高級英語love and hate New York教案.doc

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 America"s biggest; its most e_citing; its business and cultural capitals; the nation"s trendsetterNew York is the most populous city in the United States.It is America"s business and cultural capital,and the nation&qu

6、ot;s trendsetter.As a leading 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 world"s largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a state co

7、unty.(2)ManhattansAs a center 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

8、 and off Broadway,to shopping 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 T

9、rade CenterThe original World 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 i

10、n the middle of New Yorks 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 world"s b

11、usiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world"s 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 Manhatt

12、an.Over time, the term has bee a metonym for 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 E_change, the world"s largest stock e_change by market capitalization of its listed panies.Several other majo

13、r e_changes have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area, 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 world"s principal financial centers.（7）Ivory League schools常

14、春藤高校聯(lián)盟Brown University,Colombia University,Cornell 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

15、,it actually runs 24kmthrough Manhattan and the Bron_,e_iting 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.(9)Tin Pan AlleyA district associated with mu

16、sicians, posers, and publishers of popular 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 U

17、K is Denmark Street in London.(10)Brief Introduction of Thomas GriffithThomas 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

18、 their mother died.He graduated from Roosevelt High School(羅斯福高中）in 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 t

19、he UW School of munications" 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 ne_t year and stayed for th

20、ree decades, retiring in 1972 as 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 “

21、house liberal”.He was also a staff contributor to Fortune magazine and columnist of Atlantic 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 Skeptic"s Guide to Believing

22、the News (1974).The Waist-High Culture (1959 ):American culture.5.4Detailed e_planation of te_t5.4.1Vocabularypathetic (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.H

23、e"s been bragging about his new car.bush (Para.1, Line5): second-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 ruinholdout (Para.2, Last sentence): a place that holds out, that continue

24、resistance, not yielding to the trend and fashionpacesetter (Para.3, Line 1): a person, group, or thing 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 mar

25、kedly different types thrown together by circumstance and occupying 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 lause, they are marked by verbal sparring and rapidly resolved confl

26、icts.Nashville (Para.3, Line 8): capital of Tennessee State and center of and country music rock-and-roll.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 u

27、s of all our money.frivolous (Para.5, Line 8): silly, trivialbilling (Para.6, Line 6): advertising, promotionjostle (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

28、and a pilgrimage site for all devout believers of the faith.qualify (Para.8, Line 1): limit, modify, restricttint (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

29、(Para.8, Line 6): having a sharply uneven outline or surfacegamely (Para.8, Line 7): courageously, bravelyencroach (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

30、 sentence): Final celebration before the fasting and austerity of Lent in some Roman Catholic regions, 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

31、 too often, mon.E.g.: a banal remarkconstrict (Para.10, Line 4): restrict the freedom of, presssqualor (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 midto

32、wn Manhattan centered on Broadway.precinct: neighborhood, surrounding areabohemian: 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 th

33、ey prefer their art or their learning to lesser goods.fringe: outside boundaryboutique: a shop that sells 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,

34、supportingcondescend: deal with people in a patronizing superior manner, lower oneselfmalleable: easily 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

35、in advertisingscruple: uneasiness, hesitation.E.g.: He has absolutely no scruples; he"ll 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

36、a room which does not adjoin the other rooms, but is set apart in a corner by itself.amenity: sth.that contributes 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 dressin

37、g room beside the sea or a swimming pool.Please see the pictureantiseptically:antiseptical: thoroughly clean, 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 o

38、ffices of an old friend, a post with a publishing firm which, though not highly paid, he found more congenial.bracing: refreshing, e_citingencase: enclose in a casefleeting: lasting for a very brief timetaunt: reproaching, ridiculemongrel: a cross between different breeds, groups or varieties.tumult

39、uous: turbulent, noisy, wildinitiation: beginning, entry.turf: area claimed by a gangforbearance: tolerance 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, inv

40、igorate, cause to feel hily energetic.E.g.: We were e_hilarated by the cool, pine-scented air.5.4.2Termsthe 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 1

41、970s is due to a promotional caign by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau,known now as NYC & pany.out 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

42、分母，an attribute that is mon to all members of a category more inspired architecturally (Para.3, Lines 2-3): more 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, pian

43、o, and position.He began his professional life as a cellist.Principally known for his readings of V erdi"s operas and Beethoven"s 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 reti

44、rement in 1954.NBC Symphony Orchestra (Para.3, Line 5): a radio orchestra established by David Sarnoff of theNational Broadcasting pany especially for conductor Arturo Toscanini.The NBC Symphony performed weekly radio concert broadcasts with Toscanini and other conductors and served as house orchest

45、ra for the work, beginning November 13, 1937 and continuing until 1954 Johnny Carson (Para.3, Line 7): 192520_5, host of TV"s 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 retir

46、ement.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 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 (Pa

47、ra.8, Line 9): 18221903, U.S.landscape architect called "the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation"s foremost parkmaker" 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, she

48、ll just have to leave.Ivy League (Para.9, Line 5): an association of 8 universities and colleges in the northeast United States, prising Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.Alfred Kazin (Para.9, Line 8): 19151998, U.S.literary critic.His

49、sweeping historical study of modern American literature, On Native Grounds (1942), won him instant recognition.Much of his criticism eared in Partisan 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 Ge

50、rman 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, 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 York City.In the 1840s and 1850s, it was an

51、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 mission map that described the area as "South of Houston", "Houston" being Houston Stre

52、et.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 Doublemint Gum: “Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun”; McDonalds: "You Deserve a Break Today“; Coca-Cola pany: &qu

53、ot;I"d 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 at night and feed on insects.play host to: receive and entertain.E.g.: The harbor is busy night a

54、nd 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.reckon with: take into account.E.g.: The third-party movement is a force to be reckoned with duri

55、ng 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-side position.5.4.3Grammar5.4.4Sentence analysisPara.1: NY has fallen.how the mighty has fallen (Par

56、a.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 anymore.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