Lesson 1 Another School Year—What For?
Aims:
1.Get the students to read and understand the text and help them master the structures of the patterns;
2.Get the students to master the words and the prefixes and suffixes presented; 3.Help them master the grammatical rules presented;
4.Help them finish off all the exercises both in vocabulary and in grammar.
Main Points: Understanding the text and learning the words and grammar. Difficult Points: The structures of difficult sentences.
Teaching Methods: Discussion, interpretation and explanation.
Teaching Course:
I. Pre-class Task: To read and get familiar with the new words in the lesson.
Previewing the text. Every student should go over the whole text so that they can get the main idea and write the gist. II. Detailed study of the text.
1. to be fresh out of: be having recently finished 2. body: a group of people who work together 3. to reach for: try to obtain
To read: to have … written on it
4. Question: What’s the difference between training and education? 5. … be around long enough for it to matter.
Paraphrase: stay at college very long to understand my words, so it would not be important whether or not I told him all this.
6. to average out to/at…: (informal) to result in an average amount 7. to hold: to remain the same
8. to see to it that: to make sure that 9. … doesn’t go to the electric chair…
Paraphrase: is sentenced to death not because you are not a competent lawyer. To go to the electric chair: to be punished or killed on the electric chair. 10. along with: in addition to; as well as
Sentence meaning: In addition to all other things the professional skills offer. 11. … may it always suffice.
I hope your income will always be enough.
12. reasonably: to a degree that is fairly good 还好的，尚可的 13. to maintain some contact with…: to keep in touch with…
14. Will there be a painting a reasonably sensitive man can look at without shuddering?
Paraphrase: Will you have a painting in your house that shows your taste? 15. to be out to do/be out for… : be trying to do 16. to be stuck for sth. : not knowing what to do
17. signing checks: paying for what you’ve bought by signing checks.
18. the best human minds: the best philosophers, scientists and writer. 19. If you have no time for…have no business in college.
Paraphrase: If you don’t want to study a little literature, philosophy and the fine arts and history, you shouldn’t be here at college. 20. You are on your way … button Neanderthal.
You’ll soon become a new type of humans who are uneducated and can only operate machines by pushing the buttons.
21. …rather the college went through them—without making contact.
Paraphrase: It’s more accurate to say that they pass through the college without learning anything.
22. …being unaided: without the help of others
23. There is not time enough … in order to be a civilized human.
Paraphrase: One lifetime is too short to create an environment for a person to become civilized.
24. …there cut into the stones are the names of the scientists.
Paraphrase: The names of the scientists are carved into the stone there as memorials.
25. the chances are: it is likely
III. Assignment: Exercises after the text. IV. Checking the exercises.
V. Dictation of the new words in the lesson.
Lesson 2 Maheegun My Brother
Aims:
1. Get the students to read and understand the text and help them master the structures of the patterns;
2. Get the students to master the words and the prefixes and suffixes presented; 3. Help them master the grammatical rules presented;
4. Help them finish off all the exercises both in vocabulary and in grammar.
Main Points: Understanding the text and learning the words and grammar. Difficult Points: The structures of difficult sentences.
Teaching Methods: Discussion, interpretation and explanation.
Teaching Course: I. Pre-class Task: To read and get familiar with the new words in the lesson.
Previewing the text. Every student should go over the whole text so that they can get the main idea and write the gist. II. Detailed study of the text. 1. … spring was late in coming.
Paraphrase: it was so cold that it seemed that it were the weather of winter. In fact, it was spring.
2. to get: to put … into a place or state 3. not that: although it is not true that
4. ever: that I had ever known of. 5. upset: (v.) knock over, knock down 6. …waiting for things to quiet down.
Paraphrase: waiting until my grandma wasn’t angry 7. half grown: on the way of becoming an adult wolf. 8. Gone was the puppy-wool… black mantle.
Paraphrase: His fur changed from the puppy-wool to beautiful and black hair. (Here the author uses metaphor. He compares the wolf’s skin to a coat and mantle.) 9. after: (adv.) later
10. It all served to fog my mind with pleasure … one night Maheegun unchained. Paraphrase: I was so happy with Maheegun that my alertness slacked and forgot to chain him one night.
11. The following morning in sailed Mrs. Yesno, wild with anger
Wild with anger: very angry
12. start: (n.) a sudden uncontrolled movement 13. wild cry: natural and strong cry 14. for life: all one’s life
15. (all) for the best: best for the long run 16. I was as busy as … for the winter.
Paraphrase: I was busy with preparing myself for a future career. (The author uses simile here.)
17. It was not long after that I found the answer.
Paraphrase: Soon I found Maheegun still remembered me. 18. to slip into: to put on
19. I circled to my right … creek bed.
Paraphrase: I move around to the right and fell into a creek bed that was filled with snow.
20. … the snow had made a blank … have been no creek there.
Paraphrase: it was snowing heavily, and the air was so thick with big snow flakes that I couldn’t see through them. But I realized that I had taken the wrong direction, because there was no creek where I should have moved to. 21. to blow itself out: to lose force and stop entirely
22. A great white stillness had taken over and with it, biting cold.
Paraphrase: The storm had stopped. The white world was quiet and very cold. 23. … freeze the world with fear.
Paraphrase: seemed to terrify all the living creatures and make them become still. 24. Suddenly the world exploded in snarls.
Paraphrase: Suddenly with terrible snarls, the wolves began to attack. 25. to work one’s way: to move difficultly and gradually 26. … reached out: stretch out his tongue. 27. Maybe it was relief or weakness or both.
Paraphrase: Maybe I cried because I was now out of danger, or maybe because I was weak, or because of both of the two reasons. 28. … fanned it into life.
Paraphrase: caused it to burn by blowing the fire. 29. … my eyes came … by my bed.
Paraphrase: my eyes adjusted themselves to be able to see clearly my grandfather sitting by my bed.
30. He is with his own kind.
Paraphrase: He is living among his fellow wolves. III. Assignment: Exercises after the text. IV. Checking the exercises. V. Dictation of the new words in the lesson.
Lesson 3 More Crime and Less Punishment
Aims:
1. Get the students to read and understand the text and help them master the structures of the patterns;
2. Get the students to master the words and the prefixes and suffixes presented; 3. Help them master the grammatical rules presented;
4. Help them finish off all the exercises both in vocabulary and in grammar.
Main Points: Understanding the text and learning the words and grammar. Difficult Points: The structures of difficult sentences.
Teaching Methods: Discussion, interpretation and explanation.
Teaching Course: I. Pre-class Task: To read and get familiar with the new words in the lesson.
Previewing the text. Every student should go over the whole text so that they can get the main idea and write the gist. II. Detailed study of the text. 1. households: people living together
2. to amount to: to add up to; to be equal to 3. … have arrest records for nontraffic offence.
Paraphrase: have been arrested because of illegal actions which don’t include breaking traffic rules.
4. correctional supervision: (a euphemism) a kind of punishment, such as reform school
5. to lock sb. away: to put sb. in prison
6. This is why the certainty and … the crime rate goes up.
Paraphrase: This is why not all crimes are punished and the punishment is less severe although the crime rate increases. 7. to give out: to announce, to enforce
8. property crimes: crimes of stealing, mugging (打劫) or robbery 9. … but it just might be the other way around.
the other way around/round: the opposite situation
Paraphrase: but the opposite might be true: crime prevents punishment. 10. Our current crop … who were once imprisoned in Alcatraz.
Paraphrase: The present prisoners are much more serious law-breakers than the prisoners of the country in the years between 1930s and 1960s. 11. … it makes little/no sense… : it is not sensible or reasonable.
12. … answer the TV message: It’s 10 o’clock! Do you know where your children are?”
Paraphrase: make sure they are all home at 10 o’clock in the evening. 13. The other are rejected or dismissed … instead of punishment.
Paraphrase: The other three arrested criminals’ cases are refused or stopped because there isn’t sufficient evidence or no witness can be found. Or instead of being put into prison, these criminals are sent elsewhere for medical treatment (when they can produce proof for illness of some kind.)
14. the select few: the few criminals who are carefully chosen 15. to be easy on: to treat … in a gentle way and not too severe 16. Yet when measured against the lower crime rates …
To measure sth./sb. against sth./sb. : to judge sb./sth. by comparing them with another person or thing
Paraphrase: But when longer prison sentences are compared with the lower crime rates.
17. … are not worth the cost to state and local governments.
Paraphrase: are not worthwhile because state and local governments have to pay much money for this. 18. given: specific
19. … we do know the extent … major crime convictions.
Paraphrase: We do know how many of those people under parole are convicted and put into jail again for serious crime. 20. … only 15000 crimes prevented.
Paraphrase: If those prisoners were kept in prison for another year, only 15000 crimes would be prevented.
21. a drop in the bucket: an amount of sth. that is too small to be important. 22. This works out to more than $100, 000 per crime prevented.
Paraphrase: This means that it costs more than $100, 000 to prevent one crime. III. Assignment: Exercises after the text. IV. Checking the exercises. V. Dictation of the new words in the lesson.
Lesson 4 The Nightingale and the Rose
Aims:
1. Get the students to read and understand the text and help them master the structures of the patterns;
2. Get the students to master the words and the prefixes and suffixes presented; 3. Help them master the grammatical rules presented;
4. Help them finish off all the exercises both in vocabulary and in grammar.
Main Points: Understanding the text and learning the words and grammar.
《现代大学英语精读2》教案(lesson 1-11)
