Brief的用法

Unit Six Women, Half the Sky

Name of Course: College English

Grade Level: First-year non-English majorsName of Unit: Women, half the sky

Topics to be considered within the unit:

1. The issue of “female discrimination” in Chinese society and across the world.2. Skills to write a coherent essay.

3. Langrage points and grammatical structureGeneral objective for the lesson:

Encourage students to have an in-depth discussion about the topic of “gender

discrimination”, its toots and ic objective for the lesson:

By working on Text A “I’m going to buy Brooklyn Bridge”, students will be able to:1. have a deeper understanding of women working in societies, their roles and

frustrations faced in daily life.

2. appreciate the cohesive narration of the author to develop her ideas.3. master the key language points and grammatical structure in the text;

4. conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the

theme of the unit.

Content to be considered:1. Main idea of the text.2. Structure of the text.

3. Cultural background.4. Language points.

5. Grammatical structures.6. Writing strategy.

7. Coherence in s to be used: Lecture and group discussionSkills to be developed:

Use the proper words and structure to write points:

1. the title of the text is very unique, try to appreciate it.

2. coherence devices used in this text: transitional words and phrases

Evaluation: (To be filled in after class)

Teaching Process:

Period 1---3 (135 minutes)Step 1 Homework checking. (Dictation, recitation, reading or testing etc.) (10--15

minutes)

Ask the students the following questions to check whether the students have

previewed the text:

1. What does the author’s friend mean by saying if the author believed everything in

the report, she had a bridge I Brooklyn she’d like to sell her?

2. Explain what the author’s “own version of that bridge in Brooklyn” is. What does

she say “it was a wise investment after all”?

3. What is the tone of the article? Give facts to support your 2 Text review (5--10 minutes)

1. Listening to the recording only once to make sure that students are more familiar

with the text.

2. A brief introduction to the social status of women across the world. (China,

elsewhere in the world)

3. Language points emphasized:The Brooklyn Bridge: The bridge over the East River in New York City that

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connects Manhattan with Brooklyn. It was opened in 1883and has a length of

1595feet. The expression selling the Brooklyn Bridge to somebody means tricking

them in a 的用法

短语: In brief 简而言之hold no brief for 不赞成,;不支持

eg. I hold no brief for the policies of this governmentAlumnus的用法

(pl.) alumni

n. 毕业生,校友; 学徒Item的用法

n. (清单上一组事物中的)一项,一件

eg. The police examined several items of clothing.

adv (用于列举在一览表中除第一项外的逐项) 此外还有,又短语: Item by item 逐条地Former的用法

adj.往昔的,原来的短语: The former„the latter„ 前者„后者„

eg. We keep horses and cattle:the former for riding, the latter for food.

Principal的用法

adj. 主要的,首要的;

eg .The Nile is one of the principal rivers of Africa.n .校长,院长(常要大写); 本金; 主角;

Despite的用法

prep. 尽管(相当于in spite of)eg. Despite the bad weather,we went out for dinner(in) despite of 不把„当一回事Charm的用法

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v. 迷住,陶醉

eg. She was charmed by Venice.(好象)用魔法控制

eg. to charm snakes 耍蛇短语: prince charming 白马王子Occasion的用法

短语: On occasion 偶尔,间或

Rise to the occasion 表现出能应对(困难局面)eg. When the guest speaker failed to arrived,the chairman rose to the occasion

and made a very amusing speechhimself.

比较：incredible & incredulous

incredible 不可信的，带有被动意义

e.g. In most cases politicians are incredible as they seldom tell the truth.大多数情况下政客都有是不可信的，因为他们很少说实话。Incredulous不轻信他人的，带有主动意义

e.g. She was so credulous that the other children could fool her easily. 她如此轻信别人，别的孩子都很容易愚弄她。Consume的用法

毁灭，消耗；消费，花费；吃光，饮尽；消费掉；枯萎 e.g. In the mid-seventies

Americans consumed about seventeen million barrels of oil daily.在70年代中期美国人每天耗油约达1700万桶。

Consume on sthin doing sth消费Be consumed with被„„所吞噬；因„„而变得憔悴

e.g. She was consumed with curiosity.她心里充满了好奇。Anchor的用法

n.锚；给人安全感之物或人；v.抛锚，停泊；把„„系住，使固定；担任（某固定电视节目的）主持人

be anchored = be strongly connected with 3

e.g. A steam boat arrived and anchored in the bay.汽船到达后停泊在港湾里。

Connie anchors the 7 o’clock news.康妮主持7点新闻栏目。Reproach的用法

n/vt 责备，指责e.g. I have nothing to reproach myself for.我问心无愧。

Above/beyond reproach 无可挑剔，完美无缺

e.g. Her manner was beyond reproach.她的行为无可指责。Reproach sb for sth /with 指责某人某事

e.g. He reproached her with laziness/for being lazy.他指责她懒惰。比较：condemn & blame & reproach &scold

condemn常用于较正式的，严重的场合，意味着从道义上谴责。

blame 表示埋怨

reproach表示责备，往往是一种不满的意见scold 表示责骂，训斥Remainder的用法

n.剩下的人、东西或时间，余下的部分

20 came in and the remainder stayed outside.比较：remainder & left-over & rest & remainsRemainder 指剩菜饭等还能吃的食品

Remains 指果皮，骨头等要扔掉的餐后残物Left-over 指剩菜等，通常用复数形式Rest 指还未上桌的食品Investment的用法

投资，投资额；时间，精力等的投入

e.g. It seems that your investment of time and effort doesn’t work at all.

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似乎你花的时间和精力并没有产生任何效果。Phrases & Expression

1. hit/strike home击中要害2. care for 照料；喜欢

3. by nature 生性，本质上4. get one’s act together 将自己的事安排得有条不紊5. put pen/pencil to paper 开始动笔写6. set aside留出

7. race the clock争分夺秒地工作8. take in 欺骗；认清

take in the situation认清局势9. achieve /have one’s heat’s desires得到心中渴望的东西10. a piece of cake不费力的事

11. move on to 更换（工作，话题）Step 4 Group discussion

1. what do you think of Mao Zedong’s famous saying that women hold up half the

sky?

2. do you think society still discriminate against women? Give facts to support your

conclusion.

Test of the Unit

Requirements: Writing a short essay using cohesive devices like transitional

words or phrases (however, but, therefore, thus, firstly, secondly, what’s more, etc.)

Women make a great contribution to the progress of modern society. But there are

still some people who don’t agree with it and think women should be treated

differently in the society and women’s position should be at home. You are required to write an essay on1. Role of women in modern society

2. Prejudices and discrimination against women

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3. My opinions

Model essay:

Women play an important part in modern society. Now many women are going

into professions, such as medicine, law and engineering. They comprise a large part of

the workers in offices and factories. Many jobs they are engaged in are in line with

their special capabilities of their sex. In addition, some of are working up to

important positions which used to be held mainly by men. There are even some

businesses which are run completely by women. It is obvious that women are making

an outstanding contribution to the progress of modern society.

There are, however, still some people who assert that men are superior to

women in many ways. In the first place, many jobs men do can hardly be done by

women, who are physically not strong enough. They believe that women are the

weaker sex – both physically and emotionally. Thus, women are naturally suited,

much more so than men, to the performance of domestic duties. According to them, a

woman’s place is within the protective environment of the home. Secondly, most of

the world-famous scientists and statesmen are found to be males. Finally, the whole

society seems to have always been dominated by men only. In their opinion, men

should enjoy more rights than do women.

Personally, I’m firmly standing on the side of those women right defenders.

Since both men and women are equally important in human activities, they should be

on an equal footing.

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