大学英语精读第一册Unit-1-The-dinner-Party.pptx

Unit 1 Text2 The Dinner Party Song Yixuan Xiao Yao Xiao Ying Unit 1 The Dinner Party Warm-up Questions Background Information New words and Phrases Text Text Analysis Activities Some Remarks about Women Frailty, thy name is woman!——William Shakespeare 女人，你的名字叫脆弱。 Of all people, servants and women are the most difficult to behave to. ——Confucius 唯小人与女子难养也。 Women are referred to as the weaker sex. Who do you think are braver in a case of crisis, men or women? 2.If you are a man, are you ready to protect a woman in danger? Why? If you are a woman, do you expect protection from a man? Why? Warm-up Questions About the Author and the Story Information related to the text The Dinner Party’ by Mona Gardner, an American woman writer, is selected from The Saturday Review of Literature, 1941. Mona Gardner, an American woman writer. Most of her short stories were written for the Saturday Evening Post magazine Cobras, found in some parts of Africa and Asia, are poisonous snakes. Most cobras bite their victims and their bite may cause death within a few hours. 2. Cobra The king cobra, the largest of all poisonous snakes, may reach a length of 18 ft (5.5 m) and feeds chiefly on other snakes. Women have long been referred to as “weaker sex” or “fairer sex,” considered naturally weaker than men, squeamish, unable to perform the work that requires muscles or pluck the courage to face up to any crisis. And even today, such a prejudice has not entirely been eliminated and the argument in the text shows how hard long-standing prejudices die. 3.Prejudice Against Women General Reading Read in The Dinner Party Time Characters Event Place narrative text a colonial official and his wife, and the guests during the colonial period India General Reading how the hostess showed her great courage and presence of mind when facing danger Rearrange th