【教学活动】
Discussion and workshop
第五章
Blackmail （8学时）
【基本知识】
1. The background knowledge: Structure of a story/ New Orleans
2. Text analysis: setting---plot---end (suspense)
3. Vocabulary: words denoting sneering---actions done by characters, words suiting the backgrounds of characters 4. Character analysis
【基本概念、理论】 Setting, character, action, conflicts, climax,
suspense and denouement
【教学重、难点】 Discourse analysis; narrative writing 【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop
第六章 The Age of Miracle （8学时）
【基本知识】
1. The background knowledge: Byzantine art; Oxford tutorial
2. Text analysis: purpose & thesis of the text; ways of developing the text---comparison, contrast, analogy, identification, illustration, analysis, definition, etc.
3. Vocabulary: words denoting computer; specific verbs and adjectives 【基本概念、理论】 Antonomasia; transferred epithet 【教学重、难点】 Understanding the text; Words and expressions denoting
computer
【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop
第七章 Mark Twain --- Mirror of America （10学时）
【基本知识】
1. Background information: 1) Mark Twain’s Childhood 2) Westward expansion 3) Puritan
2. Text analysis: character ---three stages of writing career---conclusion
3. Figures of speech: metonymy, synecdoche
【基本概念、理论】 Synecdoche; metonymy; euphemism；
【教学重、难点】Understanding the text; Descriptive words and expressions
denoting man’s personality or things; Compound nouns and compound adjectives
【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop
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第八章 The Trial That Rocked the World （8学时）
【基本知识】
1. The background knowledge: 1) Fundamentalism 2) Darwinism
3) Procedures of a trial and legal terms
2. Text analysis: beginning --- the trial and the result 3. Vocabulary study: legal terms?
【基本概念、理论】Irony; sarcasm; oxymoron 【教学重、难点】Understanding the text; Words and expressions denoting legal terms; discourse analysis
【教学活动】Discussion and workshop
第九章 1776 （10学时）
【基本知识】
1. Background knowledge:
Sherman Edwards; Peter Stone The declaration of Independence The characters in the play 2. Text analysis: 1) Musical comedy
2) The reenact ion of the forceful drama of history
3) The interesting insights into the interplay of human nature and political destiny at a moment of historical significance 【基本概念、理论】 Structure of play
【教学重、难点】 Understanding the text; words and expressions; discourse analysis
【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop
注：该教材第一册的其他课文均为学生自学材料，纳入期末测试内容
第三学年第二学期(春学期)教学内容(72学时)
【教学重、难点】
1、课文理解 （了解） 2、词汇学习 （掌握） 3、修辞与写作（掌握）
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《高级英语》Book II
第一章General Introduction to the course（2 学时）
【基本知识】 Brief introduction to the course (II)
【基本概念、理论】 The purpose of this course; approaches employed in the
course
【教学重、难点】 The textbook used 【教学活动】 Discussion; workshop
第二章 Face to face with Hurricane Camille （8学时）
【基本知识】1.Background information: Hurricanes’ name, birth, growth and
damages
2. Text analysis: a comparative study about what the Koshaks
do before, during and after the devastating hurricane 3. Vocabulary study: effective action verbs
4. Rhetoric and writing: structure of narration, depiction of character, rhythm of narration 5.basic sentence faults
【基本概念、理论】Asyndeton and polysyndeton；structure of narration,
depiction of character, rhythm of narration
【教学重、难点】Understanding the text; Narrative writing; effective action verbs
【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop
第三章 Pub Talk and the King’s English（8 学时）
【基本知识】
1. Background knowledge: British pubs; Pub-friends; Henry Fairlie
2. Text analysis:
1) Main idea- What makes a good conversation?
2) General discussion of the charm of Bar conversation-illustration with the charming conversations he had with some people one evening in a pub on the topic “the King’s English”.
3) Seemingly loose organization: title- transitional paragraph- digression
3. Vocabulary: Idioms; highly informal language
4. Rhetoric & writing: Copious literary and historical allusions; mixed metaphors; simile; deliberate use of a conversational style 【基本概念、理论】 Description
【教学重、难点】 Discourse analysis; Idiomatic expressions; Allusions;
the use of transitional devices
【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop
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第四章
Inaugural Address （10学时）
【基本知识】
1. The background knowledge: the American’s presidential elections,
inaugural address, inaugural ceremony & Kennedy
2. Text analysis: General policies--- foreign policies and domestic policy—appealing to his people
3. Vocabulary study: at issue, at odds, mortal, fatal, faithful, loyal, words with emotion
4. Rhetoric & writing: skills for persuasion; use of transitional words 【基本概念、理论】Transitional words and phrases; making speech
【教学重、难点】 Understanding the text; Use of transitional words and phrases; discourse analysis
【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop
第五章 Love is a Fallacy（ 8学时）
【基本知识】
1. Background information:
1) Author’s experiences and his views 2) Charles Lamb 3) Thomas Carlyle 2. Text analysis:
Author’s note---character analysis---conflict---theme 3. Understanding the title 4. Vocabulary: effective Adj.
5. Rhetoric& writing: metaphor; allusion; simile; understatement; inversion etc. & story writing
【基本概念、理论】 Understatement; Development by classification;
【教学重、难点】 Understanding the text; Descriptive words adopted to describe the characters vividly
【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop
第六章 The Workers as Creator or Machine （10学时）
【基本知识】
1. Background information: 1) Work in the Middle Ages
2) The First Industrial Revolution & the Second Industrial Revolution 3) The Middle Ages & the Reformation
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2. Text analysis: work in the primitive times, the Middle Ages, after the First Industrial revolution, and the Second Industrial Revolution; positive views and negative views towards “the worker is no longer a creator but has become a machine”.
3. Vocabulary: result in, result from, contribute to, attribute to, constitute, substitute
4. Rhetoric & writing: defining, partition, causal analysis, comparison and contrast
【基本概念、理论】 Causation of writing；synecdoche
【教学重、难点】Understanding the text; Causation of writing; the use of
topic sentences
【教学活动】Discussion and workshop
第七章
The Sad Young Men （10学时）
【基本知识】
1. Background information: WWI and the Roaring Twenties
2. Text analysis: Revolt of the Younger Generation --- reasons --- beginning ---- growth ---- philosophy --- significance (introducing the subject-- supporting and developing the thesis-- bringing the discussion to an end ) 3. Vocabulary: obsolescent, obsolete & words denoting historic events and culture
4. Rhetoric & writing: comment on a social event 【基本概念、理论】Summary; metonymy
【教学重、难点】Understanding the text and expositive writing; Words and
expressions with cultural tints
【教学活动】 Discussion and workshop
第八章The Discovery of What It Means to Be American
（8学时）
【基本知识】
1. Background information: James Baldwin & his major works
2. Text analysis: to be an American---an American writer--- an American Negro writer
3. Vocabulary study: Distinguishing synonyms, complex/complicated; -delusion/illusion;
--intellectual/intelligent/clever; --probable/likely/possible
【基本概念、理论】 Simultaneous comparison & alternative comparison; metaphor 【教学重、难点】
1. Understanding the text;
2. Some methods of developing ideas: --a point by point analogy --simultaneous comparison
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