新标准大学英语第二册U2 Mixed Feelings讲稿.docVIP

Unit 2 Mixed feelings Active Reading 1 How empathy unfolds I. Warming-up exercises 1. Look at the following pictures and describe the emotion shown in each picture. 2. Discuss the question: Do you sometimes try to hide your emotions? Why or why not? 3. Skim the text, and find out the definition of empathy and sympathy in the passage. Empathy originates from a sort of physical imitation of the distress of another, which then evokes the same feelings in oneself. (Para. 3) Sympathy is felt for the general plight of another with no sharing of what that other person is feeling. 4. Now decide whether the feelings or actions described below are a result of Sympathy (S) or Empathy (E). sending a card to someone who is in hospital feeling happy because your friend has won a scholarship to a prestigious university trying to comfort someone who has had bad news reacting physically when you see that someone is in pain collecting money to help the victims of a natural disaster crying at the end of a film Summary: Sympathy= I can understand your pain. Empathy= I feel your pain. II. Text Organization Cf. ppt. III. Comprehending the text 1. What did Hope do when she saw another baby fall? Tears welled up in her own eyes and she crawled off to be comforted by her mother. 2. Why did Michael give his teddy bear to Paul? He did it to comfort Paul. 3. Who observed and recorded these actions? The babies’ mothers observed and recorded these actions. 4. When do psychologists believe that humans begin to experience empathy? They believe that humans begin to experience empathy virtually from the day they are born. 5. Which example shows that babies sometimes don’t realize they aren’t the ones who are suffering? The example of babies who imitate the distress of someone else. 6. When was the word empathy first used in English to describe such reactions? The word empathy was first used in English in the 1920s by E. B. Titchener. 7. Why was the word sympathy