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1、Unit 2,Text I Space Invaders,Pre-reading Questions,1. What does “personal space” mean in your mind? 2. Have you ever had experience when you felt your PS was being invaded? Whats your feeling? 3. Who have a stronger sense of PS, Chinese or Westerners?,personal space,It refers to the amount of area a
2、vailable for personal use and it is often regarded as a personal domain or territory. When this territory is invaded, its owner will feel uncomfortable or even threatened.,Background information: 1. About the text: This text was originally published in New Yorker on July 24, 1993. later in 2001 it a
3、ppeared again in The Princeton Anthology of Writing: Favorite Pieces by the Ferries Writers at Princeton University. About the author: Richard Stengel is a senior writer working for Time magazine.,3. Malthusian logic: the theories of the British economist Thomas Robert Malthus(1766-1843), which stat
4、e that population increases faster than the means of subsistence unless war, famine, or disease intervenes or efforts are made to limit population. 4. Long Island: an island in southeastern New York. The New York city boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens are at its west end.,Language Work,snake : move in
5、 a twisting way The train was snaking its way through the mountains. Some tired velvet ropes : some slackened velvet ropes inch: move very slowly and carefully Howard inched the van forward.,Shuffle: walk by dragging ones feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground He slipped on his sho
6、es and shuffled out of the room. shuffle sth . off: avoid talking or thinking about sth. because it is not considered important He shuffled the question off and changed the topic.,ring: a quality, or an impression of having the quality that is mentioned Her story has a ring of truth about it. The bo
7、oks he mentioned had a familiar ring about them. penetrate: succeed in forcing through sth. They penetrated into the territory where no man had ever been before.,Wedge: force into a narrow space She opened the door wide and wedged it with a pad of newspaper. “dont tread on me” could have been coined
8、 only by someone with a spread: P5 “dont step into my space”. This could have been said only by a person who has a large personal space.,Personal space is psychological, not physical: it has less to do with the space outside us than our inner space: personal space is more a psychological matter than
9、 a physical one. Be proportional to: increase or decrease at the same rate as the other thing The output should be proportional to the input.,Structural Analysis,The writer points out the fact that nowadays people are more and more concerned about themselves and want to have a larger personal space
10、than decades ago, and then he analyses the causes of space invasion. It can be divided into three parts.,Structural Analysis,Part 1(1-2): the writer calls the readers attention to the invasion of PS by relating an experience of how his PS was invaded. Part 2(3-7): he analyzes some likely causes of t
11、he shrinkage of PS, and attributes the invasion to the general decline of good manners. Part 3(8-9): he presents his view about the essence of PS, it is psychological rather than physical, and urges people to “expand the contracting boundaries of PS”.,Part I paragraph 1-2,The following question may
12、be asked: How did the author describe the violation of personal space that happened in a bank? a series of verb phrases and adverbials to vividly describe the process and peoples reaction.,Untill hugger-muggerSlinky. Untill we were all pushing against each other, leaving the line in disorder. lazy l
13、ine: personification,slothful, sluggish, idle,The phrase has a quaint, seventies ring to it. has an old touch that was characteristic of the 1970s./ sounds old-fashioned and reminds one of the 1970s.,Part II paragraph 3-7,The following questions could be asked : Is “personal space” a phrase of the s
14、eventies? Is it out of date nowadays? Why or why not? Do you agree with the author about the reasons of space invasion given in Paragraph 4? What other factors have caused it? What does the author mean by saying “personal space is mostly a public matter”? Do space invaders respect other peoples pers
15、onal space?,T-shirt weather can make proximity more alluring P4 In hot summer days, people can be drawn to each other,esp. to the opposite sex or feel disgusted with the closeness of others (move away from those unpleasant smell of perspiration). T-shirt weather: metonymy 借代/换喻 He is a true blue. fa
16、ithful person,Or perhaps the increasing is infusingintojangling locals can no longer keep to themselves. P4 attract more and more people, who are stimulated and excited by the caffeine they take in, so that they become eager to meet others and no longer want to remain in private., we allow all kinds of invasions (Humanity wouldnt exist without them.) P5 privately we allow people with whom we have close relationships to enter our PS in a variety of wa
