Loving and Hating New York 张汉熙高级英语第二册课件.ppt

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 understand 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 Essay Organization Pattern Style and Language Features Special Difficulties Background Knowledge  1) About the author Thomas Griffith 2) About New York City Exposition  /~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 New 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 in the United States and in the eye’s 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 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 Today isn’t any more out of phase with ______ as out of step with lost its undisputed leadership n