QuickFixSociety.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,*,Quick Fix Society,What Is“Quick Fix Society”?,What is the meaning of“fix”?,How do you understand“quick fix”?,quick fix,I have to get my car,fix,ed.,We need a long-term solution,not just a,quick fix,.,“Fix”means solution.“Quick fix”in this essay means quick solution.It refers to the lifestyle of modern people who are impatient to get everything done and want to find the quick solution to everything.,Brainstorming,1.What are the three features of a quick fix society according to the author?Summarize them in your own words.,2.How is“quick fix society”reflected in,the following aspects?,transportation and communication,eating habits and consumption habits,entertainment,reading habits,learning habits,working style,II.Faster or Slower?,What are the advantages of“quick fix,society”?,What are the disadvantages of“quick,fix society”?,Do you want a fast paced life or slow,paced one?,Chinese to English,提倡，主张,同盟的，联合的,浓缩，精简,微波,漂亮的,肤浅地,版本,advocate,confederate,condense,microwave,gorgeous,version,superficially,Check-on Preview,高速公路,田园景色,老爷车,医药箱,畅销书,自动提款机,读者文摘,express way,pastoral scenery,antique car,medicine cabinet,best seller,automatic teller machine,Readers Digest,Background Information,Fast roads in the U.S.,Highways,:connect cities,公路，大路,Superhighways,:a road with six or more lanes,Interstate highways,:connect cities in different states,Freeways,:roads within a city,高速公路,Expressways,:fast roads in or near cities,Turnpike,:pay money before you use it.,Pennsylvania Dutch town,Lancaster County,the heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country,is located in,south central Pennsylvania,1 1/2 hours west of Philadelphia.Most of the Amish Country attractions are in Lancaster County,and almost all of the local Amish people live here as well.,location,Pennsylvania Dutch town,Amish,宗,阿们宗派,(,十七 世纪成立的孟诺教派,因创此教派的雅可布 阿们而得名,),The Amish are a,religious group,who live in settlements in 22 states and On,t,ario,安大略湖,北美洲中东部,(,美国和加拿大共有的湖,),Canada.The oldest group of Old Order Amish,about 16,000-18,000 people live in Lancaster County,Pennsylvania.The Amish,stress humility,family and community,and separation from the world,.,People,Pennsylvania Dutch town,The Amish was part of the early,Anabaptist(,再洗礼派教徒：,16,世纪宗教改革激进运动的成员，相信,圣经,的权威性，洗礼是对教徒内心信仰个人契约的外部证明，相信政教分离、信徒和非信徒分离,),movement in Europe,which took place at the time of the Reformation.The Anabaptists believed that only adults who had confessed their faith should be baptized,（洗礼）,and that they should,remain separate from the larger society,.They also believe in,non-resistance,and,basic Bible doctrines.,Amishs beliefs,Pennsylvania Dutch town,These people as a whole are,not as materialistic,as modern society today,.,They do not use electricity or modern conveniences,Amish men have beards,but not mustaches,Most Amish are,trilingual:dialect,of German,High German,高地德语,and English,Old Order children attend one-room schools through the eighth grade.,Amishs life style,Pennsylvania Dutch town,They are a private people who believe God has kept them together.They are a strong example of a community that supports and cares for its members.They are a people apart;they are also a people together.,Amishs life style,Pennsylvania Dutch town,“,Sunday Antiques Capital,of the United States.Over 3000 antique dealers gather here to display and sell their merchandise.,Antique shopping,Outlet shopping,Here,youll find over 240 factory,outlet stores,featuring name brands and quality merchandise prices at reduced prices.,Pennsylvania Dutch town,Scenery,Amish oldest meeting house,Hand-made quilts,Pennsylvania Dutch town,Scenery,Covered bridge,They ride their horse and buggy,（轻便马车）,and have a,slower-paced lifestyle,.,Cliffs Notes,Cliffs notes is a series of reference book written to help undergraduate students to understand and appreciate important literary works.,With such notes,students dont have to read the work itself and be able to write papers and take exams.,Iceberg Principle,After the publication of his last major work,The Old Man and the Sea,Ernest Hemingway explained his iceberg theory of fiction writing,If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader,if the writer is writing truly enough,will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them.,The dignity of movement of the iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.,The writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.,Civil War,Civil War was the war from 1861 to 1865 fought between the northern and southern states.,The Civil War battlefield mentioned in paragraph 2 is the battlefield of famous,Gettysburg(,葛底斯堡）,battle,in July,1863.At Gettysburg,Union army defeated Confederate army.This victory is the turning point of the Civil War.After the campaign,on November 19,President Lincoln delivered the well-known Gettysburg Address,.,Beethoven,Lugwig,Van Beethoven is one of the greatest composers in the world.,His famous symphonies include:,No.5(Fate),No.6(Pastoral),No.9(Choral),USA Today,USA Today,is one of the most popular daily national newspapers serving the interest of a general public in the United States.,Text Analysis,I.Text Analysis,Lets slow down and enjoy what nature offers us and what mankind has left us and rediscover life.,Theme,The theme is summed up at the very end.,Part 1(,Paras,.1,):,Part 2(,Paras,.,):,Part 3(,Paras,.,):,I.Text Analysis,Structure,3,46,78,Her ride on fast roads and her return trip of a country road,Now instead of later,Faster instead of slower,Superficially instead of thoroughly,Slow down and rediscover life,Background,Genre,Explanatory Writing,Comparison and Contrast(e.g.,para,.4),Exemplification(e.g.para.5),Use of Rhetorical Questions,Repetition of Structure and Words,II.Writing Devices,Definition,The central paragraphs(4-6)define“a quick fix society”by describing three features of such a society.,II.Writing Devices,Contrast,A contrast paragraph or essay discusses the differences between(at least)two things.,This essay mainly discusses the differences between the lifestyle of modern American people and that of American people in the past.,In the first two paragraphs,the writer contrasts her featureless ride driving on fast roads and the pleasure of the return trip of a different route.,II.Writing Devices,Contrast,Find out the words that show the contrast in the first two paragraphs.,Fast lane trip,The herd of cows is reduced to a few dots,Return trip,the herds of cowsno longer little dots this timelying in it.,Pastoral scenery slid by us at 55mph.,We drove slowly through main streets,slowing to twenty miles an hour,getting there wasnt any fun at all.,getting there had been the fun.,II.Writing Devices,Contrast,Find out the words that show the contrast in Para.4.,Once upon a time,put a little of each paycheck away“for a rainy day”,Now,take out loans,relax now,pay later,Deferred satisfaction,We arent so patient.,If we wanted to become thinner,we simply ate less.,try the latest miracle diet,Contrast in Para.4,II.Writing Devices,Contrast,Find out the words that show the contrast in Para.6.,In the past,listened to every note of Beethovens,Fifth Symphony,Now,enjoy 26 seconds of that famous theme,linger over every word of a classic novel,read the condensed version,listen to the tape,devote large parts of our days to our loved ones,replace them with“quality time”,Contrast in Para.6,II.Writing Devices,Rhetorical Questions,Why is it that the featureless turnpikes and interstates are the routes of choice for so many of us?Why doesnt everybody try slowing down and exploring the countryside?,(Para.3),A,rhetorical question,implies that the answer is obviousthe kind of question that does not need actually to be answered.It is used for rhetorically persuading someone of a truth without argument,or to give emphasis to a supposed truth by stating its opposite.,More examples,II.Writing Devices,Rhetorical Questions,How dare anyone keep America waiting longer than overnight?(Para.5),Why waste 45 minutes listening to the whole thing when someone else has saved us the trouble of picking out the best parts?(Para.6),Why are we in such a hurry to save time?(Para.7),II.Writing Devices,Rhetorical Questions,If winter comes,can spring be far behind?,Didnt I tell you he would forget?,What difference does it make?,II.Writing Devices,Repetition,is a major rhetorical strategy for producing emphasis,clarity,amplification,or emotional effect.,Repetition,II.Writing Devices,Repetition,If we wanted a new sofa or a week at a lakeside cabin,we saved up for it,If we lived in the right part of the country,we planted corn,If we wanted to be thinner,we simply ate less of our favorite foods and waited patiently for the scale to drop,a pound at a time.(Para.4),repetition of sentence structure,II.Writing Devices,Then we take our fast money to a fast convenience store,And if our fast meal doesnt agree with us,we hurry to the medicine cabinet foryou guessed itsome fast relief.(Para.5),Repetition,repetition of words,II.Writing Devices,Exemplification,Using an example or examples is one of the simplest ways of explaining anything.,e.g.Para.5&Para.6,Detailed Analysis,Part I:Main Idea,How did the author find her trip to West Virginia and back home?Why?,What did the two trips set the author thinking about?,What purpose does the third paragraph serve?,The writer took a weeks vacation in West Virginia.When she took the Turnpike to get there,she found the trip fast but very dull.When she came back,she took another way to slow down and enjoy the county life,which she found full of fun.The contrast made the writer think about whether the fast lane life of modern American people is the only lifestyle of people.,What made the writer come to think about the lifestyle of American people?,III.Sentence Paraphrase 1,For four hours,our only real amusement consisted of counting exit signs and wondering what it would feel like to hold still again.(Para.1),The 4-hour drive on fast roads was tedious;the only fun we had was to count the exit signs we were passing and to figure out how wed feel if we stopped again.,gerund as object of“consist of”,More examples,III.Sentence Paraphrase,Are you interested in,buying,second-hand books?,He has a strong objection to,leaving,early.,III.Sentence Paraphrase 2,Getting there certainly didnt seem like half the fun;in fact,getting there wasnt any fun at all.(Para.1),We had expected that our ride to West Virginia would be fun,and that half of the fun wed get from the trip would come from it.But we were wrong.It wasnt fun at all.,gerund as subject,More examples,III.Sentence Paraphrase,Its so nice,sitting,here with you.,2.,Traveling,abroad can be very exciting.,Grammar,Gerund,Definition:,Gerund is used as a noun,but like a,verb it can take an object.,Example:,For four hours,our only real amusement,consisted of,counting,exit signs and,wondering,what it would feel like to hold,still again.,Now its no use your saying anything,MotherIve made up my mind.,Gerund as subject,Gerund,Grammar,all we are good at is saving time not spending time.,Gerund as predicative,Why doesnt everybody try slowing down and exploring the countryside?,Gerund,Grammar,Gerund as object,The scene is set in the comfortable,well furnished living room of an American upper-class family,the,Kents,.,Gerund as attributive modifier,After all,why waste 45 minutes listening to the whole thing when someone else has saved us the trouble of picking out the best parts?,Gerund as apposition to“trouble”,Gerund,Grammar,The end of Grammar.,III.Sentence Paraphrase 3,We toured a Civil War battlefield and stood on the little hill that fifteen thousand Confederate soldiers had tried to take on another hot July afternoon,one hundred and twenty-five years ago,not knowing that half of them would get killed in the vain attempt.(Para.2),We visited a Civil War battlefield and stood on the little hill.One hundred and twenty-five years ago,on a hot July afternoon,15,000 soldiers fighting for slavery,while trying to occupy the hill,had no idea that they would fail and that half of them would be killed in the battle.,attributive clause modifying“hill”,13.,stuff with (,para,.2),Phrases and Expressions,a.,to fill sb.with food until one is not hungry,b.,to fill a container or space with,sth,.,especially,sth,.soft,Examples:,They,stuff the children with,food.,The bed,was stuffed with,cotton so it was very soft.,III.Sentence Paraphrase 4,We stuffed ourselves with spicy salads and homemade bread in an“all-you-can-eat”farmhouse restaurant,then wandered outside to enjoy the sunshine and the herds of cowsno little dots this timelying in it.(Para.2),to fill with,sth,.,to eat as much as you can,We had a meal in a farmhouse restaurant where for a certain amount of money you could eat as much as you wanted,and we fed ourselves with lots of spicy salads and homemade bread.After the meal,we walked leisurely outdoors to enjoy the sunshine and watch the herds of cowsthis time they did not seem like little dotslying in the sunshine.,III.Sentence Paraphrase 5,And we returned home refreshed,revitalized,and reeducated.(Para.2),When we got home,we not only felt fresh and energetic,but also felt that we had experienced a new way of life.,past participles used as subject complement,More examples,III.Sentence Paraphrase,The fire is reported,controlled,.,He was seen,angered,at the delay.,She was heard,singing,all the time.(present participle used as subject complement),The young man was considered,to have,great promise.(infinitive used as subject complement),Text Analysis,And we returned home refreshed,revitalized,and reeducated.(para.2),Alliteration:repetitive occurrence of the same letter,III.Sentence Paraphrase 6,In fact,most Americans are constantly in a hurryand not just to get from Point A to Point B.Our country has become a nation in search of the quick fixin more ways than one.(Para.3),quick solution,In fact,most Americans are always in a rush.People are not only trying to find the fast way to get around from place to place,but also looking for ways of getting things done quickly in various aspects of life.,to try to find,Fix:more contexts to observe,We were in a real,fix,(i.e.,Our car broke down and there wasnt a phone in sight.,),I need my,fix,of caffeine in the morning or I cant think.,An injection of an addictive drug such as heroin can be referred to as a,fix,The election was a,fix.,I sat and thought for a while,trying to,get a fix,on the situation.,to understand what the situation is really like,sth,.that has been dishonestly arranged,我们真有麻烦了。,Part I:Words&Expressions,Words,Phrases,Words,fix;insist;trip,tour,journey,Phrases,cant wait to;consist of;be reduced to;stuff with;in search of,Sentence Pattern,couldnt wait to;I insist that;return home refreshed,revitalized and reeducated,Grammar,so as not to;use of rhetorical questions,Part I:Exercise,Translate the fol