Hit the Nail on the Head课件1.pptVIP

Unit One Text I:  Hit the nail on the Head Teaching objectives 1)Understanding the various aspects related to the usage of words. 2)Cultivating a sense of appropriateness in style 3)Learning to use analogy as an expository means. Pre-reading Brainstorming: 1)What does the proverb “Hit the nail on the head” mean? 2) Why does the author encourage people to “Hit the nail on the head”? Note: Hit the (right) nail on the head: be exactly right in words or action (说/做得对;正中要害,一针见血,中肯) E.g. Your analysis really hits the nail on the head. brainstorming style To put the right words in the right place . ----Jonathan Swift Elements related to it: Choice of words Denotation Connotation Synonyms Rhetorical devices Warm-up questions Does the title strike you as a bit unusual? Have you ever heard of the English proverb “Hit the nail on the head”? What does it mean? Whose job involves hitting nails? Is the text concerned about the carpenter? Then, what’s the major concern of the author? 4.What similarities does the author recognize in the job of a carpenter and the work of a writer? 5.How much do you know about style? Do you find it an interesting topic? 6.How do you like the text? Do you find it difficult or easy? Did it take you long to prepare before you come to the class? Are there many new words in the text? Relevant information: Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880), French novelist, was associated with, though not representative of, the movement of naturalism and known as one of the greatest realists of the nineteenth-century France. He devoted his life to long hours spent in heavy toil over his work. His writing is marked by exactness and accuracy of observation, extreme impersonality and objectivity of treatment, and precision and expressiveness in style, or the principle of the mot juste. Malapropism is the use of a word in mistake for one sounding similar, resulting in comic effect, e.g. “allegory” for “alligator”; “delusions” for “allusions” The word has its origi