大学英语精读第一册-unit-4-Turning-off-TV.pptVIP

Globe Reading.2-part2.1 Discussion: Read the text and summarize the benefits of turning off TV for an hour. People could communicate with each other better find more active entertainments read books so that they are well-educated read stories aloud watch the sunset see the neighborhood might come up with better programs 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7. 6. Scanning What does a real family hour refer to? It refers to an hour when family members might sit around together, doing sth. meaningful like talking to each other and reading novels, etc. If there had not been for the distraction of TV, they might sit around together after dinner and really talk to one another. 介词短语without…相当于一个以if 引导的条件从句，常用虚拟语气。但是，without有时也不用虚拟语气。 I can’t do it without your help. 表示“希望你能帮我”。 I couldn’t do it without your help. 表示“事实上你会帮我的”。 Without his pension, he would have starved. P70, L6:without the distraction of TV…. 1. What can we infer about the writer’s attitude? P70, L7-9 2. Translate this sentence into Chinese. 众所周知，我们的许多问题 —— 事实上是所有的问题，从代沟、高离婚率到某些精神疾病 —— 至少部分是由于缺乏交流而引起的。 TV has taken people away too much so that the lack of communication has caused many social problems. 1. Why does the author use the rhetorical question “remember feet?” P70,L14-15 This rhetorical question implies that Americans are now so used to traveling by car or other vehicles that many people almost forget that they can walk to some place. This perhaps can also explain why America is sometimes nicknamed as “a country on wheels”. 2. Why does the author encourage us to “to see the neighborhood with fresh, new eyes”? We might pass the neighborhood everyday but have no time to enjoy it. When we are back from work, we prefer to stay at home, watching TV to kill time rather than going out. Seeing it with fresh, new eyes might help us to find something we haven’t noticed before and appreciate the neighborhood even more. What does the word “rediscover” mean? P70,L17 It means “to find again”. After TV appeared, people spe