1、 Background Discourse Analysis Vocabulary Rhetorical Devices Unit 4 Everyday Use for Your Grandmama英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaI. Background1. Alice Walkers Early Life Date of Birth: February 9, 1944Birthplace: Eatonton, Georgia Parents:Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were shar

2、ecroppers Marriage: Mel Leventhal, a Jewish Civil Rights activist/ lawyer Child:Rebecca born in 19692. Education: 1961-1963Spelman, a college for black women in Atlanta1963-1965BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York (once traveled to Africa as an exchange student)英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-Gra

3、ndmamaI. Background 3. Career1983 received the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple (1982)1984 started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press4. Points of Viewthe Civil Rights Movement the Womens Movementthe Anti-apartheid Movement英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaThe Color PurpleBased on Al

4、ice Walkers Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is the richly textured, decades-spanning story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American south. Forced to marry a brutal man she calls Mr., Celie turns inward and shares her grief only with God. But she is transformed by the

5、 friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth. and the strength to forgive. The film launched the Hollywood careers of Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey and gleaned 11 Oscar nominations including Best Picture.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaThe Color PurpleOprah Winfrey: (born Jan.

6、 29, 1954, Kosciusko, Miss., U.S.) U.S. television talk-show host and actress. After enduring an impoverished and troubled childhood, she became a news anchor for a local CBS television station in Tennessee at age 19. After graduating from Tennessee State University, she worked as a television repor

7、ter and anchor in Baltimore, Md., where she cohosted her first talk show (197783), and moved to Chicago to host A.M. Chicago (1984), which became that citys highest-rated morning show. The renamed Oprah Winfrey Show was syndicated in 1986, making her the first African American woman to host a succes

8、sful national daytime talk show. Initially sensationalist, the enormously popular show gradually took on an uplifting and therapeutic tone. In 1986 she also formed her own television production company, Harpo Productions. In 1996 she introduced “Oprahs Book Club” to foster reading by endorsing certa

9、in books. She appeared in the movies The Color Purple (1985) and Beloved (1998).Whoppi Goldberg: born Nov. 13, 1950, New York City, U.S. actress. After dropping out of high school, she found work as a summer camp counselor, and in the choruses of the Broadway shows Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar and P

10、ippin. In 1983 the legendary director Mike Nichols saw her perform and, the following year, presented her on Broadway in a one-woman show of her own creation. The show was an enormous success, and brought her to the attention of Steven Spielberg, who cast her in the leading role in his film of Alice

11、 Walkers The Color Purple. Making her film debut in this coveted role instantly established her as one of Hollywoods leading actresses. Her performance in Ghost won her an Academy Award. She followed this with memorable performances in the box-office smash Sister Act Her other film credits include M

12、ade In America; Corinna, Corinna; Star Trek: Generations and Boys on the Side. 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaII. Discourse AnalysisElements of NarrativeTime: unknownVenue:HomeCharacters:“I”, Maggie, Dee (Wangero)Asalamalakim, Big Dee, Grandma DeePlot:Maggie and I are ready to have Dee backTh

13、e Relationship between Dee and IThe Contrast between Dee and MaggieThe Climax: Grandmas QuiltsTheme:The Heirloom Quilts: Display VS Everyday Use英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaII. Discourse AnalysisStructurePara 1 2:Maggie and I Are waiting for Someone ImportantPara 3 16:The Relationship among

14、 Dee, Maggie and “I”“I”: a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands Dee: “No” is a word the world never learned to say to herMaggie: a homely, weak and shy girlPara 17 82 Meeting with Dee Para 17 - 20Dee came with her new boyfriend and new name Para 21 - 43The Name: Dee Para 44 - 82The A

15、rgument on Grandmas Quilts英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIII. VocabularyPara 1-2wavy (a.)groove (n.)homely (a.)Para 3-16confront (vt.): be confronted with sthconfront sb with/about sthtotter (vi.)usher (v.)usher sb into/to sth, usher sb inusher in sht英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIII.

16、 VocabularyJohnny Carson and The Tonight Show orchid: Love, Beauty, Refinement, Beautiful Ladytacky (a.)flannel (n.)sledge hammersidle (vi. always + adv./ prep.) sidle up/ towards/alongshuffle (n.)(v.)flake (countable n.): snowflake, papery flakeblaze (vi.)gum tree: 桉樹dingy (a.) 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday

17、-Use-for-GrandmamaJohnny Carson Johnny Carson, in full John William Carson (born Oct. 23, 1925, Corning, Iowa, U.S.died Jan. 23, 2005, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. television personality. He worked as a radio announcer and television comedy writer before hosting several television quiz shows (195562).

18、As the long-standing host of The Tonight Show (196292), he was noted for his wry monologues, comedy sketches, and genial banter, and the program became a staple for a large and faithful late-night audience.TheTonightShow has a long, successful history - and it shows no signs of cooling off. It start

19、ed its run almost 50 years ago, back in 1954. SteveAllen was the first host. He was succeeded by Jack Paar in 1957, and JohnnyCarson took over the reins in 1962. Johnny was the King of Late Night for 30 years, until he retired in 1992. JayLeno has been the host since then. Over three million people

20、have sat in the studio audience and enjoyed the show.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIII. Vocabularymake-believe (n.)shove (v.)dimwit (n.)organdy (n.) AE/ organdie BEpumps/ pump shoes flick (v.)stumble (vi.): stumble over/ on/ athook (v.)soothe (vt.)shingle roof porthole (n.)rawhide (n.)英語優(yōu)秀課件

21、Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIII. Vocabularyshutter (n.)furtive (a.)washday (n.)scald (vt.)/ scalding (a.): scalding hotlye (n.)court (vt.)faultfinding (a.)recompose (v.)Para 17-82stocky (a.)kinky (a.)suck (v.)英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIII. Vocabularywriggle (v.)/ wriggling (a.)armpit

22、 (n.)navel (n.)perspiration (n.)stout (a.)stoop (vi.)stoop to do sth stoop to sth/ stoop to doing sthcower (vi.)nibble (v.)oppress (vt.)There you are: 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIII. Vocabularycrop up (phrasal verb)trip (v.): trip up/ trip over sth/ trip on sthdoctrine (n.)collard (n.)chi

23、tlin (n.)talk a blue streakrump (n.)whittle (v.)dasher (n.)alcove (n.)rifle (v.): rifle throughscrap (n.)(v.)slam (v.)英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIII. Vocabularychurn (n.)clabber (v.)stroke (v.) lavender (n.)clutch (v.): clutch sthclutch at sb/ sthbe clutching at strawsreckon (vt., not in

24、progressive)rag (n.): in rags, from rags to riches stump (v.)(vt., usually passive)(vi.): stump up/along/across sth英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIII. Vocabularycheckerberry (n.)snuff (n.)dopey (a.) AE/ dopy BEhangdog (a.): hangdog expression/ looksnatch (vt.) snatch sth away from sbsnatch at

25、 sth heritage (n.)cultural/ architectural/ literary heritagec.f.: inheritance, legacy英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-Grandmamapigtail & ponytail英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details1. wavy: having regular curvesA wavy line has a series of regular curves along it.The wavy lines

26、 are meant to represent water.Here in the text the word describes the marks in wavy patterns on the clay ground left by the broom.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details2. groove: a long narrow path or track made in a surface, esp. to guide the movement of sth.A groove is a w

27、ide, deep line cut into a surface.The cupboard door slides open along the groove it fits into.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details3. homely: simple, not grand, (of people, faces, etc.,) not good-looking, uglyIf someone is homely, they are not very attractive to look at; us

28、ed in Am.E.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details4. awe: Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you are faced with sth. wonderful, frightening or completely unknown., wonderThe child stared at him in silent awe. 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaI

29、V. Vocabulary in Details5. confront: to face boldly or threateningly, encounterIf a problem, task, or difficulty confronts you, or you are confronted with it, it is sth. that you cannot avoid and must deal withI was confronted with the task of designing and building the new system.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyd

30、ay-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details6. totter: to move in an unsteady way from side to side as if about to fall, to walk with weak unsteady stepsThe old lady tottered down the stairs.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details7. limousine: A limousine is a large and very

31、 comfortable car, esp. one with a glass screen between the front and back seats. Limousines are usually driven by a chauffeur oucf: sedan / saloon is a car with seats for four or more people, a fixed roof, and a boot (the space at the back of the car, covered by a lid, in which you carry things such

32、 luggage, shopping or tools) that is separate from the seating part of the carconvertible: a car with a soft roof that can be folded down or removedsports car: a low usu. open car with room for only 2 people for traveling with high power and speedcoupe ku:pei a car with a fixed roof, a sloping back,

33、 two doors and seats for four peoplestation wagon (Am E) / estate car (Br.E) a car which has a long body with a door at the back end and space behind the back seats英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details8. gray / grey: used to describe the color of peoples hair when it change

34、s from its original color, usu. as they get old and before it becomes white英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details9. tacky: (Am.E, slang) shabby10. overalls: are a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. Your wear overalls over your clothes in order to p

35、rotect them from dirt, paint, etc. while you are workingThe breast pocket of his overalls was filled with tools. (工裝褲)英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details11. hog: a. a pig, esp. a fat one for eatingb. a male pig that has been castrated c. a dirty personswine: (old & tech)

36、pigboar o: male pig on a farm that is kept for breedingsow au: fully grown female pig英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details12. sledge hammer: large, heavy hammer for swinging with both hands, a large heavy hammer with a long handle, used for smashing concrete13. barley: 大麥英語

37、優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details14. pancake: a thin, flat circle of cooked batter (糊狀物) made of milk, flour and eggs. usu. rolled up or folded and eaten hot with a sweet or savory filling inside15. sidle: walk as if ready to turn or go the other way If you sidle somewher

38、e, you walk there uncertainly or cautiously, as if you do not want anyone to notice youA man sidled up to me and asked if I wanted a ticket for the match.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details16. shuffle: slow dragging walkIf you shuffle, you walk without lifting your feet p

39、roperly off the groundHe slipped on his shoes and shuffled out of the room.If you shuffle, you move your feet about while standing or move your bottom about while sitting, often because you feel uncomfortable or embarrassed.I was shuffling in my seat.cf:totter (n.6), sidle(n. 15), shuffle英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4

40、-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details17. blaze: to burn with a bright flameA wood fire was blazing, but there was no other light in the room.n. the sudden sharp shooting up of a flame, a very bright fireThe fire burned slowly at first, but soon burst into a blaze.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-

41、Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details18. sweet gum tree: a large North American tree of the witch hazel (榛子) family, with alternate maplelike leaves, spiny (多刺的) fruit balls, and flagrant juice美洲金縷梅, 落葉灌木或小喬木. 原產(chǎn)于北美和亞洲. 其分叉小枝從前用為魔杖, 尋找地下水, 故俗稱魔杖.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabul

42、ary in Details19. dingy: dirty and fadedA building or place that is dingy is rather dark and depressing and does not seem to have been well looked after,.This is the dingiest street of the town.Clothes, curtains, etc. that are dingy are dirty or faded. 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-Grandmama20. raise

43、: to collect togetherraise an army / raise enough money for a holidayHis wife raised the money by selling her Jewelry. Were trying to raise funds to establish a scholarship.英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details21. underneath: (so as to go) under (sth.)The letter was pushed

44、underneath the door.Did you find very much growing underneath the snow? (Here it suggests a repressive and imposing quality in her voice.)英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details22. make-believe: a state of pretending or the things which are pretendedShe lives in a make-believ

45、e world / a world of make-believe.Dont be afraid of monster - the storys only make-believe.The little girl made believe she was a princess. 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details23. shove: to push, esp. in a rough or careless wayThere was a lot of pushing and shoving to get

46、on the bus. Help me to shove this furniture aside.If you shove sb. or sth., you push them with a quick, rather, violent movement.He dragged her out to the door and shoved her into the street. 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details24. dimwit: (infml) an ignorant and stupid pe

47、rsondim: faint, not bright wit: intelligence, wisdomat ones wits end: at the end of ones tether英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details25. organdy: (Br. E organdie) very fine transparent muslin (麥斯林紗, 平紋細(xì)布) with a stiff finish (最后一層涂飾), very fine rather stiff cotton material u

48、sed esp. for womens dresses(蟬翼紗, 玻璃紗)英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details26. pump: low shoe that grips the foot chiefly at the toe and the heel 27. stare down any disaster in her efforts: face up and defeat any disaster with her effortsstare down: two people looking at eac

49、h other persistently until one shifts his eye28. flicker: to move backwards and forwards unsteadilyshadows flickered on the wallflickering eyelids英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details29. stumble: to stop and /or make mistakes in speaking or reading aloudto catch the foot on

50、 the ground while moving along and start to fallShe stumble at/over the long wordHe stumbled and stopped reading.cf: stammer: to speak or say with pauses and repeated sounds, either habitually or because of excitement, fear, etc.stammererstutter: to speak or say with difficulty in producing sounds,

51、esp. habitually holding back the first consonant.stutterer英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details30. good-naturedly: naturally kind, ready to help, to forgive, not to be angryA person or animal that is good-natured is naturally friendly and does not easily get angry.a good-na

52、tured policeman 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-Grandmama31. mossy: moss: any of several types of a small flat green or yellow flowerless plant that grows in a thick furry mass on wet soil, or on a wet surface英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details32. hook: to catch with or as i

53、f with a hookto hook a fish / a rich husbandhooknoseHere: to attack with the horn of the cow英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details33. soothe: to make less angry, excited or anxious, comfort or calm, to make less painfulsoothing wordssoothe ones feelings 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-

54、Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details34. shingle: a small thin piece of building material (such as wood) often with one end thicker than the other for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of buildingcf: tile; a flat or curved piece of fired clay, stone, or concrete use

55、d esp. for roofs, floors, or walls and often for ornamental work英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details35. porthole: also port, a small usu. circular window or opening in a ship for light or air36. shutter: a. one that shutsb. movable cover (wooden panel or iron plate, hinged

56、, or separate and detachable) for a window or door, to keep out light or burglars. cf: Venetian blindsThe shop front is fitted with rolling shutters.c. device that opens to admit light through the lens of a camera英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details37. pasture: land where

57、grass is grown and where cattle feed on it38. furtive: stealthy, If sb. is furtive, he / she behaves as if he / she wants to keep sth. secret or hiddenThey suddenly looked furtive when I got into the room.I watched him furtively pencil a note and slip it between the pages.A woman with furtive look s

58、idled up to me and asked furtively whether I had / wanted receipts. 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details39. hang about: to wait or stay near a place without purpose or activity40. washday: also washing day, the day when clothes are washed41. impressed with her: impressed b

59、y her manner 英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Details42. well-turned: (of a phrase) carefully formed and pleasantly expresseda well-turned phrase: 恰當(dāng)?shù)脑~語43. cute: delightfully pretty and often smallIf you describe sb. as cute you mean that you find them attractive, often in a s

60、exual way44. scald: to burn with hot liquidHe scalded his tongue on / with the hot coffee scalding: boiling or as hot as boiling英語優(yōu)秀課件Unit4-Everyday-Use-for-GrandmamaIV. Vocabulary in Detailscourt: If a man courts a woman, he pays a lot of attention to her because he wants to marry her.45. flashy: o