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大学英语(全新版)第四册电子教案 Unit Seven Terrorism Teaching Objectives: Students will be able to : understand the main idea of the text; appreciate the characteristics of a familiar essay; grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text; conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities. Text Analysis: Marked by informality: the familiar essay is a short literary composition of reflective, interpretive kind, usually dealing with its subject from a limited, personal point of view in a nontechnical, often unsystematic way. All this determines its style: informal, colloquial, very often conversational. (Text A begins with a paragraph telling how “ I felt hot all yesterday.”) Using concrete, often subtle details to convey abstract ideas and inmost feelings.(in Text A careful selection of incidents to show people’s changes in attitude, behavior, mental state, etc. for example, how an African American and the author greeted each other in a friendly way, how her friend turned away when answering questions about the “9/11” event.) Searching for meaning: the purpose of the familiar essay is usually a search for meaning in the everyday context. (e.g. in text A, why were so many people wearing I. D. tags? Why was there a baby boom?) The way to dig out the true meaning of something includes: to give facts that illuminate and illustrate; to analyze cause and effect; to examine history and possibility; to consider what others have said about it. Use of figurative language: metaphor, simile; symbols; imagery; metonymy (using part of something to refer to the whole), etc. (in Text A, “ we feel as if we were faxed”—simile; the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of beauty, freedom and technological wonder). The role audience: through movement from concrete to abstract and back again, the familiar essay often gets the reader involved in interpreting matters. A good familiar essay may create in the reader an empathetic attitude to what’s happening, makin