牛津版Module8_ Unit1 Word power精品课件(共38张PPT)

He is the most famous playwright in the world, using about 21,000 different words in his plays.
He also wrote a lot of poems.
W. William Shakespeare (1564～1616)
journalist
biography
a book that tells what has happened in someone's life, written by someone else
biographer
autobiography
a book in which someone writes about their own life
What kind of literary work would you like to read? Why?
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
writing 6. to plan roughly on paper 7. to change writing until it is suitable for
its purpose
B compile compose correct draft edit rewrite write
Discussion
• focus on feelings
1.Great Expectations 2. poetry
3. short story
4. short story writer 5. Romeo& Juliet 6. playwright
7. Charles Dickens 8. John Keats
work genre writer
--- Francis Bacon
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则需咀嚼消化。
Homework
Surf the Internet for your favorite writer and his/ her works, and then write a brief introduction.
Proverbs
romance
Victor Hugo(雨果)
Literature
• only a few characters • a simple plot
short story writer
1. Who is Katherine Mansfield?
2. What are her famous works?
Word power
Goals
1. To learn some words related to literature
2. To gain some basic knowledge of different genres(体裁) of literature
3. To get familiar with some famous literary figures and their works
• As fair thou art, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry.
• Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun; And I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run.
All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players. --- William Shakespeare
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
--- John Keats
Any mountain peaks can be conquered with strong
• And fare thee weel, my only luve, And fare thee weel a while; And I will come again, my luve, Tho'it were ten thousand mile!
poetry • repeated rhythm
Ode to a nightingale
poetry
John Keats poet
Categories of literature
news story news article
reporspapers or on the radio or television
Revision
Charles Dickens
(1812~1870)
novelist
elements of the novel
characters setting symbol theme plot
genre
best-sellers
science fiction
J.K. Rowling
perseverance.
--- Charles Dickens
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
---Katherine Mansfield
Logo
autobiographer
Practice
Use what we have known to finish an introduction to different categories of literature on page 7.
Matching game!
A 1. to write something again, to change or
3. What’s Miss Brill about?
It’s a moving story about a lonely English woman living in Paris.
Fast reading
Katherine Mansfield
Drama • speech
• action
Enjoy a drama, and try to find the typical features of a drama.
Great Expectations
novel
Miss Brill
short story
Charles Dickens
Katherine Mansfield
Romeo & Juliet
drama
Shakespeare
profession
novelist
short story playwright writer

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John Keats
poetry
poem poet
Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
• O my luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my luve is like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune!
improve it 2. to put letters or words on paper 3. to create a poem or music 4. to gather pieces of writing together into
a single book 5. to remove the mistakes from a piece of