精读4配套课件unit1

“His work is characterized by exploration of 'the darkness
of man's heart', deep spiritual and ethical questions.”
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Author
His Influence
"Twenty-five years ago I accepted the label 'pessimist' thoughtlessly without realising that it was going to be tied to my tail… Critics have dug into my books until they could come up with something that looked hopeless. I can't think why. I don't feel hopeless myself… Under some critical interrogation I named myself a universal pessimist but a cosmic
optimist…”
At the Nobel Prize Reception
To listen to his Nobel lecture, please visit
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/19
83/golding-lecture.html
Thinking as a Hobby
William Golding
Thinking as a Hobby
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Thinking as a Hobby
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Questions / Activities Check-on Preview Objectives
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
• Did he change his idea later? • Why couldn’t he communicate with the headmaster? • What was the conclusion he came to in the end?
• Writing & Language
• Appreciate the use of humor, sarcasm, and exaggeration • Analyze the rhetorical devices used: similes, metaphors;
metonymy, parallelism, etc.
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Text Analysis Structure
The first part: p1-15 Introduction The second part: p16-24 Grade-three thinking The third part:p25-29 Grade-two thinking The fourth part:p30-35 Grade-one thinking
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Background
Author
His most well-known work: Lord of the Flies (1954)
His Works
About a group of small British boys who lapse into violence after they have been stranded on a desert island and lost all adult guidance.
– Grade-two thinking, though it filled life with fun and excitement, did not make for content. (Para. 29)
Warming up Objectives
• Content:
• Understand the author’s classification of three grades of thinking • Summarize the characteristics of each grade of thinking • Comment on the author’s classification • Solve your own questions about the story
Warming up
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Warming up Questions / Activities
First, let’s THINK about the title for a while:
What do you do for a hobby? What does a hobby mean for you? What does the author mean by saying “thinking as a hobby”? What kind of content did you expect or predict with such a title? Has the text met your expectation or has it given you a surprise?
• What would he do when he found himself in a penal position before the headmaster’s desk?
• What would he see when he was demanded to look up? • How did he describe the three statuettes?
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Warming up Check-on Preview (2)
• Paraphrase:
– If either happened to be prominent in current affairs, no argument could make Mr. Houghton think well of it. (Para. 21)
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Part I words & expressions
• Statuette (para. 2) • Nothing but: only (para. 2) • Lest (subjunctive mood in its clause) (para. 2) • In a position to: to be able to do (para. 2) • Next to (para. 2) • Being natural (para. 3) • If anything: on the contrary (para. 4) • endow…with…(para. 15) • “there + be” pattern
Ironically the adult world is devastated by nuclear war.
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Human nature is inherently corruptible and wicked ?? TR
Background
Author
Some other works
1964
• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -- John Locke
• Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. -- Ernest Dimne
• Can you briefly introduce the two characters: the headmaster & the boy?
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
For Further Thought In the original essay, Golding mentioned he later changed the positions of the three statuettes and also told us if he had had chance again, he would rearranged them in a different way. Besides the humorous effect, does it imply anything else? How would you arrange the three statuettes?
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Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Comprehension Qs Students’ Activities Words & Expressions Exercise
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Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Do you like the text? Have you ever considered thinking as a hobby?
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Warming up Check-on Preview (1)
• Definition:
– Argument flagged. (Para. 26)
– I was given the third degree to find out what had happened. (Para. 28)
Section I (Para. 1 – Para. 15) At the headmaster’s office
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Don’t you ever think at all?
Then you’d better learn – hadn’t you?
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Structure
Detailed Analysis
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Text Analysis
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Text Analysis Theme
• What is the central idea of the text? • Who was the author addressing to? • What was his purpose?
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Background Memorable Quotes
What do people say about THINKING?
• Learning without thought is labor lost.
-- Confucius
• Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed (一株会思考的芦苇). -- Blaise Pascal
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Thinking as a Hobby
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William Golding (1911 – 1993), British writer,
1983 Nobel Prize Winner
That’s what a man looks like when he’s really
thinking.
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Comprehension Qs
• Why was he a frequent visitor to the headmaster’s study?