新世纪高等院校综合英语1第10单元课件.ppt

UNIT 10 A DEBT TO DICKENS By Pearl Buck Warming up 1. Have you ever heard of Pearl Buck of do you happen to know some experience of her? 2. Have you ever read any novels by Charles Dickens? Say something about Dickens. 3. Is there any writer to whom you have owed a heavy debt in your reading experience? Pearl Buck and China One does not live half a life in Asia without return. When it would be I did not know, nor even where it would be, or to what cause. In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. The friendly country of China, the home of my childhood and youth, is for the time being forbidden country. I refuse to call it enemy country. The people in my memory are too kind and the land too beautiful. 《大地》《北京来信》《帝国女性》《龙子的故事》《巨浪》《圣诞节的早晨》 Fast reading  Text comprehension( Page 194) Ⅰ.mean idea Ⅱ.T or False Intensive reading Organization and development of the text Section 1 (para. 1): Stating the writing purpose: to express a feeling of warm gratitude to Charles Dickens Section 2 (para. 2-3): Explaining factors that contributed to her feeling of loneliness and alienation Para. 2: living environment of the seven-year-old child Para. 3: her feeling of being foreign, and her longing to know more about her own folk Section 3 (para. 4-7): Explaining how she had benefited from reading Dickens Para. 4: an extraordinary accident – the discovery of Dickens’ works and thus the discovery of her playmates Para. 5: the discovery meant to that small, lonely child: she entered into her own heritage by reading Dickens Para. 6-7: The reading program, which lasted for about ten years, has taught her a lot. Language points perch voracious treacherous heritage unctuous undiluted gruff …… Comprehension Questions1.In what way is her life experience unusual ? (para.1)2.How would you describe Buck’s childhood? （para. 2-3） 1.A: from a missionary’s family, brought up in China. 2.A:Intensely solitary (alien from her own cul