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1、Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaText Analysis 1. Theme2. Structure3. Further DiscussionWriting DeviceParallelism Sentence ParaphraseLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaThe man in the water did n

2、ot have to give his rings to others; he did not even know these people. He was extraordinary precisely because he was ordinary. He showed what everyone of us could do at that critical moment. The display of his heroism was a song to the beautiful human character.ThemeThe end of Theme. Lesson 6The Ma

3、n in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaPart 1 (Paras. 13):Part 2 (Paras. 49):StructureThe terrible air crash in Washington, D.C. that brought people to tears and to attention and the possible reasons for the national sensation.Its the ordinary man in the water who performed the extraordinary an

4、d stunning deeds that created the emotional impact and the enduring wonder. The end of Structure. Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaMentioned in Paras. 34.To be continued on the next page. Question: Who are the heroes in the story?Two police rescuers and, a young passerby and

5、 the man in the water.Further DiscussionLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaTo be continued on the next page.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

6、in human nature at its best. Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaQuestion: In the authors view, do people feel proud or sad about the disaster? Why?They feel proud because man defeated the indifferent natural forces.To be continued on the next page.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterB

7、TLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaQuestion: What is referred to as one of mans natural powers according to the passage?Sacrificing his life for the life of others.To be continued on the next page.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaQuestion: The fight between the man in the water an

8、d 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. Whats more, he never dies in peoples heart.To be continued on the next page.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6text

9、appreciaWhat 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?Why does the author say that the man went unide

10、ntified gave him a universal character?To be continued on the next page.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaThe end of Further Discussion. How could the man in the water give a lifeline to those who watched him? What does the “l(fā)ifeline” here symbolize? What does the greatness o

11、f the anonymous man actually lie in?What do you think are the strongest human powers endowed with by nature?Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaparallelism: the use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clausesThere was the unusual element of the b

12、ridgeThen, too there was the location of the eventAnd there was the aesthetic crash as wellStill, there was nothing very special, except death(Para. 1) ParallelismWhat effect do you think it has here?The end of Writing Device. Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciastrong, sudden

13、movement of windWith a sharp and loud noise, Washington, the neatly well-designed city of order was thrown into a terrible confusion.apposition phrasea sharp, loud and forceful strike of the plane and the bridge, stressing what met the ear Washington, the city of form and rules, turned chaotic by a

14、blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. (Para. 1) disordered state of unformed thingsLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaAnd there was the aesthetic clash as wellblue and green Air Florida, the name of a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks of ice in a b

15、lack river. (Para. 1)appositionThe clash was also a clash of colours, a horrible eye-catching scene. combination of colours which gave an artistic effect on the horrible scene, stressing what met the eyeLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaLast Wednesday the elements, indifferen

16、t as ever, brought down Flight 90. And on that same afternoon human naturegroping and strugglingrose to the occasion. (Para. 2)Last Wednesday, the bad weather, unconcerned about the consequences it might bring about as always, made Flight 90 fall down. On that same afternoon, human nature, groping f

17、or the flotation rings and struggling in the icy water, came to prove its greatness displayed in an unexpected tragedy.made the plane fall downunconcern about the consequences as alwayswas able to deal with an unexpected problem, a difficult taskLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappr

18、eciaOf the four acknowledged heroes of the event, three are able to account for their behavior. (Para. 3)Only three out of these four heroes lived to tell people what they actually had done and how they had rescued the five survivors.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaOn telev

19、ision, side by side, they described their courage as all in the line of duty. (Para. 3)as part of ones dutyIts their duty to be courageous enough to rescue people in the water.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaSkutnik added that “somebody had to go into the water”, delivering

20、 every heros line that is no less admirable for being repeated. (Para. 3)Skutnik gave a remark that has been said before by many people in similar situations, but it is still admirable.making every heros remarkequallyas a result ofLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaBut the per

21、son most responsible for the emotional impact of the disaster is the one known first as “the man in the water”. (Para. 4) being the cause for Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaHis selfishness was one reason the story held national attention; his anonymity another. (Para. 4)Pa

22、rallel structure Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaFor a while he was Everyman, and thus proof (as if one needed it) that no one is ordinary. (Para. 4) Everyman, the name of a 15th-century English moral play about death and fate of mans soul, generally regarded as the best mo

23、ral playThe anonymous man really represents the best of human nature. What he did was not the act of a supernatural being, but the act of an ordinary person.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaHe was there, in the essential, classic circumstance. (Para. 7)most important traditi

24、onal or long established What happened that day was a typical situation in which natural forces and man fought against each other. And when elements begin to show their power, you always find man who will fight back. He is always there. We can always expect to find such a hero.Lesson 6The Man in the

25、 WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaSo the age-old battle began again in the Potomac. For as long as man could last, they went at each other, nature and man. (Para. 7)foughtthe traditional idea that human civilization is a record of mans gradual conquest of natureLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英

26、語課程lesson6textapprecia the one making no distinctions of good and evil, acting on no principles, offering no lifelines; the other acting wholly on distinctions, principles and, perhaps, on faith. (Para. 7)Man, on the other hand, has his moral standards of what is right and wrong. He must behave according to the moral principles and beliefs.Nature has no moral standards. It works on no human principles. It cares nothing about the individual life of man.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW大學(xué)英語課程lesson6textappreciaIn reality, we believe the opposite, and it takes the act of the man in the water to