4TheManintheWater新版现代大学英语个性化完整教案

1 二、主要内容： 第 教学周/第 节（第 次课） 第 页 教学目的 Teaching Objectives: To acquire the key words, important and difficult sentences and language points 教学重点和难点 Teaching Focus Possible Difficulties 教学方法和手段 Teaching techniques To integrate several different teaching methods and techniques: elicitation; explanation; illustration and discussion. 教 学 基 本 内 容 备 注 Unit 4 The Man in the Water 1. Warming-up Questions 1) Question: Who are the heroes in the story? Two police rescuers and, a young passerby and the man in the water. 2) Question: Who is the greatest hero? Why? The man in the water. Ordinary as he was, he could rise to challenge when the test came. He displayed courage and noble character in human nature at its best. 3) Question: In the author’s view, do people feel proud or sad about the disaster? Why? They feel proud because man defeated the indifferent natural forces. 4) Question: What is referred to as one of man’s natural powers according to the passage? Sacrificing his life for the life of others’. 5) Question: The fight between the man in the water and the natural forces ended up with the death of the man. Why does the author say he is not a loser? He was the best we can do to fight against the indifferent natural forces. What’s more, he never dies in people’s heart. What was unusual about the air crash? Why does the author refer to the aesthetic aspect of the clash? What are the things the author mentions to be worth noticing? What does the author mean when he says the human nature was groping and struggling? 2 Why does the author say that the man went unidentified gave him a universal character? How could the man in the water giv...