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Contemporary College English Book II Unit 9 Confessions of a Miseducated Man By Norman Cousins

Contemporary College English Book II Unit 9 Confessions of a Miseducated Man By Norman Cousins

Contents Background Information Vocabulary Expressions Critical Reading Discussion &Debating&Writing Recommended Reading List School of Foreign Language

School of Foreign Languages Contents Background Information Vocabulary & Expressions Discussion &Debating& Writing Critical Reading Recommended Reading List

Background Information Author Title Relevant information 1. Search for information 1.Make a brief In the religious introduction to the sense,who usually about the following terms: author(including makes a 1.Tribalism confession?And life span, 2.World federalism who usually listens education,career, 3.Globalization to a confession? works,life-long 4. Cultural 2.What is the differences and concerns. difference between similarities being uneducated and miseducated? between Chinese and Americans You may DIVIDE this task among your group! School of Foreign Language

School of Foreign Languages Background Information 1. Make a brief introduction to the author (including life span, education, career, works, life-long concerns. 1. In the religious sense, who usually makes a confession? And who usually listens to a confession? 2. What is the difference between being uneducated and miseducated? Search for information about the following terms: 1. Tribalism 2. World federalism 3. Globalization 4. Cultural differences and similarities between Chinese and Americans You may DIVIDE this task among your group!

Vocabulary Expressions School of Foreign Language

School of Foreign Languages Vocabulary & Expressions

Read the glossary Vocabulary Expressions and the text before you start! Read and explain words and expressions in Glossary and the text Study these words Study these expressions Adequate appreciate compress A bird's-eye view all but give force to confession compare impose in the nature of put sth to test precarious reflect take in past experience alter the precarious balance Apply the test fulfill a need pursue different faiths amiy members Meanings Usage Collect their family Look up in the dictionary Offer example sentences. Finish Exercises 1,2,3,4 members for their meanings and 5 on P224-227 Write your research work down on Your Note-book! School of Foreign Language

School of Foreign Languages Vocabulary & Expressions words and expressions in Glossary and the text Study these words Adequate appreciate compress confession compare impose precarious reflect Study these expressions A bird’s-eye view all but give force to in the nature of put sth to test take in past experience alter the precarious balance Apply the test fulfill a need pursue different faiths Related family members Collect their family members Meanings Look up in the dictionary for their meanings Usage Offer example sentences. Finish Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 on P224-227 Read and explain Read the glossary and the text before you start! Write your research work down on Your Note-book!

Critical Reading School of Foreign Language

School of Foreign Languages Critical Reading

You are to READ the Critical Reading TEXT in great details! Work by Work in yourself! groups! Text Reading:read the Outlining:read the text, outline it and text and circle the summarize the main difficult points. Texterstandn idea of each part. Try to tell the similarities and Grammar Sentence patterns,on the differences between Chinese following pages. people and American Indians. Work in Work by groups! yourself before in groups School of Foreign Language

School of Foreign Languages Critical Reading Text Reading: read the text and circle the difficult points. Outlining: read the text, outline it and summarize the main idea of each part. Try to tell the similarities and differences between Chinese people and American Indians. Grammar & Sentence patterns, on the following pages. Work by yourself! Work in groups! Work in groups! Work by yourself before in groups You are to READ the TEXT in great details!

You are to READ the Critical Reading TEXT in great details! Study the following sentences and try Sentence Then tell their to understand the Patterns meaning in your meaning of the own words. sentences. My education had bypassed the similarities. I have the feeling that my words fail to give force to the idea they seek to express. Then overnight came the great compression. The differences were all but wiped out by the similarities. .the universe does not hold life cheaply. School of Foreign Language

School of Foreign Languages Critical Reading My education had bypassed the similarities. The differences were all but wiped out by the similarities. Study the following sentences and try to understand the meaning of the sentences. Then tell their meaning in your own words. Then overnight came the great compression. You are to READ the TEXT in great details! I have the feeling that my words fail to give force to the idea they seek to express. . the universe does not hold life cheaply

You are to READ the Critical Reading TEXT in great details! Study the sentences Complex Offer the part of offered you here in speech of each the text and try to analyze the Sentences sentence and translate them into structure of each. Chinese Sentence 1:But what my education failed to do was to teach me that the principal significance of such differences was that they were largely without significance. Sentence 2:It turned out that my ability to get along with other peoples depended not so much upon my comprehension of the uniqueness of their way of life as my comprehension of the things we had in common. Sentence 3:It had failed to grasp and define the fact that beyond the differences are realities scarcely comprehended because of their very simplicity. Sentence 4:Of all these countless forms of life,only one,the human species,possesses certain faculties in combination that give it supreme advantages over all the others. gn Language

School of Foreign Languages Critical Reading Sentence 3: It had failed to grasp and define the fact that beyond the differences are realities scarcely comprehended because of their very simplicity. Study the sentences offered you here in the text and try to analyze the structure of each. Offer the part of speech of each sentence and translate them into Chinese Sentence 2: It turned out that my ability to get along with other peoples depended not so much upon my comprehension of the uniqueness of their way of life as my comprehension of the things we had in common. Sentence 1: But what my education failed to do was to teach me that the principal significance of such differences was that they were largely without significance. You are to READ the TEXT in great details! Sentence 4: Of all these countless forms of life, only one, the human species, possesses certain faculties in combination that give it supreme advantages over all the others

Critical Reading-Infinitives 1.I have become most 3.Viewed in global aware of my lack of a perspective,what counts proper education express/o What is not that the thoughts whenever I have had tim the chance to put it to concep of people lead them in different directions but the test. that all men possess the 2.And the best place to capacity to think. Read more examples in apply that test is Exercise 4 on Page 132 outside the country- especially Asia or Sn to use Africa. Discuss in groups:What is the function of Finish Exercises 1 on P227-228. the infinitives after the nouns in the above sentences? School of Foreign Language

School of Foreign Languages 1. I have become most aware of my lack of a proper education whenever I have had the chance to put it to the test. 2. And the best place to apply that test is outside the country— especially Asia or Africa. 3. Viewed in global perspective, what counts is not that the thoughts of people lead them in different directions but that all men possess the capacity to think. Read more examples in Exercise 4 on Page 132 Discuss in groups: What is the function of the infinitives after the nouns in the above sentences? Finish Exercises 1 on P227-228. Critical Reading— Infinitives