unit 1 How to read a book 综合英语上册教材 研究生英语读写译教程.ppt

Unit one Text A How to read a book Subtitle text analysis further study 3 lead-in warm-up 1 2 Lead-in warm-up “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” ---Francis Bacon Lead-in warm-up 1. What are the criteria for those books to be chewed and digested?“ 2. Have you read any good books recently? 3. What are your favorite books? 4. What books will you recommend to your children? 5. Is there any poem you like very much? Text analysis Micro-analysis Macro-analysis 1 2 II. the difficulty in finding good books For economy’s sake, some compass is needed. The needle of the compass (literary criticism) oscillates wildly. It’s time-consuming and inefficient to depend on oneself only. Para. 4 Para. 5 Para. 6 III. the context of the suggestions to follow The value of an idea is related to the context in which it emerges. Certain features of the people from whom the suggestion comes. Their insistence on subjectivity comes from their resistance to cliché. Para. 7 Para. 8 Para. 9 IV. the significance of poetry The way to develop good taste in literature is to read poetry. Poetry is a great disciplinarian to prose. Poetry has been invented to spare people useless printed matter. V. the suggestion for reading poetry. Para. 10 Para. 11 Para. 12 Paras. 13-15 Macro-analysis Main idea In this article, Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky first states that people’s life is generally much shorter than books, and that it is important for people to select good books to read. Yet, the author further argues that selecting good books from the ocean of literary works is no easy job; even book reviewers can’t help much. In the end, the author suggests that reading poetry is the way to develop good taste in literature, because it is the supreme form of human locution, the most concise way of conveying the human experience, and offer