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1、The Future of the English J . B. Priestley,Aims:,1) Improving students ability to read between lines and understand the text properly; 2) Cultivating students ability to make a creative reading; 3) Enhancing students ability to appreciate the text from different perspectives,Aims,4) Helping students
2、 to understand some difficult words and expressions; 5) Helping students to understanding rhetorical devices; 6) Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately.,Teaching Contents,Background Knowledge Exposition and Argument Detailed Study of The Essay Organization Pattern
3、Style and Language Features,Time Allocation:,1) Background knowledge (15 min.) 2) Detailed study of the text (180 min.) 3) Structure analysis (15 min.) 4) Language appreciation (15 min.) 5) Free talk (30 min),Exposition and Argument,1) Type of literature: part exposition and part persuasion or argum
4、ent http:/teachnetlab.org/santab/jeff/sbargue_index.html http:/homepages.iol.ie/laoistec/LENGLISH/lpers.html,Difference between exposition and argument Difference between persuasion and argument Honest persuasion and dishonest persuasion Formal argument and informal argument,Background Knowledge,1)
5、About the Author and His Works 1) A brief introduction to the author, Priestley: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jpriestley.htm,2) Admass The whole system of an increasing productivity, plus inflation, plus a rising standard of material living, plus high-pressure advertising and salesmanship, plus mas
6、s communications, plus cultural democracy and the creation of the mass mind, the mass man the part of society that can be influenced by advertising or publicity,Detailed Study of the Essay,Pre-class work:,1. What do you think the author is going to focus on: the future of the English as an internati
7、onal language, the future of the English as a nation or the future of the English people? 2. You are supposed to figure out the type of the essay from the title. Its an imaginary fiction forecasting the future of the English or not? 3. What do you think the future of your own country and people woul
8、d be like?,The English are Different,1. The dominant intention or the controversial topic of his argument is stated early in paragraph one in one unambiguous sentence: “ The English are different”.,1) The English can soon feel bored and thats why they gamble and booze so much and enjoy any dramatic
9、change in public life. 2) The English have a sense of community, decent fellow feeling, fairness. 3) The English are at heart and at root an imaginative people immediately responsive to any suggestion of drama in their lives.,4) It is instinctive feeling and not rational thought that shapes and colo
10、urs actual events in England. 5) The English do not feel at home in the contemporary world, representing the accelerated development of our whole age. They are suspicious of largeness, severe efficiency and admass. 6) The English are also deeply suspicious of change for changes sake.,The Future of t
11、he English Hangs on,The Future of the English hangs on 1) The final result of a battle between Admass and Englishness.,The striking contrast between admass and Englishness to show how inevitable the battle is.,Admass 1. Already conquered most of the western world 2.receive vast subsidies of dollars,
12、 francs, Deutschmarks and the rest for public relations and advertising campaigns,Englishness 1.ailing and impoverished 2.in no position to receive vast subsidies of dollars,francs, Deutschmarks and the rest for public relations and advertising campaigns,3.offers more and more things for more and mo
13、re money, creates the so-called “Good Life” 4.operates in the outer visible world 5.a poster in full colour,3. offers states of mind in place of that rich variety of thins 4.belong to the invisible inner world 5. a poor shadowy show, a faint pencil sketch,The conflict between Admass and Englishness.
14、,Admass: What is central to Admass is the production and consumption of goods. Dissatisfaction is embedded in Admass Ruthless competitiveness Take man only as a producer and consumer Dependence upon dissatisfaction, greed and envy,Englishness: With its relation to the unconscious Dependence upon ins
15、tinct and intuition Adherence to the past and deep long roots Not hostile to change and deeply suspicious of change for changes sake Rejecting being committed to some inevitable mechanical progress,While Englishness can still fight on, Admass could be winning.,Reason: Not all the English hold fast t
16、o Englishness Some important and influential men carefully train themselves out of it A horde of others, shallow and foolish, wander away form it The spirits of age is working for Admass Most of what we read and what we hear is working for Admass Inflation proved that we need more and not less Admas
17、s,2) The Future of the English rests upon the decision made by English workers together with the people on the management side who will have to put an end to the conflict between Admass and Englishness.,3) The Future of the English hangs upon men and women who are strong-minded enough to hold the En
18、glishness and reject Admass,4) The Future of the English depends upon the quieter young, who under the influence of one or two of those professional men and women, far-sighted enough to think what life would be like in the future.,5) The Future of the English can not depends on the SLOOPY PEOPLE,Bor
19、edom is a MENACE,. Heavily industrially society offer boring work shatter slow rhythms, traditional skills, closely knit communities of rural societies crowd and excite people by promises that cannot be kept Boredom,Boredom idiot vandalism, frustration, ferocious robbery with violence, vicious crimi
20、nality,English is Still With Us,4.English is still with us. But it needs reinforcement, extra nourishment. 1) On a hidden level, there remains of a characteristically English sense of community, decent fellow feeling, fairness.,2) Englishness cannot be fed with the east wind of a narrow rationality,
21、 the latest figures of profit and loss, a constant appeal to self-interest. 3) English are at heart and at root an imaginative people immediately responsive to any suggestion of drama in their lives.,Question: “And this is true, whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair.” The
22、 rhetorical device used in this sentence is _. “bowler hats” is standing for _. “ungovernable mops of hair” is standing for _.,The writers voice,To face the future properly they need both a direction and a treat life of the heart. A rather poorer and harder way of life will not defeat them so long a
23、s it is not harder and poorer in spirit, so long as it still refuses to reject Englishness- for so many centuries the secret of the islanders oddity and irrationality, their many weaknesses, their creative strength.,Organization Pattern,1) The thesis stated in the title of the essay 2) The structura
24、l organization of this essay: loose 3) A quite informal piece of argument which appeals more to the emotion of his English readers 4) Weakness: insufficient evidence to support the writers position, and his reasoning on some points not logically sound,Style and Language Features,1) Smooth and polish
25、ed 2) Readable and informal 3) It is the instinctive and intuitive feelings not rational reasoning that shape and colors the style of the essay.,4) Use of various rhetorical devices http:/ Metaphor Simile Ellipsis Transferred epithet Metonymy Euphemism,Special Difficulties,1) Identifying and understanding British English in this essay 2) Understanding some colloquialism 3) Paraphrasing some sentences 4) Identifying figures of speech 5) Understanding some important terms,