教学目的: 了解银行的发展历史。
掌握happen to do, in the first place, over-lighted, authority, more than, think twice about, as to whether, no…but to, one cannot but do, move in sth,. zero in on sth, damn等重点词汇和短语的意义及用法。
通过句子释义,理解课文中难句。
教学重点:掌握重点词汇及其同义、同形词辨析。
加强学生的口语练习。
教学内容:语言难点
语言技能训练
难句讲解
课堂讨论
练习及作业
教学方法:精讲多练,讲练结合
Unit 4 The Boy and the Bank Officer
Questions for Pre-class reading:
1. How do you understand the author’s friend’s attitude toward banks?
He hates the bank.
A banker is a man who lends you un umbrella when the weather is fair and takes it away from you when it rains.
2. What can banks do for us? And what about churches?
Keep your money.
Churches represent God, give people moral advices and preach moral lessons, tell people what to do and what not to do.
3)3. Why did the author go to bank one day?
To open a checking account.
4. What did he see in the bank?
A school boy tried to withdraw money from the bank.
5. Why did the officer refuse to have the boy withdraw money?
A fourteen-year-old is not able to withdraw money without a letter from his parents. 6. What did the author do then?
He thought the bank policy is very ridiculous. He thought what he saw confirmed his friend’s comment on banks. He decided not to open his account and found it a good chance to attack the bank policy.
74)888. What do you think of the ending of the story? What effect may it bring to the story?
The exaggeration of the speaker’s anger and determination to attack produces comic(喜剧的;逗人的;幽默的) effect.
Appreciation of the text:
Plot: a boy’s withdrawal of money from bank
Setting: at the bank
Main characters: the bank officer, the boy, “I”
Theme: traditionally, poor people and people who sympathize them regard bank as evil, or as enemy of the poor. Such suspicions and misgivings still linger on. This article seems to prove that prejudices of people like the author are ungrounded.
Structure of the text:
Part Ⅰ( para.1) : the attitude of the author’s friend toward the bank.
PartⅡ( paras. 2-23): the boy managed to withdraw money from the bank but was kindly refused.
Part Ⅲ( paras.24-32): the bank officer cleared the fact.
Language Points
▲ happen to do: occur by chance, take place
She happened to be out when he called yesterday.
When the fire broke out, I happened to be passing by.
She happened to be out when he called.
I happen to know sth about medicine, so he couldn’t fool me.
happen: ---refer to accidental or unplanned event
occur: ---refer to accidental or unplanned event; more formal than happen
take place: suggest that an event is/was planned
▲ in the first / second…place: ---firstly / secondly…
in my / your… place: ---in my situation or circumstances
▲. overlighted: --- having too much light
over-: 1)above; outside; across
overcoat overhead overhang overall
2) to excess; too much
overtime overeat over-rich overburden
overcharge overweight overstaffed overwhelm
▲ fortyish: at about the age of forty
-ish: a).. reddish greenish bluish yellowish darkish brownish
b). foolish childish babyish boyish womanish snobbish
clownish
c). English Irish Polish Scottish Finnish Spanish
Swedish
d). selfish bookish
e). fiftyish fortyish
f). publish polish punish accomplish abolish astonish establish
▲ mustache: hair on upper lip
beard: hair growing on man’s chin
goatee: short pointed beard
▲ authority: 1) powers to give orders and make others obey
The leader must be a person of authority.
2) person or group having the power to give orders or take actions
The health authority is investigating the matter.
3) person with special knowledge
She is an authority on phonetics.
▲ 7)more than (para. 4): (colloq.) very; extremely; beyond
They were more than willing to help.
Some of the stories were really more than could be believed.
more… than…:
The child was more frightened than hurt.
He always seemed old to me, more like a grandfather than a father.
no more than: 1)only; just
It cost me only $5 to buy the book.
Before long her white sails were no more than a speck upon the waters.
2) the same as
He’s no more able to read Spanish than I am.
▲ wear an expression of open dismay (para. 5)
She look at her plate with an expression of disgust.
▲ Hold one’s attention
He is able to hold the audience’s attention even before he speaks.
他甚至能在开口之前就吸引住观众的注意。
It is hard to hold the attention of children a long time.
要长时间吸引孩子们的注意力是很难的。
▲ Now if you’ll excuse me. (para. 9)
If you will excuse me, Miss Virtue, I need to call Josh about an assignment.
对不起啦,美德小姐,我得打电话给乔希问功课啦。
I hope you will excuse me if I have to leave early.
如果我必须早些离开,希望你能原谅我。
Will you excuse me if I have to arrive ten minutes late?
如果我不得不迟到十分钟的话,你会原谅我吗?
If for any reason a guest has to leave the table during a meal, he should ask the hostess, Will you excuse me for a minute?
如果客人因故得中途离开餐桌,他得对女主人说:“请原谅,我得离开一会儿。”
Will you excuse me, I am afraid I have to go and see if I can catch the last bus .
请你原谅,恐怕我得走了,看看能否赶上末班车。
▲ think twice about / doing sth (para. 10):
---think carefully before deciding to do sth because you know about the dangers or problems
You should think twice about employing someone you’ve never met.
I’ll think twice before taking out such a big loan.
Always think twice before paying out large sums of money.
支付大笔款项时总要三思而行。
If I were you, I'd think twice about it.
如果我是你我会三思而后行。
You must think twice before you take this step.
你在走这一步之前, 应当三思。
Once bitten, twice shy.
---(saying) after an unpleasant experience one is careful to avoid sth similar
Lightning never strike in the same place twice.
---(saying) an unusual event, or one that happens by chance, is not likely to occur again in the exactly the same circumstances or to the same people.
▲ as to + whether : concerning / about / regarding
who
when
I can’t decide as to when we should start.
It’s still unclear as to whom this car belong to.
▲may… but… (para. 14)
You may be rich, but you can’t buy anything.
You may lead a horse to water, but you can’t force it to drink.
You may get high mark this time, but it doesn’t mean you’ve learned everything.
▲have no choice/alternative but to
He had no alternative to resign/leave the company.
She had no choice but to sell her house.
We have no choice but to continue our reform.
(do / did/ does) + nothing … but do:
I did nothing but follow the rules.
▲ but:
one cannot / couldn’t but do sth: ---(fml) have to
I couldn’t but admit that he was right and I was wrong.
(negative word) + but + clause: ---without the result that
No man is so cruel but he may feel some pity.
but for sb / sth: --- without sb / sth
But for the rain, we would have had a nice holiday.
▲ opening (16): good opportunity to do or talk about sth
a business opening经商的好机会
The lawyer waited patiently for her opening, then exposed the inconsistency in the testimony.
律师耐心地等待着她有利的机会,然后揭露其证据的不连续性。
Seize any opening you can. 只要有机会就要抓住.
The last speaker gives me the opening I am waiting for.
最后的发言者给了我等待已久的讲话机会。
He suffered an injury in training, creating the opening for Shaw.
他在训练中受伤,为肖创造了这次机会
▲ move in for sth: --- become active in doing sth
move in for the kill: prepare to finish off the opponent
I moved in for the kill.
The Mongols would harass the enemy from the sides until the latter were exhausted, then close in for the kill.
蒙古军会从四面八方不断侵扰敌人,直到敌人筋疲力尽,再包围并一举歼灭。
From time to time they would stalk, press their bodies to the ground, swish their tails and give every sign of going for the kill.
有时,它们偷偷接近它,身体贴向地面,嗖嗖地摆动着尾巴,现出要去杀戮的一切迹象。
The jet was in range. Its shining nose was on us as it closed in for the kill.
喷气机确实在射程以内。它闪亮的鼻子对着我们,似乎它要靠近来进行。move in on sb / sth: ---converge on sb / sth, esp. in a menacing way
The police moved in on the terrorists.
▲ zero in on sb / sth (para. 20)
1)aim guns, etc. at or find the range of ( a particular target) 针对;瞄准
Artillery and mortars(迫击炮) were zeroed in on all avenues of approach.
2)fix attention on sb / sth; focus on sb / sth
We should zero in on the key issues for discussion
It's a good idea to zero in on what the two of you have in common, and make conversation based on those similarities.
确认你们两个的共同之处,并且以其为基础进行交谈是个好主意。
The senate zero in on the Latin-American problem.
参议院集中注意拉丁美洲问题。
The goal of targeting is to zero in on that20 percent.
因此锁定旨在瞄准20%消费群体。
▲ you really shouldn’t have interfered.
“Shouldn’t/ might not have done” : criticism
You shouldn’t have invited him.
You shouldn’t have been so rude to her.
You shouldn’t have so careless.
You shouldn’t have taken that job.
▲ damn: (para 25)
adv. very used to show how good sth is , or how bad sth is
damn good / clever / well
We’ve been so damn busy all day. I’m shattered.
Adj. (before nouns) (spoken) used to show you are annoyed or angry with sb. or sth.
I can’t get this damn button undone.
▲ neighborhood: (para. 30)
: all the homes and business in a small area within a larger town or city
-hood: the state or time of being n:
A happy childhood,
Growing to manhood,
There is no much likelihood.
▲ Shake sb down: get money from sb by using threat
Some neighborhood bully has shaken him down for a month.
Shake down peasants by pretending to arrest them
以逮捕为要挟向农民敲诈勒索
Two men had tried to shake him down for 500000 dollars.
有两个男人曾企图敲诈他500000美元。
Whilst we were traveling overseas some customs officials tried to shake us down for money.
当我们在外国旅游的时候,一些海关曾想通过一些方法来算计我们的钱。
Writing devices:
hyperbole
Hyperbole is another name for an exaggeration / overstatement. By this figure of speech we mean a statement exaggerated fancifully for the purpose of creating an effect. It is the obvious exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect. (comic effect)
I moved in for the kill. (para. 19)
I zeroed in on the officer. (para. 20)
He smoked like a chimney.
He wept oceans of tears.
His anger nearly burst his belly.
Waves thundered against the rocks.
Blood streamed down his forehead.
They bombarded me with a number of questions.
During the economic crisis price skyrocketed.
I will love you till the sea has gone dry and the rocs melt with the sun.
Sentences Understanding
1. Everything about him suggested a carefully dressed authority.
---His clothes, his manner, etc. indicated that he was a carefully dressed man who had an important position and power.
2. Now if you will excuse me.
--This expression is used when one wants to go back to one’s work, or to attend to other customers, or just to end the conversation.
3)3. I didn’t think twice.
---I didn’t think very carefully.
4)4. I moved in for the kill.
--I began to prepare to kill, destroy or defeat my enemy.
5)5. Look, we’re just wasting each other’s time.
--You are just talking nonsense. I don’t want to listen to you any more.
6.6) Anyway, the police are on the case.
--Anyway, the police are working on the case.
Language Skills Practice
用 “happen to do, in the first place, over-lighted, authority, more than, think twice about, as to whether, no…but to, one cannot but do, move in sth,. zero in on sth, damn”等词汇和短语编一故事。
Assignment
1. Finish the exercises after the text.
2. 5)Discuss with your partner the phenomenon of “School Bully” in both foreign countries and China. Analyze its reasons and make certain suggestions on its solution.
3. Retell the story from the bank officer or the boy’s view.
4. Dramatize the story and act it out.
Text B My Bank Account
A man came to the bank to open an account for his fifty dollars. He was full of fears for the bank, and he was so frightened of banks that he looked very serious and nervous. His strange behavior made the bank mistake him for a millionaire. When the bank found he had only fifty-six dollars, they became very cold and were very rude to him. This banking experience was a nightmare for him.下载本文