教案doors.ppt

Course TitleAdvanced English Reading Course Book Advanced English Reading —— Modern Prose Unit Nineteen On Doors Teaching Procedures and Focus Intensive Reading of the Text On Doors Questions on the Title What is a door ? How many kinds of doors can you name ? What is the symbolic meaning of doors ? What sayings about doors do you know ? What is a door ? A movable piece of firm material or a structure supported usu. along one side and swinging on pivots or hinges, sliding along a groove, rolling up and down, revolving as one of four leaves, or folding like an accordion by means of which an opening may be closed or kept open for passage into or out of a building, room, or other covered enclosure or a car, airplane, elevator, or other vehicle. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Anyone who attempts to sincerely to state what the word door means in the United States of America today can’t take refuge in a log cabin. There has been an enormous proliferation of closing and demarking devices and structures in the past twenty years, and anyone who tries to thread his way through the many meanings now included under door may have to sacrifice brevity to accuracy and even have to employ words that a limited vocabulary may find obscure. Bergen Evans: But What’s a Dictionary For? Advanced English, Book One. Excerpt from The Play of Language, 1971. There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. Opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe. If the world is a stage, I want to operate the trap door. Now let’s analyze the text in detail and examine what the author tells us about doors. 1. The opening and closing of doors are the most significant actions of mans life. What a mystery