Unit 1 Knowing me, knowing you Developing Ideas 课件(共15张PPT) 2021-2022学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第三册

(共15张PPT)


After an English test....
Little White Lies
While-reading
1.Scan through the article. (2min)
What is the definition of white lies
Para. 2 …most of the lies we tell are “white lies”:
little lies that we tell to protect others from the truth.

2. How does the author organize the text
Introduction
Main Body (analysis of examples)
Conclusion
P1-4
P5-7
P8
What question does the writer want to answer
To what extent can we justify telling white lies
to show or prove sth. is right, reasonable or necessary
2. How does the author organize the text
Introduction
Main Body (analysis of examples)
Conclusion
Reason 1
To make others feel better.
Examples
Someone’s cooking a meal that we don’t like, but we say it’s delicious.
Someone’s haircut is awful, but we say it’s great.
Analysis
Perhaps we lie to protect ourselves from the disappointment and anger of others.
2. How does the author organize the text
Introduction
Main Body (analysis of examples)
Conclusion
Reason 2
To give encouragement.
Example
You say your friend’s singing is wonderful, despite thinking your cat can sing better.
Analysis
Perhaps your friend wants some frank comments from you so that they can improve.
Perhaps they need to know they should look for a different hobby.
2. How does the author organize the text
Introduction
Main Body (analysis of examples)
Conclusion
Reason 3
To protect others from bad news.
Example
You’ve had a bad day, but you hide your tears and lie to your parents that your day was “fine”.
Analysis
Perhaps your parents would want to listen to you and understand your feelings.
2. How does the author organize the text
Introduction
Main Body (analysis of examples)
Conclusion
Even white lies may have results we cannot predict. So we should not tell lies even if they are white lies. Honesty is an important value and lying is wrong.
Read the last paragraph aloud.
Telling white lies is not right.
v.s.
Para.8
3. Why is Para.8 a better wrap-up than a simple statement
Para. 1
Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
Para. 8
Going back to Walter Scott’s lines, we may find...
echo
What’s your understanding of the lines
It represents a complicated situation, in which
once we tell a lie, we have to continue to tell more
other lies in order to cover the previous ones.
Would your friend trust you….if he found….
How would you expect…if you only…
How would you feel if you…
Why does the writer repeat the questions
To empathize &
To make it easier for readers to consider/accept his opinion.
Is honesty always the best policy
Post-reading: 2. Make a mini-speech.
Introduction
Main Body (analysis of examples)
Conclusion
State your opinion.
Support your opinion with examples.
End with your conclusion.
__________ (write) more than two hundred years ago, these lines by ….
We’ve all surely had the experience of someone ____________ (cook) a meal for us that we don’t like.
Or if a friend asks us _______ we think of their new haircut, we say “It’s great!”
Written
cooking
what
4. But ______ what extent can we justify telling white lies
5. Say for example that your friend asks…
to suggest or give sth as an example or a possibility 比方说；假设
You could learn the basics in, let's say , three months.
比方说，三个月你就可以掌握基本知识。
Let's take any writer, say (= for example) Dickens…
我们随便举一个作家为例，比如说狄更斯…
Say you lose your job: what would you do then
假设你把工作丢了，那你怎么办呢？
to
6. You of course say that it’s wonderful, despite secretly _________ (think) that your cat can sing better.
7. 提前
in advance
thinking