Liu Jing Nanjing Wenshu Middle School

Unit 1 Module 8 The Written Word Revision

I am just a farmer writing novels.

Literature is a rather lonely field. It's not like films that attracts a huge audience, but it will never die.

Literature is an art of language and its beauty could not be replaced by those of other arts.

Great news

Mo Yan is honored the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Mo Yan mania

He has a great place in world literature.

He is the best-known poet and playwright of all time.

He has a good reputation for his poetry and drama .

His poems have been translated into other languages and some of his plays have been adapted into films.

Two of his best-known works are “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet”.

William Shakespeare

Guess who it is !

He was an English Victorian era author and is generally regarded as the most popular novelist at that time.

He was good at writing fiction. His novels touch on the life of common people.

He created some of the world’s most unforgettable fictional characters.

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

One of his novels is “Great Expectations”.

Charles Dickens

Guess who it is !

Pip

a criminal on the run

Pip’s sister

Estella

Joe

give Pip a fortune

give him food

abusewould rather die

than harm Pip

be desperate for her lovelive up to

but

become vain; be ashamed of his friends

what it really means to be a gentleman

Friends are more important than a fancy education.

Theme

LessonsWealth does not buy happiness.

be bent on

be intended togenerous

Useful words and expressions

1. poetry; poet; poem2. character3. novel; novelist4. abuse5. criminal6. drama 7. fiction8. author9. playwright 10.generous11.theme12.vain13.fancy

14. be bent on doing 15.live up to 16.be intended to do/be sth17. be desperate for /to do18. would rather do A than do B19. on the run20.have a good reputation for 21. have a place in 22. be adapted into23. be lost to24. touch on

Fill in the blanks using the proper words in brackets

1.Our literary club always reads _______________written by Robert Burns, a famous ______. (poetry/ poet /poem)

2. As we all know, Mo Yan is a ________, whose _______ are very popular. (novels/ novelist)

3. The former ________ insists he is innocent of this ________ though he has a __________ record.

( crime / criminal )

poetry/ poemspoet

novelistnovels

crime criminalcriminal

Summarize the meanings of “character” and “abuse”

character n. ① 人物 ②性格 ③字符 Chinese ~

abuse n. v ① 滥用 ②辱骂 ③虐待 eg. child ~ drug ~

One character in Great Expectations is Pip’s sister, a woman of terrible character. She is hot-tempered and often shouts abuse at her husband, Joe. Being uncivil and rude, she often abuses her power in the family. Worse still, she also abuses her brother, Pip.

1 character ＆ abuse

2 desperate

desperate adj. ① 绝望的；亡命的 a ~ criminal② 渴望的 be ~ for … / be ~ to don. desperation adv. desperately

The soap opera “_________ Housewives( 绝望主妇 )” is so well received that people are __________ for the next season. It is about some women in ___________, who want to be loved ____________.

Pip is desperate for Estella’s love. After receiving the fortune given by the desperate criminal, he is desperate to leave for London to begin his new life of a gentleman.

Desperate desperate

desperation desperately

很多人宁愿看电影也不愿读原著。

Many people prefer watching the film to reading the original work.

Many people would rather /prefer to watch the film than /rather than read the original work.

Rather than read the original work, many people prefer to watch the film.

Joe loves Pip and he would rather die than see any harm come to him.

3 would rather… than …

would rather do A than do B =prefer to do A rather than do B =prefer doing A to doing B

J. K. Rowling 原本为养家而写《哈利 · 波特》。结果这本儿童读物变成了世界畅销书。

J. K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter ________________ raising her family. The book ____________ children turned out to be a best seller worldwide.

The generous criminal intends to thank Pip for giving him the food years ago, so he gives the fortune to Pip with the intention of making him a gentleman.

4 intend

intend v. ① 想要 ; 打算 ~ (sb) to do sth ② 为某目的而设计 be intended to do / for = be meant/designed to do / forintention n. with the ~ of …. have no ~ of … /to do

with the intention ofintended for

Pip lives up to the criminal’s expectations and becomes a civil man. But the criminal doesn’t live up to his promise, and comes back to see Pip one day.

5 live up to

live up to sth ① 不辜负 ( 期望 ) ；达到 ( 标准 ) ② 遵守 ( 诺言 )

莫言有写作的天赋，但他并没有一心想要成为一个名人。

Mo Yan has a bent for writing, but he has never been bent on becoming somebody.

Pip is bent on winning Estella’s love.

6 be bent on

bent adj. 决心的 be ~ on (doing) sth = be determined to do = make up one’s mind to do n. 癖好 ; 才能 have a ~ for sth

the main character---- Jiu’er

“Red Sorghum”

Mo Yan has a good reputation for his novels. Many of his novels have been 1 _ into films, among which “Red Sorghum” is the most well-known. The story is 2 in Anti-Japanese War. The main 3 is a woman named “Jiu’er”, who is forced to marry an old man who owns a distillery( 酒窖 ). One day, in the field of sorghum, she comes across a man, YuZhanao, who falls in love with her. He is so desperate to be with her that shortly afterwards, her husband is 4 mysteriously. After his death, Jiu’er 5 the distillery and bent on making good wine. At last they 6 it. However, good time does not last long. The Japanese come, forcing people to work for them. One of their workers, Luo Han 7 . Therefore, he is skinned alive. Jiu’er leads all her workers to fight against the Japanese. Rather than submit to the Japanese, they 8 die. What happens next? You’d better watch the film yourself. 1. A. applied B. adjusted C. adopted D. adapted2. A. located B. set C. happened D. put 3. A. hero B. person C. character D. plot 4. A. worn-out B. abused C. rescued D. murdered5. A. takes over B. takes to C. takes up D. takes in 6. A. produce B. buy C. have D. make 7. A. regrets B. resists C. reforms D. rescues8. A. would rather B. had better C. would like D. prefer to

Practice:

make

adapted

setcharacter

murdered takes over

resists

prefer to

Born in 1955 Gao Mi Shandong ProvinceHave a reputation for winning the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature His most famous work: “Red Sorghum”

Writing:1. 简要介绍莫言其人及其成就 (literature; novelist; Nobel Prize; adapted films…)2. 莫言热现象 (desperate; intend; be bent on; )3. 你的看法 …

Consolidation

Homework

Finish the writing individually

Review the key words and phrases