大连外语学院：《基础英语》（英文版） Unit 10 TEXT I "Keep Class 2 Under Your Thumb"

Unit 10 Text I Text II

Unit 10 Text I Text II

TEXT I Keep Class 2 Under your Thumb

TEXT I "Keep Class 2 Under Your Thumb

Teaching Outline Duty report dictation Background information Pre-reading questions Passage analysis style and thesis development writing techniques word derivations language points Going beyond the text(group activities) Homework Weekly quiz

Teaching Outline ◼ Duty report & dictation ◼ Background information ◼ Pre-reading questions ◼ Passage analysis ◼ style and thesis development ◼ writing techniques ◼ word derivations ◼ language points ◼ Going beyond the text(group activities) ◼ Homework ◼ Weekly quiz

Pre-reading questions 1. What is meant by"keep somebody under one 's thumb”? 2. What relationships does the phrase usually apply to? That between the officers and men in the armed forces? Between the teacher and the pupils in a school? Between the employers and the employees in a factory or on a farm? Which of the relationshi ip might this text be e about?

Pre-reading questions ◼ 1. What is meant by “keep somebody under one’s thumb”? ◼ 2. What relationships does the phrase usually apply to? That between the officers and men in the armed forces? Between the teacher and the pupils in a school? Between the employers and the employees in a factory or on a farm? Which of the relationship might this text be about?

3. What contradictions are there generall between the governing and the governed? Which of the three qualities do you expect of the governing: authority, laxity, a compromise between the two? Which of the three qualities do you expect of the governed: obedience defiance, or indifference?

◼ 3. What contradictions are there generally between the governing and the governed? Which of the three qualities do you expect of the governing: authority, laxity, a compromise between the two? Which of the three qualities do you expect of the governed: obedience, defiance, or indifference?

4. Is it right for anybody to keep somebody under his thumb? Would you like to be kept under somebodys thumb?

◼ 4. Is it right for anybody to keep somebody under his thumb? Would you like to be kept under somebody’s thumb?

Passage analysis Style: narration Theme: An inexperienced teacher failed to deal with an unruly class of top year boys The author effectively develops the theme by choosing appropriate supporting details descriptions of the teacher descriptions of the unruly class

Passage analysis ◼ Style: narration ◼ Theme: An inexperienced teacher failed to deal with an unruly class of top year boys. ◼ The author effectively develops the theme by choosing appropriate supporting details: ◼ descriptions of the teacher ◼ descriptions of the unruly class

Passage analysis Group discussion about the Writing techniques 1. How comic exaggeration is achieved 2. An excellent description of a situation which is totally out of control

Passage analysis ◼ Group discussion about the Writing techniques: ◼ 1. How comic exaggeration is achieved ◼ 2. An excellent description of a situation which is totally out of control

Topics for group discussion in the form of interview 1.If you were the teacher being assigned to teach the unruly class, how would you maintain discipline? 2. What kind of school discipline should university students follow? 3. Do you think we can classify those students in the story as bad students"?

Topics for group discussion in the form of interview ◼ 1.If you were the teacher being assigned to teach the unruly class, how would you maintain discipline? ◼ 2.What kind of school discipline should university students follow? ◼ 3. Do you think we can classify those students in the story as “bad students”?

Topics for group discussion in the form of interview 4. What qualities should a university student have? 5. What kind of class culture is helpful to students? 6. What kind of teacher do you like?

Topics for group discussion in the form of interview ◼ 4.What qualities should a university student have? ◼ 5. What kind of class culture is helpful to students? ◼ 6. What kind of teacher do you like?