2. Unit Three Why I Teach?

3. Teaching Plan Warming up Global Reading New Words Text Analysis Exercise &Assignment Proverbs & Sayings

4. Before Reading_1.1 Warming-up Work in pairs and try to figure out the occupations of the people in the pictures. What do you want to be? doctor pilot entistsci butcher director engineer businessman teacher salesman

7. Warm-up Questions 1.What do you want to do after graduation? 2.Would you like to be a teacher? Why or why not? Joys: freedom, change, challenge, achievement, feeling young and fulfilled, respect, long vacations, etc Frustrations: low pay, constant challenges, heavy load academic pressure, lack of understanding from students, etc.

9. The reasons I teach Long vacation (opportunity to do what I enjoy, like reading, research) Feeling young and fulfilled Sense of achievement back to the content

10. 1. Part Division of theText Part 5 Question and Answer 2. Scanning — Reasons to Teach 3. Further Understanding Global Reading Global Reading Part 4 Listing Part 1 Questions and Answers Part 3 Sentence Detecting

11. PartsParagraphsMain Ideas 11 22~3 3 4~11 412~19 520~21 Part Division of the Text While all Americans are taught to want money and power, I want to teach and this greatly puzzles my friends. I teach neither because teaching is easy for me, nor because I have so much knowledge that I must share with my students. I love the teaching profession because teaching offers me a great number of rewards, such as pace, variety, intellectual challenge and the chance to keep on learning. Being a teacher, I can help and see my students grow and change in front of me. Teaching offers something besides money and power: love. In addition, seeing students growing, I find myself growing and changing with them too.

12. the opportunity to share with his students the happiness of their success 6. ___________________________________________________ _______ the opportunity to teach his students to play their roles in the real world 5. ___________________________________________________ _______ the freedom to be his own boss (the freedom to do things in his own way) 3. __________________________________________________________ the variety (Teaching is a profession built on change.) 2. ___________________________________________________ _______ Directions: Go over the text quickly and find out the reasons why the author teaches. the pace of the academic calendar 1. ___________________________________________________ _______ the opportunity to keep on learning 4. ___________________________________________________ _______ Scanning — Reasons to Teach

13. the power to help his students grow and change the love teaching offers, the love of learning, of books and ideas and the love a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher’s life and begins to breathe the feeling of remaining young while teaching 10. ____________________________________________________ ______ ____________________________________________________ ______ __________________ 8. ___________________________________________________ _______ the joy of seeing his students grow and change in front of his eyes 7. ___________________________________________________ _______ 9.

14. 1. According to the author, what is the goal most Americans are taught to achieve in life? 2. Do you think an administrative position has anything to do with money and power? 3. Give Examples for administrative positions in a university. Questions and Answers Most Americans are taught to manage to achieve money and power when they grow up. Yes, it involves the management of the staff and affairs of a university, which tends to offer a higher pay than teaching. President of a university, faculty director, dean of studies, director of teaching and discipline etc.

15. Find out the concluding sentence in this part that summarizes the reasons why the author teaches. Directions : Sentence Detecting So teaching gives me pace, and variety, and challenge, and the opportunity to keep on learning.

16. 1) The two most important reasons why the author teaches are: 2) The names of his students that offer the reasons why the author teaches. 2| ） The author helps his students to mould their characters. 1 ） His students grow and change in front of him. Vicky George Jeanne Jacqui Listing 1) _______________________________________________________ 2) _______________________________________________________ 3) _______________________________________________________ 4) _______________________________________________________

17. What does teaching offer besides money and power? Question and Answer It offers love, not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher’s life and begins to breathe. back to the content

18. New words and expressions

19. New Words probably : perhaps, presumably time and again: 屡次，常常 outweigh: be more important or valuable than sth. else 比 … 重（在重量上）；比 … 重要；比 … 有价 值

20. The benefits of this treatment far outweigh any risks. outdo: do better than : 超过，胜过 The nine-year-old outdo all his siblings. 九岁的孩子胜过了他的兄弟姐妹。 outgrow: too old to sth: 长大而不再适 合 … I have outgrown the age of playing toy. 我已经超过了玩玩具的年龄。 She outgrew her dress.

21. administrative ； step-up admini strative [ ə d‘m ɪ n ɪ stret ɪ v] adj. 管理 的，行政的 He holds an administrative post in the company. hold a post: 任职 administrate v. 管理；经营 administration n. 管理，行政 administrator n. 管理人员，行政人员

22. My friend asked the question when I told him that I didn’t want to be considered for an administrative position. T: 当我朋友为我为什么教书时，我告诉他是 因为我不想考虑做管理类的工作 。

23. Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living: mechanic, carpenter, writer. mechanic mechanic: [mə‘kæn ɪ k] n. 机械工，机修工 carpenter: [‘k ɑ rpənt ɚ ] n. 木匠 attempt to do sth: try to do sth difficult 尝试做某事

24. earn one’s living: 谋生 = make a living 我尝试着以写作谋生。 I try to earn my living by writing. I try to make a living by selling clothes.

25. For me, teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, sinking-stomach profession. sweatypalm profession sweat: [sw ɛ t] 汗水 (n&v) drip with sweat

26. sweaty: adj. 流汗的，出汗的 sweaty palm sweaty workout palm [p ɑ m] palm : 手掌 palm : 棕榈树

27. 金棕榈奖：

28. sinking-stomach: Here, “stomach” means “spirit, heart”. A person’s stomach sinks when he is upset, disappointed. 精神沮丧的

29. profession:n. 职业 A profession is a type of job that requires advanced education or training. occupation : 泛指各种各样的职业 professional a. 职业的 by profession 以 …… 为职业 He is a lawyer by profession.

30. Red-eye, because I never feel ready to teach no matter how late I stay up preparing.stay up stay up: 熬夜 I used to stay up to watch TV. 我熬夜写作业 。 I stay up to do my homework. T: 说熬红眼睛，这是因为我晚上无论备课备到多 晚，总觉得备得还不充分。 no matter+ 疑问词：引导让步状语从句

31. Sinking-stomach, because I leave the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more boring than usual.I leave the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more boring than usual convince:[k ə n‘v ɪ ns] vt. 说服；使确信， 使信服 convince sb of sth 使某人确信 convince sb that convince sb to do 说服某人做某事 How can I convince you of her honesty? Her smile convinced him that she was happy. I’ve been trying to convince him to come with me.

32. convinced: adj. 确信的，坚信的 be convinced of 确信 be convinced that I am convinced of his guilt. I was convinced that we were doing the right thing. convincing: adj. 令人信服的，有说服力的 a convincing speaker 令人信服的演说家

33. convinced convinced 引导的是过去分词短语，作伴随 状语。 More Examples: The student left the classroom, disappointed at the teacher’s decision. The mother couldn’t eat or sleep, worried about her son’s safety. More practice on P 57.

34. Para 3 compel [k ə m‘p ɛ l] v. 强迫，迫使 强迫某人做某事？ compel sb to do sth= force sb to do sth Nothing can compel me to do such a thing. take a note: 记笔记

35. Nor do I teach because I think I know answers, or because I have knowledge I feel compelled to share. compelled T: 我之所以教书，也不是因为我认为自己能够解 答问题，或者因为我有满腹学问，觉得非与别 人分享不可。

36. Para 5 I teach because I like the pace of the academic calendar. June, July, and August offer an opportunity for reflection, research, and writing.pace the academic calendarJune, July, and August offer an opportunity for reflection, research, and writing pace [pe ɪ s ] 步法，步调 keep pace with: 保持同步，跟上步法 Education should keep pace with the changes of the society.

37. calendar:[‘kæl ə nd ɚ ] 日历 阴历： lunar calendar 阳历： solar calendar reflection: 反思 reflection is careful thought about a particular subject. V. reflect 深思，考虑 reflect on/upon I must reflect upon how to answer that question.

38. Para 6 stimulate [‘st ɪ mj ə ’let] 刺激；激励，鼓 舞 The teacher’s praise stimulated Tom to study even harder. 老师的表扬鼓励着汤姆更加努力地学习。 Exercise stimulates the circulation of blood. 锻炼刺激血液循环。

39. Learn a lesson: 吸取教训 freshman n. 大一学生 sophomore['s ɑ f ə m ɔ r] n. 大二学生 junior n. 大三学生 senior n 大四学生

40. I teach because teaching is a profession built on change. built on build on: base on; use as a base for further development All research builds on work by previous reseachers. Her conclusion is built on a careful analysis of current international affairs.

41. Even if I use the same textbook I have use before, I always teach in a different way as I may have new ideas about the subject. Each year I have new students who are different from the ones I have taught before and therefore I have to change my way of teaching according to meet their needs.

42. Para 8 I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer. T ： 我教书，是因为我喜欢向学生提出必须 绞尽脑汁才能回答的问题。

43. The world is full of right answers to bad questions. What does “bad questions” refer to? It refers to careless questions or simple questions that every student can answer easily without difficulty. T ： 我们这个世界有无穷无尽的正确答案 来对付拙劣的问题。

44. Para 9 I teach because I enjoy finding ways of getting myself and my students out of the ivory tower and into the real world.ivory tower ivory [‘a ɪ v ə ri] n. 象牙；乳白色

45. Ivory Tower Ivory Tower 是根据圣经《旧约雅歌》 （ the Old Testament, song of songs ） 里 ，睿智富有的以色列王所罗门（ Solomon ） 曾诗歌 1005 首，其中《雅歌》都是爱情之 歌。在第五首歌中，新郎是这样赞美新娘 的， “… Your neck is like an ivory tower.”圣经 Institutions like universities and colleges are often referred to as “ivory towers” where professors and their students engage in pursuits that are disconnected from the practical concerns of everyday life.

46. T ： 我教书，是因为我喜欢想方设法使 自己和我的学生从象牙塔里走出来， 步入现实世界。

47. I once taught a course called "Self- Reliance in a Technological Society."Self- RelianceTechnological Reliance:[r ɪ ‘la ɪ ə ns] 信赖；信心；依靠 self-reliance: 自力更生 rely: 依赖，依靠 rely on 注意： dependence 是依靠的意思 independence 是独立，不依靠

48. technological adj. [t ɛ kn ə ‘l ɑ d ʒɪ kl] 技术 的，工艺的 We are living in an era of rapid techonological change. 我们生活在一个科技快速变化的时代 。 technology n. 技术 科学技术： science and technology

49. Para 10 But we also set up a corporation, borrowed money, purchased a run- down house and practiced self- reliance by renovating it.corporationrun- downrenovating corporation:[,k ɔ rp ə ‘re ʃ ə n] 有限公司 multinational corporation: 跨国公司 set up a corporation: 建立一个公司

50. Run-down adj. 破败的，衰弱的 Renovate [ ‘ r ɛ n ə vet] restore old buildings,oil paintings to a former,better state 修复，修整

51. T: 但除此而外，我们还办起一个公司，借 钱买下一所破旧的房屋，通过对这一建 筑物的整修翻新，我们就自力更生这一 课题进行了一次实践活动。

52. distribute: [d ɪ ‘str ɪ bjut] vt. 分配；散布；分开 分发，分配 The organiztion distributed food and blankets to the earthquake victims. The newspaper is distributed free. People there often complain that wealth is not evenly distributed in their society. distribute the profit: 分发利益 —— 分红 distribute sth to/ among sb 把 … 分给某人，或在某些人之间分 …

53. At the end of the semester, we sold the house, repaid our loan, paid our taxes, and distributed the profits among the group.repaidloan distributed repay: 归还，偿还 to repay a debt/loan 我将下个星期偿还欠他们的钱。 I will repay the money I owe them next week.

54. So teaching gives me pace, and variety, and challenge, and the opportunity to keep on learning. give me pace means 给了我步调，即让我 的生活有了规律 variety: state of varying 变化的状态 My job lacks variety; I am doig the same things all the time.

55. My first doctoral student, Vicky was an energetic student who labored at her dissertation on a little-known 14th century poet.doctoral energetic dissertation doctoral:[‘d ɒ kt(ə)r(ə)l] adj. 博士的；博士学 位的；有博士学位的 doctoral degree master degree bachelor degree--- bachelor of engineering electric automatization[ ɔ,t ɑ mət ɪ ‘ze ʃ ən] 电气自动化

56. energetic:[, ɛ n ɚ ‘d ʒɛ t ɪ k] adj. 精力充沛的； 积极的；有力的 energy n. [' ɛ n ɚ d ʒ i ] n. 能 量；精力 ； 活力；精神 dissertation [‘d ɪ s ɚ ’te ʃ ə n] n. 论文，学位 论文 doctoral dissera tion 博士论 文 academic disseration 学术论文

57. labor at sth: 苦干某件事情 就什么内容，关于什么 用介词： on T: 维基是我的第一个博士生。她精力充沛， 孜孜不倦地撰写她那篇论述 14 世纪一位 不知名诗人的学位论文。

58. send … off: post: 寄 我妈妈昨天给我寄了一个包裹。 My mother send off a package to me yeasterday. dispatch: 派遣 The American government send off an army to Iraq.

59. learned: adj. 博学的，有学问的；学 术的 He is a scholar, genuinely learned ma n. journal [‘d ʒɝ nl] n. 杂志，报纸；期刊 Wall Street Journal 华尔街日报 medical jour nal 医学期刊 core jour nal 核心期刊 learned journal 学术期刊

60. She did it all herself, with an occasional nudge from me.nudge Occasional: happening from time to time; not regular Your writing is quite good except for a few occasional mistake in spelling or grammar.

61. nudge:[n ʌ d ʒ ] 启示 encouragement or suggestion T: 这一切都由她独立完成，我偶尔从旁略 加指点。

62. fellowship n. 研究员职位；研究员 薪金 -ship: suffix 后缀 表示情况、状态、身份、 资格、职位或职务 ownership 所有权，所有制 professorship 教授身份 leadership 领导 authorship 作者身份 scholarship 奖学金

63. But I was there when she finished her dissertation, learned that her articles were accepted, got a job and won a fellowship to Harvard working on a book developing ideas she'd first had as my student.fellowship work on a book: 著书论著 T: 我亲眼看到了她完成了她的论文，得知她 的文章被采用，找到了工作并且获得了在 哈佛大学当研究员的职位，著书论著她在 做我学生时萌发的思想。

64. engineer: [, ɛ nd ʒɪ ‘n ɪ r ] 工程师 an engineering student 一个工科的 学生 switch v. 转换 n. 开关 switch to switch on 接通，开启switch on switch off （用开关）关掉；切断 （电源）switch off

65. Para 15 end: 目标 ; 结果 urban:[‘ ɝ b ə n] 城市的 urban-rural （农村的，乡下的） urbanize v. 使城市化 urbanization n. 城市化 morden ——mordenize—— mordenization

66. civil rights 民事权利 civil: of or relating to ordinary citizens rather than the armed forces or the church; Of or relating to the citizens of a country. T: 我亲耳听到她对我说，她后来对城 市贫民产生了兴趣，继而成了捍卫 公民权的律师。

67. Para 16 intuition [, ɪ ntu‘ ɪʃ ə n] n. 直觉 by intuition: 凭直觉 Intuition told me that something was wrong with our plan. The old hunter knew by intuition that the deer would soon be there.

68. analysis: n. 分析 The artical provides a detailed analysis of the root causes of the accident. analysis 的复数形式是 analyses, 动词形式为 analyse 或 analyze 与其有相似变化的词还有： basis—bases crisis---crises back to the content

69. Text Analysis

70. Jacqui …rare student who walks into a teacher’s life (L.69, Para. 20)

71. There are the real reason I teach, these people who grow and change in front of me. Being a teacher is being present at the CREATION, when the clay begins to breathe.

72. God created a man out of clay and gave him life by breathing the breath of life Into his nostrils.

73. Breathe

75. Of leaning, books and ideas Rare students and their growth

76. I teach because, being around people who beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them. (para.21)

77. StructureDiagram 1 Question 2 Not easy 5-11 Reasons 12-17 Major Reasons 18-20 Love / Magic 4 Question 3 Not expert 21 My growth Question Answer Why I Teach back to the content

78. Exercise 1)were short of 2)attached any importance to 3)have applied for 4)consists of 5)vital 6)range 7)Judging by 8)leisure 9)awkward 10)ultimate 11)constitute 12)slim

79. 1) salary 2) prospect 3) in turn 4) smelled of 5) depressed 6) suburb 7) stale 8) protested 9) incompetent 10) interview 11) Having little in common 12) disapproval 13) advertise 14) plus

80. 1) A r é sum é generally consists of personal information, work experience and educational background. 2) In today's job market, importance is attached to practical experience as well as formal education. 3) The pay for this type of work ranges from ten to fifteen dollars per hour. 4) The thought of having to take the exam again depressed me./ I was depressed at the thought of having to take the exam again. 5) Tony and his brother have little in common except that they share the same interest in cricket./ Tony and his brother have little in common except their shared interest in cricket. 6) England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland constitute the United Kingdom.

81. 1) unlock 2) unpacked 3) undo 4) unfolded 5) unsay 6) undressed

82. 1) a blue-eyed girl 2) a kind-hearted woman 3) a simple-minded young man 4) a double-faced guy/a double-faced fellow 5) a long-haired rabbit 6) a white-haired girl 7) a left-handed person 8) a red-tailed bird 9) a narrow-minded man 10) a short-sighted woman

83. 1) smells lovely/smells sweet 2) could smell cigarettes 3) Smell the milk 4) smells stale 5) smells of wine 6) can smell something burning 7) was smelling a ball of wool 8) smell of fish/smelt of fish/smelled of fish

84. 1) surprising/surprise 2) surprised 3) excited interested 4) frightened 5) bored closing 6) closed 7) frightening 8) winning 9) amusing thinking 10) lost

85. 1) The rumour proved (to be) true. 2) The experiment proved (to be) a success in the end. 3) The student proved (to be) much brighter than he had first appeared. 4) His experiences on the farm proved (to be) a turning point in his writing career.

86. 1) I could say "Thank you" 2) I had time to look over my answers 3) most of the students understood the first problem 4) I could stop him

87. 1) the letter must have been written by a small child 2) they are probably Japanese 3) he might have failed in his English exam 4) the performance must be a great success

88. 1) advertised 2) local 3) slim 4) apply 5) disapproval 6) consisted of 7) attached importance 8) Obviously 9) in common 10) salary 11) prospect

89. 1) Out 2) apply 3) others 4) know 5) preferred/chose/select 6) single 7) a 8) at 9) behind 10) careful 11) to 12) considerate/thoughtful 13) when 14) questions 15) polite 16) rest/others 17) floor 18) placed 19) turn 20) When 21) noticed 22) brushed 23) nails 24) excellent 25) more

90. 1) hiring 2) link 3) college graduate 4) somewhere 5) find out 6) checked with his university 7) he'd be right for the job 8) eagerness 9) left me with only one other question 10) call on

91. 1. She got a post as a cashier at a local bank. But she was soon fired because she proved to be incompetent. 2. It is obviously/clearly his young assistant who is running the book store. 3. No sooner had the proposal been announced at the meeting than she got to her feet to protest. 4. Bill has applied to Harvard University for a teaching assistantship, but his chances of getting it are slim. 5. Being short of funds, they are trying to attract foreign capital. 6. The room smells of stale air. It must have been vacant for a long time. 7. As far as hobbies are concerned, Jane and her sister have little in common. 8. It is self-evident that the education of the young is vital to the future of a country. back to the content

92. Proverbs and Sayings 1. Example is always more efficacious than precept. 身教胜于言教 。 2. Only a nation of educated people could remain free. 只有受过教育的人民组成的国家才能保持自由。 3. Education is the transmission of civilization. 教育传播文明。

93. After Reading_9.2 4. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle, Ancient Greek philosop her 5. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. — Adams, American historian 教育的根是苦涩的，但其果实是香甜的。 —— 古希腊哲学家 亚里士多德 教师的影响是永恒的；无法估计他的影响会有多深远。 —— 美国历史学家 亚当斯

94. 6. The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. — Forbes, American educator 7. Hold what you really know and tell what you do not know and this will lead to knowledge. — Confucius, Chinese philosopher and educator 教育的目的是用接受新思想的头脑去取代一个空虚的灵魂。 —— 美国教育家 福布斯 知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也。 —— 中国哲学家、教育家 孔子 back to the content