Loving and Hating New York

1. Loving and Hating New York Thomas Griffith

2. Objectives of Teaching To comprehend the whole text To lean and master the vocabulary and expressions To learn to paraphrase the difficult sentences To understand the structure of the text To appreciate the style and rhetoric of the passage.

3. Aims: • 1)  Improving students’ ability to read between lines and understand the text properly; • 2) Cultivating students’ ability to make a creative reading; • 3)  Enhancing students’ ability to appreciate the text from different perspectives;

4. 4)   Helping students to understand some difficult words and expressions; • 5)   Helping students to understanding rhetorical devices; • 6)   Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately.

5. Teaching Contents: • Background Knowledge • Exposition • Detailed Study of the Essay • Organization Pattern • Style and Language Features • Special Difficulties

6. Background Knowledge • 1) About the author Thomas Griffith • 2) About New York City

7. Exposition • http://www.stanford.edu/~arnetha/expowrite/info.html

8. Detailed study on the Essay

9. Pre-reading task • (Pictures provided here) • 1) Which one of these pictures are picture of New York City? What does New York City impress you? • 2)Discuss with your partner to decide : a) which city you like most and why? b) If you are offered a chance to work or live in another city which is quiet unfamiliar to you , do you want to go there and why?

10. Para.1-5 General introduction • Setting forth the present status of New York in the United States and in the eye’s of foreigners

11. Task: Collect evidence to show that “ How the mighty has fallen.” • New York = Big Apple = Mighty

12. —Advertising campaigns publicly praise New York; • —Many New Yorkers wear T-shirts with a heart design and the works “ I love New York” • —New York is trying desperately to regain her lost prestige and status.

13. Para.2-3 New York • Yesterday & Today

14. Yesterday Top, highest, biggest Leading city sets styles and trends of nation Undisputed fashion authority Looked up to and imitated Today isn’t any more out of phase with ______ as out of step with lost its undisputed leadership no longer so New York City

15. Question: • 1) From where we can see New York’s deficiencies as a pacesetter are more and more evident?

16. “ Nowadays New York is out of phase with American taste “ • — Nowadays New York connot understand nor follow the taste of the American people and is often in disagreement with American politics.

17. “ No longer so looked up to or copied, New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends” • — Since New York is no longer looked up to or copied as the undisputed fashion authority, it now boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion) of America, that it is a place where people can escape from uniformity and commonness.

18. —Building • —Manhattan television studios • —Tin Pan Alley • —Hiring singers and entertainers • —Sports

19. 2) The technique used to support author’s view is___________.

20. Para.4 New York • In the eyes of Americans

21. Comeback: 1 a : a sharp or witty reply : retort b : a cause for complaint 2 : a return to a former position or condition (as of success or prosperity): recovery, revival <staging his ultimate comeback from self-imposed exile

22. Para5 New York • In the eyes of foreigner

23. Question: Why do many Europeans call New York their favorite city?

24. —Cosmopolitan complexities • —European standards • —Mixture of many foreigners • —Many jewelers, shoe stores and designers shops • —Familiar international names • —Tense, restless atmosphere; its energetic pulse

25. “ … and designer shops that exist to flatter and bilk the frivolous rich.” • These shops are set up to cheat and gratify the vanity of the silly rich people

26. Para 6 New York • Energy, contention and striving

27. Convention: angry disagreement • Striving: trying very hard to achieve or to defeat the others • Put-down: ( informal) a remark or criticism intended to make the others feel stupid (令人难堪的话，噎人的话)

28. “ To win in New York is to be uneasy; to lose is to live in jostling proximity to the frustrated majority.” • — A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety ( because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition); a person who loses has to live among the defeated, who are in the majority in New York.

29. Para.7 New York • In author’s eyes

30. “New York was never Mecca to me” • Rhetorical devices employed in this sentence are: __________ and ___________. • The author compares New York to Mecca; and Mecca is standing for __________. • A place of holy pilgrimage, of a place one yearns to go.

31. Para 8 New York: • Nature

32. Questions: • 1) The topic sentence is _______________. • 2)The rhetorical device employed in “ Nature constantly yields to man in New York” is __________. • 3)Are there any other places uses the same rhetorical device as mentioned above? What’s the function of it?

33. Para.9 New York • Opportunities & uncertainness

34. Questions: • 1)What do “Ivy League Schools” refer to? • 2)Why did writer go and live in New York?

35. Para.10 New York • In young people’s eyes

36. Question: Why do young people still go to New York? • —testing themselves • — unwilling to surrender to their most common and easily sold talents • —the fierce competition and challenge • —standards of excellence demanded

37. “ But the purity of a bohemian dedication can be exaggerated.” • — But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be esaggerated.

38. “ But the present generation is enough of a subculture to be a source of profitable boutiques and coffeehouses.” • As these young writers and artists have distinct cultural patterns of their own, many businessmen open up profitable boutiques and coffeehouses to cater to their special tastes and interests. • “ And it is not all that estranged” “It” probably means _______________.

39. Para.11 New York • A judging town

40. “A market for knowingness exists in New York that doesn't’t exist for knowledge.” • — In New York, a shrewd understanding or ability to appraise things is appreciated and paid for and skill and learning by themselves are not considered valuable.

41. Para12 New York • An advertising Center

42. Question: • 1) The rhetorical device used in “The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the city’s …” is _________. And “ The condescending view is the view of __________. • 2)In sentence “So does an attitude which sees….” The author compares ______ to ______.

43. Para 13 New York • Lack of cynicism

44. Task: Collect evidence to show New York is lack of cynicism • In sentence “ Men and women do their jobs professionally and, like pilots who from great heights bombed Hanoi …” the author compares_______ to ______.

45. Para 14 New York • Freedom

46. Para 15 New York • Wounded not dying

47. Amenity: the attractiveness and value of real estate or of a residential structure • To succumb to: to fail to resist an attack, illness, temptation

48. Para 16-18 New York • New Yorkers’ Love

49. New Yorker who sees all the faults of the city still prefer to live in New York • New York’s faults: • —Trash-strewn streets • — Unruly school • — Uneasy feeling or menace • — The noise • — The brusqueness

50. “ He is hopeless provincial” • — He will always be a New Yorker. His attitude towards and his love for New York will never change • “ New York … is the spoiler of all other American cities” • — New York has spoiled all the other American cities for him.