UnitBeingThere.ppt

,综合教程6(第2版)电子教案,Unit 6 Being There,Contents page,Contents,Learning Objectives,Pre-reading Activities,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,Consolidation Activities,Further Enhancement,objectives,Learning Objectives,Rhetorical skill:transferred epithet and rhetorical question,Key language&grammar points,Writing strategies:cohesive devices,Theme:travel and mental health,Pre-R:picture activation,Picture Activation,|Pre-questions,What is the meaning of traveling?,Pre-R:Pre-questions-1,Picture Activation|,Pre-questions,1.When asked about our hobbies,eight out of ten people will mention traveling.Many are even mad about it.When traveling,we feel free both physically and mentally,especially mentally:no work,no boss,no assignment,no deadline.What a wonderful world!At the same time,we admire the magnificence of natural landscapes,and enjoy the tranquility of the remote countryside as well as the convenience of the modern cities.There is no doubt that most of us have some kind of traveling experiences.So share one with the class.,Open for discussion.,Pre-R:Pre-questions-2,Picture Activation|,Pre-questions,2.Inside every traveler,theres a dream place that he is dying to visit in his lifetime.We always hear people,especially young people,say that“When I have enough money,I will spend my holiday in”What is your dream place?Tell us where it is and why you want to go there.,Open for discussion.,G-R:text introduction,The text is basically composed of three topics:an examination of primary motivation for traveling,a discussion of travel writing that offers useful insights into the travelers psyche,and a description of the peculiar approach held by some travelers today.,Text Introduction,|Culture Notes|Author|Structure,G-R:CN-Freud,Freud(Paragraph 8),Sigmund Freud(18561939),Austrian neurologist.He founded psychoanalysis and was the first one to emphasize the significance of unconscious processes in normal and neurotic behavior.,Text Introduction|,Culture Notes,|Author|Structure,G-R:CN-Evelyn Waugh,Evelyn Waugh(Paragraph 15),Evelyn Arthur St.John Waugh(19031966),English novelist.His work was profoundly influenced by his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.His works include,Decline and Fall,(1928)and,Brideshead Revisited,(1945).,Text Introduction|,Culture Notes,|Author|Structure,G-R:CN-Paul Theroux,Paul Theroux(Paragraph 16),(1941)American writer.He wrote fiction works that include,The Mosquito Coast,(1982),My Other Life,(1996),and,Kowloon Tong,(1997)and nonfiction travel books that include,The Great Railway Bazaar,(1975)and,The Pillars of Hercules,(1995).,Text Introduction|,Culture Notes,|Author|Structure,G-R:CN-Shiva Naipaul,Shiva Naipaul(Paragraph 16),Trinidadian writer;full name Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul(1932 ).His novels include,A House for Mr.Biswas,(1961)and,A Bend in the River,(1979).He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.,Text Introduction|,Culture Notes,|Author|Structure,G-R:CN-Graham Greene,Graham Greene(Paragraph 16),(19041991)one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors of the 20th century,a British editor,essayist,playwright and novelist.Greenes most famous works include,Brighton Rock,(1938),The Quiet Americane,(1955),Our Man in Havana,(1958)and,The Honorary Consul,(1973).He had a long association with the movies,and was involved in,This Gun for Hire,(1942),The Third Man,(1949)and,Loser Takes All,(1956).,Text Introduction|,Culture Notes,|Author|Structure,G-R:CN-Phillip G,Philip Glazebrook(Paragraph 18),English novelist and travel writer.He is the author of,Journey to Kars,(1985).,Text Introduction|,Culture Notes,|Author|Structure,G-R:CN-James Holman,James Holman(Paragraph 19),Known as the“Blind Traveler,”James Holman(17861857)was a British adventurer,author and social observer,best known for his writings on his extensive travels.Not only completely blind but suffering from debilitating pain and limited mobility,he undertook a series of solo journeys that were unprecedented both in their extent of geography and method of“human echolocation.”In 1866,the journalist William Jerdan wrote that“From Marco Polo to Mungo Park,no three of the most famous travellers,grouped together,would exceed the extent and variety of countries traversed by our blind countryman.”,Text Introduction|,Culture Notes,|Author|Structure,G-R:CN-Author bio,Anatole Broyard,(19201990)African-American literary critic.He worked for,The New York Times,for forty years.His writings include,Aroused by Books and Men,Women,and Other Anticlimaxes,.He grew up in Brooklyn and attended the New School for Social Research.After serving in World War II,he taught fiction writing at New York University and Columbia.,Text Introduction|Culture Notes|,Author,|Structure,G-R:CN-Structure Analysis,Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|,Structure,Part 1,(Para 1-11)an examination of primary motivation for traveling,Part 2,(Para 12-15)a discussion of travel writing that offers useful insights into the travelers psyche,Part 3,(Para 16-20)a description of the peculiar approach held by some travelers today,DR-p1-text,BEING THERE,Anatole Broyard,1.,Travel is like,adultery,:one is always,tempted,to be unfaithful to ones own country,.To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.There is in men a centrifugal tendency.In our wanderlust,we are lovers looking for consummation,.,Detailed Reading,DR-p2-3-text,2.,Only while traveling can we,appreciate,age,.At home,for Americans at east,everything must be young,new,but when we go abroad we are interested only in the old.We want to see what has been saved,defended against time.,3.,When we travel,we,put aside,our defenses,our anxiety,and invite regression,.We go backward instead of forward.We,cultivate our hysteria,.,Detailed Reading,DR-p4-text,4.It is our best selves that travel,just as we dress in our best clothes.Only our passport reminds us how ordinary we actually are.We go abroad to meet our foreign persona,that thrilling stranger born on the plane.,Were going to see in Europe everything we have,eliminated,or,edited out,of our own culture,in the name,of convenience,:religion,royalty,picturesqueness,otherness and passion.We cling to the belief that other peoples are more passionate than we are.,Detailed Reading,DR-p5-text,5.Theres an impostor in each of us why else would we put on dark glasses and try to speak and look like the natives of another place?,At home,we,impersonate,ourselves,;when were abroad,we can try to be what weve always wanted to be.In spite of all the recent talk about roots,many of us are tired of our roots,which may be shallow anyway,and so we travel in search of rootlessness.,Detailed Reading,DR-p6-text,6.Traveling began when men grew curious.,The influence of the church,the traditional pattern of life,the lack of money and leisure had all,restrained,curiosity until the seventeenth century,when under pressure of scientific discoveries,the physical world began to,gape,open,.It was then that people began to travel in search of the profane.,Detailed Reading,DR-p7-8-text,7.,Travel arrived together with sophistication,with the ability to see through or beyond ones own culture,with the modern faculty of boredom.,Something of the Crusades survives in the modern traveler,only his is a personal,crusade,an impulse to go off and fight,certain obscure battles,of his own spirit.,8.Of course,one of the most common reasons for traveling is simply to get away.Freud said that we travel to escape,father,and the family,and we might add the familiar.,There is a,recurrent,desire to drop our lives,to simply walk out of them,.,Detailed Reading,DR-p9-10-text,9.When we travel,we are on vacation vacant,waiting to be filled.The frenzied shopping of some travelers is an attempt to buy a new life.To get away to a strange place produces a luxurious,feeling of disengagement,of irresponsible free association,.One is an onlooker,impregnable.,10.We travel in summer,when life comes out of doors,and so we see only,summery people,nothing of their sad falls,their long,dark winters and cruel springs.,The places we visit are,gold-plated,by the sun,.The flowers and trees are like bouquets thrown to history.,Detailed Reading,DR-p11-12-text,11.And language what a pleasure to leave our own language,with its clichs stuck in our teeth,.How much better things sound in another tongue!,Its like having our ears cleaned out,.So long as we dont understand it too well,every other language is poetry.,12.,Because we travel for so many reasons some of them,contradictory,travel writing is like a suitcase into which the writer tries to,cram,everything,.At its most interesting,its a continual tasting,the expression of a nostalgia for the particular,.Its a childish game of playing countries,as we used to play house.,Detailed Reading,DR-p13-text,13.Travel writing describes a tragic arc:it begins with a rising of the spirit and ends in a dying fall.,The earliest travelers went to see,marvels,to admire the wonderful diversity of the world but the latest travelers are like visitors sitting at the bedside of dying cultures.Early travelers fell in love at first sight with foreign places but now we know only love at last sight,a kiss before dying,a breathing in of the last gasp.In some ancient societies,it used to be the custom for the son to inhale his fathers last breath,which contained his departing soul,and todays travelers do something like this,too.,Detailed Reading,DR-p14-text,14.,Travel writing has become a,quintessentially,modern thing,the present regretting the past,.,We travel like insurance appraisers,assessing the damage,.Militantly opposed to any kind of ethnic distinctions at home,we adore ethnicity abroad.Ironically,Americans need Europe more than Europeans do.To Parisians,for example,Paris is a place to live;for Americans,its a place to dream.,Detailed Reading,DR-p15-text,15.“I do not expect to see many travel books in the near future,”Evelyn Waugh wrote in 1946.He saw the world turning into a“monoculture,”,the sense of place giving way to placelessness,.What Waugh didnt foresee was that travel books would change as novels and poetry have,that,every slippage of culture would provoke its peculiar literature,.,He,underestimated,the variousness of our reasons for traveling,.,Detailed Reading,DR-p16-text,16.There have always been travelers who went to look for the worst,to find rationalizations for their anxiety or despair,to cover their disillusionment with labels,as steamer trunks used to be covered with them,.,Why else would Paul Theroux go to South America,which he so obviously,detested,?Shiva Naipauls worst fears were confirmed in Africa,just as his brothers were in Asia.Graham Greene spent four months traveling in the Liberian jungle as a private penance.,Detailed Reading,DR-p17-text,17.Even ruins have changed.,Instead of the classical ruins of antiquity,we now have places that are merely“ruined.”,And there are travelers who take,a positive delight,in them,who love awfulness for its own sake.For them,awfulness is the contemporary equivalent of the exotic.,Its a negative sublime,a swoon or ecstasy of spoliation.,Detailed Reading,DR-p18-text,18.As other countries offer fewer exotic phenomena,the travel writer is forced to find the exotic in himself and the picturesque as well.,The centrifugal tendency turns centripetal,and modern travel books may be about the absence of things just as,the classic books,are about their presence.In Journey to Kars,Philip Glazebrook seems to have visited several unappealing villages in Turkey simply for the irony of being there,.(,Irony is the contemporary travelers drip-dry shirt,.)One of the things a severely sophisticated traveler like Glazebrook seeks,is a place where he himself can stand out in absolute relief,.,Detailed Reading,DR-p19-text,19.,Perhaps in the future we shall have to travel like James Holman,who,after being,invalided,out of the British navy because he had gone blind,set out in 1819 to see the world,.Traveling mostly alone,speaking no foreign languages,using only public transport,Holman got as far as Siberia and returned home to publish in several thick volumes all that he had experienced.He rarely felt,he said,that he had missed anything through being blind.(At one point,he met a deaf man and they traveled together.),Detailed Reading,DR-p20-text,20.,Since he could not see,people often invited Holman to,squeeze,things as a way of perceiving them,and this is what todays traveler has to do.,He has to squeeze the places he visits,until they yield something,anything,.,Detailed Reading,DR:p1 Analysis,Paragraph 1 Analysis,In order to catch his readers attention,the author starts the essay with an unusual simile by comparing travel to“adultery”travelers are dissatisfied with their own countries and tempted to visit others for excitement.,Detailed Reading,DR:p2-3 Analysis,Paragraphs 2-3 Analysis,In these two paragraphs the author provides the example of Americans,who are used to“young,new”things in their own country but who are only interested in the old when they are abroad.,Detailed Reading,DR:p4-5 Analysis,Paragraphs 4-5 Analysis,In these paragraphs,the author points out that we tend to put on our best faade when we travel(“It is our best selves that travel.”),Detailed Reading,DR:p6-7 Analysis,Paragraphs 6-7 Analysis,The author explains when and why travel became popular.,Detailed Reading,DR:p8-9 Analysis,Paragraphs 8-9 Analysis,In these two paragraphs the author cites the Freudian theory to explain why we travel to“get away,”that is to escape the familiar for“a luxurious feeling of disengagement.”,Detailed Reading,DR:p10-11 Analysis,Paragraphs 10-11 Analysis,In these paragraphs the author cites two examples to show that travel could refresh people:to see summery people and to hear things said in another tongue.,Detailed Reading,DR:p12 Analysis,Paragraph 12 Analysis,After enumerating some reasons for traveling,the author moves to the next related topic travel writing.,Detailed Reading,DR:p13 Analysis,Paragraph 13 Analysis,In this paragraph the author compares“the earliest travelers”and“the latest travelers”in terms of their purposes.,Detailed Reading,DR:p14 Analysis,Paragraph 14 Analysis,In this paragraph we learn that travel books reveal many interesting aspects of our self-contradictions:we live today but miss the past;we oppose“ethnic distinctions”at home but value them abroad.,Detailed Reading,DR:p15-16 Analysis,Paragraphs 15-16 Analysis,In these two paragraphs the author argues against Evelyn Waughs idea that travel books will disappear because the world is becoming a“monoculture”by enumerating some of our various reasons for traveling.,Detailed Reading,DR:p17-18 Analysis,Paragraphs 17-18 Analysis,In these paragraphs the author further explains some of the reasons for traveling:the love of“awfulness for its own sake”and the quest for“the exotic”in the traveler himself.,For the description of exotic phenomena,travel writers have turned their attention from