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1、Book 4 Unit5Section A Choose to Be Alone on PurposeSection B Roommate ConflictsI.Teaching Objectives:Students will be able to:a.Share their ideas of personal relationships.b.Learn to understand modern patterns of interrelationships,e.g.living alone,sharing a room withothers and arranged marriage,etc
2、.c.Learn to understand and appreciate the ideas in the text.d.Develop their ability in understanding reading texts and listening materials.e.Develop their ability in expressing their ideas in both spoken and written form.IL Teaching Time(6 periods)III.Teaching MethodTask-based approach,communicative
3、 approachIV.Teaching ProcessStep 1 Questions for Discussion1)Do you sometimes want to be alone?2)In what situation you choose to be alone?3)What can you benefit from being alone?4)What is the disadvantage of being alone?Step 2 Background InformationLonely Poets and Philosophers:1.Henry David Thoreau
4、(1817-1862)US thinker,essayist,and naturalist.Thoreau graduated from Harvard University and taught school for several years before leavinghis job to become a poet of nature.In the years 1845-1847,to demonstrate how satisfying a simple lifecould be,he lived in a hut beside Concords Walden Pond;essays
5、 recording his daily life wereassembled for his masterwork,Walden,or Life in the Woods(1854).Famous quotations by Henry David Thoreau:*The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon,or,perchance(偶 然,恐 怕),apalace or temple on the earth,and,at length,the middle-aged man concludes
6、to build a woodshed(贮 放 柴 薪 的 木 棚)with them.*Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.*Books,not which afford us a cowering(畏 缩，退 缩)enjoyment,but in which each thought is ofunusual daring;such as an idle man cannot read,and a timid one would not
7、be entertained by,whicheven make us dangerous to existing institution-such call I good books.*If you have built castles in the air,your work need not be lost;that is where they should be.Now putthe foundations under them.*The heart is forever inexperienced.*There is no remedy for love but to love mo
8、re.*In human intercourse the tragedy begins,not when there is misunderstanding about words,but whensilence is not understood.2.John Milton(1608-1674)English poet,one of the greatest poets of the English language.Milton was born in London on December 9,1609 as the son of a wealthy notary(公 证 人).Hewas
9、 educated at St.Pauls School.Milton received a Masters degree from Cambridge University in1632.In 1638,he undertook a European tour where he met many of the major thinkers of the day,especially in Italy.On his return to England,Milton became a Puritan,and an opponent of the Catholics and of theStuar
10、ts.He was also an ardent polemicist(善 辩 论 者)，a follower of Cromwell,and the latters foreignlanguage secretary.In 1652 he became completely blind.His first wife died in 1652 and he remarriedin 1656.After the restoration of the Stuarts he suffered considerable persecution.He withdrew fromactive partic
11、ipation in politics and concentrated on his poetry.Paradise Lost was published in 1667,followed by Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes in 1671.3.William Wordsworth(1770-1850)British poet,who spent his life in the Lake District of NorthernEngland.Wordsworths personality and poetry were deeply infl
12、uenced by his love of nature,especially bythe sights and scenes of the Lake Country,in which he spent most of his mature life.A profoundlyearnest and sincere thinker,he displayed a high seriousness tempered with tenderness and a love ofsimplicity.Step 3 Text Study1.General IdeaThe text focuses on a
13、social phenomenon-choosing to be alone on purpose,what people thinkof living alone,who prefers living alone,the life of the solitary people,and what the writer advises forliving alone.Part 1(para.1)Living alone-a common social phenomenonPart 2(Para.2)two different views on living alone a sort of soc
14、ial disease/a characteristic of anAmerican heroPart 3(Para.310)Who prefers living aloneWho are often living alone?-Poets and philosophers are for.in solitude.(William Wordsworth)-Solitude is improved by being voluntary.(John Milton)-Some artists choose to be alone while their loved ones prepare comf
15、orts forthem at home.(Henry Thoreau)-The message from the people who choose to be alone:The lager the ego,themore likely for them to live alone.Part 4(paras.11-13)The comments on the phenomenon of solitudeIf you live with other people,their temporary absence can be refreshing.It is human that we nee
16、d to talk to others.Scientific surveys show that those people who live alone will behaveridiculously and talk at length to themselves and their pets and television.But it is different when you live alone:solitude strikes hard at you.Part 5(paras 14-16)Conclusion:The author advises people to stay rat
17、ional,settle down and makethemselves comfortable,not like a self-centered British poet.After all,there isno place like home.Pay attention to the beginning and end paragraph:*Here we are,all by ourselves,all 22 million of us by recent count,alone in our rooms,some of usliking it that way and some of
18、us not.Some of us divorced,some widowed,some never yet committed.*After all,here we are.It may not be where we expected to be,but for the time being we might as wellcall it home.Anyway,there is no place like home.What does“here we are mean?Whats significance of the two paragraphs in the expression o
19、fthe main idea?Questions:1)Why is loneliness a sort of national disease in the US?Because there are altogether 22 million ofpeople living alone in their rooms in the US.2)Why do poets like solitude?Because they get inspiration from it,and they feel good aboutthemselves for seeking it out.3)What can
20、be learned from Thoreaus choice of the solitary way of life?The more positive one istoward oneself,the less the need for staying with others.4)Why is it important for a person living alone to talk to others?Because it is a basic need of asolitary person.5)Who may the person living in solitude talk t
21、o?They may call friends to tell them importantthings,or talk to himself,his pets,the television,or even to strangers in the supermarket.2.Words and Expressions独 自 地 all by oneself据 最 近 的 统 计 by recent count赶 出 去 cast out拥 护，赞 同 be for:support;be in favor of be against高 度 评 价 speak highly of speak il
22、l/bad of(说 坏、好 话)蹑 手 蹑 脚 地 走 开 creep away装 满 fill up熬 夜 stay up late一 口 气 地 at one sitting按 自 己 的 节 奏 at one own pace堵 塞，支 持 back up详 尽 地 谈 talk at length安 静 下 来；定 居 settle down暂 时 for the time being3.Language Points1)No doubt about it,solitude is improved by being voluntary.(p5)-Undoubtedly,one can
23、 findpleasure in living alone if they choose it according to their own free will.2)The American high priest of solitude was Thoreau.(p8)-The American representative figure of thesolitary way of life is Thoreau.Here“high priest“is a person who has a leadership position in a certain field.3)I never fo
24、und the companion that was so companionable as solitude.(p9)-solitude can be aspleasant to be with as a companion.4)Thoreau had his own self-important for company.(plO)Thoreaus life was self-content;he enjoysbeing alone.5)Those absent will be back.Their waterproof winter coats are in the closet and
25、the dog keepswatching for them at the window.(pH)-Those who are staying away from you will be back.Theyhave their winter coats kept in the closet and even the dog keeps watching at the window for theircoming back.6)While the others are absent.at your own pace.(pll)-While the others are away,you can
26、relaxand enjoy your freedom fully.You may come and go at will without worrying that it may bother others,or you can read late into the night,or enjoy the pleasure of bathing,or eat up a whole pint of ice creamat one time,or move at your own pace.7)But when you live alone,the temporary absence of you
27、r friends and acquaintances leaves a vacuum;they may never come back,(p 11)-But if you live alone and your friends and acquaintances leave for ashort time,you may have a feeling of emptiness,and you fear they may never come back.8)The condition of loneliness rises and falls,but the need to talk goes
28、 on forever,(pl2)-Sometimesyou feel you are lonely,while sometimes you do not.But man always has a need to talk.9)Its the daily succession of small complaints and observations and opinions that backs up andchokes us.(pl2)-Its the series of complaints and observations and views every day that overwhe
29、lmus and make us feel uneasy.10)Its important to stop waiting and settle down and make ourselves comfortable,at least temporary,and find some grace and pleasure in our condition,not like a self-centered British poet but like apatient princess sealed up in a tower,waiting for the happy ending to our
30、fairy tale.Here“grace and pleasure refers to the state of human mind.Step 4 Consolidation1.SummaryWhile loneliness is very common in the U.S.,few people care to admit to it because it isperceived as(l)some sort of social disease.It is seen as admirable for American heroes to bravely goalone into the
31、 wilderness and for poets and philosophers(2)to seek oul solitude.Some poets andphilosophers,like William Wordsworth and John Milton and Henry David Thoreau,enjoy(3)inspiration from solitude.When an individual is not solitary out of choice,the experience is(4)bothless enjoyable and productive.It is(
32、5)our basic need to talk to someone not only about the big thingsbut also about the little daily things.As a consequence,lonely people will talk about the little things tothemselves,the cat,the dog and,(6)most embarrassingly,to total strangers.Therefore,its importantfor ordinary people to(7)stay rat
33、ional,make themselves comfortable at least temporarily,and findsome grace and pleasure in their home.2.After-Reading Topic:1)In your opinion,which is better for the old,living with their children or living alone?2)Comparing people living alone on purpose and people who have to live aloneStep 5 Homework1.Read Section B and finish ex.1.2.Finish the exercises in Section A.