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1、Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.-author-dateUnit-2-The-Boy-and-the-Bank-OfficerUnit 1 A brush with the lawUnit 2 The boy and the bank officerPhilips RossTeaching Objective1. Listening: news and dictation2. Speaking: My experience
2、 of opening an account in the bank3. Vocabulary: alternative, apparently, branch, bully, conclude, damn, dismay, fortyish, helpless, hopeful, idiot, interfere, irritation, loafer, mustache, neatly, overlit, passion, prep, rear, sandy, savings, series, shake, shrug, slightly, teller, withdrawal4. Gra
3、mmar: subjunctive mood, model verbs5. Writing: College lifeBackground Information1. Philip Ross (1939 ) He is an American writer based in New York. After working as a newspaper reporter for four years, he turned to freelance (自由职业作家) writing. Many of his articles have appeared in the New Yorker (纽约人
4、), Readers Digest (读者文摘) and New York Times (纽约时报). This text is taken from Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader, 3rd edition published by Prentice Hall, Inc. in 1993 in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. 2. Functions of banksModern societies cannot do without banks. Banks keep, lend
5、and issue money as well as offering many other financial services. They also help to regulate the economy with changes in interest rate and in money supply. However, traditionally, poor people and people who sympathize with them have regarded banks as evil, as enemies of the poor. Such suspicions an
6、d misgivings obviously still linger on. This article seems to prove that the prejudices of people like the author are ungrounded.Plot: a boys withdrawal of money from the bankSetting: at the bank Protagonist/Narrator: bank officer, the boy and “I”Theme of the story: Traditionally, poor people and pe
7、ople who sympathize with them have regarded banks as evil, as enemies of the poor. Such suspicions and misgivings obviously still linger on. This article seems to prove that prejudices of people like the author are ungrounded.Warm-up activities1. Did you ever misunderstand others? How did you deal w
8、ith your misunderstanding?2. What do you think how banks keep surviving in the modern society? Detailed study of the textPara 11. passion-a strong feeling or emotion passionate2. The only difference is that a banks goods happen to be money which is yours in the first place. goods-things produced in
9、order to be sold happen to be/do-to sth by chance e.g. I happened to be on the spot when the traffic accident occurred.3. If banks were required to sell wallets and money belts, they might act less like churches. church-it has certain associations. People usually think of a church as the spokesman o
10、f God, as a powerful organization that controls your life and can interfere in your life. Therefore the author thinks it is ridiculous for banks to act like churches. be subjunctive if did, would/might do e.g. If I were you, I would not be here. If it rained tomorrow, we would have to stay at home.P
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