Unit 1 The written world Reading(2)：Appreciating literature 课件（30张PPT）

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Module 8 Unit 1 The written word
Reading Appreciating literature

1. What classic literature is;
2. Something about Charles Dickens and one of his representative works: Great Expectations;
3. How to appreciate literature and learn the main elements of a novel.
objectives
Chinese classic literature
A Dream of Red Mansions
All Men Are Brothers
Lead-in
Chinese classic literature
Romance of Three Kingdoms
Journey to the West
Lead-in
William Thackeray
Vanity Fair
<<名利场>>
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
<<傲慢与偏见>>
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
<<简爱>>
What is classic literature exactly?
Lead-in
Module 8 Unit 1 Reading
Appreciating Literature


Today, we’ll focus on the novel Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens, an example of ___________.
classics
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?

4. What makes a good persuasive essay?
Reading strategy:
reading a persuasive essay
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
change our minds about classic literature.

she gives us interesting facts about Charles Dickens and his book, Great Expectations, which makes us want to read the book at the end of the essay.
4. What makes a good persuasive essay?
It gives enough information to make readers interested but not enough to give away the story.
Skimming

The structure of the text
Part one:
information about
Part two:
information about
Part three:
information about
classic literature
Charles Dickens
the book Great expectations
Scanning
What is classic literature?
Classics are the _______ of the literary world. They are well-written works in ______ of novels, plays and poems .They are ________of great writing and _______.
antiques
examples
wisdom
read paragraph 1 to 3
forms
Part 1
Do many people like reading classic literature? Why ?


Language characteristics are different from modern work, making them hard to read
They are boring and old
They have nothing to do with life today.
Part 1
A positive B negative C neutral
What is the author’s attitude towards it ?

Classics haven’t disappeared and still have a place in the world
Many successful films are adapted from classics
Part 1
An example of classic literature
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Part 2
What is written on Charles Dickens’s gravestone?
Charles Dickens : “England’s greatest writer ”

① Charles Dickens was ________ in Portsmouth , England in _______.
② He ______ in 1870.

③ ___________ , _______________ and _________________ are his best- known works .

④ For people of his time, his stories were ____________ to the soap operas that are seen on TV today.

By his death, one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world.
born
1812
died
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
similar
Part 2
read paragraph 4
Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in Portsmouth, England. He had a happy
childhood after his family moved to Chatham
At the age of 12, Dickens had to leave school
because his father was imprisoned for debt. The poverty and adversity Dickens experienced as a child greatly influenced his later views on social reform. Before his death on 9 June 1870, he wrote about 15 major novels and many short stories, most of which are famous for their surprise endings.
Introduction to Dickens
Part 2
What are the main elements of a novel?


1 characters 2. plot 3. setting

4. symbol 5. theme






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





Read Para.5-9 and match the elements on the left with the correct examples on the right.
read paragraph
5 to 9
Part 3
Find out the character development of Pip:

At 7: .
A twist : .
In London:
___________________________________________________________
and hoped _____________________________________.
In the end,
he __________________________
_________________________________________
a criminal appeared and frightened him
got a big fortune from a stranger
became vain and ashamed of his background because of money and education
to be a gentleman and win Estella's love
understood wealth does not buy happiness and that friends are more important than a fancy education
Part 3
1. If some stranger gave you a big fortune, what your life would be ? Would you enjoy it?
2. If you were asked to recommend a book to a friend, what book would you choose? Why?



Discussion
and after the Civil War. It is one of the most successful best-sellers ever written. With Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell taught us, ‘Tomorrow is another day.’
I recommend Gone with the Wind. It was written by Margaret Mitchell. It is about the spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in during
for example
Writing task
Summary of this essay
(35--45words)
This essay is about…….
It gives……and explains why .....
The author also gives……and…….
The author tends to …….
Possible version of summary
The author tends to call on more people to read Classics by mentioning that classics are well-written works with great wisdom. One of them is Charles Dickens' Great Expectations which discusses what it really means to be a gentleman through the story of Pip.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Homework :

Search for more information about Great Expectations
Read a book of foreign classic literature.
Thank you !