现代大学英语精读2 Unit3 The Rite of Spring教案

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Lesson Three:

The Rite of Spring ( Lead-in )

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n the pre-class work：

①word –building rules ②some simple questions on Page 72

2．Ask students to acquire key words

①meaning of the words ② usage of the key words

3. Ask students to acquire relevant background information

① the author ②Adam a gardener

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1．Preview Text A and analyze the structure.

2．Underline the difficult points.

教学重点和难点 formation

① Noun + Present Participle/ Past Participle

②noun + free

words :bind/ resolve/ sparingly/ skeptical/conceivable

ound information

教学内容与组织安排

I. Warm-up Activity

Will you be a good gardener? A quick quiz!

1. Where is the best location to plant tall or climbing plants?

A. North side of the garden B. East side of the garden

C. South side of the garden D. West side of the garden

2. Tomato plants that are “determinate” are more bushy plants, and tomato plants that are

'indeterminate' are more viny plants

True False

3. Potatoes are in what family?

A. Carrot Family (Umbelliferae)

B. Tomato Family (Solanaceae)

C. Pea Family (Leguminosae)

D. Morning Glory Family (Convolvulaceae)

4. What is the best level of soil ph for MOST plants?

A. 3.5 - 5.5 B. 5.5 - 7.5 C. 8.0 - 9.0 D. 2.5 - 3.5

5. Pine needle mulch lowers the ph level of soil while peat moss

raises the ph level.

True False

6. When a plant has beautiful lush foliage, but almost no fruit, the

plant has an overdose of:

(Ans: One 8-letter word)

7. Tomato leaves that are purple and thin is a pretty good sign that

they are lacking Potassium.

True False

8. Potato plants want lots of organic matter in the soil for the

potatoes to grow better.

True False

Now Check Your Answer!

1. North side of the garden.

When the tall plants are planted on the north side, they don't block the sun from other

smaller plants and also keep down the north winds.

2. True. If you don't want to stake, you will want determinate. If not, go with

indeterminate.

3. Tomato Family (Solanaceae). Eggplant, Tomato, Tomatillo, Potato, and Pepper are all in

the tomato family.

4. 5.5 - 7.5. Most plants require ph levels of 6-7, but a few can tolerate 5.5 like corn,

carrots, and potatoes. Others can grow well in soil ph of 7.5 like cabbage and cauliflower.

5. False.

Pine needle mulch and peat moss are good for alkaline soils because they lower the ph

level.

6. Nitrogen.

Nitrogen will help produce lush foliage, but too much will make the plant concentrate on

the leaves instead of the fruit.

7. False.

They lack phosphorus when the plants look like that.

8. False.

Too much organic matter will cause scabbing on the potatoes.

Questions:

you still recall a text on gardening we studied last semester?

Nelson Mandela: a famous South African leader who struggled against apartheid [ə'pɑːtaɪt ](种族隔离）in South Africa. Gardening is associated with his revolutionary work and

struggle, offering him simple but enduring satisfaction when he was in prison.

Similarities: Gardening gives them satisfaction, and made them strong physically and

mentally. They learned a lot from gardening.

However, there ere also some differences between the two essays.

Nelson Mandela：Gardening offers him taste of freedom, and it has become a metaphor

of freedom. What’s more, gardening gives him inspiration on how to be a good revolutionary

leader and how to nourish important human relationship.

Arthur Miller: Arthur Miller is describing the beauty of human activities and

experiences. When gardening, he must annually turn his mind toward all the work, and the

fruits of gardening can somehow reflect movements in one’s own spirits. He found that

gardening is a moral occupation, it needs patience and responsibility. So gardening is all

about character building. All of these showed the author’s love to the nature.

2. How do you understand gardening? What is the symbolic meaning of gardening?

Gardening is generally regarded as a hobby, a pastime. Many little books as well as

essays tell people how to grow tomatoes, beans, cucumbers , etc., in their private gardens.

But, like many other human activities, gardening often has symbolic meaning for different

people. (For instance, in our culture, it is often compared to the rearing of children, so

teachers are often called “gardeners.”)

you have a garden, what will you like to plant? Why?

II. Pre-class work

1. Word formation

Teaching method：ask students to preview this part and find out word-building rules; we will

check their homework on page 72, they should tell us the meaning of the words.

1) Noun + present participle

time-consuming award-winning character-building

2)noun + Past Participle

air-borne Store-bought Home-made Hand-written

3)noun + free.:

duty-free sugar-free ice-free

ticket free tax-free nuclear-free

Ⅱ. Key words :Teaching method：ask students to preview 15 key word (PPT) of this unit,

they must find out the derivations, the usages and useful expressions of these word. Teachers

just help them summarize the content they have talked about.

1. Bind

V. a. tie or fasten (something) tightly together

b. be hampered or constrained by

c. (bind oneself) make a contractual or enforceable undertaking

Eg.

They bound her hands and feet.

Sarah did not want to be bound by a rigid（僵化的，死板的） timetable.

The government cannot bind itself as to the form of subsequent legislation.

2. resolve

V. a. settle or find a solution to (a problem, dispute, or contentious matter)

b. decide firmly on a course of action

c. make a decision by a formal vote

Eg.

The union resolved to strike by 40 votes to 18.

The crisis was finally resolved through high-level negotiations.

She resolved on making an early start.

3. sparing

adj. moderate; economical

Eg.

He is very sparing with his money.

He was quiet and sparing of speech.

The professor was sparing in his praise.

This paint is very expensive, so please use it sparingly.

The lotion should be applied sparingly to the skin.

4. skeptical / sceptical

adj. not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations:

Eg.

The public were deeply skeptical about some of the proposals.

They remained openly sceptical about her promises of improvement.

5. conceivable

a. capable of being imagined or grasped mentally

Eg.

We had to draw up plans for every conceivable emergency.

It is conceivable that there will be a new economic crisis throughout the world, but we hope

it won’t happen.

This sort of work would have been inconceivable before the advent of microprocessors.

III. Background Information

1. Arthur Miller 1915-2005

 A Harlem-born Polish-Jewish boy

 Majored in journalism at University of Michigan

 Wrote first play in 1936

 Received BA in English in 1938

 First successful play: All My Sons, 1946

 Huge success: Death of a Salesman, 1949

 The Crucible, 1953

➢ About Salem Witchhunt in 1692

➢ HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), anti- communist

McCarthyism

➢ Attended a HUAC hearing in 1956, refusing to give names; sentenced to a

$500 fine or thirty days in prison, blacklisted, and disallowed a US passport

➢ Conviction overturned in 1958

 Return to theatrical success: The Price, 1968

 Experimental drama in 1970s, unsuccessful

 Kept writing until 2004

 One of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century

 Politically engaged, commercially successful, social plays

 Numourous awards and honors:

➢ Three Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prize for

Death of the Salesman in 1949

➢ 1965, Elected the first American

president of International Pen

➢ 1993, awarded the National Medal of Arts

➢ 2001, selected for the Jefferson Lecture,

the U.S government's highest honor

for achievement in the humanities

his marriage

 Mary Slattery, college sweetheart, 1940

 Marilyn Monroe, 1956

➢ Brief affair in 1951

➢ Accompanied Miller to his 1956 trial

➢ Made The Misfits with Miller as the scriptwriter

➢ Divorced in 1961

 Inge Morath, 1962

➢ Son Daniel born with Down Syndrome; institutionalized at Miller’s insistence

➢ Son-in-law, English actor Daniel Day-Lewis

was a gardener

Adam was a gardener And Eve, she was his spouse. They lost their jobs by stealing fruit and

went to keeping it was a quiet one and peaceful in the main, until they had a

baby boy and went to raising was a farmer of a Wild and woolly make; His daddy

gave him half the farm and half to Brother Jake;But Esau saw that his title,It wasn't very

clear,So he sold his half to Brother Jake And said he didn't 'keer.' Daniel was a smarty pants

who wouldn't obey the King;The King got mad and said he wouldn't stand for such a thing;

He chucked him down a manhole with lions underneath,But Daniel was a dentist, and he

pulled the lions' teeth. Jonah was an emigrant, So tells the Bible tale; He bought a one-way

ticket on A trans-Atlantic whale; But the whale's interior was cramped, at very best, So Jonah

pressed the button -- and the whale, he did the rest.

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Lesson Three:

The Rite of Spring ( Text A )

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Students will be able to:

1. Acquire many useful expressions from Text A

2. Read and retell Text A with appropriate pronunciation,

intonation and fluency

3. Get to know the main idea of the passage.

教学重点和难点 some useful expressions to make up sentences

2. Understanding of the whole passage.

①the theme of the passage

②the main idea of this passage

③the structure of this passage

ses on page 74-75.

①translate the following expressions

②put in the blanks appropriate prepositions and adverbs

③translate the following sentences using the key words

教学内容与组织安排

（教学目的：Understand the main idea and the structure of this passage ）

1. About the title

The Rite of Spring is a ballet with music by Igor Stravinsky. The music’s

innovative/creative complex rhythmic structures, timbres, and use of dissonance

/disagreement have made it a seminal 20th century composition.

“The Rite of Spring”

rite: a solemn ceremony or act; a set of fixed words or acts

The Rite of Spring by Stranvinsky: a sacred pagan ritual where the wise elders are

seated in a circle and are observing the dance before death of the girl whom they are offering

as a sacrifice to the god of Spring in order to gain his benevolence.

2. Text analysis

1) The theme of the text:

Gardening, which begins in spring—a season of hope, keeps people hopeful for the future, especially

in the coldest days of December.

2) Structure

Part Ⅰ（para.1-2）the introduction

They reason why the writer starts a garden – as a way of celebrating the coming of spring.

Part Ⅱ (para. 3-10) the body

A lists of reasons for keeping a garden

Gardening involves conflict and choice-making.

Gardening teaches you about nature.

Gardening is neurotic and moral.

Gardening helps character building.

Part Ⅲ (para. 11-12) conclusion

Gardening keeps people hopeful for the future, even in the coldest days of December.

3) Detailed Discussion of the TextTeaching method：

ask students some simple questions to understand this passage, then explain this passage

paragraph by paragraph or part by part.

Sentence paraphrase: ask students to paraphrase some of the sentences in groups

you think how easy and cheap, relatively, it is to buy a bunch of carrots or

beets, why raise them? (para 1)

Elliptical sentence. The complete sentence should be “Why do we raise them?

e.g. Why go there today?

Why sleep on the floor?

Why tell me now?

is a human instinct at work here, a kind of back-breaking make-believe that

has no reality. (para1)

back-breaking: very hard and tiring, physically-consuming

make-believe: imagining or pretending things to be different or more exciting than they really

are

at work(here): having a particular effect or influence.

e.g. We must understand that there is still a strong anti-form force at work.

With cold war mentality still at work, both sides may misjudge the present situation.

由于冷战思维的影响，双方有可能会对局势产生误判。

3. As it is, though, I cannot deny that when April comes I find myself going out to lean

on the fence and look at that miserable plot of land, resolving with all my rational

power not to plant it again. (Para 2)

However, in reality, I have to admit that when April comes I leaned on the fence and look at

this patch painfully and reasonably made up my mind not to garden any more.

As it is: As it turns out / The reality is that …

e.g. I thought he would get better. As it is, he is getting worse.

4. And the sun means business, suddenly, and has a different, deeper yellow in its beams

on the carpet. (Para 2)

The sun suddenly gets serious and the yellow sunlight on the carpet looks different and

deeper.

To mean business: to be serious about something

e.g. I could tell from the look on her face that she meant business.

birds begin screaming hysterically, thinking what I am thinking—the worms are

deliciously worming their way through the melting soil. (Para 2)

to worm one’s way: to move like a worm

More similar verbs:

e.g. This success rocketed him to a top position.

She ducked her head to avoid being hit.

The beggar wolfed down the bread in less than a second.

The birds start to cry really loudly. We are thinking the same thing: the soil is becoming soft

and the delicious worms are moving across the soil.

is not only pleasure sending me back to stare at that plot of soil, it is really conflict.

(Para 3)

Rewrite the above sentence with a coordinate conjunction.

It is not only pleasure but also conflict that send me back to stare at that plot of soil.

7. But black plastic looks so industrial, so unromantic, that I have gradually moved over

to hay mulch. (Para 4)

But black plastic looks so unnatural (because it is made in factories) and ugly that I have

gradually shifted to hay mulch.

Note the differences of the following words:

hay: long grass, cut and dried for feeding animals;

reed: a tall, thin plant that grows near water, often used for making things;

weed: a plant you don’t want

moved over to: changed to/ shifted to

8. Besides, it looks lovely, and comes to us free.(Para 4)

comes to us free: free of charge

What’s more, it is pretty to look at and we don’t have to pay for it.

9. Keeping a garden makes you aware of how delicate, bountiful, and easily ruined the

surface of this little planet is. (Para 5)

If you keep a garden, it will help you realize how generous the land of the earth is to us and

how easily damaged it is.

delicate (here): easily damaged or broken

a delicate bubble of Venetian glass

Bountiful: fruitful/ generous

ruin (here): to spoil or destroy something completely

The rain ruined our holiday.

10. In that 50-by-70-foot patch there must be a dozen different types of soil. Tomato

won’t grow in one part but loves another, and the same goes for the other crops. (Para

5)

50-by-70-foot: 50-foot-wide and 70-foot-long

the same goes for : the same applies to / is true for sb/sth

e.g. Students will not work hard unless they have a sense of achievement. This goes for the

teacher, too.

11.I suppose if you loaded the soil with chemical fertilizer these differences would be

less noticeable, I use it sparingly and only in rows right where seeds are planted rather

than broadcast over the whole area. (Para 5)

I suppose if you use a large quantity of chemical fertilizer on the soil, these differences would

not be so obvious (would be covered up); but I use it very carefully and only in where the

seeds are planted instead of spreading it over the whole patch.

sparing (with ): using or giving only a little of something

E.g. There’s not much shampoo left, so be sparing with it.

12. In some cases, as with beans and cucumbers, your children--- as it were, begin to

turn upon you in massive numbers, growing more and more each morning and

threatening to follow you into the house to strangle you in their vines. (Para 6)

as it were: as you might say. It is used for making a description sound less definite or less

exact , ‘可以说’

e.g. For years the blind man only had this dog to keep him company. It was, as it were, his

little brother.

Note: the word “strangle” here doesn’t really mean to choke him to death. He is saying these

numerous beans and cucumbers are like naughty and playful children, struggling to embrace

him at the same time, making him almost hard to breathe.

13. She looks about skeptically. Her favorite task is binding the tomato plants to stakes.

(Para 8)

She looks around doubtfully to see if something goes wrong. And she likes most to bind the

tomatoes to wooden stakes so that they would not bend downward due to the weight of the

fruits.

“Stake” here means a wooden or metal post with a pointed end used for supporting or

making sth., 桩，柱

Other meanings of‘stake’:

The majority stake is still in the hands of the government.（股权）

We cannot let it pass because the future of our company is at stake.（处于危险当中）

You can’t afford to lose because the stakes are too high.（赌注）

14. In some pocket of the mind there may even be a tendency to change this vision into a

personal reassurance that all this healthy growth, this orderliness and thrusting life

must somehow reflect movements in one’s own spirit. (Para 9)

change this vision into a personal reassurance that..: when I see this beautiful view, I feel

certain that …

Whenever I see this beautiful, well-organized and arranged garden which is full of life and

where everything is growing so vigorously, I feels certain that there is something similar in

my mind.

Pocket: a small area different from the areas around it,“corner”.

e.g. There are still some pockets of the city which are extremely poor.

15. As it is, April is for getting irritated all over again at this pointless, time-consuming

hobby. I do not understand people who claim to“love” gardening. (Para 10)

pointless, time-consuming:

Notice again that the two words are usually used in a negative sense. As in para 6, the author

uses “neurotic” to hide his intense interest and full appreciation of the significance of

gardening.

be irritated at: to be annoyed at and impatient about

all over again: a second time from the beginning

16. … and so it has to be an arena where striving does not cease, but continues by

other means.(Para 10)

…and so a garden turns to be a stage or field where one shows that his effort to achieve

something never stops. (Or put it another way, a garden is a means of displaying his ceaseless

struggle.)

other means: other ways or methods. Notice that the spelling doesn’t change when used in

the singular form. We say “a means of ” instead of “a mean of” .

17. Only the gardener is capable of endlessly reviving so much hope that this year,

regardless of drought, flood, typhoon, or his own stupidity, this year he is going to do it

right! (Para 11)

Only the gardener is capable of continuously finding back (or bringing back) the hope and

believing that this year he is going to do it correctly, in spite of the possible

difficulties---such as drought, flood, typhoon or mistakes he will possibly make.

Assignment: Finish the exercises in this lesson.

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Lesson Three:

The Rite of Spring (

Consolidation and Extension)

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1. Ask students to understand writing devices.

2. Ask students to acquire the usage of object.

3. Consolidation

教学重点和难点1. Systematic usage of grammar

2. Noun clauses

3. The gerund

1．Exercise of “more work on the text--grammar”.

2．Preview Lesson Four and finish pre-class work.

I. Writing Devices

1. Irony

1) using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic

effect.

Eg: There is a human instinct at work here, a kind of back-breaking make-believe that has

no reality.

2 )to emphasize the intense interest and full appreciation of the significance of gardening

Eg: …April is for getting irritated all over again at this pointless, time-consuming hobby. I

do not understand people who claim to “love” gardening.

Eg: The attractions of gardening, I think, at least for a certain number of gardeners, are

neurotic and moral.

ification

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or

the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Eg: And the sun means business, suddenly, and has a different, deeper yellow in its beams

on the carpet.

3．Contrast

Eg: There are few sights quite as beautiful as a vegetable garden glistening in the sun, all

dewy and glittering with a dozen shades of green at seven in the morning. Far lovelier, in

fact, than rows of hot dogs.

r –Noun Clause (Wh- )

1. Subject clause

Eg: What happened to the plane remains a mystery.

2. Object clause

Eg: I have never understood why we keep a garden.

She patiently moves down each row selecting which plants shall live and which she

will cast aside.

And we all know where it got him, too.

3. Predicative clause

Eg: This is when my wife becomes— openly now—mistress of the garden.

III. Exercise

1. They had no intention of staging a __disorderly______ protest. (order)

2. The odds were slightly __loaded_____ against us. (load)

3. He dismissed her fears as ___irrational_____. (ration)

4. The situation was grave enough to___justify_____ further investigation. (just)

5. I had ___visualized_____ scientists as bearded old men. (vision)

6. They __envision______ hackers breaking into their information vaults. (vision)

7. His illness placed an __intolerable_______ burden on his family. (tolerate)

8. I thought the whole idea was just a foolish and dangerous __delusion______. (delude)

9. During the famine, the country was in a __chaotic_____ state. (chaos)

10. The history of the company is closely ___bound_____ up with the history of the

Grant family. (bind)