1. 了解作者和逻辑谬误等背景知识；

2. 掌握重要词语和句型用法、antithesis等修辞方法；

3. 理解课文内容，熟悉文章主题思想和语篇结构；

4. 掌握记叙文写作特点，并能使用文体分析方法等对记叙文进行赏析。

1. 课前收集有关爱情和婚姻、作者和逻辑谬误等方面的资料，通过查阅工具书和参考书，理解课文中的词语并熟悉课文主旨内容；通过教师课上讲解和操练，理解课文中的长难句，掌握文章写作技巧和修辞方法，熟悉课文语篇结构；完成教师指定的课后练习和知识拓展练习。

2. 单元重点

掌握metonymy、antithesis、metaphor等修辞方法

掌握narration写作特点

3. 单元难点

讽刺幽默语言特点的领会和运用

1. Background Information

Max Shulman is a 20th century American writer best known for his television and short story character Dobie Gillis, as well as for best-selling novels. His writing often focused on young people, particularly in a collegiate setting.

Charles Lamb was an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children’s book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister.

Thomas was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher. Considered one of the most important social commentators of its time, he presented many lectures during his lifetime with certain acclaim in the Victorian era.

2. Text Analysis

This is a piece of narration. The narrator, Dobie Gillis, a smug, self-conceited freshman in a law school succeeds too well. The protagonist struggles against two antagonists; Petey Burch, his roommate whose girlfriend ha plans to steal and Polly Espy whom he intends marry after suitable re-education. However, his efforts are absolutely in vain and he has got what he deserves. The whole story is a piece of light, humorous satire.

3. Structure of the Text

The text is divided into four parts:

Part1 (paragraph 1-3): the author’s notes to the story

Part 2 (paragraph 4-59): the deal between the narrator and his roommate

Part3 (paragraph60- 125): the narrator’s dates with Polly

Part4 (paragraph126-154): Polly’s refutation of the narrator’s confession of love

4. Key Words and Expressions

fallacy, enterprising, memorable, frontier, limp, flaccid, spongy, pedantic, passion, trauma, calculating, perspicacious, astute, dynamo, a chemist’s scales, penetrating, scalpel, dumb as an ox, impressionable, faddist, fad, be swept up in, acme, surrender to, unsanitary, unsightly, in the swim, slip into high gear, narrowly, ringing, affirm, set/lay/get one’s hands on, covet, calculated, cerebral, specification, pin-up, proportion, makings, erectness of carriage, ease of bearing, best of breeding, poise, specialty of the house, pot roast, a dipper of sauerkraut, veer, go steady, get at, greasy, mince no words, set one’s jaw, swivel, casual kick, no small dimensions, physical charm, have…at one’s finger tips, trysting place, bat one’s lashes, tug, exasperation, fight off, get nowhere, contritely, chirp, glumly, smolder, fraught, chunk, fracture, a glimmer of, hamstring, fire away, with an airy wave of hand, cretin, hammer away, let-up, a chink of light, grueling, well-heeled, acquaint…with…, matched, languish, shamble, grind one’s teeth, have sb. by the throat, frantically, vigorous, take … literally, bellow, infamy, kick up, modulate

5. Analysis of Rhetorical Devices

simile; metaphor; allusion; hyperbole; metonymy; rhetorical question; antithesis; synecdoche; parallelism；transferred epithet；understatement；mixed metaphor

6. Writing Techniques

1) Contrast: dramatic, satiric, ironic and humorous

The writer deliberately makes Polly Espy use a lot of exclamatory words like “Gee” and clipped vulgar forms like “delish”, to create the impression of a simple and rather stupid girl. This contrasts strongly with the boasting of the narrator (usage of formal and learned words like “cerebral” and thus helps to increase the force of satire and irony.

2) Sentence structure: effective, emphatic

Many elliptical sentences like “Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox” and inverted sentences like “vague though its category” are used.

3) Language usage: authentic, colorful and vivid

This feature is mainly concerned with colloquialisms like “dumb” and slangs like “nothing upstairs”.

Paraphrase:

1. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope…

2. Heartened by the knowledge that Polly was not altogether a cretin…

3. The time had come to change our relationship from academic to romantic.

4. I dashed perspiration from my brow.

5. I reeled back, overcome with the infamy of it.

Key:

1. One must admit the outcome does not look very hopeful…

2. I was encouraged when I knew that Polly was not a hopeless idiot…

3. The time had come to change our relationship from that of a teacher and student to that of lovers.

4. I wiped sweat from my forehead with great dash.

5. I staggered back, overcome by the great wickedness of Petey’s traitorous act.

教学模拟：一篇关于校园生活的记叙文

要求：使用PPT辅助陈述，时间不少于8分钟；就陈述内容设定2~3个问题，陈述结束后随机选择班级中的同学予以回答

Written work:

1. Write a short dialogue featuring the romantic love.

2. Write a piece of narration entitled The Thing I Regret Most in My Life

Key:

1. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull.

“Will you or will you not go steady with me?”

“I will not,” she replied.

“Why not?” I demanded.

“Because this afternoon I promised Petey Burch that I would go steady with him.”

With an immense effort of will, I modulated my voice. “All right,” I said. “How could you choose Petey Burch over me? Look at me — a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future. Look at Petey — a knothead, a jitterbug, a guy who’ll never know where his next meal is coming from. Can you give me one logical reason why you should go stead with Petey Burch?”

“I certainly can,” declared Polly. “He’s got a raccoon coat.”

2. The Thing I Regret Most in My Life

When I was a little girl, maybe I was the most naughty child in the neighborhood who always made more trouble than I should, like breaking the window next door, being involved in dangerous things like climbing trees and showing no respect for adults. My mom was always worried about me but I just wouldn’t listen to her, until one day, one special day that I would never forget.

It was a sunny afternoon in a summer holiday. The sun was shining brightly and white clouds were floating in the blue sky. I wanted to go out and have fun with my friends in such a lovely day, which was not allowed by my mom. “I want to go out, Mom. It is summer holiday!” I said to my mum. “You are not allowed to go out until you finish your homework, sweetie. You haven’t written a word for over a week.” My mom answered in a serious way. I was very unhappy about such an arrangement. But as my mom was still at home, it let me no choice but listen to her.

But after she went out to work, I couldn’t sit on my chair for more than one minute. So I put my homework away and went out to find my friends immediately and then spent the whole afternoon with them.

And when I came back home at about 5 p. m., my Mom still hadn’t come back yet. Thinking that if she found out what I have done this afternoon, she would be very angry at me, I began to feel worried about it and just wanted to escape away. Then I made a decision I regretted very much. I took my video game and went upstairs to stay in the rooftop. I was soon so involved in the game that I totally forgot the time. So when I realized it was getting dark and I had played over time again, I knew that I must have made a big mistake.

I would never forget what I saw when I went downstairs in my whole life. My mom was sitting in the floor, crying without a voice as her heart had been broken. My dad was comforting her, with his eyes getting red. When they saw me, they hugged me very tightly without saying anything as they had lost their words. It was at that moment that realized how anxious they felt when they thought I got lost and how sad they felt when I made a wrong choice.

It was only when we risk losing something that we truly find its value. I was sorry for the things I’ve ever done, which put my parents through so much. What happened that day made me realize how much love and concern I got from my parents and I felt shamed that I had always taken all these for granted.

Analysis of the writing skills in the following text

If Only

Having worked at a 7-Eleven store for two years, I thought I had become successful at what our manager calls “customer relations”. I firmly believed that a friendly smile and an automatic “Sir”, “Ma’ma”, and “Thank you” would see me through any situation that might arise, from soothing impatient or unpleasant people. But the other night an old woman shattered my belief that a glib response could smooth over the rough spots of dealing with other human beings.

The moment she entered, the woman presented a sharp contrast to our shiny store with its bright lighting and neatly arranged shelves. Walking as if each step were painful, she slowly pushed open the glass door and hobbled down the nearest aisle. She coughed dryly, wheezing with each breath. On a forty-degree night, she was wearing only a faced print dress, a thin, light beige sweater too small to button, and black slippers with the backs cut out to expose calloused heels. There were no stockings or socks on her splotchy, blue-veined legs.

After strolling around the store for several minutes, the old woman stopped in front of the rows of canned vegetables. She picked up some corn cans and stared with a strange intensity at the label. At that point, I decided to be a good employee and asked her if she needed help. As I stood close to her, my smile became harder to maintain; her red-rimmed eyes were partially closed by yellowish crusts, her hands were covered with layer upon layer of grime.

“I need some food,” she muttered in reply to my bright “Can I help you?”

“Are you looking for corn?”

“I need some food,” she repeated, “Any kind.”

“Well, the corn is ninety-five cents,” I said in my most helpful voice.

“I can’t pay,” she said.

For a second, I was tempted to say, “Take the corn.” But the employee roles flooded into my mind: Remain polite, but do not let customers get the best of you. Let them know that you are in control. For a moment, I even entertained the idea that this was some sort of test, and that this woman was someone from the head office, testing my loyalty. I responded dutifully, “I’m sorry, but I can’t give away anything for free.”

The old woman’s face collapsed a bit more, and her hands trembled as she put the can back on the shelf. She shuffled past me toward the door, her torn and dirty clothing barely covering her bent back.

1. What makes the satire humorous?

2. How does the narrator downgrade his roommate?

Key:

1. The freshman, the narrator of the story, goes on smugly boasting and singing praises of himself at every conceivable opportunity. From the very beginning, in paragraph 4, he begins to heap on himself all the beautiful words of praise he can think of cool, logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute, astute, powerful, precise and penetrating. This exaggerated self praise and the profuse use of similes and metaphors help to make the satire humorous.

2.The narrator takes every opportunity to downgrade Percy Butch. For example, he calls him: dumb, nothing upstairs, unstable, impressionable and a faddist.