Unit 4 Exploring literature Welcome to the unit 课件 2023-2024学年高中英语牛津译林版(2020) 必修第二册

Welcome to the unit Unit 4 Exploring literature Yali Yanghu Middle School 1 Do you like reading? What kind of reading do you like? poems Reading novels plays Literature 伟大的文字只不过是在最大程度上承载意义的语言。 ——庞德 Ezra Pound（埃兹拉·庞德）, American poet and literuatue critic. Literature genre: poetry   Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. --Rabindranath Tagore Literature genres: drama/ play Romoe and Juliet  BY William Shakesspeare “Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake— its everything except what it is!” (Act 1, Scene 1) Literature genres: novel Game of the Thrones 《权力的游戏》 Harry Potter 《哈利波特》 A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Literature genres: biography I want to tightly grip the throat of destiny. It must not let you give in. Life is so beautiful, live it all my life! Can these books still be seen in the bookstrore? They have a lasting influence on us! Classics can stand the test of time. Welcome to the unit My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. ——David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens What message is conveyed in it？ It shows the main character’s passion for whatever he is doing. Welcome to the unit You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it. ——The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros What message is conveyed in it？ It introduces the concept of making full use of what we have now. Wel