教学重点和难点:
重点：
1．人类社会文明的发展的历程以及人类社会的进步的方式; 2．西方社会人类信仰与科学之间的关系与平衡
3．本文对持两种截然不同的观点与信仰的主要代表人物的刻画，以及作者本人的立场
4．这场审判最终给小镇带来的变化及给美国社会带来的影响。
难点：
1．分析Fundamentalism 与Modernism之间的根本矛盾与冲突 2．Fundamentalism与社会发展冲突
教学内容： 1. 词汇
2. 课文内容及文化背景知识 3. 语言点
4. 修辞、文体、语篇、写作技巧 5. 练习
词汇及语言点
silver-tongued, be on hand, throw a reassuring arm round, evolve from, squarely, snowball into, take on, sprout with, magnetic, steep in, agnostic, get under way, spar over, enlightenment, fervour, scorch, rule against, repel, punctuate, cast slurs on, quell, go out to, blow up, swelter, on one's behalf, on hand, erupt, adhere to, squarely, festoon, sprout, evangelist, exhort, preside, florid-faced, paunchy, agnostic, open the session, preliminary, bigotry, rampant, contaminate, snort, brandish, denounce, scorch, pop up, speak for, grow in volume, appeal for, sulphurous, yokel, punctuate, faint, fervent, snigger, serpent, livid, slur, quell, hubbub, forlornly, go out to
People from the surrounding hills, mostly fundamentalists, arrived to cheer Bryan against the \
In a trail in which religion played a key role, Darrow was an agnostic, Malone a Catholic and Hays a Jew. \
More than 2,000 spectators sat on wooden benches or squatted on the grass, perched on the tops of parked cars or gawked from windows.
第11课 But What’s a Dictionary For?
教学目的和要求：
通过课堂交流及课后练习，要求学生正确理解课文内容及文化背景知识，掌握词汇及语言点，学习修辞、文体、语篇知识和写作技巧，提高英语综合能力。
教学重点和难点:
1．关于韦氏词典及其三个版本的背景 2．关于描述语言学；
3．美国各大报刊杂志对第三版韦氏词典的反应； 4．文中长句和难句的释义
教学内容：
1. 词汇
2. 课文内容及文化背景知识 3. 语言点
4. 修辞、文体、语篇、写作技巧 5. 练习
词汇及语言点
Abominable, deluge, monstrous, fraud, hoax, extraneous, much-touted, much-clouted, buggy, inseminate, relegate, pervasively, utilitarian, unbuttoned gibberish, respectable, wager, abdicate, bombination,
verbosity, pretentious, merriment, proliferation, what of ?, set off, gyp, terrain
From these propositions it follows that a dictionary is good only insofar as it is a comprehensive and accurate description of current usage.
第12课 The Loons
教学目的和要求：
通过课堂教学及课后练习，要求学生正确理解课文内容及文化背景知识，掌握词汇及语言点，学习修辞、文体、语篇知识和写作技巧，提高英语综合能力。
教学重点和难点:
1．小说的主题－－印地安人在加拿大被边缘化的问题
2．作者以“潜水鸟”为小说题目的含义，以及它是怎样和小说主题联系在一起的；
3．小说反映的另一主题：环境问题与人类文明发展的关系 4．小说的背景
教学内容： 1. 词汇
2. 课文内容及文化背景知识 3. 语言点
4. 修辞、文体、语篇、写作技巧 5. 练习
词汇及语言点
enter the silence, obscenity, lean to, sporadic, part of the reason, dickens, take off, What about ?? look stunned, in distress, crossly, have trouble in, win hands down, at that, austere, miniature, fissure,
meticulous, set about, lore, \what?\turn out to be, ululate, stolid, heavy and blunt, slanted, a sore point, handle, real slattern, \
Plaintive, and yet with a quality of chilling mockery, those voices belonged to a world separate by aeons from our neat world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home.
Piquette and I remained ill at ease with one another.
But all that summer she remained as both a reproach and a mystery to me. All the old bitched an' biddies in this town will sure be surprised.
第13课 Britannia Rues the Waves
教学目的和要求：
通过课堂交流及课后练习，要求学生正确理解课文内容及文化背景知识，掌握词汇及语言点，学习修辞、文体、语篇知识和写作技巧，提高英语综合能力。
教学重点和难点:
1．有关课文的背景知识，如北海石油，苏联的扩张，英国海上称雄等； 2．分析英国海上运输业日渐没落的原因何在 3 课文标题隐含的意义 4 词汇的比喻性用法
教学内容： 1. 词汇
2. 课文内容及文化背景知识 3. 语言点
4. 修辞、文体、语篇、写作技巧 5. 练习
词汇及语言点
in peril, be elbowed out, carve one's way, be bent on, the lion's share, a big stake, in terms of, cut-throat, dodgy, scramble, weather (the bad times), be around the corner, moth-ball, by far, doldrums, feel the pinch, entrench, a \it into force
perimeter, as far as?be concerned
Russia has expanded its cargo-liner fleet far faster than the growth in either its own trade or world trade would justify. The name of the game, for Russian ships, is hard currency.
第15课 No Signposts in the Sea
教学目的和要求：
通过课堂交流及课后练习，要求学生正确理解课文内容及文化背景知识，掌握词汇及语言点，学习修辞、文体、语篇知识和写作技巧，提高英语综合能力。
教学重点和难点:
1. 正确理解Edmund Carr, Laura 和Colonel 的人物特征（理解） 2. 正确理解作者所采用的比喻法与文章主题的拓展（理解） 3. 正确理解修辞在课文中的应用 4. 归纳修辞手段
5. 介绍语气加强词的特殊用法
6. 自然景色的描写与文章主人公的心理描写 7. 人生哲理和宗教信仰之间的关系
教学内容： 1. 词汇
2. 课文内容及文化背景知识 3. 语言点
4. 修辞、文体、语篇、写作技巧 5. 练习
词汇及语言点
have an eye for, rich color, beguile oneself, to the exclusion of, unwitting,
calf-love, liberated being, score off, recess, austere, a solitary promontory, lore, in the wake of, with a vengeance
political leaders, beguile oneself, absorb sb. To the exclusion of, impel, gluttonously, unwitting influence, moolings, hard materialism, despise, liberated being, discard, the pious, feel cleansed, confessional, marbled at the edge, precipitous, unravished, venturesome, promontory, lavender, an odd fish, lounge, flying-fish, appropriate, incommunicable, beach one’s craft, obscure, outdo, torrid, beyond calculation, exhilarate, ? Expressions with Intensifiers:
strictly confidential, astronomically high, ?
I want my fill of beauty before I go. Geographically I did not care and scarcely know where I am. There are no signposts in the sea. (p290)