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1、 lGet more knowledge about the history of Britain esp. the Norman Conquest and its influence on the English languagelHave a better understanding of the stylistic differences between spoken and written EnglishlBetter understand the art of conversationlPre-reading questionslMacro-structure of the text
2、lBackground information presentationslDetailed study of the textlFollow-up discussion1. English pubs2. Dumas and The Three Musketeers3. The Kings English4. Australians and the descendents of convicts5. The Norman Conquest and its influence on English6. The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare7. Eli
3、zabethans8. E.M. Forster and the Bloomsbury Group9. Differences between spoken English and written Englishl1. English pubs and English social lifel2. Norman conquest and its influence on the English languagel3. Australia and the descendents of convictsl4. Spoken English and written Englishl5. The ar
4、t of conversationl1. What is a pub? What do you know about English pubs?l2. How do you understand “the Kings English”?l3. How is “English pubs” and “the Kings English” connected with each other in this text?l4. What do you anticipate about the content of the text simply from the title?l5. What type
5、of writing is the text? Whats the main theme of this writing?l6. Is the title of the piece aptly chosen? Can you give a better title? 1. English pubs contracted from the public houseknown as the pub or the local center of social life for a large number of people(especially men) in Britain places for
6、 meeting friends and for entertainment offering a wide variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and providing (in increasing numbers) hot and cold food, providing television sets, amusement machines and facilities for playing darts镖)镖), billiards台球)台球), dominoes多米诺骨牌)多米诺骨牌) and similar games, e
7、ven employing musicians for evening entertainment, such as piano playing, folk singing and modern jazzThe Kings English: Variety of English supposedly correct or standard English ( esp. British English) as to grammar and pronunciation, so-called from the notion of royal sanction( approval; acceptanc
8、e ) When the ruling monarch is a queen, it is also called “ the Queens English.”The Queens English: (old-fashioned) the form of spoken and written British English that is considered correct by most people (Macmillan English Dictionary)To speak the kings English means to speak very correctly in a way
9、 typical of people of highest social class.lPart I (para.13)lA general introduction to what makes a good conversationlPart II (para.411)lA particular instance of a good pub conversationlPart III (para. 1217) (digression)lThe authors reflection on the history and meaning of the “kings English”lPart I
10、V (para1821) Winding up by pointing out what is the bane of good conversationl lSummary lJustice Shallow, Master Slender, and Sir Hugh Evans enter, discussing Shallows anger at Sir John Falstaff. Evans changes the topic to the young Anne Page, whom he would like to see Slender marry. They arrive at
11、Master Pages door, where Shallow confronts Falstaff and his entourage. The men enter to dine, but Slender drifts around outside, trying unsuccessfully to converse with Anne Page until he goes inside. /Falstaff and his entourage settle in at the Garter Inn, whereFalstaff reveals his plan to seduce Mi
12、stress Page and Mistress Ford, both of whom have control over their husbands money, which he desires. He sends Pistol and Nim to deliver letters to the women, but they refuse. Instead they plot to stymie Falstaffs plans by telling Page and Ford of his intentions.Mistress Quickly talks to Slenders se
13、rvant Simple, sent by Evans, and agrees that she will consent to speak positively of Slender to Anne Page. Her master, Doctor Caius, enters and encounters Simple. When he hears about his errand, he becomes angry and drafts a letter to Evans. Caius too is in love with Anne Page and blames Evans for e
14、ncouraging Slender; hence he challenges him to a duel. He threatens Quickly, who had promised him she would encourage Anne to look favorably on him. Later Fenton enters; hes also in love with Anne and wants to know if Quickly has related his affections to her./Mistress Page enters with a letter from
15、 Falstaff. Shes astonished that he has the gall to try to seduce her and wonders how she will seek revenge. Mistress Ford appears with her own letter, which they discover is exactly the same. They decide to lead Falstaff on until he is ruined and humiliated. Mistress Ford agrees to anything that won
16、t harm her honor. Meanwhile, Pistol and Nim enter, conversing with Ford and Page; they reveal Falstaffs plans. The husbands are astonished. Page doesnt think his wife will fall for Falstaff, but Ford is horribly jealous and convinced his wife will dishonor him. Shallow and the Host of the Garter Inn
17、 enter with news of a fight between Caius and Evans. Page goes with them to watch, while Ford makes a deal with the Host to be introduced to Falstaff in disguise, in order to find out how far Falstaff has gotten in his plan. At the Garter Inn, Quickly enters with a message from Mistresses Ford and P
18、age for Falstaff. She reports that Ford will be out the next morning, and Mistress Ford will be expecting a visit from him. Mistress Page has not yet gotten her husband to leave the house, so shell make a date at a later time. Then Ford enters in disguise, announced under the name Brooke. He tells F
19、alstaff that hes in love with Mistress Ford, but that she has always rebuffed his advances, claiming that shes too honorable to cheat on her husband. He asks Falstaff to seduce Mistress Ford, thus destroying her honor, so she wont be able to turn him down in the future. Falstaff reports his date the
20、 next morning with Mistress Ford. Alone, Ford curses his wife for preparing to cheat on him and thinks Page is foolish to trust his wife. Caius awaits Evans for their duel, but Evans is nowhere to befound./Meanwhile, Evans has been wandering around looking for Caius. They meet and prepare to fight.
21、The other men take their swords away, and Caius and Evans speak quietly to each other of their suspicion that the Host has plotted to make them look like fools because he scorns Evans for his Welsh accent and Caius for his French one. They agree to work together to get revenge against the Host. On t
22、he way back from the fight, the men discuss Annes marriage options. Page says he favors Slender, but his wife prefers Caius. What about Fenton?, asks one, but Page dismisses him entirely. Ford invites the men back to his house to catch Falstaff. Falstaff has arrived at Mistress Fords house; he hides
23、 when Mistress Page is announced. She comes in and speaks loudly of the imminent arrival of Ford, who angrily suspects his wife of cheating. Falstaff comes out and asks them to help him flee. They hide him in a laundry basket. Ford and his buddies enter as Mistress Fords men carry the laundry out. F
24、ord is unable to find Falstaff, and the Mistresses are doubly delighted to have fooled both Falstaff and Ford. They decide to humiliate Falstaff further in the service of making Ford get over his jealousy./Fenton and Anne Page speak. He says her father objects to him because he suspects him of just
25、wanting Annes money, since he is high-born but poor. Fenton admits that that was his intention at first, but, since getting to know her, he has come to feel differently. Shallow, Slender, and Quickly enter; Quickly draws Fenton away, while Shallow tries to get Slender to talk to Anne. Slender only m
26、akes a fool of himself by speaking nonsense. Page and his wife enter, and they invite the favored Slender inside. Fenton asks Quickly to continue to campaign on his behalf with Anne. Alone, Quickly notes that she likes him better than the other two men who have asked her to sway Annes opinion./Falst
27、aff arrives at the Garter Inn, soaked after having been thrown in the river with the laundry. Quickly enters with a second invitation from Mistress Ford. Ford enters in disguise as Brooke and asks how Falstaffs date with Mistress Ford went. He tells how it ended, but says he is visiting again that n
28、ight!/Falstaff returns to Mistress Fords house, and again Mistress Page enters soon after. Falstaff hides, and Mistress Page warns Mistress Ford of her husbands approach. How will they hide Falstaff this time? He emerges and refuses to go in the laundry again. Mistress Ford suggests that he wear the
29、 clothes of her servants fat aunt to escape in disguise. He does, and when Ford arrives, he beats Falstaff and chases him away because he hates the fat aunt. Mistress Ford and Mistress Page arepleased; they think they have proven their point, and so they decide to tell their husbands of their scheme
30、s./Ford apologizes to his wife for his jealousy, and he promises never to suspect her again. They decide that it would be fun to work together to humiliate Falstaff publicly. They plan to have Mistress Ford invite Falstaff to meet her in an allegedly haunted wood, and theyll dress their children up
31、as ghosts and monsters to terrify and embarrass Falstaff. Then, having caught him in the act of trying to meet Mistress Ford secretly, they can tell the story all around town./Fenton speaks to the Host of a letter he has received from Anne. She says that her parents want to use the chaos of disguise
32、d children in the haunted wood as an opportunity for her suitors to elope with her. Her mother wants her to run off with Caius and her father prefers Slender. Each instructs her to wear a specific outfit so each suitor may find her. But she intends to deceive them both. Fenton asks the Host to help
33、him find a vicar who will marry them that night./Meanwhile, Caius and Evans avenge themselves on the Host by stealing three of his horses in a scheme that had him believing he had lent the horses to three German lords on their way to the royal court./Falstaff arrives in the haunted woods. The disgui
34、sed children hide and wait. Ford and Page and their friends arrive to watch, and Mistress Ford and Mistress Page approach Falstaff. Hes delighted to see they have both come to meet him. Then they hear a noise and the women run away. Falstaff is surrounded by disguised elves and ghouls and is terrifi
35、ed. Mistress Quickly, playing the fairy queen, says they should try to burn the human they have encountered, and if he doesnt burn then he is pure. They burn Falstaff with candles and encircle him and pinch him.Finally, the disguised children depart, and Page and Ford enter. Falstaff sees that he ha
36、s been fooled and humiliated. Evans tells Falstaff that he should give up on his lusts and tells Ford that he should trust his wife. Meanwhile, they all wonder where Anne is. Slender arrives upset; in the confusion, he eloped with a young boy in Annes outfit. Then Caius enters, in a rage that he has
37、 married a boy wearing Annes assigned color outfit. Then Anne herself enters with Fenton. Fenton scolds the Pages for having thought to send Anne into a marriage without love. He and Anne have long been in love, he says, and now it has been finalized./Ford says that love has won out, and Page and hi
38、s wife realize their mistake in not having listened to the wishes of their daughter. Falstaff is pleased that their plan to humiliate him backfired partially in the marriage of Anne and Fenton. They adjourn to celebrate the marriage and invite Falstaff to join them. 8. E.M. Forster and the Bloomsbur
39、y Group Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan Forster), 1879-1970, English author, one of the most important British novelists of the 20th century. After graduating from Cambridge, Forster lived in Italy and Greece. During World War I he served with the International Red Cross in Egypt. In 1946, Forster bec
40、ame an honorary fellow of Kings College, Cambridge, where he lived until his death. He received the Order of Merit in 1968. Forsters fiction, conservative in form, is in the English tradition of the novel of manners. He explores the emotional and sensual deficiencies of the English middle class, dev
41、eloping his themes by means of irony, wit, and symbolism. His first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, appeared in 1905 and was followed in quick succession by The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), and Howards End (1910). His last and most widely acclaimed novel, A Passage to India
42、(1924), treats the relations between a group of British E.M.Forster Bloomsbury Groupcolonials and native Indians and considers the difficulty of forming human relationships, of “connecting” ; the novel also explores the nature of external and internal reality. Forsters short stories are collected in
43、 The Celestial Omnibus (1911) and The Eternal Moment (1928). After 1928 he turned his attention increasingly to nonfiction. Notable collections of his essays and literary criticism are Abinger Harvest (1936) and Two Cheers for Democracy (1951). Aspects of the Novel (1927) is a major study of the nov
44、el and Forsters most important critical work. In 1971, Maurice, a novel Forster had written in 1913-14, was published posthumously. A homosexual, Forster had refrained from publishing it during his lifetime because of the works sympathetic treatment of homosexuality. The story of a young mans self-a
45、wakening.Maurice treats a familiar Forster theme, the difficulty of human connection. His unpublished short stories and essays were published posthumously in Albergo Empedocle and Other Writings (1972). In all his works Forsters style is impeccable.The Bloomsbury GroupThe name given to the literary
46、group that made the Bloomsbury area of London the center of its activities from 1904 to World War II. It included Lytton Strachey , Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster , Vita Sackville-West , Roger Fry , Clive Bell , and John Maynard Keynes . The group began as a social clique派系)派系): a few
47、 recent Cambridge graduates and their closest friends would assemble on Thursday nights for drinks and conversation. Its members were committed to a rejection of what they felt were the strictures限制) and taboos of Victorianism on religious, artistic, social, and sexual matters. They remained a fairl
48、y tight-knit group for many years; recent biographers have detailed their tangled personal relations. By the 1920s Bloomsburys reputation as a cultural circle was fully established to the extent that its mannerisms惯用的格调或手法were parodied拙劣的模仿) and Bloomsbury became a widely used term connoting an insu
49、lar孤立的), snobbish aestheticism. Unique in the brilliance, variety, and output of its members, the group has remained the focus of widespread scholarly and popular interest.Para.1.1) Whats the main idea of this paragraph?2) Paraphrase the first sentence.Make a sentence with “sociable” Can you find a
50、synonym of “intricate” and “indulge in”?la. A sociable person is friendly and enjoys being with peoplel好交际的,友好的 l Her sociable manner is really a mask for a very shy nature. 她那好交际的作风,实际上是她腼腆天性的伪装。lb. Sociable jobs ,or times allow you to enjoy being with other people.有社交机会的l The pay is good, but the
51、hours are not very sociable. lA. to allow yourself to do sth you enjoylTo indulge in / indulge yourself in leisure activities lTo indulge a passion/taste/interestlHe was now able to indulge his passion for music.lB. to allow sb to do sth they enjoylHe loves his wife and indulges his sons.lC. induldg
52、e in: to become involved in sth people do not approve oflHe confessed that he had indulged in affairs with several women. Conversation is _. And it is an activity only of humans. However _ with each other, they do not _ that _ the name of conversation.lPara.2.l1) Whats the main idea of this paragrap
53、h?l2) How do you understand the mixed metaphor conveyed by the four verbs “ meander, leap, sparkle and glow”?A.(a road or river) to follow a path with a lot of turns and curves , B.to move slowly without a particular direction or purpose in mindIn the text, to talk for a long time without really hav
54、ing central subjectslA.To move somewhere quickly and suddenlylB.To jump into the air or over a long distancel In the text, to suddenly change to another topic or subjectlA. To shine with small points of reflected lightslB.To burn brightly throwing off sparks;l In the text, to talk about something li
55、vely and interestinglA.To shine with a soft lightlB.To burn steadily without flameslIn the text, to talk about something less excitingl3) How do you understand the enemy of good conversation?l4) What are some of the characteristics of conversation?l5) Give us an example from your daily experience to
56、 show that some good conversationalists are always ready to let it go and lose.lRevisionl闲谈的引人人胜之处就在于它没有一个事先定闲谈的引人人胜之处就在于它没有一个事先定好的话题好的话题,话题最终会扯到什么地方去谁也拿不话题最终会扯到什么地方去谁也拿不准。准。 。它时而迂回流淌,时而奔腾起伏,时而。它时而迂回流淌,时而奔腾起伏,时而火花四射,时而热情洋溢火花四射,时而热情洋溢/平淡无奇,要是有平淡无奇,要是有人觉得人觉得“有些话要说有些话要说”,那定会大煞风景,使闲,那定会大煞风景,使闲聊无趣。闲聊不是为了
57、进行争论。聊无趣。闲聊不是为了进行争论。 lThe _of conversation is that _, and no one has any idea _ as it _ or _ and _ or just_. The enemy of good conversation is the person _. Conversation is not _.l闲聊中常常会有争论,不过其目的并不是为了说服对方。闲聊之中是不存在什么输赢胜负的。事实上,真正善于闲聊的人往往是随时准备让步的。也许他们偶然间会觉得该把自己最得意的奇闻轶事选出一件插进来讲一讲,但一转眼大家已谈到别处去了,插话的机会随之而失
58、,他们也就听之任之。 lArgument may often be a part of it, but the purpose of the argument is not _. There is no winning in conversation. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are _. Suddenly they see the moment for one of their best _, but _ the conversation has moved on and the opportunity is lo
59、st. They are ready to _.Para 3.1) What does he really mean when he said “because of my up-bringing in English pubs”? What figure of speech is used in this sentence?2) Whats the main idea of this paragraph?.3) Are bar friends intimate? Why?4) Explain the metaphor on the rocks. 5) Explain the idiomati
60、c expression get up the wrong side of the bed.6) Paraphrase “did not delve into each others lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings”. l( idiom) Be in a bad mood or temperlA. to look for information by searching sth thoroughlylThis biography delves deep into the artists private life.lB.
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