《新标准大学英语》教案 Book Two
Unit 2"""The world at war
Active reading (1) Catch-22
Teaching Objectives
Students will be able to:
?Predicting
?Identifying features ofa formal writing style through reading
^ Organising Students' oral discussion by showing them how to present information and opinions
?Analysing trends by using patterns obsen ed and researched
Teaching allotment (1 period = 2 hours)
la period: Pre-reading; While-reading (text structure; cultural notes; language points) period: While-reading (language points; grammatical structures)
3ni period: Check on students* home reading (Passage 2);
Background Information
Joseph Heller (1923-1999)： an American novelist from New York, best known for his 1961 novel Catch-22, an anti-war satire based on the author s own millitary experience. Heller s other novels include: Something Happened {出了 毛病》（1974) ,Good as Gold([像髙尔德一样好》
(1979) .God Know^l984) Ricture This(1988), and a sequel toCatch-22, Closing Time(1994).
约瑟夫诲勒（1923—1999〉美国黑色幽默派及荒诞派代表作家，出生于纽约市布魯克林一 个俄裔犹太人家窫《第二次世界大战期间曾任空军中尉。战后进大学学习，1948年毕业于纽约 大学.获大学竿i学位? 1949年在哥伦比亚大学获文学碩士学位后.得到富布賴特研究基金赴 英国牛漳大学深造一年。1950到1952年在宾夕法尼亚州立大学等校任教,此后即离开学校，到 《时代》和《展望》等杂志编辑部任职》1961年，长筲小说《第二十二条军规》问世，一举成 名，当年即放弃职务，专门从事写作#
海勒的小说取材于现实生活，遜过艺术的哈哈镜和故大镜，反映了美国社会生活的若干侧面， 具有一定的认识价值和审美价偟。当然，他的作品也带有黑色幽默派文学的一些通病，如对社会 現实流霣出无可奈何的心愦等。
Catch-22《第二十二条军规》一
□ Catch-22 is a rule which says that anyone rational enough to want to be grounded cannot be 一 insane and is therefore capable of returning to flight duty. A “catch-22” situation has become a general phrase to describe a difficult situation from which there is no escape because you need to do one thing
before doing a second, and you cannot do the second thing before doing the first._
—为：F三T三军瓦税的悖论^
人左右为难的情况9
同类例句：i.如果你不创收，没人能荞活你：如果你能创收，下了岗也饿不着你。所以你不下