高级英语1(何兆熊 史志康) unit2

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材(修订版)高级英语1电子教案

Unit 2 Neat People vs. Sloppy People

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Contents

1 2 3

Warm Up

Global ReadingDetailed Reading Text Appreciation Consolidation Activities Further Enhancement

4 5 6

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 1: Warm UpLead-in Background Information

Look at the two pictures. Think of words which you can use to describe the states of the rooms.

messy, sloppy, untidy, disorderly, dirty, unclean, unorganized

neat, tidy, orderly, clean, organized

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 1: Warm UpLead-in Background Information

1. Which room would you like to work in? 2. What is your room like? 3. Look at another picture and tell what the picture implies. 4. Does Suzanne Britt, author of the text we’re going to study, think in the same way?

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 1: Warm UpLead-in Background Information

The picture implies that sloppiness is a moral problem, not just a problem of habit, for sloppy people are also “evil” people.

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 1: Warm UpLead-in Background Information

About the Author Suzanne Britt: A poet and essayist, and Assistant Professor of English. Suzanne Britt was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Salem College and her master’s degree from Washington University. Britt currently teaches literature and writing courses at Meredith College in North Carolina.

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 1: Warm UpLead-in Background Information

A prolific writer, Britt’s poems have appeared in quite a few literary magazines; her essays and articles have appeared in various newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek, The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Some of them have also been widely reprinted in college textbooks. Britt is author of several books, including Show and Tell (1982), and A Writer’s Rhetoric (1988). She also advises The Meredith Herald and The Colton Review.

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 2: Global ReadingMain Idea Structural Analysis

What is the text mainly about? Through a comparison of the peculiarities of sloppy people and neat people in their daily life, the author is trying to convince the readers of the argument that the main distinction between the two types of people is a moral one, and furthermore, sloppy people are even morally superior to neat people.

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 2: Global ReadingMain Idea Structural Analysis

Please divide the text into 3 parts and summarize the main idea of each part. Part I (Paragraph 1) Introduction

In Paragraph 1, the author introduces the topic of the text and presents her opinion that “neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people”.

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 2: Global ReadingMain Idea Structural Analysis

Part II

(Paragraphs 2-5) Description of Sloppy People

Paragraphs 2-5 focus on sloppy people who are portrayed as having a high moral standard and ambitious plans. Besides, they are also described as “giving loving attention to every detail”. Part III (Paragraphs 6-12) Description of Neat People Paragraphs 6-12 concentrate on the description of n

eat people. In these paragraphs, neat people are portrayed as cold-blooded, ruthless and very practical.

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 3: Detailed ReadingNeat People vs. Sloppy People1 I’ve finally figured out the difference between neat people and sloppy people. The distinction is, as always, moral. [1] Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people. 2 Sloppy people, you see, are not really sloppy. [2] Their sloppiness is merely the unfortunate consequence of their extreme moral rectitude. [3] Sloppy people carry in their mind’s eye a heavenly vision, a precise plan, that is so

stupendous, so perfect, it can’t be achieved in this world or the next.QUESTION

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 3: Detailed Reading

3 [4] Sloppy people live in Never-Never Land. Someday is their mé tier. Someday they are planning to alphabetize all their books and set up home catalogs. Someday they will go through their wardrobes and mark certain items for tentative mending and certain items for passing on to relatives of similar shape and size. Someday sloppy people will make family scrapbooks into which they will put newspaper clippings, postcards, locks of hair, and the dried corsage from their senior prom. Someday they will file everything on the surface of their desks, including theQUESTION

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 3: Detailed Reading

cash receipts from coffee purchases at the snack shop.

Someday they will sit down and read all the back issues of The New Yorker. 4 For all these noble reasons and more, sloppy people never get neat. They aim too high and wide. [5] They save everything, planning someday to file, order, and straighten out the world. But while these ambitious plans take clearer and clearer shape in their heads, the books spill from the shelves onto the floor, the clothes pile up in the hamper and closet, the familyQUESTION

Neat people vs. Sloppy people

Section 3: Detailed Readingmementos accumulate in every drawer, the surface of the desk is buried under mounds of paper and [6] the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling. 5 [7] Sloppy people can’t bear to part with anything. They give loving attention to every detail. When sloppy people say they’re going to tackle the surface of the desk, they really mean it. [8]Not a paper will go unturned; not a rubber band will go unboxed. Four hours or two weeks into …… 此处隐藏：6006字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……