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Unit 4 Stage and screen
Developing ideas
1. To understand the main idea and the structure of the text
2. To analyse the reasons for bad movies adapted from good novels and develop critical thinking
3. To learn to analyse argumentative essays
Have you ever read any of these books?
What are they about?
Warming-up
《红楼梦》
Dream of the Red Chamber, also called The Story of the Stone, written by Cao Xueqin, is one of China’s Four Great Classical Novels. It was written during the Qing Dynasty. The novel is generally considered to be the greatest of all Chinese novels and among the greatest in world literature.
《了不起的盖茨比》
· The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
· It is now considered a classic of American fiction and has often been called the Great American Novel.
《夏洛克福尔摩斯 》
·Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
·Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic.
《骆驼祥子 》
Rickshaw Boy, written by Lao She, is considered by many to be one of the masterpieces of modern Chinese literature. It describes the difficult life of a rickshaw puller during the years of warlord turmoil. This book is famous for its vivid descriptions of life in the city of Beijing in the beginning of the 20th century.
《京华烟云 》
Moment in Peking is a novel originally written in English by Chinese author Lin Yutang. The novel covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, and it focuses on the lives of several different families and people, along with their interactions during that time.
《伊利亚特 》
· The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter(长短格六步格诗), traditionally attributed to Homer.
· Homer's Iliad describes the final year of