新视野大学英语第三版第一册第四单元Section B课件ppt

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Heroes of our time

Section B A hero’s aspirationObjectives

To master the reading skill To understand the text

To practice the phrases and patternsTo learn about story writing

Section B

A hero’s aspiration

ContentsWarming-up Reading skills

Text study Comparative studyUnit project

Section B

A hero’s aspirationWarming-up

Lead-in

Background information

Lead-in

Watch a video clip and answer the following questions

1. What happened in the story? Why was the speaker

stunned with jealousy?Tips

2. What did he learn from both of his vocation and avocation? What did he remind?Tips

Video Watching

Lead-in

Watch a video clip and answer the following questions

1. What happened in the story? Why was the speaker stunned with jealousy?Tips

Middle of a rainy night; second volunteer on the fire scene; asked to go into the house and past the fire to get a pair of shoes. The man who arrived earlier than him could save a living creature.

Lead-in

Watch a video clip and answer the following questions

2. What did he learn from both of his vocation and avocation? What did he remind?Tips Acts of generosity and kindness on a monumental scale AND acts of grace and courage on an individual basis all matter.Don't wait until you make your first million to make a difference in somebody's life. If you have something to give, give it now. Serve food at a soup kitchen. Clean up a neighborhood park. Be a mentor. Not every day is going to offer us a chance to save somebody's life, but every day offers us an opportunity to affect one.

Background information

1. What is the Sixth Sense?

Tips

2 . What are the traditional five senses?

Tips

Background information

1. What is the Sixth Sense?Tips

The sixth sense is another term for extrasensory perception. Extrasensory perception (ESP) would involve the reception of information not gained through the recognized senses and not internally originated. According to the National Science Foundation extrasensory perception is listed as pseudoscience.

Background information

2. What are the traditional five senses?TipsThe expression “Sixth Sense" is a misnomer that falsely suggests that there is only one additional sense besides the traditional five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, a classification attributed to Aristotle. Humans have at least five additional senses that include: nociception (pain); equilibrioception (balance); proprioce ption and kinaesthesia (joint motion and acceleration); sense of time; thermoception (temperature differences); and possibly an additional weak magnetoception (direction).

Section B

A hero’s aspirationReading skills

Presentation of the skill

Reading skill practice

Presentation of the skill

ScanningScanning is a technique used in reading to gather specific information in a text by going through it rapidly. In most cases, you know what you are looking for, so you are concentrating on finding some particular informati

on. The most familiar way of scanning you may have experienced is searching for names in a phone directory, or looking up words in a dictionary.

Presentation of the skill

ScanningReading skills When reading, you should have a clear idea of what you are looking for, think of questions, and scan for answers. Do not read every word. Watch for definitions, highlighted words, especially words in italics or bold print. Learn to spot dates, statistics and other numbers.

Presentation of the skill

Scanning

Reading skills Look for the author’s use of numbers, letters, or signal words such as first, second, next , etc. Look for key words or repeated words.

Presentation of the skill

Scanning

Example 1: since the title of Text A is “Heroes Among Us”, it is most likely to deal with “heroes”. We may want to find out who are the heroes among us. Therefore, it is worthwhile to scan for the word “hero(es)” in order to get important information related with the topic.

Presentation of the skill

ScanningExample 2: in Text A, there are many questions raised and then answered by the author. These questions can help us get the general idea of Text A, that is, what kind of people can be called heroes. The questions include: 1 Who’s a hero these days? (Para. 1) 2 Who are the heroes among us? (Para. 1) 3 But what about first responders, whose job is, in the words of one widow of a fallen police officer, to “rush toward danger”? (Para. 5) …