Unit 15 Clothes Make the Man --Uneasy

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Title: Unit 15 Clothes Make the Man --Uneasy

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Unit 15 Clothes Make the Man --Uneasy

An Integrated English Course (5)

PART I CLASS PLANNING

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1. Teaching Materials

Textbook An Integrated English Book 5
Teachers Book
Dictionaries Oxford Advanced Learners
English-Chinese Dictionary (Fourth edition) A
New English-Chinese Dictionary .

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2. Teaching Objectives

To know some basic features of expositive
writing
To grasp the new words and expressions

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3. Time Allocation

Periods 1-2 Analysis of Text I and Rhetorical
Notes Part I of the text (Para. 1)
Periods 3-4 Part II of the text (Paras 2-5)
Periods 5-6 Part III of the text (Para. 6)
Comprehension questions Exercises, Oral
Activities Text II

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4. Teaching Methods

Interactive teaching
Communicative teaching

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5. Teaching Aids

Lecture notes prepared by the teacher

PART II TEACHING LECTURES
Periods 1-2 (80 min )

? Aid Lecture notes prepared by the teacher
? Warm-up Questions
What kind of clothes do you like to wear? Is
it important what a person wears, especially in
public?

? Contents
? About the Lesson
This expository essay deals with the changes in
masculine fashion, focusing on the drastic
changes in the West in the1960s, pointing out the
significance of masculine choices of clothes, and
laying bare masculine narcissism and vanity.

? Structural Analysis of Text I
Para. 1 tells us that the 1960s saw a large
number of men feeling more uneasy about what to
wear, and that the choices men had to make always
had an absolute anonymous meaning in the world
of men, an identifying stamp usu.
incomprehensible to female judgment.

Para.2-5 is the main part of the essay.
Para.6 is the last part. In this part, the
writer first offer reasons why men hate fashion
risks and then describes masculine fashion
preferences and their purposes in the
contemporary age.

? Detailed Study of Para. 1 of Text I
Analysis
The first paragraph tells us that the 1960s saw
a large number of men feeling more uneasy about
what to wear, and that the choices men had to
make always had an absolute and enormous meaning
in the world of men, an identifying stamp usually
incomprehensible to female judgment

? Gist Questions
1)Why did the choices men made have an enormous
meaning in the world of men?

Because they marked or embodied mens individual
identity.
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2) What do you know about mens and womens
choices of clothes in the 1960s?

Mens choices of clothes were quite limited. Men
had only a small range of possible alternatives.
In contrast, women had a huge range of personally
acceptable possibilities. The choices men had to
make never looked very momentous to a feminine
eye accustomed to a large range of personally
acceptable alternatives, but they always had an
absolutely enormous meaning in the world of men.
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? Contents Detailed study of Para. 1 of Text I
1)The idea that one might agonize over whether
to grow sideburns or wear trousers of a radically
different shape had never occurred to a whole
generation.
A whole generation had never thought that one
might suffer extreme agony about whether to grow
sideburns or wear trousers of a completely
different shape.

agonize to suffer great pain, anxiety or worry
intensely about sth.
The woman agonized about her child's safety.
He agonized himself with the thought of his
possible failure in the exam.
He agonized for a whole week about whether he
should take this poorly-paid job after a long
time of unemployment.

Radically fundamentally thoroughly completely
Everything has been changing radically.
Terrorism is reported to be worsening radically.

Sideburns patches of hair growing on the side
of a mans face in from of the ears.
His sideburns grow luxuriantly, which makes it
easy to recognize him.
By the way, in British English, the word
sideboards could be used instead of sideburns.

2)Before the mid '60s whether to wear a tie was
the most dramatic sartorial problem everything
else was a subtle matter of surface variation.
Before the mid '60s whether to wear a tie was
the biggest decision for men to make about
(tailored) clothing everything else was just
trivial, superficial change that was hardly
noticeable.

Dramatic of a drama, i.e. of plays for the
theater, radio or TV of plays as a branch of
literature or a performing art
The play is a dramatic representation of a real
event.
Her opening remarks were simply dramatic.

sartorial elating to clothes, especially the
style of clothes that a man wears - used
especially humorously
a man of great sartorial elegance
Parson was distinguished for his lack of
sartorial style.

Subtle fine, delicate, not easy to detect or
describe ingenious
She has a subtle charm and a subtle humor.
There is a subtle distinction between the two
synonyms.
The teacher made a subtle analysis of the
problem.

3)Brace to mentally or physically prepare
yourself or someone else for something unpleasant
that is going to happen
brace yourself (for something)
Nancy braced herself for the inevitable
arguments.
You had better brace yourself - I have some bad
news.

brace yourself to do something
Cathy braced herself to see Matthew, who she
expected to arrive at any minute.
To make something stronger by supporting it
Wait until we've braced the ladder.
Workers used steel beams to brace the roof.

4)All the delicate shades of significance
expressed by the small range of possible
alternatives used to be absorbing enough
All the subtle degrees of significance made
know or conveyed by the limited number of
alternatives were often difficult enough in the
past.

Absorbing holding ones attention fully
interesting and appealing
What an absorbing film it is!
The scenic spot presents an absorbing view.

Double-breasted having two fronts with two sets
of buttons and buttonholes, and the two fronts
overlapping across the body.
I bought a double-breasted suit.
As far as I know, some people dont like
double-breasted overcoats.

5)A hat with a tiny bit of nearly invisible
feather was separated as by an ocean from a hat
with none, and white-on-white shirts, almost
imperceptibly complex in weave, were totally
shunned by those men who favoured white
oxford-cloth shirts.

A hat with a little bit of hardly discernable
feather was absolutely differentiated from a a
hat with no feather at all, and white shirts
decorated with white patterns, which were nearly
subtly complex in weave, were totally avoided by
those who preferred to wear white oxford-cloth
shirts.

Shun to avoid keep clear of, keep away from
The country did not want to shun the war.
She tries to shun publicity.
Most medical graduates shun posts in geriatric
medicine.

6)mystify to bewilder, puzzle
Her mystifying disappearance puzzled us.
I am mystified I just cant see how he managed
to climb to the top of the tower.
ferocity quality of being fierce, a ferocious
act
The criminal that committed ferocities received
due punishment.
Our fighters resumed their attack against the
enemy with the greatest ferocity.

7)padding soft material used to fill out
things unnecessary material in a book, essay,
speech, etc.
The padding feels soft and touches smooth.
The sofa is filled with padding and springs.
There is a lot of padding in the novel.

Cuff the end of a coat or shirt sleeve at the
wrist.
The frayed cuffs of his coat are an obvious
indication of his financial status.

Periods 3-4 ( 80 min )

? Aid Lecture notes prepared by the teacher
? Gist Questions
1) What can you infer about masculine fashion in
the 1960s?

Nipped-in waistlines, vivid turtlenecks, long
hair with sideburns, and bell-bottom trousers
constituted the typical masculine fashion in the
1960s. those who ignored the popular fashion were
stamped as convinced followers of the old order.
Men found it impossible to resist the changes,
and they had to follow the popular fashion.

2)Why did the author say that the difference
between mens and womens clothes used to be an
easy matter from every point of view?

The writer said so because clothes worn by men
and women used to be so sexually distinctive that
it was no trouble for anyone to tell the
difference.
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? Contents Detailed study of Paras 2-5 of Text I
Analysis
Paragraphs 2-5, the main part of the expositive
essay, first inform us that it had never been
very hard for men to dress themselves until the
early 1960s, when the rate of change in masculine
fashion accelerated with disconcerting violence,
shedding a new light on all the steady old
arrangements, and men found it impossible to
ignore the changes. Next, this section
illustrates that fact that in general, men of all
ages want to retain the habit portraying a
suitable self-image and then carefully tending it.

1) Even imaginative wives and mothers could
eventually be trained to reject all seductive but
incorrect choices with respect to tie fabric and
collar shape that might connote the wrong flavor
of spiritual outlook, the wrong level of
education, or the wrong sort of male bonding.

Even wives and mothers full of imagination could
finally learn to say "No" to all attractive but
improper choices concerning tie fabric and collar
shape, because such choices might give strong
suggestions of incorrect mental attitudes, the
low level of education or the inappropriate sort
of male intimacy.

Fabric cloth made of threads knitted, woven, or
felted together
These are cotton fabrics.
We must expose the cracks in the social fabric.
Many elements formed the fabric of his
character.

Connote to imply in addition to the literal or
primary meaning
The word mother generally connotes love, care,
tenderness, etc.
Smoke connotes fire.
Terrorism connotes killing of innocent people.

Flavor taste, flavoring characteristic
atmosphere
Condiments give flavor to food.
It is a drama with a European flavor.
Visiting this rural area, you can enjoy the
full flavor of English country life.

Outlook a view from a place foreseeable
future metal attitude
The outlook from the top of the mountain is
breathtaking.
The economic outlook of our country is bright.
I detected that his outlook on life had changed.

2) double standard
a set of principles concerning dressing
permitting greater opportunity or liberty to the
male than to the female.
Flourish to be very successful, very active,
prosper
No new business can flourish in the present
economic climate.
This species of flower flourishes in a warm
climate.
His sideburns are flourishing.

3) disconcerting making you feel slightly
confused, embarrassed, or worried
a disconcerting question
discomfiture a state of being disconcerted or
baffled
The discomfiture in the ruling party was well
known to the public.
Our fondest dreams ended in discomfiture.

4) A look in the mirror suddenly revealed man to
himself wearing his obvious chains and shackles,
hopelessly unliberated.
Seeing his own image in the mirror, a man
suddenly realized that he was obviously wearing
old-fashioned clothes which were binding him to
the old order, thus having no hope of ever
catching up with the new fashion.

It is to be noted that the phrase chains and
shackles in the above sentence is used
metaphorically, referring to outdated clothes
which made the man so uncomfortable as if he was
wearing a straightjacker.
Tend to take care of , look after
When his wife is busy with housework, he had to
tend their baby.
Look at his carefully tended moustache.

5) So universal was the skirted female shape and
the bifurcated male one that a woman in men's
clothes was completely disguised, and long hair
or gaudy trimmings were never the issue.

It was a usual phenomenon that women wore skirts
and men wore trousers. This fashion was so
widespread that a woman wearing men's clothes was
completely disguised, and those who had long hair
or those who wore clothes with gaudy trimmings
were identified at a glance.

6) incur
if you incur a cost, debt, or a fine, you have
to pay money because of something you have done,
to experience, suffer sth. unpleasant as a result
of one's own behavior.
incur expenses/costs/losses/debts etc

If the council loses the appeal, it will incur
all the legal costs.
the heavy losses incurred by airlines since
September 11th
If you incur something unpleasant, it happens
to you because of something you have done
incur somebody's displeasure/wrath/ disapproval
etc
She wondered what she'd done to incur his
displeasure this time.

Periods 6( 80 min )

? Aid Lecture notes prepared by the teacher
? Gist Questions
1)Why do men secretly hate fashion risks?

According to the last paragraph, men secretly
hate fashion risks for the following reasons.
Firsts, most men find it impossible to leap
backward across the traditional centuries into a
comfortable renaissance zest for these dangers,
since life is difficult enough nowadays.
Secondly, along with fashion came the pitiless
exposure of masculine narcissism and vanity, so
long submerged and unknown. Thirdly, men had lost
the habit of showing their concern for personal
appearance. Fourthly, men formerly free from
doubt wore their new finery with immense
self-consciousness.

2)What do you know about the men referred to at
the end of the text?

Some men still have been wearing shoes with high
heels and platform soles, because they want to
look after and to change their gait. Men who
suddenly find that they are quite willing to wear
long hair and fur coats and carry handbags have
excluded shoes with high hells and platform soles
and got rid of the waist-length shirt opening
that exposes trinkets lying embedded against the
chest hair.
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? Detailed Study of Para. 6 of Text I
Analysis
Paragraph 6, the last section of the essay,
first offers reasons why men hate fashion risks
and then proceeds to describe masculine fashion
preferences and their purposes in the
contemporary age.

1) Most of them find it impossible to leap
backward across the traditional centuries into a
comfortable renaissance zest for these dangers,
since life is hard enough now anyway.
Most men find that they are not in a position
to keenly appreciate or comfortably enjoy running
fashion risks just as people in the Renaissance
did, since life is difficult and strenuous enough
now anyway.

2) vanity too much pride in yourself, so that
you are always thinking about yourself and your
appearance
Sabrina had none of the vanity so often
associated with beautiful women.
vanity table a dressing table

Vanity Fair
(1847-48) a novel by William Thackeray about
upper class English society at the time of the
war against Napoleon. The characters in the book,
who include Becky Sharp, are often shown to be
stupid or to have no moral principles.

Blatantly in a flagrant, unashamed way or
manner offensively noisy or obtrusive
That big country blatantly intruded into the
small nations national affairs.
They are telling lies blatantly.

3) Men formerly free from doubt wore their new
finery with colossal self-consciousness, starting
covertly at everyone else to find out what the
score really was about all this stuff.

Men who used to have full confidence in the way
they were dressed wore their new gaudy dress with
excessive awareness of their own appearance,
casting furtive glances at everyone else to find
out what they thought of the new showy dress.

Covertly in a secret or secretive way
Terrorists had been operating covertly in the
United States long before the 9/11 incident.
The opposition party is scheming covertly to
overthrow the prime minister.

4) appropriate to take something for yourself
when you do not have the right to do this
He is suspected of appropriating government
funds.
to take something, especially money, to use for
a particular purpose
appropriate something for something
Congress appropriated 5 million for
International Woman's Year.

Dandy a man that is too much concerned about
his elegant appearance
The man warned his son to stay away from those
upper-class dandies.
Of all the books on the desk, this novel is a
dandy.
It is to be heeded that the word great in the
great dandies is used as a case of irony.

5) cultivated applying oneself to improve or
developing the mind nurtured.
He is a very cultivated young man.
They are people with cultivated tastes.
trinket a trifling ornament, jewel, etc. esp.
one worn upon the person
The shop sells postcards and trinkets.
He bought her a few trinkets and took her to
the theatre.

Nestle to settle oneself comfortably press
oneself against another in affection
She nestled into the cushions.
A dog nestled at her feet.
The mother nestled her babys head close
against her chest.

6) Skirts, I need not add, never caught on I do
not have to add that skirts never became
fashionable among men.
Catch on to become popular or widespread
The movie did not catch on as predicted.
Foreign festival, such as Valentines, would
catch on in big cities of China.

2. Comprehension Questions
1) To what degree is the statement "men knew how
lucky they were" true?
2) What does the expression "to dress for all
that complex multiple role-playing" imply?

3 . Oral Activities
clothes for men and women. What is your opinion
about this trend? Give reasons.

1)Positive reasons With the development of
society, men and women, despite their biological
differences, are playing more and more similar
roles in all walks of life. Since the social
demarcation lines is blurred, why is it necessary
for men and women to dress in such different ways?

2)Negative reasons Variety is the spic of life.
Life would be colorless and boring if people of
different sexes wear similar clothes. Men and
women, on the other hand, are still considerably
different in many aspects, in spite of the fact
that the difference between mens and womens
roles seems to be lessening.

4. Text II Questions for discussion
1)What does the author conclude about women in
the old days?
As a source of cheap labor for business and
industry, and unpaid labor in the home, women
were allowed only limited roles in society and
didnt have completed political, economic, and
social equality with men.

2)What is implied about womens role
expectations in modern societies?
Today, in most societies, womens role
expectations are often formed by female
stereotypes ----oversimplified characteristics
applied as a generalization to all women. The
prevailing view is that womens abilities in the
workplace and in public life are limited by their
physical fragility and by their roles as mothers.
As a result, there is a continuing domestic
bondage of women.

3)What facts does the author give to counter the
argument that women are physically inferior to
men?
Many top women gymnasts have demonstrated their
extraordinary strength. Girls and women have
fewer orthopedic injuries than men. Womens
smaller hearts can work relatively harder than
mens without any ill effects, which equips
women to participate in all sorts of hitherto
exclusively male activities. Furthermore, women
have greater tolerance for fatigue, which tends
to even things out.

4)According to the passage, what is
fundamentally proper in the differentiation
between the roles of the two sexes?
Differences between the roles of two sexes
dont necessarily make much of a difference where
relative performance is concerned. There are many
objective pieces of evidence for the erosion of
mans status. In the first place, many
characteristics traditionally regarded as
masculine and feminine are not different, they
are just relative, and frequently irrelevant in
comparison to skill. Secondly, there are many
convergencies between male and female behavior.

5)What is the authors purpose in this writing?
In most human societies mens role is tied up
with their right, or ability, to practice some
activity that women are not allowed to practice.
The author challenges several long-established
attitudes, especially the notion that women are
physically inferior to men and therefore they
could find fulfillment only as wives and mothers.
They contend that this notion constitutes a
conspiracy to prevent women from competing with
men. What has to be changed are the obsolete
feminine and masculine sex roles that dehumanize
sex and women.