Chinese
translation
教师和演员
要想成为一名优秀的教师，你必须具备一名好演员的某些才能：能够引起观众的注意和兴趣，讲话发音清晰，
声音优美洪亮、悦耳动听且控制得恰到好处；能够演示所讲内容以使其意思更明了。
如果观察一下一位优秀教师，你会发现他并不是一动不动地坐在教室的前面：他在讲课的过程中一直站着。
他到处走动，借助于手势进行讲解，运用面部表情表达情感。如果听他讲课，你会感觉到他的音量、音质和音调
总在依所讲内容的不同而不断地变化。
一位优秀教师具备一名好演员的某些才能，这一事实并不意味着他就真的能在舞台上演好戏，因为教师的工
作同演员的工作迥然不同。演员是事先背好台词，然后在每次扮演某一角色时，一字不差地重述台词，甚至他的
动作以及发出声音的方式也常常在事先就确定好了，只需在表演时将全部台词自然地说出，把所有的动作自然地
表现出来即可。
一位优秀教师的工作则很不相同。他的表演有观众积极参与：观众提问、回答，按老师的命令行事；如果有
什么不懂，他们就会说出来。因此，教师必须根据观众的需要，调整自己的行为，这些观众就是他的全体学生。
他不可能事先背好角色，必须随堂不断地创造角色。
我认识许多教师，他们在课堂上是好演员，但他们不能参加舞台演出，因为他们的大脑不“守纪律”：他们不
可能让自己的表达局限在别人写好的内容之内。
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Fast
Reading
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( Ok, everybody. We are going to do fast
reading exercise, which needs the special reading skills.
In doing it, you should learn to scan for specific information,
skim for a general idea of a passage and use language signals
to predict what comes next so that you can finish reading
it in the limited time. Now, we'll read the passage-Teachers
and Actors. Remember you must finish reading it within
four and a half minutes. Then do the comprehension exercise
after it. )
Unit Nine TIME
ALLOWED 4.5 minutes
Teachers and Actors
Chinese translation
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts
of a good actor: you must be able to hold
the attention and interest of your audience; you must
be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which
is fully under your control;
and 1)you must be able to act what you are
teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you
will see that he does not
sit motionless before his class: he stands the whole
time he is teaching; he walks about, using
his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations,
and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will
hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his
voice always changing according
to what he is talking about.
2)The fact that a good teacher has some
of the gifts of
a good actor doesn't mean that he will indeed be able to act
well on the stage, for there are very important differences
between the teacher's work and the actor's. The actor has
to speak words which he has learnt
by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each
time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways
in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand.
3)What he has to do is to make all these
carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience
takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions,
they obey orders, and if they don't understand something,
they say so. The teacher
therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his audience,
which is his class. He
cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes
along.
I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class
but were unable to take part in a stage play because their
brains wouldn't keep discipline:
they could not keep strictly
to what another had written.
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1. What is the text about?
a. How to become a good teacher.
b. What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.
c. What teachers and actors could learn from each other.
d. The similarities and differences between a teacher's work
and an actor's.
2. In what way is a teacher's work different from an actor's?
a. The teacher must learn everything by heart.
b. The teacher knows how to control his voice better than an
actor.
c. The teacher has to deal with unexpected situations.
d. The teacher has to use more facial expressions.
3. The main difference between students in class and a theatre
audience is that______ .
a. students can move around in the classroom
b. students must keep silent while theatre audience needn't
c. no memory work is needed for the students
d. the students must take part in their teachers' plays
4. A good teacher's voice_______ .
a. should be clear and fully under his control
b. should not be too loud or too low
c. should be fixed before he goes to class
d. all of the above
5. Why does a good teacher make gestures while speaking?
a. To make his meaning clearer.
b. To draw the attention of his class.
c. To express feelings.
d. All of the above.
6. Which of the following is true?
a. Teachers have to learn by heart what they are going to say
in class.
b. A teacher cannot decide beforehand what exactly he is going
to say in class.
c. A teacher must speak louder than an actor.
d. A teacher must have a better memory than an actor.
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| Sentences:
1. “you must be able to act what you are
teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.” This is a complex
sentence in which there is an object clause —what you are teaching(这是一个复合句，句中的
what you are teaching是宾语从句). “what” is a relative pronoun
introducing an object clause and also serves as the object
of “teaching”.
2. “The fact that a good teacher has some
of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed
be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important
differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s”. This
is a complex sentence in which there is a principal clause（主句）
and an adverbial clause（状语从句） introduced by “for”. And the
principal clause has two clauses. The first “that-clause”
is an appositive
clause（同位语从句） and the second one is an object clause（宾语从句）.
3. “What he has to do is to make all these
carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.”
This is a complex sentence. “What he has to do” is a subject
clause(主语从句), serving as the subject of the sentence. And
the infinitive phrase ‘to make all these…” here serves as
a predicative（作表语）.
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