Advice to Youth.ppt

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,*,Mark Twain,Advice to Youth,Preparation,I.Activity One:,How different are you from your parents?,Questionnaire,1)What kind of music do you like?,And how about your parents?Can you list some singers that they like?,Pop music both in China and western countries:,R&B,Rock n Roll,Disco Music,Electronic Music,Heavy Metal,Rap,Most folk songs in China,USSR songs,2)What kind of clothes do you like to wear?What do your parents think of your taste?,3)Whats your favorite pastime?Whats your parents favorite pastime?,4),You would like to choose _as a profession.,Your parents would like you to choose_ as a profession.,5),When choosing a job after graduation,you think the most important factor is_.,Your parents think the most important factor is_.,6),When choosing a future husband or wife,the most important quality you will look for is _.,The most important quality your parents look for is_.,Activity 2 College Pressures,Although we,young people,live a more comfortable life than our parents did at the same age,it doesnt mean that our life is easier.Each generation faces different types of stress.,Now,you,as a college student,are also under great,pressure,or face your own,trouble,.Can you say something about the pressure or trouble you have?,1).,Academic records,2).Financial trouble,3).,Loneliness,4).Finding a girl or boy friend,5).,Fierce competition,6).Career,Satire,a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness,often with the intent of correcting or changing the subject of the satiric attack,Lets read a master at the art of satire.,Question,Mark Twain is the master of satire.What do you know about Mark Twain?Can you list some of his best novels?Which one do you like best?Why?,Mark Twain（18351910），novelist,one of the best known American writers in the 19th century,one of Americas great humorists and social critics,Mark Twain was born in Missouri in the middle part of the United States.His hometown lay on the banks of the Mississippi River，where he spent his childhood.,When he grew up he worked as a pilot on a river boat for some time.Mark Twain(,Samuel Langhorne Clemens,)is his pen name.He took it from the shout of the sailors measuring the depth of the water when the water was two marks deep on the lead line.,Mark Twain wrote a lot of novels.,The Gilded Age,is about the 1800s era of corruption and exploitation at the expense of public welfare.,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,(1876)is the masterpiece which brought him fame and honor.,The Prince and the Pauper,(1882),The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,(1885),By 1885,Twain was considered one of the greatest character writers in the literary community.,Some of his writings have been translated into many languages.He and his works are deeply loved by readers throughout the world.,Twain died on April 21,1910,having survived his children as well as his wife.In his lifetime,he was honored by Yale,the University of Missouri,and Oxford with literary degrees.,Perhaps more than any other classic American writer,Mark Twain is seen as a phenomenal author,but also as a personality that defined an era.,Mark Twain wrote Advice to Youth in 1882.Mark Twains“Advice to Youth About 1882”is a little bit of Twains sage advice for the instruction of the young.He was asked to give a speech suitable for the youth,of America,.,Basically it was just meant to be something to be educational and useful in life.,Mark Twains Advice to Youth?,1.Always obey your parents,when they are present.This is the best policy in the long run,because if you dont they will make you.Most parents think they know better than you do,and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.,2.Be respectful to your superiors,if you have any,also to strangers,and sometimes to others.Always avoid violence;in this age of charity and kindliness,the times has gone by for such things.Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.,3.Go to bed early and get up early-this is wise.It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark.,4.You want to be very careful about lying;otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.Once caught,you can never again be,in the eyes of the good and the pure,what you were before.Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill-finished lie,the result of carelessness born of incomplete training.,5.Never handle firearms carelessly.The sorrow and suffering that have been caused through the innocent but heedless handling of firearms by the young!,6.Be careful in your selection of books,and confine yourselves exclusively to good ones.,One very obvious strategy that Twain uses is humor.By doing so,Twain really captures the young audience that he was expected to speak to.Even as Twain begins his speech,he starts on a lighter note.In a way,the advice that Twain gives is sort of mocking the traditional rules that you are told when you are young.,我心里有些话一直想一吐为快，好用以指导青年人。因为只有在一个人年轻之时，这些话才能更好地在内心扎根，产生最为持久的影响，同时也最具价值。年轻的朋友们，首先我要对你们说,我也要诚恳地、急切地告诫你们：,didactic:morally instructive,Mark Twain starts off by saying that you should always listen to what your parents say even if you dont agree because if you try to rebel against them youll just get into an argument and after being punished youll be forced to do what they said anyway.It doesnt matter whether youre right or not;just listen to them.,当着父母的面，要永远服从他们。如果从长计议，这是最佳选择。因为即便你不服从，他们也会迫使你服从。大多数的家长都认为他们比你懂得多，而你如果顺从他们，则往往要比按照自己更正确的判断行事，更容易取得好的效果。,humor:comply with the wishes or ideas of,The first piece of advice that he gives is to obey your parents;however,he,th,e,n adds in the line,“when they are present.”By saying this Twain,might be,poking fun at the youth.,W,hat Twain was trying to say,might be,that people who claim that they obey,th,eir,parents,really dont.Maybe when,th,eir,parents are around they are polite and courteous.,如果你有上级的话,要尊重他们,当然还要尊重陌生人,有时还要尊敬其他人。如果有人冒犯你，而你不确定这种冒犯是否故意，就不要采取极端措施。你只需瞅准时机，狠狠给他一下子，那就够了。万一发现他并非有意冒犯，你就要坦诚地站出来，承认自己的错误，像个男子汉一样坦白对他的报复，并说明自己绝非有意如此。对，要始终避免暴力。在这个宽容友好的年代，,暴力已经与这个时代的主题不符了,。将火药留给那些低俗的、没教养的人。,要早睡早起,这是明智之举。有权威人士说要日出而起；也有人说应该与这个或那个同起。但我觉得最好是和百灵鸟同起。倘若人们知道你与百灵鸟一样早起,会对你印象颇佳,;,倘若你得到一只百灵鸟,并好好饲养,当然你就能训练它每天九点半起床,我的确没有骗你们。,clumsy:gauche,temperate:restrained,peerless:being such as to have no match;incomparable,Truth is mighty,and will prevail.,真理是有力的，将战胜一切。,The Ether Monument,Boston,USA,He then starts talking about how you should read a lot,but that you should be careful of what you choose to read.He says you should only read good books.Reading is always a good thing to do.,书有很多种，但适合青年人看的书才算是好书。记住这一点。好书是难以估量的巨大财富，读好书是一种绝佳的、难以言表的进步方式。因此，年轻的朋友们，要谨慎选择图书，要非常谨慎才行。,At last he says that if you listen to his advice you will be a good person.Do you agree with his statement?,gratify:please or satisfy,我已经说的差不多了。希望你们将我的指导铭记在心，作为自己的行动指南、指路明灯。大家要修身养性、奋力进取。这样，等到最终修成正果，你会惊喜地发现，你的品行和周围其他人是多么惊人地相似。,Post-reading Question,What is Mark Twains writing style in this essay?,What do you think of the advice given by Mark Twain?And which one do you think is suitable to you?,Writing Style,In“Advice to Youth”,Mark Twain,s style and tone really capture,s,his audience.Twain,s humor enables the young audience to relate to what he is saying.This humor also helps them to connect with the speaker by allowing them to feel more,comfortable.,Twain also uses repetition in a unique way that causes his speech to have a specific structure,that further enhances his writing.,Assignment,Suppose youre older than your age now.Please imitate Mark Twains humorous tone and write some advice to todays youth or write about their/your life with at least 120 words.,