安徽教育学院外语系精品课程(8)

【教学活动】

Discussion and workshop

第五章

Blackmail （8学时）

【基本知识】

1. The background knowledge: Structure of a story/ New Orleans

2. Text analysis: setting---plot---end (suspense)

3. Vocabulary: words denoting sneering---actions done by characters, words suiting the backgrounds of characters 4. Character analysis

【基本概念、理论】 Setting, character, action, conflicts, climax,

suspense and denouement

【教学重、难点】 Discourse analysis; narrative writing 【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop

第六章 The Age of Miracle （8学时）

【基本知识】

1. The background knowledge: Byzantine art; Oxford tutorial

2. Text analysis: purpose & thesis of the text; ways of developing the text---comparison, contrast, analogy, identification, illustration, analysis, definition, etc.

3. Vocabulary: words denoting computer; specific verbs and adjectives 【基本概念、理论】 Antonomasia; transferred epithet 【教学重、难点】 Understanding the text; Words and expressions denoting

computer

【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop

第七章 Mark Twain --- Mirror of America （10学时）

【基本知识】

1. Background information: 1) Mark Twain’s Childhood 2) Westward expansion 3) Puritan

2. Text analysis: character ---three stages of writing career---conclusion

3. Figures of speech: metonymy, synecdoche

【基本概念、理论】 Synecdoche; metonymy; euphemism；

【教学重、难点】Understanding the text; Descriptive words and expressions

denoting man’s personality or things; Compound nouns and compound adjectives

【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop

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第八章 The Trial That Rocked the World （8学时）

【基本知识】

1. The background knowledge: 1) Fundamentalism 2) Darwinism

3) Procedures of a trial and legal terms

2. Text analysis: beginning --- the trial and the result 3. Vocabulary study: legal terms?

【基本概念、理论】Irony; sarcasm; oxymoron 【教学重、难点】Understanding the text; Words and expressions denoting legal terms; discourse analysis

【教学活动】Discussion and workshop

第九章 1776 （10学时）

【基本知识】

1. Background knowledge:

Sherman Edwards; Peter Stone The declaration of Independence The characters in the play 2. Text analysis: 1) Musical comedy

2) The reenact ion of the forceful drama of history

3) The interesting insights into the interplay of human nature and political destiny at a moment of historical significance 【基本概念、理论】 Structure of play

【教学重、难点】 Understanding the text; words and expressions; discourse analysis

【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop

注：该教材第一册的其他课文均为学生自学材料，纳入期末测试内容

第三学年第二学期(春学期)教学内容(72学时)

【教学重、难点】

1、课文理解 （了解） 2、词汇学习 （掌握） 3、修辞与写作（掌握）

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《高级英语》Book II

第一章General Introduction to the course（2 学时）

【基本知识】 Brief introduction to the course (II)

【基本概念、理论】 The purpose of this course; approaches employed in the

course

【教学重、难点】 The textbook used 【教学活动】 Discussion; workshop

第二章 Face to face with Hurricane Camille （8学时）

【基本知识】1.Background information: Hurricanes’ name, birth, growth and

damages

2. Text analysis: a comparative study about what the Koshaks

do before, during and after the devastating hurricane 3. Vocabulary study: effective action verbs

4. Rhetoric and writing: structure of narration, depiction of character, rhythm of narration 5.basic sentence faults

【基本概念、理论】Asyndeton and polysyndeton；structure of narration,

depiction of character, rhythm of narration

【教学重、难点】Understanding the text; Narrative writing; effective action verbs

【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop

第三章 Pub Talk and the King’s English（8 学时）

【基本知识】

1. Background knowledge: British pubs; Pub-friends; Henry Fairlie

2. Text analysis:

1) Main idea- What makes a good conversation?

2) General discussion of the charm of Bar conversation-illustration with the charming conversations he had with some people one evening in a pub on the topic “the King’s English”.

3) Seemingly loose organization: title- transitional paragraph- digression

3. Vocabulary: Idioms; highly informal language

4. Rhetoric & writing: Copious literary and historical allusions; mixed metaphors; simile; deliberate use of a conversational style 【基本概念、理论】 Description

【教学重、难点】 Discourse analysis; Idiomatic expressions; Allusions;

the use of transitional devices

【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop

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第四章

Inaugural Address （10学时）

【基本知识】

1. The background knowledge: the American’s presidential elections,

inaugural address, inaugural ceremony & Kennedy

2. Text analysis: General policies--- foreign policies and domestic policy—appealing to his people

3. Vocabulary study: at issue, at odds, mortal, fatal, faithful, loyal, words with emotion

4. Rhetoric & writing: skills for persuasion; use of transitional words 【基本概念、理论】Transitional words and phrases; making speech

【教学重、难点】 Understanding the text; Use of transitional words and phrases; discourse analysis

【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop

第五章 Love is a Fallacy（ 8学时）

【基本知识】

1. Background information:

1) Author’s experiences and his views 2) Charles Lamb 3) Thomas Carlyle 2. Text analysis:

Author’s note---character analysis---conflict---theme 3. Understanding the title 4. Vocabulary: effective Adj.

5. Rhetoric& writing: metaphor; allusion; simile; understatement; inversion etc. & story writing

【基本概念、理论】 Understatement; Development by classification;

【教学重、难点】 Understanding the text; Descriptive words adopted to describe the characters vividly

【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop

第六章 The Workers as Creator or Machine （10学时）

【基本知识】

1. Background information: 1) Work in the Middle Ages

2) The First Industrial Revolution & the Second Industrial Revolution 3) The Middle Ages & the Reformation

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2. Text analysis: work in the primitive times, the Middle Ages, after the First Industrial revolution, and the Second Industrial Revolution; positive views and negative views towards “the worker is no longer a creator but has become a machine”.

3. Vocabulary: result in, result from, contribute to, attribute to, constitute, substitute

4. Rhetoric & writing: defining, partition, causal analysis, comparison and contrast

【基本概念、理论】 Causation of writing；synecdoche

【教学重、难点】Understanding the text; Causation of writing; the use of

topic sentences

【教学活动】Discussion and workshop

第七章

The Sad Young Men （10学时）

【基本知识】

1. Background information: WWI and the Roaring Twenties

2. Text analysis: Revolt of the Younger Generation --- reasons --- beginning ---- growth ---- philosophy --- significance (introducing the subject-- supporting and developing the thesis-- bringing the discussion to an end ) 3. Vocabulary: obsolescent, obsolete & words denoting historic events and culture

4. Rhetoric & writing: comment on a social event 【基本概念、理论】Summary; metonymy

【教学重、难点】Understanding the text and expositive writing; Words and

expressions with cultural tints

【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop

第八章The Discovery of What It Means to Be American

（8学时）

【基本知识】

1. Background information: James Baldwin & his major works

2. Text analysis: to be an American---an American writer--- an American Negro writer

3. Vocabulary study: Distinguishing synonyms, complex/complicated; -delusion/illusion;

--intellectual/intelligent/clever; --probable/likely/possible

【基本概念、理论】 Simultaneous comparison & alternative comparison; metaphor 【教学重、难点】

1. Understanding the text;

2. Some methods of developing ideas: --a point by point analogy --simultaneous comparison

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