M8-Unit1-The-written-world-reading

Lead in Four famous Chinese classics 1. 三国演义 2. 西游记 3. 红楼梦 4. 水浒传 a. A Dream of Red Mansions /The Story of the Stone b. Romance of Three Kingdoms c. All Men Are Brothers d. Journey to the West

Foreign classics Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell Les Miserables Victor Hugo

Works by Charles Dickens 《 Great Expectations 》 《Oliver Twist》 《A Christmas Carol》 《Hard Times》 《A Tale of Two Cities》 《David Copperfield》 《雾都孤儿》 《圣诞颂歌》 《双城记》 《艰难时世》 《远大前程》 《大卫·科波菲尔》

Today, we’ll focus on the novel Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens, an example of ___________. classics These are famous books written by Dickens. Can you match them? Besides the information in our textbook, have you any other infor. To add to it? 参考37 期上的两篇文章

The structure of the text Part one: information about Part two: Part three: classic literature Charles Dickens the book Great expectations

Skimming 1.What is classic literature? 2.Who is Charles Dickens? 3.Who is the main character in the novel Great Expectations?

Answers Classics are the antiques of the literary world including novels, plays and poems that were written a long time ago and were well written and received. 2. Dickens is England’s greatest writer. 3. Pip is the main character in the novel Great Expectations.

Reading strategy 1. What does a persuasive essay try to do? 2. What’s the writer’s point of view in this essay? 3. How does the author try to convince the reader?

1. What does a persuasive essay try to do? To convince the reader to adopt a certain point of view.

2. What’s the writer’s point of view in this essay? To persuade us to appreciate classic literature.

3. How does the author try to convince the reader? At the very beginning ________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Then_______________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________. the writer asks us to reconsider our ideas about classic literature. she gives us interesting facts about Charles Dickens and his book, Great Expectation, which makes us want to read the book at the end of the essay

Detailed reading C1 1. Why don’t many people like the classics? Because they think they are old--fashioned and boring, and have Nothing to do with life today.

3. What kind of person is Joe? 2. What does Liz think about classic novels? She thinks they have not disappeared and still have a place in the world today. 3. What kind of person is Joe? Joe is a kind and simple man.

4. What is written on Charles Dickens’s gravestone? On his gravestone it reads, “By his death, one of England’s greatest writers Is lost to the world.” 5. Who gives Pip a lot of money? A stranger.

6. Why is Pip embarrassed by his friend Joe? Because he thinks Joe is not clever enough and far from being a well Educated gentleman.

7. What does Pip learn by the end of the novel? He learns that wealth does not buy Happiness and that friends are more Important than a fancy education.

8. What is an example of character development in Great Expectations? An example of character Development is the change in Pip from being concerned only with money to seeing that money is not the most important thing in life.

C2 The main elements(要素) in a novel 1. characters 2. setting 3. symbol 4. theme 5. plot a. mist b. What it means to be a gentleman c. England in the early 1800s d. Pip, Joe, Estella e. A stranger gives Pip a lot of money, then Pip moves to London and becomes a snob

Discussion 1. Can you think of some possible endings for the novel? 2. Discuss the relationship between 　money and happiness

Consolidation P5 E (1) authors (2) Pip (3) Husband (4) England (5) symbol (6) novel (7) fortune (8) gentleman (9) shallow (10) theme