▪ 5) Helping students to understanding rhetorical devices;
▪ 6) Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately.
Teaching Contents
I. Background Knowledge II. Exposition and Argument III. Detailed Study of The Essay IV. Organization Pattern V. Style and Language Featurund Knowledge
1) About the Author and His Works ▪ 1) A brief introduction to the author,
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▪ 1) The English can soon feel bored and that’s why they gamble and booze so much and enjoy any dramatic change in public life.
▪ 2) The English have a sense of community, decent fellow feeling, fairness.
▪ 2. You are supposed to figure out the type of the essay from the title. It’s an imaginary fiction forecasting the future of the English or not?
▪ 3. What do you think the future of your own country and people would be like?
The Future of the English
J . B. Priestley
Aims:
▪ 1 ) Improving students’ ability to read between lines and understand the text properly;
▪ 2) Cultivating students’ ability to make a creative reading;
▪ 2) Admass
▪ The whole system of an increasing productivity, plus inflation, plus a rising standard of material living, plus high-pressure advertising and salesmanship, plus mass communications, plus cultural democracy and the creation of the mass mind, the mass man the part of society that can be influenced by advertising or publicity
▪ 1) Background knowledge (15 min.) ▪ 2) Detailed study of the text (180 min.) ▪ 3) Structure analysis (15 min.) ▪ 4) Language appreciation (15 min.) ▪ 5) Free talk (30 min)
▪ 3) Enhancing students’ ability to appreciate the text from different perspectives
Aims
▪ 4) Helping students to understand some difficult words and expressions;
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▪ Difference between exposition and argument
▪ Difference between persuasion and argument
▪ Honest persuasion and dishonest persuasion ▪ Formal argument and informal argument
Exposition and Argument
▪ 1) Type of literature: part exposition and part persuasion or argument
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▪ Detailed Study of the Essay
Pre-class work:
▪ 1. What do you think the author is going to focus on: the future of the English as an international language, the future of the English as a nation or the future of the English people?
The English are Different
▪ 1. The dominant intention or the controversial topic of his argument is stated early in paragraph one in one unambiguous sentence: “ The English are different”.