高级英语 Lesson4 Everyday Use for Your Grandmama.ppt

Lesson IV Everyday Use for Your Grandmama Background Information The author wrote quite a number of novels, among them were The Color Purple which won the Pulitzer Prize of Fiction （普利策小说奖） and The American Book Award（美国图书奖）. In 1985, the Color Purple was made into a movie which won great fame. Alice Walker is one of the most important and prominent contemporary black American woman writers. Best known as the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel The Color Purple(1982). 著名黑人女作家托妮·莫里森1993年荣获诺贝尔文学奖 美国黑人女性主义文学 作为妇女主义(Womanism)的代表作家,沃克将目光从以往女性主义所关注的白人妇女的生存现状转向一向受忽视的黑人妇女的困境,揭示她们所遭受的种族主义和性... Objectives of Teaching To comprehend the whole story To lean and master the vocabulary and expressions To learn to paraphrase the difficult sentences To understand the structure of the text To appreciate the style and rhetoric of the passage. Important and Difficult points The comprehension of the whole story The understanding of certain expressions The appreciation of the writing technique Colloquial, slangy or black English Cultural difference between nationalities in the US Detailed study of the text: 1. wavy: having regular curves A wavy line has a series of regular curves along it. The wavy lines are meant to represent water. Here in the text the word describes the marks in wavy patterns on the clay ground left by the broom. *image – 1* (此处加一细曲线图） Detailed study of the text: 2. groove: a long narrow path or track made in a surface, esp. to guide the movement of sth.(here the explanation is not proper) A groove is a wide, deep line cut into a surface. The cupboard door slides open along the groove it fits into. *image – 2* (此处加一groove图） Detailed study of the text: 3. homely: simple, not grand, (of people, faces, etc.,) not good-looking, ugly If someone is homely, they are not very attractive to look at; used in Am.E. Detailed study of the text: 4. awe: Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you are faced with sth. wonderful, frightening or