Loving & Hating
New York
主 讲 教 师, 张 蕾
Contradictory Emotion
--- Troubled Feeling
If you love him,
send him to New York,
because it is the heaven ;
If you hate him,
send him to New York,
because it is the hell,
Statue of Liberty---
Gateway to the U.S.A.
The Crowned Lady
* Location,Standing on an island in
New York Harbor
* In her right hand,holding aloft the
torch of freedom
* In her left hand,a tablet which is
inscribed,July 4th,1776”,symbol
of American democracy
* Height,151 feet
* Elevator,to the top of the pedestal
* Spiral staircases,one to the crown
and another to the
torch
*Gift to the U.S.A,from France in 1886
*Mark of friendship
*Banner of honest welcome
The Statue was their first sight of
the promised land for millions of
immigrants.
Map of New York
Survey of New Yorkof New ork
Manhattan
Nature’s pleasures are much qualified in New York.
Nature constantly yields to man in New York.
Glimpse of New York
Explain what the following proper names
symbolize.
? Broadway---the New York commercial
theatre or entertainment industry
? Wall Street---the U.S,financiers and
their power & influence
? Greenwich Village---center for artists &
writers in New York
? The Fifth Avenue---fashionable shopping
center
? Tin Pan Alley---center of popular
music
? Madison Avenue---the advertising
industry
? Hollywood---U.S,motion picture
industry
? Disneyland---a place of unreality,
fantasy,incongruity,etc.
Broadway
Broadway
Broadway
Hollywood --- Movie Factory
? Hollywood,an ideal site for shooting motion
pictures,suggests glamour,Like a magnet,it
attracts the ambitious star-struck teenagers
who could fulfill their dreams with a bit of luck.
? Hollywood suggests luxurious houses with vast-
fringed swimming pools,cocktail bars and
furnishings fit for a millionaire,
? Successful movie stars spend their fortunes on
yachts,Rolls Royces and diamonds,A few of
them lost their glamour quite suddenly and were
left with nothing but emptiness and colossal
debts.
It is an
amusement
center near Los
Angeles,created
by Walt Disney.
Disneyland
Las Vegas
--- Gambling City
Las Vegas
Sports
In sports the bigger
superdomes,the
more exiting teams,
the most
enthusiastic fans,
are often found
elsewhere.
Food
Entertainment
Entertainment
Drawbacks of New York
Unemployment,inflation,
Financial deficit and
trade deficit are the
troubles that always
haunt New York.
? 1.The estimated number of
people living under the
poverty line makes up
about 14% of the total
population.
Problems in Economy of New York
2,Its financial deficit has
reached an
unprecedented historical
record.
3,In the competitive world
market,the U.S,balance of
trade has steadily
worsened,The
extraordinary large trade
deficit can be very
dangerous to the American
economy in the long run,
The government also intervenes
to regulate and guide the economy
to some extent.
Deficiencies of New York
? New York was a bitter
disillusionment to some immigrants,
Far from a city paved with gold,it is a
city teeming with
overcrowded,unhealthy and unsafe
ghettos.
? New York was never a good
convention city---being regarded as
unsafe,unfriendly and expensive,
Questions on Content
? Give brief answers to the following questions.
1, Is the writer a born New Yorker? In which paragraph
? can you find the answer?
2, What do the ad campaigns celebrating the Big Apple
and,I love New York” T-shirts show?
3, In what fields can New York no longer be regarded as
the leading American city?
4,What are its deficiencies as a pacesetter?
? 5,Why do many Europeans call New York their favorite
city?
? 6,Why did the writer go and live in New York?
? 7,Why do many young people still go to live in New York?
? 8,In what respect is New York still regarded as the
? leading American city?
? 9,What gives the city its sense of freedom?
? 10,Why does a New Yorker who sees all the faults of the
city still prefer to live in New York?
? 11,Why is New York called an international metropolis?
Global Analysis
? A, Writing style, exposition
? The main theme, Loving and hating New York
becomes a matter of alternating moods,often in the
same day.
? B, Organization of the text
? 1.Para 1 --- Para.5 Introduction
? the present status of New York and in the foreigners’
eyes
? Transitional sentence,What most excites the
Europeans is the city’s charged,nervous atmosphere,
its vulgar dynamism.
? 2.Para,6 --- the end
? Objective & emotional description of New York and the
life & struggle of New Yorkers,
? C, Features of Language, full of American English
idiomatic expressions and constructions.
Topic For Discussion
Please make commentary
remarks on whether you
would like to choose to live
in New York,
Assignment
Write a composition of a Chinese
city in comparison with New
York within 300 words.
Thank
s
The End
New York
主 讲 教 师, 张 蕾
Contradictory Emotion
--- Troubled Feeling
If you love him,
send him to New York,
because it is the heaven ;
If you hate him,
send him to New York,
because it is the hell,
Statue of Liberty---
Gateway to the U.S.A.
The Crowned Lady
* Location,Standing on an island in
New York Harbor
* In her right hand,holding aloft the
torch of freedom
* In her left hand,a tablet which is
inscribed,July 4th,1776”,symbol
of American democracy
* Height,151 feet
* Elevator,to the top of the pedestal
* Spiral staircases,one to the crown
and another to the
torch
*Gift to the U.S.A,from France in 1886
*Mark of friendship
*Banner of honest welcome
The Statue was their first sight of
the promised land for millions of
immigrants.
Map of New York
Survey of New Yorkof New ork
Manhattan
Nature’s pleasures are much qualified in New York.
Nature constantly yields to man in New York.
Glimpse of New York
Explain what the following proper names
symbolize.
? Broadway---the New York commercial
theatre or entertainment industry
? Wall Street---the U.S,financiers and
their power & influence
? Greenwich Village---center for artists &
writers in New York
? The Fifth Avenue---fashionable shopping
center
? Tin Pan Alley---center of popular
music
? Madison Avenue---the advertising
industry
? Hollywood---U.S,motion picture
industry
? Disneyland---a place of unreality,
fantasy,incongruity,etc.
Broadway
Broadway
Broadway
Hollywood --- Movie Factory
? Hollywood,an ideal site for shooting motion
pictures,suggests glamour,Like a magnet,it
attracts the ambitious star-struck teenagers
who could fulfill their dreams with a bit of luck.
? Hollywood suggests luxurious houses with vast-
fringed swimming pools,cocktail bars and
furnishings fit for a millionaire,
? Successful movie stars spend their fortunes on
yachts,Rolls Royces and diamonds,A few of
them lost their glamour quite suddenly and were
left with nothing but emptiness and colossal
debts.
It is an
amusement
center near Los
Angeles,created
by Walt Disney.
Disneyland
Las Vegas
--- Gambling City
Las Vegas
Sports
In sports the bigger
superdomes,the
more exiting teams,
the most
enthusiastic fans,
are often found
elsewhere.
Food
Entertainment
Entertainment
Drawbacks of New York
Unemployment,inflation,
Financial deficit and
trade deficit are the
troubles that always
haunt New York.
? 1.The estimated number of
people living under the
poverty line makes up
about 14% of the total
population.
Problems in Economy of New York
2,Its financial deficit has
reached an
unprecedented historical
record.
3,In the competitive world
market,the U.S,balance of
trade has steadily
worsened,The
extraordinary large trade
deficit can be very
dangerous to the American
economy in the long run,
The government also intervenes
to regulate and guide the economy
to some extent.
Deficiencies of New York
? New York was a bitter
disillusionment to some immigrants,
Far from a city paved with gold,it is a
city teeming with
overcrowded,unhealthy and unsafe
ghettos.
? New York was never a good
convention city---being regarded as
unsafe,unfriendly and expensive,
Questions on Content
? Give brief answers to the following questions.
1, Is the writer a born New Yorker? In which paragraph
? can you find the answer?
2, What do the ad campaigns celebrating the Big Apple
and,I love New York” T-shirts show?
3, In what fields can New York no longer be regarded as
the leading American city?
4,What are its deficiencies as a pacesetter?
? 5,Why do many Europeans call New York their favorite
city?
? 6,Why did the writer go and live in New York?
? 7,Why do many young people still go to live in New York?
? 8,In what respect is New York still regarded as the
? leading American city?
? 9,What gives the city its sense of freedom?
? 10,Why does a New Yorker who sees all the faults of the
city still prefer to live in New York?
? 11,Why is New York called an international metropolis?
Global Analysis
? A, Writing style, exposition
? The main theme, Loving and hating New York
becomes a matter of alternating moods,often in the
same day.
? B, Organization of the text
? 1.Para 1 --- Para.5 Introduction
? the present status of New York and in the foreigners’
eyes
? Transitional sentence,What most excites the
Europeans is the city’s charged,nervous atmosphere,
its vulgar dynamism.
? 2.Para,6 --- the end
? Objective & emotional description of New York and the
life & struggle of New Yorkers,
? C, Features of Language, full of American English
idiomatic expressions and constructions.
Topic For Discussion
Please make commentary
remarks on whether you
would like to choose to live
in New York,
Assignment
Write a composition of a Chinese
city in comparison with New
York within 300 words.
Thank
s
The End
