• Can you briefly introduce the two characters: the headmaster & the boy?
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For Further Thought
In the original essay, Golding mentioned he later changed the positions of the three statuettes and also told us if he had had chance again, he would rearranged them in a different way. Besides the humorous effect, does it imply anything else? How would you arrange the three statuettes?
Thinking as a Hobby
Unit 1
Theme
Text Analysis
Structure
Detailed Analysis
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Theme
• What is the central idea of the text? • Who was the author addressing to? • What was his purpose?
– Grade-two thinking, though it filled life with fun and excitement, did not make for content. (Para. 29)
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Objectives
• Content:
• • • • Understand the author’s classification of three grades of thinking Summarize the characteristics of each grade of thinking Comment on the author’s classification Solve your own questions about the story
Text Analysis
Detailed Analysis
• Did he change his idea later?
• Why couldn’t he communicate with the headmaster? • What was the conclusion he came to in the end?
• Writing & Language
• Appreciate the use of humor, sarcasm, and exaggeration • Analyze the rhetorical devices used: similes, metaphors; metonymy, parallelism, etc.
“His work is characterized by exploration of 'the darkness W of man's heart', deep spiritual and ethical questions.”
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"Twenty-five years ago I accepted the label 'pessimist' thoughtlessly without realising that it was going to be tied to my tail… Critics have dug into my books until they could come up with something that looked hopeless. I can't think why. I don't feel hopeless myself… Under some critical interrogation I named myself a universal pessimist but a cosmic optimist…”
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Human nature is inherently corruptible and wicked ??
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Some other works
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Memorable Quotes
What do people say about THINKING?
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Questions / Activities
First, let’s THINK about the title for a while:
What do you do for a hobby? What does a hobby mean for you? What does the author mean by saying “thinking as a hobby”? What kind of content did you expect or predict with such a title? Has the text met your expectation or has it given you a surprise? Do you liห้องสมุดไป่ตู้e the text? Have you ever considered thinking as a hobby?
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words & expressions
Statuette (para. 2) Nothing but: only (para. 2) Lest (subjunctive mood in its clause) (para. 2) In a position to: to be able to do (para. 2) Next to (para. 2) Being natural (para. 3) If anything: on the contrary (para. 4) endow…with…(para. 15) “there + be” pattern
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Check-on Preview (2)
• Paraphrase:
– If either happened to be prominent in current affairs, no argument could make Mr. Houghton think well of it. (Para. 21)
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Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Comprehension Qs Students’ Activities Words & Expressions Exercise
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Background
Author
His most well-known work: Lord of the Flies (1954)
His Works
About a group of small British boys who lapse into violence after they have been stranded on a desert island and lost all adult guidance. Ironically the adult world is devastated by nuclear war.
• Learning without thought is labor lost.
-- Confucius • Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed (一株会思考的芦苇). -- Blaise Pascal • Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -- John Locke • Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. -- Ernest Dimne
Then you’d better learn – hadn’t you?
That’s what a man looks like when he’s really thinking.
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Comprehension Qs
• Why was he a frequent visitor to the headmaster’s study? • What would he do when he found himself in a penal position before the headmaster’s desk? • What would he see when he was demanded to look up? • How did he describe the three statuettes?