新世纪英语专业综合教程(第二版)第4册Unit6(试用版)教学内容ppt课件.ppt

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1、Unit 6Unit 6A FRENCH FOURTH A FRENCH FOURTH Watch the video and answer the following questions.1. Why did Denise hit Paul? Audiovisual supplementCultural informationBecause Paul said that his father was stupid. Because no matter what, one does not hit people and Denise should know better than that.

2、2. Why do you think Xu Datong insists on Denise apologizing to Paul? It is no big deal. Kids will make it up themselves.3. Whats Pauls father, Quinlins attitude towards the matter? Audiovisual supplementCultural information4. What do you think are the differences in educating children between Chines

3、e and the Americans?open-ended. Audiovisual supplementCultural informationFrom The Gua-Sha Treatment Jian Ning:Denise: Jian Ning: Xu Datong: Quinlin: Xu Datong:Denise: Xu Datong: Quinlin: Xu Datong: Audiovisual supplementCultural informationDenise, why did you hit Paul?He hit me too.It doesnt matter

4、. You dont hit people. You know better than that. Denise, I want you to apologize to Paul. Its no big deal. Yes, it is. Come on, apologize to Paul. Going to win. Say youre sorry. The kids are fine; they make up. Let it go. Come on. Count three. One two two and half Audiovisual supplementCultural inf

5、ormation(Denise spit on Paul and Li Datong hit Denise on the head.) Jian Ning: Xu Datong:Denise: Datong!Say that youre sorry. He said that youre stupid. Li Datongs father: 当面教子背后教妻，啊？当面教子背后教妻，啊？ceremonies, and various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and tradition

6、s of the United States. 1. Independence Day Audiovisual supplementCultural information In the United States, Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kin

7、gdom of Great Britain. Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, picnics, concerts, baseball games, political speeches andOn June 14, 1777, in order to establish an official flag for the new nation, the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act: “Res

8、olved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.”Audiovisual supplementCultural information2. American Flag For more than 200 years, the American flag has been th

9、e symbol of the nations strength and unity. Its been a source of pride and inspiration for millions of citizens. Audiovisual supplementCultural informationToday the flag consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, seven red alternating with six white. The stripes represent the original thirteen colonie

10、s, the stars represent the fifty states of the Union. The colors of the flag are symbolic as well: Red symbolizes Hardiness and Valor, White symbolizes Purity and Innocence and Blue represents Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice. In this text, the author discusses the costs and benefits of living in

11、 a foreign culture. He also points out that globalization is diminishing the divide between cultures. Structural analysis General analysis Rhetorical features(Paragraphs 10 12): The author talks about the effect of globalization, and argues that globalization has produced more negative than positive

12、 effects on cultural diversity. Part I (Paragraphs 1 3): The author describes his way of celebrating his home countrys National Day, i.e. the Independence Day of the United States. This text talks about the cultural influence of a foreign culture on expatriated families. It can be divided into three

13、 parts.Part II (Paragraphs 4 9): The author makes a contrastive analysis of the costs and benefits of the expatriated people. Part III Structural analysis General analysis Rhetorical features The author of this text follows a “specific-to-general” pattern in his discussion, i.e. he first talks about

14、 what it means to his children to hang out the national flag of their native land in a foreign country on July 4th every year and then expresses his view on the importance for expatriated people in general to keep their cultural identity, especially when the whole world is undergoing a process of gl

15、obalization. The specific points can be found in his discussion of the costs and benefits of raising children in a foreign culture in Paragraphs 4 9 while the general conclusion can be found in Paragraphs 10 12, especially Paragraph 12.Structural analysis General analysis Rhetorical features1 Along

16、about this time every year, as Independence Day approaches, I pull an old American flag out of a bottom drawer where it is folded away folded in a square, I admit, not the regulation triangle. Ive had it a long time and have always flown it outside on July 4. Here in Paris it hangs from a fourth-flo

17、or balcony visible from the street. Ive never seen anyone look up, but in my minds eye an American tourist may notice it and smile, and a French passerby may be reminded of the date and the occasion that prompt its appearance. I hope so.Detailed readingA FRENCH FOURTHCharles TrueheartDetailed readin

18、g2 For my expatriated family, too, the flag is meaningful, in part because we dont do anything else to celebrate the Fourth. People dont have barbecues in Paris apartments, and most other Americans I know who have settled here suppress such outward signs of their heritage or they go back home for th

19、e summer to refuel.3 Our children think the flag-hanging is a cool thing, and I like it because it gives us a few moments of family Q&A about our citizenship. My wife and I have been away from the United States for nine years, and our children are eleven and nine, so American history is mostly somet

20、hing they have learned or havent learned from their parents. July 4 is one of the times when the American in me feels a twinge of unease about the great lacunae in our childrens understanding of who they are and is prompted to try to fill the gaps. Its also a time, one among many, when my thoughts t

21、urn more generally to the costs and benefits of raising children in a foreign culture.Detailed readingDetailed reading4 Louise and Henry speak French fluently; they are taught in French at school, and most of their friends are French. They move from language to language, seldom mixing them up, witho

22、ut effort or even awareness. This is a wonderful thing, of course. And our physical separation from our native land is not much of an issue. My wife and I are grateful every day for all that our children are not exposed to. American school shootings are a good object lesson for our children in the f

23、ollies of the society we hold at a distance.Detailed reading5 Naturally, we also want to remind them of reasons to take pride in being American and to try to convey to them what that means. It is a difficult thing to do from afar, and the distance seems more than just a matter of miles. I sometimes

24、think that the stories we tell them must seem like Aesops (or La Fontaines) fables, myths with no fixed place in space or time. Still, connections can be made, lessons learned.Detailed reading6 Last summer we spent a week with my brother and his family, who live in Concord, Massachusetts, and we too

25、k the children to the North Bridge to give them a glimpse of the American Revolution. We happened to run across a reenactment of the skirmish that launched the war, with everyone dressed up in three-cornered hats and cotton bonnets. This probably only confirmed to our goggle-eyed kids the make-belie

26、ve quality of American history.Detailed reading7 Six months later, when we were recalling the experience at the family dinner table here, I asked Louise what the Revolution had been about. She thought that it had something to do with the man who rode his horse from town to town. “Ah”, I said, satisf

27、action swelling in my breast, “and what was that mans name?” “Gulliver?” Louise replied. Henry, for his part, knew that the Revolution was between the British and the Americans, and thought that it was probably about slavery. Detailed reading8 As we pursued this conversation, though, we learned what

28、 the children knew instead. Louise told us that the French Revolution came at the end of the Enlightenment, when people learned a lot of ideas, and one was that they didnt need kings to tell them what to think or do. On another occasion, when Henry asked what makes a person a “junior” or a “II” or a

29、 “III”, Louise helped me answer by bringing up kings like Louis Quatorze and Quinze and Seize; Henry riposted with Henry VIII.9 I cant say I worry much about our childrens European frame of reference. There will be plenty of time for them to learn Americas pitifully brief history and to find out who

30、 Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt were. Already they know a great deal more than I would have wished about Bill Clinton.Detailed reading10 If all of this resonates with me, it may be because my family moved to Paris in 1954, when I was three, and I was enrolled in French schools for most of m

31、y grade-school years. I dont remember much instruction in American studies at school or at home. I do remember that my mother took me out of school one afternoon to see the movie Oklahoma! I can recall what a faraway place it seemed: all that sunshine and square dancing and surreys with fringe on to

32、p. The sinister Jud Fry personified evil for quite some time afterward. Cowboys and Indians were an American clich that had already reached Paris through the movies, and I asked a grandparent to send me a Davy Crockett hat so that I could live out that fairy tale against the backdrop of gray postwar

33、 Montparnasse.Detailed reading11 Although my children are living in the same place at roughly the same time in their lives, their experience as expatriates is very different from mine. The particular narratives of American history aside, American culture is not theirs alone but that of their French

34、classmates, too. The music they listen to is either “American” or “European,” but it is often hard to tell the difference. In my day little French kids looked like nothing other than little French kids; but Louise and Henry and their classmates dress much as their peers in the United States do, thou

35、gh with perhaps less Lands End fleeciness. When I returned to visit the United States in the 1950s, it was a five-day ocean crossing for a months home leave every two years; now we fly over for a week or two, although not very often. Virtually every imaginable product available to my childrens Ameri

36、can cousins is now obtainable here.Detailed reading12 If time and globalization have made France much more like the United States than it was in my youth, then I can conclude a couple of things. On the one hand, our children are confronting a much less jarring cultural divide than I did, and they ha

37、ve more access to their native culture. Re-entry, when it comes, is likely to be smoother. On the other hand, they are less than fully immersed in a truly foreign world. That experience no longer seems possible in Western countries a sad development, in my view.Detailed readingWhy does the author ha

38、ng the American flag from his fourth-floor balcony in Paris? (Paragraph 1)He does it for two reasons. First, as an American living in Paris, he does not want to forget his native heritage and flag-hanging is the only thing he can do to celebrate Independence Day. Second, he wants to use the flag-han

39、ging as a special means to teach his children about American history and as a reminder of their American identity. Detailed readingThe author has kept the old flag for a long time. Why didnt he get a new one? (Paragraph 1) The text does not tell us explicitly, but it is very likely that this flag wa

40、s brought to Paris from the U.S. a long time ago. To the author, the old flag is a better reminder of his home country than a new one. Detailed readingWhat are the costs and benefits of raising children in a foreign culture? (Paragraph 4) According to the author, it is difficult for children to unde

41、rstand and identify the virtues of their native country without living in it, so they need to go back to their native country to make up for the ineffective family education. But the practice of raising children in a foreign culture has its merits. For example, it helps the children to acquire the n

42、ew culture without being exposed to the disadvantages of their native culture. Detailed readingDetailed readingWhy do the author and his family go back home for the summer? (Paragraph 5) As expatriates, they have little access to the traditional culture of their motherland. So they go back home to t

43、race the heritage of Americans. In addition, because their children are reared up in a completely foreign culture, they have the obligation to teach their children the culture and history of their motherland. Detailed readingWhat are the differences between the author and his children as expatriates

44、 at about the same age? What causes the differences? (Paragraph 910) They are different in both behavior and mentality. His children are quite like their French peers in behavior and dress style, while when the author was a child he was quite different from his French peers. These differences are du

45、e to the rapid social changes and cultural merging that have been happening all over the world. The world is becoming a huge melting pot in which different cultures are mixing up. Detailed readingWhy does the author say the development is sad? (Paragraph 12) Because globalization becomes the keynote

46、 of life in the world today. Cultures are merging with each other; distinctions between different cultures are becoming blurred. Children cannot tell the exact differences between their own culture and other cultures and it is impossible for them to relive the authors experience of living in a forei

47、gn culture. This kind of development of cultural globalization is a sad thing in the authors view. fold away: fold into a smaller, neater shape for easy storage e.g. These camping chairs can be folded away and put in the trunk. The piece of paper was folded away carefully and tucked into her purse.

48、foldaway (i.e., collapsible) bed/iron board Detailed readingregulation: a. in accordance with the regulations; of the correct or designated type Detailed readinge.g. As we walked along the street, we could see the noisy cheerful group of people in regulation black parade tunics. He had the short reg

49、ulation haircut of a policeman.prompt: v. cause or bring about an action or feeling e.g. The Times article prompted him to call a meeting of the staff. My choice was prompted by a number of considerations.Detailed readingDerivation:prompt n. prompt a. promptly ad. refuel: v. Detailed readinge.g.The

50、authorities agreed to refuel the plane. 1) supply a vehicle with more fuel e.g.In a society of intense competition, people have to refuel every year . 2) take on a fresh supply of knowledge, information, etc. twinge: n. e.g.John felt a twinge of fear when he saw the officer approaching. Detailed rea