新世纪大学英语综合教程n2-unit2
New Century College English (Book II)
Unit Two The Value of Life
I. Teaching Objectives
1. Learn about using vivid words for vivid pictures.
2.Grasp the key words, Phrases and structure. 3.Master the skills of writing and reading in this unit.
II. Teaching Content
1. Lead-in activities 2. Text Organization
3. Language points ( key words, phrases and difficult sentences)
4. Grammar Focus ( verbs and passive voice)
III. Teaching Process
1.Warm-up Activity A) Discussion
1). How do most of us view life and death? 2). How do most of us view our faculties? 3). How should we live each day?
4). How should we make use of our faculties and senses?
B). Proverbs and quotations 1). We walk by faith, not by sight. 2). Learning is the eye of the mind.
3). One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. — Curie, Polish physicist
4). Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.
— Nixon, American President
5). The highest result of education is tolerance. — Helen Keller, American Writer
2.Text Organization
Part1 (para1-4) Most of us take life for granted. The author suggests that we live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciations as we should die tomorrow. Part2 (para5-10) We should also make full use of our faculties and senses so as to live a fuller and richer life.
3. Language Points
1) (Para. 1) All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live.
What is the usage of “thrilling”, “limited” and “specified” here?
(=They are -ing and -ed forms of verbs used as adjectives. In the –ing case the noun being modified is the doer of the action and in the -ed case the noun being modified is the often the receiver of the action.)
2). (Para. 3) We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. (1). What does the word “which” refer to here?
(=A gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation.)
(2). Why do most of us lose the gentleness,
the vigor and the keenness of
appreciation?
( = Because day after day, time seems to be endless in our life.)
(3). Translate this sentence into Chinese. (= 每一天我们都应该怀着柔情, 充满活力, 心存感激, 而这些在来日方长时却常被我们所忽视。)
3). (Para. 4) So we go about our petty tasks,
hardly aware of our listless attitude towards life.
（1). What does this sentence imply? (= We spend our life on meaningless
things, but never realize that we are so indifferent to the true value of life.) （2). Translate this part into Chinese.
(=所以我们忙于琐事， 几乎不曾意识到自己对生活的态度有多么冷漠。) 4). (LL 28~ 30) Particularly does this
observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life.
What rhetorical device is used in this
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