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Mr.Doherty Builds His Ideal Life

Jim Doherty Group 7

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Contents • Objectives

• Pre-class Work• Warm-ups

• Background Information

• Some factual questions

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Objectives

1. Comprehension

1.1 language

1.2 theme

2. Appreciation

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Pre-class Work

1. What are American values?

2. A brief introduction to the author

( bio-history, works, styles, etc. )

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Warm-ups

• 1. In your opinion, what is an ideal life?

• 2. Use one word to describe the country life.

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Background Information

• 1. Check-up

Students presenting their findings of the author

• 2. American Values:

Puritanism:

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Some factual questions

1. What did the couple do for a living in the countryside?

2. Which word in Para.1 best depicts the author’s feeling about country life?

3. In the author’s opinion, what was country life like?

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• What problem did the author have in quitting his job? What finally made him come to such a decision?

• According to the author, what special qualities are required in order to ensure a happy country life?

• What was the author’s ultimate goal of moving to the country? Was he happy with his life there?

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Text Analysis

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Text Analysis

1.     Vocabulary

2.     Organization

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Vocabulary

• Important phrases and expressions

• Collocations of verbs and nouns

• Activities:

• Illustration

• Blank-filling

• Paraphrasing

• Translation

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Important phrases and expressions

• get by

• provide somebody with something

• go picnicking / fishing / hunting / shopping / skating / skiing

• spend some time doing something

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Important phrases and expressions

• be busy with• on the whole• be prepared to do something• on a tight budget• be involved in• a feeling of sorrow• a sense of pride• watch somebody doing something

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spend some time doing something

• Examples:

• Three months ago when it was 30 below, we spent two miserable days dragging firewood up the river. (Para. 4)

• In between these jobs, I manage to spend 50 to 60 hours a week writing articles I sell to magazines and newspapers. (para. 5)

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Collocations of verbs and nouns

• Three months from now, it will be 95 above and we will be ____ corn, ____ strawberries and ____ chickens. (para. 4)

• Later this month, we’ll ____ the orchard, ____ the barn, ____ the garden and ____ the hen house before the new chicks arrive. (para. 4)

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The names of the fruits and vegetables

• cherries, raspberries, strawberries, peas, beans, corn

• tomato juice, grape juice, plums, jams, jellies

• potato, squash, pumpkin, apple, pear

• (para.7)

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Organization

• Topic sentences (para. 2 – para. 4)

• Time order (para. 6 – para. 9)

• Transitions (para. 2 – para. 5)

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Topic Sentences

– It’s a self-reliant sort of life. (para. 2)– It’s a happy life too. (para. 3)– But the good life can get pretty tough.

(para. 4)

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Time Order

• None of us will ever forget our first winter. (para. 6)

– When spring came, it brought two floods. (para. 7)

– The next year we grew even more food and managed to get through the winter on our own firewood … (para. 8)

– There have been a few anxious moments since then, … (para. 9)

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Transitions

– It’s a self-reliant sort of life. (para. 2)– It’s a happy life too. (para. 3)

• But the good life can get pretty tough. (para. 4)

• In between these jobs, I manage to spend 50 to 60 hours a week writing articles I sell to magazines and newspapers. (para. 5)

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Further Development

• Visualized by:

• 姚振军 （ REX, not SEX)

• From Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

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Further Development

• Activity One Retelling

• Activity Two Discussion

• Activity Three Poem Appreciation

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Activity One Retelling

• 1. Retell the tough life the author describes in the article. (para. 4-5)

• 2. Retell the author’s first winter in the country and how his family managed to get through? (para. 6-7)

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Activity Two Discussion

• Topics:

• 1. How can an ideal life be built?

• 2. What are the differences and similarities between the American country life and Chinese country life?

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Activity Three Poem Appreciation

• Read the following poem by Tao Yuanming (Translated by Zhu Manhua)

• 1. Try to compare it with Text A in terms of stylistic consideration

• 2. Compare the two author’s attitudes toward country life. To what extent do you agree with them?

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< 归园田居 > My Idyllic Countryside

陶渊明 (365―427) •

少无适俗韵， 性本爱丘山。 误落尘网中， 一去三十年。 羁鸟恋旧林， 池鱼思故渊。 开荒南野际， 守拙归园田。 方宅十余亩， 草屋八九间。

•No lyric poem to my local, Though as a lad, I love the hill Sunk into the trap of officialdom For 30 years since I left home. The cage-birds miss their own wood; The jar-fish love their original pond. I like to cultivate the south-wasteland Or keep on toiling in my native field. My resident campus is over 10 Mu Where leisurely stand 8 or 9 straw-rooms.

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• 榆柳荫后檐， 桃李罗堂前。 暧暧远人村， 依依墟里烟。 狗吠深巷中， 鸡鸣桑树颠。

• The back eaves under the shadow of willow and elm, Before the hall grow up the peach and the plum. The remote villages seem to be warm, With reluctant cooking smoke on move. The dogs are barking in the inner lane In the mulberry cocks are crying time and again.

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• 户庭无尘杂， 虚室有余闲。 久在樊笼里， 复得返自然。

• No cluttering dust shroud my courtyard My apartment too spacious to be occupied Separating from the cage-like courtroom, I have returned home, seeing the nature true.

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• 2. Compare the two author’s attitudes toward country life. To what extent do you agree with them?

• 学而优则仕 :• 优：有余力，学习了还有余力，就去做官。后

指学习成绩优秀然后提拔当官。出处《论语 ·子张》：“子夏日：‘仕而优则学，学而优则仕。’”示例我有力量释放了你，叫你达到～的愿望。（老舍《四世同堂 · 三十四》）

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Quiz

• 1. Spelling

• 2. Word derivation

• 3. Paraphrasing

• 4. Translation

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of English Teaching

• Venture to provide some “Tips” for PPT

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• Thanks

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