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1、Unit 1 Thinking as a HobbyTeaching Aims: 1. Through detailed explanation of the text, students are expected to grasp the general idea of the author.2. The students should have a perfect mastery of linguistic essentials as word and phrase usage.3. To make sure that the students grasp the basic facts
2、and the logic of argument.4. To make the students realize the difference in style.Teaching points: 1. Introduction to the Text:Introduction; Synopsis; Organization of the Text2. Questions to help comprehension and appreciation. 3. Think about why the author chose thinking as his hobby.Teaching diffi
3、culty: 1. Students who have been using this textbook must have noticed that each book begins with an essay about studies or education, and this one is no exception. The present text is about thinking, and thinking is important. Intelligent young students do not need to be told this. They know that l
4、inguistic competence is not just grammar and vocabulary. They know that they have to learn to deal with more serious subjects and discuss more complex problems. They know a good liberal arts education must include good training in logical ad critical thinking.2. It should be noted that self-mockery
5、used in this text is a very important kind of humor and can have an unusually powerful effect.Teaching contents: Warm-up, background information, text appreciation, language study, exercisesWarm-upWarming up activities (pair work/group work): 1. understanding the use of word “hobby” in the title;The
6、 authors use of the word “hobby” is interesting. By using this word he means that thinking is not just for professional thinkers like philosophers. It is something all educated people should enjoy doing. This special interest is often referred to as “idle curiosity”, and it is considered one of the
7、most precious qualities in young scholars. Students should play with ideas the way they play with balls. Both are important for their healthy development, one mental, and the other physical.2. What is your hobby? Do you want to choose thinking as your hobby? What kind of questions do you often think
8、?3. Students who have been using this textbook must have noticed that each book begins with an essay about studies or education, and this one is no exception. The present text is about thinking, and thinking is important. Intelligent young students do not need to be told this. They know that linguis
9、tic competence is not just grammar and vocabulary. They know that they have to learn to deal with more serious subjects and discuss more complex problems. They know a good liberal arts education must include good training in logical ad critical thinking.Background InformationI. Author Sir William Ge
10、rald Golding (September 19, 1911June 19, 1993) was an English novelist,poet and 1983 Nobel Laureate in Literature.The Nobel Foundation cited: his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of t
11、oday.William Goldings main works* Poems (1934) * Lord of the Flies (1954) * The Inheritors (1955) * Pincher Martin (1956) * Free Fall (1959) * The Spire (1964) * Darkness Visible (1979) * The Trilogy Rites of Passage (1980, Booker Prize) * Close Quarters (1987) * Fire Down Below (1989), republished
12、under the general title To The Ends of the EarthII. Rodins Thinker Resting on the horizontal panel above the doors, The Thinker became the focal point of The Gates of Hell and subsequently perhaps the most well-known sculpture of all time. The athletic-looking figure, inspired by the sculpture of Mi
13、chelangelo, depicts a man in sober meditation, yet whose muscles strain with effortpossibly to evoke a powerful internal struggle. Rodin initially referred to the figure as Dante but eventually what we know as The Thinker evolved into a more symbolic representation of creativity, intellect, and abov
14、e allthought.III. Goddess Venus Venus of Milo Venus de Milo (about 150100 BC) is considered by many art historians to be the ideal of Hellenistic beauty. It was carved out of marble and stands approximately 205 cm (6 ft 10 in) high. As Roman Goddess of Love and Beauty, Venus is associated with culti
15、vated fields and gardens and later identified by the Romans with the Greek Goddess of Love, Aphrodite.8 major planets in the solar system: Venus; Jupiter; Mercury; Mars; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune；PlutoText AppreciationI. Text AnalysisThemeThinking is not just for professional thinkers like philosopher
16、s. It is something all educated people should enjoy doing, and it is considered one of the most precious qualities in young scholars for the healthy mental development. StructurePart 1 (Paras. 124 ): How the subject of thinking was first brought up to the author and his understanding of the nature of “grade-three thinking” Part 2 (Paras. 2529): The authors anal
