文档介绍：Unit 14
Cultural Encounters
Purposes
1. To get students know Chinese culture.
2. To understand the purpose of writing and the characteristics of argumentation.
3. To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises.
About the text
What’s the thesis statement of this text?
Structural analysis of the text
Main idea of each part:
Part One (1-3) --- This part illustrates the fact we live in an era of easy access to the rest of the world, and clearly proves that this munications revolution is also closely connected to the expansion of English.
Part Two (4-7) --- This part exemplifies that language and culture are so closely interrelated and interprets and illustrates what “comprising” and “spread of English” mean.
Part Three 8 --- It points out the great function or the immense significance of intercultural understanding.
some difficult sentences, words or phrases
1. We live in an age of easy access to the rest of the world.
Explain: The age we are living in provides us with convenient ways to reach any part of the world.
2. Everyone, it seems, provided, of course, they can afford to do so, need never be out of touch.
Explain: It seems that everyone is able to get in touch with anyone else if he or she can afford to send text messages on mobile phone.
3. Culture lies at the heart of society.
Explain: Culture is deeply rooted in society.
4. We overlook the relationship at our peril.
Explain: We are running a risk in neglecting the importance of the relationship.
5. The early Bible translators hit the problem of untranslatability head-on.
Explain: The problem that some parts of Bible could not be translated emerged right in front of the early translators.
6. Faced with unsurmountable linguistic problems, translators negotiated the boundaries between languages and came up with prise.
Explain: Encountering insolvable language problems, translators tried to find balance between languages and finally arrived at prise.
7. This is an es