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Shaw, George Bernard (1856~1950), Irish playwright, critic and novelist, is widely considered the greatest British dramatist since Shakespeare and the greatest British satirist since Swift. Shaw’s plays often ridicule governmental or social hypocrisies or mock the conventions of polite society. In the long prefaces to the printed editions he aired his views on all sorts of subjects. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Among his most famous plays are Widowers’ Houses (1892), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1898), Arms and the Man (1898), Man and Superman (1905), Major Barbara (1905), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923).
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Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
Homage to Catalonia (1938) Animal Farm (1945) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
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George Orwell
1903~1950
India
British
serving with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (1922~1927) living in poverty after his return to Europe fighting in the Spanish Civil War on the republican side and was severely wounded
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Warm-up Questions 1. How did people think of the shape of the earth in history?
flat, oval, sphere, pear-shaped
the greatest British dramatist since Shakespeare and the greatest British satirist since Swift
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Orwell, George (1903~1950), pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, British novelist and essayist, whose brilliant reporting and political conscience fashioned an impassioned picture of his life and times. His best-known novels are Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Throughout his career as a writer, Orwell stresses the importance of truth and objectivity, and the need to be willing to question the trustworthiness of those from whom we take our opinions and beliefs.
2. What do you think is the shape of the earth? Can you give any evidence to support your view?
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1. Warm-up Questions 2. Background Information
George Orwell George Bernard Shaw The Flat Earth Theory and the Round Earth Theory Eclipses Playing Cards 3. Topic-related Prediction 4. An English Song
Widowers’ Houses (1892) Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1898) Arms and the Man (1898) Man and Superman (1905) Major Barbara (1905) Pygmalion (1913) Saint Joan (1923)
Warm-up Questions 3. Where do you get most of your knowledge, from experiments or from books?
4. Do you think everything in books worth believing? Did you ever question the book knowledge? Why or why not?
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George Bernard Shaw
1856~1950
Ireland
the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925)