新编英语教程 3 Unit 10 Keep Class 2 Under Your Thumb

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Unit 10,Keep Class 2 Under Your Thumb,Topics for group discussion in the form of interview,1.If you were the teacher being assigned to teach the unruly class, how would you maintain discipline?,2.What kind of school discipline should university students follow?,3.Do you think we can classify those students in the story as “bad students”?,4.What qualities should a university student have?,The Main Ideas,Now decide which of the following sets of alternatives gives you only the main ideas.,A. Class 2 was an absolutely unruly class.,B. I was timid and nervous before the boys.,C. I wanted to keep the boys under control, but I couldnt.,A. I felt I was powerless before the boys.,B. I was surprised that the boys liked to hear fairy tales.,C. I had no confidence in myself when told to keep order in Class 2.,A. I was greatly hurt by a studious-looking boy.,B. I was startled to see the boys chalk war.,C. I could not deal with the disorderly boys.,The Main Ideas,Using the main ideas given above, try to write a one-sentence summary of the text.,An inexperienced teacher failed to deal with an unruly class of top year boys.,Global Reading,Passage analysis,Writing style,:,Narration: telling an event or a series of events.,Order of narration:,chronological order,spatial order,Theme,: An inexperienced teacher failed to deal with an unruly class of top year boys.,The author effectively develops the theme by choosing appropriate supporting details.,Directions: Please divide the text into 3 parts and,summarize the main idea of each part.,Part Division of the Text,Main Ideas,Parts,1,2,Paras,12,35,My observation about the class.,I, as a new substitute teacher, was told to teach a very difficult class.,3,614,My confrontation with the students.,1) apologized to a boy who broke the rule,2) crept through the door,3) felt invisible,4) a fatal note of pleading in my voice,5) shouted again, voice trailed away,6) toying inwardly with ideas of thunderbolts, earthquakes, mass executions,7) was shocked to the core,Further Understanding,1.Both the teacher and students are vividly described. Students are supposed to find out all the details about the teacher and students respectively.,Teacher inexperienced, timid, incompetent,1) frightened away one teacher after another,2) had no respect for school discipline ran illegally in the hall,3) were very noisy,4) did indefensible things,5) desks, badly treated, would crush to the floor; fights going on; one desk chasing another; chalk rain,6) an awful, skeptical silence, laugh, turned to one another, fight began ,Students ,unruly and defiant to the teacher,Questions on P.123,Text I,Vocabulary Acquisition,Match each word or phrase in Column A with the word or phrase in Column B that is similar in meaning.,cudgel (L. 2 ),duck (L. 5 ),placatory (L. 10),negligently (L. 18),wry (L. 38),bawling (L. 41),pandemonium (L. 41),gramophone (L. 42),loud, rough shouting,Twisted,Short, thick stick,(scene of) wild and noisy disorder,Record-player,Submissive, undisturbed,Lower ones head or body so as to avoid being hit,carelessly,Detailed reading,L. 1 keep under your thumb:,keep.under your control or power.,keep,sb,. under ones thumb,:,make,sb,. under the control of someone; make,sb,.,subordinate,to,处于某人的控制下；受制于,eg.,Hes got the committee firmly,under his thumb,-they agree to whatever he asks.,这个委员会在他的严格掌控之下，委员们对他言听计从。,她完全听从,她,的丈夫,。,/,她丈夫完全控制了她。,eg,.,She is,kept,completely,under,her husbands,thumb,.,eg. Each finger today is a,thumb,.,手脚不听使唤,be all (fingers and )thumbs,:,be clumsy,笨手笨脚的,(used to describe a man who cannot get anything right. ),eg,. I am all thumbs today.,今天老是做错事。,bite the thumbs at / thumb ones nose at,:,look down upon,对,嗤之以鼻；蔑视,thumb through,sth,: to turn the pages of a book, magazine, or a document quickly and only read small parts of it,eg,. Have you read the report? Well, I thumbed through it quickly on the train.,thumbs up / down,:,wonderful,顶呱呱,/terrible,糟糕,eg,. a candidate for political office, may have lost the support of those who voted for him in the past. They have now “,turned thumbs down on,him.,谋求公职的竞选人可能会失掉原有的支持，过去对他投票的人现在对他不支持了。,thumb:,Paraphrase the sentence.,I had good reason not to have confidence in my thumb, that is to say, I did not think I was able to keep the boys under control.,L.2 I had reason enough to distrust my thumb.,The headmasters thumb looked like a short and thick club,to the writer. He felt pale, perhaps because:,he was astonished to be told that he had to keep the,pupils under control by force;,B) compared with the headmasters huge thumb, his own thumb was quite small; so he felt embarrassed for being not so manly as the headmaster;,C) he was not used to the idea of “keeping the boys under his thumb”.,Why did the writer feel pale when he saw the headmasters thumb?,L.2 he showed me his own thumb; a huge thing, like a pocket cudgel. I felt very pale.,L.4 Their own teachers had been sick for a long time; a succession of startled substitute had stood before them, ducked, winced and fled.,Paraphrase this sentence,A number of teachers, one after another, endeavored to replace their own teacher but failed to bring the boys under control. They felt terrified, drew back in fear, unable to cope with the situation, and finally ran away in a hurry.,L. 4 succession:,n.,the coming of one person / thing after another in time or order,A succession of unexpected visitors came to our department on the first day of school.,Last summer there was a succession of uncomfortably hot days.,He won the Scottish Road Running Championship for the third year in succession.,successive governments / victories / attempts / days,successive:,adj.,attrib coming one after the other in an unbroken series,The school has won five successive games.,the successor to the throne,successor: (to sb. /,sth,.),n.,person or thing that comes after and takes the place of sb. /,sth,.,appoint a successor to the headmaster,This car is the successor to our popular hatchback model.,Paraphrase this sentence., a number of teachers, one after another, took the place of their own teacher; none of them remained calm in front of them. They drew back in fear, felt frightened, unable to deal with the situation, and finally left in a hurry. “Succession” means “the coming of one person / thing after another in time or order”.,L.4 a succession of startled substitutes had stood before them, ducked, winced and fled.,What rhetorical device is used in this sentence?,Parallelism is used in this sentence. The writer lists closely related things or actions in succession in the sentence, “ducked, winced, and fled”, to emphasize the difficulty in controlling the students. Parallelism is also used in other sentences of the text:,“ was all wrong; my mood was all placatory; I was, inwardly, all white flag”,“thunderbolts, earthquakes, mass executions”,“shocked, stung and frightened”,L.5 substitute:,n.,one that takes the place of another; a replacement,The manager was unable to attend but sent his deputy as a substitute.,This type of vinyl is a poor substitute for leather.,substitute teacher:,a substitute teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place,of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to,be there (,AmE,; in Britain, use supply teacher),substitute (for):,v.,to use,sth,. new or different instead of,sth,. else,We must substitute a new chair for the broken one.,Honey can substitute for sugar in this recipe.,人们正用对话取代暴力。,People are substituting dialogue for violence.,L.5 duck:,v,.,to lower your head or body very quickly, especially to,avoid being seen or hit,duck down / behind / under / into / out of / back,If she hadnt ducked, the ball would have hit her.,Tim ducked down to comb his hair in the mirror.,The two men ducked into a block of flats and disappeared.,2. to avoid something, especially a difficult or unpleasant,duty (synonyms: dodge, evade),duck out on ones family,逃避家庭责任,The ruling body wanted to duck the issue of whether players had been cheating.,上学的时候我经常不上历史课。,I always ducked out of history lessons at school.,Glazer ducked a question about his involvement in the bank scandal.,L.5 wince:,v.,1. to suddenly change the expression on your face as a reaction to something painful or upsetting,Sandra winced as the dentist started to drill.,I still wince at the thought of that terrible evening.,2. to suddenly feel very uncomfortable or embarrassed because,of something that happens, something you remember, etc.,(synonym: cringe),wince at the memory / thought / idea,L.5 flee:,vi. &,vt,.,flee (to / from / into):,vi,.,to leave very quickly, in order to escape from danger,Many German artists fled to America at the beginning of World War II.,Masaari,spent six months in prison before fleeing the country.,He fled the scene of an accident in the darkness.,2.,vt,. to run away from,L.6 plain:,adj.,very clear, and easy to understand or recognize (synonym: clear),It was plain that Giles was not going to agree.,You have made your feelings plain enough.,It is plain (that) ,make plain ,2. without anything added or without decoration (synonym: simple),a plain white blouse,L.6 to get somewhere:,to make progress,I am sure youll get nowhere if you change schools constantly.,She,practised,the piano so hard that she was really getting somewhere.,L. 6 No one quite knew where the class had got in any subject. It was plain the headmaster thought they had got nowhere.,Paraphrase the sentence.,No one quite knew if the class had made any progress in any subject. And it was clear that the headmaster thought they had made no progress / achieved nothing.,Why did the writer regret apologizing to the boy in the hall?,The writer regretted doing so because it was the boy, not he himself, that was in the wrong. The boy was running in the hall, which was obviously against the rules and regulations of the school. He had bumped into the teacher and nearly knocked him down. The writer should have scolded the boy, but instead, he apologized. This shows his lack of self-confidence and his fear of the boys.,L.10 I should have told him off; instead, I apologized.,L.10 placatory:,adj.,making sb. less angry,He raised a placatory hand. “All right, we will see what we can do.”,Seeing me so angry, she gave me a placatory smile.,placate:,v,.,(formal) make someone stop feeling angry, appease,The noise control law could placate airport neighbors, who oppose the growth of the airport because of the noise.,Paraphrase the sentence.,Everything was wrong. I just wanted to please the boy, and I was only thinking of giving in / surrender.,L.10 It was all wrong; my mood was all placatory; I was, inwardly, all white flag.,L12. trace:,v.,to find someone or something that has disappeared by searching for them carefully,2. to find the origins of when something began or where it came from,Theyve traced their ancestry to Scotland.,The style of these paintings can be traced back to early medieval influences.,She had given up all hope of tracing her missing daughter.,The police are trying to trace a young woman who was seen near the accident.,trace,sth,. (back) to,sth,.,L.12 trace:,n,.,U a small sign or amount that shows that someone or something was present or ever existed,Officers were unable to find any trace of drugs / poison.,I saw the faintest trace of a smile across Sandras face.,There was no trace of anyone having entered the room since then.,Petras lost all trace of her German accent.,disappear / vanish / sink without (a) trace,disappear completely, without leaving any sign of what,happened,The plane vanished without a trace.,Paraphrase the sentence.,The noise coming from the classroom made it easy to find it.,L.12 The room was easily traced by the noise that was coming from it.,The natural disaster crept over the town.,L.13 creep:,v.,move slowly, quietly, stealthily or cautiously,The boys felt tired, so they put out the fire and crept into the tent.,小猫悄悄靠近了小鸟。,The cat is creeping silently towards the bird.,The thief crept along the corridor.,皱纹悄悄爬上了脸庞。,Wrinkles crept up on the face.,The natural disaster crept over the town.,Paraphrase the sentence., the most unfortunate part of the situation was that I was in such a panic and the classroom was in such a chaos that I couldnt say clearly or exactly what improper and inexcusable things they were doing.,L.14 that was the worst of it that these improprieties couldnt be nailed down.,L.15 nail down:,(literally) fix,sth,. firmly; (figuratively) establish clearly and unmistakably,An agreement has been nailed down by the partners of the firm.,Lets nail down the lid of the wooden box.,More examples:,It took us 10 years to nail the guy who killed our daughter.,A sign saying “No Fishing” had been nailed to the tree.,Before they repair the car, nail them down to a price.,She finally nailed her dream job.,L.16 make out:,see or hear with difficulty,在雨中我几乎看不清交通标志。,I could barely make out the traffic signs through the rain.,She spoke in such a soft voice that I could hardly make out what she said.,Can you make out his handwriting?,The writer gives us the impression that: first, the teacher was so frightened that he regarded the boys as giants. It was by this way of contrast that the fear, the subtle feeling of the teacher was revealed to the reader; and second, it shows that Room H was very noisy and disorderly instead of being a quiet and orderly classroom.,Paraphrase the sentence.,The top year boys were big and strong like giants and the individual desks were like dolls house furniture resting on their huge knees and moving side to side.,L.17 This consisted, I found, of individual desks; dolls house things that rested on mountainous knees and swayed from side to side.,What impression does the sentence give you?,L.18 negligently:,adv.,carelessly;,relaxedly,He had not moved from his chair, arms negligently spread over his papers.,A manufacturer negligently made and marketed a car with defective brakes.,What does the writer mean by “one desk was chasing another”?,The writer means to tell us that the boys were fighting. They were using their desks as weapons.,L19. and I believe one desk was chasing another.,What does the writer mean by “chalk rain”?,The writer means to tell us that the boys used chalk as the weapon in their fight. The classroom smelt of chalk and pieces of chalk flew about in the air and dropped to the floor.,L.20,The air was full of pieces of chalk, a strange rain of it.,Paraphrase the sentence., there grew in me a terrible useless anger. / A dreadful unreasonable anger on my part intensified and increased. / I became more and more angry with hardly any reasons.,L.22 an awful pointless indignation mounted in me.,L.24 note of:,a type of feeling or quality when someone speaks or does something,He brought a note of realism into the debate.,There was a note of doubt in her voice.,L.24 take no notice:,not pay any attention,It has come to my notice that she is making great progress.,We shouldnt take any notice of idle gossips.,Notice meaning “attention” can be used in various ways.,It has not escaped my notice that the children are up to some mischief.,There are several important matters that Id like to bring to your notice.,L.27,sceptical,(about / of):,marked by or given to doubt; dubious, questioning,I am rather,sceptical,about their professed sympathy for the poor.,He is highly,sceptical,of the reforms.,L.28 toy with (an idea / an object / food):,consider,sth,. casually without making any decision,Ive been toying with the idea of moving abroad.,He picked up a pencil and toyed with it idly.,She was just rather toying with food, as if she wasnt hungry.,L.29 But in cold blood I could think of no practical substitute for these dramatic punishments.,Paraphrase the sentence.,On second thought / When I began to think seriously, I could not think of any punishment that could take the place of these exciting punishments and that could really be given to the pupils.,L.34 to the core:,extremely or completely,The pear is rotten to the core.,He is English to the core.,Her refusal shocked me to the core.,Why was the teacher greatly upset by the look of the studious-looking boy?,The teacher might think the studious-looking boy would be eager to learn and would behave properly. On the contrary, he openly showed his disrespect for and defiance at the teacher by looking at the teacher with his eyebrows knitted, making a wry face and shrugging his shoulders.,L.37 But what hurt me most was that in the middle of the room sat a very studious-looking boy reading a book.,L.40 beyond:,prep. & adv.,outside the range or limits of something or someone,Such tasks are far beyond the scope of the average school kid.,e,xpensive luxuries that are beyond the reach of ordinary people,beyond repair / control / belief, etc.:,impossible to repair, control, believe, etc.,Scotts equipment was damaged beyond repair.,The town centre had changed beyond all recognition.,Due to circumstances beyond our control, the performance had to be cancelled.,超出普通民众消费能力的昂贵奢侈品,。,be beyond somebody:,be too difficult for someone to understand,The whole problem was quite beyond him.,Why Joan ever married such an idiot in the first place is beyond me.,Simile, comparison of the confusion in the classroom to the confusion of a big scene in an opera being played backwards, to give a vivid and effective description.,Paraphrase the sentence.,There was a confusion of sounds for a while. It was like the meaningless, shrill, discordant and screeching sound of a big scene in an opera being played backwards.,L.41 There,was, for a time, pandemonium, like a big scene in an opera being played backwards on a gramophone.,What figure of speech is used in this sentence?,It suddenly occurred to me that I had with me a book on Geoffrey Chaucer, a great English author. There are many records of events of Chaucers time in the book, including stories of noisy quarrels in the street. It seemed to be in keeping with what was happening in the classroom.,Paraphrase the sentence.,L.43 It struck me that I had in my briefcase a book on Chaucer. It contained a large number of documents of the period. Accounts of street brawls. It seemed appropriate.,What we may infer from the sentence and passage about the boys is: Though they were top year boys, they remained very ignorant.,On the one hand, they indulged themselves in fighting and took great pleasure in laughing at the teacher.,On the other hand, they mistook the book on Chaucer for the Bible and they would rather listen to a fairy story than have a history lesson. They had absolutely no respect for the teacher or for school discipline.,What do you know about the boys from this sentence?,L.45,“,Cor, the Bible,” said a voice. “Read any good book lately?” said another. “You hit me with that and Ill tell my dad.” “He can read!” And in falsetto, “Tell us a fairy story!”,