Unit 1 The written word Welcome to the unit(牛津译林版 选修8）.ppt

* Unit 1 The written word Welcome to the unit What do most people do for entertainment? How do you spend your spare time? watching TV listening to music surfing online enjoying food and exercise reading books What are the genres of literature? Do you know some famous writers? Who are they? What are the ways of reading? Brainstorming poets 拜伦 布朗宁夫人 Who are they? 雪莱 莎士比亚 poets 狄更斯 巴尔扎克 novelists 巴金 Chinese writers 茅盾 鲁迅 徐志摩 郭沫若 Chinese poets William Shakespeare Charles Dickens J K Rowling Jane Austen Charlotte Brontè Jules Verne Leo Tolstoy Lewis Carroll Jane Eyre Great Expectations the Harry Potter series Romeo and Juliet War and Peace Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Pride and Prejudice Around the World in Eighty Days Match the writers with the masterpieces. Look at the pictures and answer. Have you even been a member of a reading club? What did you do in the reading club? Does our school have a reading club? Are you a member of this club? If you are, what do you think of the club? What kind of activities does a book club usually hold? In a reading club, people read books together and then discuss them. People can share information about books and authors, hold book fairs, write articles about the books they read and do other book-related things. To find friends with similar interest To share information about their favorite books and authors To learn more Why might people join a book club? different ways to read Do you think reading books in print is the only way to read? In what other ways can we read? browse online literature websites and read short stories on web pages read e-books on computer by running CDs read books on the mobile phones Advantages: Save a lot of space and easy to be carried Provides people with a more personalized way of reading Save a lot of trees because no paper will be used in e-books What are the advantages and disadvantages of e-books? Disadvantages: People must first have an electro