【张汉熙+高级英语+PPT】114.ppt

Lesson 14 Argentia Bay Herman Wouk,Objectives of teaching,Improving students understanding of the text properly;Enhancing students ability to appreciate the textHelping students to understanding rhetorical devices;Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately.,Important and difficult points,1)understanding this passage;2)appreciating the writing style.,I.Background information,Herman Wouk:American novelist,A Pulitzer Prize winner.Famous works:THE WINDS of WAR(1971)and WAR and REMEMBRANCE(1977).Pulitzer Prize:founded by Joseph Pulitzer(1847-1911),American newspaper publisher who gave Columbia University$2,000,000 in 1903 for the creation of the Columbia School of Journalism and also the Prizes.Today there are Pulitzer Prizes for distinguished works in American fiction,drama,history,biography and autobiography,nonfiction,poetry and music.,I.Background information,The Winds of War:The story is a fiction with the main character,Pug Victor Henry being a mid-rank officer who witnesses all the major events during World War A novelty of this fiction is,with the ongoing of the story itself,an imaginary reminiscences by a German strategist was put in at intervals of chapters.That is to say,every a couple of chapters into the novel,an episode of that reminiscences was quoted to provide an opposite-side view of the war situation,which enables the reader to view the historical events with and all-round angle.,II.Detailed Study of the Text,1.pervade:spread to and be perceived in every part ofeg:The smell of the barbecue pervaded the house.Her song is pervaded by nostalgia for a past age.2.brace:(device that clamps things together or holds and supports them in position)eg:The retired general had to wear steel braces on his legs,because an attack of polio in 1937 had paralyzed him from the waist.v.support(sth)with a bracen.wire device worn inside the mouth(esp.by children)for straightening the teeth eg:Margarett has to wear a brace on her teeth.,IV.Detailed Study of the Text,3.quartermaster:a petty officer who attends to a ships helm,binnacle,and signals,any army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for a body of troops,a military officer in charge of provisionsOther words beginning with quarter:quarterback,quarterdeck,quarterfinal,quarterly4.assault:sudden violent attack eg:make an assault on the enemy lines This young man got two years imprisonment for assaulting a police officer.Several women have been sexually assaulted in the area recently.,IV.Detailed Study of the Text,5.diminish:(cause sth.to)become smaller or less;decrease eg:His vigor has diminished over the years.Nothing could diminish her desire for money.make(sb./sth.)seem less important than it really is;devalue eg:The opposition are trying to diminish our achievements.6.pathetic:causing one to feel pity or sadness eg:pathetic cries for help the pathetic sight of starving children His tears were pathetic to witness.pathetically thin His answers were pathetically inadequate.,IV.Detailed Study of the Text,7.bent:strongly inclined,determined be bent on sth./on doing sth:be determined on(a course of action);have ones mind firmly set on(doing)sth eg:He is bent on winning the match at all costs.8.dignity:quality that earns or deserves respect;true worth eg:Every free person should have human dignity.She kept her dignity despite the poverty.Some husbands still think it beneath their dignity to do housework.dignified:having or showing dignity eg:a dignified person,walk,bow Our ceremony was dignified by the presence of the ambassador.,IV.Detailed Study of the Text,9.appall/appal:fill(sb)with horror or dismay;shock deeply eg:The newspaper reports of criminals stealing children appalled me.We were appalled at the prospect of having to miss our holiday.,III.Rhetorical devices,Transferred EpithetGray peace pervaded the wilderness-ringed Argentia Bay in NewfoundlandHe resumed his hurried packing.They prolonged the clasp for the photographers,exchanging smiling wordsChurchill looked up at him with majestic good humorthe forests of larch and fir glowed a rich green,III.Rhetorical devices,MetonymyThe squeal of boatswains pipes broke up the dress parade on the cruisers deck.Building new ships to replace U-boat sinkings came first.OxymoronTheir empire is mighty rickety at this point.Hopkins gave Victor Henry a sad smile,IV.Question for discussion,Why did the part about free trade and independence for all peoples mean the end of the British Empire?,