现代大学英语精读4 Lesson 1 Thinking as a Hobby.DOCVIP

Lesson 1 Thinking as a Hobby Purposes: To introduce the three grades of thinking classified by the author To inspire the students to think about what is logical, critical and independent thinking and to introspect their own thinking habit and model To familiar the students with parallel constructions and subject complement To appreciate the humorous style of the text Method: Intensive reading of the text A and extensive reading of text B Contents: Background introduction William Golding The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 Biography William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Apart from writing, his past and present occupations include being a schoolmaster, a lecturer, an actor, a sailor, and a musician. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother was a suffragette. He was brought up to be a scientist, but revolted. After two years at Oxford he read English literature instead, and became devoted to Anglo-Saxon. He spent five years at Oxford. Published a volume of poems in 1935. Taught at Bishop Wordsworths School, Salisbury. Joined the Royal Navy in 1940 and spent six years afloat, except for seven months in New York and six months helping Lord Cherwell at the Naval Research Establishment. He saw action against battleships (at the sinking of the Bismarck), submarines and aircraft. Finished as Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship. He was present off the French coast for the D-Day invasion, and later at the island of Walcheren. After the war he returned to teaching, and began to write again. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was published in 1954. It was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. His other books are: The Inheritors (novel) 1955 Pincher Martin (novel) 1965 The Brass Butterfly (play) 1958 Free Fall (novel) 1959 The Spire (novel) 1964 The Hot Gates (essays) 1965 The Pyramid (novel) 1967 The Scorpion God (three short novels) 1971 Darkness Visible (novel) 1979 Rites of Passa