新视野大学英语第二册教学课件 New Horizon College English Book 2

Unit Nine Stop Brain Drain Background Information: famous universities

Oxford University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard University

Princeton University

U.S. Military Academy United States Military Academy is a public, coeducational military college at West Point, New York, maintained by the United States Department of the Army to train and educate students to be officers in the United States Army. Women were first allowed into the academy in 1976.

Stanford University

Stanford University

Stanford University

Stanford University

Topic I. Major Writing Technique: Contrast

Question 1. What is described in Paragraph 7?

Answer: The purpose of building the educational institution IIT(Para7)

Question 2. What is portrayed in Paragraph 2 ?

Question 3: What is the purpose of making the contrast?

The contrast may be found on the paragraph level It is also possible to place both parts of the contrast in the same paragraph

Question 3. What is conveyed in the 17th paragraph?

We should pay attention to the Signals of contrast:

These signals often include: But, however, while, meanwhile, whereas, instead of, instead, on the one hand, on the other hand, etc

Exercise: Please write something to show the differences between human brain and computer.

II. Features of Language

Figure of Speech A) Metaphor B)personification C)synecdoche

India’s politically conscious leadership has been replaced by a new generation, riding on the wave of the Internet,

Mid-sized cities like Bangalore are now the Silicon Valleys of India.

As IIT can not graduate enough students to fill these needs, every street corner now sports billboards for private academies offering certificates in computer programming.

We threw Coca-Cola out and invented Thumps-Up Cola.

The rhetoric of Sentences A)rhetoric questions B) Parallelism

And why bother rebuilding the nation when the only goal is to abandon it?(Para 15)

Simple Unique Language shift gears put flowers around Bill Gates’ neck to wave the slogan

Variety of language synonyms fall apart and disintegrate bill, legislation, act feed the appetite of the American computer industry, keep pace with demand, fill the need for skilled technology workers Indian taxpayers footed the bill, IIT graduates, educated at the expense of Indian taxpayers

Work in pairs and comment on the following statements: 1)      The cream of India was leaving for the shores of England and America. 2)      We throw Coca-Cola out and invented “Thumps Up Cola” 3)      Few foreign graduates came home to “pay their pledge”.

Work in pairs and comment on the following statements: 4)      The entire education system in India has shifted gears to feed the appetite of the American Computer Industry. 5)      Indians now put flowers around Bill Gates’ neck.

Assignment 1. What are the problems faced by the Indians? 2. What measures the Indian government has taken in order to solve these problems? 3.What are the effects of the measures? 4. What are the best ways to cope with the difficult situation?