AN INTEGRATED ENGLISH COURSE

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AN INTEGRATED ENGLISH COURSE

• Gao Yufen
• English Department R-406Nancy5815_at_sina.com847244
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UNIT 2

• Text 1 Space Invaders

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Teaching Points

• I. Pre-reading discussion
• II. Introduction
• III. Text Analysis
• IV. Questions
• V. Structural analysis and Rhetorical features
• VI. Discussion about Text II

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I. Pre-reading discussion

• 1. Is personal space important to you? Why or hwy
  not?
• 2. Do we have a weaker sense of personal space
  than the Westerners?

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Presentation
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II. Introduction

• About the author
• Culture and Communication
• Space

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The Structure of Culture
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Communication
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Communication
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Definitions

• Verbal communication refers to the communication
  which is carried out in either oral or written
  form with the use of words.
• Nonverbal communication refers to the
  communication through ones voice qualities,
  facial expressions, gestures, bodily movement,
  attitudes towards space and time, etc.

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Space

• American famous anthropologist Edward T Hall
  created a word Proxemics (???) and discussed the
  communication among people in short distance. He
  stated that the change of space will influence
  the communication among people.

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Space Patterns

• Hall classified space into 3 kinds (1966)
• 1. Fixed-feature space
• 2. Semi-fixed-feature space
• 3. Informal space bubble of personal space.

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III. Text Explanations

• In the text, the writer points out that nowadays
  people are more and more concerned about
  themselves and want to have a larger personal
  space than decades ago, and then he analyses the
  causes of space invasion

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Paragraphs 1-2 Analysis

• The first two paragraphs tell us about the
  authors experience of how his personal space was
  invaded and how his individual border was
  intruded on.

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Language Work

• 1.  snakemove in a twisting way
• The train was snaking its way through the
  mountains
• 2. some tried velvet ropessome slackened
  velvet ropes
• 3. a sweat-suita loose cotton garment for the
  upper part of the body a sort of T-shirt
• 4.  inchmove very slowly and carefully
• Howard inched the van forward.
• 5. sidlewalk in a timid manner, especially
  sideways or obliquely
• A man sidled up to me and asked if I wanted a
  ticket for the match.

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• 6. shufflewalk by dragging ones feet along or
  without lifting them fully from the ground
• He slipped on his shoes and shuffled out of
  the room.
• A fat woman was shuffling along with a
  pushchair.
• Shuffle something offavoid talking or thinking
  about something because it is not considered
  important
• He shuffled the question off and changed the
  topic.
• Shuffle out of somethingtry to avoid some
  unpleasant task by acting dishonestly
• I mistrust the way in which they shuffle out of
  sustained efforts.

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• 7.in mild annoyancewith a little anger or
  impatience
• mildnot very great in degree
• We looked at each other in mild astonishment.
• 8.  scribblewrite or draw (something)
  carelessly or hurriedly
• 9.  until we were all hugger-mugger against
  each other, the original lazy line having
  collapsed in on itself like a Slinky. until
  we were all pushing against each other, leaving
  the line in a disorder.
• Hugger-muggerconfused, disorderly

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• 10. The phrase personal space has a quaint,
  seventies ring to it
• quaintattractively unusual or old-fashioned
• seventies1970s, in which American people
  talked a lot about personal space
• ringa quality, or an impression of having the
  quality that is mentioned
• Her story had a ring of truth about it.
• The books he mentioned had a familiar ring about
  them.

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• 11. but it is one of those gratifying
  expressions that are intuitively understood by
  all human beings. but it is still one of the
  expressions which can be immediately understood
  by all people and give pleasure to people.
• gratifyinggiving pleasure or satisfaction
• The new plan may be gratifying to the President.

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• 12.penetratesucceed in forcing through
  something
• They penetrated into the territory where no man
  had ever been before.
• 13.make somebody uneasymake somebody feel
  anxious that something may be wrong or there may
  be some danger

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Paragraphs 3-7 Analysis

• This part shows that the phenomenon of invading
  personal space has become more and more serious
  in the current society. The writer gives several
  explanations to this pervasive phenomenon. The
  shrinking of personal space is due to factors
  such as the geographical space, the general
  decline of manners, and more and more impudent
  space invaders

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• 3)What does the author mean by saying personal
  space is mostly a public matter?
• Personal space, first of all, is the space you
  expect and are expected to keep between you and
  other people in public places in order to
  maintain the appropriate interpersonal
  relationship. Edward T. Hall in The Hidden
  Dimension, for example, describes the social
  values applied by Americans to certain distances
  between people as falling into four main
  categories Intimate distance (0-11/2 feet),
  Personal distance (11/2-4 feet),
  Social/Consultative distance (4-10 feet), and
  Public distance (10 or more feet).

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• 4)Do space invaders respect other peoples
  personal space?
• No. They want to have as much space to
  themselves as possible.

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Language work

• 14.  wedge?force into a narrow space
• Open the door wide and wedge it with a pad of
  newspaper.
• The people sitting close to me wedged me into
  the corner.
• 15. zigzag?move forward by going at an angle
  first to one side then to the other
• We zigzagged up the hill.
• 16. jostle?push, elbow, or bump against
  (someone)roughly, typically in a crowd

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• 17. riders are no longer taking pains to carve
  out little zones of space.
• carve out?establish or create something
  through painstaking effort
• 18. press?push, move, or make (ones way)
  strongly, especially in a crowd
• He pressed his way through the crowd.
• So many people pressed round the famous
  actress that she couldnt get to her car.
• 19.  fidgety?impatient or uneasy

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• 20. attribute to?believe (something) to be
  the result of
• Jim attributes his success to hard work/to how
  hard he has always worked/ to working hard.
• 21. Malthusian logic?Malthus, Thomas Robert
  (1766-1834), British economist and clergyman.

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• 22. Ive wondered if its the reason T-shirt
  weather can make proximity more alluring (or
  much, much less). ? I have suspected that maybe
  the cause (of the space invasion) is the reason
  summer may either make people want to be closer
  to each other or more likely to keep a distance
  between each other.
• T-shirt weather refers to the weather in which
  people wear T-shirts, mainly, in summer.
• alluring?powerfully attractive or charming

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• 23. Or perhaps the proliferation of coffee
  bars in Manhattan is infusing so much caffeine
  into the already jangling locals that people can
  no longer keep to themselves. ? Or perhaps the
  increasing coffee bars in Manhattan attract more
  and more people, who are stimulated and excited
  by the caffeine, so that they become eager to
  meet others and no longer want to remain in
  privacy.

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Paragraph 5

• Personal space, first of all, is the space you
  expect and are expected to keep between you and
  other people in public places in order to
  maintain the appropriate interpersonal
  relationship. Edward T. Hall in The Hidden
  Dimension, for example, describes the social
  values applied by Americans to certain distances
  between people as falling into four main
  categories Intimate distance (0-11/2 feet),
  Personal distance (11/2-4 feet),
  Social/Consultative distance (4-10 feet), and
  Public distance (10 or more feet).

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IV. Questions

• 1. How did the author describe the violation of
  personal space that happened in a bank?
• 2. What does the author mean by saying personal
  space is mostly a public matter?
• 3. Why is the personal space shrinking in general?

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Structure Analysis and Rhetorical Features

• Writing Style a piece of description
• The causes of space invasion the writer
  attributes this phenomenon to population
  explosion first, then to the hot weather and the
  stimulation of caffine.
• The nature of space invasion the writer thinks
  that space invasion is a public matter. It is
  more psychological than physical.

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VI. Discussion about Text II

• Space and Distance

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Assignment

• Write a short story
• Prepare the new unit