上外 综合教程4 第二版 电子教案.docx

1、上外 综合教程4 第二版 电子教案UNIT 8 THE DISCUS THROWERSection One Pre-reading Activities 2I. Audiovisual supplement 2II. Cultural background 3Section Two Global Reading 4I. Structural analysis of the text 4II. Rhetorical features of the text 4Section Three Detailed Reading 5I. Questions: 7II. Words and Expressi

2、ons 7Section Four Consolidation Activities 11I. Vocabulary 11II. Grammar 13III. Translation 15IV. Exercises for integrated skills 18V. Oral activities 19VI. Writing 19Section Five Further Enhancement 21I. Text II 21II. Memorable quotes 24Section One Pre-reading Activities. Audiovisual supplementFrom

3、 Forrest GumpWatch the movie clip and answer the following questions.Script:Forrest: Wheres Momma?Black woman: Shes upstairs.Mrs Gump: Hah, Forrest!Doctor: Ill see you tomorrow.Mrs Gump: Fine.Doctor: Sure got you straightened out, didnt we boy?Forrest: Whats the matter, Momma?Mrs. Gump: Im dyin, For

4、rest. Come on in, sit down over here.Forrest: Why are you dyin, Momma?Mrs. Gump: Its my time. Its just my time. Oh, now, dont you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life. Its something were all destined to do. I didnt know it, but I was destined to be your momma. I did the best I could.F

5、orrest: You did good, Momma.Mrs. Gump: Well, I happened to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you.Forrest: Whats my destiny, Momma?Mrs. Gump: Youre gonna have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what youre g

6、onna get.Forrest (V.O.): Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.Mrs. Gump: I will miss you, Forrest.Forrest (V.O.): She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it.(EXT. BUS STOP PRESENT The elderly woman and Forrest sit.

7、 The woman is crying and wipes her eyes with a hankie.)Forrest: And thats all I have to say about that. Didnt you say you were waiting for the number 7 bus?Elderly woman: Therell be another one along shortly.Forrest: Now, because I had been a football star and war hero and national celebrity and a s

8、hrimping .Questions:1. What is Mrs. Gumps attitude toward death?Answer: She seems quite peaceful in face of her own death. She seems to accept death as something she is destined to do.2. Why does she have such an attitude?Answer: This is probably because she thinks she has lived a satisfactory life.

9、 She believes that death is a part of life, something one is destined to do. She assumes that she has done the best she could to be a good woman. Cultural backgroundThe Psychological Aspects of AmputationRegardless of the cause of the amputation, an amputee will probably go through basically the sam

10、e psychological stages. Some may go through the grieving process in a short time, while others will suffer several months. However, it is important that one acknowledge and understand the process as he is going through each stage, for it possibly helps him to survive psychologically.1. The Five Stag

11、es of the Grieving Process DenialPeople who go through traumatic amputations usually experience Denial, but normally those who have had surgical amputations will not experience it. AngerOften people will blame God, the doctor, or others for their loss. BargainingIn this stage, patients may attempt t

12、o postpone the reality of amputation, and most patients will try to bargain with their doctor or through a higher authority such as a religious figure. DepressionIn this stage, anger is taken place by depression. This is probably the most complicated stage of grief, but it too will disappear. Common

13、 symptoms include sleeping either too much or too little, negative feelings about the environment and the future, feelings of hopelessness, and talking about death. Acceptance and HopeEventually, the amputee will come to terms with his loss and start living again. This is more easily achieved if he

14、has a visit from a peer counselor who has been through this entire process and can give him some advice.2. Complicated GriefComplicated grief is not common in amputee patients, however its symptoms are more harmful, which include severe isolation, violent behavior, suicidal ideation, workaholic beha

15、vior, severe or prolonged depression, nightmares, and avoiding reminders of the amputation. It is urgent for the amputees with these symptoms to seek appropriate professional medical treatment.Section Two Global Reading. Structural analysis of the text This text is a piece of chronological narration

16、 about an amputee, a difficult and only semi-communicative patient who floundered in his last days in agony and depression and eventually died. The text can be divided into three parts:Part I (Paragraph 1): This part serves as an introduction to the background of the story. Part II (Paragraphs 2 13)

17、: This part describes the strange behavior of a particular patient dubbed the “discus thrower” and his conflict with health workers. Part III (Paragraphs 14 15): The last part tells the readers about the patients death.This narration also poses interesting challenges: what to think of this man, how

18、to understand him, and how to treat him? Clearly the mans enigmatic speech and action are saying something, and Selzer suggests that few are listening. The story offers no answer, but it suggests that the kind of sympathy the narrator develops through watching the patient (though not expressed) is a

19、 good start. The patients provocative behavior and the storys openness make it a good point of departure for a discussion. . Rhetorical features of the textA notable feature of this text is the extensive use of questions on the part of the narrator. He asks questions in his dialogue with the patient

20、, and he also asks himself questions. First look at the questions he asks himself: For example:1. Ought not a doctor to observe his patients by any means and from any stance that he might take for the more fully assemble evidence? (Paragraph 1).2. Is he mute as well as blind? (Paragraph 3)3. What is

21、 he thinking behind those lids that do not blink? Is he remembering a time when he was whole? Does he dream of feet? Or when his body was not a rotting log? (Paragraph 6)These questions call for no answer but they reveal the inner thoughts of the narrator. He seems to be trying to place himself in t

22、he position of the patient to feel a better understanding of the patients psychology.Now look at the questions he asks in his dialogue with the patient:For example:1. How are you? (Paragraph 5)2. How do you feel? (Paragraph 5)3. Anything more I can do for you? (Paragraph 7)All these questions help t

23、o show that the doctor is very patient with and, responsible for his patient. Practice:Study the text and pick out other questions he asks, and see how these questions help reveal his attitude towards the patient.Section Three Detailed ReadingTHE DISCUS THROWERRichard Selzer1 I spy on my patients. O

24、ught not a doctor to observe his patients by any means and from any stance that he might take for the more fully assemble evidence? So I stand in the doorways of hospital rooms and gaze. Oh, it is not all that furtive an act. Those in bed need only look up to discover me. But they never do.2 From th

25、e doorway of Room 542 the man in the bed seems deeply tanned. Blue eyes and close-cropped white hair give him the appearance of vigor and good health. But I know that his skin is not brown from the sun. It is rusted, rather, in the last stage of containing the vile repose within. And the blue eyes a

26、re frosted, looking inward like the windows of a snowbound cottage. This man is blind. This man is also legless the right leg missing from midthigh down, the left from just below the knee. It gives him the look of a bonsai, roots and branches pruned into the dwarfed facsimile of a great tree.3 Propp

27、ed on pillows, he cups his right thigh in both hands. Now and then he shakes his head as though acknowledging the intensity of his suffering. In all of this he makes no sound. Is he mute as well as blind?4 The room in which he dwells is empty of all possessions no get-well cards, small, private cach

28、es of food, day-old flowers, slippers, all the usual kickshaws of the sick room. There is only the bed, a chair, a nightstand, and a tray on wheels that can be swung across his lap for meals.5 “What time is it?” he asks.“Three oclock.”“Morning or afternoon?”“Afternoon.”He is silent. There is nothing

29、 else he wants to know.“How are you?” I say.“Who are you?” he asks.“Its the doctor. How do you feel?”He does not answer right away.“Feel?” he says.“I hope you feel better,” I say.I press the button at the side of the bed.“Down you go,” I say.“Yes, down,” he says.6 He falls back upon the bed awkwardl

30、y. His stumps, unweighted by legs and feet, rise in the air, presenting themselves. I unwrap the bandages from the stumps, and begin to cut away the black scabs and the dead, glazed fat with scissors and forceps. A shard of white bone comes loose. I pick it away. I wash the wounds with disinfectant

31、and redress the stumps. All this while, he does not speak. What is he thinking behind those lids that do not blink? Is he remembering a time when he was whole? Does he dream of feet? Or when his body was not a rotting log?7 He lies solid and inert. In spite of everything, he remains impressive, as t

32、hough he were a sailor standing athwart a slanting deck.“Anything more I can do for you?” I ask.For a long moment he is silent.“Yes,” he says at last and without the least irony. “You can bring me a pair of shoes.”In the corridor, the head nurse is waiting for me.“We have to do something about him,” she says. “Every morning he orders scrambled eggs for breakfast, and, instead