Unit Two Our Changing Lifestyle: Trends and Fads Teaching aims and demands:
To develop students ability of listening and speaking, reading and writing. To make students grasp some new words and expressions, everyday speaking ntences and grammar
Emphasis points: Section A and exercis
Difficult point: Section C
Tool: Loud speaker茶菇
Methods: listening and speaking, reading and writing.
Process:
Section A: New words and expressions
1 to go through the words with teacher
2 to read after teacher
3 learn them by heart
Questions:
1 Ask students to read the text with the questions
2 to read the text together in detail
3 ask students to read loudly and correct their pronunciation
Detailed Study of Text A
1. Our Changing Lifestyle: Trends and Fads
找零Meaning: Our lifestyle is changing all the time and there are different trends and fads at different times.
2. It is more than just clothing and hairstyles that are in style one year and out of date the next; it's a whole way of living.
Meaning: Not only clothing and hairstyles, but also whole lifestyles, are changing rapidly: they come into fashion one year, and go out of fashion the next. This tendency has become a whole way of living.
more than just: not just
阿赫玛托娃不仅仅
Survival depends on more than just right treatment.
要活下来光靠正确的治疗还不够。
This plan is more than just wild imagination; it is a possible vision.
这项计划不只是漫无边际的想像，而是有可能实现的构想。
3. Almost nothing in modern life gets away from the influence of fashion…
Meaning: Almost everything in modern life is influenced by fashi on…
get away from: escape from
逃避；逃离
Playing tennis allows me to get away from my work environment.
打网球可以使我从我的工作氛围中解脱出来。
The houwife has a chance to get away from home for a while by going to the supermarket.
这个家庭主妇只有去逛超市的时候才有机会离家外出一会儿。
4. …food, music, exerci, books, language, movies, furniture, and even names go in and out of fashion.
Meaning: …almost anything, including food, music, exerci, books, language, movies, furniture, and even names, can be popular at certain times and stop being popular at other times.
in/out of fashion: popular/unpopular
流行/不流行
At prent, Tang garments are in fashion in China.
目前中国流行唐装。
People laughed at him becau his clothes were old and out of fashion. 人们都笑话他衣服又旧又过
时。
5. In the United States, even people can be "in" or "out".
Meaning: In the United States, even people can be in fashion or out of fashion.
6. Americans enjoy following the lives of famous people: actors, sports heroes, well-known artists, politicians, and the like.
Meaning: Americans enjoy learning about the lifestyles of famous people, such as actors, sports heroes, well-known artists, politicians and so on, and try to lead a similar life.
7. In 1981, for example, an unknown elderly woman "appeared" in a TV advertiment in which she looked at a very small hamburger and complained loudly, "Where's the beef?"
Meaning: In 1981, for example, an unknown elderly woman was on TV in an advertiment. In this advertiment, she looked at a very small
hamburger and, feeling dissatisfied, said loudly and angrily, "Where's the beef?"
8. Suddenly she appeared in magazines and newspapers, and on TV shows.
Meaning: Suddenly she became so popular that her name appeared in magazines and newspapers, and she was invited to take part in TV programs.
9. However, this kind of fame does not last long.
Meaning: However, the kinds of people become well known and are widely talked about for only a short time.
10. What caus such fads to come and go?
Meaning: Why do such fads change so quickly?
come and go: pass or disappear quickly; change
我心目中的祖国
来来去去；忽隐忽现；变化无常
Fashions come and go, but this style has always been popular.
潮流变来变去，但是这种款式却始终受到欢迎。
外接电源People come and go, but I will never forget you.
人来人往，但我永远不会忘记您。
11. Although clothing designers influence fads in fashion becau they want to make money, this desire for money doesn't explain fads in other areas, such as language.
Meaning: Clothing designers start new fads in the area of fashion becau they want to earn money, but fads in other areas, such as fads in the area of language, are not caud by people's desire to earn money. make money: earn or get money
挣钱；赚钱
Don't forget this is a commercial business and we are here to make money.
别忘了这是个商业企业，我们是来赚钱的。
He came all the way to China just to make money.
他大老远地来到中国就是为了赚钱。
12. For example, why have teenagers in the past twenty-five years ud—at different times—the words groovy or awesome in conversation instead of simply saying wonderful?
Meaning: For example, why have the young people ud the words "groovy" or "awesome" at different periods of time in the past
twenty-five years when talking to others and not simply ud "wonderful", which has the same meaning?
13. According to an expert in popular culture, people who follow fads are not foolish or vain…
Meaning: An expert who studies popular culture says that people follow fashionable interests or activities neither becau they don't have good n nor becau they think too highly of themlves…
Key to exercis
Reading Out
lasts important survives trend certain
Getting the Message
DCCDA
江西特色Using the Right Word
Furniture appear advertiment desire foolish creates economy additional
Working with Expressions
中国好青年in to about towards at in for to
Translating
A
1. If he starts talking about the past, you'll never get away from him.
2. There is a tendency for job loss to ri in the winter.
3. Becau of my frequent demands, father finally agreed to go to Australia with me.
4. He sold his shop and opened a new one to make more money.
Using T opic-related T erms
come and go in style out of date teenagers following fads fashion Basic Writing Skills
Homework:
Focusing on Sentence Structure
Translating
Section B: Heavy Body, Not Heavy Heart
New words and expressions
to go through the words with teacher
to read after teacher
learn them by heart
Questions:
1 Ask students to read the text with the question
2 to read the text together in detail
3 ask students to read loudly and correct their pronunciation
Detailed Study of Text B
考研历年真题1. Heavy Body, Not Heavy Heart
Meaning: Although we are overweight, we are healthy and happy.
Notice in this text, the author criticizes the negative attitudes towards fat people and tries to tell people from her own experience that overweight people are not necessarily unhappy or unhealthy people.
2. I worked full time, went to school full time, smoked, and lived off fast food and soft drinks.
Meaning: I had a full-time job and then studied as a full-time student; I smoked and had fast food and soft drinks almost all the time.
Notice the author tries to tell people that she had a very unhealthy lifestyle then.
live off: get one's food or income from
靠……过活
The people on this island live off afood.
小岛上的居民吃的主要是海产品。
He lived off his uncle after his parents died.
父母去世后，他由叔叔供养。
3. Now, at a weight considered to be dangerously high by medical charts,
I live better than ever.
Meaning: Now I'm considered to be so fat that I may be in danger of having health problems according to standards for good health. However, now my life is better than any other time in the past.
better than ever = better than ever before ( the best)
4. …I enjoy walking, swimming and dan cing class.
Meaning: …I get pleasure from walking, swimming and dancing class. Plea notice the verb "enjoy" is followed here by three gerunds (动名词)
