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1、LECTUREAUDIOSCRIPTSCONTEMPORARYTOPICS263CONTEMPORARYTOPICS263Unit1What'sinaName?Teacher：Goodmorning,everybody.Goodmorning,Felipe,Monica,Theo,...andIcan’trememberyourname.Student1：Patricia..Teacher：Patricia,right,Patricia.Thoseareallbeautifulnames,andthat’sourtopict

2、oday一names.Namesareaculturaluniversal.Thismeanseveryoneusesnames.Apersonsnamecantellusabitaboutapersonsfamily.Today,we’llbeginbylookingatfirstnamesandhowpeoplechoosenamesfortheirchildren.Andthenwelltalkaboutfamilynames,andlookatthedifferentcategoriesoffamilynames.

3、AlthoughthescopeofthelecturetodayisEnglish-languagenames,wecanusethesameapproach,youknow,tolookatnamesfromanyculture.Let’stakeabrieflookatfirst,orgiven,names.Thereareseveralwaysparentschoosethefirstnamefortheirchild.Thefirstwayisbyfamilyhistory.Parentsmaychooseanam

4、ebecauseitispassedfromgenerationtogeneration；forexample,thefirstbornsonmightbenamedafterhisfatherorgrandfather.Althoughfamilynamesarealsopassedtodaughters,itisusuallyasamiddlename.Adding“junior”or“thesecond”-forexample,WilliamParkerthesecond—isonlydonewithboys,notw

5、ithgirls’names.Thesecondwayparentschooseanameisafterafamilymemberorfriendwhohasdiedrecently,oraftersomeonetheyadmire,likeawell-knownleaderorafamousmusician.AlthoughmostEnglishfirstnamesmeansomething,forexample,“Richard”meanspowerfuland“Ann”meansgrace,nowadaysmeani

6、ngisnotthemainreasonpeopleselecttheirbaby'sname.Thethirdwayistoprovidea“push”forthechild.Parentswanttochooseanamethatsoundsvery“successful.”Astrongnamemighthelptheminthebusinessworld,forexample.Ortheymightchooseanamethatworksforeithergender,likeTaylororTerry.So,giv

7、enthesethreemethods,whatisthemostcommonwayparentschooseaname?Manyparentschooseanamesimplybecausetheylikeit,orbecauseit’sfashionableorclassic.Fashionsinnameschangejustastheydoincloches.Onehundredyearsago,manynamescamefromtheBible-namessuchasDaniel,andAnna,andHannaha

8、ndMatthew.Then,fiftyyearsago,Biblicalnameswentoutoffashion.Nowadays,namesfromtheBiblearebecomingpopularagain.Similarly,parentsoftenchooseclassic