新世纪大学英语第二版综合教程第4册Unit7.docx

1、新世纪大学英语第二版综合教程第4册Unit7Electronic Teaching Portfolio Book FourUnit Seven: Reading and ReflectionPart I Get StartedSection A Discussion Sit in pairs or groups and discuss the following questions.1 Why do you think we need to read?2 What do you prefer to read poems, novels or plays?3 What role do you t

2、hink literary works play in our lives? Answers for reference:1 Hints: Reading broadens our horizons. Reading enriches our knowledge. Reading puts us in contact with the best minds of human history. Reading enriches our experience. Reading empowers us with knowledge. Reading improves our character an

3、d taste. Reading is a good pastime.2 Some hints: a) Different people read literature for different reasons and purposes because of their different backgrounds, tastes, experiences and educational background. b) Those who prefer reading novels may think novels are more interesting and easier to read

4、probably because novels usually have plots. They can take readers to other places and times, real or imaginary, allowing them to meet people and experience life in many different ways. A good novel makes readers think, laugh, cry or wonder. 3 Reference: Literary works play an important role in our l

5、ife. They can broaden our horizons. They help us experience a kind of life which we cannot have in real life. They help us see the things which we tend to ignore in our daily life. They can also help us escape from reality.Section B Quotes Study the following quotes about reading and reflection and

6、discuss in pairs what you can learn from them. Francis BaconSome books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis BaconInterpretation:There are different ways of reading books. To taste a book, one can read it in a state of relaxation. To swallow a book

7、 one can glide his eyes across the lines of a book. To chew or digest a book one should read it actively. And when he has finished reading a book, the pages are filled with his notes. Only when good books are chewed and digested can they have a lasting influence on ones life.About Francis Bacon (156

8、1-1626): an English politician, philosopher, and writer. Francis Bacon graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the founder of English materialist philosophy, as well as of modern science in England. He is especially famous for his Essays, in which his practical wisdom is shown through his

9、reflections and comments on rather abstract subjects. Benjamin Franklin Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. Benjamin Franklin Interpretation:Reading broadens our horizons, molds our temperament and enlightens our minds. Reading provides us with the possibility

10、 of opening ourselves up to the world, which helps us to become learned and knowledgeable persons. Thinking deeply helps us gain an insight into human life. Having scholarly conversations with others helps us become wiser.About Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): a US politician, writer, and scientist. H

11、e was involved in writing two historically significant documents, the Declaration of Independence (独立宣言) and the Constitution of the United States (美国宪法). He is famous for proving that lightning is a form of electricity by doing a scientific test in which he flew a kite during a storm, and he invent

12、ed the lightning conductor. He is also well known for his literary works such as Poor Richards Almanac (穷理查德年鉴1732-1757；亦译作格言历书、穷理查历书) and Autobiography (自传1790). Denis Parsons Burkitt It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. Denis Parsons BurkittInterpr

13、etation:What really counts is not how many books we have read but whether we spend time thinking over what we have read. So we should read selectively and reflectively. About Denis Parsons Burkitt (19111993): an accomplished British surgeon. His major contribution to medical science was the descript

14、ion, distribution, and ultimately, the etiology (病因学；病源论) of a pediatric (小儿科的) cancer that bears his name Burkitts lymphoma (伯基特氏淋巴瘤). Louisa May Alcott Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. Louisa May Alcott Interpretation:Books and friends should

15、be few but good. We should be highly selective in reading books, and our greatest pleasure in reading comes from the best books.About Louisa May Alcott (18321888): an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women (小妇人）.Section C Watching and Discussion Watch the following video cl

16、ip “Reading Really Matters” and do the tasks that follow.Introduction of the video: Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is talking about arts education. First he mentions a problem in the United States: People are reading less and employers are facing a serious problem that

17、their new employees cant read and cant write. According to Dana Gioia, those people who read do exercise more and do more volunteering charity work. Then he comes to talk about how reading actually matters to a person. 1 Now fill in the note form according to what you hear. Topic: Reading Awakens So

18、mething inside the Reader1) reading increases your sense of your own personal destiny. 2) reading makes the lives of other people more real to you.In summary, reading makes you understand that other people have an inner life as complicated as your own.Reading builds a society with not only imaginati

19、ve capability, intellectual capability, but compassion, and humanity.2 Discuss the following questions.Do you agree that Chinese people are reading less?Do you think modern technology has influenced the way people read?Open. Script： Americans are reading less. Because they read less, they read less

20、well. Because they read less well, they do less well in the educational system. We are in the process in the United States of producing the first generation in our history thats less well-educated than their parents. Now, I mean, to me, this is, you know aan abandonment of the whole American misrout

21、es of self improvement. Because they do less well in school, they do less well in the job market and economically. The number one problems for new employers in the United States: new employees cant read, new employees cant write. And in fact, for those people who cant even read above the basic level

22、, 55% of those people end up unemployed. And even on a further level, they overwhelmingly are like, you know, are more likely to end up in the criminal justice system. Only 3% of the people in U.S. prisons read at a proficiency level. Because they read less well, you know, because in a sense they do

23、nt develop these things, they are also less likely to be engaged in personal positive behavior however you wanna measure it. We can measure it many different ways. You would not think it, but it is overwhelmingly demonstrable: that people that read exercise more; people that read join, play sports m

24、ore. They belong to civic organizations more. They do volunteering charity work nearly 4 times the level of non-readers. Well, when I saw these data, I said, well, wait. We have to be measuring something else. Were measuring income, and were measuring education. If you take the poorest people in the

25、 United States who read, they do volunteering charity work at twice the level of people who dont read. So what does it say to us? It says something we know, each of us knows this: when you read, when youre engaged in the arts, it awakens something inside of you. That does two things: the first is th

26、at it increases your sense of your own personal destiny. But, secondly, it makes the lives of other people more real to you. It creates a heightened sense of yourself as an individual, but it also brings you, maybe, especially when youre reading novels or imagining the literature in which you follow

27、 the stories, the lives of the people in the dailiness of their existence, socially, economically. Maybe understanding, a man understanding how a woman thinks, and a man understanding how a man thinks, a person understanding how somebody from a different country, from a different race thinks and fee

28、ls. This imaginative exercises, this meditative exercise, makes you understand that other people have an inner life as complicated as your own. And so, if you have a society, in which tens of millions of people guided by pleasure no less, undertake these types of contemplations and meditations, you

29、have a society which builds not only its imaginative capability, its intellectual capability, but its compassion, and its humanity. Part II Listen and RespondSection A Word Bankcontend vt. claim; say or state strongly正式声称，断言，主张purchase n. fml the act of buying 正式购买，采购prelude n. sth. that is followed

30、 by sth. larger or more important 开端，序幕，前奏indispensable a. too important or too useful to be without 必需的，必不可少的fundamental a. basic 基本的，根本的，基础的Section B Task One: Focusing on the Main IdeasChoose the best answer to each of the following questions according to the information contained in the listenin

31、g passage. 1 What does the speaker mean by efficient reading or reading efficiently? A) Reading a book for pleasure.B) Writing between lines while reading.C) Remembering the authors thoughts.D) Scanning a book for facts.2 What is the advantage of marking up a book according to the speaker? A) Markin

32、g up a book helps readers take in the brilliant ideas in the book.B) Marking up a book enables readers to know what they read.C) Marking up a book makes readers feel like the owner of the book.D) Marking up a book makes readers conscious of the fact that they are reading actively.3 What is the true sense of owning a book? A) Marking it through active reading.B) Purchasing it with ones own money.C) Writing