篇一 :The Green Banana观后感

The Green Banana

青香蕉

Although it might have happened anywhere, my encounter with the green banana sta rted on a steep mountain road in the central area of Brazil. My ancient jeep was straining up through beautiful countryside when the radiator began to leak, and I was ten miles from the nearest mechanic. The over-heated engine forced me to st op at the next village, which consisted of a small store and a few houses that we re scattered here and there. People came over to look. They could see three fine streams of hot water spouting from holes in the jacket of the radiator."That's easy to fix,?nbsp;a man said. He sent a boy running for some green bananas. He patted me on the shoulder, assuring me that everything would work out. "Green bananas," he smiled. Everyone agreed.

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篇二 :the green banana课文解析

本文是新编《大学英语》(20xx年版)第一册中的一篇课文,作者是美国学者Donald Batch elder,摘选自Donald Batchelder 和Elizabeth G. Warner 于19xx年编写的 An Experiential Approach to Cross-cultural Education,在原文的基础上略作了修改。

文章讲的是对待世界上各种不同文化应采取何种态度的问题。随着国际交往的不断发展,我们的世界越来越像一个地球村(the global village),各种风格迥异的文化彼此遭遇、碰撞(culture shock),文明之间的冲突大有愈演愈烈之势,如何看待异域文化和文化差异成了值得人们认真思考的重要问题。本文的作者通过一个小故事,向我们展示了他本人对这个问题的深入思考。 文章可分为两大部分。

第一部分为1-4段,作者以第一人称的口吻向我们讲述了他在巴西的一段经历。作为一个美国旅行者,当他驾着一辆旧吉普车行进在巴西中部的山路上时,水箱开始漏水,他被迫停在附近的一个小村庄里。热情的村民用他们古老的办法为作者解决了问题。他们找来了一些尚未成熟的青香蕉,掰开以后塞到水箱漏水处,由于水箱金属壳的热度,香蕉马上融化成胶汁,粘住了裂缝。同时,在与村民的闲聊中,作者还惊讶地得知,他们坚信附近的一块岩石就是世界的中心。这一次与当地本土文化不期然的相遇给了作者很大的震动

在第二部分(5-8段)中,作者着重讲述了他的感悟。首先,他惊讶于青香焦所展示给他的当地古老文化中的智慧;再次,他惊讶于村民们对世界中心即那块岩石的信仰,因为他认为世界的中心应该在他祖父的家乡新英格兰。后来作者逐步意识到:每一种文化都有自身的精妙之处, "The Green Banana" 即象征着每一种文化中所蕴藏的鲜为人知的宝藏;对每一种族的人来说,他们生活的地方对他们都具有特殊意义,从而在某种意义上说都可代表世界的中心 (Every place has special meanings for the people in it, and in a certain sense every place represents the center of the world.)。 世界因此有无数的中心,但是人们不可能经历全部。而我们一旦能够从自己文化的包围中走出来,去自觉领受另一种文化,我们将会得到影响自己一生的全新视角,并从此开始收藏异域文化中的宝藏 (The world has numerous such centers, and no one student or traveler can experience all of them. But once a conscious breakthrough to a second center is made, a life-long perspective and collection can begin.)。

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篇三 :现代大学英语精读1 UNIT6 The Green Banana 课文翻译

第六单元

Translation of Text A

青香蕉

1尽管这种事情在任何地方都可能发生,但我与青香蕉的邂逅却源自于巴西腹地一条险峻的山路上。我那老式吉普车正吃力地穿过景色优美的乡村,这时,水箱突然漏水了,而离我最近的汽车修理站也还要十英里。发动机过热迫使我在临近的村庄停了下来。村里有一个小商店和分布在四处的几座房子。有村民围过来看,三股细细的热水柱从水箱外壳上的小孔喷出来。“这容易解决,”一个人说到。他让一个小男孩跑去拿些青香蕉来。这个人还拍了拍我的肩膀,安慰我问题会解决的。“青香蕉。”他笑了,其余的人都这么说着。

2我和他们闲聊起来,心里却一直在想他们用这青香蕉怎么能修补好水箱。毫无疑问,提问会暴露我的无知,因此我开始赞叹眼前美丽的乡村景色。耸立在我们周围巨大的岩石群,很像里约热内卢著名的糖面包山。“看见那边那块高高的岩石了吗?”那人指着一块特别高而且细长的黑色石柱问我,“那块岩石标志着世界的中心。”

3我看着他,想知道他是否在和我开玩笑,但他却表情严肃,反过来认真地审视着我,似乎想确定我是否领会了他那句话的深刻含义。这种情况要求我必须表现出认同。他点头说:“绝对是中心。这儿的人都知道。”

4这时,小男孩抱着青香蕉回来了。那个男子把其中一根掰成两半,将其断口处按在水箱的外壳上。香蕉遇到炙热的金属融成了胶,立刻就堵住了漏洞。面对如此情景,我惊呆了,我当时的表情一定是傻傻的,所有的人都笑了起来。他们把我的水箱装满水,又让我带上一些香蕉,以防沿途中水箱再出问题。路上,我又用了一次青香蕉,一个小时后,我开着车到达了目的地。当地的一修理工笑着问我:“谁教你用青香蕉的?”我告诉了他那个村子的名字。“他们有没有指给你看标志世界中心的那块岩石?”他问道。我告诉他,他们指给我看了。“我祖父就是那儿的人,”他说,“那的确是中心。一直以来这儿的人都知道。”

5作为美国教育的产物,除了把青香蕉当作还没长熟的水果,我从来就没注意过它。但突然在那条山路上,当我需要它时,它正巧出现了。可是仔细想一想,其实青香蕉一直在那儿存在着。时间可以追溯到香蕉的最初的起源。那个村子里的人都知道它已经很多年了,我现在也因此认识它了。我开始珍视村民们的聪明才智和青香蕉的特殊潜能。曾有一段时间,我一直困惑于教育家们提出的“领悟的瞬间”,而现在我知道自己刚刚同时经历了两个这样的瞬间。

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篇四 :Unit 6 The Green Banana

Unit 6 The Green Banana

1.About the author and text

This text is taken from Beyond Experience: An Experimental Approach to Cross-culture Education edited Donald Bechelder and Elizabeth G.Warner in 1974. When the second editon of the book was published in 1993, Bechelder explained his view on cross-culture education: If some the goals of education in modern times are too open up possibilities for discovery and expand learning and chance for mutual acceptance and recognition in a wider world, it may be important to offer students a perspective on their own immediate center of the world by enabling to participate sensitively as cross-culture sojourners to the center of someone else’s world.

2.Writing characteristics

Short story →plot: “I” in Brazilian village Setting: a village in Brazil

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篇五 :Unit10 The Green Banana

Unit10 The Green Banana

教学目的: 以课文内容为纲,关键语汇为点带领学生了解文化背景知识,并告

诉我们应该尊重世界上的每一种文明,任何一个地方,任何一个小

镇甚至家庭都可能被人认为是世界的中心。

认识课文逻辑顺序和结构安排,通过讨论精彩段落写作的要素和手

段,帮助学生掌握描写该种情形的技巧,并能够进行相似主题的短

文欣赏和写作。

教学重点: 识别关键语汇(形容词、名词和短语)以分析文章的逻辑结构及其

效果;

分析活动场景写作中的行为动词、象声词、同义词、短句、断句和

比喻及其效果。

教学内容: 以形象的方式结合课文内容发展顺序,带领学生了解不同于本民族

的文化和风俗习惯。开拓学生的视野,扩大知识面。

启发学生寻找关键语汇,总结全文整体的逻辑结构和各个部分的行

文安排以及由此达到的效果;

通过多种方式赏析精彩段落的修辞特点,帮助学生掌握活动场景写

作的要素和技巧。

教学方法: 结合实际采用多种教学方法如讲授、问答、讨论、模仿、练习等。

Unit10 The Green Banana

By Donald Batchelder

Background Knowledge

The text is taken from Beyond Experience: An Experiential Approach to

Cross-cultural education edited by Donald Batchelder and Elizabeth G. Warner in 1974. When the second edition of the book was published in 1993, Batchelder

explained his view on cross-cultural education: “ If some of the goals of education in modern times are to open up possibilities for discovery and expand learning and the chance for mutual acceptance and recognition in a wider world, it may be important to offer students a perspective on their own immediate center of the world by enabling them to participate sensitively as cross-cultural sojourners to the center of someone else?s world.”

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篇六 :Unit 6 The Green Banana

Unit 6 The Green Banana

1. Lead-in

Pre-reading questions:

? How does the title “Green Banana” strike you? What do you expect the story to tell?

? If you are asked to write a passage on Green Banana, what are going to cover? What kind of function do you know about Banana?

2. While-reading

Now let’s read the text and the vocabulary together, and try to divide the article into several parts, according to your understanding.

? Part 1 (Para 1-Para 4)

The author’s experience in Brazil and his encounter with the village people and then the green banana

? Part 2 (Para 5-Para 7)

The author’s two learning moments from the experience

? Part 3 (Para 8)

As often the case in an essay, it starts from something specific and then moves on to a general conclusion.

And then you need to think about several questions and give the answer after our analysis.

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The Green Banana

By Donald Batchelder

? About the author

? #Introduction to the text

? #Details of the text

? #Sentences Paraphrase

? #After-class activity

About the author and the text

? This text is taken from Beyond Experience: An Experiential Approach to Cross-cultural Education edited by Donald Batchelder and Elizabeth G. Warner in 1974.

? When the second edition of the book was published in 1993, Batchelder explained his view on cross-cultural education: “If some of the goals of education in modern times are to open up possibilities for discovery and expand learning and the chance for mutual acceptance and recognition in a wider world, it may be important to offer students a perspective on their own immediate center of the world by enabling them to participate sensitively as cross-cultural sojourners to the center of someone else’s world

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篇八 :Unit 6 The Green Banana Key to exercises

Vocabulary ? 1 strain ?2 teasing/tease ?3 dawn ?4 death ?5 leak ?6 inspection ?7 realization ?8 burial ?9 scattering/scatter ?10 grasp ?11 appreciation ?12 flight ?13 assurance ?14 astonishment ?15 expectation ?16 insurance ?17 reflection ?18 belief

2 ?1 stream ?2 state ?3 relate ?4 form ?5 recognize

?6 accept ?7 encounter ?8 collect ?9 radiate ?10 identify 3 ?1 reporter ?2 professor ?3. editor ?4. adviser ?5 robber ?6. actor ?7 aggressor ?8 beginner ?9 passenger ?10 supporter

?11 visitor ?12 liar ?13 seller ?14 murder ?15 traveler ?16 scholar ?17 author ?18 successor ?19 composer ?20 interpreter ?21 beggar ?22 sailor ?23 announcer ?24 manager ?25 invader ?26 creator ?27 dealer 4 ?1 令人羞愧的结果 ?2 满满一碗米饭 ?3 色彩鲜艳的衣服 ?4 一个令人快乐的人 ?5 满满一篮子的苹果 ?6 满满一盒巧克力 ?7 一小撮人 ?8 一条有帮助的建议 ?9 一个有害的习惯 ?10 带着哭腔;声泪俱下地 ?11 吃一大口 ?12 一厢情愿的想法 ?13 有希望的形势 ?14 一屋子的客人 ?15 一调羹油 ?16 一大捧书 ?17 痛苦的记忆 ?18活泼的性格 5 ?1. acceptance ?2. occurrence ?3. astonishing, unrecognizable ?4. appreciative, expectations ?5 identical, identify, identifications

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