New Horizon College English
Unit4 Section A
Five Famous Symbols
of American Culture
泰山学院大学外语教学部
New Horizon College English
Unit 4: Section A
Five Famous Symbols of
American Culture
Pre-reading Activities
Watch & Discuss
Expressions & Patterns
The typical expressions
and patterns taken from
the text
Text Analysis
Main idea and devices
for developing this
passage
Summary
Fill blanks and review
the passage
Answer & Review
Homework
All the questions
for Section A
议论文写作
I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say
Pre-reading Activities
Watch & Discuss
Watch the video and
discuss the given topics.
I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say
Directions:
Watch the video and
then discuss the topics
as follows:
What does a nation value as her symbols?
key
Video watching
Throughout
our history
there
are many
Summary:
In general,
anything
representative
of a
Notes:
Small
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highlights
worthyhistory,
of the nation’s
cultural
symbols:
Photos:
nation’s
glorious
her
brave
and
creative
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Terra
Cotta Warriors and
1. Serial Bells
Path
of
thinking:
spirit,
or
her
unique
insights
into
the
world
is
Horses of Qin Dynasty
2. Silk
valued
the
symbol
ofin
her
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Statue
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Paper-cut
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2. Why
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Palace
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Liberty
stands
not
only
for
the
most
important
3. The
Monument
of
the
People’s
Statue of Liberty as the most enduring
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eventHeroes
in the US
history,
the War
of Independence,
symbol
of the
American
culture?
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Giant
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in Leshan
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but
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nation’s
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spirit
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2. What are the symbols offor
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the
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Longmen
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liberty,
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goes,
culture?
fiddle
6.
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Palace
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that all
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men are created equal, that they are endowed
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10. Beijing Opera
their
Creator
with
certain
unalienable
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that
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these china
are Life, Liberty and the 12.
pursuit
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as the
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II.Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It
Main idea of the text ?
The passage is about five famous symbols of
American culture, telling readers their
historical backgrounds, origins and relevant
stories.
Devices for developing it?
标题法
Heading (标题法)
Five headings are used in this passage
to put the whole text into five distinct
parts, with each heading serving as a
separate topic.
This device is helpful in making the
text-structure clear.
For details
Heading (标题法)
Five
Famous
Title of
Symbols
American
Culture
Part 1
The
Heading
Statue
1 of Liberty
Part 2
HeadingBarbie
2
Part 3
American
Heading
3 Gothic
Part 4
The Buffalo
Heading
4 Nickel
Part 5
Uncle
Heading
5 Sam
II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It
Main idea ?
To celebrate US independence and
the France-America alliance, a
French artist created the Statue of
Liberty, with his wife’s arm and his
mother’s face as models for his
creation.
II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It
Main idea ?
Barbie originated from a
German doll and an
American girl, Barbara,
whose parents founded the
Mattel Toy Company and
made Barbie popular.
Barbara and her brother
Ken, the human models of
Barbie and her boyfriend,
had different opinions on
the doll.
II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It
Main idea ?
Inspired by the Gothic
window of an old
farmhouse, Grant Wood
produced American Gothic.
It was the faces of his
dentist and sister in the
painting that captured the
world’s attention.
II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It
Main idea ?
Contrary to the tradition, the image
of a buffalo and actual American
Indians were used on two sides of the
coin, the Buffalo Nickel, by a famed
artist James Earle Fraser.
II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It
Main idea ?
When Sam Wilson was
providing meat to the
army in a war, some
explained the initial
letters “US” as Uncle Sam.
It became popular later
because of a character in
political cartoons. An
artist created its portrait
in army recruiting posters.
III. Expressions & Patterns
Expressions
Patterns for you
to use as models
1.to pose for the portrait
2.to liberate…from…
3.to earn a reputation
for being honest and
hard working
4.to be short for…
5.to evolve from
1. Typical patterns for
reporting sth.
2. Typical patterns for
contrast
3. Typical patterns for
showing one’s
persistence in doing
sth.
III. Expressions & Patterns
A. Compatible Expressions
1.摆好姿势······
 to pose for the portrait (L. 42)
活学活用
这位影星人气极旺，经常很合作地摆姿势和
影迷合影。
The film star is very
popular and she often
cooperatively poses
for a photograph with
her fans.
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III. Expressions & Patterns
2.把 ······ 从 ······ 中解放出来
 to liberate…from…(L. 59)
活学活用
二十世纪六、七十年代的女权运动在一定程
度上把妇女从家庭中解放了出来。
The Women’s
Movement in 1960’s
and 70’s has liberated
them from kitchen
and housework to a
certain degree.
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III. Expressions & Patterns
3.因为人诚实、工作勤奋而赢得声誉
 to earn a reputation for being honest and
hard working (L. 60)
活学活用
吃得苦中苦，方为人上人。
He who has endured
the hardest lot can
earn himself the best
chance to rise above all
others.
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III. Expressions & Patterns
4.是······的缩写
 to be short for… (L. 67)
活学活用
SARS是“重症急性呼吸道综合症”的缩写，但
是乐观者把它解释成“微笑，并保持微笑”。
SARS is short for ‘Severe
Acute Respiratory
Syndrome’, but optimists
interpret it as ‘Smile And
Remain Smile’.
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III. Expressions & Patterns
5.从 ······ 进化而来
 to evolve from (L. 70)
活学活用
2008年奥运会会徽中的人型来自于汉字
“京”，指“北京”。
The human figure in the
Emblem of 2008 Olympic
Games evolved from the
Chinese character
“Jing”(京), referring to
Beijing.
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III. Expressions & Patterns
1. Typical patterns for reporting sth.
原句:It is said that he had used his wife’s
arm as the model, but felt her face was too
beautiful for the statue. (L. 8)
句型提炼
1) It is said / reported that sb. does (did) sth. /
sth. happens(ed). 据说 / 据报道，某人做
(了)某事 / 某事发生(了)。
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III. Expressions & Patterns
应用： 据说，埃及的金字塔是外星人建造
的。
It is said that the
pyramids in
Egypt were
constructed by
ET.
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III. Expressions & Patterns
原句: According to one story, when a
government official visited the plant and asked
about the letters, a creative employee told him
“US” was short for “Uncle Sam” Wilson. (L. 65)
句型提炼
2) According to sb. / a report / a story / a
survey / a legend, sth. happened/sb. did sth.
据某人说／据报道／传说 / 据调查／传说，
发生了某事 / 某人做过某事。
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III. Expressions & Patterns
2. Typical patterns for contrast:
原句:While white people had previously been
used as models for most American coins,
famed artist James Earle Fraser went against
tradition by using three actual American
Indians as models for his creation. (L. 50)
句型提炼
While people tend to do sth., someone goes
against tradition / conventionality by doing
something else. 尽管人们习惯于做某事，
另有人却反传统/常规而行之，做了别的事。
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III. Expressions & Patterns
应用：几乎所有的花儿都在春天开，但是
梅花却违背常规在深冬绽放，它因不畏严
寒而赢得盛誉。
While almost all flowers
come into blossom in
spring, the plums go
against the
conventionality by
flowering in deep
winter, thus earning a
reputation for being
fearless of severe cold.
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III. Expressions & Patterns
3. Typical patterns for showing one’s persistence
in doing sth.
原句:His mother could not approve of her
son’s affection for a woman she had never
met, but Bartholdi went ahead and married
his love in 1876. (L. 5)
句型提炼
Some people object to/are opposed to/put
obstacles in the way of/don’t approve of
sb.’s doing sth., but sb. goes ahead and …
一些人反对／阻拦／不同意某人做某事，
但某人不为所动，仍······
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III. Expressions & Patterns
应用：在十九世纪五十年代, 许多人反对达
尔文对物种进化的探索，然而达尔文不为所
动，仍于1859年11月24日出版了他的巨著
《物种起源》。
In 1850s, many people, objected to Darwin’s
exploration of the evolution of species, but he
went ahead and on November 24, 1859
published his great work The Origin of Species.
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IV. Summary
Bartholdi’s _________
monument celebrating US
independence was a statue of a woman his
mother did not approve
_______ of. But when assembling
_________
the statue in his artist’s mind, he only had his
eyes on his ____.
wife So, “my daughter, Liberty”
has his mother’s face combined
________ with his wife’s
body. The _____
model for Barbie comes from an
exaggerated version of an older doll ____
___________
sold in
Germany. It’s universally
_________ seen as the Queen of
dolls. The famous
______ faces in Grant Wood’s
American Gothic of a _____
grave farmer and the
woman standing alongside
________ him, with their
stretched
________ necks, ______
painter’s
derive from the ________
IV. Summary
dentist and sister. When American coins honor
_________
prominent figures of the US government –
mostly famous former presidents, the Buffalo
nickel was ________
designed in memory of the
destruction of the buffalo herds and the
American Indians. It was James Earle Fraser
against tradition by using actual
that went _______
American Indians as models for his creation.
Uncle Sam may have the name of a meat
reputation for honesty or
inspector with a _________
because Sam Wilson’s stamp was “EA-US”, it
happens to stand for the ______
initials of the United
States.
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V. Exercises—review
Answer the following questions and
review this passage.
1. What are the five symbols of the United
States?
They are the Statue of Liberty, Barbie
dolls, American Gothic, the Buffalo
nickel, and Uncle Sam.
V. Exercises—review
2. Whose face was the Statue of Liberty
modeled after?
It was modeled after Bartholdi’s mother’s
face.
3. What was the real name of Barbie?
Her real name was Barbara Handler.
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V. Exercises—review
4. How popular is Barbie according to the
text?
Since her introduction in 1959, Barbie has
become the universally recognized Queen
of the Dolls. The average American girl
owns ten Barbie dolls, and two are sold
somewhere in the world every second.
5. Who painted American Gothic?
Grant Wood.
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V. Exercises—review
6. How did Wood get the idea of painting
American Gothic?
He was inspired by the Gothic window
of an old farmhouse.
7. What was the Buffalo nickel produced
for?
It honored a pair of connected tragedies
from the settlement of the American
frontier – the destruction of the buffalo
herds and the American Indians.
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V. Exercises—review
8. Why did Fraser go to New York City’s
Central Park Zoo to sketch an aging
buffalo?
Because buffalo no longer wandered
about the great grasslands.
9. What did the employee say when he
was asked about the letters “EA-US”?
He said “US” was short for “Uncle Sam”
Wilson.
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V. Exercises—review
10. How did Flagg’s portrait of Uncle Sam
look like?
It was a self-portrait of Flagg.
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Ⅵ. Homework—Writing
How to Do Something
1. 某一事物的现状
2. 分析该事物的重要性(或危害性／
社会意义等)
3. 怎样对待该事物
（分析建议类）
写作模式
学生练习
Ⅵ.
Writing
Back
写作模式（分析建议类）
1) Much to our distress / delight /
surprise, these years have seen the
popularity / worsening / much improvement
/ a widespread neglect of sth. (议论的主题)
in society. 2) According to a recent / official
report / survey / opinion poll, ...(佐证陈述)
3) If this current is allowed to run its course,
things are bound to turn for the better /
worse. (Para. 1)
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Ⅵ.
Writing
Back
4) The importance / harmfulness /
significance of sth. to sb. / sth. else,
(however), can be seen from the
perspectives as follows. 5) In the first
place, …(分析I)6) In the second, ... (分
析II) 7) And above all, …(分析III) 8)
To sum up, ... (归纳总结)
(Para. 2)
（划线部分可替换）
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Ⅵ.
Writing
Back
9) So the most pressing for us / basic
problem now is how to… 10) In my
opinion, the first step should be focused
upon …(建议I) 11) Then, greater
efforts must be made to ... (建议II) 12)
In one word, where there is …, there
is …(结论句) (Para. 3)
（划线部分可替换）
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Ⅵ. Homework—Writing
How to Conduct Patriotic Education Among
the Youth of Today
1. 我国爱国主义教育的现状。
2. 分析爱国主义教育的重要意义。
3. 如何在青少年中开展爱国主义教
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育？
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