基础英语2

王爱琴

目录

  • 1 Unit 1 Another School Year-What For?
    • 1.1 Objectives
    • 1.2 Background and warming-up
    • 1.3 Text comprehension
    • 1.4 Language learning
    • 1.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 1.6 Exercises
  • 2 Unit2 Say Yes
    • 2.1 Objectives
    • 2.2 Background and warming-up
    • 2.3 Text comprehension
    • 2.4 Language learning
    • 2.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 2.6 Exercises
  • 3 Unit3 The Rite of Spring
    • 3.1 Objectives
    • 3.2 Background and warming-up
    • 3.3 Text comprehension
    • 3.4 Language learning
    • 3.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 3.6 Exercises
  • 4 The Man in the Water
    • 4.1 Objectives
    • 4.2 Background and warming-up
    • 4.3 Text comprehension
    • 4.4 Language learning
    • 4.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 4.6 Exercises
  • 5 Quick Fix Society
    • 5.1 Objectives
    • 5.2 Background and warming-up
    • 5.3 Text comprehension
    • 5.4 Language learning
    • 5.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 5.6 Exercises
  • 6 Wisdom of Bear Wood
    • 6.1 Objectives
    • 6.2 Background and Warming up
    • 6.3 Text comprehension
    • 6.4 Language learning
    • 6.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 6.6 Exercises
  • 7 Inter-Lesson (I)
    • 7.1 Group work
    • 7.2 pdf
  • 8 The Man in Asbestos
    • 8.1 Objectives
    • 8.2 Background and Warming up
    • 8.3 Text comprehension
    • 8.4 Language learning
    • 8.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 8.6 Exercises
  • 9 Confessions of a Miseducated Man
    • 9.1 Objectives
    • 9.2 Background and Warming up
    • 9.3 Text comprehension
    • 9.4 Language learning
    • 9.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 9.6 Exercises
  • 10 Pompeii (for self-learning)
    • 10.1 pdf
    • 10.2 Materials
  • 11 Button, Button
    • 11.1 Objectives
    • 11.2 Background and Warming up
    • 11.3 Text comprehension
    • 11.4 Language learning
    • 11.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 11.6 Exercises
  • 12 A Fundamental Technique in Handling People
    • 12.1 Objectives
    • 12.2 Background and Warming up
    • 12.3 Text comprehension
    • 12.4 Language learning
    • 12.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 12.6 Exercises
Background and warming-up
  • 1 Background
  • 2 Warming-up

1. The following link provides you with some background information about the author and his most famous work Death of a Salesman:

阿瑟·米勒与《推销员之死》

2. “The Rite of Spring” 

 rite: a solemn ceremony or act; a set of fixed words or acts 

 The Rite of Spring by Stranvinsky: a sacred pagan ritual where  the wise elders are seated in a circle and are observing the dance before death of the girl whom they are offering as a sacrifice to the god of Spring in order to gain his benevolence

 What does “The Rite of spring” refer to in this text? 

 How is gardening a rite? Does gardening carry any symbolic meaning?  

 Is gardening a celebration of spring?

The following is an excerpt of the music The Rite of Spring. Try to appreciate and listen for the message behind it:

The Rite of Spring (excerpt)

3. Some info. about the author and the genre:


4. Some more information about the literary genre "essay":

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-an-essay-p3-1691774

Please click on the above link and read the passage. Make sure you have grasped the key information and prepare yourselves for the  following questions, which will be discussed in class:

1). Who first adopted the term "essay" in the 16th century? 

      How did Huxley describe the "essay" as a literary genre?

2). What is the distinction between an "essay" and an "article"?

3). Post-Montaigne,  the essay split into two distinct modalities. What were they?

4). Typically, what is the voice of an essay? That is, who is speaking in an essay?

5). Where does the drama of an essay lie?

6). Based on this passage, what is a tentative definition of an "essay"?