牛津译林版(2019)必修 第二册 Unit4 Exploring literature课件

Oliver Twist is about a boy named Oliver Twist, who escapes from an orphanage (孤儿 院) and meets a gang of pickpockets (扒手) in London. The novel is one of Dickens’s most well-known works, and has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations (改编).
Do you like reading? What kind of books do you like to read?
• genres • famous writers and works • famous quotes
Can you tell something about the authors?
Jane Austen Charles Dickens William Shakespeare
Great Expectations 《远大前程》
Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》
Pride and prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》
Do you know these authors and their works?
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Charles Dickens is one of England’s most famous novelists. He described life in the middle of the 19th century, a period that is now called Victorian, as it is when Queen Victoria ruled Britain. Many of Dickens’ novels take place in London. His popular works are: David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
—Ezra Pound
Get to know the two authors. Get to know the works of the two authors. Talk about some of the great books you’ve read. Think about the impact literary classics have had on your life.
It’s Dickens’s most popular novels and was his own “favorite child.” The work is semiautobiographical, Dickens related early personal experiences that had meant much to him—his work in a factory, his schooling and reading, and his emergence from parliamentary (议会的) reporting into successful novel writing.
The novel is about a young Latina woman coming of age in Chicago, has sold more than two million copies. Cisneros has received numerous awards for her work, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Texas Medal of the Arts. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
I have devoted myself to completely; that in
great aims and in small, I have always been
thoroughly in earnest.
adj. 非常认真的;真诚的
—David Copperfield,
by Charles Dickens
Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and
most things that are beautiful. Still, we take
what we can get and make the best of it.
n. 蝴蝶
—The House on Mango Street,
What’s literatபைடு நூலகம்re?
Literature: written artistic works, particularly those with a high and lasting artistic value. Literature is the art that uses language as a medium.
The House on Mango Street
It is comprised of 44 short character sketches, or stories, called vignettes. They are narrated by Esperanza, who just moved with her family to Mango Street, in the barrio. Esperanza hates their house on Mango Street because it is not a “real” house, like the ones she’s seen on TV.
You can never have too much sky. You can fall
asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky
can keep you safe when you are sad. Here
there is too much sadness and not enough sky.
Dickens’ works
David Copperfield goes from a happy home until his mother marries again. He’s sent to school. When his mother dies, he runs away to his aunt, who sends him to another. He makes more friends and falls in love, but hard times goes. His aunt and his friends lose their money to a fraud (诈骗). His nanny Peggotty’s family, whom David has loved, is also in trouble. David’s wife dies as well. In the end, everything is resolved. The money is returned; Peggotty’s family sets out on a new adventure; David remarries, to his friend Agnes, and begins his new career as a writer.
Have you read these two books?
Read the excerpts below from two famous works of literature and discuss the following questions in pairs.
Classics can stand the test of time.
Sandra Cisneros’s great works:
The House on Mango Street (1984) Poems (1984) My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1987) Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) Have You Seen Marie? (2012)
by Sandra Cisneros,
What message is conveyed in the two excerpts? The excerpt from David Copperfield shows the main character’s passion for whatever he is doing. The other excerpt from The House on Mango Street introduces the concept of making full use of what we have now.
致力,专心,献身
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have
tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart
to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to,
What is your favorite work of literature? Why?
Of the many works of literature I have read, my
favorite is The Gadfly by the Irish writer Ethel
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Which of the excerpts makes you feel like reading the whole book? Why? The second excerpt makes me feel like reading the whole book because I think the language the author uses is simple but beautiful. I particularly like her description of the sky keeping us safe when we are sad.
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros, (born December 20, 1954, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American shortstory writer and poet best known for her groundbreaking evocation of Mexican American life in Chicago. She is a Latina American novelist who wrote the bestselling novel The House on Mango Street.