泛讀4-unit 1

1、 Extensive reading -pleasure and general understanding Intensive reading - accurate reading for detailed understanding It can consolidate previously learned language It can provide massive comprehensible input It can enhance our general language competence It leads to improvement in writing It facil

2、itates the development of prediction skills It teaches us about the culture of the target language users It helps to build confidenceIt can motivate us to read more Outline Plan and requirementsText 1 Lead-in questions Background Information Discussion of the text ExercisesFast readingAssignments Co

3、urse Plan One unit per week Requirements 1. Participate in class actively 2. Preview and review lessons in time 3. Finish all the assignments Assessment 1. class participation 2. group work 3. home workPlan and requirementsGenius and the Craftsman What kind of materials would you like to read? Why?

4、How to make a successful literary work? Which factor is more important, genius or efforts? What do you think of rewriting? What kind of materials would you like to read? Why? How to make a successful literary work? Which factor is more important, genius or efforts? What do you think of rewriting?The

5、 main idea of the text Genius and craftsmanship function to produce a good story.1. Robert Frost Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco and died on January 29, 1963 in Boston. Frost was an American poet and poet-in- residence at a number of colleges and universities. He was best kn

6、own for his use of colloquial language, familiar rhythms, and symbols taken from common life to express the quiet values of New England life.His major works include the books of poems A Boys Will (1913), North of Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916) New Hampshire (1923), Steeple Bush (1947), In t

7、he Clearing (1962), just mention a few. He also wrote verse Plays, such as A Masque of Reason (1945), and A Masque of Mercy (1947), etc. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo wh

8、ere it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the fi

9、rst for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. 2. sputnik a Russian word, man-made

10、satellite launched by the former Soviet Union.So it is with the reader who comes upon an outstanding story: spellbound, he takes it to his heart, no question asked. 當(dāng)讀者讀到一部杰出的小說時(shí)，他也會(huì)這樣如癡如狂，欲將小說字字句句刻骨銘心，絕不會(huì)提出任何問題。 so it is with: the same is true withe.g. San Francisco is a big city, so it is with Sha

11、nghai. 2. there is more to a storys life than the body of words which carries it into the world.(除那將小說帶到世上的文字主體之外還有更多的因素才能構(gòu)成小說的生命。)the body of words: the words that a story is composed of3. it does not begin with writing, but with conception in the dark of the mind.(小說并不始于寫作，而始于在隱密的內(nèi)心深處的構(gòu)思。)The secr

12、et construction of a story in the innermost part of ones mind, rather than the writing of it, is the very beginning of the whole creating process of a story. The pronoun it refers to a storys life. in the dark: in secrecy.e.g. The transaction is made in the dark.4. genius is not the exclusive proper

13、ty of the master craftsman(天賦并非藝術(shù)家獨(dú)有的特性）property: a characteristic trait or peculiarity.e.g. Cheerfulness is a property of her personality.5. Mastery is genius afoot.(高超的技藝是天賦的顯現(xiàn)。）afoot: in operation. e.g. There is a project afoot to improve the roads.6. While genius is a natural part of our mental

14、equipment, like perception, memory, and imagination, craftsmanship is not.（天賦正如理解力、記憶力和想象力一樣是我們的精神稟賦中天然的一部分，而技藝卻不是。）equipment: the qualities or traits that make up the mental and emotional resources of an individuale.g. You have the necessary equipment for leadership.7. If the stories that rise with

15、in us are to emerge and flourish, each must be provided with a strong, handsome body of words, and only sound craftsmanship can provide this.(如果要使在我們內(nèi)心深處浮現(xiàn)的故事躍然紙上，并光彩照人，那么，每個(gè)故事都須有感染力極強(qiáng)的優(yōu)雅文筆。只有功底深厚的技藝才能使我們做到這一點(diǎn)。)sound craftsmanship： highly trained skills.e.g. The work of art is a full representation

16、of its creators genius and sound craftsmanship.8. it may depend on the individual, as so much does in writing.(這可能取決于個(gè)人，而寫作中很多事都取決于個(gè)人。）The age one begins writing may depend on the individual, and much in writing depends on the individual. The pronoun it refers to the age at which people are said to

17、begin writing. 9. Thus variously laden, we move through life.(我們就這樣背負(fù)著各種記憶渡過一生。)laden: oppressed, burdenede.g. laden with grief10. now and then an experience, often slight, prizes the memory and seizes upon one of those live, expectant impressions of long age(時(shí)而,一個(gè)小小的體驗(yàn)撬開了記憶之門，抓住了這些雖已年代久遠(yuǎn)，卻依然栩栩如生，呼之

18、欲出的印象。) prize: opene.g. Only with a long iron bar did we prize the top off the box.11. letting it cool in between times(在將其擱置一旁冷一段時(shí)間) doing nothing about the story during the interval between two rewriting times in order to cultivate some new ideas about the story or wait for some ideas to rise.12. No matter how far short of the mark you fall, it is never failure(不論你的工作成果如何不如人意, . 這絕不是失敗。)fall short of: fail to reach an aime.g. I scheduled to work hard for two years to earn an MA degree, b