英语：Unit 17《Laughter》课件-Communication Workshop（北师大版选修6）.pptVIP

ks5u精品课件 Pt. I: Lemuel Gulliver, a ships surgeon, is shipwrecked at Lilliput where the inhabitants are six inches tall, except their emperor who is taller by almost the breadth of my nail than any of his court. Swift satirizes war by showing how seriously the little people wage it, and has harsh words for the politicians and government officials. The parties are known by the height of their heels; a dispute over the question at which end an egg should be broken is enough to plunge Lilliput into a civil war. the king, who cannot understand the lofty pretensions and vanities of the warfare; what he hears strikes the king with horror. Pt. III: In Laputa, men abandon all common sense and concern themselves with speculative philosophy. In Lagado, the flying island, Gulliver is amazed to see the scientists trying to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. Yahoos, filthy, degenerate human beings, are the slaves. At last, Gulliver returns to his wife and family, but finds them impossible to live with, after having associated with the Houyhnhnms. The yahoos represented for Gulliver the worst to which human beings could descend. Find words and expressions in the text which mean the same as the words or phrases below. journey—voyage able to stand in water—rise way—manner move forward—advance type—kind amazed—surprised pick up—grab climb onto—mount dead from lack of food—starve admit—confess not a surprise—no wonder medicine--drug * * * * * Unit 17 Communication Workshop Part I. A Voyage to Lilliput.Part II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag.Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubdubdrib,Luggnag and Japan.Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms. Summary of Gullivers Travels Pt. II: In Brobdingnag, the natives are as tall in proportion to Gulliver as the Lilliputians were short. He engages in lengthy discussions with Pt. IV: Gulliver visits the land of the Houyhnhnms, where intelligent horses are the masters