新编英语教程 4

For your promising future

Unit Nine

Objectives

1. to learn to appreciate the creativity involved in narration.

2. to grasp such words as manner and substitute.

3. to understand usage of metaphor

Teaching Tasks and Process

I . Pre-reading questions

If one day big fortune befalls on you, how will you behave and how do you think your fellow classmates will behave?

II Background Information

love and money Equating love and money is a habit we often

pick up from our families, says Price. Rather than saying "I love you" or spending time showing it, parents indulge their children with material gifts as a way of demonstrating or compensating for affection. When these kids become adults, they can feel unloved unless they are being given something.

Money can be a hot-button issue for women because it's intertwined with the concept of caretaking. "You could take two independent, capable people, but when you put them in a relationship, their expectations around money change. A lot of old stuff surfaces," says Price. Suddenly, a woman may feel that the man should be the provider, and if he isn't, then he doesn't love her enough, Price explains. Self-worth issues easily become magnified in relationships--and the lower the self-esteem, the higher the need or expectation.

That's what happened with a couple who came to see Levinson. Both partners were self-sufficient, with good jobs, incomes and credit ratings. But after their wedding, the wife began mismanaging money and racking up debt. Marriage uncovered her need to feel taken care of, and overspending was a way of asking for attention. Once the couple understood this, the husband made a greater effort to look after his wife--but in non-monetary ways like cooking and running errands. The wife's overspending stopped, and she had become aware of a powerful, hidden desire.

III Language points

1. A town has a whole emotion. This is a metaphor. Metaphors are more common than similes because they are more immediate. Even our daily speech is full them. More examples of metaphors from the text: The essence of pearl mixed with essence of men and a curious dark residue was precipitated. The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the

pressure of it.

Examples of metaphors from everyday speech: Mary saw red at this new source of opposition. He crowed with pride at his success. We are continually left in the dark as to the intentions

of the teacher. Examples of similes from the text: The news stirred up something infinitely black and ev

il in the town: the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld.

2. … and someone had to take his place. Take his place —substitute for him Cf.: take the

place of —substitute for More examples: After the director retires, Mr. Wang will take his

place. With the development of the electronic industry,

transistors have taken the place of vacuum tubes (or valves).

3. All manner of people grew interested in Kino… all manner of — every kind of, all sorts of, many different type

s of More examples: All manner of measures have been taken to improve the emerg

ency treatment service in that hospital. Some publishing houses adhere to the principle of publishing al

l manner of books of academic value even if they may incur losses in doing so.

4. 英语中表示“副”的说法 A.vice-          president  chairman  premier  minister  

consulB.sub -         editor  dean  heading/titleC by-            product  road( 小路 支路） effect( 副作用）D side-          line( 副业） effectE assistant-   commandant manager engineerF auxiliary-     pump  shaft( 副井） tank （副油箱）G deputy-      director( 副主任） secretary  mayorH associate-  professor  editor

Discussion/Exercises

Free discussion

There is a famous sayings going like this: one can not keep his character integral if he can not access how his life and happiness are affected by external elements. How do you think about this statement 、

Assignments

Further reading concerning money Engineers and scientists will never make as much money as business executives will.

Now, for the first time we have a rigid Mathematical proof that explains why this is in fact true.

Postulate 1: Knowledge is power.

Postulate 2: Time is money.

As every Engineer knows, Work / Time = Power

Since Knowledge = Power, and Time = Money, we have Work / Money = Knowledge

Solving for Money, we get: Work / Knowledge = Money Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero,

Money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done.

Conclusion: The less you know, the more you make.