新世纪研究生公共英语教材阅读A unit 1.ppt

1、Unit One,A Young Boys Ambition Mark Twain,I. Warm-up,Discuss your greatest ambition in groups and then select one student to present it.,1. About the author,2. Background information,3. Rhetoric in the text,4. Text Learning,5. Translation Practice,Contents,II. Background Information,Mark Twain-Samue

2、l Langhorne Clemens Personal data Pseudonym (s): Mark Twain Born: November 30, 1835 Florida, Missouri Died: April 21, 1910 Redding, Connecticut Occupation(s): American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer Nationality: American Genre(s): Historical fiction, non-fiction, satire,Quotations by Mark

3、Twain,A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity - another mans I mean. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Always do right. This wil

4、l gratify some people and astonish the rest. Do something every day that you dont want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.,Mark Twain House, 351 Farmi

5、ngton Avenue, Hartford, Hartford County, CT - Interior, first floor, library, east wall with fireplace and mantle, without scale.,Background Information,Life on the Mississippi a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil

6、 War.,Mississippi River Map,Steamboat,Steamboat,A Young Boys Ambition,When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition ,1. Please describe the streets of the village before the steamboat arrived. Dead decorate sth.; state of being famous or distinguished; moving, touching the feelings of; weak

7、, fragile.,Vocabulary Quiz,lasting for only a short time, brief; greatness, magnificence; sincerely, warm-heartedly; deliberate infliction of injury upon the persons form whom injury has been received; suffering or death caused by lack of food.,Vocabulary Quiz,very great in size, amount or degree; m

8、ake sb. higher in rank; a public entertainment consisting typically of a variety of performances by acrobats, clowns, and trained animals. strike with the palm of the hand, smack; get sb. To do sth. By kindness or patience.,Vocabulary Quiz,make sth. easy or less difficult; calm, quiet and undisturbed; someone who works for a skilled person for a fixed period in order to learn his or her trade; move forward suddenly and quickly; too tired to show interest or do anything.,Vocabulary Quiz,be half asle