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1、 The Future of the English J.B.PriestleyAims:1)Improving students ability to read between lines and understand the text properly;2)Cultivating students ability to make a creative reading;3)Enhancing students ability to appreciate the text from different perspectivesAims 4)Helping students to underst

2、and some difficult words and expressions;5)Helping students to understanding rhetorical devices;6)Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately.Teaching ContentsBackground Knowledge Exposition and ArgumentDetailed Study of The EssayOrganization PatternStyle and Language F

3、eaturesTime Allocation:1)Background knowledge (15 min.)2)Detailed study of the text(180 min.)3)Structure analysis(15 min.)4)Language appreciation(15 min.)5)Free talk(30 min)Exposition and Argument 1)Type of literature:part exposition and part persuasion or argument teachnetlab.org/santab/jeff/sbargu

4、e_index.html homepages.iol.ie/laoistec/LENGLISH/lpers.html Difference between exposition and argument Difference between persuasion and argument Honest persuasion and dishonest persuasion Formal argument and informal argumentBackground Knowledge 1)About the Author and His Works 1)A brief introductio

5、n to the author,Priestley:spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jpriestley.htm 2)Admass The whole system of an increasing productivity,plus inflation,plus a rising standard of material living,plus high-pressure advertising and salesmanship,plus mass communications,plus cultural democracy and the creation of the

6、 mass mind,the mass man the part of society that can be influenced by advertising or publicityDetailed Study of the EssayPre-class work:1.What do you think the author is going to focus on:the future of the English as an international language,the future of the English as a nation or the future of th

7、e English people?2.You are supposed to figure out the type of the essay from the title.Its an imaginary fiction forecasting the future of the English or not?3.What do you think the future of your own c o u n t r y a n d p e o p l e w o u l d b e l i k e?The English are Different 1.The dominant inten

8、tion or the controversial topic of his argument is stated early in paragraph one in one unambiguous sentence:“The English are different”.1)The English can soon feel bored and thats why they gamble and booze so much and enjoy any dramatic change in public life.2)The English have a sense of community,

9、decent fellow feeling,fairness.3)The English are at heart and at root an imaginative people immediately responsive to any suggestion of drama in their lives.4)It is instinctive feeling and not rational thought that shapes and colours actual events in England.5)The English do not feel at home in the

10、contemporary world,representing the accelerated development of our whole age.They are suspicious of largeness,severe efficiency and admass.6)The English are also deeply suspicious of change for changes sake.The Future of the English Hangs on The Future of the English hangs on 1)The final result of a

11、 battle between Admass and Englishness.The striking contrast between admass and Englishness to show how inevitable the battle is.Admass 1.Already conquered most of the western world 2.receive vast subsidies of dollars,francs,Deutschmarks and the rest for public relations and advertising campaigns En

12、glishness1.ailing and impoverished2.in no position to receive vast subsidies of dollars,francs,Deutschmarks and the rest for public relations and advertising campaigns 3.offers more and more things for more and more money,creates the so-called“Good Life”4.operates in the outer visible world 5.a post

13、er in full colour 3.offers states of mind in place of that rich variety of thins 4.belong to the invisible inner world 5.a poor shadowy show,a faint pencil sketch The conflict between Admass and Englishness.Admass:What is central to Admass is the production and consumption of goods.Dissatisfaction i

14、s embedded in Admass Ruthless competitiveness Take man only as a producer and consumer Dependence upon dissatisfaction,greed and envy Englishness:With its relation to the unconscious Dependence upon instinct and intuition Adherence to the past and deep long roots Not hostile to change and deeply sus

15、picious of change for changes sake Rejecting being committed to some inevitable mechanical progress While Englishness can still fight on,Admass could be winning.Reason:Not all the English hold fast to Englishness Some important and influential men carefully train themselves out of it A horde of othe

16、rs,shallow and foolish,wander away form it The spirits of age is working for Admass Most of what we read and what we hear is working for Admass Inflation proved that we need more and not less Admass 2)The Future of the English rests upon the decision made by English workers together with the people

17、on the management side who will have to put an end to the conflict between Admass and Englishness.3)The Future of the English hangs upon men and women who are strong-minded enough to hold the Englishness and reject Admass 4)The Future of the English depends upon the quieter young,who under the influ

18、ence of one or two of those professional men and women,far-sighted enough to think what life would be like in the future.5)The Future of the English can not depends on the SLOOPY PEOPLEBoredom is a MENACE.Heavily industrially society offer boring work shatter slow rhythms,traditional skills,closely

19、knit communities of rural societies crowd and excite people by promises that cannot be kept Boredom Boredom idiot vandalism,frustration,ferocious robbery with violence,vicious criminality English is Still With Us 4.English is still with us.But it needs reinforcement,extra nourishment.1)On a hidden l

20、evel,there remains of a characteristically English sense of community,decent fellow feeling,fairness.2)Englishness cannot be fed with the east wind of a narrow rationality,the latest figures of profit and loss,a constant appeal to self-interest.3)English are at heart and at root an imaginative peopl

21、e immediately responsive to any suggestion of drama in their lives.Question:“And this is true,whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair.”The rhetorical device used in this sentence is _.“bowler hats”is standing for _.“ungovernable mops of hair”is standing for _.The writers vo

22、ice To face the future properly they need both a direction and a treat life of the heart.A rather poorer and harder way of life will not defeat them so long as it is not harder and poorer in spirit,so long as it still refuses to reject Englishness-for so many centuries the secret of the islanders od

23、dity and irrationality,their many weaknesses,their creative strength.Organization Pattern 1)The thesis stated in the title of the essay 2)The structural organization of this essay:loose 3)A quite informal piece of argument which appeals more to the emotion of his English readers 4)Weakness:insuffici

24、ent evidence to support the writers position,and his reasoning on some points not logically sound Style and Language Features 1)Smooth and polished 2)Readable and informal 3)It is the instinctive and intuitive feelings not rational reasoning that shape and colors the style of the essay.4)Use of vari

25、ous rhetorical devicesmegabrands/carroll/faq3.htmlto Metaphor Simile Ellipsis Transferred epithet Metonymy Euphemism Special Difficulties 1)Identifying and understanding British English in this essay 2)Understanding some colloquialism 3)Paraphrasing some sentences 4)Identifying figures of speech 5)Understanding some important terms