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Title: Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.


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Reading makes a full man conference a ready
man and writing an exact man.
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PRE-READING
Quiz Time
How much do you know about famous
writers and their novels?
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Match the name of the writer with the novel.

JK Rowling A. Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe B. Journey to
the West Wu Cheng'en C. Pride
and Prejudice Jane Austen D.
the Harry Potter series Shakespeare
E. The Old Man and the Sea Jules
Verne(???) F. Hamlet Charlotte Bronte
G. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Hemingway
H. Jane Eyre
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Background Knowledge
How much do you know about Hemingway?
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Ernest Hemingway
Name Birth Death Nationality Career Remember
ed as
1899
1961
American
novelist and short-story writer
one of the great American writers of the 20th
century
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In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature.
Hemingways writing style
direct and somewhat plain
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The Sun Also Rises (1926)
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A Farewell to Arms (1929)
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Green Hills of Africa (1935)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
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The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
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Quotations from the Old Man and the Sea
Every day is a new day. It is better to be
lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when
luck comes you are ready.
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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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True Nobility (?????)
Ernest Hemingway
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PRE-READING
  • to control the direction in which a
  • boat, car moves
  • 2.the death of a relative or close friend
  • 3.the ability to think in a logical way and
    understand things
  • 4. to make sth known to sb.
  • 5.all the qualities and features that make a
    person

steer
bereavement
intellect
reveal
character
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PRE-READING
regulate
  • 6. to control sth by means of rules
  • the act of spending more
  • money than necessary
  • 8. the fact of showing that you are sorry for sth
    wrong that you have done
  • 9.better/greater than sb./sth else

extravagance
repentance
superior
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SYNONYM MATCH (?????)
previous sorrow errors shadow wants steer characte
r reveal regulate humanity
  1. mistakes
  2. shade
  3. sadness
  4. needs
  5. former
  6. personality
  7. human beings
  8. show
  9. drive
  10. control

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LISTEN WHILE READING
TRUE OR FALSE
1.Life is full of both happiness and
sadness. 2.The happiest people have only good
things. 3.Our character shows our true nature
more than our intellect. 4. In an age of
extravagance and waste, people need more things
than before. 5. To regret your mistakes is true
repentance.
T
F
T
F
F
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Read along with the recording and answer the
following questions.
1.What is boat in the first sentence compared
to? 2. What is true repentance ? 3. What can
reveal our true nature? 4. What is true nobility
? 5. What does Even death itself makes life
more loving mean?
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1.What is boat in the first sentence compared
to? 2.What is true repentance ? 3. What can
reveal our true nature? 4. What is true nobility
?
It is compared to life.
To regret your errors to the point of not
repeating them is true repentance.
Our character, our heart, our self-control,
patience and discipline, regulated by judment.
True nobility is in being superior to your
previous self.
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5. What does Even death itself makes life more
loving mean?
It means that even the thought of death itself
can have a good effect because it makes us love
other people more.
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In the essay Hemingway used the figure of
speech metaphor(??)rhetorical devices
ellipsis(??) and antithesis(??), please give an
example of each.
sunshine without shade
metaphor
happiness
sadness
not our brains so much as not our talent so
much as
ellipsis
that reveals our true nature
that reveals our true nature
intellect
character
not so much as
brains
heart
antithesis
talent
self-control patience discipline
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GAP FILL
shade
sunshine
1. But all _________ without _______, all
________ without ______, is not life at all.
pleasure
pain
death
loving
2.Even _____ itself makes life more ______.
wants
3.How few the real ______ of humanity are.
regret
4.To ______ your errors to the point of not
_________ them is true repentance.
repeating
nobility
5.True _______ is in being superior to your
__________ self.
previous
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POST-READING
An Interview After
reading Hemingways True Nobility, which sentence
do you like best?
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Group work
Which of the following sentences do you like
best? Why ?
  • But all sunshine without shade, all
  • pleasure without pain, is not life at all.
  • Even death itself makes life more loving.
  • How few the real wants of humanity are.
  • To regret your errors to the point of not
  • repeating them is true repentance.
  • True nobility is in being superior to your
  • previous self.

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But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure
without pain, is not life at all.
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Even death itself makes life more loving.
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How few the real wants of humanity are.
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To regret your errors to the point of not
repeating them is true repentance.
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True nobility is in being superior to your
previous self.
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Lets enjoy True Nobility !
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  • Homework
  • Write a short passage entitled
  • My Idea about True Nobility.
  • Emailhuiminkong566_at_msn.com

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Thank you! Bye-Bye!
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