unit与 2现代大学英语精读3.pptVIP

;;;Warming up;Warming up;Check-on Preview;Check-on Preview;Objectives;;Background;Background;;Text Analysis;Text Analysis;Where did the author spend her childhood? Why did the author always feel that she ought to be somewhere else? Why was it “a stiff and awkward lunch”? What did this show about the author? How should the author have benefited from reading the six novels in Paragraph 2? What did reading mean to the author when she was young? ;6. What were the features of Victorian England? peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and self-confidence;7. Why does the author mention these three novels? 8. What are the common features of these three novels?;9. Why did the author prefer reading to playing? Traveled across the physical world; Traveled into my own spiritual world: identity, aspiration, morality →Books are my perfect island! ;10. Why does the author read? Trips to other worlds; Journey into my own world; Perfect island (alone to not alone); Home, sustenance, great invincible companion Simply because she loves reading! Why do you read? Do you ever read simply because you love reading?;Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy. (para.5) Questions for thinking: In what ways was the author restless? Do you agree with this statement? How do you understand Mark Twain’s saying, “Almost all of the writers are ‘addicts.’”? ;2. There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger. (para. 7) Questions for thinking: Why did the author parallel waking, sleeping and reading? ;wander the world commit sth to memory He committed the notes of that meeting to memory and then burned them. aspire to sth; aspire to do sth Different people aspire to different things. Mary is ambitious enough to aspire to conversational fluency in Chinese in two months. We aspire to be