Unit 4 Exploring Literature Reading 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语译林版必修第二册

The Wonder of literature Adapted from William J. Long’s English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World Read for main idea of each paragraph Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 Introduction The description of truth and beauty Permanence of literature To enjoy and understand literature Summary The appeal to our feelings and imagination Fast reading Para. 1 Para.2 Para.3 Para.4 Para.5 Para.6 Para. 1 Para.2 Para.3 Para.4 Para.5 Para.6 argumentation（议论文） Read for structure Part 3: Summary Part 2: Three significant qualities of literature Part 1: An introduction to the topic of “literature”. Divide it into______ parts 3 What’s the story about? walk on the beach shell hold it to the ear explain the sounds are too faint for human ears Unnoticed music of the old Paragraph 1 Read for details (1) What does “them” in line 3 refer to? Strange, low and musical sounds. P46 A2 (2)What’s the purpose of the story in Paragraph 1? A. To entertain the readers. B. To share one of his experiences when young . C. To show us a way to a new world. D. To introduce the topic of the passage. Paragraph 2 Some such experience as this lies in store for us when we begin the study of literature. the story of the man and the child the study of literature analogy Read for details technique？ What does the man stand for? The man stands for people who make an effort to explain and understand literature. What does the child stand for? The child stands for people who love and enjoy literature. Read Para 2 and answer 1. What do we need to do in order to enter and enjoy the new world mentioned in the second paragraph?（P46 A2） 2. How to understand this sentence “Behind every book is a man, behind the man is the race, and behind the race are the natural and social environments” (L10~12)? 3. What is the main idea of Para 2? 1. What do we need to do in order to enter and enjoy the new world mentioned in the second paragraph? P46 A2 We need to love literature, and make an effort to explain it. 2. How to understand this sentence “Behind every book is a man, behind the man is the race, and behind the race are the natural and social environments”(Para 2)? This sentence uses the grammar: _____________________. Complete inversion This sentence means： The more you know about the writer and the background, the better you can understand the message he/she wants to convey. Every book is based on rich and complex background. 3. What is the main idea of Para 2? To understand the wonder of literature, we must look at its essential qualities, which is also the central argument of this article. Complete the chart about the three qualities of literature Qualities of literature ___________ ______________ (2) _________________ ____________________ Permanence (3) ______________ (4) ___________ Description of truth and beauty Appeal to our feelings and imagination Universal interest Personal style P46 Para 3-5 The first quality of literature is its description of truth and beauty. Some truth and beauty remain unnoticed until a sensitive human soul brings them to our attention, just as the shell reflects the unnoticed sounds. A hundred men may pass a field and see only dead grass; but a poet stops, looks deeper, sees truth and beauty, and writes, “Yesterday’s flowers am I.” One who reads it is capable of seeing the beauty that was hidden from his eyes before. Reading for structure How many parts can you divide paragraph3 into? What are they? Why? The first quality of literature is its description of truth and beauty. Some truth and beauty remain unnoticed until a sensitive human soul brings them to our attention, just as the shell reflects the unnoticed sounds. A hundred men may pass a field and see only dead grass; but a poet stops, looks deeper, sees truth and beauty, and writes, “Yesterday’s flowers am I.” One who reads it is capable of seeing the beauty that was hidden from his eyes before. point expand & explain example Read paras. 3 and figure out the pattern of the structure. Reading for structure The second quality of literature is its appeal to our feelings and imagination. Its attraction lies more in what it awakens in us than what it says. When Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus asks in the presence of Helen, “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?” he opens a door through which our imagination enters a new world, a world of love, beauty and heroism. point expand & explain example Read paras. 4 and figure out the pattern of the structure. Reading for structure The third quality of literature, coming out of the other two, is its permanence. To achieve this, it should contain two elements: universal interest and personal style. Good literature reflects the most basic of human nature—love and hate, joy and sadness, fear and hope. It also takes on a personal style—no writer can describe human life without reflecting his own life and experiences. point expand & explain further explanation Read paras. 5 and figure out the pattern of the structure. Reading for structure structure Para3-5: PEE P E E Point: Make a point that is linked to the question with a topic sentence that outlines the topic of that paragraph and stick to that topic for your paragraph (one topic per sentence). Explain/Expand: Explain your point and make this relevant to the question. Examples/Evidence: Provide examples (at least two) to prove your point and argue your case. PEEL VS PRSS Two structures in an argumentative writing hear unnoticed sounds analogy truth and beauty remain unnoticed=the hidden truth and beauty in life The quality Its Description Of truth and beauty Paragraph 3 Yellow dead grass Beautiful flowers A poet A hundred men VS A sensitive human soul brings the unnoticed beauty to our attention. Para.3 : Have a discussion A hundred men may pass a field and see only dead grass; but a poet stops, looks deeper, sees truth and beauty, and writes, “Yesterday's flowers am I." What does this mean? Yesterday’s flowers am I Why does the author give the example of a poet? A. To ask us to care the truth and beauty of literature. B. To ask us to read more poems written by the poet. C. To stop to look at the dead grass and write poems. D. To stop to talk with a sensitive human soul. The examples? Paragraph 4 The quality Its appeal to our feelings and imaginations The examples? “Was this the face that launched a thousand ship?” Faustus: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?(para4) 浮士德：这就是让一千艘战船起航的那张面孔吗？ The author uses exaggeration to make readers feel how striking Helen’s beauty is. In psychology, we call this Empathy (共鸣). Empathy: n. [U] 同感；同情；共鸣 Empathy is the ability to share another person's feelings and emotions as if they were your own. Rhetorical Device: allusion（典故） and exaggeration Para 5 In good literature, what is universal interest? What is personal style? Universal interest refers to the most basic of human nature—love and hate, joy and sadness, fear and hope. A personal style refers to a writer’s own writing style reflecting his own life and experiences. Intensive reading: Para 6 In summary, literature is the expression of life in forms of truth and beauty, the written record of man’s thoughts and feelings, and the history of the human soul. Sentence structure: ___________________ parallel structure another parallel structure? the document of human civilization, the witness to human destiny, … What are the benefits of reading literature? enjoy the beauty of life relax our mind broaden our horizon make more friends with common interest ...... description contain significant be capable of element reflect in summary appeal to One important feature of classic literature is that it often (1)_______ an author's own experiences and can therefore help us understand the important issues of his or her time. This is one reason why the best works of literature still (2)________ readers long after they were written. Cao Xueqin's A Dream of Red Mansions, one of the most (3)__________ novels in Chinese literature, is a good example of this. Its storyline follows the fall of a large wealthy family much like the author's own. No doubt drawing on his own experiences, Cao Xueqin gives a detailed (4)__________ of what life was like at that time. reflects appeal to significant description description contain significant be capable of element reflect in summary appeal to The novel (5)__________ a great number of details such as what the upper class wore and ate. It also describes the social relations in 18th-century China. As a result, readers (6)____________ better understanding the gap between rich and poor, men and women, the learned and the uneducated in the historical context. Cultural and historical (7)________ like these make A Dream of Red Mansions a timeless classic. (8)__________ we can learn much about a specific period in history from classic literature. contains are capable of elements In summary The article uses several synonyms (words with the same or nearly the same meaning) and antonyms (words with opposite meanings). Find more pairs of synonyms and antonyms in the article and think of more on your own. B2 Synonyms attraction—appeal Antonyms joy—sadness Tip: Learning synonyms and antonyms Learning synonyms and antonyms is very useful for your English study. It can help remember the words you are trying to learn. It can also help you express yourself better by making your speech or writing richer and more colourful. Synonyms （同义词） attraction—appeal Antonyms (反义词) joy—sadness low—faint love—enjoy unnoticed—hidden significant—important new—old love—hate important—unimportant The article gives examples to explain ideas more clearly to the reader. Find the examples in the article and give an example to support the idea below. B3 Examples are useful in that they support your argument or help explain an idea that may be difficult for the reader to understand. Try to give proper examples when you express an opinion. Learn this Some people believe that classics are old and boring and have nothing to do with life today. However, this is not true. Examples in the article: A hundred men may pass a field and see only dead grass; but a poet stops, looks deeper, sees truth and beauty, and writes, “Yesterday’s flowers am I.” One who reads it is capable of seeing the beauty that was hidden from his eyes before. When Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus asks in the presence of Helen, “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?” he opens a door through which our imagination enters a new world, a world of love, beauty and heroism. 229186.8 $