最新第三版新视野大学英语第二册课文翻译.pdfVIP

精品文档 Unit 1 An impressive English lesson 1 If I am the only parent who still corrects his childs English, then perhaps my son is right. To him, I am a tedious oddity: a father he is obliged to listen to and a man absorbed in the rules of grammar, which my son seems allergic to. 2 I think I got serious about this only recently when I ran into one of my former students, fresh from an excursion to Europe. How was it? I asked, full of earnest anticipation. 3 She nodded three or four times, searched the heavens for the right words, and then exclaimed, It was, like, whoa! 4 And that was it. The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were captured in a condensed non-statement. My students whoa! was exceeded only by my head-shaking distress. 5 There are many different stories about the downturn in the proper use of English. Surely students should be able to distinguish between their /there /theyre or the distinctive difference between complimentary and complementary . They unfairly bear the bulk of the criticism for these knowledge deficits because there is a sense that they should know better. 6 Students are not dumb, but they are being misled everywhere they look and listen. For example, signs in grocery stores point them to the stationary , even though the actual stationery items — pads, albums and notebooks — are not nailed down. Friends and loved ones often proclaim theyve just ate when, in fact, theyve just eaten . Therefore, it doesnt make any sense to criticize our students. 7 Blame for the scandal of this language deficit should be thrust upon our schools, which should be setting high standards of English language proficiency. Instead, they only teach a little grammar and even