Mr' Doherty Builds His Ideal Life

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Mr. Doherty Builds His Ideal Life
Demonstration of Group 2Text A
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Outline of the demonstration

• 1. Warming-up activities
• 2. Background information
• 3. Structure
• 4. Detailed explanation
• 5. Further discussion
• 6. Assignments

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What is the modern city life like?
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What is the country life like?
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What is your choice?
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More Questions for you

• 1. What is your current life like?
• 2. What is your ideal life?
• 3. What do you think about the authors
  choice?

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Let me tell you something.

• In America many people have a romantic idea of
  life in the countryside. Many living in towns
  dream of starting up their own farm, of living
  off the land. Few get round to putting their
  dreams into practice. This is perhaps just as
  well as the life of a farmer is far from easy, as
  Jim Doherty discovered when he set out to combine
  being a writer with running a farm. Nevertheless,
  as he explains, he has no regrets and remains
  enthusiastic about his decision to change his way
  of life.

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My life is
Call me Doherty
Go and find something about me.
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Part 1 para.1The authors ideal life to
write and live on a farmpart 2 para.2-4The
description of the life on the farm 1. A
self-reliant sort of life 2. A happy life
The structure of the text

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• Part3 para.5-10
• The disadvantages of living on the farm
• 1. In winter buried under five feet of snow
• 2. In spring it brought two floods
• covering much of our land

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Part4 conclusion para.11-12 The author has
found out just what they were looking for to
improve the quality of their life.
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Detailed discussion

• 1.Paraphrase the following sentences
• There is, as the old saying goes, no rest for the
  wicked on a place like thisand not much for the
  virtuous either.
• The answer, decidedly, was no, and so , off I
  went.

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2. The usage of language

• express the similar ideas in different wayse.g.
  Para.2
• our hens keep us in eggs
• our bees provide us with honey
• and we cut enough wood to just about

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• 2) The usage of verbs to express the business of
  their life
• e.g. she oversees the garden and beehives, bakes
  bread,cans and freezes,takes the kids to their
  music lessons, practices with them, does research
  and typing for me, writes an article herself now
  and then, looks after the flower beds,stacks a
  little wood and takes the eggs to the market.

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Further discussion

• What is the authors ideal life ?
• Write and live on a farm
• Canoe on the river
• Go picnicking
• Ski and skate
• Enjoy the pastoral life

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• How do you think of the improvement of the
  quality of life ?(theme)
• Live simply
• Live in a comfortable life
• Live far away from skyscrapers/pollution /noise
• Break away from fortress besieged(city)and return
  to nature (countryside)
• Pursuit of the tranquility of the countryside
• Combine nature with human beings

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Assignments

• How do you improve your quality of life?