Unit 6 The Telephone教案(綜英二)

1、精選文庫Unit 6一、授課時(shí)間：第1314周二授課類型：課文分析10課時(shí)；習(xí)題講解2課時(shí)三授課題目：The Telephone四授課時(shí)數(shù)：12五教學(xué)目的和要求：通過講授課文使學(xué)生了解作者以一個(gè)兒童的眼光和心理，通過大量事實(shí)描述了電話這一現(xiàn)代通訊工具給一個(gè)地處黎巴嫩山區(qū)小村莊的生活方式帶來的影響，學(xué)會(huì)用英語解釋句子以達(dá)到學(xué)以致用的目的。要求學(xué)生主動(dòng)地預(yù)習(xí)課文，課前準(zhǔn)備練習(xí)，學(xué)會(huì)分析文章體裁和進(jìn)行段落劃分。六教學(xué)重點(diǎn)和難點(diǎn)：1）背景知識(shí)的傳授：Chickenpox; Whooping Cough; Communion2）文章的體裁分析及段落劃分；3）語言點(diǎn)的理解：Word study: amid

2、; bustling; chime; congregate; crank; curse; deli; desolate; devout; divine; drill; escalate; shun; wriggle; wringGrammar Focus: the patterns of concessive clauses七教學(xué)基本內(nèi)容和綱要Part One Warm up1.1 Warm-up Questions1. How would you sum up this piece of writing in one sentence? What is it about?2. Why do

3、you think the author gives the title “The Telephone”? What is the significance of the telephone in this narration?3. What was the authors village like originally? What specific aspects did the author touch upon to give a vivid picture of this traditional society?Part Two Background Information2.1 Au

4、thor 2.2 Kacula, Seffen-ub, and BebsiPart Three Text Appreciation3.1 Text Analysis3.1.1 Theme of the text 3.1.2 Structure of the text3.2 Writing Devices3.2.1 contrast3.2.2 metaphor3.2.3 parallelism3.2.4 paradox3.3 Sentence ParaphrasePart Four Language Study4.1 Phrases and Expressions 4.1.1 Word list

5、:4.1.2 Phrases and expressions list: 4.1.3 Word Building4.2 Grammar 4.2.1 Object Part Five Extension5.1 Group discussion5.2 Debating 八、教學(xué)方法和措施本單元將運(yùn)用黑板、粉筆、多媒體網(wǎng)絡(luò)輔助教學(xué)設(shè)備等教學(xué)手段，主要采用以學(xué)生為主體、教師為主導(dǎo)的任務(wù)型、合作型等教學(xué)模式，具體運(yùn)用教師講授法、師生討論、生生討論等方法進(jìn)行教學(xué)。九作業(yè)，討論題，思考題完成課后練習(xí)；多看英語報(bào)刊雜志及英語經(jīng)典小說，擴(kuò)大閱讀量；精聽與泛聽相結(jié)合，逐步提高自己的聽力水平；積極參加英語角等有助于

6、提高英語口語的活動(dòng)；堅(jiān)持用英語寫日記；做一些專四相關(guān)練習(xí)；十參考資料：1) 楊立民主編,現(xiàn)代大學(xué)英語精讀（4）第二版，學(xué)生用書。北京：外語教學(xué)與研究出版社,2012。2) 楊立民主編,現(xiàn)代大學(xué)英語精讀（4）第二版，教師用書。北京：外語教學(xué)與研究出版社,2012。3) 李觀儀主編，新編英語教程（第三、四冊(cè)）。上海:上海外語教學(xué)研究出版, 1999。4) 黃源深，虞蘇美等主編，綜合英語教程（1-4冊(cè)）。北京：高等教育出版社，1998。 5) 高等學(xué)校英語專業(yè)英語教學(xué)大綱，北京：外語教學(xué)研究出版社，2000。6) Judy Pearsall主編，新牛津英語詞典。上海：上海外語教育出版社，1998。7

7、) 丁往道、吳冰等編著，英語寫作手冊(cè)。北京：外語教學(xué)與研究出版社。8) 張道真，現(xiàn)代英語用法詞典（重排本）。北京：外語教學(xué)與研究出版社，1994。9) 張道真，溫志達(dá), 英語語法大全上、下卷。北京：外語教學(xué)與研究出版社，1998。十一、課后小結(jié)Unit 6 The TelephonePart One Warm up1.1 Warm-up Questions1. How does the installation of the telephone change the village and the life of all the villagers? Are the changes posit

8、ive? Does it make everybody happy in the village?2. Why do you think the author chooses to use the first person in the narration and gives this narration from a childs point of view? Is he writing this piece for children? Is he writing in a humorous vein because he has no other purpose than amusing

9、readers?3. How do you like this text? Any comments? Any criticisms? This kind of traditional society is dead and gone. Why do these writers keep trying to take us to the past? Does it serve any useful purpose apart from satisfying our idle curiosity?Part Two Background Information2.1 Author Anwar F.

10、 Accawi was born in Lebanon in a family whose ancestors are believed to have gone to Jerusalem in the “Crusades.” While he was teaching English at the University of Beirut, he married an American from Tennessee. When the civil war broke out in Lebanon, they were forced to leave the country and settl

11、e in the United States. Anwar F. Accawi became a teacher of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.2.2 CommunionIt refers to the religious ceremony in which believers eat bread and drink wine as symbols of Christs body and blood to remember the Last Supper of Jesus Christ.Part Three Text

12、Appreciation3.1 Text Analysis3.1.1 Theme of the text 1) The text describes, from a boys perspective, how the telephone affected peoples way of life in a Lebanese mountain village: It broke the seclusion of the village.2) The text raised us a question: what attitude we should adopt toward new things,

13、 whether we should welcome them or boycott them.Plot: The coming of telephone brought some changes into a small village, both personally and socially.Setting: social setting: in the early 20th century before the process of modernization story setting: in the village in LebanonProtagonist: “I”when th

14、e author was young3.1.2 Structure of the textI. Life in the village before it had a telephone (paras. 1-10)A. How the village kept track of time in the past (paras. 1-8)B. What happened in the year of the drought (paras. 9-10)II. The installation of the first telephone in the village (paras. 11-18)A

15、. How the villagers came to decide to have a telephone (para. 11)B. What sensation and curiosity the installation created (paras. 12-18)III. Effects of the telephone on the life of the villagers (paras. 19-25)A. How the village center shifted (paras. 19-22)B. How and why a lot of people left the vil

16、lage (paras. 23-25)Relevant questions:Q1: What was the overall picture of the this village before the telephone arrived? What specific details did the narrator give to present this picture? A: from its geographical location; (Para. 1) from the detailed description; (Paras. 13) from the carefully-cho

17、sen words Q2: What do you make of the fact that the people in the village had no calendar and clock and had no need for them? What kind of society is it that does not need so much to keep track of the hours, days, months, and years?A: Not industrialized countryside. Everything is slow and there is n

18、o need to hurry.Q3: What can we infer from the fact that the roof of the mayors house caved in under the heavy snow?A: Snow was usually heavy. It was a good sign of heavy snow. Q4: How did the people there keep track of the important events in their lives?A: The important events were always remember

19、ed with time marked by the mentioning of earthquakes, droughts, floods, locusts, and pestilences Q5: What interesting things happened the year of the drought which the narrator remembered so vividly as a boy?A: Arguments escalated into full-blown, knockdown-drought fights for water. Q: What impressi

20、on did you get about the life in the small village according to the text?A: The very traditional countryside society.Q: Retell the normal life in the small village.Q1: Why did the narrator say that it was one of the worst years for him? What happened?A: Magdaluna decided to install its own telephone

21、. Q2: Why does the author introduce the subject of the telephone so late in the article? Does it indicate poor organization and lack of coherence on the part of the author?Q3: Why did the narrator think the telephone installment was a big event?Well-chosen words to describe peoples reaction to the t

22、elephone installment.Q4: Where had the village center been in the past? A: The home of Im KaleemHer appearance: short, middle-aged, black-haired, with a loud unpleasant voiceHer character: generous, understanding, sensibleHer role: confessor, good listener, pressure-reliever and troubleshooterQ5: Wh

23、ere was it now?A. At Abu Rajas home where the telephone was installed. Why? no longer contented with their way of life; hungry for news from the outside worldQ6: What changes happened to the narrator as a boy? Why?The coming of the telephone ended his role as the message boy.Q7: What other changes t

24、ook place in the village?Many people were leaving the village for big cities or foreign countries to find jobs and better life.Result: the village reduced to a skeleton of its former self.Q: What was the narrators feeling toward the changes?1. From the point of view of language and style, this story

25、 deserves our close attention particularly on the following points:a. The authors careful and clever choice of examples for bringing out his key ideasb. The clever way of hiding significant messages in a seemingly childish narrationc. The clever humorous touchesd. The skillful uses of figures of spe

26、eche. The clever use of words that give a strong local colorf. The skillful way of repeating words and sentence patterns to achieve the effect of describing a traditional society and life where things happen without any change3.2 Writing Devices3.2.1 Typical Narrative Techniques the use of figure of

27、 speech with a local flavor (The most striking narrative technique in the essay )We knew what to do and when to do it, just as the Iraqi geese knew when to fly north, driven by the hot wind that blew in from the desert. (Para. 1) the two important-looking men from the telephone company, who proceede

28、d with utmost gravity, like priests at communion, to wire up the telephone. (Para. 13)I wriggled my way through the dense forest of legs to get a firsthand look at the action. (Para. 1)Her house was an island of comfort, an oasis for the weary village men, exhausted from having so little to do. (Par

29、a. 1) they were ready to toss back and forth, like a ball, the latest rumors going around the village. (Para.1)Magdaluna became a skeleton of its former self, desolate and forsaken, like the tombs, a place to get away from. (Para. 1)3.2.2 paradoxa situation or statement that seems strange or impossi

30、ble because it contains two ideas that are both trueExamples:He was shocked by the poverty in the midst of affluence.She was a devout Catholic and also the village whore.He is vain about not being vain.Her house was an oasis for the weary village men, exhausted from having so little to do.All mother

31、s know that they sometimes have to be cruel to be kind.The more we possess, the more we are possessed.No belief is in itself a belief.3.3 Sentence Paraphrase1. time didnt mean much to anybody, except maybe to those who were dying.The villagers didnt think time was important until perhaps when they w

32、ere dying.2. In those days, there was no real need for a calendar or a watch to keep track of the hours, days, months, and years.keep track of: to keep oneself informed about a person, situation, etc. cf. lose track of: to fail to remain informedExamples:They try hard to keep track of their favorite

33、 stars.He loses track of time whenever he surfs the Net. 3. Para. 2But ours was a natural or, rather, a divine-calendar, because it was framed by acts of God: earthquakes and droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences. We used natural disasters to keep track of time and of the important events

34、in our lives. This was a natural calendar though it is more accurate to say a divine calendar, for sunrise and sunset, the change of seasons, and earthquakes and droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences were all works of God.4. Para. 4 that caused the roof on the mayors house to cave in. (of

35、roof or wall) to fall down or inward; to collapse that caused the mayors house roof to collapse.5. Para. 7 You couldnt be more accurate than that, now, could you? (spoken) used for giving emphasis to a request, order, or commentBe careful, now. (order)Now, whats going on here? (request)Its marvelous

36、, now isnt it? (comment)6. Para. 8 And thats the way it was in our little village for as far back as anybody could remember. And thats how we kept track of the important events in our little village to the extent that/ for as long as the oldest people could remember.7. because men who would not lie

37、even to save their own souls told and retold that story until it was incorporated into Magdalunas calendar.to save their lives; until the event became one of the things by which we kept track of the important events in our lives.This shows, to some extent, the way of thinking of the villagers in tho

38、se days when honesty prevailed. They trusted honest people and didnt seek any proof for what had been said about past events.incorporate sth. (into): to add or include sth. as part of sth. elseExamples:The company decided to incorporate the new feature into their microcomputer.A number of courses in

39、 public relations have been incorporated into our curriculum.8. There was, for instance, the year of the drought, when the heavens were shut for months and the spring from which the entire village got its drinking water slowed to a trickle.It didnt rain for months as if the sky were shut tight; Grad

40、ually there was only a small amount of water coming slowly out of the spring.9. to: used for stating what condition or state sb. or sth. is after a changeThe ancient temple has been restored to its former glory.The disease has reduced the patient to a bag of bones.10. Para. 9 their napping men and w

41、et babies their husbands who were taking a nap and their babies who were breast fedCultural Note: Men in Arab countries, especially in the countryside, usually dont do any housework.11. Para. 10 And sometimes the arguments escalated into full-blown, knockdown-dragout fights.in the most complete and

42、developed form; (AmE.) very violent or uncontrolledAnd sometimes the arguments became so fierce that the women began to fight violently.12. Para. 10 call each other names that made my ears tingle to abuse them by insulting words the words they used when they were quarreling were so offensive that we

43、 little boys felt uncomfortable13. Para. 10 I remember the rush, the excitement, the sun dancing on the dust clouds as a dress ripped and a young white breast was revealed, then quickly hidden.Some women were fighting furiously creating dust clouds. The sun was moving quickly on the dust when a youn

44、g womans dress was torn open and her breast exposed. We little boys would rush to steal a glance before it was hidden again. I still remember the excitement I felt at such moments.14. Magdaluna was not going to get anywhere until it had one. Magdaluna wouldnt achieve any success without a telephone.

45、 15. to get anywhere/somewhere/nowhere: to make some/no progress or have some/no successHave you got anywhere in your project?Youll surely get somewhere if you persist in it.Losing your temper wont get you anywhere with them.16. But they were outshouted and ignored and finally shunned by the other v

46、illagersthose for the telephone were louder (or stronger) than the others in their argumentsBut the majority of the villagers were for the telephone, and they wouldnt listen to those few people who were finally deliberately avoided for resisting progress.17. when the loud voices of the men talking,

47、laughing, and arguing could be heard in the street belowa reassuring, homey sound.a sound that makes you feel less worried and that is in a pleasant way and reminds you of home18. the signal that they were ready to toss back and forth, like a ball, the latest rumors going around the village. this sh

48、owed that now they were ready to exchange the latest news.19. The telephone was also bad news for me personally. It took away my lucrative businessa source of much-needed income.used humorously to exaggerate the boys disappointment at his lossFor the boy the coming of the telephone deprived him of t

49、he opportunity to earn some money. 20. On a good day, I ran nine or ten of those errands, which assured a steady supply of marbles that I usually lost to other boys.to make sth. certain to happenExample:Strength and good tactics assured his success at the Asian Games.When I was lucky, I got nine or

50、ten errands to run a day. With the money I earned I could buy new marbles so that I always had an adequate number to play with, although I usually lost them to other boys.21. Magdaluna became a skeleton of its former self, desolate and forsaken, like the tombs, a place to get away from.With the heal

51、thy, the young, and the able-bodied all gone, Magdaluna was not what it had been. The house, the streets and the store were there, but they were no longer alive with laughter and the loud voices of the men talking, laughing, and arguing. It became a much-deserted place, a place to escape from, like

52、a graveyard or cemetery.Part Four Language Study4.1 Phrases and Expressions 4.1.1 Word list:1. droppings; fish-bearing; flare; forcefully; forsaken; full-blown; grapple; hailstorm; heel; hide-and-seek; homey; incorporate; jet-black; knockdown4.1.2 Phrases and expressions list: 1. terraced fields; 2. rocky mountains; 3. whooping cough; 4. surrounding villages; 5. a clearing in the wood; 6. fine dust; 7. goat droppings; 8. sticky hands; 9.