综合英语Book IV Unit 12.pptVIP

Background knowledge Text analysis Stylistic analysis Oral work ? Pre-reading activities Group discussion: My Remarks on University Life It is interesting, colorful, but challenging and competitive If you cherish it, you will be blessed with a rich life University is a stage where you are able to show off. University is a small society without which you can learn to survive University is a gold mine in which you dig out the most precious stone if you work hard enough University is a communications network where you are not lonely The Ohio State University (OSU) is a public research university in the state of Ohio. It was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the largest single-campus university in the United States.Ohio State is currently ranked by U.S. News World Report as the best public university in Ohio, among the top 60 universities in the United States, and among the top 20 public universities in the United States. Ohio State has been officially designated as the flagship institution of the states public system of higher education by the newly centralized University System of Ohio. Faculty in Ohio State University Ohio State’s faculty currently includes a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, twenty-one members of the National Academy of Sciences or National Academy of Engineering, four members of the Institute of Medicine,and 159 elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2008, seventeen Ohio State faculty were elected as AAAS Fellows. Each year since 2002, Ohio State has either led or been second amongst all American universities in the number of their faculty elected as fellows to the AAAS. Physics Research BuildingIn a recent study by Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Education, Ohio State was one of five universities rated as exemplary workplaces for junior faculty. In 2008, three Ohio State faculty were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, placing Ohio State among the top