大学英语第三版精读.ppt
南昌航空大学外语学院,1.About the Author and the Story,2.India,3.Cobra,Before Reading_Main,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,4.Prejudice Against Women,5.Discussion,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_1,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,About the Author and the Story,Mona Gardner,an American woman writer.The Dinner Party first appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature,Vol.25,No.5,January 31,1941.,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_India,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,1.2.3.4.5.6.,India,Location and Capital National FlagBritish Colony Mahatma GandhiThe Taj Mahal The Victoria Memorial,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_India_Location and Capital,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,Location and Capital,India,officially called Republic of India,is a country in southern Asia,located on the subcontinent of India.New Delhi is the countrys capital and one of its largest cities.,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_India_ National Flag,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,National Flag,Dark orange:courage and sacrifice.Green:faith,fertility,and chivalry.White:truth and peace.The emblem:added upon independence in 1947.It is a Buddhist dharma chakra,or wheel of life.,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_India_ British Colony,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,British Colony,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_India_ Mahatma Gandhi,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,Mahatma Gandhi(1869-1948),Indian Nationalist Leader organized the campaign of nonviolent civil resistance,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_India_ The Taj Mahal,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,The Taj Mahal,A tomb for the wife of a 17th-century Mughal emperor,constructed in the Indo-Islamic style by about 20,000 workers from 1631 to 1653 in a city in northern India.,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_India_ The Victoria Memorial,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,The Victoria Memorial,to commemorate Queen Victorias 25-year reign(1876-1901)over India.,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_Cobra,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,Cobra,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_Prejudice Against Women,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,Prejudice Against Women,南昌航空大学外语学院,Before Reading_Discussion,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,Discussion,1.2.3.,Who do you think are braver,women or men?Please give examples to support your statement.Do you have the same feeling when you see a woman screaming over an insect and a man screaming over an insect?Why or why not?Do you think women can do everything men can?Why or why not?,南昌航空大学外语学院,Globe Reading_main,1.Questions About the Text,2.Rearrange the Order of the Pictures,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,南昌航空大学外语学院,Globe Reading._Questions About the Text1,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,How many persons are mentioned in this story except the servants?Who are they?,Twenty one.They are the host,hostess and their guests.,What was the subject of the discussion between the young girl and the major?,They had a heated discussion about how women react to a crisis.,Questions About the Text(3-1),南昌航空大学外语学院,Globe Reading._Questions About the Text1,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,3.How was the American naturalist aware of the existence of a snake?,He noticed what was happening to the hostess and the boy.,Questions About the Text(3-2),南昌航空大学外语学院,Globe Reading._Questions About the Text2,Questions About the Text(3-3),Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,4.What did the American naturalist do to get over the crisis?,He said that he wanted to know how well they could control themselves and asked them to sit still until he counted up to three hundred.,5.What do you think of what the hostess did that day?,(Open-ended.),南昌航空大学外语学院,Globe Reading._Rearrange the Order of the Pictures,Rearrange the Order of the Pictures,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,3,_,2,_,5,_,1,_,4,_,6,_,南昌航空大学外语学院,After Reading_6_1,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,南昌航空大学外语学院,After Reading_6_2,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,南昌航空大学外语学院,After Reading_6_3,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,南昌航空大学外语学院,After Reading_6_4,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,南昌航空大学外语学院,After Reading_6_5,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,南昌航空大学外语学院,After Reading_6_6,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,南昌航空大学外语学院,Article_S,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,1.I first heard this tale in India,where it is told as if true though any naturalist would know it couldnt be.,2.A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they havent.,Sentence,Word,&,Sentence(4-1),南昌航空大学外语学院,Article_S,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,3.And that last ounce is what really counts.,4.As he looks,he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess.,5.She is staring straight ahead,her muscles contracting slightly.,6.The boys eyes widen:he quickly leaves the room.,Sentence(4-2),南昌航空大学外语学院,Article_S,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,7.Of the guests,none except the American notices this or sees the boy place a bowl of milk on the veranda just outside the open doors.,8.The American comes to with a start.,9.“You were right,Major!”the host exclaims.“A man has just shown us an example of perfect self-control.”,Sentence(4-3),南昌航空大学外语学院,Article_S,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,10.“Just a minute,”the American says,turning to his hostess.“Mrs.Wynnes,how did you know that cobra was in the room?”,11.Because it was crawling across my foot.,Sentence(4-4),南昌航空大学外语学院,Article_W,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,Word(2-1),track down,heated,bare,spring up,outgrow,crisis,feel like,count,argument,contract,motion,come to,南昌航空大学外语学院,Article_W,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,impulse,warn,frighten into,tone,emerge,make for,ring out,slam,hostess,faint,light up,crawl,Word(2-2),南昌航空大学外语学院,Article1-2_S_I first heard,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,I first heard this tale in India,where it is told as if true though any naturalist would know it couldnt be.Later someone told me that the story appeared in a magazine shortly before the First World War.That magazine story,and the person who wrote it,I have never been able to track down.,The Dinner Party Mona Gardner,The country is India.A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party.They are seated with their guests officers and their wives,and a visiting American naturalist in their spacious dining room,which has a bare marble floor,open rafters and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda.,Why does the author say“though any naturalist would know it couldnt be?”,Because cobras generally eat small animals such as rabbits and mice,a naturalist would tell us that milk is not a favorite food for the cobras.,南昌航空大学外语学院,Article3-5_S_A spirited,A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they havent.“A womans reaction in any crisis,”the major says,“is to scream.And while a man may feel like it,he has that ounce more of control than a woman has.And that last ounce is what really counts.”,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests.As he looks,he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess.She is staring straight ahead,her muscles contracting slightly.She motions to the native boy standing behind her chair and whispers something to him.The boys eyes widen:he quickly leaves the room.,Translate this sentence into Chinese.,席间,一位年轻的女士与一位少校展开了激烈的讨论。年轻的女士认为,妇女已经有所进步,不再像过去那样一见到老鼠就吓得跳到椅子上;少校则不以为然。,南昌航空大学外语学院,Article3-5_S_ And that,A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they havent.“A womans reaction in any crisis,”the major says,“is to scream.And while a man may feel like it,he has that ounce more of control than a woman has.And that last ounce is what really counts.”,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests.As he looks,he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess.She is staring straight ahead,her muscles contracting slightly.She motions to the native boy standing behind her chair and whispers something to him.The boys eyes widen:he quickly leaves the room.,Whats the meaning of“what really counts?”,It means“something that is really important”.,南昌航空大学外语学院,Article3-5_S_ As he looks,A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they havent.“A womans reaction in any crisis,”the major says,“is to scream.And while a man may feel like it,he has that ounce more of control than a woman has.And that last ounce is what really counts.”,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests.As he looks,he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess.She is staring straight ahead,her muscles contracting slightly.She motions to the native boy standing behind her chair and whispers something to him.The boys eyes widen:he quickly leaves the room.,Whats the meaning of“look”and“see”in this sentence?,“Look”means“to try to find something using your eyes”while“see”means“to use your eyes to look at things and know what they are”,The twins looked at each other and smiled.,I cant see a thing without my glasses!,南昌航空大学外语学院,Article3-5_S_ her muscles,A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they havent.“A womans reaction in any crisis,”the major says,“is to scream.And while a man may feel like it,he has that ounce more of control than a woman has.And that last ounce is what really counts.”,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests.As he looks,he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess.She is staring straight ahead,her muscles contracting slightly.She motions to the native boy standing behind her chair and whispers something to him.The boys eyes widen:he quickly leaves the room.,Paraphrase and analyze this part.,her muscles tightened almost unnoticeably.2)an absolute construction:v-ing,v-ed,adj.,adv.,prep phrase,or infinitive,He fell to the floor,blood streaming from his nose.,He rushed into the room,his face covered with sweat.,She entered the classroom,her nose red with cold.,The attacker entered the dark room,gun in hand.,南昌航空大学外语学院,Article3-5_S_ The boys,A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they havent.“A womans reaction in any crisis,”the major says,“is to scream.And while a man may feel like it,he has that ounce more of control than a woman has.And that last ounce is what really counts.”,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests.As he looks,he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess.She is staring straight ahead,her muscles contracting slightly.She motions to the native boy standing behind her chair and whispers something to him.The boys eyes widen:he quickly leaves the room.,What can we infer from this sentence?,What the hostess tells the boy is so terrible that even a native boy feels astonished.,南昌航空大学外语学院,“I want to know just what control everyone at this table has.I will count three hundred thats five minutes and not one of you is to move a muscle.Those who move will forfeit 50 rupees.Ready!”,Article6-9_S _ Of the guests,Of the guests,none except the American notices this or sees the boy place a bowl of milk on the veranda just outside the open doors.The American comes to with a start.In India,milk in a bowl means only one thing bait for a snake.He realizes there must be a cobra in the room.He looks up at the rafters the likeliest place but they are bare.Three corners of the room are empty,and in the fourth the servants are waiting to serve the next course.There is only one place left under the table.His first impulse is to jump back and warn the others,but he knows the commotion would frighten the cobra into striking.He speaks quickly,the tone of his voice so commanding that it silences everyone.,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,1)Translate this sentence into Chinese.,在座的客人中除了那个美国人以外谁也没有注意到这一幕,也没有看到那个男仆把一碗牛奶放在紧靠门边的走廊上。,2)Can we use“and”to replace the word“or”in this sentence?Why or why not?,I do not like coffee or tea.,南昌航空大学外语学院,Article6-9_S _ The American,Of the guests,none except the American notices this or sees the boy place a bowl of milk on the veranda just outside the open doors.The American comes to with a start.In India,milk in a bowl means only one thing bait for a snake.He realizes there must be a cobra in the room.He looks up at the rafters the likeliest place but they are bare.Three corners of the room are empty,and in the fourth the servants are waiting to serve the next course.There is only one place left under the table.His first impulse is to jump back and warn the others,but he knows the commotion would frighten the cobra into striking.He speaks quickly,the tone of his voice so commanding that it silences everyone.,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,“I want to know just what control everyone at this table has.I will count three hundred thats five minutes and not one of you is to move a muscle.Those who move will forfeit 50 rupees.Ready!”,1)Paraphrase this sentence.,The American suddenly realizes what is happening and this startles him.,2)What can we infer from this sentence?,Before he sees a bowl of milk being placed on the veranda,the American naturalist always keeps a relaxed and somewhat indifferent manner.,南昌航空大学外语学院,Article10-13_S _“You were,The 20 people sit like stone images while he counts.He is saying“.two hundred and eighty”when,out of the corner of his eye,he sees the cobra emerge and make for the bowl of milk.Scream