李观仪《新编英语教程》第5册_UNIT11.pptVIP

Unit 11 Cultivating a Hobby Winston Churchill Cultural Background Text analysis Writing Skill Questions on the Text Language Points Discussion Exercises Cultural background About the author—Sir Winston Churchill Winston Churchill(1874-1965), British statesman and author. Besides being one of the outstanding leaders in world history and one of the great British prime minister, Churchill was a prolific writer and an amateur painter. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953. His paintings were given a retrospective one-man show in the galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1958. Text Analysis This essay is an exposition. The theme is about the significance of cultivating a hobby. According to the author, the significance of a hobby lies in its relaxing the mind of rational, industrious, useful human beings. To explain how a hobby works, he first of all explains what worry really is. (para.1) Now we see that hobby is the only way to attenuate worry, so it’s of the first importance to a public man. But how can a hobby be cultivated? Para 2 answers the question. In order to better explain how hobby attenuate worry, the author classifies people into 3 catagraries: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. (para.3 and 4) In this way, he states that hobby should be rightly chosen. Though hobby can release worry , it can only do to the rational, industrious, useful human being. So in para.5,Churchill again divides people into two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one. Thus, the third category of human beings in the first classification, i.e., those who are bored to death, is excluded. Obviously, in Churchill’s opinion, these can’t be regarded as rational, industrious, useful human beings, and in their case, no hobby can help to relieve their boredom. Writing Skill Metaphor Metaphor is one of the figures of speech use