Group DiscussionWork in pairs and try to figure out the occupations of the people in the pictures.

Directions:

What do you want to be?

doctor

pilotscientist

butcher

director

programmer

engineer

businessman

teacher

salesman

What qualities does a good teacher need?

Would you like to be a teacher? Why or why not?

advantag

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disadvantages

Unit Unit ThreeThree

Every teacher probably asks himself time and again: Why am I a teacher? Do the rewards of teaching outweigh the trying moments? Answering these questions is not a simple task. Let’s see what the author says.

1. Part Division of the Text

2. Scanning — Reasons to Teach

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Fast-reading

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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.

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the opportunity to share with his students the happiness of their success6. __________________________________________________________

the opportunity to teach his students to play their roles in the real world5. __________________________________________________________

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 calendar1. __________________________________________________________

the opportunity to keep on learning4. __________________________________________________________

Scanning — Reasons to Teach

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 teaching10. ____________________________________________________

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8. __________________________________________________________

the joy of seeing his students grow and change in front of his eyes7. __________________________________________________________

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Unit Unit ThreeThree

Detailed Reading of the Text

Every teacher probably asks himself time and again: Why am I a teacher? Do the rewards of teaching outweigh the trying moments? Answering these questions is not a simple task. Let’s see what the author says.

outweigh: v. be more important or valuable than sth. else

The benefits of this treatment far outweigh any risks.

　 1.Why do you teach? My friend asked the question when I told him that I didn’t want to be considered for an administrative position. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a “step up” toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.

　 2. Certainly I don’t teach because teaching is easy for me. Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living: mechanic, carpenter, writer. For me, teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, sinking-stomach profession. Red-eye, because I never feel ready to teach no matter how late I stay up preparing. Sweaty-palm, because I’m always nervous before I enter the classroom, sure that I will be found out for the fool that I am. Sinking-stomach, because I leave the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more boring than usual.

Peter G. BeidlerWhy I Teach

administrative: adj. of or involving the management of public or business affairs

He holds an administrative post in the company.

administrate (v.)

administration

(n.)State Administration for Industry and

Commerce 国 家 工 商 行 政 管 理总局

1. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a “step up” toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.

2. Translate the sentence into Chinese.所有美国人受的教育是长大成人后应该追求金钱和权力，而我却偏偏不要明明是朝这个目标“迈进”的工作，他为之大惑不解。

He was puzzled that I did not want a “step up” toward money and power.

all Americans are taught to want ( )when they grow up

be in a puzzle

cross-word puzzle

jigsaw puzzle

不知如何是好

纵横填字游戏

拼板玩具

puzzle, confuse & bewilder “ 使迷惑不解”

puzzle 指“情况错综复杂 , 因而使人感到困惑不解” , 例如 :She’s been puzzling over his strange letter for

weeks. 指“把事物混淆或弄乱”或 “由于混淆、混乱而糊涂” , 语气较弱 , 常指暂时现象 , 例如 :

confuse

They asked me so many questions that they confused me.bewilder

指“由于迷惑不解或惊愕而慌乱、糊涂和不知所措” , 语气比前两个词都强 , 例如 :

The child was bewildered by the noise and the crowds.

1. Paraphrase this sentence.

2. Translate the sentence into Chinese.

Certainly I teach not because teaching is easy for me.

当然，我之所以教书不是因为我觉得教书轻松。Exercise Ⅵ . 1-

P56

Certainly I don’t teach because teaching is easy for me.

1.I didn’t leave college because I was tired of learning.

3. John didn’t marry Alice because she was rich, or because she was pretty.

Paraphrase this sentence.

Teaching is a profession that makes my eyes red for lack of sleep,

my palms sweaty because of nervousness and

my stomach sinking because I often feel so disappointed with my lectures.

For me, teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, sinking-stomach profession.

convince: v. make someone feel certain that sth. is true; persuade sb. to do sth.

How can I convince you of her honesty?我们说服了安妮放弃乘飞机而坐火车走。

We convinced Anne to go by train rather than by plane.

be fully (half) convinced 完全相信（半信半疑）

convince sb. of sth.convince sb. thatconvince sb. to do sth.

使某人相信某事说服某人 / 使某人相信 ---说服某人去做某事

What is the grammatical function of “convinced that…usual” in this sentence?

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.

Ⅵ. structure . 2-P57

1). We all left the meeting convinced

that the project was feasible.

4). He entered the office still annoyed

by the way she had spoken to him.

6. I teach because teaching is a profession built on change. When the material is the same, I change — and, more important, my students change.

7. I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn my own lessons, to stimulate myself and my students. As a teacher, I’m my own boss. If I want my freshmen to learn to write by creating their own textbook, who is to say I can’t? Such courses may be huge failures, but we can all learn from failures.

3. Nor do I teach because I think I know answers, or because I have knowledge I feel compelled to share. Sometimes I am amazed that my students actually take notes on what I say in class!

4. Why, then, do I teach?5. I teach because I like the pace of the academic calend

ar. June, July, and August offer an opportunity for reflection, research, and writing. based

on

compel: v. force someone to do sth.; make people have a particular feeling or attitude

He was compelled by illness to suspend his experiment.

compel = com( 加强 ) + pel ( 驱动 , 推 ) = 强迫

expel

impel

dispel

propel

repel

= ex ( 向外 , 出 ) + pel ( 推 ) = 开除

= im ( 内 ) + pel 内在推动 = 驱动= dis( 分散 ) + pel ( 推开 ) = 驱散= pro ( 向前 ) + pel = 推进= re ( 反 ) + pel ( 推回去 ) = 击退

( 敌人 )

Academic calendar refers to the calendar used in an institution of education.

It is a list of important events during the school year, such as when school terms begin, when exams are administered and when commencements are held.

Academic Calendar

reflection: n.

After reflection, I feel I make the wrong decision.

She failed this time because she did it without sufficient reflection.

1) careful thought, or an idea or opinion based on this

We looked at our reflections in the lake.

2) an image that you can see in a mirror, glass, or water

He can see his reflection on a polished table-top.

他能够在光亮的桌面上看见自己的映像。

10. But we also set up a corporation, borrowed money, purchased a run-down house and practiced self-reliance by renovating it. At the end of the semester, we sold the house, repaid our loan, paid our taxes, and distributed the profits among the group.

11.So teaching gives me pace, and variety, and challenge, and the opportunity to keep on learning.

8. I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer. The world is full of right answers to bad questions. While teaching, I sometimes find good questions.

9. I teach because I enjoy finding ways of getting myself and my students out of the ivory tower and into the real world. I once taught a course called “Self-Reliance in a Technological Society.” My 15 students read Emerson, Thoreau, and Huxley. They kept diaries. They wrote term papers.

purchaserpurchasing power

1.What does “bad questions” refer to?

2. Translate this sentence into Chinese.

It refers to careless questions or simple questions that every student can answer without difficulty.

我们这个世界有无穷无尽的正确答案来对付拙劣的问题。

The world is full of right answers to bad questions.

“Living in an ivory tower” usually depicts the intellectuals who live only for their work and don’t care much about social and political affairs.

They concentrate their entire efforts on the quest for what they perceive to be scientific or artistic truth.

Ivory Tower

renovate: v. repair a building or old furniture so that it is in good condition again

He renovates old houses and sells them at a profit.

旧家具需要整修翻新。

The old furniture here should be renovated.

nov = newnovate (v.) 用新事物代替renovate (v.) = re ( 一再 ) + nov + ate

翻新

distribute: v.

tribut = to give 给予distribute = dis ( 分散 ) + tribut ( 给 ) + e =

分配contribute = con( 共同 ) + tribut + e = 捐献 ,

贡献 1) share things among a group of people, especially in a planned way

He distributed sweets to all the children in the class.他们把奖品分发给获胜者。They distributed the prizes among the winners.

distributor (n.)distribution (n.)

2) spread sth. over a large area

Our shops are distributed all over the city.分发传单

distribute leaflets

12. I have left out, however, the most important reasons why I teach.

13. One is Vicky. My first doctoral student, Vicky was an energetic student who labored at her dissertation on a little-known 14th century poet. She wrote articles and sent them off to learned journals. She did it all herself, with an occasional nudge from me. 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.

14. Another reason is George, who started as an engineering student, then switched to English because he decided he liked people better than things.

15. There is Jeanne, who left college, but was brought back by her classmates because they wanted her to see the end of the self-reliance house project. I was there when she came back. I was there when she told me that she later became interested in the urban poor and went on to become a civil rights lawyer.

I’ve made a list of names — I hope I haven’t left anyone out.

leave out: fail to mention or include; omit

leave… alone 让……独自待着；不打扰

leave behind 忘了带；留下

leave for 动身前往（某地）

She left out an important detail in her account.

她在叙述中漏掉了一个重要细节。

I sent off the letter this morning.

send off: send sth. somewhere by post

Please see that these parcels are sent off at once.

译 : 请注意，这些包裹必须立即寄出。

•He is working on a new novel.

work on:1) try very hard to improve or achieve sth.致力于…

2) try continuously to influence someone or persuade them to do sth. 努力影响〔说服〕

• I’m working on my father to get him to take me to the airport.

switch:

After several switches of direction I found myself in front of the post office.几次转向之后 , 我发现自己来到了邮局门口。

I used to cook on electricity, but I’ve switched to gas.

1) change from doing or using one thing to doing or using another

2) turn off a machine, light, radio, etc. using a switch

Would you please switch the radio off?

1. v.

2. n. the act of turning or changing

Translation:

再一个原因与乔治有关。他开始学的是工程学 , 后来他深信自己爱人胜过爱物 ,所以改学英语。

Another reason is George, who started as an engineering student, then switched to English because he decided he liked people better than things.

1. 行政职务2. 创办公司3. 熬夜4. 校历

6. 省去7. 象牙塔8. 提供机会

an administration position

set up a corporation

stay up

the academic calendar

leave out

ivory tower

offer an opportunity

Useful Expressions of Paras.1-15

10. 记笔记 take notes

11. 吸取教训 learn from failures

12. 努力做， 苦干 labour at

5. 谋生 earn one’s living

9. …… 被迫做 be compelled to do …

13. 寄出，送出 send off

16. There is Jacqui, a cleaning woman who knows more by intuition than most of us learn by analysis. Jacqui has decided to finish high school and go to college.

17. These are the real reasons 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.

18. A “promotion” out of teaching would give me money and power. But I have money. I get paid to do what I enjoy: reading, talking with people, and asking questions like, “What is the point of being rich?”

19. And I have power. I have the power to nudge, to fan sparks, to suggest books, to point out a pathway. What other power matters?

know sth. by intuition 凭直觉了解某事物

1.How to understand “being present at the creation when the clay begins to breathe”?

2.What can you infer from this sentence?

According to the Bible, man was created by God out of clay.When God breathed the breath of life into the clay, it became alive and the creation of man was completed. Here the author compares the job of a teacher to the work of God.

We can infer from this sentence that the author implies that the teacher helps the student to become a real man or woman.

当一名老师意味着是创造的见证人，他目睹人开始呼吸，开始有了生命。

Translation:

1.Paraphrase this sentence.

2.Translate this sentence into Chinese.

I have the power to give my students a gentle push in the right direction, to arouse their interest and curiosity, to recommend good books, to point out the way to greater achievements.

我有权启迪，有权激发才智，有权开出书目，有权指点迷津。

20. But teaching offers something besides money and power: 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. Perhaps love is the wrong word: magic might be better.

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

1.Paraphrase this sentence.

2.Translate the sentence into Chinese.

I teach because, when I see that my students are beginning to grow and change in front of me, I from time to time find myself growing and changing with them too, as if new life were being breathed into my body.

我教书，是因为与开始成长的学生朝夕相处，我有时感到自己也和他们一起成长了。

I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them.

After running to the bus stop, we sat down to catch our breath.

catch one’s breath: rest so as to be able to continue an activity, stop breathing for a moment from surprise, shock, etc. 恢复呼吸 , 歇一口气

hold one’s breath 屏息

out of breath 气喘吁吁

Ⅲ. Vocabulary Activities (P53)

1.urban2.analysis3.keep a diary4.pace5.technological6.catch his breath

7.intuition8.convince9.Civil10.was… renovated / has…been

renovated

1.

1.took (detailed) notes2. switched3.energetic4.stimulated5.builds on / is built

on

2.

6. renovate7. learned (man)8. compelled9. distributed10. repay

3. 1.switch to

2.has set up3.kept on4.leave out5.called on6.send off7.stayed up8. found out

-ship 表名词1. “ 某种关系、性质、情况” (condi

tion) partnershiprelationshipfriendshiphardshipscholarship

IV. Enriching Your Word Power

2. “ 某种技能，…术” (skill)

airmanshiphorsemanshippenmanshipsalesmanshipworkmanship

飞行术马术书法推销术技艺，工

艺

3. “ 身份、职位、资格” (status)

citizenshipkingshipprofessorshipmembership

公 民 身份

国 王 身份

教 授 之职

会 员 资格

-dom 表名词1. “ 领域，…界，集体” (realm/ do

main)kingdom filmdom （电影界 ,电影业）officialdom

2. “ 情况、身份、状态、性质” (condition)

stardom boredomwisdom randomfreedom

dictatorship

sportsmanship

martyrdom

leadership

partnership

boredom

professorshipscholarshipreadershipofficialdomhardshipworkmanship

Ⅳ. Enriching your word power

Besides reading materials, the use of films and multimedia can stimulate students’ interest in a subject.

Many American students apply for government loans to pay for their education / tuition.

Ⅷ. Translation

1. 许多美国大学生申请政府贷款交付学费 .

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2. 除阅读材料外，使用电影和多媒体会激发学生学习的兴趣 .____________________________________________________________________

5. 我已经把我的简历寄往几家公司，但尚未收到回复 .____________________________________________________________________

I have sent off my resume to several corporations, but haven’t yet received a reply.

7. 我们满怀期望地来参加会议，离开时却大失所望 .____________________________________________________________________

We came to the meeting full of expectations, yet we left very disappointed.

• 1. administration• 2. sweaty-palm• 3. convince sb to do sth• 4. comple sb to do sth• 5. pace• 6. calendar• 7. reflection• 8. stimulate• 9. self- reliance• 10. renovate• 11. repay• 12. government loan• 13. distribute sth to sb

• 14. energetic• 15. swith to do sth• 16. intuition• 17. spark• 18. analysis• 19. stay up• 20. take notes.• 21. build on• 22. keep a diary• 23. leave out• 24. send off• 25. catch one’s breath