1、按一下以編輯母片標題樣式,*,按一下以編輯母片,第二層,第三層,第四層,第五層,本资料仅供参考,不能作为科学依据。谢谢,Unit 10,How I Found My Voice,By,James Earl Jones,第1页,Content,Pre-reading questions,Background information,Text Structure,Language study,Text analysis,Exercises,第2页,Pre-reading questions,Have you ever spoken to a large audience?How did you f
2、eel?,Do you think voice is important to personal development?,Have you met a person who has helped/influenced you greatly?,第3页,Background information,James Earl Jones,(born January 17,1931 in,Arkabutla,Mississippi,United States,)is an American,actor,.,He is well-known for his distinctive,bass,voice
3、and for his portrayal of characters of substance,gravitas,and leadership.Since his Broadway debut in 1957,Jones has spent more than five decades as,one of Americas most distinguished and versatile actors,.,第4页,He moved to his maternal grandparents farm in,Jackson,Michigan,at the age of five,but the
4、adoption was traumatic and he developed a,stutter,so severe he refused to speak aloud.,When he moved to,Brethren,Michigan,in later years a teacher at the Brethren schools started to help him with his stutter.,He remained functionally,mute,for eight years until he reached high school.He credits his h
5、igh school teacher,Donald Crouch,who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry,with helping him out of his silence.,The teacher believed forced,public speaking,would help him gain confidence and insisted he recite a poem in class each day.,I was a stutterer.I couldnt talk.So my first year of schoo
6、l was my first mute year,and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.,第5页,第6页,shrinks and expands in proportion to ones courage.-Anais Nin,第7页,Structural analysis,This,autobiographical narration,comprises,three,parts.,Part One,(Paragraphs 1-2):,The writer presents,a striking contr
7、ast,between his,successful career,as an actor and television announcer and his,severe stutter,in his early childhood,.,第8页,Part Two,(Paragraphs 3-22):,This part mainly describes the authors stuttering problem when he was a child and the process of how Prof.Crouch,helped the boy tackle the problem,by
8、 way of forced public speaking.,第9页,Part Three,(Paragraphs 23-29):,The concluding part shows various honors and successes the writer has obtained,which further emphasizes,the great effect the teacher,has brought about on the,writers career as well as his whole life,.,第10页,Part One,(Paragraphs 1-2):,
9、Why could the author hardly believe that such good things as described in P1 could ever happen to him?,第11页,Key points:,the voice-over announcer:,an announcer who makes a commentary or gives an explanation which is heard as part of a film or television program,but he himself is not actually seen.,th
10、e New Testament,:the second part of the Bible,concerned with the teachings of Christ and his earliest followers,the Old Testament,:the first part of the Bible,telling the history of the Jews and their beliefs,第12页,Part Two,(Paragraphs 3-22):,1.Why does the author describe his moving at the age of fi
11、ve as,traumatic,?,2.Why did the author,quit,Sunday school and church?,3.Why does the author say the farm animals knew he could talk?,4.What event made the author open his mouth in public without stuttering for the first time?,第13页,I always sat down,my face,burning with shame,.,I always sat down,and,
12、blushed,as fire was burning my face because I felt ashamed.,More examples:,Absolute Construction,A number of officials followed the emperor,some to hold his robe,others to adjust his girdle,and so on.(,infinitive clause,),His voice drowned by the noise,the speaker stopped in the middle of his lectur
13、e.(,-ed participle clause,),He went off,gun in hand,.(,prepositional phrase,),The floor wet and slippery,we stayed outside.(,adjective phrase,),第14页,It was,traumatic,moving from the warm,easy ways of catfish country to the,harsh,climate of the north,where people seemed so different.,We moved from th
14、e familiar and pleasant country to the north where I felt cold both in body and in heart/,totally strange and revolting,.That was really an,upsetting,experience in my life.,transferred epithet,第15页,in a,non,denominational,fellowship,:in a close relationship,without caring about the different religio
15、ns,Granddads Irish heritage,came out in his love for,language;,Granddad had a love for language,which might have been inherited from his Irish ancestors;In weekdays,he used,plain,English,but when in church on Sunday,he spoke perfectly standard English.,第16页,come close to,:become almost the same as,e
16、.g.The language learner tries to make his speech come close to perfection.,round up,:gather together animals or people,often when they do not want to be gathered together,e.g.The teacher,rounded up,all the students and led them to the classroom.,第17页,That,awful,feeling of,my voice being trapped,got
17、worse as I grew older,.,As I grew older,I became more self-conscious of my stuttering and it got worse.,euphemism,savor,:,enjoy and appreciate,something like food,or drink,or an experience,as much as one can,e.g.1)I,savored,every mouthful of breakfast,reluctant to let it end.,2)He,savored,the words
18、as he said it.,第18页,labor,:work with difficulty,for example because one is not strong enough or clever enough,e.g.1)He was,laboring,under the strain of a worsening political crisis.,2)His classmates were,laboring,with elementary algebra.,I,started,anger,flooding,me,I stood up abruptly,overwhelmed wi
19、th anger,第19页,I stood,amazed,and,floated,back to my desk in a,daze,amid,wild applause,:p,18,I stood there,amazed,at my performance,then not knowing how,I,drifted,back to my seat,and my classmates gave me,a big applause,.,第20页,注意,I stood amazed,包含双重谓语。,双重谓语,由两个部分,(,即第一谓语和第二谓语,),组成,同时用来说明主语。第一谓语是由实义动词
20、表示,说明主语实施某一特定行为过程第二谓语通常是由,形容词、名词或过去分词,表示,说明主语处于某种状态时,所含有属性、特征或身份,。比如,:,He came back,cheerful,.(=When he came back be was cheerful.),他回来时兴高采烈。,(,说明主语“他”在回来时情况特征,:“,兴高采烈”,),He left Shanghai,a skilled worker,.(=When he left Shanghai he was a skilled worker.),他离开上海时是一个熟练工人。,(,说明主语“他”在“离开上海时”身份,:“,熟练工人”,
21、),第21页,because the lyrics rhythmic pattern,flows,by itself,.,most stutterers can sing along with the rhythm pattern which just flows by itself.,He never,pushed,anything,at,me again;he just wanted all his students to,wake up,.,From then on he never gave me pressure,and what he tried to do was to help
22、 students realize and tap their potential.,第22页,Part Three,(Paragraphs 23-29):,The,concluding,part shows various honors and successes the writer has obtained,which further emphasizes,the great effect the teacher,has brought about on the,writers career as well as his whole life,.,第23页,Isupported myse
23、lf,between roles,by sweeping floors of off-Broadway stages,.,Before acting any new role,I supported myself by sweeping the floors of off-Broadway stages.,“Can I,fly you in,from Michigan to see it?”,“Can I offer you a flight to Michigan to see my acting?”,第24页,he was still living in a world,vibrant,w
24、ith all of the beautiful treasures had stored,.,he had stored many poems by memorizing them so he could enjoy his life,with the rhythms of poetry,even after he had lost his sight.,resurrect,:cause something to live again after it has disappeared,e.g.A furious argument,ensue,d,in which both sides,res
25、urrected,all their old differences.,第25页,After-reading Questions,What is the text mainly concerned with?,What do you learn from the author of this text?,第26页,severe,smoothness in speaking,helper,assistant,close relationship based on common interest,force me to do anything,animated,第27页,retreat,press
26、ed,gritted,critique,classics,kinship,is dubious about,round up,第28页,narrative,critical,fortunate,abundance,worship,dramatically,fluent,resurrection,ABCD ACBD,第29页,mild/agreeable/gentle,passionate/enthusiastic/ardent,comment/assessment/evaluation,doubt/uncertainty,certain/definite/positive,scornful/m
27、ocking,instruction/teaching/tuition,enjoy/appreciate,第30页,place,preserve,whereas,despite,very well,extension,第31页,Exercises,1.With the development of economy,large numbers of peasants,flooded,from the countryside,into,cities to seek a job.,2.Young as he is,all judges share the opinion that his perfo
28、rmance at the international piano competition has,come close to,perfection.,3.Perhaps because of the spirits she had drunk,she was,in a daze,all the way to London.,4.In this mountain,retreat,you can find the best climate in the country.,第32页,5.He leaned back into his seat and relaxed,savor,ing the c
29、omfort.,6.What makes this young couple proud is that their child could,recite,poems,from memory,at the age of three.,7.He repeated,in public,what he had said,in private,.,8.A family,vibrant with,life and love is to be built with the joint efforts of all its members.,第33页,从,8,岁到,11,岁,我在英格兰巴思一所教会小学上学。
30、那是一所很小学校,由,4,个班级组成,每个班大约,25,个孩子,按年纪分班。普通都是由一个老师负责教一个班全部课程。不过,校长罗纳德,布罗克斯先生偶然也会到班里来,用大约一个小时时间讲授他尤其喜欢课程。他对我很感兴趣,而且很快就知道我喜欢破解难题。他经常在我进教室路上拦住我,从口袋里掏出一张纸条给我,上面通常写着数学或逻辑方面难题。伴随时间推移,题目难度逐步增大,可我非常喜欢。这些小纸条点燃了我对数学和解题热爱,这种热爱一直保持到今天。当我找出答案时,我会以为那种智力活动很有价值,或许更主要是,那是一个巨大乐趣。,第34页,Main Ideas of Text 2,Jack Kiblys ma
31、rvelous achievements on inventing microchips and thus launching a technological revolution led him to winning the Nobel Prize in physics,although he is not a physicist and never had much formal physics training in his lifetime.He has never accumulated much money out of his invention,but this has not bothered him.He always tries to be a good problem-solver in his field.,第35页,Thanks for your attention,!,第36页,