TheBoyandtheBankOfficer自学辅导课件002.pptVIP

Lesson 4 The Boy and the Bank Officer Philip Ross Warm-up: Bank Vocabulary (1/2) How many of the following bank-related words do you recognize? Warm-up: Bank Vocabulary (2/2) Warm-up: Listen to the following dialogue andpay attention to the related wordsand expressions. Warm-up: My Experience with banks In groups of four (just people around you), take turns to share stories of your own experience with banks. Try to think of an unusual experience to report to your group. Background information About the history of the banking business: Your report Text Analysis (1/3) Plot: a man’s interference in a boy’s frustrated attempt to withdraw money form a bank. Setting: in a bank of the West Side of New York at noon one day. Protagonists: a boy, a bank officer, and “I”. Language style: informal, colloquial, short sentences, simple words, exaggerated language, use of slang (shake sb. down), lots of dialogues. Writing technique(s): for later. Text structure: next page. Theme(s): for later. Text Analysis (2/3) Part 1 paragraph(s) Part 2 paragraph(s) Part 3 paragraph(s) Text Analysis (3/3) Theme(s) Traditionally in the West, some people, especially poor people, and people who sympathize with them have regarded banks as evil enemies of the poor. Such suspicions and misgivings obviously still linger on. This article seems to prove that such prejudices of people like the author against banks are ungrounded. Or simply that people hold prejudices and tend to embarrasses themselves when they jump to conclusions too readily. fortyish: at about the age of forty the suffix “-ish”: Somewhat, near to, approximately: reddish, yellowish, grayish, darkish, fortyish; In the manner of, like: foolish, childish, girlish, boyish, womanish, snobbish; Of a country: Irish, Polish, Finnish, Spanish. 翻译：Their girlish giggles make him quite self-conscious. 那些女孩咯咯咯的笑声让他很不自在。 翻译：那些桃花看起来似粉非粉，漂亮极了。 Those peach flowers loo