学术英语综合 Unit 5.pptxVIP

学术英语 综合 Academic English — An Integrated Course Unit 5Philosophy Unit Contents Unit objectives Text A Text B Text C Academic language and discourse Listening Speaking Writing Unit Objectives 1. Professional Knowledge Get acquainted with some important philosophical concepts (e.g. mentalist, epistemologist, phenomenologist, behaviorist, philosophical psychology, pragmatist, feminist, ethics of care, philosophy of science, etc.) 2. Reading Summarize the main idea of a text and grasp the two sides of an argument Understand difficult sentences (e.g. sentences with abstract meaning or ambiguous reference) Analyze complex or controversial issues critically Unit 5Philosophy Unit Objectives 3. Listening Know how to use note-taking forms 4. Speaking Know how to turn to a new point in discussions 5. Writing Learn to avoid plagiarism in writing Unit 5Philosophy Unit Objectives 6. Researching Carry out a small-scale interview study to explore how Chinese college students perceive philosophy today 7. Academic language and discourse Acquire some terms related to philosophy Learn some signpost language for classification Comprehend stylistic differences between formal and informal English and acquire some formal expressions Unit 5Philosophy Text A Lead-in The American science fiction movie Matrix （黑客帝国）describes a world dominated by robots who manipulated human beings. Do you think such a world would one day come to reality? Why or why not? Discuss these questions with each other. Then read Text A to see how the writer might answer these questions. Unit 5Philosophy Text A Overview Learn more about the two philosophical terms: mentalism behaviorism Unit 5Philosophy Text A Supplementary information 1. Mentalist Mentalists are people who believe in mentalism. Mentalism is a school of philosophy which believes that mental phenomena cannot be explained by physical laws; instead, physical things can be explained in terms of mental things which exist in a r