综英5-Unit-06-How-America-Lives.pptVIP

Cover page Pre-R: picture activation Can you specify typical Americans? Pre-R: Q1 1. With the ever-increasing contact between the Chinese and American peoples, we are getting to know each other better. Based on your communication with some Americans or your reading about that nation, what opinions do you hold about the American people? Pre-R: Q2 2. Chinese and Americans are two great peoples in the world. They have obvious similarities and differences. Make some comparison and contrast between them. G-R: text introduction James Albert Michener, in this text, shows readers changes of American society in: politics, courtship and marriage, feminist; and also the existence of three serious problems in: school education, jobs opportunities and welfare, and housing for the young. Despite these problems, the writer feels confident that America has good prospects. He feels proud of his motherland, of the great American people, and of the unique American democratic system. G-R: culture notes-1 Puritanism (Paragraph 3) the practices and doctrines of the Puritans who were members of a group of Protestants in 16th- and 17th-century England and 17th-century America who believed in strict religious discipline and called for the simplification of acts of worship. The movement was an attempt to remove Roman Catholic influences from the Church of England. G-R: culture notes-2 balanced system of government (Paragraph 8) The concept refers to the three branches of the United States government — the legislative, the executive, and the judicial — that restrain and stabilize one another through their separated functions. The legislative branch, represented by the Congress, must pass bills before they can become law. The executive branch — namely, the president — can veto bills passed by the Congress, thus preventing them from becoming law. In turn, by a two-thirds vote, the Congress can override the presidents veto. The Supreme Court may invalidate acts of the Congress by decla