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1、Unit 13Western Culture,Objectives,You will be able to 1.Grasp the main idea of the text:What does the author want to tell us in the text?2.Understand the structure of the text:How does he organize his idea?3.Master the key language points and grammatical structure.Learn to express your idea in Engli
2、sh by using the vocabulary,expressions and sentence patterns youve learnt in text.4.Understand the theme of the unit(show business,media)and conduct a series of reading,listening,speaking and writing actives related to it5.Learn to write a summary.6.Learn the translation skills虚实对译,Preview,Read the
3、text carefully,and mark where you have any question.Answer the six questions of text comprehension(page 274).Write the answers on your textbook.Analyze the structure of the text and give the main ideas of each part(page 274).Prepare pre-reading tasks.(on your textbook),Do you like watching TV?What k
4、ind of program do you like?Does TV make any difference to your life and if it does,what is it?What roles do you think show business play wholly speaking,in peoples daily life,and in the development of economy?,Lead-in questions,Are you obsessed with TV?,新闻节目 news program纪录片 documentary体育赛事 sports ev
5、ent娱乐节目 entertainment program综艺节目 variety show谈话节目/脱口秀 talk show选秀节目/真人秀 reality show相亲节目 dating show电视剧 TV series电影 movie动漫 cartoon电视广告 TV advertisement,If there were no TV,I wouldnt be near-sighted.If there were no TV,I might not get interested in English.若与现在事实相反,虚拟语气的条件从句的谓语用过去式(be通常用were),主句谓语用
6、“should(would,could,might)+动词原形”。If there were no TV,I should/would/could/mightIf there were no TV,I should/would/could/might not,In daily life,the show business play a positive role:relax you,make you laugh,you can follow the latest trend of fashion and thought a negative role:a waste of time as yo
7、u cant learn much from it,distract you from serious issues,The Washington D.C.-based Motion Picture Association of America美国电影协会,or MPAA,recently hosted a conference on The Business of Show Business,which was designed to raise awareness in Washington about the contributions the film industry makes t
8、o the national economy.According to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,the film industry is a giant engine of economic growth,employing more than 750,000 people and boasting a surplus balance of trade with every single country in the world.,Economic,social and culture effect good side:promote
9、 the economic development,create employment opportunities,create spiritual enjoyment,contribute to national culture formation bad side:distract people from serious issues,misguide audience,have a bad influence on social climate,pursuing fun becomes some peoples life goal How does show business chang
10、e American culture?,Neil Postman(March 8,1931-October 5,2003)an American author,media theorist and cultural critic,who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television,Amusing Ourselves to Death.Postman was a humanist,who believed that new technology could never substitute for
11、human values.,Background information,Amusing Ourselves to Death Postmans best known book,published in 1985,a historical narrative which deplores the decline of the communication medium as television images have replaced the written word.Postman argues that television confounds serious issues with en
12、tertainment,demeaning and undermining political discourse by making it less about ideas and more about image.He also argues that television is not an effective way of providing education,as it provides only top-down information transfer,rather than the interaction that he believes is necessary to ma
13、ximize learning.,Background information,He draws on the ideas of media theorist Marshall McLuhan to argue that different media are appropriate for different kinds of knowledge,and describes how oral,literate,and televisual cultures value and transfer information in different ways.He states that 19th
14、 century America was the pinnacle of rational argument,an Age of Reason,in which the dominant communication medium was the printed word.During this period,complicated arguments could be transmitted without oversimplification.Amusing Ourselves to Death was translated into eight languages and sold 200
15、,000 copies worldwide.This passage is an excerpt from the book.,Background information,What is Show Business?,Background information,Show Business:sometimes shortened to show biz,is a term for all aspects of entertainment from the business side(including managers,agents,producers and distributors)to
16、 the creative element(including artists,performers,writers and musicians).The term was in common usage throughout the 20th century.,Background information,What does the text mainly talk about?This text has mainly discussed TVs impact on American culture.,Text structure,Whats the text structure?Part
17、1:():introduction:to introduce the argument and the authors idea about it.Part 2:():illustration of the topicPart 3:():conclusion:America is becoming a culture of show business.,Text structure,para.1 to para.2,para.3 to para.11,para.12,Part 1 Part 2Part 3,Text structure,Para.2 introducing the author
18、s idea on the relationship between TV and literacyTV_literate culture.,Para.1 introducing the topic of the text by an_ on the relationship between_and_.,Para.3 giving the four questions part 2 will elaborate and illustrate on the topic.,Para.4-5 illustrating the first question _,Para 6-7 illustratin
19、g the second question _,Para 8-10 illustrating the third question _,Para.11 illustrating the fourth question _,Para.12 _,ironic story,TV,literacy,attacks rather than supports,what is television?,what kinds of conversations does it permit?,what are the intellectual tendencies it encourages?,what sort
20、 of culture dose it produce?,America is becoming a culture of show business,Part One A story(para.1)what happened?Why this story?Authors idea on the topic(para.2)whats his idea?,Detail reading,1.Neil Postman began the article with a story.Can you retell the story in your own words?2.What is“rearview
21、 mirror”thinking?Can you give an example to illustrate it?3.Why does the author say that the hope that television can be used to support the literate tradition represents what Marshall McLuhan used to call the“rearview mirror”thinking?Does Postman agree with Mcluhan?,Detail reading,Words and Express
22、ions,quixotic kwikstik Don Quixote kihuti 堂吉诃德 If you describe someones ideas or plans as quixotic,you mean that they are imaginative or hopeful but unrealistic.,4.“After a whiff of panicwhich he was to be tested.”(line3 para.1)Find out the basic components(subject,predicate,object)and adjunctive co
23、mponents(attribute,adverbial)of this sentence,and then translate it.5.Translate the sentence“Such a hope represents a powerful candle”.(line2,para.2)6.“To make such a mistake in the matter at hand is to misconstrue entirely how television redefines the meaning of public discourse.”Find out the predi
24、cate of this sentence,and then translate it.,Detail reading,Because the“the rearview thinking”believes that a new medium(TV)is merely an extension or amplification of an old one(book).But the author does not agree with this thinking,because he thinks that television does not extend or amplify litera
25、te culture.It attacks it.,After a whiff of panic,he was able to restore both his equanimity and his chances for a satisfactory grade by turning on the television set,turning off the sound,and with his back to the set,using its light to read important passages on which he was to be tested.Although th
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