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1、高等院校研究生英语系列教材,综合教程（上） INTEGRATED COURSE,2,Unit 6,Sanctuary or Fulfillment,Content,Starting out Reading Focus Reading More Practical Translation Focused Writing Final Project,Task 1 Work with your partner to match the following US cities with their nicknames. Try to explain the origin of the nickname
2、s on Page 160.,Starting out,Motor City,The Discovery City,Jet City,The Gateway City,The Big Pineapple,The Big Apple,The City of Brotherly Love,The City of Lights,The Steel City,City of Angels,Task 2 A Native of Beijing in New York was a TV series reflecting the lives of Chinese living abroad. They s
3、truggle for a better life while coming to realize how much they have lost. Its prologue is quite impressive (P160): If you love him bring him to New York for its heaven; if you hate him bring him to New York for its hell.,Starting outTask 2,Task 2 With which part of the prologue would you agree? Jus
4、tify your choice with examples (P161). Useful words and expressions: attractive; leading global city; land of opportunities; full of robbery; high crime rate; high living expenditure; widening gap between the rich and poor, etc,Starting outTask 2,Starting outTask 3,Task 3 The song New York, New York
5、 is often heard at many social events in New York area. Many sports teams play this song before or after the game, the New York Yankees is the most prominent example. Listen to the song, and sing along with it.,Starting outTask 3,New York, New York Start spreading the news, Im leaving today I want t
6、o be a part of it - new york, new york These vagabond shoes, are longing to stray Right through the very heart of it - New York, New York I wanna wake up in a city, that doesnt sleep And find Im king of the hill - top of the heap These little town blues, are melting away Ill make a brand new start o
7、f it - in old New York If I can make it there, Ill make it anywhere Its up to you - New York, New York (To be continued),Starting outTask 3,New york, new york I want to wake up in a city, that never sleeps And find Im a number one - top of the list, king of the hill A number one These little town bl
8、ues, are melting away Im gonna make a brand new start of it - in old new york And if I can make it there, Im gonna make it anywhere Its up to you - new york new york New york,Here is New York,Reading Focus,Reading Focus,Reading Focus Global Understanding,(Para. 1),(Paras. 2-3),(Paras. 4-6),Paras. 7-
9、8,(Paras. 7-8),Introduction,A. Its largess can account for the presence within the citys walls of a considerable section of the population. B. The capacity to make such dubious gifts is a mysterious quality of New York. C. The special quality of New York can either destroy an individual or fulfill h
10、im.,New York presents the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy to everyone who comes to town.,Reading Focus Global Understanding,The vibrations of great things or people felt in New York,A. I am curiously affected by emanations from the immediate surroundings while I am sitting in a hotel in N
11、ew York: I am 22 blocks from where Rudolph Valentino lay in state beautifully. I am eight blocks from where Nathan Hale was executed. I am five blocks from the publishing house where Ernest Hemingway hit Max Eastman on the nose. I am four miles from where Walt Whitman sat sweating out editorials for
12、 The Brooklyn Eagle. B. The waiter also felt the same stimulus from being close to a famous actor.,Example 1:,Example 2:,Example 3:,Reading Focus Global Understanding,Example 4:,The insulation provided by New York,New York succeeds in insulating the individual against all enormous and violent and wo
13、nderful events taking place every minute. I did not attend the worlds greatest air show staged in New York. I did not notice the biggest oceangoing ships on the North Atlantic. B. The inhabitants in New York is in the happy position of being able to choose his spectacle and so conserve his soul. C.
14、The quality of New York that insulates its inhabitants from life may simply weaken them as individuals.,Reading Focus Global Understanding,Example 1:,Example 2:,Conclusion,New York has a positive effect on the creative capacities of its inhabitants. New York can bring the sense of rejuvenation to it
15、s inhabitants.,The positive qualities of New York,A.,B.,Reading Focus Global Understanding,Task 2,Work in groups to decide whether the statements are true or false according to the passage. (P170),Key: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14,T,F,F,F,F,F,F,T,F,T,Reading Focus Detailed Information,F,F,T,T,Crit
16、ical Thinking,Reading Focus,Step One Read the following sentences from the text and decide what the author actually meant. Do you agree with him or not?,No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky. I think that although many persons are here from some excess of spirit (which caused them to break away from their small town), some, too, are here from a deficiency of spirit, who find in New York
