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Unit 1

The written word

Watch TV

Listen to music

Surf the Internet

Have a holiday

Read a book

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What do you usually do for entertainment?

Do you think reading books in print is the only way to read?

If you were asked to recommend a book to a friend, what book would you choose?

Do you think that e-books will ever replace books in print?

Discussion

How many books have you ever read?

Who is your favorite writer?

Byron

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Shelley

Shakespeare

Ba Jin

Mao Dun

Lu Xun

Ai Qing

Guo Moruo

Match the writers with the masterpieces.

William Shakespeare

Charles Dickens

Jane Austen

Robert Burns

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Jane Eyre

Great Expectations

A Red, Red Rose

Romeo and Juliet

Pride and Prejudice

Work with your partner and tell each other about your favorite writer, and a book you like.

Appreciating literature

Which of the following books have you read?

Who is the writer?

David Copperfield

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is one of England’s most famous novelists. He described life in the middle of the 19th century, a period that is now called Victorian, as it is when Queen Victoria ruled Britain. Many of Dickens’ novels take place in London.

Life Story of Charles Dickens

Have you ever seen the story or film adaptations of Great Expectations?

Skimming

What is classic literature?

Who is Charles Dickens?

How old is Pip when the story begins?

Classics are the antiques of the literary world. They are novels, plays and poems that were written a long time ago and were so well written.

England’s greatest writer.

Seven years old.

Detailed reading

1. Why don’t many people like classics?

Because they think classics are old and boring, and have nothing to do with life today.

2. What does Liz think about classic novels?

She doesn’t think that they are old or boring. She thinks they have something to do with contemporary life.

3. What is written on Charles Dickens’s tomb?

His tomb reads, “By his death, one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world.”

4. What kind of person is Joe?

5. Who gives Pip a lot of money?

A stranger.

Joe is a kind and simple man.

6. What kind of person does Pip become after he moves to London?

He becomes vain and ashamed of his background.

7. Why is Pip embarrassed by Joe?

Because Joe does not fit his rigid ideas of what it means to be civil and to be a gentleman.

8. What does Pip learn by the end of the novel?

He learns that wealth does not buy happiness and that friends are more important than a fancy education.

Post-reading activity

1. Retell the story of Great Expectations

in your own words.

2. Discuss the relationship between

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