贵州师范学院《大学英语4》课件-Unit 3-B.pptx

Unit 3: Part B21世纪大学英语应用型综合教程世纪大学英语应用型综合教程 IV21st Century College 21st Century College EnglishforEnglishfor Interactive Purposes: Book 4 Interactive Purposes: Book 4 Unit 3: Marriage CustomslWarm-uplText BlExerciseslHomeworkDirections: Youwillheararecordingandyouarerequiredtofillintheblankswiththeexactwordsyouhavejustheard.Unit 3: Warm up Personal character is probably the most important area whenconsideringwhatyouwantinamarriagepartneranditisoftentheareathatgetstheleastattention.Mostotherattributesofaperson1._theircharacterandvalues.Apersonwhoishardworkingand2._islikelytobefinanciallywellofforwellontheirwaytoit.Apersonwhohasstrongmoralvaluesislikelytobe3._.Apersonwhoisdogmaticandtraditionalmaybereligious.Unit 3: Warm up In identifying the qualities of your ideal marriage partner, 4._identifyingthecharacteristicsandvaluesheorshewouldhave.What qualities must he or she display? Persistence? 5. _?Affection? Determination? Honesty? High integrity? Self-discipline?Intelligence?Knowledge?Loyalty?Thislistcanbequitelong.Butitiscriticalthatyouidentifythecharacteristicsthat6._toyou.If you are finding it difficult to determine the importance of a7._characteristic,simplyimaginebeinginarelationshipwithapersonwhodoesnothaveit.Youwillknow8._howimportantthat characteristic isto you. Consider being inarelationship with adishonestpersonwhowillnottellyouwherehe/shehasbeenandwhathe/shehasbeendoing.Doesthisthoughtreallyupsetyou?Orisitjustmildly9._?Consider the flip side of this as well. What qualities must yourpartner absolutely not have? Dishonesty? Lack of 10._?Laziness?Socialineptitude?Andsoon.Unit 3: Warm up CheckCheckDirections: Youwillheararecordingandyouarerequiredtofillintheblankswiththeexactwordsyouhavejustheard.Unit 3: Warm up Personal character is probably the most important area whenconsideringwhatyouwantinamarriagepartneranditisoftentheareathatgetstheleastattention.Mostotherattributesofaperson1._.theircharacterandvalues.Apersonwhoishardworkingand2._islikelytobefinanciallywellofforwellontheirwaytoit.Apersonwhohasstrongmoralvaluesislikelytobe3._.Apersonwhoisdogmaticandtraditionalmaybereligious.flowoutofpersistentspiritualUnit 3: Warm up In identifying the qualities of your ideal marriage partner, 4._identifyingthecharacteristicsandvaluesheorshewouldhave.Whatqualitiesmustheorshedisplay?Persistence?5._?Affection?Determination?Honesty?Highintegrity?Self-discipline?Intelligence?Knowledge?Loyalty?Thislistcanbequitelong. But it is critical that you identify the characteristics that6._toyou. paythemostattentiontoIndustriousnessareofessentialimportanceUnit 3: Warm up If you are finding it difficult to determine the importance of a7._characteristic,simplyimaginebeinginarelationshipwithaperson who does not have it. You will know 8. _ howimportantthatcharacteristicistoyou.Considerbeinginarelationshipwithadishonestpersonwhowillnottellyouwherehe/shehasbeenandwhathe/shehasbeendoing.Doesthisthoughtreallyupsetyou?Orisitjustmildly9._?Consider the flip side of this as well. What qualities must yourpartner absolutely not have? Dishonesty? Lack of 10._?Laziness?Socialineptitude?Andsoon.particularimmediatelyirritating.integrityUnit 3: Text B Passage Language and Cultural PointsUnit 3: Text B Marriage Customs (From Utopia) By Thomas More1. Women do not marry till they are eighteen, nor men till they are twenty-two. Premarital intercourse, if discovered and proved, brings severe punishment on both man and woman; and the guilty parties are forbidden to marry for their whole lives, unless the governor by his pardon cancels the sentence. Also both the father and mother of the household where the offence was committed suffer public disgrace for having been remiss inUnit 3: Text B their duty. The reason they punish this offence so severely is that they suppose few people would join in married love by being confined to a single partner and all the petty irritations that married life involves unless they were strictly restrained from promiscuous intercourse. 2. In choosing marriage partners they solemnly and seriously follow a custom which seemed to us foolish and absurd in the extreme. Whether she be widow or virgin, the woman is shown naked to the suitor by a responsible and respectable old lady; and similarly, some honourable old man presents the suitor naked to the woman. We laughed at this custom, and called itUnit 3: Text B absurd; but they were just as amazed at the foolishness of all other peoples. When men go to buy a horse, where they are risking only a little money, they are so cautious that, though the animal is almost bare, they wont close the deal until saddle and blanket have been taken off, lest there be a hidden sore underneath. Yet in the choice of a mate, which may cause either delight or disgust for the rest of their lives, men are so careless that they leave all the rest of the womans body covered up with clothes and estimate her attractiveness from a mere handsbreadth of her person, the face, which is all they can see. And 。