高中英语第三册(全一册)Unit7 A Christmas Carol-Warming up2 ppt.pptVIP

Warming up listening Turn to page 55 , look at the pic-tures and describe what you see: Picture 1: a young man and a young woman at a dinner table picture 2: people dancing merrily, a band playing music picture 3: people with guns,flags charging picture 4: three boys stealing money Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Can you list some of his famous works? Please tick out the novels that he created? ( )1. A Tale of Two Cities ( )2. King Lear ( )3. David Copperfield ( )4. Oliver Twist ( )5. Jane Eyre ( )6. A Christmas Carol ( )7. Great Expectations ( )8. Gone with the Wind ( )9. Dombey and Son ( )10.Tess of DUrbervilles √ √ √ √ √ √ Something about Charles Dickens Dickens’ father was an office worker in the navy. Well paid as he was, he often ended up in financial troubles though. At the age of 12, his father was put in prison and the young Dickens was sent to work in a factory.From 1827 to 28, Dickens worked as a clerk in a law firm, and later as a newspaper reporter. At the age of 18, he read the works of Shakespeare and other English writers with great interest. A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens’ most loved works. The main character of Ebenezer Scrooge has attracted generations of readers in the past and at present. Charles Dickens was honoured by the Queen of England three months before his death. He lies buried in the Poet’s Corner in London. The words of his grave read as follows: He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world. The time in which he lived: Industrial Revolution(1840s) Brief introduction to A Christmas Carol the ghost of Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s business partner, on Christmas Eve sends a turkey to his ill-used cl