新世纪大学英语第四册教案unit 2.doc

Unit 2 Text I Space Invaders ? Background information: ?????? 1. About the text: This text was originally published in New Yorker on July 24, 1993. later in 2001 it appeared again in The Princeton Anthology of Writing: Favorite Pieces by the Ferries Writers at Princeton University. ?????? About the author: Richard Stengel is a senior writer working for Time magazine. ?????? 3. malthusian logic: the theories of the British economist Thomas Robert Malthus(1766-1843), which state that population increases faster than the means of subsistence unless war, famine, or disease intervenes or efforts are made to limit population. ?????? 4. long island: an island in southeastern New York. The New York city boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens are at its west end. ? Analysis ?????? The writer points out that nowadays people are more and more concerned about themselves and want to have a larger personal space than decades ago, and then he analyses the cause of space invasion. It can be divided into three parts ? Part I paragraph 1-2 ?????? The following question may be asked: How did the author describe the violation of personal space that happened in a bank? Part II paragraph 3-7 ?????? The following questions could be asked : Is “personal space” a phrase of the seventies? Is it out of date nowadays? Why or why not? Do you agree with the author about the reasons of space invasion given in Paragraph 4? What other factor have caused it? What does the author mean by saying “personal space is mostly a public matter”? Do space invaders respect other people’s personal space? Part III paragraph 8-9 ?????? Questions to be asked: Do you agree with the writer’s view that the contraction of the outer, personal space is proportion to the expansion of the inner space of modern man? Do you think we Chinese people have comparatively more personal space or less? Is Chinese personal space now the same as it was decades ago? Why does the author decide to expand his co