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新编英语教程 5 Unit 11 教案 Unit 11 TEXT 1 CULTIVATING A HOBBY Winston Churchill Objectives: to take notes as completely as poible in cla. to present their interpretations of each paragraph. Section one Pre-reading questions: (15 mins.) 1. What does hobby mean? (refer to Lib.work) 2. Do you have any hobbies? What are they? 3. Do your hobbies do you any good? In what ways? 4. Who is W.Churchill? Whats his hobby you know from what you have learned or from this text? (refer to Lib.work) In-reading interpretation: The teacher explains every sentence to the students while the latter try to take notes as quickly and completely as poible. After the text interpretation, the students are required to explain some sentences by their own.Para.1 (15 mins.) 1. Worry is a spasm of emotion; the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go. spasm: an involuntary muscular contraction; here, a sudden violent spell (of); a sudden convulsive movement Worry is a kind of feeling which catches you suddenly so that you cant have any peace of mind. This feeling arises when you think about something without being able to discontinue thinking about it. Thus worry results.2. It is usele to argue with the mind in this condition. in this condition = when the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go It is of no use trying to stop the troubled mind / the worry when it catches 1 hold of something and will not let it go. i.e., when worry comes.3. The stronger the will, the more futile the task. (LW6-1) The stronger your will (to argue with the mind, or to stop the worry) is, the more ineffective/unsucceful/usele it will be for you to achieve this task of stopping the worry. The more you attempt to shake off your worry, the harder it will be for you to get rid of it / have it off your mind. Then what can we do to stop the worry? 4. One can gently insinuate something else into its convulsive grasp. insinuate = introduce indirectly and subtly convulsive grasp = the worry The only way is to have something else in mind so that it will not be grasped by worry / so as to replace the worry. What does something else imply? Something else implies the hobby.5. And if this something else is rightly chosen, if it is really attended by the illumination of another field of interest, gradually, and often quite swiftly, the old undue grip relaxes and the proce of recuperation and repair begins. attend = accompanied (comp.3-2) illumination = enlightenment, edification another field of interest = hobby the old undue grip = worry recuperation and repair = not becoming worried any longer If you choose the right thing to conquer your mind, if you have another field of interest to enlighten you, your worry, gradually or swiftly, will be relieved./ you will be released from the worry.6. This para.is about worry, which is repeatedly talked about. Instead of mentioning worry again and again whenever it is talked about, Churchill uses some other phrases to refer to this annoying state of mind so as to avoid the monotony of expreions. Identify these phrases in the 1st paragraph. (comp.3-1) a spasm of emotion, its convulsive grasp, the old undue grip 2 Para.2 (10 mins.) 1. The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of first importance to a public man. It is the most important for a public man to cultivate a hobby, because he is likely to have more worries in his work concerned with interrelationships with various kinds of people.2. But this is not a busine that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. The growth of alternative mental interests is a long proce. improvise = make or do without preparation, practice, sufficient material, etc. But a hobby cannot be cultivated and developed so quickly as you expect in your busine. No matter how strong your will is, hobby cultivation has to undergo a long proce.3. The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed. (comp.3-3) This is a metaphor to describe the cultivation of a hobby. Explain it. The author compares hobby to seed, fitne (of a hobby) to an individual to good ground, and the effect (in leening ones worry) to fruit so that the reader can have something concrete to look at. This is certainly a more effective way to explain an idea, esp.an abstract or complex idea. (Analysis) sedulously = diligently, carefully, aiduously vivifying fruits = results that give one relaxation / refreshment The cultivation of a hobby is compared to that of a plant. First of all, the right hobby (the seed of a plant) must be carefully chosen for a person (good ground); then the proce of cultivating a hobby, like that of growing a plant, requires care and effort. Only in this way can one reap in due time the fruit of ones laborfor them a new pleasure, a new excitement is only an additional satiation. (LW6-4) command = have within reach, be master of, poe gratify = give pleasure or satisfaction to, indulge caprice = sudden wish to have, or do sth., whim satiation = complete satisfaction, wearying oneself with too much Since those very wealthy people can afford to get acce to almost anything they may think of ( those people can get whatever they want) and to turn the most fanciful ideas into reality (to turn whatever they dream or desire into reality), there is nothing in this world that can interest or excite them any more. To them, a new pleasure, a new excitement may very often make them even more bored about life. They are the unfortunate people. (comp.3-5) Why does Churchill claify as unfortunate those people who can command everything they want, gratify every caprice and lay their hands on almost every object of desire? Do you think Churchills attitude towards those people is really one of sympathy? These people are simply hopele; nothing works to relieve them of their boredom. Churchill does not really feel sympathetic towards them. Note the phrase avenging boredom. He seems to think that this is what they deserve.2. In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion. frantically = widely excited (with joy, anxiety, pain, etc.)狂乱地 avenging boredom = (note 3) boredom that gives (them) no peace or that inflicts suffering (upon them) clatter and motion = (note 4) This refers to the frantic rush from place to place of those who can command all they want. These kind of people rush frantically here and there (which implies, do this and that as their hobbies), talk this and that, intending to escape from the boredom they are deeply involved in, but their effort is in vain. 6 3. For them discipline in one form or another is the most hopeful path. How do you understand discipline here? (comp.3-6) Regularity, a more regularized way of life This sentence is a suggestion for this kind of people: to lead a regularized way of life. Only in this way can they escape from the boredom. Para.5 (15 mins.) 1. It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two claes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Here another claification of human beings is made: 1) those who take work and pleasure as two distinguished things, 2) those who combine work and pleasure together, getting pleasure from the work.2. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. compensation = sth to make up for, here referring to the following sentence. sustenance = (flourishing quality of) food and drink 养分, 食物 Their long-hour work brings them bread, or they have to earn their living by working hard. After work, they relax themselves and enjoy themselves in a simple way. (comp.3-7) Can you suggest one or two of the simplest and most modest forms of pleasure? Jogging, taking a walk, listening to music on the radio, watching TV, gardening 3. But Fortunes favored children belong to the second cla. In what sense are the second cla of people, i.e., those whose work and pleasure are one, Fortunes favored children? (comp.3-8) or, why does the author call the 2nd cla fortunes favored children? There is never a clash between work and pleasure. They are always happy 7 to work. They are just like children who take everything as pleasure.4. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. grudged = accepted with great reluctance (comp.3-9) This cla of people enjoy their work, and take it as a kind of pleasure. They enjoy every working day so much that they regard the weekends and the public holidays as the interruptions of their delightful work. They are quite reluctant to take any holidays.5. Yet to both claes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is eential. An alternative outlook, a change of atmosphere, a diversion of effort all refer to hobby. So it is of the first importance / of the great neceity for both of the claes to cultivate a hobby. Everyone should have a hobby.6. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds. (comp.3-10) What does the word it refer to? their work (comp.3-11) the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds refers to the notion of hobby. (LW6-5) In fact, (it is probably those whose work provides them with their enjoyment who are most in need of periodic distractions from it.i.e.,) the second cla of people are most in need of cultivating a hobby.Homework aignment: Read your own notes and consult others to make it complete in order to understand the text fully/thoroughly. Mark where you find difficult and raise your questions in the next cla. Read O & D and try to answer the question. Section two 1. Pose your problems for discuion (20 mins.) 8 2. Comp.1: the purpose of the writing (B) - to bring home to the reader the importance of cultivating a rightly chosen hobby. (5 mins.) 3. Comp.2: True or false (5 mins.) 4. O & D: What Churchill argues for in this paage is obviously the significance of a good hobby for rational, industrious human beings. But the 1st para.is devoted to a definition of worry, and a large portion of the rest of the text to the claifications of human beings. How are they relevant to his argument? (10 mins.) Churchills concern here is the role hobbies play in relaxing the mind of rational, industrious, useful human beings. To explain how a hobby works, he must first of all explain what worry really is. But Churchill is not of the opinion that any given hobby can produce this soothing effect under all circumstances. To make this clear, he has to make the first claification. He then turns to claifying the majority of human beings into two further categories. The purpose of doing this is to emphasize the point that hobby is neceary for all including those who think they do not need one as a diversion from work; as a matter of fact, they are the ones for whom the cultivation of a hobby is even more neceary.4. Interaction activity: (LW7) Talk about how a hobby can sometimes help to release your worry. a. Brainstorming in the groups (10 mins.) b. Air the opinions in cla (15 mins.) Section three TEXT 2 A DEBT TO DICKENS Pearl S.Buck Read the text by the students themselves and retell it by using I or Pearl S.Buck. Cues: a seven-year child, in a remote Chinese countryside, the valley, the Youngtze River; the boat folk and the farm folk, lingered and saw the customs, the way of living, fishing and thrashing, the babies alive and dead; foreign devil, yellow curls and blue eyes, alien and isolated, parents too busy to care for her; an impoibly voracious reader, read everything she could get; novels by Charles Dickens, deep in them, read them again and again, over and over for about ten years, feel herself at home, not alien, entered into her own heritage; all the teaching she got from Dickens novels, love all sorts of people, hate hypocrisy, kindne and goodne, money grubbing, the good a little le undiluted and the evil a little more mixed, a zest for life, merry Christmas, those funny characters in the novels. 新编英语教程 5 Unit 11 教案 新编英语教程5 unit11 课文翻译 新编英语教程 6 Unit 6 教案 新编好用英语综合教程2 Unit 5 Food culture教案 新编英语教程5课文翻译(unit1) 新编英语教程3教案 新编好用英语教案unit5 新编英语教程 3 Unit 15 A Fable for Tomorrow 新编好用英语综合教程2unit_1_教案 新编商务英语基础教程Unit 10 本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第17页 共17页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页第 17 页 共 17 页