-
《高级英语》课程教学大纲
一、课程基本信息
课程代码：
080029
；
080030
课程名称：高级英语
I;
高级英语
II
英文名称：
Advanced
English
课程类别：专业课
学
时：
72 X 2 = 144
学
分：
4 X 2 = 8
适用对象
:
英语（旅游管理方向）、英语（国际商务方向）专业高年级学生
考核方式：笔试
先修课程：
《现代大学英语》
精读（基础英语）
1-
4
册
二、课程简介
高级英语课程题材广泛，时代气息浓厚，选材体裁多样，除说明文外，还有记叙
文、
叙述文和论说文，是一门训练学生综合英语技能尤其是阅读理解、语法修辞与写
作能力的
课程
,
注重培养学生对不同体裁﹑不同题材﹑不同风格的文章的
理解和欣赏
能力。课程材料主要选自名家作品，内容涉及政治﹑经济﹑社会﹑文化、文学
﹑教育
﹑哲学诸方面。通过精心阅读与分析，学生的知识面得以扩大，对社会和人生的理
解
得以加深，
分析理解能力及逻辑思维能力得以升华，
英语语言综合运用能力得以提高。
为此，
每课都
配有大量的相关练习，
包括阅读理解、
词汇研究、
句子释义，
文体分析、
中英互译和写作练习等。
Featured in a wide range
of materials with strong flavor of the times and
various
types of writing
—
exposition,
description, narration and argumentation,
Advanced
English
is a course designed to train
students
’
comprehensive
English skills, especially in
reading
comprehension, grammar, rhetoric and writing.
Great attention is paid to
students
’
development in comprehension and
appreciation of the articles with different types,
themes and styles. Materials are
selected largely from some famous contemporary
masters
’
works
with respect to politics, economics, society,
culture, literature, education,
philosophy, etc.
Students
’
scrupulous reading
and analysis of the articles help to broaden
their knowledge, deepen their
understanding of life and society, elevate their
analysis and
logical thinking and
enhance their ability comprehensively in
application of the English
language.
For those purposes, plenty of relevant exercises
are attached to each lesson for
reading
comprehension, word study, sentence paraphrase,
style analysis, writing and
Chinese-
English cross-translation.
1
三、课程性质与教学目的
根据全国
英语专业教学大纲规定，在基础阶段的英语教学完成以后，必须继续进
行更高一级的英语
阅读教学。高级英语是英语专业本科教学中的一门主干必修课，是
低年级基础英语课程的
延伸和发展。
该课程的教学重点在于提高学生阅读理解和词汇
运
用能力，即能掌握和使用所学词汇，特别是同义词、近义词的区分和使用，正确理
解文章
的内容和主题思想，
抓住文章的要点，
分析文章的结构、
语言技巧和修辞特点；
提高学生语言表达能力，逻辑思维和判断评述能
力，能用英语解释文章中的难句、要
点；
能用英语归纳文章的主
题思想，
并能对文章的内容进行简单的分析、
鉴赏、
评论。
学生应该能用辞典和其他工具书独立解决语言和文化、背景知识方面的难点，增
加文化知识，尤其是英语语言国家的背景知识和文化知识，更好地使语言和文化结合
< br>起来。
通过一学年（约
< br>144
学时
）的高级英语课<
/p>
程
教学，学生应达到高等学校外语专
业教
学指导委员会修订的《
高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲
》所
规定的要求：认知
词汇达
10
，
000
以上
，
能正确
而熟练地使用其中
5
，
000
多个及其最常用的搭配；能
熟练掌握句子之间和段落之间的各种衔接手段
，连贯地表达思想；能读懂一般英美报
刊杂志上的文章、英语国家出版的有一定难度的历
史传记和文学作品
；
能分析文章的
思想
观点、语篇结构、语言特点和修辞手法等。通过阅读和分析内容广泛的材料，包
括涉及政
治﹑经济﹑社会﹑语言﹑文学﹑教育﹑哲学等方面的名家作品，扩大学生的知识面，
加深
对社会和人生的理解，
培养对文章的分析和理解能力﹑逻辑思维能力以及独立思考
能力，巩固和提高语言综合运用能力。要求学生掌握课文的中心思想，了解篇章结构
﹑段落大意，
熟悉各种常见的修辞手段以及课文的重
点、
难点。
每课都配有大量的相关
练
习，包括阅读理解、词汇研究、文体分析、中英互译和写作练习等，使学生的英语
水平在
质量上有较大的提高。
2
英语专业高年级阶段的主要教学任务是让学生继续打好语言基
本功，
学习英语专
业知识和相关专业知识，进一步扩大知识面，
增强对文化差异的敏感性，提高综合运
用英语进行交际的能力。
<
/p>
与其它高年级英语课程相比，高级英语课程课时最多，涵盖面最广；因此，该课
程是保证实现教学目标的重要环节。
四、教学内容及要求
（一）目的与要求
高级英语
I
（教材：
《现代大学英语》
精读
5
杨立民、梅仁毅
主编
外语教学与研究出版社
2004
年版）
Lesson One
Where Do We Go From
Here?
Teaching
Aims and Requirements
1)
carefully
read
the
“
Guide
to
Reading
”
to
get
a
basic
understanding
of
the
background
of Dr. Martin Luther King
’
s
speech ---Where Do We Go From Here?
2)
read the word and expressions provided on Page 11
that will facilitate reading
3) preview the speech
itself with the help of the notes provided between
page 12
to15
4) learn how to comprehend works of
English literature ---for this lesson, a famous
speech by a famous person
5) learn how to
use some rhetorical
devices
such as
metaphor, simile,
antitheses,
and parallel structure
6) understand
some biblical allusions with the help of the
original version
7) learn
to paraphrase some sentences in the text
8) do some translation work
as is required.
重点：
restructuring the whole
of American society with nonviolence
难点：
the rhetorical devices in
the speech
Lesson Two
Two Kinds
3
Teaching Aims
and Requirements
1)
carefully
read
the
“Guide
to
Readin
g
”
to
get
a
basic
understanding
of
the
background
information of the story:
Two Kinds
2)
read
the
word
and
expressions
provided
on
Page
30-31
that
will
facilitate
reading
3) preview the
story with the help of the notes provided on page
31-32
4) learn
how to read and appreciate an English short story:
especially the theme,
character,
organization
of
plot
development
and
the
hero
’
s
or
heroine
’
s
epiphany(
顿悟
)
5) get some brief
information about the differences between Chinese
culture and
American culture
6) get some information
about the author,
Amy Tan
(
谭恩美
)
7) explain some meaningful sentences
and understand their implications
重点：
the sharp conflict
between two generations and two cultures
难点：
t
he author’s
language and technique
s in writing
Lesson Three
Goods Move. People Move.
Ideas Move. And Cultures Change.
Teaching Aims and
Requirements
1)
learn how to read and appreciate an English essay
in the way the arguments are
presented.
2) What
are some
of the important
words
that
the author uses in
developing her
arguments
3
) get to know what the
author’
s attitude is towards
globalization
4) get to
know how the author describes the process from the
moving of goods to
the changing of
cultures
5) note the choice
of words in the rhetorical device of contrast the
author employs
and the mood or attitude
expressed through such choice of words
6) notice some characteristics of a
journalistic writing.
重点：
Globalization will result
in a cultural merging.
难点：
the words and the
rhetorical device of contrast the author employs
Lesson Four
Professions for Women
4
Teaching Aims and
Requirements
1)
The
background
information
of
the
author,
Virginia
Woolf,
and
her
writing
style.
2)
The
characteristic of the language in this essay.
3)
The organization of the whole speech.
4)
The transition between the author’s
1
st
and
2
nd
professional experience.
5)
What metaphors the author uses in
describing her first professional experiences
as a book reviewer and her second
professional experience as a novelist
6)
The history of women’s liberation from
patriarchy and women’s current social
status in society.
重点：
Women still encounter
many of the same obstacles.
难点：
the techniques the author
employs in the text
Lesson
Five
Love Is a Fallacy
Teaching
Aims and Requirements
1)
The
background
information
about
the
author,
Max
Shulman
and
his
writing
style
2)
The characteristics of the language in
this informal essay
3)
The
organization of the essay
4)
The large
variety of writing techniques the author employs
5)
The profuse figurative language the
author uses
重点：
Fallacy can
be interpreted at different levels.
难点：
the language of the
author
Lesson Seven
Invisible Man
Chapter 1(Battle Royal)
by Ralph
Ellison
Teaching Aims and
Requirements
1)
The
background
information
about
the
author,
Ralph
Ellison,
and
the
novel,
Invisible Man
2)
Introduction
of Booker T. Washington and his Atlanta speech in
1895
3)
History of Battle Royal
4)
Symbolism and
two main symbols in the text
5
5)
Organization of the text
6)
Theme of the
story
重点：
The
battle royal is symbolic of the place or position
of all American black
people in the
white-dominated society.
难点：
rhetorical devices:
symbolism
Lesson Nine
The Way to Rainy Mountain
Teaching Aims and Requirements
1
）
The background
information about the author,
2
）
Introduction
to the
author
’
s book
The
Way To Rainy Mountain
3
）
Appreciate the
author
’
s lyrical and
pictorial description of the landscape
4
）
Organization of
the text
5
）
Theme of the
story
重点：
Our
cultural
or
ethnic
heritage
may
differ,
yet
seeking
one’s
roots
is
a
common human experience.
难点：
a lyrical and pictorial
description of the landscape; complicated feelings
Lesson Ten
Before and
After September 11
Teaching Aims and
Requirements
1
）
The background
information about the author
2
）
The
background
information
about
“
The
Events
of
September
11
”
and
the
national
paranoia in the United States
3
）
Organization of
the text
4
）
Theme of the
essay
重点：
Dissenting
voices
can
be
heard
and
in
order
to
win
the
struggle
against
terrorism abroad it
is all the more necessary to strengthen, not to
weaken
democracy at home.
难点
: the background of what
the writer called national paranoia and the
influence
of September 11 Event
高级英语
II
（教材：
《现代大学英语》
精读
6
杨立民、梅仁毅
主编
6
外语教学与研究出版社
2004
年版）
Lesson One
How to
Get the Poor off Our Conscience
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Teaching Aims and Requirements
1
）
The
background information about the author, John
Kenneth Galbraith, and the
essay,
How to Get the Poor off Our Conscience
2
）
Introduction to
the author
’
s writing style:
lucidity and persuasiveness
and his
skillful employment of irony, from
humorous irony to bitter satire.
3
）
History of the
“
intellectual
preoccupation
”
: how to get
the poor off conscience
---- from the
Bible to the present day
4
）
Theories of
some historical celebrities like utilitarianism by
Jeremy Bentham,
Malthusianism
by
Thomas
Robert
Malthus,
Social
Darwinism
by
Herbert
Spencer
5
）
Organization of
the text
6
）
Understanding
and appreciating the essay
重点：
the gap between the rich
and the poor; the meaning of the title
难点：
the ironical and
sarcastic tone of the text
Lesson Two
The Woods Were
Tossing with Jewels
A
Childhood in the Florida Wilderness
by Marie St. John
Teaching Aims and
Requirements
1
）
The background
information about the essay
2
）
Introduction to
the author
’
s writing style
of the short story
3
）
General
organization of a short story
4
）
Non-
chronological narration of a story and its
function
5
）
Description of
surroundings one is in
6
）
Understanding
and appreciating the essay
7
）
Group
discussion in the study of this story
8
）
Learn to write
a short story in English
7
重点：
the westward movement and
the message the author wants to get across
难点：
appreciate the text
through the eyes of a girl of five; description of
person
Lesson
Three
At War with the Planet
A Reflection on Environmental
Crisis
by Barry Commoner
Teaching Aims
and Requirements
1
）
The background
information about the author
2
）
Introduction to
the author
’
s writing style
of the essay
3
）
Organization of
the essay
4
）
How
to develop the theme when writing an essay
5
）
Appreciating
the use of rhetorical device of pun
6
）
How to develop
the topic sentence in a paragraph
7
）
Learn to write
an essay in English concerning environment
重点：
the
importance of understanding the interplay of the
two worlds and make
peace with the
Planet
难点：
definition of the
words on environment; the relationship between two
worlds
Lesson
Four
Nettles
A Woman’s
problems: passions, confusions, and
dilemmas
By Alice Munro
Teaching Aims and
Requirements
1)
The background
information about the author
2)
First-person
narration and its function
3)
The
author
’
s realistic writing
technique
4)
A blend of naturalism and symbolism in
description
5)
The narrative structure of the story
6)
Psychological
description of a character
7)
Description of
emotional reality
8)
Explore the complexity and beauty of
everyday life
9)
Group discussion in the study of this
story
8
重点：
first-person narration;
detailed description of emotional reality
难点：
simple plot probing of
complicated feelings and subtle meanings of life
Lesson Six
Death of a Pig
An famous essay on the relationship
between animals and human beings
by E. B. White
Teaching Aims and
Requirement
s
1)
The background
information about the author
2)
Introduction
to the author
’
s free, smooth
and humorous writing style
3)
Detailed
description of surroundings and its function
4)
Careful choice of words in description
5)
Rhetorical
device of parallelism, imagery and allusion
6)
Understanding
and appreciating the essay
7)
Group
discussion in the study of this essay
重点：
the mood and the feeling
of the author during these days
难点：
the implied meaning of
the death of a pig; careful choice of words
Lesson Eight
A Rose for
Emily
by William Faulkner
Teaching Aims and Requirements
1)
The background information about the
author
2)
Introduction of the
author
’
s writing style of
the short story
3)
Study the
author
’
s writing techniques:
vague references, ambiguities,
symbolism, jumbled time sequences, etc.
4)
An atmosphere
needed for story-telling
5)
How to explore the inner world of a
human being, or the inner struggle in the
human heart
6)
Try to understand and appreciate the
complex story
7)
Group discussion in the study of this
story
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
上一篇：新视野大学英语第三版第二册第二课教案
下一篇：英语考试参考资料