Word power

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Unit 1 The written word

• Word power

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Goals

1. To learn some words related to literature
2. To gain some basic knowledge of different
   genres(??) of literature
3. To get familiar with some famous literary figures
   and their works

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Revision
Charles Dickens (18121870)
novelist
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elements of the novel

• characters
• setting
• symbol
• theme
• plot

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best-sellers
science fiction
J.K. Rowling
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romance
Victor Hugo(??)
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Literature
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short story writer

• only a few characters
• a simple plot

• 1. Who is Katherine Mansfield?
• 2. What are her famous works?
• 3. Whats Miss Brill about?

Its a moving story about a lonely English woman
living in Paris.
Katherine Mansfield
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Drama

• speech
• action

Enjoy a drama, and try to find the typical
features of a drama.
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• He is the most famous playwright in the world,
  using about 21,000 different words in his plays.
• He also wrote a lot of poems.

W. William Shakespeare (15641616)
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John Keats

• poetry
• poem
• poet

Robert Burns
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A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns

• O my luve is like a red, red rose,That's newly
  sprung in JuneO my luve is like the
  melodieThat's sweetly played in tune!
• As fair thou art, my bonnie lass,So deep in luve
  am IAnd I will luve thee still, my dear, Till
  a' the seas gang dry.

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• Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks
  melt wi' the sunAnd I will luve thee still, my
  dear,While the sands o' life shall run.
• And fare thee weel, my only luve,And fare thee
  weel a whileAnd I will come again, my
  luve,Tho'it were ten thousand mile!

• repeated rhythm
• focus on feelings

poetry
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1.Great Expectations 2. poetry
3. short story 4. short story writer 5.
Romeo Juliet 6. playwright 7. Charles
Dickens 8. John Keats
work Miss Brill Ode to a nightingale
genre novel drama
writer Katherine Mansfield Shake-speare
profession novelist poet
Great Expectations
Romeo Juliet
poetry
short story
Charles Dickens
John Keats
short story writer
playwright
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Categories of literature
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news storynews article

• reports of recent events in the newspapers or on
  the radio or television

journalist
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biography
a book that tells what has happened in
someone's life, written by someone else

• biographer

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• autobiography

a book in which someone writes
about their own life
autobiographer
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Practice

• Use what we have known to finish an introduction
  to different categories of literature on page 7.

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Matching game!

• A
• 1. to write something again, to change or
• improve it
• 2. to put letters or words on paper
• 3. to create a poem or music
• 4. to gather pieces of writing together into
• a single book
• 5. to remove the mistakes from a piece of
• writing
• 6. to plan roughly on paper
• 7. to change writing until it is suitable for
• its purpose

B compile compose correct draft edit rewrite write
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Lets put these verbs in order of completing a
collection of works.

• 1. rewrite 2. write 3. compose
• 4. compile 5. correct 6. draft
• 7. edit

come up with an idea _____
_____ _____ _____ _____
publish a work _____ publish a
collection of works
draft
write compose
rewrite
edit
correct
compile
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Discussion

• What kind of literary work would you like to
  read? Why?

• Some books are to be tasted, others to be
  swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
  digested.
• --- Francis Bacon

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Homework

• Surf the Internet for your favorite writer and
  his/ her works, and then write a brief
  introduction.

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Proverbs

• All the world is a stage and all the men and
  women merely players. --- William Shakespeare
• Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
• --- John Keats
• Any mountain peaks can be conquered with strong
  perseverance. --- Charles Dickens
• The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one
  lives with another who shares the same books.
• ---Katherine
  Mansfield

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Lets challenge ourselves!
Goal to guess what genre it is
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drama
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poetry
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news article
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novel
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short story
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poetry
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biography
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novel
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drama
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short story
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autobiography
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novel