外教社新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列（修订版）：综合教程（第3版） 第3册 PPT课件unit4.pptx

Unit 4Section OnePre-reading ActivitiesSection TwoGlobal ReadingSection ThreeDetailed ReadingSection FourConsolidation ActivitiesSection FiveFurther ReadingExitInterpret and comment on the following two quotations.1. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance. — PopeAlexander Pope (1688-1744), poet and satirist of the English Augustan period.Interpretation: If you wish to write with ease, you have to learn the art of writing just as you have to learn the art of dancing if you wish to dance gracefully. Explanation: Why do you write? Perhaps because you have information and facts to tell, ideas and views to air and feelings and emotions to express. But how to write effectively, appropriately, gracefully, vividly and with great force? That is the business of the art of writing. For instance, if you prefer effective communication, you have to pay heed to simple diction, economy and precision. If you wish to communicate your ideas and feelings in a more vivid and graceful manner, you are supposed to gain some knowledge about aesthetic rhetoric, paying more attention to figures of speech, logos, pathos and ethos, etc. 2. You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing’s vile hard reading. — R.B. SheridanRichard B. Sheridan?(1751-1816), an English playwright and politician.Interpretation: If one composes a passage in an easygoing thoughtless manner, the result will be difficult to read. Explanation: One must work hard to compose a passage that a reader will be able to grasp easily. The “good breeding” reference relates mockingly to the notion that a true gentleman can rely on his innate talent to accomplish difficult tasks without the need for hard work. The Importance of Dialogue Many philosophers and writers would like to express their philosophic ideas through the form of dialogue. And one important theorist making great contribution in clarifying the function of dialogic thinking is Mikhail Bakhtin (189