Lesson Two The Game of the Name 高英5, 第二单元,课后答案.doc

Lesson Two The Game of the Name I. General Arrangement 1. Class Hours 9 2. Teaching Content 1) Background; 2) Language points 3) Structural Analysis of the Text; 4) Topic discussion 5) Exercises 6) Homework: Dictation; Recitation; Writing. 3. Objective: The text gives us some useful general ideas on the particular aspect of American culture, especially some basic rules in this aspect. By learning the text, the students are supposed to know something about the addressing rules of the English-speaking countries. More significantly, the text will help increase the students’ cultural awareness or cultural sensitivity, which, many language teachers have come to realize, should be made one of the goals in teaching. 4. Methods to be applied: 1) Questions and answers (comprehension of the text) 2) Pair work (greeting practice) 3) Oral presentation (talking about Chinese greeting customs) II. The Important Points 1. Language points: a passing acquaintance; speech community; at first thought; a trivial pursuit; unconsciously assimilated; in turn; Social Identity plus Last Name; be obliged; Your Honor; carry on; etc. 2.?????? Main idea of the text 3.?????? Structural Analysis of the text 4.?????? Word study: assume, oblige, identify, suspend 5.?????? Grammar: determiners and pronouns III. The Difficult Points 1. Develop Cultural Sensitivity. 2. How to address appropriately/How to address different people in different situations. IV. Detailed Study of the Text 1. What rhetorical device is employed in the title “The Game of the Name”? a. metaphor The matter of address is compared to a game. Why a game? Rules. b. assonance: agreement between stressed vowels in two words, also called echo, half-rhyming, as in “sharper, garter” “hark, lark”. Assonance produces a pleasant effect on the reader when he reads aloud. There is something musical involved, that is euphonious, while the problem of address is a serious matter, the writer is in a sense humorous about it whi