大学英语精读ppt课件.ppt

1.Group Discussion,A qualified teacher in America,2.Word Web,3.Warm-up Questions,MAIN,Global Reading,After Reading,Academic Calendar,5.Background Information,4.Blank Filling,Ivory Tower,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Henry David Thoreau,Aldous Huxley,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Becoming a teacher in China,Before Reading_1.1,Group Discussion,Work in pairs and try to figure out the occupations of the people in the pictures.,Directions:,What do you want to be?,doctor,pilot,scientist,butcher,director,programmer,engineer,businessman,teacher,salesman,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Before Reading_1.2,Word Web,What words will occur to you whenever we mention the word“work”?Write down as many words as possible,then fill in the blanks with them.,Directions:,work,trade,task,profession,occupation,labor,job,career,business,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,1.Finally,Mary got a as a waitress.2.He tries not to let his interfere with his family life.3.In those days people would leave school at fourteen to learn a.4.Building still involves a lot of manual.5.The report notes that forty percent of the lawyers entering the are women.6.She didnt return to until her children began school.7.When he retires he will be able to look back over a brilliant.8.Our main is to improve the economy.,job,Before Reading_1.2-1,business,_,trade,_,_,profession,_,career,_,labor,_,task,_,work,_,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Before Reading_1.3,Warm-up Questions,What do you want to do after graduation?What do you think of taking teaching as a career?Do you think that teachers are highly respected and valued in your society?,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Theteachingprofession varies from country to country.In many countries teaching is a highly and prestigious profession.In Japan,for example,teachers receive better salaries and benefits than teachers in the United States.In developing nations,teachers often have,but their salaries are often meager(不足的)and their conditions are generally poor.In some nations,such as Ireland and Spain,the Roman Catholic Church in all aspects of education,including teachers training.All of the countries,particularly the developing nations,lose many of their most teachers to more lucrative positions in and industry.,respected,_,working,_,much,_,Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with the missing words.,Before Reading_1.4,prestige,_,participates,_,qualified,_,commerce,_,do,_,Directions:,Blank Filling,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Before Reading_1.5.1-1,A person who is preparing to become a teacher is supposed to learn the following subjects:A.liberal arts subjects(mathematics,English,history)B.courses of a particular focus on future subject(s)C.professional education courses:educational psychology,methodology,philosophy and history of education,A qualified teacher in America,1)Subjects,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Before Reading_1.5.1-2.,Almost all the schools require teaching practice,in which the student teacher,under the supervision of an experienced classroom teacher,participates in actual classroom procedures.,2)Teaching practice,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Before Reading_1.5.1-3-1,Every elementary and secondary public school teacher in the U.S.must have a teachers certificate(a license indication that the holder is qualified to teach)granted by the government of the state in which he wishes to teach.Most of the states require four years of college education for elementary teaching certificates;all the states require at least four years of college education for secondary teaching certificates.,3)Qualifications,Elementary and secondary public school,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Before Reading_1.5.1-3-2,College and university teachers are not required to take education courses or to obtain teaching certificates.However,a doctors degree in a field of specialization is almost a necessity for a teaching career in most institutions of higher education.,College and university,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Before Reading_1.5.2,Becoming a teacher in China,Listen to the following passage and retell it with the words given.,Directions:,In the past,becoming a teacher was comparatively easy for graduates,because,at that time,in the society was very low and their salary was very meager and therefore,not many graduates except those graduating from would choose to become teachers.However,with the of the importance of education and also of teachers,teachers status and their treatment have been improved,and their values are more recognized.Consequently,more and more want to become teachers,especially college teachers.Therefore,the competition becomes more and more fierce.Nowadays,the for teachers are also rising.Basically,those requirements are very much like those in America.,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,teachers status,normal universities,growing awareness,graduates,requirements,Before Reading_1.5.3,Academic calendar refers to the calendar used in an institution of education.It is a list of important events during the school year,such as when school terms begin,when exams are administered and when commencements are held.,Academic Calendar,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Before Reading_1.5.4,“Living in an ivory tower”usually depicts the intellectuals who live only for their work and dont care much about social and political affairs,They concentrate their entire efforts on the quest for what they perceive to be scientific or artistic truth.,Ivory Tower,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Before Reading_1.5.5-1,Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism(先验说,超越论).His essays had a strong influence on both American and European readers and writers in their study of mans relation to life.In a speech entitled“the American Scholar,”he called upon American students to“Know Thyself”and“Study Nature.”In the essay“Self-Reliance”he stresses the importance of sturdy independence in thought and action.,Ralph Waldo Emerson,American philosopher and writer(1830-1882),Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Before Reading_1.5.6-2,Born in Concord,Thoreau was educated at Harvard University.In the late 1830s and early 1840s,he taught school and tutored in Concord and on Staten Island,New York.After graduation from Harvard University in 1837,Thoreau started a school that was perhaps,Henry David Thoreau,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,American writer,philosopher,and naturalist(1817-1862),the first in America to introduce field trips for nature study.In 1845 he built a small cabin at Walden Pond with his own hands and lived there until 1847,spending 27 cents a week for food to supplement the vegetables he raised.In 1854,he published his masterpiece Walden or,Life in the Woods.In Walden,Thoreau records his life in the woods and describes freshly and vividly the changing seasons and other natural events and scenes that he observed.Thoreau had kept a journal since 1837,and this journal formed the basis for several books published after his death.,Before Reading_1.5.7,English novelist,essayist,critic,and poet(1893-1963)In his later works he expressed concern that the pursuit of material possessions was taking place at the expense of individual freedom and a respect or nature.He satirized such trends in Brave New World(1932),a novel set in a future world where individuality is deliberately stifled.In Island(1962),on the other hand,he presents his utopia,a libertarian community living in close harmony with its natural environment.,Aldous Huxley,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,1.Part Division of the Text,Part 5 Question and Answer,2.Scanning Reasons to Teach,3.Further Understanding,Globe Reading_main,Before Reading,Global Reading,After Reading,Part 4 Listing,Part 2 Blank Filling,Part 1 Questions and Answers,Part 3 Sentence Detecting,Detailed Reading,Globe Reading_2.1,Part Division of the Text,Before Reading,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,While all Americans are taught to want money and power,I want to teach and this greatly puzzles my friends.,I teach neither because teaching is easy for me,nor because I have so much knowledge that I must share with my students.,I love the teaching profession because teaching offers me a great number of rewards,such as pace,variety,intellectual challenge and the chance to keep on learning.,Being a teacher,I can help and see my students grow and change in front of me.,Teaching offers something besides money and power:love.In addition,seeing students growing,I find myself growing and changing with them too.,the opportunity to share with his students the happiness of their success,6._,the opportunity to teach his students to play their roles in the real world,5._,the freedom to be his own boss(the freedom to do things in his own way),3._,the variety(Teaching is a profession built on change.),2._,Globe Reading_2.2-1,Directions:Go over the text quickly and find out the reasons why the author teaches.,the pace of the academic calendar,1._,the opportunity to keep on learning,4._,Scanning Reasons to Teach,Before Reading,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,the power to help his students grow and change,the love teaching offers,the love of learning,of books and ideas and the love a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teachers life and begins to breathe,the feeling of remaining young while teaching,10._,_,8._,Globe Reading_2.2-2,the joy of seeing his students grow and change in front of his eyes,7._,9.,Before Reading,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Globe Reading.2.3.1,1.According to the author,what is the goal most Americans are taught to achieve in life?2.Do you think an administrative position has anything to do with money and power?3.Give Examples for administrative positions in a university.,Questions and Answers,Before Reading,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Most Americans are taught to manage to achieve money and power when they grow up.,Yes,it involves the management of the staff and affairs of a university,which tends to offer a higher pay than teaching.,President of a university,faculty director,dean of studies,director of teaching and discipline etc.,Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living:mechanic,writer.For me,teaching is a,profession.Red-eye,because I never feel to teach no matter how late I stay up Sweaty-palm,because Im always before I enter the,sure that I will be found out for the fool that I am.Sinking-stomach,because I leave the classroom an hour later that I was even more than usual.,ready,red-eye,_,preparing,_,Read the second part of the text carefully,then fill in the blanks.,Globe Reading_2.3.2,classroom,_,sweaty-palm,_,sinking-stomach,_,carpenter,_,nervous,_,Directions:,convinced,_,boring,_,_,Before Reading,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Blank Filling,.,Find out the concluding sentence in this part that summarizes the reasons why the author teaches.,Globe Reading_2.3.3,Directions:,Sentence Detecting,Before Reading,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,So teaching gives me pace,and variety,and challenge,and the opportunity to keep on learning.,1)The two most important reasons why the author teaches are:2)The names of his students that offer the reasons why the author teaches.,The author helps his students to mould their characters.,His students grow and change in front of him.,A._,B._,Globe Reading_2.3.4,Vicky,George,Jeanne,Jacqui,Listing,Before Reading,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,1)_,2)_,3)_,4)_,Globe Reading.2.3.5,What does teaching offer besides money and power?,Question and Answer,It offers love,not only the love of learning and of books and ideas,but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teachers life and begins to breathe.,Before Reading,Global Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Article1_S,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,Every teacher probably asks himself time and again:Why am I a teacher?Do the rewards of teaching outweigh the trying moments?Answering these questions is not a simple task.Lets see what the author says.,Why do you teach?My friend asked the question when I told him that I didnt want to be considered for an administrative position.He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a“step up”toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up:money and power.Certainly I dont teach because teaching is easy for me.Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living:mechanic,carpenter,Article2_S,Peter G.Beidler,Why I Teach,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,writer.For me,teaching is a red-eye,sweaty-palm,sinking-stomach profession.Red-eye,because I never feel ready to teach no matter how late I stay up preparing.Sweaty-palm,because Im always nervous before I enter the classroom,sure that I will be found out for the fool that I am.Sinking-stomach,because I leave the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more boring than usual.,I teach because teaching is a profession built on change.When the material is the same,I change and,more important,my students change.I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes,to learn my own lessons,to stimulate myself and my students.As a teacher,Im my own boss.If I want my freshmen to learn to write by creating their own textbook,who is to say I cant?Such courses may be huge failures,but we can all learn from failures.,Article3_S,Nor do I teach because I think I know answers,or because I have knowledge I feel compelled to share.Sometimes I am amazed that my students actually take notes on what I say in class!Why,then,do I teach?I teach because I like the pace of the academic calendar.June,July,and August offer an opportunity for reflection,research,and writing.,Before Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,After Reading,But we also set up a corporation,borrowed money,purchased a run-down house and practiced self-reliance by renovating it.At the end of the semester,we sold the house,repaid our loan,paid our taxes,and distributed the profits among the group.So teaching gives me pace,and variety,and challenge,and the opportunity to keep on learning.,I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer.The world is full of right answers to bad questions.While teaching,I sometimes find good questions.I teach because I enjoy finding ways of getting myself and my students out of the ivory tower and into the real world.I once taught a course called“Self-Reliance in