【精读课堂】《新高考英语拓展阅读》Unit 1 外貌特征.ppt

Para. 1 politeness. It can also hide true feelings. It often causes confusion across cultures. For example, many people in Russia consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even improper. Yet many Americans smile freely at strangers in public places (although this is less common in big cities). Some Russians believe that 词块 Para. 1 Americans smile in the wrong places; some Americans believe that Russians don’t smile enough. In Southeast Asian cultures, a smile is frequently used to cover painful feelings. Vietnamese people may tell a sad story but end the story with a smile. 一词多义 词块 Para. 2 Our faces show emotions (情感), but we should not attempt to “read” people from another culture as we would “read” someone from our own culture. ①The fact that members of one culture do not express their emotions as openly as do members of another does not mean that they do not experience emotions. ②Rather, there are cultural 词族 词族 长难句 长难句 Para. 2 differences in the amount of facial expressiveness permitted. For example, in public and in formal situations many Japanese do not show their emotions as freely as Americans do. When with friends, Japanese and Americans seem to show their emotions similarly. 词族 Para. 3 It is difficult to generalize about Americans and facial expressiveness because of personal and cultural differences in the United States. People from certain cultural backgrounds in the United States seem to be more facially expressive than others. ③The key is to try not to judge people whose ways of showing emotion are different. If we judge according to our own cultural habits, we may make the mistake of “reading” the other person incorrectly. 构词法 长难句 词块 词族 试题 3. What should we do before attempting to “read” people? A. Learn about their relations with others. B. Understand their cultural backgrounds. C. Find out about their past experience. D. Figure out what they will do next. 词块 Step 2：精深语篇，培养意识 词族 face, 构词法 generalize: express, facial