The Future of the English 张汉熙高级英语第二册课件.ppt

 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 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 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 argument /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) 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 mass 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 international language, the future of the English as a nation or the future of the English people? 2. You are supposed to fig