l-现代大学英语精读2-lesson1.pptx

Lesson One;Introduction ;Memorable Quotes ;The author;Poet, translator, etymologist（语源学家） Major works: First book of poems, Homeward to America, 1940 Other Skies, focusing on his war-time experience, 1947 How Does a Poem Mean, a standard textbook for high school and college poetry courses Translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy (The Inferno, 1954; The Purgatorio, 1961; The Paradiso, 1970) Influence: A very popular poet Poetry editor of Saturday Review from 1956 to 1972 Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member and former president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters;Genre;Vocabulary ;Theme;Structure;Part I;Part II;Questions;Style ;P10: Preview;Para.1: Let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a teacher. Let me tell you sth that happened when I first became a teacher. It was one of the exaperating experiences in the first days of my teaching career. Disaster: an unexpected event such as a very bad accident, a flood or a fire that kills a lot of people or causes a lot of damage. Here: used informally, “a complete failure”. Career vs job;Para.1: I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. I had just completed my graduate studies and began teaching at the University of Kansas City. Be fresh out of/from sth: having just come from a particular plave; having just had a particular experiences. fresher/ freshman, sophomore, junior , senior, graduate, postgraduate;;Para.2: New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. Though I was a new teacher, I knew I could tell him what a university was for, but I didn’t. New to sth: not yet familiar with sth because you have only just started, arrived, etc.;Para.2: I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science. I could have told him that he was