Unit-9-In-a-Manner-of-Speaking(课堂PPT).ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Part I,Listening&Speaking Activities,Part II,Reading&Language Activities,Part III,Extended Activities,Unit 9 In a Manner of Speaking,1,Cross-cultural Awareness,Audio-visual activities,Part 1 Listening&Speaking Activities,2,5/22/2025,What do you know about the cultural differences between China and Western countries,especially English speaking countries,?,Cross-cultural Awareness,3,5/22/2025,Do you know any differences and similarities between the East and the West in connotations(,涵义,)that colours hold?,Colours:East vs.West(1),Chinese:happiness,luck,glory,power,etc.(e.g.,红运、红利、红榜、红人、红头文件,),English:terror,war,or debt.(e.g.,go into red ink;be in red;red tape,),Note:green-eyed;be green with envy,Both derogatory meanings(e.g.,black market,blackmail,black sheep,黑市、黑帮、黑心,),English:unhappiness or fear(e.g.,be in the blues,feel blue,turn blue with fear),Chinese:peace,tranquility,harmony,4,5/22/2025,Colours:East vs.West(2),English:royalty,luxury,wealth,and sophistication(e.g.,be born to the purple),Chinese:good luck or success(e.g.,紫气东来、红,得发紫,),Note:The ancient Chinese royal color was yellow.,Wedding:,white wedding dress-innocence and purity,red dress-happiness and a prosperous life,Funeral:,black-quietness and solemnness,white-sadness and commemoration,5,5/22/2025,Express ones opinions,Life style,Punctuality,Interpersonal relations,6,5/22/2025,Express anger,Queuing,Ego,In a restaurant,7,5/22/2025,Sightseeing,Encountering obstacles,Three meals a day,An elders company,8,5/22/2025,leadership,Child,transportation,9,5/22/2025,How can one cope with cultural differences?,10,5/22/2025,Ang Lees Trilogy My Father Knows Best,11,5/22/2025,What sort of person do you think the“father”is?,What attitude did the father and the daughter-in-law have at the beginning?,Did the“father”and the daughter-in-law have any misconceptions about the Chinese culture and Western culture?,What should they do to cope with the cultural conflicts?,Part 2 Brainstorming,12,5/22/2025,Being Common and Average,typical,conventional,ordinary,normal,usual,common,regular,customary,standard,everyday,general,commonplace,prevailing,conformist,13,5/22/2025,Being Unconventional,queer,strange,quaint,eccentric,unusual,nonconformist,bohemian,maverick,unorthodox,misfit,odd,singular,peculiar,oddball,odd fellow,odd in behavior and appearance;whimsical,a socially unconventional person,especially an artist or writer,an unorthodox or independent-minded person(,我行我素者,),someone who behaves in a strange or unusual way,e.g.,a rather oddball sense of humor,14,5/22/2025,Making Cultural Mistakes,faux pas,mistake,blunder,embarrassing mistake,misjudgment,misinterpretation,misunderstanding,misconception,slip up,inexact,fallacies,incorrect,mistaken beliefs,especially based on unsound argument,pl.,faux pas,an embarrassing cultural mistake,15,5/22/2025,cultural shock,reversed cultural shock,clash,disagreement,friction,differences,division,dispute,controversy,the confusion or sense of being lost one feels when one returns hometown,or to where one is from after some time of staying in another place or country,Used as an uncountable single noun,cultural shock,refers to the feeling of being confused or anxious when one is visiting or staying in another country,or another place,that is very different from what one is used to.,Cultural Conflicts,16,5/22/2025,Showing Sympathy in Cross Cultural Communication,give somebody fools license,pardon somebody for ignorance,try to improve/enhance mutual understanding,try to correct cultural bias/prejudice,be tolerant about differences,be open-minded,forgive/overlook unintentional transgressions,be sympathetic towards.,view.with indulgence,excuse foreigners for making cultural mistakes in cross-cultural communication,give favor to someone from another culture;show tolerance to people;allow them to have their way,17,5/22/2025,Pre-reading Task,Read the Text,Words&Expressions,Language Work(C),Part II Reading&Language Activities,18,5/22/2025,To be a good communicator in cross-cultural communication,what elements are important besides having a good command of the language?,Pre-reading Task,Which variety of English do you speak?,Do you know any differences between,British English and American English,?,The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except,of course,language.“(,Oscar Wilde),We(the British and Americans)are two countries separated by a common language.“(,G.B.Shaw),19,5/22/2025,US,color,flavor,check,center,maneuver,tire,aging,jail,traveled/traveler,story/storied,wagon,toward,GB,colour,flavour,cheque,centre,manoeuvre,tyre,ageing,gaol,travelled/traveller,storey/storeyed,waggon,towards,SPELLING,20,5/22/2025,US,fall,baggage,cookie,store,gasoline,truck,sidewalk,doghouse,ground beef,bedspread,eggplant,baby carriage,garbage truck,freight train,GB,autumn,luggage,biscuit,shop,petrol,lorry,pavement,kennel,mince,counterpane,aubergine,pram,dust cart,goods train,VOCABULARY,USAGE(1),21,5/22/2025,US,mail a letter,please write me.,rent a car,on the weekend,art museum,installment plan,street-car,trolley-car,eraser,the first floor,skillet,restroom,washroom,pants,pants,sweater,two weeks,GB,post a letter,Please write to me.,hire a car,at the weekend,art gallery,hire-purchase,tram(-car),trolleybus,rubber,the ground floor,frying pan,lavatory,toilet,trousers,underwear pants,jumper,a fortnight,VOCABULARY,USAGE(2),22,5/22/2025,1.(US)England,has,(.)played well today,even if,it,lost.,(GB)England,have,played well today,even if,they,lost.,2.(GB)Have you got your grade in history yet?,(US)Have you gotten your grade in history yet?,3.(GB)We lived,in the High Street,.,(US)We lived,on Main Street.,4.(GB)I have got a car.,(U.S.)I have a car.I got a car.(different implications),5.(GB)One is different to the other.,(US)One is different than the other.,(Common)One is different from the other.,GRAMMAR,23,5/22/2025,Questions for skimming:,1.What is the authors intention of writing this text?,-to present the differences between British English and American English.,2.What tone has been generally adopted by the author?,-humorous.,Questions for close reading:,1.Why do many Americans find themselves linguistically uncomfortable when they arrive in the UK?,-Their mother tongue is inadequate in dealing with the complexity of the English language.Their utterance is merely a sort of vocal noise and is regarded as quaint and imprecise,and at worst as misleading and noisy.,Read the text In a Manner of Speaking,24,5/22/2025,2.What happened when the author was having lunch at a country club?,3.What does the author think of,Oscar Wilde,s comment?Who does he think should be responsible for the linguistic gap within the same language?Why?,-“he couldnt have been more right.”It is entirely the fault of the British.First of all,they always take delight in perplexing foreigners.In addition,many of the differences were intentionally created by the British because they wanted to create some linguistic differences to distance themselves as parent nation from their colonial offspring.,4.What examples did the author use to give credence to his claim that the British take a pleasure in confusing foreigners?,-cricket match,nonsense verse,off-the-wall humour,no written constitution,celebrating the,Queens birthday,in June,a language as ineffably illogical and idiosyncratic as English(e.g.different ways of pronunciation of“ough”,“goodbye”from“God-be-with-you”,“colonel”pronounced with“r”),25,5/22/2025,5.How have the British tried to distance themselves from the Americans,their colonial offspring?Examples?,-pronouncing“lieutanent”,“tomato”,“waistcoat”differently,“the first floor”to refer to the upstairs floor,“underwear”,“cookie”,“linctus”,etc.,6.What does the author mean by“half a beat behind in almost any conversation”What causes the situation to arise?,-Americans have to take a longer time than usual to make out the exact meaning of what their British partners have uttered,because of the Britons strange ways of pronouncing certain vowels and consonants.,7.What does the author think of the remark in the guidebook,An Anglo-American Interpreter,?,-Though he thinks it is an exaggeration and does not believe it,the writer admits that differences in vocabulary can make communication between Britons and Americans difficult and cause endless confusion.,26,5/22/2025,5.How have the British tried to distance themselves from the Americans,their colonial offspring?Examples?,-pronouncing“lieutanent”,“tomato”,“waistcoat”differently,“the first floor”to refer to the upstairs floor,“underwear”,“cookie”,“linctus”,etc.,6.What does the author mean by“half a beat behind in almost any conversation”What causes the situation to arise?,-Americans have to take a longer time than usual to make out the exact meaning of what their British partners have uttered,because of the Britons strange ways of pronouncing certain vowels and consonants.,7.What does the author think of the remark in the guidebook,An Anglo-American Interpreter,?,-Though he thinks it is an exaggeration and does not believe it,the writer admits that differences in vocabulary can make communication between Britons and Americans difficult and cause endless confusion.,27,5/22/2025,8.How does the author argue for the superiority of American English in its clarity of meaning?,-American expressions are nearly always self-explanatory.Even if you have never been to the U.S.,you are likely to figure out the meaning of an expression.E.g.sidewalk(self-evident)vs.pavement(offering no hint of its meaning),9.What is the peculiar habit of the British people in their discourse?,-They never say what they mean.Their speech is often characterized by studied ambiguity.Sometimes the meaning could be far from its literal meaning(a flight from literalness);sometimes the meaning could be precisely opposite to what is said.,10.What has the author learned after he married his British wife?,-table a motion;courgette,aubergine,pudding,momentarily,“You are a brick”,“Bobs your uncle”.,28,5/22/2025,Irish playwright,poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel,The Picture of Dorian Gray,(,道林,格雷的画像,).,Known for his biting wit,one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London,and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.,a dramatic downfall-imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of gross indecency with other men.,After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry.He never returned to Ireland or,Britain,.,Oscar Wilde,(1854 1900),We are all in the gutter,but some of us are looking at the stars.,我们都在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。,29,5/22/2025,Sometimes known as“the Queens Birthday”,celebrated as a public holiday in several Commonwealth countries.,The exact date varies from country to country,and it does not usually mark the real birthday of the sovereign.,Most Commonwealth Realms release a,Birthday Honours List,(,英国女王生日荣誉清单,)at this time.,Queens Official Birthday,30,5/22/2025,In the United Kingdom,the Queens Official Birthday is now celebrated on the first,second,or third,Saturday in June.,The Queens Official Birthday does not coincide with when she was born(21 April 1926).It is the Anniversary of her Coronation on June 2,1952.,It is marked in London by the ceremony of,Trooping the Colour,(,皇家军队阅兵,),which is also known as,the Queens Birthday Parade.,31,5/22/2025,In British diplomatic missions the day is treated as the National Day of the United Kingdom.,Although it is not celebrated as a specific public holiday in the UK(as it is not a working day),civil servants are given a privilege day at this time of year,which is often merged with the Spring Bank Holiday(last Monday in May)to create a long weekend,which was partly created to celebrate the Anniversary of the Monarchs Coronation.,32,5/22/2025,be up to doing sth.,physically or mentally capable of sth,e.g.I dont feel,up to,the job.,intricacies,complicated details,e.g.I enjoyed the film,but I couldnt follow all the,intricacies,of the plot.,unsettling,disturbing,causing anxiety,e.g.One of the films many,unsettling,images is of a child playing with her fathers gun.,at best,at worst,最好能,/,会,最坏能,/,会,e.g.The food was bland,at best,and,at worst,completely inedible.,innocuous,completely harmless,e.g.Some mushrooms look innocuous but are in fact poisonous.,Words&Expressions(1),33,5/22/2025,charge with,fill with emotions or feelings,e.g.The room,was charged with,hatred.,consult,refer to,e.g.He paused to,consult,his notes,and then proceeded with his questions.,foreboding,a feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon,e.g.Theres a sense of foreboding in the capital,as if fighting might at any minute break out.,be with sb.,understand what someone is saying,e.g.You look puzzled-,are you with me,?,stand ones ground,refuse to be pushed backwards,or to maintain your beliefs in an argument,e.g.Clare,stood her ground,in the meeting and refused to be intimidated even when Michael got angry.,Words&Expressions(2),34,5/22/2025,unwitting,unintentional,perplex,confuse,bewilder,puzzle,take a pleasure in doing,take delight in,e.g.Why do so many boys,take pleasure in torturing,insects and small animals.,off-the-wall,outlandish,eccentric,freaky,ineffably,unutterably,idiosyncratic,peculiar to the individual,e.g.The film,3 hours long,is directed in his usual,idiosyncratic,style.,without the faintest hint of,without demonstrating a bit of,Words&Expressions(3),35,5/22/2025,Spawn,cause to grow,e.g.The new economic freedom has,spawned,hundreds of new small businesses.,distance from,make oneself become less involved or connected with,e.g.The leader has recently,distanced himself from,the extremists in the party.,date from,date back to,e.g.The history of public education in the United States,dates from,the society of the early pioneers.,with the best will in the world,“I would like to if I possibly could”,尽管想往好处做,e.g.,With the best will in the world,I cant employ him in the shop unless I can trust him.,Words&Expressions(4),36,5/22/2025,take to doing,start doing habitually,e.g.Hes,taken to,staying out very late.,lop off,cut off,dispense with,get rid of something or someone or stop using them because you do not need them,e.g.Theyve had to,dispense with,a lot of luxuries since Mike lost his job.,in consequence,as a result,half a beat behind.,慢半拍,go so/as far as to do,go to extreme or surprising limits in dealing with sth,e.g.I wouldnt,go as far as to,say that hes a liar.,Words&Expressions(5),37,5/22/2025,muddled,(of things)badly organized;(of a person)confused,e.g.He became increasingly,muddled,as he grew older.,tally,a record or count of a number of items,e.g.Will you,keep a tally of,the number of customers going in and out?,on the face of things,从表面状况来说,acquaintance,a person that you have met but do not know well,inquire of sb about sth.,ask sb.about sth.,e.g.The director,inquired of me about,our work.,Shall I,inquire about,the price of tickets?A committee was appoin