Unit 4 The Multicultural Society

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Unit 4The Multicultural Society

• Text A
• America as a Collage

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Everyday English

• How did he strike you??????????
• A How did Shenzhen strike you?
• B Well, Im very impressed by the cleanliness of
  the city. You can hardly find a piece of garbage
  or a cigarette butt on the sidewalk.
• I can smell a rat.????????
• A She took the money and went to Canberra.
• B I can smell a rat.

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Introductory Remarks

• What is an American?
• ---image of a cowboy
• --- early immigrants
• --- a combination family with its members of
  different nations
• --- courage --- confidence --- optimism
• Do you think America is going to decline like
  other great nations have before?

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Warm-up Questions

• What is collage? (on the disk)
• The author maintains that the Euro-centered
  American nation is giving way to a new Pacific
  civilization --- a type of society unlike any
  that has gone before it. Do you agree? Why or why
  not?
• Can you think of something other than

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• a city that symbolizes the American future?
  Explain.
• As a modern non-Western youth, do you agree with
  the authors opinion on the non-Western concept
  of time? Why or why not?
• What opinion does Paul Kennedy present in the
  Rise and Fall of Great Powers? Does the author
  agree with him?

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Summary

• The author holds this point of view that
  America wont decline as a great power in the
  world. On the contrary, itll move forward. Then
  he gives the example of the city of Los Angeles,
  in which many cultures and customs coexist. The
  collagelike city shows the advantage and
  disadvantage of cultural interaction. In the end,
  he provides the way of harmonizing the competing
  cultures in one place the chance to try.

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Sentence Paraphrasing

• The mere fact in decline. (Line 12)
• ---Judging from the only fact that America still
  attracts millions of people, America is not
  losing strength.
• It is so hard of any improvement at all. (Line
  79)
• ---When you know that there are many areas which
  are impaired the progress and functioning
  completely and unable

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• to develop, it is difficult for you to imagine
  that America is losing strength.

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Translation Exercise

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Writing Assignment

• Directions You are allowed 30 minutes to write a
  composition on the topic My View on Family
  Planning in three paragraphs. You should write in
  no less than 150 words. You should base your
  composition on the outline given in Chinese
  below.
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