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,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,本幻灯片资料仅供参考，不能作为科学依据，如有不当之处，请参考专业资料。谢谢,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,本幻灯片资料仅供参考，不能作为科学依据，如有不当之处，请参考专业资料。谢谢,Talking point,Warming u,p,Skimming,Digging,Critical thinking,Language in use,Unfamiliar words,Interpreting,第1页,Topic preview:Watch a video clip about the greatest stories students have ever read and discuss the HOME-RUN books students need to read.,The Greatest Story Ever Read,For Chinese children,what story or stories are the most popular?,Girls,？,Boys,？,Warming up,第2页,Warming up,Read the first lines of the novels and answer the questions.,第3页,Warming up,This is a true story but I cant believe its really happening.Its a murder story,too.I cant believe my luck.,Martin Amis,London Fields,(1989),An hour and 45 minutes before Nazneens life began began as it would proceed for quite some time,that is to say uncertainly her mother Rupban felt an iron fist squeeze her belly.,Monica Ali,Brick Lane,(),第4页,Warming up,My name is Kathy H.Im 31 years old,and Ive been a carer now for over 11 years.That sounds long enough,I know,but actually they want me to go on for another eight months,until the end of this year.,Kazuo Ishiguro,Never Let Me Go,(),Excuse me,Sir,but may I be of assistance?Ah,I see I have alarmed you.Do not be frightened by my beard:I am a lover of America.,Mohsin Hamid,The Reluctant Fundamentalist,(),第5页,Warming up,Questions:,Which beginning looks:,1 most traditional?,2 least traditional?,3 most memorable?,4 least memorable?,Now discuss your answers with your partner.,Reference,第6页,Warming up,Reference:,1 The one of,Brick Lane,seems fairly traditional in the sense that it begins with the birth of someone I guess to be the main character.,2 The last one of,The Reluctant Fundamentalist,seems rather strange.We arent given much help:Someone speaks,but not to the reader;there is some sort of imagined situation.,3 I find the phrase“felt an iron fist squeeze her belly”dramatic and it makes the opening sentence(from,Brick Lane,)memorable.,4 The third of,Never Let Me Go,is rather flat though I am not sure what Kathy means exactly.,第7页,Warming up,Work in pairs.Tell your partner which book you would most like to read,and why.,第8页,Warming up,Check()the advice you would expect a writer to give to a reader.,1 Never lend a book to anyone.,2 Spend all your money on books.,3 Think about a book before you start reading it.,4 Dont read any books which are considered to be immoral.,5 Read as little as possible.,Now read the extract from Henry Millers,The Books in My Life,and compare your answers with the writers.,第9页,Skimming,Browse the passage within,8,minutes to get a rough idea about it.,Answer the questions,of Activity,2,and,3,on page,27,.,Task,第10页,Skimming,Check()the things the writer says about books.,Now work in pairs and decide which of the statements you agree with.,Books _.,1 are living things,2 are easy to obtain,3 can enrich the readers mind and spirit,4 are a readers friends,5 can make friends for the reader,6 should stay on the shelf,7 can be dangerous,8 are like money,9 are all different,10 are rarely original,第11页,Skimming,Choose the best answer to the questions.,1 What does Miller consider to have been an advantage during his writing career?,(a)To have been able to read all the books he wanted.,(b)To have grown up in a room full of books.,(c)To have written without the aid of a library.,(d)The fact that he never wanted to own any books.,2 What did three stars on a book mean in the public library of Millers youth?,(a)Young people werent allowed to read them.,(b)They were the most popular books in the library.,(c)They were intended for children.,(d)They were more exciting than one-star books.,(c),(a),第12页,Skimming,3 Why does Miller hope the star system still exists in public libraries?,(a)It is an efficient system which works well.,(b)It discourages people from reading inappropriate books.,(c)It makes people interested in reading.,(d)It makes it easier for people to recognize books.,4 Why do people lend books,in Millers opinion?,(a)Because they feel the need to share their feelings.,(b)Because its the best way to make a friend.,(c)Because its less risky than lending money.,(d)Because its not possible to possess a book for ever.,(c),(a),第13页,Skimming,5 According to Miller,what should you do when you find a book you want to read?,(a)Pick it up and start reading.,(b)Ask a friend for advice about the book.,(c)Think about whether you really need to read it.,(d)Only read it if it is original.,6 What does Miller especially admire about Blaise Cendrars?,(a)He had a very adventurous life.,(b)He was a great writer.,(c)He knew what to do with his time.,(d)He read as well as wrote a lot.,(c),(d),第14页,They were alive and they spoke to me,译文,Digging,Background information,1,I sit in a little room,one wall of which is now completely lined with books.It is the first time I have had the leisure of working with anything like a collection of books.There are probably no more than 500 in all,but,for the most part,they represent my own choice.It is the first time,since I began my writing career,that I am surrounded with a goodly number of the books I have always longed to possess.The fact,however,that in the past I did most of my work without the aid of a library I,look upon as,an advantage rather than a disadvantage.,第15页,Digging,2,One of the first things I associate with the reading of books is the struggle I,waged,to obtain them.,Not to own them,mind you,but to lay hands on them.From the moment the passion took hold of me I encountered nothing but obstacles.,The books I wanted,at the public library,were always out.,And of course I never had the money to buy them.To get permission from the library in my neighborhood I was 18 or 19 years of age,to borrow such a“,demoralizing,”work as,The,Confession,of a Fool,by,Strindberg,was just impossible.,第16页,译文,Digging,In those days the books which young people were,prohibited,from reading were decorated with stars one,two or three according to the degree of,immorality,attributed to them.,I suspect this procedure still obtains.,I hope so,for I know of nothing better calculated to whet ones,appetite,than this stupid sort of,classification,and prohibition.,第17页,译文,Digging,3,What makes a book live?How often this question arises!The answer,in my opinion,is simple.,A book lives through the passionate recommendation of one reader to another.,Nothing can throttle this basic impulse in the human being.Despite the views of cynics and misanthropes,it is my belief that men will always,strive,to share their deepest experiences.,第18页,译文,Digging,4,Books are one of the few things men cherish deeply.,And the better the man the more easily will he,part with,his most cherished possessions.,A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.Like money,books must be kept in constant circulation.Lend and borrow to the maximum of both books and money!But especially books,for books represent infinitely more than money.A book is not only a friend,it makes friends for you.,When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit,you are enriched.,But when you pass it on you are,enriched,threefold.,第19页,译文,Digging,5,Here an irrepressible impulse seizes me to offer a piece of gratuitous advice.It is this:Read as little as possible,not as much as possible!Oh,do not doubt that I have,envied,those who have drowned in books.I,too,would secretly like to,wade,through all those books I have so long,toyed with,in my mind.But I know it is not important.I know now that I did not need to read even a tenth of what I have read.The most difficult thing in life is to learn to do only what is strictly advantageous to ones welfare,strictly vital.,第20页,译文,Digging,6,There is an excellent way to test this precious bit of advice I have not given,rash,ly.When you,stumble upon,a book you would like to read,or think you ought to read,leave it alone for a few days.But think about it as intensely as you can.Let the title and the authors name,revolve,in your mind.Think what you yourself might have written had the opportunity been yours.Ask yourself earnestly if it be absolutely necessary to add this work to your store of knowledge or your fund of enjoyment.,第21页,译文,Digging,Try to imagine what it would mean to,forego,this extra pleasure or,enlightenment,.Then,if you find you must read the book,observe with what extraordinary,acumen,you tackle it.,Observe,too,that however stimulating it may be,very little of the book is really new to you.If you,are honest with yourself,you will discover that your stature has increased from the mere effort of resisting your impulses.,第22页,译文,Digging,7,Indubitably the vast majority of books overlap one another.Few indeed are those which give the impression of,originality,either in style or in content.Rare are the unique books less than 50,perhaps,out of the whole storehouse of literature.In one of his recent autobiographical novels,Blaise Cendrars,points out that,Rmy de Gourmont,because of his knowledge and awareness of this,repetitive,quality in books,was able to select and read all that is worthwhile in the entire,realm,of literature.Cendrars himself who would suspect it?is a prodigious reader.He reads most authors in their original tongue.,第23页,译文,Digging,Not only that,but when he likes an author he reads every last book the man has written,as well as his letters and all the books that have been written about him.In our day his case is almost,unparalleled,I imagine.For,not only has he read widely and deeply,but he has himself written a great many books.,All,on the side,as it were,.,For,if he is anything,Cendrars,he is a man of action,an adventurer and explorer,a man who has known how to“waste”his time royally.,He is,in a sense,the,Julius Caesar,of literature.,Main idea of the text,第24页,1.,The fact,however,that in the past I did most of my work without the aid of a library I look upon as an advantage rather than a disadvantage.,(Line 9,Para 1),This is irony.Miller is writing about the importance of reading and about the key books in his life,but there is a paradox:Only recently has he been able to get all the,books he has wanted all his life and,as a writer,he wrote books without the help of a library.He says that not having books is an advantage.Probably Millers early writing was a mixture of autobiography and fiction,so he didnt need to read other books or refer to them.The irony is that he is saying this in a book about the books that influenced him.,Difficult sentences,第25页,Difficult sentences,2.,One of the first things I associate with the reading of books is the struggle I waged to obtain them.,(Line 1,Para 2),When I think of reading and books I recall how difficult it was to obtain those books I wanted.,wage a struggle:,to be involved in a struggle.This is based on the phrase“wage war”,which means to fight.,第26页,Difficult sentences,3.,The books I wanted,at the public library,were always out.,(Line 6,Para 2),The books I wanted were often not in the library or out on loan.,第27页,Difficult sentences,4.to borrow such a“demoralizing”work as The Confession of a Fool,by Strindberg,was just impossible.,(Line 10,Para 2),The word“demoralizing”here means that such books as,The Confession of a Fool,were considered bad for the mental development of young people.The word is in quotes(,引号,)as Miller strongly disagrees.,第28页,Difficult sentences,5.,I suspect this procedure still obtains.,(Line 16,Para 2),I suspect this procedure still exists.,第29页,Difficult sentences,6.,A book lives through the passionate recommendation of one reader to another.,(Line 3,Para 3),The“life”of a book depends on the word-of-mouth recommendation of one reader to another,especially if people suggest with strong feelings that the book should be read.,第30页,Difficult sentences,Despite those who have low opinions of humans,I believe humans by nature want to tell others of their most important experiences and feelings.,7.,Despite the views of cynics and misanthropes,it is my belief that men will always strive to share their deepest experiences.,(Line 6,Para 3),第31页,Difficult sentences,8.,And the better the man the more easily will he part with his most cherished possessions.,(Line 2,Para 4),This continues Millers thought that books are for sharing.A good person will share things they love.In this case,such a person will give or lend favourite books to others and such generosity makes friends:When you give books you get friendship.,第32页,Difficult sentences,9.When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit,you are enriched.,(Line 10,Para 4),When you have read a book with careful attention and have really understood its ideas and emotions,you have gained a lot.,第33页,Difficult sentences,10.,observe with what extraordinary acumen you tackle it.,(Line 14,Para 6),If you watch yourself,you will see that you read it with greater intelligence.The“what”clause here is indirect exclamation.Another example:,She saw what a beautiful day it was.,第34页,Difficult sentences,11.,If you are honest with yourself you will discover that your stature has increased from the mere effort of resisting your impulses.,(Line 17,Para 6),Millers argument here is that you should not read everything.Instead,you should choose very carefully,and resist the temptation to read books which are not going to add to your knowledge or enjoyment.In this way,you will grow.The implication is that if we choose the very best books and read them carefully,we will get the best from them and grow by such selection.,your stature has increased:,Here it metaphorically means you have gained.,第35页,Difficult sentences,12.,All on the side,as it were.,(Line 20,Para 7),Cendrars was a man of action who spent most of his time on travels and adventures.Surprisingly(you would think he did not have time),he read a lot in different languages and even wrote many books this was in addition to his main activities.,第36页,Difficult sentences,13.,For,if he is anything,Cendrars,he is a man of action,an adventurer and explorer,a man who has known how to“waste”his time royally.,(Line 21,Para 7),Cendrars had a huge reputation as a man of action,travelling,having adventures and exploring different countries and yet he read a lot he knew how to use the little time available to read.,The word“waste”here is in quotes to show irony(reading isnt a waste of time)that he reads thoroughly and widely.,第37页,wage,释义,vt.,to start and continue a war or fight,发动，进行（战争或斗争）,例句,They waged a price war.,他们打起了价格战。,翻译,Words,例句,Rebels have waged a 12-year war against the government.,叛军已经进行了反政府战争。,翻译,第38页,释义,vt.,to make someone lose confidence or hope,使失去信心；使泄气,Words,例句,The ships crew were now exhausted and utterly demoralized.,这艘船上船员现在都已精疲力竭，彻底丧失了信心。,翻译,例句,One of our objectives is to demoralize the enemy troops in any way,we,can.,我们目标之一就是要用一切可能伎俩打击敌军士气。,翻译,demoralize,第39页,释义,1,n.,C,U a statement that you make to a priest in which you say what bad things you have done and ask to be forgiven,忏悔；告罪,Word
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