Transcript The Professor and the Yo-yo Unit 4 Text

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Unit 4
The Professor and the Yo-yo
Thomas Lee Bucky with Joseph P. Blank
Seen through the eyes of a young friend Einstein was a
simple, modest and ordinary man.
The Professor and the Yo-yo
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Useful expressions
Text interpretation
Word family
Sentence structure
Translation
Reading skill
Guided writing
Homework
Useful expressions
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适中的价格
减轻疼痛
液晶显示器
保持平衡
环球旅行
简体中文
知识分子
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A modest price
Ease the pain
LCD
Keep balance
Universal travel
Simplified Chinese
Intellectuals
Useful expressions
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徒劳
忌妒
爱滋病病毒
光束
恢复原状
为你专用
理论物理
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In vain
Be jealous of
HIV
A beam of light
Revert to type
 For your exclusive use
 Theoretical physics
Useful expressions
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原子弹
一系列
回头客
原则上
追求自由
深奥的概念
家用电器
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Atomic bomb
A series of
Repeated customer
In principle
 In pursuit of freedom
 Profound concepts
 Household appliance
Albert Einstein
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外教社课件
A Brief Introduction to Albert Einstein
Einstein’s Chronology
Theory of Relativity
Atomic Bomb
Fame and Social Activities
Text interpretation
 Warm-up questions
1. Why do you think Einstein is generally
considered the greatest scientist of all time?
2. What makes a great scientist?
3. Who is the Chinese scientist you admire most?
4. Which is more important, social science or
natural science?
Text interpretation
 Answer the questions
Comprehension Ex 2 on p.83
 What type is the text, generally?
A. narration
B. exposition
C. description
D. argumentation
记叙文
说明文
描述文
议论文
Text interpretation
 What is the main idea/topic of the passage?
It explains the personalities/characteristics of
the great scientist Albert Einstein.
 Try to pick up key words or topic sentences of
each paragraph/part. That is, summarize each
paragraph/part. (Next pages)
Text interpretation
 A visit to Einstein's home
 The personality that was Einstein
 He seemed immune to these emotions.
 Material things meant nothing to him. In other words,
he believe in simplicity. (razor)
 Einstein was purely and exclusively a theorist. (TV, toy
bird)
 Another puzzle that Einstein could never understand.
Text interpretation
 Part division
Parts Paras
Main Ideas
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My visit to Einstein's home-ordinary
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He was content to go as far as he could.
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He cared nothing about material things.
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He was purely a theorist.
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He was puzzled by his fame.
Text interpretation
 What can we learn about and from the great
scientist Einstein?
Your answers:
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Text interpretation
1. …I was made to feel at ease…
2. When my turn came, I displayed my few tricks…
3. …had thrown the toy off balance.
4. Einstein nodded, properly impressed by…
5. …I never lost my wonder at the personality that was
Einstein.
6. …come to terms with…within his limits…beyond his
intellectual reach.
7. He was content to go as far as he could.
8. He seemed immune to these emotions.
Text interpretation
9. He was beyond any pretension.
10. Material things meant nothing to him.
11. He believed in simplicity, so much so that…
12. When I suggested that he try shaving cream…
13. …I presented him with a tube of shaving cream.
14. … he was beaming with the pleasure of…
15. Then he reverted to using plain water.
16. He didn’t have the slightest interest in …
17. …a toy, a bird that balanced on the edge of a bowl of
water…
Text interpretation
18. Einstein watched it in delight, trying to deduce the
operating principle.
19. Then he stopped, realizing a flaw in his reasoning.
20. No, I guess that’s not it.
21. …we take the toy apart to see how it did work.
22. His quick expression of disapproval…work out the
solution.
23. …a household word…
24. It’s been my good fortune that my ideas …
25. He was bewildered by his fame…receive this
attention …single out…
Text interpretation
Picture Talk ①
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Text interpretation
1. Humility is the beginning of wisdom.
智慧源于谦逊。
2. Experience is the mother of wisdom.
智慧来自经验。
3. Plain living and high thinking.
生活要朴素，情操要高尚。
4. The more a man knows, the more he is inclined
to be modest.
大智若愚。
Word family
 Modesty, arrogant, ill at ease, show, demonstrate, cycle,
balanced, impressive, personification, universal, logical,
simplify, complicate, functional, intellectual property,
frustrating, envious, enterprising, vulnerable, emotional,
showy, affected, corresponding, eventually, grin, giggle,
chuckle, mustache, divert, avert, inclusive, practitioner,
indifferent, observer, observation, observatory, observant,
repetitive, soak, induce, deductive, inductive, principal,
flawless, work out/come up with, puzzlement, reputation,
incapable, civilian, spokesman, politician
 More words on pp 86-9
Sentence structure
 Passive structures
 What the professor said made me feel at ease.
 I was made to feel at ease.
 Subjunctive in a that clause
 I suggested taking the toy apart.
 I suggested that we take the toy apart.
Do the exercises on pp 88-9
Translation
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The little girl ran so fast that she was thrown off
balance and fell over / down.
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I was impressed by his devotion to his research but I
did not have the slightest interest in his profound
theories.
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Be sure not to say anything capable of being
misunderstood.
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I was so bewildered by their conflicting advice that I
did not know how to act.
Translation
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At first this complicated problem frustrated them, but
after thinking it over carefully they finally worked out
a solution.
The head of the sports delegation beamed with
delight when a young pioneer presented him with a
bunch of flowers.
I really don’t see why our English teacher should
single out our monitor for praise since we have all
done quite well this term.
I believe in the theory that the higher animals
developed from the lower ones.
Reading Skill
 Reading beyond the lines
A good reader is one who can read beyond
the lines, seeing ideas implied through the
words, and one who can bridge the gap
between the obvious and the suggested, thus
obtaining much more information.
(p. 93, Book 2)
Guided writing
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Logic organization of paragraphs
There are many ways to organize a paragraph
in a logical order: general-specific, knownunknown, temporal, spatial, concept-example,
problem-solution, data-conclusion.
外教社PPT
Homework
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 Recitation
 Passage
 Fast reading
 Review
 Preview
 Dictation
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