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1、高级英语2课程教学大纲一、课程基本信息1 .课程编号：325021232 .课程名称：高级英语23 英文名称:Advanced English II4 .课程简介：高级英语2是为英语本科专业开设的一门专业基础必修课程，适用于英语 本科各个专业方向，主要通过阅读和分析内容广泛的材料，包括涉及政治、经济、社会、语言、 文学、教育、哲学等方面的名家作品，扩大学生知识面，加深学生对社会和人生的理解，培养学生 对名篇的分析批判能力和欣赏能力，逻辑思维和独立思考的能力，从而巩固和提高学生的英语语 言综合运用能力。二、课程说明1 .教学目的和要求：通过增加不同题材和文体的阅读难度，使学生的词汇量有更大的扩展

2、。要求学生的认知词汇 量应从基础阶段的6000左右达到高级阶段的10000-12000,能正确和熟练使用的词汇和搭配从 基础阶段的4500左右达到高级阶段的6000；在语言方面，进一步学会解决难字、难句的困难， 提高同义词辨义和英语释义的本领；提高学生阅读理解能力，要求学生认真领会、深入钻研、积 极思维并学习进行有水平的分析评论,增强学生的分析欣赏能力，理解幽默、讽刺、含蓄、夸张、 比喻、象征等各种修辞手法，理解文章深层意义；熟悉各种写作技巧和方法，能写故事梗概，文章 摘要，评论等，要求语言正确，表达得体并具有一定的思想深度；培养学生独立学习、进行初步研 究、学会使用各种高级工具书以及其他手段

3、（包括上网）收集资料，解决难题的能力。2 .与相关课程衔接：先行课程：基础英语、高级英语1、英语国家概况等专业必修课，以及英语词 汇学、西方文化入门等选修课。并修课程：英语语言学、美国文学等必修课后续课程：毕业论文。3 .学时：每周4学时，共开16周，总学时64,共计4学分。4 .开课学期：第6学期5 .教学方法：讲授为主，讲练结合。采用多种教学手段和教学方法丰富课堂教学，如采用启发式、讨论式、 发现式和探究式的教学方法引导学生从整体上理解课文内容，充分调动学生学习的积极性，激发 学生的学习动机，最大限度地让学生参与学习的全过程。同时引导学生主动积极地利用现有图书 资料和网上信息，查找与课文相

4、关的背景知识，要求学生“在做中学”，W project, presentation 等方式，将现实热点问题与课文相结合，发表自己的看法，使学生在运用知识的过程中培养口头 表达能力和语言组织能力。在教学中，教师除了加强学生的语言知识和语言应用能力外，还应注 意帮助学生开阔视野，扩大知识面，加深对世界的了解，借鉴和吸收外国文化精华，提高文化素 养。文化和语言有着密切的联系，一定的文化背景知识有助于促进语言应用能力的提高。6 .考核方式：本课程为考试课程。课程总成绩由平时成绩（含考勤、课内外作业、课堂表现、测验等）（40%）、 期末考试成绩（60%）构成。期末试卷客观试题控制在60项以内，主要考查学

5、生对相关基本知识 的掌握，其余40驰为主观题、半主观题以及一定比例的开放性探讨题，主要考查学生对相关语言 知识的综合运用能力。7 .教材:推荐教材：张汉熙.高级英语（第二册）.外语教学与研究出版社，2010.8 .教学参考资料：1张汉熙.高级英语（教师用书）.外语教学与研究出版社,201。2杨立民.现代大学英语精读.外语教学与研究出版社,2003.3李观仪.新编英语教程（6）.上海外语教育出版社,2004.4吕煦.实用英语修辞.清华大学出版社,2003 .文军,英语修辞格词典,重庆大学出版社,1992.6张鑫友.高级英语学习指南.长江出版社,2007 .7 丁往道.英语写作手册外语教学与研究出

6、版社,1996 .8王佐良，丁往道英语文体学.外语教学与研究出版社,1997 .9石幼珊.名人演说一百篇.中国对外翻译出版公司，1990 .10张久宣.圣经故事,中国社会科学出版社,1984 .11翟福金 现代英语散文读写教程（上、下）.上海译文出版社,1994.12懂乐山，刘炳章.英汉美国社会知识小词典,新华出版社,1984.13袁宪军钱坤强.英语小说导读北京大学出版社,2004 .三、课程内容与教学要求本课程教学内容包括以下主要板块，根据选用教材编排差别，可做必要顺序调整，同时注意 增补或评介学科前沿最新成果。Unit 1 The Trial That Rocked The World教学

7、目标：1. Learn about the western legal system and basic legal terms as well as the social causes of the trial2. Have a good understanding of the text: framework, theme, and style3. Acquaint with more knowledge of some figures of speech: oxymoron, irony, sarcasm, ridicule and satire4. Deepen comprehensi

8、on of this historical trial by reading教学重点：1. Analyzing the structure of the text2. Understanding the central idea of the text教学难点：1. Understanding the writer1 s effective use of specific verbs and description2. Paraphrasing, translating some paragraphs and identifying figures of speech授课时数：8教学内容：1.

9、 Background Knowledge: Monkey Trial in 19252. Language Study:3. Text Analysis:1) Organization of the text2) Stylistic features: colloquialism; slang; the effective use of specific adjective; the use of elliptical and short sentence4. Rhetorical Devices: metaphor; antithesis; simile; hyperbole; pun;

10、synecdoche; sarcasm; ridiculeUnit 2 The Loons教学目标：1. Learn and review the basic elements of short story analysis2. Learn about the author and the theme of the story3. Grasp the structure of mini-novel and appreciate the language in this novel4. Enable the students to learn the life of the colored pe

11、ople in the Canadian society.教学重点：1. Understanding the text, including new words and the complicated cultural background2. Paraphrasing, translating some paragraphs and identifying figures of speech 教学难点：1. Paraphrasing, translating some paragraphs and identifying figures of speech2. Exercise on rep

12、lacement of some words and understanding the shade of meaning of the words授课时数：8教学内容：1. Background Knowledge: about the author and her works; the American Indians2. Language Study: the scrub oak; chokecherry; thicket; shack; obscenities; on relief; flare up; dickens; contagious; crossly; stifle; min

13、iature; miraculously; tame; bleach; fissure; spring from; orate; lure; sullen; a streak of amber; ululating sound; plaintive; aeon; jukebox; stolid; animate; gaiety; heavy and blunt; to enviable advantage; teeter; a sore point; jerkwater; give a shit about; stink; confide; brew; attributes, etc.3. T

14、ext Analysis:1) Short story analysis: setting; character; point of view; plot; action; climax, denouement; theme; symbolism; style2) Organization of the text3) Stylistic features: colloquialism; slang; the effective use of specific adjective; the use of elliptical and short sentence4. Writing techni

15、ques: dangling modifiers, illogical and faulty parallelism5. Rhetorical Devices: simile; metaphor; hyperbole; personification; antithesis; transferred epithet; metonymy; synecdoche; assonanceUnit 3 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille教学目标：1. Understand the elements of a narrative essay2. Appreciate t

16、he language features; understand such figurative speeches as simile, metaphor and personification3. Learn to identify and correct the five syntactic errors教学重点：教学难点：1. Understanding the text, including new words and the complicated cultural background2. Paraphrasing, translating some paragraphs and

17、identifying figures of speech3. Exercise on replacement of some words and understanding the shade of meaning of the words授课时数：8教学内容：1. Background Knowledge: natural disaster; the formation of Hurricane; Salvation Army; Red Cross2. Language Study: lash; pummel; demolish; gruff; come by; whip; mounted

18、 to a roar; inch its way up the steps; maroon; trail away; huddle; slash; implore; debris; sprawl; cower; recede; diminish; be strewn; rake one s way; pitch in; a delayed reaction, etc.3. Text Analysis:1) Stylistic analysis of fiction: setting; character; plot; action; climax, denouement; theme2) Or

19、ganization of the text3) Stylistic features: the effective use of verbs; the use of elliptical and short sentence4) Writing techniques: run-on sentences; sentence fragments; dangling modifiers; illogical or faulty parallelism; unnecessary shifts in point of view4. Rhetorical Devices: transferred epi

20、thet; personification; metaphor; simileUnit 4 Marrakech教学目标：1. Learn about George Orwell1 s writing styles2. Understand the writing techniques of an expository essay3. Appreciate the language features & understand the rhetorical devices教学重点：1. Understanding Orwell* s writing styles2. Studying the us

21、e of proper subordination, such as subordinate clauses, appositives, prepositional or verbal phrases.教学难点：1. Paraphrasing, translating some paragraphs and identifying figures of speech2. Exercise on replacement of some words and understanding the shade of meaning of the words授课时数：8教学内容：1. Background

22、 Knowledge: George Orwell; Morocco; Marrakech; the Jewish people2. Language Study: wail, chant, wrap in a piece f rag, hack, dump, fling, hummocky, undifferentiated, bumpy, nibble, butt, sidle, stow, cluster, out of shape, a frenzied rush, clamour, crawl, grope, self-contained, Distressed Areas, For

23、eign Legionaries, wring, desolate, stalk, yoke, harrow, hack, hobble, damnably, bridle, infantry, slump, scrub, reverence, charger, etc.3. Text Analysis.1) Organization of the text2) Thesis of the text3) Writing techniques: comparison, contrast, analogy, identification, illustration, analysis, defin

24、ition, etc.4. Rhetorical Devices: transferred epithet; synecdoche; simileUnit 5 Pub Talk and the King1 s English教学目标：1. Learn the methods in developing an expository writing, esp. the use of examples2. Learn the differences between “pub talk and the King s English3. Analyse the features of spoken En

25、glish and study borrowed words in English4. Appreciate the language features & understand the rhetorical devices教学重点：1. Studying the methods in developing an expository writing, esp. the use of examples2. Understanding the textual devices: anaphora; logic relations; transitional paragraph 教学难点：1. Pa

26、raphrasing, translating some paragraphs and identifying figures of speech2. Exercise on replacement of some words and understanding the shade of meaning of the words授课时数：8教学内容：1. Background Knowledge: pub/pub-friends; Dumas/Three Musketeers; Carlyle; Charles Lamb2. Language Study: pub talk, the King

27、1 s English, meanders of leaps and sparks, delve, tart, descendants of convicts, out of snobbery, rift, scampered, turn up their noses at, abuse, ring true, pejoratively, underlings, edict, immune to, ultimatum, slips and slides, sinister, leap, etc.3. Text Analysis1) Organization of the text: title

28、; transitional paragraphs; digression2) Thesis of the text3) Stylistic features: informal style; abundant use of idiomatic expressions; effective use of specific verbs4) Writing techniques: coherence and unity of the passagetransitional words andexpressions; pronoun reference; repetition of importan

29、t words4. Rhetorical devices: metaphor; mixed metaphor; simile; allusionUnit 6 Inaugural Address教学目标：1. Learn the characteristics of political speech: explain; convince; persuade2. Learn about the cold war: socialist camp vs. capitalist camp3. Understand and learn to use the effective writing techni

30、ques of political speech4. Identify and understand the rhetorical devices教学重点：1. Understanding the tone of the text based on the choices of words2. Learning to analyse the effective writing techniques of political speech教学难点：1. Paraphrasing, translating some paragraphs and identifying figures of spe

31、ech2. Exercise on replacement of some words and understanding the shade of meaning of the words授课时数：8教学内容：1. Background Knowledge: John F Kennedy and his assassination; Inauguration and Inaugural address2. Language Study: observe, swear, forebear, prescribe, mortal, be at issue, temper, cultural spi

32、ritual origins, a host of cooperative ventures, at odds, split asunder, cast off one* s chains, a forum of invective, shield, engulf, balance of terror, belabour, beachhead, bear arms, twilight, embattle, give testimony, rejoice, tribulation, etc.3. Text Analysis1) Organization of the text2) Thesis

33、of the text3) Stylistic features: the use of key abstract words; the use of heroic-sounding verbs; the use of biblical style; balanced structures4) Rhetorical devices: parallelism, antithesis, metaphor, simile, metonymy, hyperbole, repetition, epigram, paradox, climaxUnit 7 Love is a Fallacy教学目标：1.

34、Learn about basic knowledge of the terms in logic2. Appreciate the humorous and ironical tone in the story3. Analyze the structure of the story and appreciate the language教学重点：1. Analyzing the logical fallacies2. Analyzing the structure of the story and appreciating the language教学难点：1. Understanding

35、 light and humorous satire2. Paraphrasing, translating some paragraphs and identifying figures of speech3. Exercise on replacement of some words and understanding the shade of meaning of the words授课时数：8教学内容：1. Background Knowledge: about author and his works; logical fallacies2. Language Study: limp

36、, flaccid, spongy, pedantic disciplines, trauma, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute, dynamo, dumb as an ox, faddist Fads, idiocy, wail, slip into a high gear, cerebral reason, crcctncss of carriage, ease of bearing, best of breeding, gravy-choppcd, veer, gamy object, mince, fling, casual k

37、ick, bunch, tempt, wince, tug at one s sleeve, desist, contritely, chirp, premise, be doomed to do something, crater, smolder, blubber, fracture, gurgle, exultantly, glimmer, an airy wave of one* s hand, flaw, hamper away, a chink of light, Hasty Generalization, chuckle, languish, dash, wag, reel, i

38、nfamy, modulate, knot-head, jitterbug, etc.3. Text Analysis1) Organization of the text:2) Thesis of the text3) Stylistic features: colloquialism; slang; the use of inverted sentences for emphasis4) Rhetorical devices: metaphor, mixed metaphor, simile, antithesis, litotes, transferred epithet, hyperb

39、ole, allusionUnit 8 The Libido for the Ugly教学目标：1. Learn to understand the writing style of expository essay2. Understand how the author presents his ideas3. Appreciate the text, especially the structure and the choice of words教学重点：1. Understanding the text, including new words and the complicated c

40、ultural background2. Understanding the use of topic sentences3. Paraphrasing, translating some paragraphs and identifying figures of speech教学难点：1. Understanding some striking words and the metaphorical phrases2. Paraphrasing some sentences3. Identifying figures of speech授课时数：8教学内容：1. Background Know

41、ledge: Mencken and his writing style2. Language Study: libido; the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Parthenon; Presbyterian, appalling; desolation; reduce to; leprous; allude to; revolt; grotesquerie; diabolical; insensate; border upon; aspiration; macabre; set on end; incredible; unfathomable; obscure; un

42、intelligible; melting pot, etc.3. Text Analysis1) Organization of the text:2) Thesis of the text3) Stylistic features: the choice of words; Bombastic style and acid language; the sarcastic tone and the use of sarcasm, ridicule or irony; the symbolic meanings of the proper names4. Rhetorical devices: hyperboles; sarcasm; ridicule; irony; metaphor; simile课程内容板块及学时分配参考表：序号内 容讲授时数实训时数备注1The Trial That Rocked The World82The Loons83Face to Face with Hurricane Camille84Marrakech85Pub Talk and the King* s English86Inaugural Address87Love is a Fallacy88The Libido for the Ugly8合计64