高級(jí)英語第二冊(cè)第11課的課件

1、 the future of the english j . b. priestleyaims: 1) improving students ability to read between lines and understand the text properly; 2) cultivating students ability to make a creative reading; 3) enhancing students ability to appreciate the text from different perspectivesaims 4) helping students

2、to understand some difficult words and expressions; 5) helping students to understanding rhetorical devices; 6) encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately.teaching contentsi.background knowledge ii.exposition and argumentiii. detailed study of the essayiv. organization

3、 patternv.style and language featurestime allocation: 1) background knowledge (15 min.) 2) detailed study of the text (180 min.) 3) structure analysis (15 min.) 4) language appreciation (15 min.) 5) free talk (30 min)exposition and argument 1) type of literature: part exposition and part persuasion

4、or argument /santab/jeff/sbargue_index.html http:/homepages.iol.ie/laoistec/lenglish/lpers.html difference between exposition and argument difference between persuasion and argument honest persuasion and dishonest persuasion formal argument and informal argumentbackground knowle

5、dge 1) about the author and his works 1) a brief introduction to the author, priestley: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/jpriestley.htm 2) admass the whole system of an increasing productivity, plus inflation, plus a rising standard of material living, plus high-pressure advertising and salesmanship, p

6、lus mass communications, plus cultural democracy and the creation of the mass mind, the mass man the part of society that can be influenced by advertising or publicitydetailed study of the essaypre-class work: 1. what do you think the author is going to focus on: the future of the english as an inte

7、rnational language, the future of the english as a nation or the future of the english people? 2. you are supposed to figure out the type of the essay from the title. its an imaginary fiction forecasting the future of the english or not? 3. what do you think the future of your own c o u n t r y a n

8、d p e o p l e w o u l d b e l i k e ?the english are different 1. the dominant intention or the controversial topic of his argument is stated early in paragraph one in one unambiguous sentence: “ the english are different”. 1) the english can soon feel bored and thats why they gamble and booze so mu

9、ch and enjoy any dramatic change in public life. 2) the english have a sense of community, decent fellow feeling, fairness. 3) the english are at heart and at root an imaginative people immediately responsive to any suggestion of drama in their lives. 4) it is instinctive feeling and not rational th

10、ought that shapes and colours actual events in england. 5) the english do not feel at home in the contemporary world, representing the accelerated development of our whole age. they are suspicious of largeness, severe efficiency and admass. 6) the english are also deeply suspicious of change for cha

11、nges sake.the future of the english hangs on the future of the english hangs on 1) the final result of a battle between admass and englishness. the striking contrast between admass and englishness to show how inevitable the battle is. admass 1. already conquered most of the western world 2.receive v

12、ast subsidies of dollars, francs, deutschmarks and the rest for public relations and advertising campaigns englishness1.ailing and impoverished2.in no position to receive vast subsidies of dollars,francs, deutschmarks and the rest for public relations and advertising campaigns 3.offers more and more

13、 things for more and more money, creates the so-called “good life” 4.operates in the outer visible world 5.a poster in full colour 3. offers states of mind in place of that rich variety of thins 4.belong to the invisible inner world 5. a poor shadowy show, a faint pencil sketch the conflict between

14、admass and englishness. admass: what is central to admass is the production and consumption of goods. dissatisfaction is embedded in admass ruthless competitiveness take man only as a producer and consumer dependence upon dissatisfaction, greed and envy englishness: with its relation to the unconsci

15、ous dependence upon instinct and intuition adherence to the past and deep long roots not hostile to change and deeply suspicious of change for changes sake rejecting being committed to some inevitable mechanical progress while englishness can still fight on, admass could be winning. reason: not all

16、the english hold fast to englishness some important and influential men carefully train themselves out of it a horde of others, shallow and foolish, wander away form it the spirits of age is working for admass most of what we read and what we hear is working for admass inflation proved that we need

17、more and not less admass 2) the future of the english rests upon the decision made by english workers together with the people on the management side who will have to put an end to the conflict between admass and englishness. 3) the future of the english hangs upon men and women who are strong-minde

18、d enough to hold the englishness and reject admass 4) the future of the english depends upon the quieter young, who under the influence of one or two of those professional men and women, far-sighted enough to think what life would be like in the future. 5) the future of the english can not depends o

19、n the sloopy peopleboredom is a menace. heavily industrially society offer boring work shatter slow rhythms, traditional skills, closely knit communities of rural societies crowd and excite people by promises that cannot be kept boredom boredom idiot vandalism, frustration, ferocious robbery with vi

20、olence, vicious criminality english is still with us 4.english is still with us. but it needs reinforcement, extra nourishment. 1) on a hidden level, there remains of a characteristically english sense of community, decent fellow feeling, fairness. 2) englishness cannot be fed with the east wind of

21、a narrow rationality, the latest figures of profit and loss, a constant appeal to self-interest. 3) english are at heart and at root an imaginative people immediately responsive to any suggestion of drama in their lives. question: “and this is true, whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernab

22、le mops of hair.” the rhetorical device used in this sentence is _. “bowler hats” is standing for _. “ungovernable mops of hair” is standing for _.the writers voice to face the future properly they need both a direction and a treat life of the heart. a rather poorer and harder way of life will not d

23、efeat them so long as it is not harder and poorer in spirit, so long as it still refuses to reject englishness- for so many centuries the secret of the islanders oddity and irrationality, their many weaknesses, their creative strength.organization pattern 1) the thesis stated in the title of the essay 2) the structural or