新外研九英上M7 Great Books U1.ppt

1、Module 7,Great books 名著 Unit 1 Were still influenced by Confuciuss ideas.,He is Confucius. knfju:s 孔 子,He is a great thinker.ik 思想家,We are still influenced influns影响by his ideas.,His thoughts are wise.waiz睿智的,Shakespeare,He is a great writer.,He wrote poems(诗歌) and plays(戏剧).,His plays also make sen

2、sesens 有意义to us today.,His great tragedies 悲剧,Hamlet 哈姆莱特,Othello 奥塞罗,King Lear 李尔王,Macbeth 麦克白,Do you know his four great tragedies? What are their titles?,His great comedies 喜剧,The Merchant of Venice 威尼斯商人,As you like it 皆大欢喜,Twelfth Night 第十二夜,A Midsummer Nights Dream 仲夏夜之梦,Do you know his four g

3、reat comedies? What are their titles?,Mark Twain,He is a well-known welnn 著名的American writer.,He wrote many stories.,Listen and complete the sentences,Coufucius is well-known in _,Shakespear wrote _,Mark Twains stories are set _of the US.,many countries,plays and poems,in the south,1.Whose ideas are

4、 we still influenced by today? 2. Whose plays are read by many people today? 3.Who is the writer of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?,Confucius,Shakespeare,Listen and answer the questions.,Mark Twain,1.What does Mr Jackson think of Confucius? 2. What does Mr Jackson think of Shakespeare? 3.What do Mr Ja

5、ckson and Betty think of Mark Twain?,Listen again and answer the questions.,1. Whats up? 怎么了？ 是一种非正式用语。相当于Whats wrong? / Whats the matter? / What happened? / Whats going on? e.g. Whats up? Why is the baby crying? 怎么了？为什么婴儿在哭？,Language points,2. I accept that theyre great because their works are stil

6、l read by many people. work n. 著作；作品 (既可以指文字作品，也可以指音乐、美术等作品) e.g. He is making a study of Lu Xuns works. 他在研究鲁迅的作品。,3. I think Id describle Confucius more as a teacher and thinker than a writer. thinker n. 思想家 describle . as . 把.描述为. eg:After the operations her condition was describled as stable. 手术

7、后，她的状况可以说还算稳定。 more. than. 与其说是.不如说是. eg:Success is more hard work than good luck.,4. Were still influenced by Confuciuss ideas, and Shakespeares plays also make a lot of sense to us today. influence vt.影响,感化;左右 eg: I dont want to influence you. You must decide for yourself. 我不想影响你。你必须自行决定。 make sen

8、se “ 易理解，合情理，有意义” eg：Why did she do such a thing? It does not seem to make sense. 她为什么做这样的事？似乎没有道理,sense of touch/sight/hearing/smell/taste 触（视，听，嗅，味）觉 come to ones sense恢复理智，恢复知觉 in a sense 从某种意义上 there is no sense in doing sth做某事没有道理,Sense的其他用法,5. I suppose he isnt as well-known as Confucius or Sh

9、akespeare. suppose 猜想，推测，认为， 相信 be supposed to do sth 应该做某事 eg. You are not supposed to smoke here. 你不应该在这吸烟。,1. Confucius,2. Shakespeare,3. Mark Twain,Practice 1. Match the people with the descriptions,a)He was a very wise man .,b)He is not as well-known as the other two people, but his works are s

10、till popular.,c)His plays are read by millions of people.,d)He was more a teacher and thinker than a writer.,e)People are still influenced by his ideas.,Watch a flash and fill in the blanks,accept, discuss, influence, review, sense, thinker, wise,Mr Jackson and Betty are(1) _ great writers. Betty ex

11、plains that in her Internet group, each person reads a favourite book and then writes a(n) (2)_of it. Mr Jackson (3) _ Confucious and Shaksespeare are great because their works are still read by people today, but he thinks Confucious was more a teacher and (4)_than a writer. He says that Confucious was a very (5)_man.Mr Jackson thinks that we are still (6)_ by Confuciouss ideas and tha