福州大学：《现代大学英语精读》课程PPT教学课件（精读F）B7 Unit 4 Text I On the Art of Living with Others

Book 7 Unit 6 ☐杭动市上城区教师进修学校

Book 7 Unit 6

Time Allocation and Teaching Procedure about 8 classes are needed for Unit 7) The 1st two classes: 1.students'presentations 2. teacher's comments and brief introduction to the text I 3.introduction of the author The 2nd two classes:interpretation of text I The 3rd two classes:interpretation of text I;exercises after the text I The 4th two classes:review of text I;interpretation of text 杭时帝上城区极师进修学校 g,。2g"g=

Time Allocation and Teaching Procedure • (about 8 classes are needed for Unit 7) • The 1st two classes: • 1. students’ presentations • 2. teacher’s comments and brief introduction to the text I • 3. introduction of the author • The 2nd two classes: interpretation of text I • The 3rd two classes: interpretation of text I; exercises after the text I • The 4th two classes: review of text I; interpretation of text II

Text I:On the Art of Living with Others I.Topics for Presentation Do you believe that living is an art,or that living with others requires an art? Do you think courtesy or politeness is still valid as a code of conduct? What do you think is the most important principle in getting along with others? ☐杭动市上城区教师进修学校

Text I: On the Art of Living with Others • I. Topics for Presentation • Do you believe that living is an art, or that living with others requires an art? • Do you think courtesy or politeness is still valid as a code of conduct? • What do you think is the most important principle in getting along with others?

Give a brief intruduction of the two surviving ancient Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey. ■杭研帝上城区板师进修学校 知，。2g"g=

• Give a brief intruduction of the two surviving ancient Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey

II.About the author Sir Arthur Helps(1813-1875),English writer and dean of the Privy Council,youngest son of Thomas Helps,a London merchant,was born in Streatham in South London.He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge.As a member of the "Conversazione Society,"better known as the Apostles,a society established in 1820 for the purposes of discussion on social and literary questions by a few young men attracted to

II. About the author • Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875), English writer and dean of the Privy Council, youngest son of Thomas Helps, a London merchant, was born in Streatham in South London. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. As a member of the "Conversazione Society," better known as the Apostles, a society established in 1820 for the purposes of discussion on social and literary questions by a few young men attracted to

each other by a common taste for literature and speculation,he was associated with Charles Buller,Frederick Maurice,Richard Chenevix Trench,Monckton Milnes,Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson.Helps possessed,however, enough dramatic power to give life and individuality to the dialogues with which he enlivened many of his other books.In his Friends in Council,a Series of Readings

• each other by a common taste for literature and speculation, he was associated with Charles Buller, Frederick Maurice, Richard Chenevix Trench, Monckton Milnes, Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson. Helps possessed, however, enough dramatic power to give life and individuality to the dialogues with which he enlivened many of his other books. In his Friends in Council, a Series of Readings

and Discourse thereon (1847-1859),Helps varied his presentment of social and moral problems by dialogues between imaginary personages,who,under the names of Milverton,Ellesmere and Dunsford,grew to be almost as real to Helps's readers as they certainly became to himself. 口杭动市上城区极师进修受校

• and Discourse thereon (1847-1859), Helps varied his presentment of social and moral problems by dialogues between imaginary personages, who, under the names of Milverton, Ellesmere and Dunsford, grew to be almost as real to Helps's readers as they certainly became to himself

III.Style and Strategies The way the author develops the essay: division. ■杭研帝上城区极师进修登校 知，。2g"g=

• III. Style and Strategies • The way the author develops the essay: division

IV.Text Explanations The Iliad for war;the Odyssey for wandering;but where is the great domestic epic? The Iliad is a great epic about human beings'brave deeds in wars;the Odyssey is an epic describing the Greek hero's ten- year-long homebound journey;but it seems that there is no epic to be found in history portraying ordinary household life. 抗时帝上城区敖师进选修学校

IV. Text Explanations • The Iliad for war; the Odyssey for wandering; but where is the great domestic epic? • The Iliad is a great epic about human beings’ brave deeds in wars; the Odyssey is an epic describing the Greek hero’s ten￾year-long homebound journey; but it seems that there is no epic to be found in history portraying ordinary household life

Men have worshipped some fantastic being for living alone in a wilderness;but social martyrdoms place no saints upon the calendar. For those who have succeed in living alone in a wilderness,people respect them and deem them as heroes;yet for those who have sacrificed their lives in order to keep society going smoothly and harmoniously,people fail to recognize the nobility in their deeds and to pay due respect to them

• Men have worshipped some fantastic being for living alone in a wilderness; but social martyrdoms place no saints upon the calendar. • For those who have succeed in living alone in a wilderness, people respect them and deem them as heroes; yet for those who have sacrificed their lives in order to keep society going smoothly and harmoniously, people fail to recognize the nobility in their deeds and to pay due respect to them