新视野大学英语第3版读写教程第1册unit2SectionA教案.docx

1、新视野大学英语第3版读写教程第1册unit2SectionA教案Unit2 section AA childs clutter awaits an adults return儿时百宝箱 老大归家梦1 A childs clutter awaits an adults return (Title)Meaning beyond words: Here the word clutter refers to the many small personal items collected by children in the course of their growing up. All these t

2、hings are important and dear memories to them. No matter where they are or how far away they are from home, the clutter remains a bond between them and the family, representing a happy childhood. Usage note: await, wait 这两个词都是动词，都有“等候；期待”之意，但用法却有所不同：1 await 是及物动词，后面直接跟宾语，用法比较正式；wait 一般用作不及物动词，常与 for

3、，till，until 等词连用。2 一般来说，await 的宾语大多为抽象名词，如 decision，reply，arrival，return， announcement等；而 wait for 的宾语一般是人或事物。例如：They were awaiting the birth of their first child. 他们在等待着他们第一个孩子的降生。Hes awaiting trial, which is expected to begin next month. 他在等候审判，预计下个月开始。 I have been waiting for her for an hour at t

4、he bus stop. 我已经在公共汽车站等了她一个小时了。She has been waiting nervously for news of her son in the army. 她一直在紧张地等候她在部队里的儿子的消息。3 await 之后可以接动名词；wait 之后接动词不定式。例如：We shall await hearing further from them. / We shall wait to hear further from them. 我们等待他们进一步的消息。1 I watch her back her new truck out of the driveway

5、. The vehicle is too large, too expensive. Shed refused to consider a practical car with good gas efficiency and easy to park. Its because of me, I think. She bought it to show me that she could.1 我看着她在车道上倒着她的新卡车。 车太大，而且太贵。 她就是不愿意考虑买辆开起来省油、停起来省心的实用型汽车。 我想，原因在我。 她买这辆车就是为了让我看看她的能耐。4 I watch her back h

6、er new truck out of the driveway. (Para. 1)Note: Notice that the mother is telling a story that happened in the past. She uses the past tense to describe the events that happened before her daughter left home. But when she describes the events that happened after her daughter left, she uses the pres

7、ent tense. By manipulating the past tense and the present tense, the author achieves immediacy in time, and produces the effect of great vividness. This use of the present tense to describe past events is referred to as “the narrative present” or “the dramatic present”5 The vehicle is too large, too

8、 expensive. (Para. 1)Meaning beyond words: Here with too large and too expensive, the mother expresses her disagreement with her daughters decision to buy such a large and expensive truck. 6 Shed refused to consider a practical car with good gas efficiency and easy to park. (Para. 1) Meaning: She ha

9、d refused to think about buying a practical car which used less gas and was easy to park.7 Its because of me, I think. She bought it to show me that she could. (Para. 1)Meaning beyond words: Here the mother tries to show that the daughter, eager to be independent, is purposefully acting against her

10、wishes. 2 Im 18, shed told me so often that my teeth ached. I am an adult!3 I thought, is that true? Just yesterday you watched some cartoons. What changed between yesterday and today?2 “我 18 岁了，”她经常这样对我说，以至于听得我牙都疼了。 “我是成年人了！”3 我心想,真的吗？ 昨天你还在看动画片呢。 今天和昨天又能有多大的变化？8 “Im 18,” shed told me so often that

11、 my teeth ached. (Para. 2)Meaning beyond words: By saying repeatedly that she was 18, the daughter was constantly reminding her mom that she had grown up into an adult, old enough to make her own decisions. This made the mother unhappy and annoyed. Note: Here the mother uses “my teeth ached” to show

12、 extreme annoyance, comparable to thesharp pain of an aching tooth. For example: I hate the scrape of chalk on the blackboard; it makes my teeth ache. 我讨厌粉笔在黑板上的刮擦声，听得我牙疼。9 Just yesterday you watched some cartoons. What changed between yesterday and today? (Para. 3)Meaning beyond words: When someone

13、 likes watching cartoons, we tend to think that they are still a child. What the mother means here is that her daughter is still a child, though she kept saying she was already an adult. Note: The use of you instead of my daughter or she puts the mother in the position of talking directly to her dau

14、ghter as if the conversation were face-to-face between her and her daughter.4 Today shes gone, off to be an adult far away from me. Im glad shes gone. It means she made it, and that Im finally free of 18 years of responsibilities. And yet I wonder if she could take good care of herself.4 今天她走了，远离我去寻

15、求成年人的独立。 我很高兴她离开了。 这意味着她成功了，而我也终于可以从 18 年的责任中脱身了。 但是我还是担心她能不能照顾好自己。10 Today shes gone, off to be an adult far away from me. Im glad shes gone. It means she made it, and that Im finally free of 18 years of responsibilities. And yet I wonder if she could take good care of herself. (Para. 4)Meaning bey

16、ond words: This shows that the mother is between two minds. On the one hand, she is happy her daughter is gone because this means her daughter starts to be independent and she can be free of responsibilities for her daughter; on the other hand, she is worried about whether her daughter could take go

17、od care of herself. In the mothers mind, her daughter is still a child. 5 She left a mess. Her bathroom is an embarrassment of damp towels, rusted shaving blades, hair in the sink, and nearly empty tubes of toothpaste. I bring a box of big black garbage bags upstairs.Eye shadow, face cream, nail pol

18、ish all go into the trash. I dump drawers, sweep shelves clear and clean the sink. When I am finished, it is as neat and impersonal as a hotel bathroom.5 她留下的是一片狼藉。 她的卫生间真是凌乱不堪，有没拧干的毛巾，有生锈的剃刀片， 散落在面盆里的头发，还有几支快挤空了的牙膏。 我拿了一盒大号的黑色垃圾袋上了楼。眼影、面霜、指甲油这些统统扔进垃圾袋。 我把抽屉清空，把架子打扫干净，还把面盆擦洗干净。 我打扫完后，卫生间就像酒店里的那样井井有条

19、，丝毫没有人情味儿。11 She left a mess. Her bathroom is an embarrassment of damp towels, rusted shaving blades, hair in the sink, and nearly empty tubes of toothpaste. (Para. 5) Meaning beyond words: Here the mother describes how messy her daughters bathroom is. It is so messy that she thinks it is an embarra

20、ssment. 12 Eye shadow, face cream, nail polish all go into the trash. (Para. 5) Meaning: Eye shadow, face cream, and nail polish are all put into the garbage bag.Note: The word go as in all go into the trash means “be put in the position where it is supposedto be”. Another example can be found in Pa

21、ragraph 10: Donations to charity go into the trunk of my car; trash goes to the curb. 要捐给慈善机构的都放在我汽车的后备箱里；要扔掉的都放在路边。13 I dump drawers, (Para. 5)Meaning: I get rid of the things in the drawers. 14 When I am finished, it is as neat and impersonal as a hotel bathroom. (Para. 5)Meaning: When I finished

22、cleaning the bathroom, it becomes tidy and shows no personal features, just like a hotel bathroom. impersonal: a. used about a place that does not seem friendly because there are no personal features （地方）无人情味的，不够人性化的Hospitals always seem such impersonal places rows of identical beds in dull gray roo

23、ms. 医院这种地方看起来总是那么没有人情味单调的灰色房间里放着一排排一模一样的床。Note: Here by using impersonal, the mother emphasizes the lack of personal connection in the bathroom since she has thrown away most of her daughters personal stuff. After the bathroom is cleaned, it looks nothing special, just like a hotel bathroom.6 In her

24、 bedroom I find mismatched socks under her bed and purple pants on the closet floor. Desk drawers are filled with school papers, filed by year and subject. I catch myself reading through poems and essays, admiring high scores on tests and reading her name, printed or typed neatly in the upper right-

25、hand corner of each paper. I pack the desk contents into a box. Six months, I think. I will give her six months to collect her belongings, and then I will throw them all away. That is fair. Grown-ups pay for storage.6 在她的卧室里，我发现床下有不配对的袜子，壁橱底板上扔着紫色的裤子。 书桌的抽屉里满是学校的卷子，按照年份和科目归了类。 我发现自己竟然在翻看她的诗歌和作文，欣赏着考

26、卷上的高分，端详着每张考卷右上角她用印刷体工工整整书写的或是打印的她的名字。 我把书桌里的东西收拾到一个盒子里。 六个月，我心想。 如果过了六个月她还不来拿她的东西，我就会把它们一股脑儿全扔了。 这算讲道理了吧。 成年人存放东西是要付费的。15 Desk drawers are filled with school papers, filed by year and subject. (Para. 6) Meaning: Desk drawers are full of my daughters school papers, which are kept in order according

27、to year and subject. file: vt. keep papers, documents, etc. in a particular place so that you can find them easily 把归档/存档Please file those letters by arrival date. 请将那些信件根据寄达时间归档。16 I catch myself reading through poems and essays, admiring high scores on tests and reading her name, printed or typed

28、neatly in the upper right-hand corner of each paper. (Para. 6) Meaning: Suddenly I realize I am reading the poems and essays written by my daughter, looking at her excellent test scores with pride, and reading her name which is printed or typed tidily and carefully in the upper right-hand corner of

29、each paper. admire: vt. look at sth. and think how beautiful or impressive it is 欣赏；观赏They stopped at the top of the hill to admire the scenery. 他们在山顶上停下来欣赏风景。print: v. write words by hand without joining the letters 用印刷体书写Please print your name clearly in the top right-hand corner of the page. 请在这一

30、页的右上角用印刷体清楚地写上你的名字。Usage note: Pay attention to the expression upper right-hand corner (右上角). Other similar expressions include: upper left-hand corner 左上角 lower left-hand/right-hand corner 左下角/右下角bottom left-hand/right-hand corner 左下角/右下角top left-hand/right-hand corner 左上角/右上角17 I pack the desk con

31、tents into a box. Six months, I think. I will give her six months to collect her belongings, and then I will throw them all away. That is fair. Grown-ups pay for storage. (Para. 6) Meaning beyond words: Paragraph 6 describes how the mother is between two minds annoyance and love. She is much annoyed

32、 that her daughter leaves the room in a mess. However, while she is reading and admiring her daughters poems and essays, high scores on tests, etc., she feels proud of her. She decides to keep her daughters things for six months, and then she will throw them into the trash if her daughter does not come back and collect them by then. The mother thinks she is right in handling her daughters stuff in this way. Her daughter, an adult now, should pay for storage cost. At this point, the mo