新視野大學(xué)英語第二冊教學(xué)課件5

1、新視野大學(xué)英語第二冊教學(xué)課件New Horizon College English Book 2 Unit 5 Stop Brain DrainBackground Information: famous universities Oxford UniversityOxford UniversityPrinceton UniversityUnited States Military Academy is a public, coeducational military college at West Point, New York, maintained by the United State

2、s Department of the Army to train and educate students to be officers in the United States Army. Women were first allowed into theacademy in 1976.U.S. Military AcademyTopic I. Major Writing Technique: Contrast Question 1. What is described in Paragraph 7?Answer: The purpose of building the education

3、al institution IIT(Para7)Question 2. What is portrayed in Paragraph 2 ?Question 3: What is the purpose of making the contrast? The contrast may be found on the paragraph level It is also possible to place both parts of the contrast in the same paragraph Question 3. What is conveyed in the 17th parag

4、raph? We should pay attention to the Signals of contrast: These signals often include:But, however, while, meanwhile, whereas, instead of, instead, on the one hand, on the other hand, etc Exercise: Please write something to show the differences between human brain and computer.II. Features of Langua

5、geFigure of SpeechA) MetaphorB)personification C)synecdoche Indias politically conscious leadership has been replaced by a new generation, riding on the wave of the Internet, Mid-sized cities like Bangalore are now the Silicon Valleys of India. As IIT can not graduate enough students to fill these n

6、eeds, every street corner now sports billboards for private academies offering certificates in computer programming. We threw Coca-Cola out and invented Thumps-Up Cola. The rhetoric of SentencesA)rhetoric questionsB) ParallelismAnd why bother rebuilding the nation when the only goal is to abandon it

7、?(Para 15) Simple Unique Languageshift gears put flowers around Bill Gates neck to wave the slogan Variety of language synonyms fall apart and disintegrate bill, legislation, act feed the appetite of the American computer industry, keep pace with demand, fill the need for skilled technology workersI

8、ndian taxpayers footed the bill, IIT graduates, educated at the expense of Indian taxpayers Work in pairs and comment on the following statements:1) The cream of India was leaving for the shores of England and America.2) We throw Coca-Cola out and invented “Thumps Up Cola”3) Few foreign graduates ca

9、me home to “pay their pledge”.Work in pairs and comment on the following statements:4) The entire education system in India has shifted gears to feed the appetite of the American Computer Industry.5) Indians now put flowers around Bill Gates neck.Assignment 1.What are the problems faced by the Indians? 2.What measures the Indian government has