【优化方案同步课件】人教英语选修10Unit5教材背景链接.pptVIP

Unit 5　Enjoying novels教材背景链接 Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, in Landport，Ports-mouth, in Hampshire, the second of eight children to John Dickens(1786～1851), a clerk in the Navy Pay Office at Ports-mouth.When he was five, the family moved to Chatham, Kent.In 1822, when he was ten, the family relocated to 16 Bayham Street, Camden Town, in London. His early years seem to have been an idyllic(田园诗般的)time，although he thought himself then a “very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy”．He spent time outdoors，but also read widely，with a particular fondness for the novels about evil persons.He talked, later in life, of his memories of childhood, and of his continuing memory of the people and events that helped to bring his fiction to life.His family’s early，moderate wealth provided the boy Dickens with some private education at William Giles’s School, in Chatham. This time of prosperity came to an abrupt end, however, when his father spent beyond his means in entertaining and in retaining his social position, and was finally imprisoned.Shortly afterwards，the rest of his family joined him in residence at Marshalsea.This provided the setting of one of his works, Little Dorrit in which the title character’s father was imprisoned. Just before his father’s arrest, 12-year-old Dickens had begun working tenhour days at Warren’s Blacking Warehouse，on Hungerford Stairs, near the present Charing Cross railway station.He earned six shillings a week pasting labels on jars of thick shoe polish. This money paid for his lodgings with Mrs.Roylance and helped support his family.His experiences served to influence later fiction and essays, and were the foundation of his interest in the reform of socio-economic and labour conditions. Questions： 1. Do you think Dickens was happy，when he was young? ________________________________________________________________________ 2. Can you list some of Dickens’ works? Have you read them? ___________________________________________