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Unit Three Text A The Three New Yorks Warming - up Where are you from? If you come from other places, what’s your opinion on the city of Nanjing? What’s your opinion on the local residents and migrants in this city? Describe the city that impresses you the most. Describe the local residents and migrants in that city. About the author Elwyn Brooks E. B. White (July 11, 1899 - October 1, 1985)[1] was an American writer, best known as the author of childrens books Charlottes Web. True or False Questions According to the writer, commuters are the greatest New Yorks. Commuters are too busy to enjoy the city of New York. When the train is buried in the mud at the bottom of the East River, commuters would become quite anxious. Commuters have to work as hard as local residents to climb the career ladder. Even people who have no real independence of spirit can find in New York a protection. About the title What does New York in the title mean? Does it refer to the city or people living in this city? Why? Paragraph 1-2: three kinds of New Yorks There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. (natives) Paraphrase: The first New York of the man or woman was the local residents, who was born and brought up here, and naturally accepts New York as a large and chaotic metropolis as it is. Second, there is the New York of the commuter – the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. (commuters) Discussion: Why did the writer compare this New York as locusts? Why did they come New York ? Metaphor Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. (settlers) In your opinion, what did they search for in this city? Of the three New Yorks, which one is the greatest? Why? The third accounts for the city’s high-strung disposition poetical deportment dedication to the arts Inc