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Scarborough Fair. are you going to Scarborough fair parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme remember me to one who lives there he once was a true love of mine tell him to make me a cambric shirt (oh the side of a hill in the deep forest green ) …. A Dream Of Red Mansions Cao Xueqin. The Monkey King
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Scarborough Fair are you going to Scarborough fairparsley, sage, rosemary and thymeremember me to one who lives therehe once was a true love of minetell him to make me a cambric shirt(oh the side of a hill in the deep forest green ) …
A Dream Of Red Mansions Cao Xueqin The Monkey King Wu Cheng’en
The Necklace Maupassant Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
The Old Man And The Sea Ernest Hemingway Oliver Twist Charles Dickens The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Enjoy the Classics Predicting
Enjoy the Classics What is a classic? Why should we enjoy the classics? How should we enjoy the classics?
Skimming The passage focuses on the writer’s personal __________________ of a classic and his personal _______________ from reading classics . nderstanding u b enefits
Paragraph A When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than you did before. get a better understanding of yourself
Scan paragraphs B—E and pick out verbal phrases that describe the writer’s attitudes didn’t want fought disliked hate have come back to like have discovered pleasure What caused the change in the writer’s attitudes? Reading a classic called Pickwick Papers
Paragraph F I come back to this question : What is a classic? A classic is a book that ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ gives you wonderful feelings, enables you to uncover part of the meaning of life, has stood the test of time, men and women all over the world want to keep all their lives.
be a particular part or amount of sth Paragraph G Not many books can stand such a test. Consideringall the books that have been produced, classics accounts for only a very small share of the total-less than 0.001 percent. That is just a few thousand books. Of those, under 100 make up the solid core. the most important part F T/F So far less than 100 books in the world can be called classics.
Scan paragraphs H—I and fill in the blanks: benefits The writer’s __________ from reading classics A classic o h h o g l elps you grow pens your mind elps you understand your life, your world, yourself ffers you pleasure ives you insights into yourself ifts you high up
Paragraph J How : to start doing sth in an enthusiastic way plunge in just dip your toe into the deep waters of the classics join generations of bright human beings before you What they think and observe will help you understand the world. Result: You will find yourself enlightened by the thoughts and observations of the most gifted writers in history.
OF STUDIES by Bacon Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Reading makes a full man…
Assignments: 1. Read a classic in the spare time 2. Finish Exercises I,II on Page 97 in the Textbook 3. Translate the following sentences: 真理应该经得起历史的考验。 (stand) 你不是哪里都能找到这种夹克衫的。(not…everywhere) 上海是一个值得世界各地的人们老游玩的城市(worth) 酒后驾车使他丧命。(cost) 他一下班就发现家里被人闯入过。 (find+ Object +the past participle)