最新现代大学英语精读1教案

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科目：现代大学英语精读（1）

教师：曹祥英

班级：

2010至2011学年度第一学期课程名称：基础英语（一）

教学对象：英语专业2010级本科一年级

英文名称：Essential English (1)

学时：106

课程类别：必修

参考教材：《现代大学英语精读1》，杨立民总主编，外语教学研究出版社，2002. 2

Unit 1 Half a day

Teaching content:

1. Introduce the writer, his major works and his viewpoints about creation. 2．Appreciate the text and analyze its structure.

3. Analyze the writing skills employed in this text.

4. Develop the students’insight into the society and help them grasp the language points.

Important points:

1.Understanding of the language。

2. Analysis of long sentences.

3. The study of the core words and expressions.

Difficult points:：

1. Elliptical question , rhetorical question and inverted sentences

2. “with” absolute structure

Detailed study of the text

一．Background Information

1. About the writer:

Naguib Mahfouz—— Education & Background

Naguib Mahfouz was born on the 11th Dec. 1911 in an old quarter of Cairo, the youngest son of a merchant. He studied philosophy at King Faud I (now Cairo) University, graduating in 1934. He worked in university administration and then in 1939 he worked for the Mini-stry of Islamic Affairs. He was later Head of the State Cinema Organisation at the Ministry of Culture. He also worked as a journalist. Although widely translated, his works are not available in most Middle Eastern countries because of his support of Sadat's Camp David initiative. In 1994 he survived an assassination attempt by Islamic extremists.

Naguib Mahfouz —— important works

Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arab to win the Nobel prize for literature, in 1988. He has been described as "a Dickens of the Cairo cafés" and "the Balzac of Egypt". He is now the author of no fewer than 30 novels, more than 100 short stories, and more than 200 articles. Half of his novels have been made into films which have circulated throughout the Arabic-speaking world.

Mahfouz began writing when he was 17. His first novel was published in 1939 and ten more were written before the Egyptian Revolution of July 1952, when he stopped writing for several years. One novel was republished in 1953, however, and the appearance of The Cairo Trilogy in 1957 made him famous throughout the Arab world as a depictor of traditional urban life.

Naguib Mahfouz —— how he pictures the world

The picture of the world as it emerges from the bulk of Mahfouz's work is very

gloomy indeed, though not completely despondent. It shows that the author's social utopia is far from being realized.

Mahfouz seems to conceive of time as a metaphysical force of oppression. His novels have consistently shown time as the bringer of change, and change as a very painful process, and very often time is not content until it has dealt his heroes the final blow of death.

To sum up, in Mahfouz's dark tapestry of the world there are only two bright spots. These consists of man's continuing struggle for equality on the one hand and the promise of scientific progress on the other; meanwhile, life is a tragedy.

2. Quotes and sayings of time and life:

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

--Lee Iacocca

Nothing is worth more than this day.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every second is of infinite value.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

--Will Rogers

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

--William Penn

二．Text Appreciation

1．Structure of the text

The text can be conveniently divided into three parts. In the first part (para.1-7), we learn about the boy’s misgivings about school. He found it hard to be away from home and mom, and thought school was punishment. The second part (para.8-16) describes how the boy felt about school. He found that life at school was rich and colorful in many ways, although it also required discipline and hard work. In the last part of the text, the boy walked out of the school to find that the outside world had changed beyond measure and that he had grown into an old man.

2．How to appreciate literature

Plot of the story:

Setting of the story:

Protagonist v.s. Antagonists:

Drama of the story lies in:

Writing technique: (Have you ever read a story using the similar technique?)

Theme of the story:

3．Further discussion

Read the following suggestions made by the father. Which ones do you agree with