Unit 15 Clothes Make the Man --Uneasy

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Unit 15 Clothes Make the Man --Uneasy

• An Integrated English Course (5)

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• 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

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

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• ? 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?

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• ? 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.

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• ? 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.

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• 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.

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• ? 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

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• ? 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Periods 3-4 ( 80 min )

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Periods 6( 80 min )

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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?

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

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• 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?

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.