英语专业三年级教案 Unit One Hit the Nail on the Head.doc

英语专业三年级 教案 方笑君 Unit One Hit the Nail on the Head About the Author Alan Warner — an English teacher at Makerere College Kampala, Uganda. In this essay, he suggests that students whose native language is not English should use right words and expressions whenever they learn English. Background: Related famous persons some useful information Gustave Flaubert (1821~1880) — French novelist, was associated with the movement of naturalism and known as one of the greatest realist of 19th century France. He devoted his life to long hours in heavy toil over his work. His writing is marked by exactness and accuracy of observation, extreme impersonality and objectivity of treatment, precision and expressive in style, or the principle of the exact word (le mot juste). Mrs. Malaprop — a famous character in Sheridan’s comedy “The Rivals” (1775). She is noted for her blunders in the use of words “As headstrong as an allegory (alligator) on the banks of the Nile” is one of her grotesque misapplications. She also requests that no delusions to the past he made. She has given us the word “malapropism” (a ludicrous misuse of a word) as a name for such mistakes”. Hindi — a literary and official language of northern India. Swahili — a Bantu language used widely in East Africa and in the Congo region. Bantus — people belonging to a group of tribes found in equatorial and southern Africa. Uganda — an independent country in east Africa. Until 1962, it was a British colony. Chic [∫i:k] — fashionable, smart and elegant in French. Weltanschauung — world view in German Ahimsa — Hindi word meaning the Hindi and Buddhist doctrine of refraining from harming any living being. Safari — a trip through wild country, especially in east or central Africa, hurting or photographing big animals. Explanation to Text One hit the nail on the head ?atn English proverb, meaning: use the right word exactly; guess a right word; arrive at the exact conclusion. Synonyms: clumsy — implies stiffness, heaviness,