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College English 大学英语 第三册 B

Why I Teach 我为什么当老师

Unit Three Why I Teach 本文摘自《校友杂志联盟》（Alumni Magazine Consortium),1984 年11月出版。作者为Peter G. Geidler,美国宾西法尼亚州 Lehigh 大学的英语教授。他于 　１９８３年被教育促进委员会（the Council for Advancement and Support of Education) 授予年度教授称号。

Unit Three Why I Teach 背景知识 爱默生、梭洛与赫胥黎 　　R.W.爱默生（Ralpj Wa ldo Emerson,1803~1882),美国著名的哲学家、散文家及诗人。在他有生之年，　他被认为是美国最出色的作家之一。也是当时美国文学界最有影响力的人物。其代表作有《自然》( Nature ) 、<<美国学者>> (The American Scholar)。这两部作品在美国文学史上占有极其重要的地位。

Unit Three Why I Teach H.D.梭洛(Henry David Thoreau, 　1817～1862)，美国作家、自然主义者。他１８３７　年毕业于哈佛大学。１８４５年，他在Walden Pond 建了一座小木屋，在那儿生活到１８４７　年。１８５４年他出版了代表作〈华尔顿林中生涯〉，在书中他详细记载了林中的生活，生动地描绘了四季的变化及其他的自然事件。 　

Unit Three Why I Teach A.L.赫胥黎( Aldus Leonard Huxley, 1894~1963），英国小说家、散文家。在他的后期作品中，他表达了这样一种关注，即人们对物质生活的追求是以牺牲自己和对自然的尊敬为代价的。在其代表作〈勇敢的新世界〉（Brave New World)中，他对人们的这种倾向进行了讽刺。在１９６２年出版的另一部力作 〈岛屿〉（Island)中，他呈现给读者一个乌托邦社会，其中人们与自然和谐地共存。

Teaching Activity 1. Introduction 2. Warm-up Activity 3. Teaching Task One 4. Teaching Task Two

Introductory Remarks 课文概要 Why I Teach Introductory Remarks 课文概要 Teaching has been considered an undesirable profession in many parts of the world.Education may be respected and highly valued, but teachers are not. Their pay and prestige are low in most countries. They work long hours both during the day and in the evening and their hard work often goes unnoticed and unappreciated.

Why I Teach Yet,there have always been people who love the teaching profession and choose teaching as their life-long career. Here, Mr Beidler, Professor of English in Pennsylvania,U.S.A.,gives his reasons why he teaches.

Why I Teach In this article, Mr. Beidler gives his reasons for choosing teaching as his career. Ask the students to go over the whole text very quickly and find out those reasons.

Warm-up Activity The following is a suggested list for the students’ reference. --variety (teaching is built on change) --the freedom to be his own boss --the opportunity to teach his students to play their roles in the real world --the pace of the academic calendar

Learn the usage of some useful words and expressions. Teaching Task 1 Learn the usage of some useful words and expressions.

学习目标 重点词汇 convince, stimulate, purchase, puzzle 重点短语 stay up, leave out, send off, catch one’s breath 重点句型结构 find + oneself + 分词或介词短语结构

Useful Words Convince 的用法 Vt. convince sb .of sth. 使确信 convince sb . that …, 使相信 I convinced him of her honesty. I convinced him that she was honesty. 我使他相信她 是诚实的。

Useful Words Purchase 的用法 V. “购买，购置”同buy ,但较buy更正式。 They’ve purchased a new house in the country. 他们在乡下买了一栋新房子 n. {U}购买的东西，{C}指买一样东西。 We are pleased with our purchases. 我们对所买的东西很满意。

Useful Words Stimulate 的用法 Vt. 刺激；激励；鼓舞 The medicine stimulates the brain. 此药刺激大脑。 Tom’s success stimulated them to work harder. 汤姆的成功鼓舞他们更加辛勤工作。

Phrases and Expressions stay up:熬夜 I stayed up reading until midnight. 我读书一直读到深夜。 If Jane’ temperature stays up all day, call the doctor. 如果简的高烧不退，就去叫医生。

Phrases and Expressions What’s the point of … 有什么用呢？ What ’s the point of getting angry? 发脾气有什么用呢？ What’s the point of acting like that? 这样做有什么意思？

Phrases and Expressions be puzzled ( about ) : 对 … 感到困惑 The father was puzzled by his daughter’s recent behavior. 父亲对他女儿最近的行为举止感到困惑。

Language Points 语言点 Teaching is the most difficult of the…教书可是其中最难的一行 I have tried many other ways to make a living.I have worked as a mechanic, a carpenter, a writer, and now I am working as a teacher. Of all these professions, teaching is the most difficult for me.

Language Points 语言点 `…I didn’t want to be a candidate for an administrative position: 我不想谋求行政职务。 …I didn’t want to be a candidate for an administrative position, such as the president or vice-president of a university, the dean of a college, the chairman of a department ,etc.

Language Points 语言点 Sophomore:大学二年级学生 . Freshman: 大学一年级学生 a student in the first year of college Sophomore:大学二年级学生 a student in the second year of college Junior: 大学三年级学生 a student in the third year of college Senior: 大学四年级学生 a student in the fourth year of college

Language Points 语言点 Certainly I don’t teach because teaching is easy for me : 当然，我之所以教书，并不是我认为教书对我来说很容易。 Surely I believe that teaching is difficult for me.

Language Points: 语言点 For me, teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, sinking-stomach profession: 对我来说，教书是一种令人熬红眼睛，手心出汗，精神沮丧的职业. Teaching is a job that causes my eyes red for lack of sleep,my palms sweaty because of nervousness and my stomach sinking because of feeling disappointed with my lectures.

Language Points 语言点 I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn my own lessons: 我教书是因为我喜欢有让自己犯错误的自由. I teach because I like having the power of making my own mistakes and learning from the mistakes learn one’s lesson(s): 吸取教训

Teaching Task 2 学习虚拟语气的用法 词义辨析 技巧 ：能动性阅读技巧---浏览 附加练习

虚拟语气的用法 时间概念 条件从句的谓语动词 结果从句的谓语动词 与现在事实相反 动词的过去式 Should(would) +动词原形 If I were you I would stop doing and go home. If they had time now, they would visit your factory.

虚拟语气的用法 时间概念 条件从句的谓语动词 结果从句的谓语动词 与过去事实相反 had +过去分词 would(should)+have+过去分词 If they had had enough time, they would have given us more help. If you had got up a little earlier,you would not have missed the plane.

虚拟语气的用法 时间概念 条件从句的谓语动词 结果从句的谓语动词 将来不可能实现或实现的可能性很小 1 动词的过去式 2 were to+动词原形 3 should+ 动词原形 Should+ Would+ Might+ 动词原形

Discrimination 词义辨析 Profession, business,career, occupation 的用法区别 Profession: n. 职业，指受过专门教育和训练而获得的有知的职业，如医学、科学、教育和法律等方面，例如： She intends to make teaching her profession. 她打算把教书作为她的职业。

Discrimination 词义辨析 Occupation: 职业，指任何一种职业，不管什么行业，也不管是脑力劳动或体力劳动。例如： He gave his occupation as bus driver. 他给他提供的职业是驾驶公共汽车。 Business: 业务，事业，职业，特指商业。 I have put my son to business. 我已令 我的儿子经商。 Career: 职业；专业。指经过专门训练并终生愿意从事的职业。例如： He is a career army man. 他是一位职业军人。

技巧：能动性阅读技巧 III 浏览（1） 浏览是为了查找某些具有特殊兴趣的信息。在开始有效地查找之前，学生应首先了解资料的编排程序。大多数参考资料是按字母顺序编排的。词典、百科全书、书籍的索引或电话号码簿通常是按字母顺序编排的，便于人们容易而迅速地查到资料。但并非所有资料都是按这种方式排列的。

技巧： 能动性阅读技巧 III 浏览（2） 例如,电视节目是按日期和时间顺序编排的，历史资料和图表可能按年月顺序编排的。而报纸的体育专栏是按类别编排的，垒球、足球、网球等等。 不管参考资料出自何处，都是按一定的逻辑顺序编排的。因此，在准备浏览之前，应该花上一两分钟了解这个资料的编排程序，就可以马上开始查找很有可能含有你所需信息的那部分了。

Cloze 完形填空 Professor Beilder tries to explain in his essay why he continues to teach rather than seek a more highly-paid 1}________position. Even if he is given the 2}________ to “move up”, he insists,he would refuse and stay on in the classroom. In his 3}________on this question, he first makes the 4}_______that teaching is by no means an easy 5}_________. Often, one barely has time to 6}________one’s breath between tasks, and he often must 7}_____ _____late in the evening to 8}____ _____ what he is going to teach next day. However,teaching offers a great 9}______ of emotional rewards, such as intellectual 10}______,freedom,and the chance to 11}______ students’ interest in learning. For these reasons,he writes,he would choose teaching over any other professional field.

完形填空答案 1 administrative 2 opportunity 3 reflection 4 point 5 profession 6 catch 7 stay up 8 work on 9 variety 10 challenge 11 stimulate

Additional Exercises Keep in mind the following conceptual phrases from the text and try to make sentences or a short passage out of them: an administrative position 行政职务 earn one’s living 谋生 stay up preparing 熬夜备课 the ivory tower 象牙 塔 keep diaries 记日记

set up a corporation 办一家公司 work on a book 写书 the urban poor 城市平民 write term papers 写学期论文 finish high school 念完中学 point out a pathway 指出（人生）道路 the opportunity to keep on learning 不断学习的机会 learn by analysis 通过分析学习

Translation 翻译 Administrative Puzzle Mechanic sweaty palm Profession convince Pace Calendar Opportunity Reflection Stimulate Freshman Ivory corporation Technological Renovate Semester Repay Loan Distribute Variety challenge Doctoral Energetic Dissertation Poet Learned Journal Occasional Nudge Fellowship Switch Urban

Translation 翻译 I teach because I like the pace of the academic calendar. June,July, and August offer an opportunity for reflection research,and writing. I teach because teaching is a profession built on change. When the material is the same, I change---and, more important, my students change. I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn my own lessons, to stimulate myself and my students. As a teacher, I’m my own boss. If I want my freshmen to learn to write by creating their own textbook,who is to say I can’t ? Such courses may be huge failures, but we can all learn from failures.

Goodbye

沈阳电视大学 公外教研室 耿毅