Unit_5_key_points..doc

Unit 5 Education in Cyberspace I. Difficult Sentences A peculiarly honest answer came out of my mouth before I could think. (1) Paraphrase this sentence.(=Without thinking, I answered him frankly.) (2) Translate the sentence into Chinese.(=我不假思索，老老实实地答道。) 2. Where I teach is inside that electrically charged space that lies between my phone jack and the home computers of a group of generally older-than-average college students. (1) Paraphrase this sentence.(=My students are generally older than the average college students. I teach them not in the traditional lecture rooms, but on the Internet where I am linked with them via their home phone lines and modems.) (2) Translate this part into Chinese.(=我的课堂是在充满电荷的空间里，其间一端连着我的电话插座，另一端连着一群年龄偏大的大学生家里的电脑。) 3. The man’s face remained as blank as a clear summer sky. (1) What figure of speech is used here？ (= simile. More examples:…sing like an angel …sleep as sound as a log …be as brave as a lion) (2) Translate this part into Chinese.(=那人的脸上仍旧一片茫然。) 4. …the Sage on the Stage… (1) What does “the Sage on the Stage” mean? (=This is a term commonly used in the teaching research field to refer to the teacher who plays a dominant role in the classroom. Its opposite term is “the Guide on the Side,” which suggests a learner-centred teaching approach.) (2) Translate this part into Chinese.(=讲坛上的圣人。/课堂教学的支配者。) 5. What they know, they must communicate to me in words. What’s the grammatical function of “What they know” ? (=“What they know”, which serves as the object of the verb ‘communicate’, is put at the beginning of the sentence to achieve emphasis.) 6. They cannot sit passively in the back row twiddling their mental thumbs as the clock ticks away. (1) What does “twiddling their mental thumbs” mean?(=to do little or nothing; be idle) (2) What can we infer from the sentence? (=Studying online is different from that in the conventional classroom. Students should do something actively instead of sitting in the