综合英语4Unit6AFrenchFourth.ppt

Free Template from 2006 Unit 6 Text I A French Fourth Warming-up How much do you know about American culture? National Day/ Anthem/ Flag… The Star-Spangled Banner Short Video: Barack Obama’s inauguration Address What have you got from this speech? Questions for discussion: 1. What do you usually do to celebrate National Day? 2. Suppose you were abroad, would you do anything special to commemorate the occasion? 3. What are the benefits and difficulties/ costs of raising children in a foreign culture? Background information: Globalization makes people can touch their own cultures more easily and children abroad can learn the history of their motherland from school. The culture divide between different countries is less jarring. However, people are less fully immersed in a truly foreign world. Language Work 文中出现的重难点单词及短语: fold away, expatriate, convey, happen to, confirm， recall， pursue， bring up， sinister， peer， immerse fold away : 1) make something into a smaller, neater shape by folding it, usually several times These camping chairs can be folded away and put in the trunk. The piece of paper was folded away carefully and tucked into her purse. expatriate v. give up residence in ones homeland 移居国外 释例This immigrant’s citizenship was revoked and was expatriated because he had concealed his criminal record. 这位移民因为隐瞒了犯罪的事实被取消了国籍并被驱逐出境。 点拨 exile特指离开某人的祖国，或因遭到法律上的驱逐非自愿地离开或因形势不利而自愿地离开，例如: When the government was overthrown，the royal family was exiled. 政府被推翻后，皇室遭到驱逐。 expatriate常常是自愿地离开并可能意味着国籍的改变。 deport指由政府下令将某外国人驱逐出境的行为。 extradite用于将被指控罪的人交给对他或她有审判权的国家， 例如:The court refused to extradite political refugees. 法庭拒绝引渡政治避难者。 refuel: Its original meaning is to fill with more fuel for a vehicle but here it means to fill someone’s mind with more knowledge of their native culture. recharge Oil tankers will accompany the containers for t