Module 7 Unit 1 课件 2023-2024学年外研版英语九年级上册

WARM UP What has leaves but it is not a plant? 叶 页 leaves pages A BOOK Module 7 Great books Unit 1 We’re still influenced by Confucius’s ideas. GREAT BOOKS FREE TALK GREAT BOOKS FREE TALK well-known/famous important fantastic interesting meaningful In this unit, you’re supposed: To learn about three great writers To introduce writers PRE-READING Confucius William Shakespeare Mark Twain Why does Betty want to join an Internet group? To discuss great books by great writers. What do Mr. Jackson and Betty have to do for the discussion? Read a favourite book and write a review for the discussion. What writers do they talk about? was a great thinker in Chinese history. He was honored (誉为) as a “sage” (圣人) and developed his thoughts into Confucianism (儒家学说). Confucius is also a great teacher. He hopes everyone to be educated. His words and life story were recorded in The Analects. Confucius PRE-READING PRE-READING What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is dangerous. 学而不思则罔,思而不学则殆。 己所不欲,勿施于人 Is it not a pleasure to acquire knowledge and put it into practice? 学而时习之,不亦说乎? PRE-READING William Shakespeare PRE-READING is the most famous and influential poet and playwright in British literature. poem: Sonnet 十四行诗 play : historic play comedy tragedy Sonnet - 18 PRE-READING Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date, Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimed: And every fair form fair sometimes declines By chance or nature's changing course untrimm’d: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st: Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as man can breath or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee PRE-READING A Mid