《新时代核心英语教程 综合英语1》Unit 7 教师用书.pdfVIP

Unit 7 National Stereotypes I. Unit Overview In Text A, Matti Arpola, a Finnish young visitor to Britain, met James Saxon on a train. This man’s dressing and manner evoked Matti’s wild imagination about his life and identity. He was predicted to be an average or miserable British man, probably an office clerk or a shop assistant, with a plain wife and several children and were struggling to make ends meet. However, this judging based on the man’s appearance failed. According to Matti’s host Geoffrey, Sir James Saxon is a naturalized British with a Finnish origin, and an influential billionaire. Matti learned from the incident not to judge people by their appearance alone. In lecturing about the text, Ts should guide Ss to explore the origin of Matti’s imagination about the man, and question whether it is well-founded or not. Comparing Matti’s prediction with the man’s true identity, Ss are encouraged to think further about the influence of bias, stereotypes and sentiments in judging a person. As a language feature, adjectives are frequently used in Text A to describe Sir James Saxon, and Ts could plan more exercise for Ss to practice integrating those adjectives into their own writing. Unlike Text A, Text B is a non-fiction about English character. The author describes how an Englishman talks and thinks from several perspectives, including P. C. Buck, AndréMaurois, and H. A. L Fisher’s accounts. Ss could learn how different opinions are reorganized to reveal the author’s opinion about the English manner. In the text, there are many culturally loaded words including important names and incidents in English history. Ss should learn to explore them in library or on the Internet instead of relying on the Ts too much for factual based knowledge. However, Ts should gi