Writing for myself

To FreshmenⅠ: Congratulations to the FreshmanⅡ: Self-introductionⅢ. Timing (Freshman-Sophomore-Junior-Senior)算一笔时间帐Four years? NoTwo years+100,000 Yuan: Seize the timeⅣ. English Learning1.Reading; Writing; Listening; Speaking; Translating2.如何去强化每一个部分3.Exams (mid-exam; final; CET-4)Ⅴ. Teaching Plan of This Semester1.Reading & Writing Course2.Listening & Speaking CourseⅥ. Course Requirementse.g. Attendance; Review & Preview…Ⅶ. Websites for English LearningⅧ. SuggestionsUnit 1 Writing for MyselfRussell BakerⅠ. Warming-up1.Have students listen to John Lennon’s song (lullaby) BeautifulBoy2.Through this song ,we can feel the strong love of a father towardshis son (the singer’s soft voice; the repetition of “beautiful boy”;the lyrics)3.Q: Without the parent s’ love, it is impossible for a baby to growup. In the process of becoming an adult, parents★have great influence over their children. Besides them, who else has affected you the most and why?4.Lead into the text by saying: “Let’s read text A, unit 1 and findout who influenced the author Russell Baker and in what way.”Ⅱ. Cultural Background Information1.Russell Baker (1925- ): American journalist and writer. The textis taken from his autobiography Growing Up (1982), which won him a Pulitzer prize.2.The Pulitzer Prize: an award for achievements in newspaper andonline journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 and is administered byColumbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.3.The American Educational SystemIn the United States, education is the responsibility of individual states, not of the federal government, so requirements may vary from one state to another. The following is a generalizationkindergarten: under 5 years old★elementary / primary school (grades 1~6): 6~11 years oldjunior high / middle school (grades 7~8): 12~13 years oldsenior / high school (grades 9~12): 14~17 years old4.Spaghetti and the proper way of eating it: Spaghetti is an Italianthin noodle, cooked by boiling and served with sauce. Usually you put a fork into a plate of spaghetti, turn the fork several times so that spaghetti will wind around the fork, then place the fork into your mouth. It’s impolite to suck.Ⅲ. StructureⅣ. New Words and Phrases1.off and on/on and off: from time to time; now and again;irregularlye.g. It has been raining on and off for a week. That’s why theclothes feel damp.2. take hold: become ★establish ede.g. Old habits die hard. That’s why you should stop playingcomputer games before the habit takes hold.3.associate: vt. join or connect together; connect or bring in theminde.g. We often associate China with the Great Wall.同义短语：be associated with/be connected with/be linked to,etc. 名词：association(NBA: National Basketball Assocation；CUBA)4. turn out:1)produce; makee.g. We are to turn out 100,000,586 computers next year to meetthe market requirements.2)prove to bee.g. The experiment turned out to be a success.5. anticipate: vt. expect (usu. followed by gerund or that-clause)e.g. A good teacher is able to anticipate the students’needs andconcerns.We anticipate running into problems in carrying out the educational reform.名词anticipation6. tedious: adj. boring and lasting for a long timee.g. The movie was so tedious that many viewers left before itwas over.7. inspire: vt. fill (sb.) with confidence, eagerness, etc.e.g. The last leaf on the tree that never fell off inspired the dyingpatient with the will to live on.inspire sth. in sb. (= inspire sb. with sth.)使某人产生某种感情；激发某人的某种感情名词inspiration8.rigid: adj.(often disapproving) fixed in behavior; based on corrector accepted rulese.g. If he had been a little less rigid about things, his daughterwould not have left home at such a young age.9. severe: adj.1) completely plaine.g. Hemingway is known for his severe writing style.2) stern; stricte.g. Fu Lei was so severe with his son that even hiswife would cry.3)causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, etce.g. severe injuries to the head and neck10.tackle: vt. deal withe.g. Toshiba (东芝) recently designed a robot that can tacklealmost any kinds of housework.11.face up to: be brave enough to accept or deal with (a problem ordifficulty)e.g. They’ll never offer you another job; you might as well face upto it.12.sequence: n. connected line of events, ideas, etc.e.g. A sequence of bad harvests forced some African countries toask for foreign aid.相关短语in sequence；the sequence of events13. recall: vt. bring back to the mind; remember (usu. followed bynoun / gerund, or that-clause)e.g. I recognize the face but can’t recall her name.区分：recall, remember & remind这三个词都与“记忆”有关，前两个词有时可通用。

Unit1 Writing for Myself 为自己而写1.The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off and on since my childhood in Belleville, but itwasn't until my third year in high school that the possibility took hold. Until then I've been bored by everything associated with English courses. I found English grammar dull and difficult. I hated the assignments to turn out long, lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write.从孩提时代，我还住在贝尔维尔时，我的脑子里就断断续续地转着当作家的念头，但直等到我高中三年级，这一想法才有了实现的可能。

在这之前，我对所有跟英文课沾边的事都感到腻味。

我觉得英文语法枯燥难懂。

我痛恨那些长而乏味的段落写作，老师读着受累，我写着痛苦。

2.When our class was assigned to Mr. Fleagle for third-year English I anticipated another cheerlessyear in that most tedious of subjects. Mr. Fleagle had a reputation among students for dullness and inability to inspire. He was said to be very formal, rigid and hopelessly out of date. To me he looked to be sixty or seventy and excessively prim.He wore primly severe eyeglasses, his wavy hair was primly cut and primly combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white shirts. He had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he seemed a comic antique.弗利格尔先生接我们的高三英文课时，我就准备着在这门最最单调乏味的课上再熬上沉闷的一年。

Unit1 Writing for Myself 为自己而写1.The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off and on since my childhood in Belleville, but itwasn't until my third year in high school that the possibility took hold. Until then I've been bored by everything associated with English courses. I found English grammar dull and difficult. I hated the assignments to turn out long, lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write.从孩提时代，我还住在贝尔维尔时，我的脑子里就断断续续地转着当作家的念头，但直等到我高中三年级，这一想法才有了实现的可能。

在这之前，我对所有跟英文课沾边的事都感到腻味。

我觉得英文语法枯燥难懂。

我痛恨那些长而乏味的段落写作，老师读着受累，我写着痛苦。

2.When our class was assigned to Mr. Fleagle for third-year English I anticipated another cheerlessyear in that most tedious of subjects. Mr. Fleagle had a reputation among students for dullness and inability to inspire. He was said to be very formal, rigid and hopelessly out of date. To me helooked to be sixty or seventy and excessively prim.He wore primly severe eyeglasses, his wavy hair was primly cut and primly combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white shirts. He had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he seemed a comic antique.弗利格尔先生接我们的高三英文课时，我就准备着在这门最最单调乏味的课上再熬上沉闷的一年。

汉译英（3x3分）1.1 Writing for Myself.5~65突然我就想描述那一切，描述当时那种温馨美好的气氛，但我把它写下来仅仅想自得其乐，而不是为弗利格尔先生而写。

那是我想重新捕捉并珍藏在心中的一个时刻。

我想重温那个夜晚的愉快。

然而，照我希望的那样去写，就会违反我在学校里学的正式作文的种种法则，弗利格尔先生也肯定会打它一个不及格。

没关系。

等我为自己写好了之后，我可以再为弗利格尔先生写点什么别的东西。

Suddenly I wanted to write about that, about the warmth and good feeling of it, but I wanted to put it down simply for my own joy, not for Mr. Fleagle. It was a moment I wanted to recapture and hold for myself. I wanted to relive the pleasure of that evening. To write it as I wanted, however, would violate all the rules of formal composition I'd learned in school, and Mr. Fleagle would surely give it a failing grade. Never mind. I would write something else for Mr. Fleagle after I had written this thing for myself.6等我写完时已是半夜时分，再没时间为弗利格尔先生写一篇循规蹈矩、像模像样的文章了。

第二天上午，我别无选择，只好把我为自己而写的贝尔维尔晚餐的故事交了上去。

两天后弗利格尔先生发还批改过的作文，他把别人的都发了，就是没有我的。

Unit1 Writing for Myself 为自己而写1.The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off and on since my childhood in Belleville, but itwasn't until my third year in high school that the possibility took hold. Until then I've been bored by everything associated with English courses. I found English grammar dull and difficult. I hated the assignments to turn out long, lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write.从孩提时代，我还住在贝尔维尔时，我的脑子里就断断续续地转着当作家的念头，但直等到我高中三年级，这一想法才有了实现的可能。

在这之前，我对所有跟英文课沾边的事都感到腻味。

我觉得英文语法枯燥难懂。

我痛恨那些长而乏味的段落写作，老师读着受累，我写着痛苦。

2.When our class was assigned to Mr. Fleagle for third-year English I anticipated another cheerlessyear in that most tedious of subjects. Mr. Fleagle had a reputation among students for dullness and inability to inspire. He was said to be very formal, rigid and hopelessly out of date. To me helooked to be sixty or seventy and excessively prim.He wore primly severe eyeglasses, his wavy hair was primly cut and primly combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white shirts. He had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he seemed a comic antique.弗利格尔先生接我们的高三英文课时，我就准备着在这门最最单调乏味的课上再熬上沉闷的一年。