外教社新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列（修订版）：综合教程（第3版） 第1册 Unit 6 Lecture Notes.pdf
Unit 6 A Debt to DickensTB 1 Unit 6Section One Pre-reading ActivitiesLead-inActivity 1Watch the movie clip and answer the following questions.1.If you were the boy in the movie clip,how would you like to save yourself?Open question.2.Nowadays,many children are trafficked.What can we do to prevent this crime?A:1)to establish a database of all the citizens9 DNA;2)to remind the parents of safeguarding their children carefully;3)to punish harshly the criminals who traffic the children.Activity 2Charles Dickens is acclaimed for his rich storytelling and unforgettable characters.Here are six ofhis notable novels.Can you match their titles with their brief descriptions given below?Oliver Twist Great Expectations A Tale of Two CitiesHard Times The Pickwick Papers David Copperfield1)It is an autobiographical novel about a young mans uncommon life experiences from anunhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.2)It is a story of an orphan,who leads a miserable existence and falls into the hands of a gang ofjuvenile pickpockets.It is notable for its portrayal of criminals as well as exposure of the crueltreatment of many street children in London in the mid-19th century.3)It is a historical novel,set in the late 18,h century against the background of the FrenchRevolution.It is best known for its opening lines:4tIt was the best of times;it was the.”4)It is Dickenss first novel,a comic masterpiece,containing a sequence of adventures of afour-member travelling society,the unusual tales they hear and the remarkable characters theymeet in their travels throughout English countryside.5)It features a schoolmaster,who bans fancy and wonder from any young minds.The primarygoal of the novel is to illustrate the dangers of allowing humans to become like machines.It isalso a bitter indictment of industrialization,with its dehumanizing effects on workers.6)It depicts the personal growth and development of a boy,from his early childhood to adulthood,attempting to become a gentleman.The theme of the novel includes wealth and poverty,loveand rejection,and the eventual triumph of good over evil.CHARLES DICKENSCHARLES DICKENSCHARLES PICKENS二 注 拙 7豕“蹋（漏Oliver TwistlMBHard Tinies f 5Great Expectations-*6The Pickwick Papers f 4A Tale of Two CitiesDavid Copperfield-1You may do the above task first independently,and then discuss your choices with yourpartner,and try to reach correct answers through pair work.Activity 3Discuss the following topics with your partners.1.Almost every Chinese reader is familiar with Charles Dickens,one of the most popular Englishnovelists of the 19th century.You must have read some of his novels or watched some movies orTV plays adapted from his novels.Please name some of them and tell what youve learned fromthem.This is an open question.2.Is it beneficial for a student of English to read literature in the original?Why or why not?Answers may vary.The benefits students of English can gain from reading literature in theoriginal can never be overemphasized.The following points can be covered:expansion of yourvocabulary;exposure to authentic language use;acquisition of cultural information;increasedinterest in English and reading,etc.IL Cultural information1.QuoteMark Twain:The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannotread them.2.Books that changed my life一Reviews of books that help you build new skills“Books that changed my li他“is a blog.The blogger lives in Stockholm,Sweden.His hopewith this site is not only to share non-fiction book recommendations but to share books of anexceptional quality.In the same way he hopes that the readers will help him and share their verybest suggestions.Here is a list of books that teaches the blogger practical skills.They might not be the bestwritten books or the most exiting but he thinks they are in a class of their own on their respectivesubjects.His focus of this list is to show the readers the extremely rare informative tomes that willhelp them to learn skills that are useful in life,in contrast to the much more common works offiction that simply help them avoid going insane from all the craziness and stress they must put upwith their life or the non-fiction that expose you to new ideas or random facts.Making moneyActive Value Investing by Vitaly KatsenelsonEssential Negotiation by Gavin KennedyUnderstand peopleHow to win friends and influence people by Dale CarnegieCreatingTechniques of the selling writer by Dwight SwainOn Directing Film by David Mamet3.Childrens literatureChildrens literature or juvenile literature includes stories,books,magazines,and poems thatare enjoyed by children.Modern childrens literature is classified in two different ways:genre orthe intended age of the reader.It can be broadly defined as anything that children read or morespecifically defined as fiction,non-fiction,poetry,or drama intended for and used by children andyoung people.One writer on childrens literature defines it as“all books written for children,excluding works such as comic books,joke books,cartoon books,and non-fiction works that arenot intended to be read from front to back,such as dictionaries,encyclopedias,and other referencematerials”.Since the 15th century,a large quantity of literature,often with a moral or religious message,has been aimed specifically at children.The late 19th and early 20th centuries became known as theGolden Age of Childrens Literature as this period included the publication of many booksacknowledged today as classics.4.The BibleThe Bible is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to bea product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.According to the March 2007 edition of Time,the Bible has done more to shape literature,history,entertainment,and culture than any book ever written.Its influence on world history isunparalleled,and shows no signs of abating.As of the 2000s,it sells approximately 100 millioncopies annually.The Christian Old Testament is an expression of the religious life and thought of ancientIsrael,and a foundational document of Western civilization.The New Testament is a collection ofwritings by early Christians,believed to be mostly Jewish disciples of Christ,written in 1st centuryKoine Greek.These early Christian Greek writings consist of Gospels,letters,and apocalypticwritings.III.Audiovisual supplementsWatch a video clip and answer the following questions.1.What is Teddy worried about?2.Why doesnt the colored girl listen to Teddys idea for the presentation at the end of the videoclip?3.Is it a good idea to watch TV or movies to replace reading books?Answers to the Questions:1.Her teacher is not satisfied with her presentation.He thought that Teddys work was boring.2.She is watching a video in which a man is taking off his shirt.The colored girl might think thatthe actor in the video is handsome and attracted.3.Open answers.Video ScriptTeddy:What are you doing?Ivy:I m watching my book.Teddy:For your book report?Ivy:That s right.Teddy:Arent you supposed to,oh,I dont know,read your hook?Ivy:Teddy,get with it.Kids dont read anymore.You re so old school.Teddy:And if you don 7 read your hook,youre gonna be old and still going to school.Ivy:Hey.Teddy:Sorry.Im just a little upset about my conversation with Mt:Dingwall.He was telling mehow boring I was,and then Charlie came in and he lit up like a Christmas tree.Ivy:Well,there s your answer.Teddy:To what?Ivy:To getting an A:You should do your presentation dressed up like a baby.Teddy:You know what?I might have a better idea.Ivy:And Id love to hear it,hut the last of the Mohicans just took off his shirt.Section Two Global ReadingI.Main idea1.What does this narrative text tell us?A:This text first tells us about the most indelible experiences the writer went through when shelived an isolated life as a child in the remote Chinese countryside.Next,the text describes andrelates how she discovered and read and digested Dickens novels.Then,it highlights the ways inwhich the writer benefited immensely from Dickens.2.What is the main purpose of the writer?A:The writers main purpose is to emphasize that she is immensely grateful to Charles Dickens,for she has been enlightened a great deal by him,and that Dickens5 novels,which deal with reallife and real people and explore significant and permanent topics,constitute a rewarding heritageof mankind,and therefore are well worth reading and studying.IL Structural analysis1.How is the first paragraph associated with the last one?A:In the first paragraph the writer makes it clear that she has owed Charles Dickens a heavydebt by reading his novels.And the only way to honor her obligation is to write down whatDickens did for her.In the last paragraph,the writer says she was deeply influenced by him.Thus,the concluding part of the narrative text is naturally connected with the beginning part.2.Work out the structure of the text by completing the table.Paragraph(s)Main idea1It introduces the setting and the relationship between the writer andCharles Dickens.2-3The writer recalls her isolated childhood life in a remote Chinesecountryside,her unpleasant experiences and the painful feeling she hadbecause she was a foreigner.4-6The writer narrates and describes her experiences as a voracious reader.7The writer highlights Dickens9 great influence upon her.Section Three Detailed ReadingText IA Debt to DickensPearl Buck1(Abridged)1 I have long looked for an opportunity to pay a certain debt which I have owed since I wasseven years old.Debts are usually burdens,but this is no ordinary debt,and it is no burden,exceptas the feeling of warm gratitude may ache in one until it is expressed.2 My debt is to anEnglishman,who long ago in China rendered an inestimable service to a small American child.That child was myself and that Englishman was Charles Dickens3.I know no better way to meetmy obligation than to write down what Charles Dickens did in China for an American child.2 First,you must picture to yourself that child,living quite solitary in a remote Chinesecountryside4,in a small mission bungalow perched upon a hill among the rice fields in the valleysbelow.In the near distance wound that deep,treacherous,golden river,the Yangtse,and some ofthe most terrifying and sinister,as well as the most delightful and exciting moments of that childslife5,were spent beside the river.She loved to crawl along its banks upon the rocks or upon themuddy flats and watch for the lifting of the huge four-square nets that hung into the movingyellow flood,and see out of that flood come perhaps again and again an empty net,but sometimesgreat flashing,twisting silver bodies of fish.She lingered beside villages of boat folk6,and sawthem live,the babies tied to a rope and splashing in the shallower waters.But she saw babiesdead thrown into the deep waters.She wandered small and alien among the farm folk in theearthen houses among the fields.She accepted a bowl of rice and cabbage often at meal time andsat among the peasants on the threshing floor about the door and ate,usually in silence,listeningand listening,answering their kindly,careless questions,bearing with shy,painful smiles theirkind teasing laughter at her yellow curls and unfortunate blue eyes,which they thought so ugly.She was,she knew,very alien.Upon the streets of the great city where sometimes she went shelearned to accept the cry of foreign devil8,and to realize she was a foreign devil.3 She grew from a very tiny child into a bigger child,still knowing she was alien.Howeverkindly the people about her might be,and they were much more often kind than not,she knew thatshe was foreign to them.And she wondered very much about her own folk and where they wereand how they looked and at what they played.But she did not know.In the bungalow were herparents,very busy,very,very busy,and when she learned her lessons in the morning quickly,theywere too busy to pay much heed to her and so she wandered about a great deal,seeing andlearning all sorts of things.She had fun.But very often she used to wonder,Where are the otherchildren like me?What is it like in the country where they live?She longed very much,I canremember,to have some of them to play with.But she never had them.4 To this small,isolated creature there came one day an extraordinary accident.She was animpossibly voracious reader9.She would like to have had childrens books,but there were none,and so she read everything,Plutarchs LivesV and Foxes Martyrs,the Bible,church history,and the hot spots in Jonathan Edwardss sermons12,and conversations out of Shakespeare13,andbits of Tennyson and Browning14 which she could not understand at all.Then one day she lookeddoubtfully at a long row of somber blue books on a very high shelf.They were quite beyond herreach.Later she discovered this was because they were novels.But being desperate she put athree-cornered bamboo stool on top of a small table and climbed up and stared at the bindings andin faded black titles she read Oliver 7wist,by Charles Dickens.She was then a little past sevenyears old.It was a very hot August day,in the afternoon about three oclock,when the householdwas asleep,all except the indefatigable parents,and they were very,very busy.She took OliverTxvist out of its place 一 it was fat and thick,for Hard Times was bound with it-and in greatperil descended,and stopping in the pantry for a pocket full of peanuts,she made off to a secretcomer of the veranda into which only a small,agile child could squeeze,and opened the closelyprinted pages of an old edition,and discovered her playmates.5 How can I make you know what that discovery was to that small,lonely child?There in thatcorner above the country road in China,with vendors passing beneath me,I entered into my ownheritage1.1 cannot tell you about those hours.I know I was roused at six oclock by the call to mysupper,and I looked about dazed,to discover the long rays of the late afternoon sun streamingacross the valleys.I remember twice I closed the book and burst into tears,unable to bear thetragedy of Oliver Twist,and then opened it quickly again,burning to know more.I remember,most significant of all,that I forgot to touch a peanut,and my pocket was still quite full when Iwas called.I went to my supper in a dream,and read as late as I dared in my bed afterward,andslept with the book under my pillow,and woke again in the early morning.When Oliver Twist wasfinished,and after it Hard Times,I was wretched with indecision18.I felt I must read it all straightover again,and yet I was voracious for that long row of blue books.What was in them?I climbedup again,finally,and put Oliver Tvvist at the beginning,and began on the next one,which wasDavid Coppetfield.I resolved to read straight through the row and then begin at the beginningonce more and read straight through again.6 This program I carried on persistently,over and over,for about ten
