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1、Loving and Hating New York,Thomas Griffith,Aims:,1)Improving students ability to read between lines and understand the text properly;2)Cultivating students ability to make a creative reading;3)Enhancing students ability to appreciate the text from different perspectives;,4)Helping students to unders
2、tand some difficult words and expressions;5)Helping students to understanding rhetorical devices;6)Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately.,Teaching Contents:,Background Knowledge Exposition Detailed Study of the EssayOrganization PatternStyle and Language FeaturesS
3、pecial Difficulties,Background Knowledge,1)About the author Thomas Griffith 2)About New York City,Exposition,http:/www.stanford.edu/arnetha/expowrite/info.html,Detailed study on the Essay,Pre-reading task,(Pictures provided here)1)Which one of these pictures are picture of New York City?What does Ne
4、w York City impress you?2)Discuss with your partner to decide:a)which city you like most and why?b)If you are offered a chance to work or live in another city which is quiet unfamiliar to you,do you want to go there and why?,Para.1-5 General introduction,Setting forth the present status of New York
5、in the United States and in the eyes of foreigners,Task:Collect evidence to show that“How the mighty has fallen.”New York=Big Apple=Mighty,Advertising campaigns publicly praise New York;Many New Yorkers wear T-shirts with a heart design and the works“I love New York”New York is trying desperately to
6、 regain her lost prestige and status.,Para.2-3 New York,Yesterday&Today,New York City,Yesterday Top,highest,biggest Leading city sets styles and trends of nation Undisputed fashion authority Looked up to and imitated,Todayisnt any moreout of phase with _ as out of step with lost its undisputed leade
7、rship no longer so,Question:1)From where we can see New Yorks deficiencies as a pacesetter are more and more evident?,“Nowadays New York is out of phase with American taste“Nowadays New York connot understand nor follow the taste of the American people and is often in disagreement with American poli
8、tics.,“No longer so looked up to or copied,New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends”Since New York is no longer looked up to or copied as the undisputed fashion authority,it now boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends(styles,fashion)of Americ
9、a,that it is a place where people can escape from uniformity and commonness.,Building Manhattan television studios Tin Pan Alley Hiring singers and entertainers Sports,2)The technique used to support authors view is_.,Para.4 New York,In the eyes of Americans,Comeback:1 a:a sharp or witty reply:retor
10、t b:a cause for complaint 2:a return to a former position or condition(as of success or prosperity):recovery,revival staging his ultimate comeback from self-imposed exile,Para5 New York,In the eyes of foreigner,Question:Why do many Europeans call New York their favorite city?,Cosmopolitan complexiti
11、esEuropean standardsMixture of many foreignersMany jewelers,shoe stores and designers shopsFamiliar international namesTense,restless atmosphere;its energetic pulse,“and designer shops that exist to flatter and bilk the frivolous rich.”These shops are set up to cheat and gratify the vanity of the si
12、lly rich people,Para 6 New York,Energy,contention and striving,Convention:angry disagreement Striving:trying very hard to achieve or to defeat the othersPut-down:(informal)a remark or criticism intended to make the others feel stupid(令人难堪的话，噎人的话),“To win in New York is to be uneasy;to lose is to liv
13、e in jostling proximity to the frustrated majority.”A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety(because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition);a person who loses has to live among the defeated,who are in the majority in New York.,Para.7 New Yo
14、rk,In authors eyes,“New York was never Mecca to me”Rhetorical devices employed in this sentence are:_ and _.The author compares New York to Mecca;and Mecca is standing for _.A place of holy pilgrimage,of a place one yearns to go.,Para 8 New York:,Nature,Questions:1)The topic sentence is _.2)The rhet
15、orical device employed in“Nature constantly yields to man in New York”is _.3)Are there any other places uses the same rhetorical device as mentioned above?Whats the function of it?,Para.9 New York,Opportunities&uncertainness,Questions:1)What do“Ivy League Schools”refer to?2)Why did writer go and liv
16、e in New York?,Para.10 New York,In young peoples eyes,Question:Why do young people still go to New York?testing themselves unwilling to surrender to their most common and easily sold talentsthe fierce competition and challenge standards of excellence demanded,“But the purity of a bohemian dedication
17、 can be exaggerated.”But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be esaggerated.,“But the present generation is enough of a subculture to be a source of profitable boutiques and coffeehouses.”As these young writers and artists have distinct cultural patterns of their own,many b
18、usinessmen open up profitable boutiques and coffeehouses to cater to their special tastes and interests.“And it is not all that estranged”“It”probably means _.,Para.11 New York,A judging town,“A market for knowingness exists in New York that doesntt exist for knowledge.”In New York,a shrewd understa
19、nding or ability to appraise things is appreciated and paid for and skill and learning by themselves are not considered valuable.,Para12 New York,An advertising Center,Question:1)The rhetorical device used in“The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the citys”is _.And“The condescending view
20、 is the view of _.2)In sentence“So does an attitude which sees.”The author compares _ to _.,Para 13 New York,Lack of cynicism,Task:Collect evidence to show New York is lack of cynicism In sentence“Men and women do their jobs professionally and,like pilots who from great heights bombed Hanoi”the auth
21、or compares_ to _.,Para 14 New York,Freedom,Para 15 New York,Wounded not dying,Amenity:the attractiveness and value of real estate or of a residential structureTo succumb to:to fail to resist an attack,illness,temptation,Para 16-18 New York,New Yorkers Love,New Yorker who sees all the faults of the
22、city still prefer to live in New York New Yorks faults:Trash-strewn streets Unruly school Uneasy feeling or menace The noise The brusqueness,“He is hopeless provincial”He will always be a New Yorker.His attitude towards and his love for New York will never change“New York is the spoiler of all other
23、 American cities”New York has spoiled all the other American cities for him.,Para 19-10 New York,International Metropolis,Para.22 New York,Loving and Hating An alternating mood,1.exasperate:to excite the anger of;to cause irritation or annoyance to2.exhilarate:to make cheerful;to excite“The place co
24、nstantly exasperates,at times exhilarates.”New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but at times it also invigorates and stimulates.,Organization Pattern,1)The thesis:Loving and hating New York or more specifically:Loving and hating New York becomes a matter of alternating moods,often in t
25、he same day.2)The thesis developed by both objective and emotional description of New York and the life and struggle of New Yorkers 3)The structural organization of this essay:clear and simple,Style and Language Features,1)Full of American English terms,phrases and constructions.T-shirt holdout come
26、back put-down expense-account adman high-rise measure up,2)Use of various rhetorical devices:metaphor personification metonymy transferred epithet alliteration simile synecdoche irony euphemism,Special Difficulties,Understanding Some terms/phrases/structures out-of-phase television generation economy of effort wrong side sitcoms cloned and canned Mecca,Ivy League schools commercial Broadwayoff-Broadway/off-off-Broadway Madison Avenue/Wall Street like seeks like Wasps,
