Unit 4 The Man in the Water.docx

1、Unit 4 The Man in the Water上课时间上课节次课 型课 题Unit 4 The Man in the Water教学目的1. To build the students vocabulary power by learning the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises.2. To lead the Ss to comprehend and appreciate the content of the text.3. To cultivate Ss ability of using their own words to

2、 summarize the main idea of the text.4. To use the text as the materials to develop the Ss speaking ability.5. To help Ss grasp the theme of the text and the language and style used in it.6. Based on the air crash, and the important words and expressions in the text, get students to know historical

3、fact as well as techniques in writing a narration.教学方法Heuristic, Interactive, task-based teaching and learning, group discussion重点、难点1. Theme of the passage2. The usage of the new words and expression3.Writing devices4. Discussion about human nature, heroism and heroic deeds教 学 容Teaching proceduresS

4、tep 1. Warming up Step 2. Background informationStep 3. Learn the new words Step 4. Fasting reading of the text. (1) The main idea of the text (2) Passage structure Step 5. Detailed study of the text Step 6. Summarize the passage. Step 7. Grammar points in this unit. Step 8. Deal with the exercises

5、in this unit Step 9. Assignment教学容Step 1. Warming up: Sing a Song and Group Discussion 1. Sing a Song: Hero by Mariah CareyLyrics:Theres a heroIf you look inside your heartYou dont have to be afraidOf what you areTheres an answerIf you reach into your soulAnd the sorrow that you knowWill meit awayAn

6、d then a hero comes alongWith the strength to carry onAnd you cast your fears asideAnd you know you can surviveSo when you feel like hope is goneLook inside you and be strongAnd youll finally see the truthThat a hero lies in youIts a long roadWhen you face the world aloneNo one reaches out a handFor

7、 you to holdYou can find loveIf you search within yourselfAnd the emptiness you felt will disappearAnd then a hero comes alongWith the strength to carry onAnd you cast your fears asideSo when you feel like hope is goneLook inside you and be strongAnd youll finally see the truthThat a hero lies in yo

8、u2. Group Discussion: Do You Know?Q1. What makes a hero?Open answers.Q2. Can you name some heroes? What do you think that makes them heroes? Open answers.Q3. Have you ever tried to find a hero in yourself?Open answers.Q4. Do you think every ordinary person can be a hero if he wants to?Step 2. Backgr

9、ound Information The Author: Roger Rosenblatt Roger Rosenblatt is a journalist, author, playwright and professor. As an essayist for Time magazine, he has won two George Polk Awards, and awards from the Overseas Press Club and the American Bar Association. Roger Rosenblatt, an American playwright an

10、d essayist, is the author of six books. This essay on an airplane crash in Washington, D.C., originally appeared in Time on January 25, 1982. Theme of the TextAsk students to read the text and then express their ideas about heroismHeroism: Heroism of course has been admired. But this mans heroism wa

11、s unusual. People usually expect revolutionaries to die martyrs; true believers to be willing to die for their faith; people ready to lay down their lives in performing their duty; even people to show courage in their attempt to win power, influence, money or to save their loved ones. But the man in

12、 the water did not fit any of these descriptions.The man in the water did not have to give his rings to others; he did not even know these people. He was extraordinary precisely because he was ordinary. He showed what every one of us could do. The display of his heroism was a song to the beautiful h

13、uman character. This is true heroism. BackgroundThis is short essay about an air crash that took place in the capital of the US in the year 1982. A plane took off from the Washington National Airport and did not clear the bridge over the Potomac River because of the thick ice on the wings. It hit th

14、e bridge and fell right into the river, bringing all the passengers to instant death except six from the tail section who found themselves gasping and struggling in the icy water. Only five people survived, and they were able to survive because of four heroes. The author wrote this essay in praise o

15、f these heroes, three of whom had risked their lives to rescue the survivors and were able to live to tell the story, but the man that really held the whole nations attention was the fourth man who had kept pushing his lifeline and floatation rings to others until he went under.The fact that this he

16、ro happened to be an American should remind us that heroism is not a national trait. No nation has a monopoly of this human spirit. Over the years, however, there has always been prejudice against different races and ethnic groups. When some people talk about the American character for example, they

17、 sometimes go to extremes. But blind hatred is just as wrong as blind worship. The US has their share of human trash of course, but they also have numerous decent, honest, brave people like the one in the water, who have made their country a great country and their people a great people. And it is t

18、his side of their national character that we should learn from.Step 3. Learn the new words.PS: In this step, we just learn the pronunciation of the new words and its meaning, as for the usages of these new words, well learn them in details during the passage study.Point out the key words in this uni

19、t, such as:acknowledge, admirable, aesthetic, anonymity, balding, blast, casualty, chaotic, chunk,collision, congressional, dip, distinction, flotation, grope, gull, harsh, immovable, lifeline,likewise, remark, represent, skid, standoff, stunning, unidentified, universal, ect.Step 4. Fasting reading

20、 of the text.(1) The main idea of the text PS: It is students homework to preview the passage before the class, in order to check their job, just encourage student to tell the main idea of it in their own words.Reference answer: This essay tells us the air crash that took place over Potomac in Washi

21、ngton, D.C. in 1982, There were four acknowledged heroes of the event, three of whom, Donald Usher, Eugene Windsor and Lenny Skutnik were able to account for their heroic deeds. However, the fourth one, who moved the whole nation, went under forever and became an anonymous hero. He kept on handing o

22、ver the rope and ring to others, leaving himself no time and n chance to survive. He fought nature with kindness. What these heroes did is what everyone can do. Therefore, powerful as nature is, we human beings wont lose the fight if we just do as these heroes did.(2) Passage structure As most essay

23、s, this one can be divided into three parts: the introduction, the body and the conclusion.Part1 (paras 1-2) The author gives a brief account of the air crash that introduces the thesis of the article in the air crash, human nature rose to the occasion.Part 2 (paras 3-8) The author tells us how huma

24、n nature rose to the occasion.Part 3 (paras 9) The author points out the reason why the man could have done what he did the human spirit enables him to defy death.Step 5. Detailed study of the text1. As disasters go, this one was terrible, but not unique, certainly not among the worst air crashes on

25、 record. (para. 1)Air crashes usually involves a heavy loss of lives. Compared with other air crashes, this one was not the worst. This air crash was remembered for a different reason.as disaster go: compared with the average disaster of this type2. And there was the aesthetic clash as well blue-and

26、-green Air Floria, sunk down among gray chunks of ice in a black river. (para.1)When the air crash occurred, it was not just a clash (a loud sound made by two objects) of metal against the bridge, but also a clash between colors: the blue-green color of the plane and the gray and black color of the

27、ice and river.The aesthetic clash: the combination of different colors which looked very bad (aesthetic: sth connected with the study of beauty)Air Florida: The Florida AirlineChunk: a fairly large amount of, e.g. a chunk of meat3. Still, there was nothing very special in any of it, except death, wh

28、ich, while always special, does not necessarily bring millions to tears or to attention. (para. 1)while always special (while+adj.): although (it is) always specialnot necessarily: possibly but not certainly.bring millions to tears or to attention: to make millions cry or attract millions of peoples

29、 attention.4. Here, after all were two forms of nature in collisions: the elements and human character.(para. 2) the elements: the bad weather the two forms of nature: the bad weather and the human character. Both are forms of natural power. collision: clash; two people or vehicles or ideas hitting

30、each other while moving directly toward each other.5.Of the four acknowledged heroes of the event, three are able to account for their behavior. (para. 3)Only three out of these four heroes lived to tell people what they actually had done and how they had rescued the five survivors.To account for: t

31、o give a satisfactory explanation of what has happened. 6. they described their courage as all in the line of duty. (para.3) In the line of duty: as part of ones duty7.Its sth I never thought I would do.(para.3) I never thought I would have the courage to jump into the icy water to rescue somebody.

32、“It” here refers to his heroic deed.8. That somebody actually did so is part of the reason this particular tragedy sticks in the mind. (para. 3) Noun clauses introduced by “that” are used as subjects only in formal English. In informal English, we usually turn them into appropriate clauses by adding the word “fact”. stick in the mind: to be remembered9. Every time they lowered a li