研究生英语听说教程2.doc

23 Unit Two Home and Travel Home and Travel Preparing to Read 1. What is a home? Here is a list of definitions of home. Work in small groups and discuss the definitions. Do you agree with any of them? Can you give a more complete definition of home? Home is ________________________________________________________________________. 1) a place which provides you a shelter 2) a place where you live and spend much of your time 3) a place where your parents live 4) a place where you and your own family live 5) a place which offers you affection, security and comfort 6) a place where you were born and spent your childhood 7) a place where your central focus is on people and things you love 8) a place which you own and where you can do whatever you like 2. Draw a picture of the house you regard as your home. Tell your classmates where it is. Describe some details of it, including its size, shape, and color. Explain why you call it your home. Unit Two 24 新视角研究生英语 读说写 2 Text 1 2 3 4 Home and Travel by Margaret Mead People need homes: children assume their parents’ place as home; boarders call school ‘home’ on weekdays; married couples work together to build new homes …. So how about people who have to travel for extended periods of time? Can they have the right to a home? Here you will read a passage written by Margaret Mead, an American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and one of the most influential female thinkers in social sciences，and learn her understanding of home. During her lifetime, Mead had traveled the world extensively, living for months to years at a time in eight different cultures, documenting, comparing and studying vanishing indigenous (当地的) cultures. Is her understanding of home any different from yours? This article is taken from Mead’s memoir Blackberry Winter (1972). For many people, moving is one kind of thing and travel is something very different. Travel means going away from home and staying away from home; it is an antidote to the humdrum activitie