英语时文泛读BI-U1英语时文泛读BI-U1.ppt

英语时文泛读Current News Articles for Extensive Reading BOOK I Education I. Overview In this unit, you will read passages concerning education. Read them and think about the purpose of education. Structure Teachers, universities and even the whole educational system have been faced with various challenges, some of which are forever topics for educationalists all around the world. Text A Battling the One Bad Apple It’s a new professor’s experience of teaching and the lessons he draws from his relationship with one “bad” student and the whole class. Text B Colleges and universities are in fierce competition in the admission process. But the competition is not just which school has a highly professional faculty, but the facilities to entertain students. Which College Brings the Bling Text C It’s a discussion of advanced placement exams and the ways different educationalists perceive it. Mixed Results on Paying City Students to Pass Tests Focus of this session II. Text A Battling the One Bad Apple Main Idea of the Text It’s a story between a young professor who just begins his teaching in college and a student in his class who is regarded as a bad apple. Background Information Author Eric was a staff writer at the Washington Post from 1993 until 2002. He has written for the Metro, Style and the Sunday Magazine sections of the paper and has written numerous frontstories about the changing cultural shifts in American society. In 1999 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. Background Information Source The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated newspaper in Washington, D.C. It is also one of the city’s oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. It is widely considered to be one of the most important newspapers in the United States due to its particular emphasis on national politics, and international affairs, and being a newspaper of record. Cultural Notes Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to