Unit5-Section A 新视野英语教程Book 4课件.ppt

Getting the Message Getting the Message 1. There were hundreds of books in that room. 2.?The book is a symbol of the permanence of thought and the handing down from one generation to the next. 3.?Of those same college freshman, many had ranked in the top half of their high school classes. 4.??Commercial book sales are sliding quickly. 5.?Because a cultural consumer prefers those passive activities－listening to a record, sitting through a movie, watching cartoons on televisions—requiring nothing of the cultural consumer, except for his mere presence. Reading Through New Words campus reinforce elementary rank plentiful marketplace Main Idea and Structure First reading: Scan the text and try to catch the main idea. The following words are for your reference to organize the idea: information age, precious symbol, the reading of books, endangered species Intensive Reading: Para. 1 Are Books an Endangered Species? In the house where I grew up, we had a room we called the library. It wasnt a real library, of course. It was just a small room that was dominated by a television set. But there were bookshelves built into all four walls, and hundreds of books surrounded us in that room. The books, collected by my parents and grandparents throughout their lifetimes, were a part of my childhood. Para. 2 My generation, the generation that came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, may be the last to appreciate being surrounded by millions of words working together to create plots of every kind. These days, in the 1970s, we are seeing a gradual, but unmistakable, movement away from such things. The book－a precious symbol of the permanence of thought, the handing down of wisdom from one generation to the next－may be a new addition to our list of endangered species. Para. 3 I have a friend who runs a bookstore in a college town close by. He says that he can certainly notice the changing of the tides just by looking at the things students are buying, and not b