Unit 9
一、授课时间：第15--16周
二．授课类型：课文分析8课时；习题讲解4课时
三．授课题目：The Damned Human Race
四．授课时数：12
五．教学目的和要求：
通过讲授课文使大学生了解有关马克吐温幽默讽刺的写作风格，学会用英语解释句子以达到学以致用的目的。要求学生主动地预习课文，课前准备练习，学会分析文章体裁和进行段落划分。
六．教学重点和难点：
1）背景知识的传授：About the author；
2）文章的体裁分析及段落划分；
3）语言点的理解：
Word study: allegiance; ascent; atrocious; avaricious; brood; conjecture; degenerate; descent; disposition; exterminate; gory; mutilation; oblige; rabid; scruple; wantonly
Grammar Focus: Study and learn how such contrast expressions as and, but, compared to/with, while, unlike, and on the other hand, are ud.
招聘词七．教学基本内容和纲要
Part One Warm – up
1.1 Warm-up Questions
1.2 Define the following words and phras
光棍乐Part Two Background Information
2.1 Have you read much of Mark Twain? Can you name some stories, novels or essays he wrote? How do you like him? What qualities in his writings brought him world renown? Is this essay written in his usual humorous vein?
Part Three Text Appreciation
3.1 Text Analysis
3.1.1 Theme of the text
3.1.2 Structure of the text
3.2 Writing Devices
3.2.1 Contrast
3.2.2 Humorous
3.2.3 Satire and Parallelism
3.3 Sentence Paraphra
Part Four Language Study
4.1 Phras and Expressions
4.1.1 Word list:
4.1.2 Phras and expressions list:
4.1.3 Word Building
4.2 Grammar
行都4.2.1 Object
Part Five Extension
5.1 Group discussion
八、教学方法和措施
本单元将运用黑板、粉笔、多媒体网络辅助教学设备等教学手段，主要采用以学生为主体、教师为主导的任务型、合作型等教学模式，具体运用教师讲授法、师生讨论、生生讨论等方法进行教学。
九．作业，讨论题，思考题
完成课后练习；
我的祖国诗歌多看英语报刊杂志及英语经典小说，扩大阅读量；
精听与泛听相结合，逐步提高自己的听力水平；
积极参加英语角等有助于提高英语口语的活动；
坚持用英语写日记；
做一些专四相关练习；
十．参考资料：
1) 杨立民主编,《现代大学英语精读》（4）第二版，学生用书。北京：外语教学与研究出版社,2012。
苏适2) 杨立民主编,《现代大学英语精读》（4）第二版，教师用书。北京：外语教学与研究出版社,2012。
3) 李观仪主编，《新编英语教程》（第三、四册）。上海:上海外语教学研究出版, 1999。
4) 黄源深，虞苏美等主编，《综合英语教程》（1-4册）。北京：高等教育出版社，1998。
楼阁5) 《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》，北京：外语教学研究出版社，2000。
6) Judy Pearsall主编，《新牛津英语词典》。上海：上海外语教育出版社，1998。
7) 丁往道、吴冰等编著，《英语写作手册》。北京：外语教学与研究出版社。
女孩取名字大全8) 张道真，《现代英语用法词典》（重排本）。北京：外语教学与研究出版社，1994。
9) 张道真，温志达, 《英语语法大全》上、下卷。北京：外语教学与研究出版社，1998。
十一、课后小结
Unit 9 The Damned Human Race人生感悟诗词
Part One Warm – up
1.1 Warm-up Questions
1. Do you have any idea why Mark Twain became more and more bitter in his later years? Do you agree that it was largely due to his personal misfortunes? How would you describe this essay? Serious and matter-of-fact? Scientifically detached and objective? Hilariously humorous? Bitterly satirical? Or what?
2. What is the main idea of this essay? Do you think the subject of human nature still derves our clo attention today? Is Twain’s condemnation of human beings in line with the Darwinian theory of evolution? How does the author come to doubt this? Is that the result of scientific experiment? Is Mark Twain rious when he says that he has done many months of painstaking and fatiguing work in the London Zoological Garden? What k
ind of effect do you think he hopes to achieve with this mock riousness?
3. Do you take Mark Twain’s views riously? Why do you think Twain wrote this essay? Does he have any rious purpo other than amusing his readers?
1.2 Define the following words and phras
1. sport
2. loo
3. grace
4. confined
5. occasion
6. prior
7. unhumanly
8. distinction
9. subject sth/sb to sth
10. have not scrupled to do sth
11. cheat sb out of sth
Part Two Background Information
2.1 About the author:
Mark Twain (1835---1910) was born Samuel Langhorne Clements in Florida, Missouri, but lived as a child in Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. He took the pen name Mark Twain from the call of the pilots on the river steamers, which indicated that the water was twelve feet deep, a safe depth for a steamer.During his early years, he worked as a riverboat pilot, newspaper reporter, printer, and gold prospector. But then he turned to writing, and became one of the greatest of American writers.
2.2 His masterpiece:
Innocents Abroad 1869
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885
Life on the Mississippi 1883
The Prince and the Pauper 1882
2.3 His writing style:
hilariously humorous
bitterly satirical
2.4 About the story:
The author writes about ugly human traits and dispositions. In his opinion, human beings are not ascended from the lower animals but descended from the higher animals.
Part Three Text Appreciation
3.1 Text Analysis
1. Questions for thinking:
a. How does the author contrast human beings with other animals? What specific human traits and dispositions does he condemn? How would you describe the image of human beings in the author’s writing? And what arguments does the author give to support his views?
b. Why does he say that man is the cruel animal? What examples does he give to illustrate the point? Do you agree with Twain that human beings are cruel whereas tigers, wolves, and anacondas are not?
