阅读课教案 UNIT 2 BOOK 2
贺年片-家庭趣事
Unit two Growing-up Pains
Child was the father of the adult:三岁看大
It
is taken from William Wordsworth”s famous poem
“the rainbow”. It means: all
our positive and
negative traits are established when we are young.
Indeed, if you
watch children at play, you’ll
notice them demonstrate certain characteristics
which remain with them forever. So it is
necessary to groom children to adopt
healthy
and positive traits so that they grow up to be
balanced individuals.
The Rainbow
William
Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold
A Rainbow in the sky:
So was it when
my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So
be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the man;
And I
could wish my days to be
Bound each to
each by natural piety.
吾心激荡
威廉·华兹华斯
每当我仰望天空的彩虹
我的心就会激烈的跳动
我来到这个世界时如此
如今我长大成人时如此
以后我垂垂老去时如此
或者让我死去亦是如此
年幼是长大成人的奠基
我希望生命来回往复着
伴着与生的虔诚流连着
这首诗无论怎么翻译都无法把原诗的含义表达出来，反而把
原诗蕴涵的哲学及宗教意义丧失。“彩虹”不仅
是自然中的彩虹，更是心中的彩虹，祂代表的是人类的救
主耶稣基督，这是在圣经旧约创世纪中耶稣与诺
亚的对话中表达的。耶稣说，当你看到天边的彩虹时，那
就是我，我以彩虹为约，不再以洪水为惩罚手段。
是为“彩虹之约”。正因如此，当诗人看到彩虹时才会
如此欣喜若狂，激动不已。自然中的彩虹不一定天天
有，但心中的彩虹必时时拥有。
当我处于儿童时期时心中就有彩虹，现在有，以后
也会有。如果心中失去彩虹，将与行尸走肉无异。即使
肉体还在但灵魂已死。“儿童是人之父”有多重含
义：其一是指耶稣基督降生之时他已经是人类的天父；这
里的儿童当然是指圣母玛利亚在马厩生下耶稣之
时，当他还是婴儿之时已然是人之父；其二是指人的成长
发展历程，昔日的儿童现在已经长大成人，已经
是人之父；其三是说浪漫主义的理念，崇尚简单、质朴、
自然、天真、纯洁的东西，儿童是这一切的代表
，而这正是人类所应该回归和发展的本源和方向。这一点
与道家老子的观点有一致的地方——“复归于朴
”、“复归于婴儿”。诗人最后希望他的每一天每一时心中都
有这种天然的虔敬，都有“彩虹” 。
少年 teenager adolescent juvenile 青年 青春期
puberty adolescence 成年人 adult
Understanding the quotations
1. Little
children, headache; big children, heartache.
In terms of problems that children give to
their parents, big children are far more
troublesome than little ones.
2. Mother Nature
is providential. She gives us twelve years to
develop a love for our children before
turning
them into teenagers.
Mother Nature has
designed everything for us. She gives us twelve
years to establish a close and affectionate
parent-child bone before they become
troublesome teenagers who keep giving us
headaches.
3. Adolescents are not monsters.
They are just people trying to learn how to make
it among the adults in
the world, who are
probably not so sure themselves.
Adolescents
are not frightening creatures. They are probably
in confusion and are trying to earn their own
position among adults in the world.
Reading one The Needs of Teenagers
Background knowledge
1. Rebellious
teenagers
The dictionary defines the verb “to
revel” as “to resist or rise up against a
government or other authority.” The
rebel is
therefore a person who dissents from some accepted
moral code or convention of behavior, dress, etc.
rebelliousness is typical of youth and unusual
in childhood. It is not that children are never
disobedient, but
their conduct has a very
different significance from that of the teenager.
Before thirteen, the child disobeys
through
carelessness or in order to refuse something he
dislikes. After that age, at fourteen, he
disobeys, not
because it upsets him to be
ordered about, but to protest against the idea of
being subordinate to another, as
implied in
the very notion of obedience. The substance of
what he is told is less important to him than the
tone of voice of the person giving the orders.
Within the home, this rebelliousness usually
becomes acute between the age of fourteen and
seventeen, that is,
at the stage which is a
time of negative attitudes and impertinence.
Outside the family unit, rebelliousness
against social customs, values and structures
appears later and sometimes continues after the
age of twenty, as
in the so-called student
unrest.
Part one: Check your comprehension A
1.T 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.F 6.F
Part
two: Check your comprehension B
1. to be
independentindependencefreedomtheir own lives
2. primitivessimpletribal way
3. become
adults
4. frustrated,
rebellious, restless
5. becamewere furious
6. the house key
Part three: Check your
vocabulary
1. The basic necessities of life
are food, shelter and clothing.
2. Some
patients suffer greatly from diseases, so doctors
and nurses sometimes have to sit up with them at
night.
3. The only chance for us to achieve
success is to keep a rein on our feelings and
words.
4. This is the first time that the girl
has left her parents. I am sure after a little
while she will adapt to the life at
college.
5. In the modern city, his house looks very
primitive with its earthen floor and mud walls.
6. We can’t leave home before we become
adults, for we have a lot to learn and can’t look
after ourselves at
puberty.
7. The
headmaster is never lenient to children who tell
lies.
8. Things have worked out well with
Marian so far.
9. Judging from what you have
said, it seems that you have grown apart from Tom.
10. I realize she can be annoying, but all the
same I think you should apologize for losing your
temper.
Reading two The Right Attitude
Part one: Check your comprehension A
1.
They often feel upset and regard it as an unfair
criticism on their own cooking, cleaning or other
housekeeping matters and sometimes they are
foolish enough to reveal this feeling in front of
their children
and even more foolish to
comment negatively in the friends’ parents.
2.
They are shocked by their parents’ childish
behavior and decide that in the future they will
not talk to their
parents about the places or
people they visit
3. They will complain that
the child is to secretive and never tells them
anything.
4. They like parents to be people
who will admit their mistakes when they have done
something wrong, or when
they have been
ignorant, unfair or unjust. Children don’t like
parents who refuse to admit that they do make
mistakes.
Part two: Check your
comprehension B
1.F 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.T
6.T
Part three: Check your vocabulary
1.a
2.c 3.a 4.a 5.c
Reading three
The Baffling question
Part one: Check your
comprehension A
1.T 2.F 3.T 4. F
5.T
Part two: Check your comprehension B
1. One child sits in a chair and sticks out
hisher leg so that another one running by is
launched like a space
shuttle.
2. Several
children run to the same door, grab the same
handle, and beat each other up, ignoring the fact
that
there are other doors available.
3.
In restaurants, small children cast their bread on
the water in the glasses the waiter has just
brought.
4. A child uses a chair to slip to
the floor.
5. They yell at each other with one
sticking hisher foot inside the door and waving it
around, and the other
being disgusted but
refusing to close the door.
Part three: Check
your vocabulary A
1. You have
decided to give up the joys of musing over some
great art pieces at your own ease in order to have
babies, dealing with whom may even drive you
nuts.
2. “Well,” I said, searching for a wise
suggestion as Father, “The best way is to close
your door.”
3. And we decided to have children
not for the reason of making my wife look older.
4. What we could design for our future were
just sweet Saturdays when we could go shopping for
little valuable
things after comfortable
brunches together .
Part four: Check
your vocabulary B
1. intimate 2. confess
3. make up 4. ceaseless 5. yell 6. paternal
7. rewarding
Reading four
Unconditional Mom
Background knowledge
1.
Soap opera
The term “soap opera” was coined by
the American press in the 1930s to denote the
extraordinarily popular
genre of serialized
domestic radio dramas, which, by 1940, represented
some 90% of all
commercially-sponsored daytime
broadcast hours. The “soap” in soap opera alluded
to their sponsorship by
manufacturers of
household cleaning products; while “opera”
suggested an ironic incongruity between the
domestic narrative concerns of the daytime
serial and the most elevated of dramatic forms.
In the United States, the term continues to be
applied primarily to the approximately fifty hours
each week of
daytime serial television drama
broadcast by ABC, NBC, and CBS, but the meaning of
the term, both in the
U.S. and else where,
exceed this generic designation.
2. Suicidal
teenagers
According to a recent statistical
report, suicide has become the third leading cause
of death for young people
aged 15 to 24 and
the fourth leading cause of death for those
between the ages of 10 and 14. boys commit
suicide more often than girls, but no one in
immune. In one of the recent surveys of high
school students, 60
percent said they had
thought about killing themselves. About 9 percent
said they had tried at least once. It is
time
for us to take the subject of suicide seriously.
It doesn’t seem right that a teenager who has
lived for such
a short time would choose to
die.
Why has the youth suicide rate gone so
high in recent years? Some of the reasons are
summarized as follows:
1. The pressures of
modern life are getting greater.
2.
Competition for good grades and college admission
is stiffer
3. There’s more violence in the
newspapers and on television
4. Broken
parental relationship makes things difficult
As a parent, you can help prevent teenager
suicide by doing the following:
1. Ask your
teenager about it. Don’t be afraid to say the word
“suicide” Getting the word out in the open may
help your teenager think someone has heard
hisher cries for help
2. Reassure himher that
you love himher. Remind himher that no matter how
awful hisher problems seem,
they can be worked
out, and you are willing to help.
3. Ask
himher to talk about hisher feelings. Listen
carefully. Do not dismiss hisher problems or get
angry at
himher.
4. Remove all lethal
weapons from your home, including buns, pills,
kitchen utensils and ropes.
5. Seek
professional help. Ask your teenager’s
pediatrician to guide you. A variety of outpatient
and
hospital-based treatment programs are
available.
6.