《基礎(chǔ)英語(yǔ)》課件 telephone

1、The TelephoneBell placing the first New York to Chicago telephone call in 18921896 TelephoneWooden wall telephone with a hand-cranked generatorA candlestick phoneA rotary dial telephoneModern sound-powered emergency telephoneA modern mobile phone, also called a cell phoneAn iPhone, a mobile smartpho

2、ne that is able to access the Internet.Warming-up QsCould you imagine a life without the telephone?When did the telephone come to your life?How do you think the telephone relates to you and your life?About the AuthorAnwar F. Accawi was born in Lebanon in a family whose ancestors are believed to have

3、 gone to Jerusalem in the “Crusades”. While he was teaching English at the University of Beirut, he married an American from Tennessee. When the civil war broke out in Lebanon, they were forced to leave the country and settle in the United States. Anwaw F. Accawi became a teacher of English at the U

4、niversity of Tennessee, Knoxville.Introduction to the Text The narrative is set in a village in Lebanon. It provides us with some cultural background of the Arab world, which is strategically important because of its geographical position and its rich oil reserves. The text can be conveniently divid

5、ed into two parts. The introduction, which extends over the first ten paragraphs, provides background information: detailed description of the villagers way of life before the telephone came. The second part is about how the telephone was installed, what changes it brought about in the village. Cult

6、ural Information 1. Chickenpox（水痘） Chickenpox is a highly contagious（傳染性的）disease that is spread from person to person by touching the blisters（水皰), saliva（唾液）, or mucus（黏液）of an infected person, or from virus spread through the air. Symptoms（癥狀）start 10 to 21 days after exposure（暴露）to the virus and

7、 include fever, tiredness, and an itchy rash（發(fā)癢的皮疹）with small blisters that dry up and form scabs（痂）within 5 days. Approximately 90% of chickenpox cases occur in children from l to 14 years old, and 90% of people have had chickenpox by their early 20s. The disease is usually mild, and not life-threa

8、tening in healthy children, but can be more serious in newborn babies and in adults.2. Whooping Cough（百日咳） It is an infectious（傳染性的）bacterium disease that causes uncontrollable coughing. 3. Communion 圣餐 It refers to the religious ceremony in which believers eat bread and drink wine as symbols of Chr

9、ists body and blood to remember the Last Supper of Jesus Christ. 4. Kacula, Seffen-ub, and Bebsi They mean Coke (Coca Cola), Seven-Up, and Pepsi (Pepsi Cola) in the narrators corrupted English pronunciation.Detailed Discussion of the Text Para 1When I was growing up in Magdaluna, a small Lebanese vi

10、llage in the terraced, rocky mountains east of Sidon .(1) Magdaluna: a village that lies in the Lebanon Mountains running parallel to the Mediterranean coastline. A narrow plain lies along the Mediterranean coastline. In some places the plain is just wide enough for a road.(2) Sidon: a city on Leban

11、ons southern coast, approximately 25 miles south of Beirut. It is one of the countrys largest ports and one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In 1985, the city had approximately 100,000 residents. time didnt mean much to anybody, except maybe to those who were dying.Paraphrase: The villagers

12、didnt think time was important until perhaps when they were dying.In those days, there was no real need for a calendar or a watch to keep track of the hours, days, months, and years.Paraphrase: At that time, it was unnecessary to keep themselves informed about the time. to keep track (of) : to keep

13、oneself informed about a person, situation, etc, 記錄 The only timepiece we had need of then was the sun. Paraphrase: The sun was the only clock or watch we needed at that time.It rose and set, and the seasons rolled by and we sowed seed and harvested and ate and played and married our cousins and had

14、 babies who got whooping cough and chickenpox. 1) Paraphrase: The sun came up and went down, and the seasons came and went in steady succession and we went to work in the field and followed the life pattern generation after generation.(2) the seasons rolled by: the seasons came and went in steady su

15、ccessionPara 2It wasnt that we had no system for keeping track of time and of the important events in our lives.Paraphrase: This does not mean that we had no way of knowing what year, or season, or day, or hour it was and of remembering when such important events as births, weddings, deaths, disaste

16、rs happened.But ours was a natural or, rather, a divine-calendar, because it was framed by acts of God: earthquakes and droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences.Paraphrase: We used natural disasters to keep track of time and of the important events in our lives. This was a natural calendar th

17、ough it is more accurate to say a divine calendar, for sunrise and sunset, the change of seasons, and earthquakes and droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences were all works of God.Para 4. that caused the roof on the mayors house to cave in.to cave in: (of roof or wall) to fall down or inward

18、; to collapsePara 7You couldnt be more accurate than that, now, could you?Paraphrase: Thats the most accurate answer I could get.Para 8And thats the way it was in our little village for as far back as anybody could remember.Paraphrase: And thats how we kept track of the important events in our littl

19、e village to the extent that / for as long as the oldest people could remember.Incredible as it may sound, the story of the fish and oranges was true, because men who would not lie even to save their own souls told and retold that story until it was incorporated into Magdalunas calendar.(1) to save

20、their own souls: to save their lives(2) . until it was incorporated into Magdalunas calendar: . until the event became one of the things by which we kept track of the important events in our lives.Para 9There was, for instance, the year of the drought, when the heavens were shut for months and the s

21、pring from which the entire village got its drinking water slowed to a trickle.(1) the heavens were shut for months: it didnt rain for months as if the sky were shut tight(2) heavens: (literary) the sky(3) slowed to a trickle: gradually there was.only a small amount of water coming slowly out of the

22、 spring(4) trickle: v. to flow slowly in drops or in a thin stream細(xì)細(xì)地流：Rain trickled down his umbrella.雨水從他的傘上流淌下來(lái)。to move slowly in small groups or amounts慢慢地移動(dòng)：The audience trickled into the great hall in twos and threes.人們?nèi)齼蓛傻刈哌M(jìn)了大廳。| n. 小股水流；涓涓細(xì)流：He was badly injured and a trickle of blood came

23、out of the wound.他受傷很?chē)?yán)重，血從傷口處流出。Para 10Sometimes, amid the long wait and the heat and the flies and the smell of goat dung, tempers flared, and the younger women, anxious about their babies, argued over whose turn it was to fill up her jar.Paraphrase: Sometimes, the younger women tended to become il

24、l-tempered because of the bad conditions such as the heat, the flies moving around, and the smell of goat dung. They worried about their babies and became anxious, so they got impatient and argued about who should get their water first.And sometimes the arguments escalated into full-blown, knockdown

25、-dragout fights; the women would grab each other by the hair and curse and scream and spit and call each other names that made my ears tingle.Paraphrase: And sometimes the arguments became so fierce that it turned into a violent fight; the women would take hold of each other by the hair and cry and

26、abuse each other by insulting words; and the words they used when they were quarreling were so offensive that we little boys felt uncomfortable. call each other names that made my ears tingle. :. the words they used when they were quarreling were so offensive that we little boys felt uncomfortable.P

27、ara 11 . Magdaluna was not going to get anywhere until it had one. Paraphrase: . Magdaluna wouldnt achieve any success without a telephone.to get anywhere / somewhere / nowhere: to make some / no progress or have some / no success,取得進(jìn)展；成功/ 有結(jié)果；有所成就 / 無(wú)進(jìn)展；一事無(wú)成 A few men- like the retired Turkish-army

28、 drill sergeant, and the vineyard keeper- did all they could to talk Abu Raja out of having a telephone brought to the village. Paraphrase: A few men. tried hard to persuade Abu Raja to give up the idea of having a telephone installed in the village.to talk sb out of (doing) sth: to persuade sb to d

29、o / not to do sth, 說(shuō)服某人放棄某事 But they were outshouted and ignored and finally shunned by the other villagers .Paraphrase: But the majority of the villagers were for the telephone, and they wouldnt listen to those few people who were finally deliberately avoided for resisting progress. outshout: v. to

30、 speak louder than講得比響亮 Para 13Some of the rich villagers walked right into the store and stood at the elbows of the two important-looking men.Analysis: The paragraph tells us how the whole village gathered at the store to watch the installation of the telephone: the rich stood right beside the men

31、from the telephone company, the not-so-poor people stood in the doorway, the poorer villagers stood outside. This shows that the people in the village were status-conscious.at sbs elbow: very close to or beside sbPara 19Im Kaleem was also a kind of confessor and troubleshooter, talking sense to those men who were having family problems, especially the younger ones.Paraphrase: Im Kaleem also acted as a patient listener and