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浅谈《儿童西方文化导读》对初中学生英语学习的重要作用《儿童西方文化导读》是为初中学生准备的一本专业英语学习书籍，书中收录的是关于英语学习的一些基本知识，书中的英语词汇、句式和文章结构都准备的很全面，它可以帮助学生在英语学习中快速掌握要点及其内容的知识结构，为他们的学习提供重要的帮助。

儿童西方文化导读为初中学生学习英语提供了一种全面的理解
框架，它能够帮助学生学习英语词汇和句法，同时也能够帮助他们理解英文文章的大框架和结构，而这些知识结构也是学习英语的重要起点。

书中提到的内容和解释都十分清晰明了，并且结合了中西文化的实践案例，可以为学生提供更加实用的英语学习理论。

学生在学习英语时，最重要的就是锻炼口语能力，《儿童西方文化导读》在这方面也为学生提供很多教材。

除了英语语法，书中还包含许多实用的英语口语练习，如参加各类英语活动的话题，学习论文的写作技巧，以及参与英语讨论的规则等，这些内容都非常实用，有助于学生提高英语口语水平。

《儿童西方文化导读》还收录了英语文体的流派，包括各种文章的结构、句法、词汇、语法以及句子的搭配等，让学生可以更加准确地理解文章的内容，从而更加熟练地运用英语进行书面表达。

此外，《儿童西方文化导读》还教授了英语阅读的方法，其中包括精读技巧、句子难度分析、语义分析、读后总结等一整套完整的阅读训练，可以帮助学生更好地理解文章的主题思想和隐含信息，从而拓展英语知识面，增强对英语语言的驾驭能力。

总之，《儿童西方文化导读》全面地覆盖了英语学习的各个方面，无论是词汇、句法、阅读还是口语表达，都为初中学生的英语学习提供了极大的帮助和支持，是一本值得推荐的学习工具书。

第一单元章节标题要翻译课前导读1、说到古希腊你首先会想到什么?是特洛伊战争或奥林匹克运动会这些有趣的故事吗？请与同学分享你所知道的知识.2、你了解希腊神话吗？你能说出希腊神话中的诸神或英雄的名字吗？你知道他们的故事吗?3、请介绍苏格拉底、柏拉图或亚里士多德的成就。

为什么说他们奠定了西方哲学的基础？、第一部分古希腊神话希腊神话是古希腊人的神话和教义的总和，内容设及神和英雄、世界的性质、以及古希腊人宗教仪式的起源与意义等故事。

关于神、英雄和怪兽的故事是古希腊人日常生活的重要组成部分。

这些故事对包括从宗教仪式到天气在内的一切都给予了解释，并为人们所处的世界赋予了意义。

希腊神话的中心是万神庙的众神，传说他们住在希腊最高峰奥利匹斯山上。

奥林匹斯男神和女神的外貌看起来与男人和女人一样（尽管他们可以随意变成动物或者其他形态），而且正如许多神话所讲述的，也具有人类的种种弱点和情感。

宙斯是万神庙众神之王,神族之主。

他主宰天空，控制着骇人的雷电.宙斯制造出强烈的雷暴使希腊众神都震慑于他的威力之下。

他的妻子拉是女性和婚姻之神。

海神波塞冬相传是宙斯的哥哥。

他能够制造地震。

古希腊水手和渔民都相信,波塞冬在被无视之时会将他的三叉戟重击地面。

三叉戟是古希腊人用来刺鱼的一种有三个叉的矛枪，也是他们的一种武器.波塞冬挥动三叉戟则海难暴发，但他也能开辟新的岛屿,此外他会赐予水手食物并为他们的旅行保驾护航。

大哥哈迪斯掌管着冥界。

希腊人相信他们死后会去往哈迪斯的冥界，在那里他们虽然会被公平对待，但哈迪斯永远不会让他们重回熟悉的人间。

古希腊神话讲述的不仅仅是神的故事，人类英雄也同样重要，例如冒险家赫拉克勒斯,他完成了欧律斯特斯国王下达的十二项不可能的任务；第一个女人潘多拉,她在好奇心的驱使下打开了潘多拉之盒将灾难带到人间；还有纳克索斯，他爱上自己倒影等等.此外，怪兽和半兽人也在这些神话中起重要作用,其中有双翼神马帕格索斯，人马兽肯陶洛斯，带鹰翼的狮身女怪斯芬克斯，鹰身女妖哈比等，他们中的许多和希腊神话中的众神和人类英雄一样广为人知。

Division OneGreek Culture and Roman CultureEuropean culture is made up of many elements, two of these elements are considered to be more enduring and they are the Greco-Roman element and the Judeo-Christian elements.I. Greek Culture1. The Historical ContextAncient Greece was the birthplace of Western civilization about 2500 years ago. The magnificent achievements of the ancient Greeks in government, science, philosophy, and the arts still influence our lives.Greek civilization developed chiefly in small city-states. A city-state consisted of a city or town and the surrounding villages and farmland. The Greek city-states were fiercely independent and often quarreled among themselves. But their small size and constant rivalry had certain advantages. Citizens of a city-state sere strongly patriotic, and many citizens took part in public affairs. The most advanced city-states established the world’s first democratic governments. The best-known city-states were Athens and Sparta.The ancient Greek city-states never became united into a nation. However, a common language, religion, and culture bound the people together. The Greeks called themselves Hellenes and their land Hellas. They thought of themselves as different form all other people, whom they called barbarians.The ancient Greeks prized their freedom and way of life. This way of life stressed the importance of the individual and encouraged creative thought. Greek thinkers laid the foundations of science and philosophy by seeing logical explanations for what happened in the world around them. Greek writers created new forms of expression, which explored human personalities and emotions. Greek civilizationreached its height in Athens during the mid-400’s B.C., a period of outstanding achievement known as the Golden Age.In a remote period of Greek history, probably around 1200 B.C., a war was fought between Greece and Troy, a city on the Asiatic side of the Aegean ending in the destruction of Troy.Greek culture reached a high point of development in the 5th century B.C. This was marked by the successful repulse of the Persian invasion early in the century, the establishment of democracy and the flourishing of science, philosophy, literature, art and historical writing in Athens.In the second half of the 4th century B.C., all Greece was brought under the rule of Alexander, king of Macedon.In 146 B.C. the Romans conquered Greece.2. Social and Political StructureAthens was a democracy. The Greeks loved sports. Once every four years, they had a big festival on Olympus Mount which included contests of sports. Thus began the Olympic Games. Revived in 1896, the Olympic Games have become the world’s foremost amateur sports competition.3. HomerAncient Greeks considered Homer to be the author of their epics. Two such epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, have survived. The Iliad deals with the alliance of the states of the southern mainland of Greece, led by Agamemnon in their war against the city of Troy. The Odyssey deals with the return of Odysseus after the Trojan war to his home island of Ithaca.4. Lyric PoetryOf the many lyric poets of the time, two are still admired by readers today: Sappho and Pindar. Sappho was considered the most important lyric poet of ancient Greece. Pindar is best known for his odes celebrating the victories at the athletic games, such as the 14 Olympian odes.5. DramaThe Greeks developed a powerful drama in the 5th century B.C. The three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Aeschylus wrote such plays as Prometheus Bound, (Prometheus in Greek myths was a member of the earliest race of gods, called titans（泰坦神，巨人）. The god Zeus plotted to destroy humanity by depriving the earth of fire. Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to human beings. Zeus punished him by ordering him bound to a remote peak in the Caucasus Mountains（高加索山）. An eagle came to devour Prometheus’ liver every day, and the liver grew back each night. After Prometheus had suffered for many centuries, the hero Herules（大力英雄）killed the eagle and set Prometheus free.The Greek dramatist Aeschylus presented him as a tragic hero and a champion of humanity in his tragedy Prometheus Bound. The German composer Beethoven, the German author Goethe, and the English poet Shelley created works inspired by the Prometheus myth.) Persians, and Agamemnon. He is noted for his vivid character portrayal and majestic poetry.Sophocles, the author of plays like Oedipus the King, Electra, and Antigone contributed greatly to tragic art. He added a third actor and decreased the size of the chorus. Sophocles has had a strong impact on European literature. Some of his plots were taken over and adopted by later writers. The Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud’s term “the Oedipus complex” was also derived from Sophocles’s play.Euripides wrote mainly about women in such plays as Andromache, Medea, and Trojan Women. He was more of a realist than Aecschylus and Sophocles, concerned with conflicts. His characters are less heroic, more like ordinary people. He may be called the first writer of “problem plays”.Comedy also flourished in the 5th century B.C. Its best writer was Aristophanes, who has left eleven plays, including Frogs, Clouds, Wasps, and Birds.6. HistoryHerodotus is often called “Father of History”, wrote about the wars between Greeks and Persians. He had a keen eye for drama and pathos. His history, full of anecdotes and digressions and lively dialogue, is wonderfully readable. Thucydides is more accurate as an historian. He told about the war between Athens and Sparta andbetween Athens and Syracuse.7. Philosophy and SciencePythagoras was a bold thinker who had the idea that all things were numbers. He was the founder of scientific mathematics. Heracleitue believed fire to be the primary element of the universe, out of which everything else had arisen. To him, “all is flux, nothing is stationary.” Democritus was one of the earliest philosophical materialists and speculated about the atomic structure of matter.The great names in European philosophy are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, who were active in Athens in the 5th and 4th century B.C. Plato was a very famous philosopher of ancient Greece, pupil of Socrates. He was the greatest philosopher of ancient Greece, pupil of Socrates. His Dialogues are important not only as philosophical writing but also as imaginative literature. Of the Dialogues he wrote, 27 have survived, including: the Apology, symposium and the Republic. Plato built up a comprehensive system of philosophy. Plato argued that men have knowledge because of the existence of certain general “ideals”, like beauty, truth and goodness. Only these “ideas” are completely real, while the physical world is only relatively real. For this reason, Plato’s philosophy is called Ide alism, and Plato was called idealist. Aristotle was Plato’s pupil. Of his numerous works, the following are still important to scholars and general readers alike: Ethics, Politics, Poetics and Rhetoric.In the 4th century B.C., four schools of philosophers often argued with each other, they were the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, and the Stoics.The School of AthensEuclid is well-known for his Elements, a textbook of geometry, perhaps the most successful textbook ever written, because it was in use in English schools until the early years of the 20th century.Archimedes did important work not only in geometry, but also in arithmetic, mechanics, and hydrostatics. To illustrate the principle of the level, Archimedes is said to have told the king: “Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.”8. Art, Architecture, SculptureGreek architecture can be grouped into three styles: the Doric style which is also called the masculine style; the Ionic style which is also called the feminine style; and a later style that is called the Corinthian style.Doric style Ionic style Corinthian styleThe Acropolis at Athens and t he Parthenon are the finest monument of Greek architecture and sculpture in more than 2000 years. Discus Thrower, Venus de Milo and Laocoon group are the famous sculptures.The Acropolis at Athens Discus Thrower9. ImpactGreek culture exerted the enormous influence on English literature, for example: a) Pindar had imitators, such as the 17th century English poet John Dryden. b) The Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud’s term “the Oedipus complex” was derived form Sophocles’s play. c) In the 19th century, the English poetess Elizabeth Browning called Euripides “Euripides human”. d) In the e arly part of the 19th century, in England alone, three young Romantic poets expressed their admiration of Greek culture in works which have themselves become classics: Byron’s Isles of Greece, Shelly’s Hella and Prometheus Unbound and Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn. e) In the 20th century, there are Homeric parallels in the Irishman James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece Ulysses.Notes：1.Troy 特洛伊，小亚细亚的西北部古城2.Persian波斯的、波斯人的。

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西方历史导读少儿《走进西方历史的奇妙世界》嗨，小伙伴们！今天咱们就像开启一场超级有趣的冒险一样，一起走进西方历史这个奇妙的世界。

我先给你们讲讲古希腊吧。

古希腊就像是一个超级大的智慧宝库。

那里有好多好多聪明的人，就像苏格拉底，他呀，就像一个永远都在问问题的好奇宝宝。

他会在大街上拉住人就问：“你知道什么是正义吗？”“你觉得勇敢是什么呢？”他的那些问题就像一把把小钥匙，想要打开人们心中关于智慧的大门。

而且呀，在古希腊还有特别棒的奥林匹克运动会呢。

那时候的运动员就像一群超级英雄，他们在赛场上奔跑、跳跃、投掷，为了荣誉而战。

整个古希腊都因为这个运动会变得超级热闹，就像我们过年的时候，大家都欢欢喜喜的。

你们说，这是不是很有趣呢？再来说说罗马帝国吧。

罗马帝国可强大啦，就像一个巨大的怪兽，它把好多好多地方都纳入了自己的怀抱。

罗马的建筑那叫一个厉害，那些高大的斗兽场，就像一个超级大的游乐场，不过这个游乐场有点残酷哦。

在斗兽场里，角斗士们要互相搏斗，或者和凶猛的野兽战斗。

我就想啊，那些角斗士们站在斗兽场中间的时候，心里是不是特别害怕呢？他们肯定在想：“我可一定要活下去啊！”而看台上的观众们呢，有的在欢呼，有的在尖叫，就像一群兴奋过头的小鸟。

罗马还有好多宏伟的建筑，那些建筑的柱子就像一个个巨人，稳稳地站在那里，支撑着整个建筑，好像在说：“我可不会倒下的！”后来呀，欧洲进入了中世纪。

中世纪就有点像一个长长的黑夜。

那时候，教会的权力可大啦，就像一个超级大的影子，笼罩着人们的生活。

人们做很多事情都要听教会的。

不过呢，也有一些勇敢的人，像哥白尼。

哥白尼就像一颗闪亮的星星，在黑暗中发出自己的光芒。

他提出了日心说，这可把教会气得不轻呢。

教会就像一个生气的大狮子，想要把哥白尼这个“不听话”的人给吞掉。

但是哥白尼可不怕，他就坚持自己的想法。

这就告诉我们呀，只要我们觉得自己是对的，就一定要勇敢地坚持下去，就像哥白尼一样。

再后来就到了文艺复兴时期啦。

儿童中西文化经典导读与启蒙教育作者：——王财贵教授深圳沙井镇报告会录音整理材料可敬的镇长先生、各级领导、各位校长、老师：大家下午好！沙井真是一个很奇怪的地方，这个名字名叫做沙井，这个井里都是沙，没什么了不起。

结果看来井里不是沙，这个井里面会出金子、出宝贝！从我们刚才镇长讲话的幽默，跟能够从实地做起，这样的领导风格，我就知道宝贝在哪里，尤其是不只是今天才做，已经做了好久。

所以，作为我这次暑假到大陆来巡回演讲，几乎是最后一站了，我觉得是“好酒沉瓮底”------最后的一站，居然是在这么好的一个场合、场所，因为，有我们上上下下一起都来听讲；而且，今天中午跟镇长和几位领导谈了以后，我觉得我的演讲在这个镇上会产生不同的作用、好的作用。

那我相信今天的演讲一定会讲得很好，我会很尽力讲。

尤其刚才，还没讲小朋友就给我献花，还没有知道我讲得好不好，就开始给我献花，这简直给我很大的压力。

还好，我这个题目已经讲了很多次了，最少讲了一千次了。

但是，我不会放录音带，一定是肺腑之言，诚恳的、苦口婆心的，会讲得非常认真、投入。

我也知道各位会听得认真、投入。

在还没讲以前，我先要跟各位商量几句话，就是今天所要讲的题目：叫做儿童中西文化经典导读，以及所谓的智能的开发、启蒙的教育。

题目是这样，如果深入一点看是属于一种有关系到教育、有关系到儿童教育、有关系到所谓经典教育、语文教育。

但是，不仅它是语文的，不仅它是儿童的，不仅是它是启蒙的，乃至于更深入地，它是一种有关乎人性的、乃至于有关乎国家、民族前途的，甚至有关乎我们国家民族将来怎么与世界相处，甚至怎么领导世界，有关乎这么深远的问题。

谈到这么大的问题，有时候难免会跟现实的状况有所比较，意思就是有所批评。

假如等一下，大家听讲的时候，听到有关于对于现实的问题，有些不同的看法，或是各位都是教育的前辈，或是非常关心教育的家长、老师，那么我也是学教育的，有关于提到教育的问题、人心的问题，如果你听起来，有一点不一样，那么我要请各位做一些心态的调整，我们才不会有一些误会，我才能够放心的讲话。