综合英语 第2课.ppt

Unit 2 Text I Space Invaders Text Analysis Text I Space Invaders 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. Paragraphs 1-2 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. Question to be asked: How did the author describe the violation of personal space that happened in a bank? The author related his experience with a series of verb phrases and adverbials, such as inching toward, minutely advanced toward, in mild annoyance, began to sidle up to, absent-mindedly shuffled toward, which vividly described the process in which the people in line, though reluctant, had to give away their personal space to the invaders until they became hugger-mugger against each other. Language Work 1. snake: move in a twisting way The train was snaking its way through the mountains. 2. some tired velvet ropes: some slackened velvet ropes 3. a sweat-suit: a loose cotton garment for the upper part of the body; a sort of T-shirt 4. inch: move very slowly and carefully Howard inched the van forward. 5. sidle: walk in a timid manner, especially sideways or obliquely A man sidled up to me and asked if I wanted a ticket for the match. 6. shuffle: walk 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 off: avoid talking or thinking about something because it is not considered important He shuffled the question and changed the topic. shuffle out of something: try to avoid some unpleasant task by acting dishonestly I mistrust the way in which they shuffle out of sustained efforts. 7. in mild annoyance: with a little anger or impatience mild: not very great in degree We looked at each oth