Talk show6.9 Body language7.Consolidation8.Reflection or assessment8.1 Teacher and students8.2 Peers8.3 Group A.B.C.9.Homework9.1 Oral9.2 WritingWrite a position talking about Mianyang e_pressing your likes and dislikes(500words)10.Referential books(1-311.Suggestion to teachers teaching(1-3第 18 頁 共 18 頁