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Contemporary College English Book I 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 School of Foreign Language

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

Background Information Author Title Relevant information 1.Make a brief introduction to 1.What is the Search for information difference between the author. about the following: uneducated and 1. Globalization miseducated? 2. Cultural differences 2.In what way is the and similarities man miseducated? 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. 1. What is the difference between uneducated and miseducated? 2. In what way is the man miseducated? Search for information about the following: 1. Globalization 2. Cultural differences and similarities 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! o 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 amly members Mcanings osage 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! 80p Text Reading:read the Outlining:read the text, outline it and text and circle the summarize the main difficult points. Text erstanding 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 meaning in your meaning of the Patterns own words. sentences. My education had bypassed the similarities What my education failed to do was to teach me that the principal significance of such differences was that they were largely without significance. Then overnight came the great compression. Among those faculties is a creative intelligence that enables man to reflect and forsee,to take in past experience,and also to visualize future needs. It had failed to grasp and define the fact that beyond the differences are realities scarcely comprehended because of their very simplicity. School of Foreign Language

School of Foreign Languages Critical Reading My education had bypassed the similarities. Among those faculties is a creative intelligence that enables man to reflect and forsee, to take in past experience, and also to visualize future needs. 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. It had failed to grasp and define the fact that beyond the differences are realities scarcely comprehended because of their very simplicity. You are to READ the TEXT in great details! 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 Critical Reading TEXT in great details! Study the sentences Offer the part of offered you here in Complex speech of each the text and try to sentence and analyze the Sentences translate them into structure of each. Chinese Sentence 1:the 3rd line of Para.2"We toured a Civil War battlefield." Sentence 2:the 10th line of Para.5"We like our information fast." Sentence 3:the 12th line of Para.6"Instead of devoting large parts." Sentence 4:the 3rd line of Para.8 School of Foreign Language

School of Foreign Languages Critical Reading Sentence 3: the 12th line of Para.6 “Instead of devoting large parts.” 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: the 10th line of Para.5 “We like our information fast.” Sentence 1: the 3rd line of Para.2 “ We toured a Civil War battlefield.” Sentence 4: the 3rd line of Para.8 “ .” You are to READ the TEXT in great details!

Critical Reading-Infinitives 1.I have become most aware ofmy lack ofa 3.Viewed in global proper education pressio What perspective,what counts is not that the thoughts whenever I have had time the chance to put it to conce 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 San 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