精讀3 unit2how reading changed my life

1、How Reading Changed My Life,Anna Quindlen,Tasks,BackgroundGeneral understandingDetailed understanding: words and expressions; difficult sentences; grammarWriting techniquesFurther discussionWriting task and exercise

2、s,Background,Victorian English This refers to the period between 1837-1901 when Queen Victoria ruled Britain. The term “Victorian” ----- the style of buildings and furniture of the period; the strict moral att

3、itude toward sex …..,,? Middlemarch The masterpiece of the British woman writer George Eliot (1819-1880) 喬治 ?艾略特? A Little Princess By Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) 伯內(nèi)特, an English playwright and author.,

4、,Anna Karenina 《安妮?卡列尼娜》 By the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).托爾斯泰,,A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens ( 1812-1870), an English writer and social critic of Victorian period.,,? Gone with the Wind 《飄》

5、 By Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) 瑪格麗特?米切爾, American writer.? Rebecca 《蝴蝶夢》 By British Writer, Daphne du Maurier (1907-1990) 達夫妮?杜?穆里埃,,Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte (1819-1855), one of the three Bronte sister

6、s who wrote some of the famous novels in all of British literatureWuthering Heights 《呼嘯山莊》 by Emily BronteAgnes Grey《阿格尼斯?格雷》  by Anne Bronte,,Anne of Green Gables 《綠山墻的安妮》 by Canadian writer, L. M. Mo

7、ntgomery (1874-1942) 露西?莫德?蒙哥馬利,,? Heidi By Swiss writer, Johanna Spyri 約翰娜?施皮里? The Great Gatsby 《了不起的蓋茨比》 By American writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald 佛蘭西斯·史考特·基·費茲杰羅,,Robinson Crusoe by British

8、 writer Daniel Defoe (1660-1730)Moby-Dick 《白鯨》 By American writer Herman Melville (1819-1891)赫爾曼·麥爾維爾Pride and Prejudice By British writer Jane Austen (1775-1817)To Kill a Mockingbird《殺死一只知更鳥》 By A

9、merican writer Harper Lee,General Understanding,Why does the author read?How has reading changed her life?How does she comment on people’s reading in her adulthood?,Outline,I grew up in a quiet neighborhood where I dev

10、eloped the habit of reading as a small child. (Para.1)My experiences as an avid reader in two periods. (Para.2-15) A. An avid reader in childhood and adolescence. (Para.2-9) 1) I wandered the world and learned

11、 about people through books. (Para.2-4) 2) I preferred to reading to playing outside doors with peers. (Para.5-6) 3) Though books, I learned about myself, my wishes and my dreams. (Para.7-8) 4) I read beca

12、use I loved it more than anything else in the world. (Para.9) B. Remaining an avid reader in adulthood in an unfavorable environment. (Para.10-15) 1) It is believed that reading should serve a useful purpose a

13、nd aimless reading is discouraged. (Para.10-11) 2) Reading is being replaced by TV and the movies. (Para.12-13) 3) The reading population has become a minority group. (Para.14-15)3. Despite the decline of re

14、ading, there are still bookworms like me among ordinary people. (Para.16-18),DETAILED READING,Guessing in the contextDifficult sentencesWriting techniquesGrammar,Guessing the meanings according to the context,… some o

15、f the other girls at my table were perplexed by the source of the quotation and what it meant.One poem committed to memory in grade school survives in my mind.While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the tru

16、th is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where life is, wh

17、o think themselves superior in their separateness.,For many journalists, reading in the latter half of the twentieth century was most often couched as a series of problems to be addressed.This was always couched in ter

18、ms of taste, ….We are the people who saw to it that Pride and Prejudice never went out of print.,Difficult Sentences,By the time I became an adult, I realized that while my satisfaction in the sheer act of reading had

19、not abated in the least, the world was often as hostile, or as blind, to that joy as had been my girlfriend banging on our screen door, begging me to put down the book… (Para.10)It was still in the equivalent of the clu

20、b chairs that we found one another: at the counters on the bookstores with our arms full, at the front desks in libraries, at school, where teachers introduced us to one another…… (Para.16)There also arose, as I was gr

21、owing up, a kind of careerism in the United States that sanctioned reading only if there was some point to it. (Para.12),? Whereas an executive might learn far more from Moby-Dick, the book he was expected to have read m

22、ight be The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. (Para.12)? The movies consumed so large a part of the leisure of the country that little time is left for other things. (Para.14),Writing Technique,Alliteration: Al

23、literation is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables. Also known as: initial rhyme.Examples: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. The wild winds of wint

24、er Hale and hearty,Grammar,If, if only, if not, only if, what if if only: used to say that you wish sth was true or that sth had happened only if: used to state the only situation in which sth can happen if not: u

25、sed to introduce an even stronger alternative to what has just been said what if: used to ask about sth that could happen in the future There be (Page47),Further Discussion,The author advocates reading is just for p