高级英语课件 Love is a Fallacy

Unit 4

Love Is a FallacyMax Shulman

Teaching Plan

Teaching Objectives1.

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To have a basic knowledge of the terms in logic To understand what love is in an affluent society To appreciate the humorous and satirical writing style To appreciate the language

Teaching Focus

The rules of logic: to understand all the eight fallacies referred in the text. The particular writing style of the author. The light, humorous, yet impressing way of depicting things. Subjective, personal, sensible.

Teaching Focus

The self-boasting tone of “I”. Different adjectives applied to describe “ I” and my “rival” Petey Burch. The positive, neutral and negative senses of the similar adjectives.

Teaching Methods1. 2. 3.

Teacher-oriented teaching method Student-oriented teaching method The elicited method

Teaching ProcedureⅠ. Ⅱ. Ⅲ. Ⅳ. Ⅴ. Introductory Remarks Background Information Learning Focus Key words and Expressions Explanation of the Text

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Division of the Text The Writing Style The Personality of Dobie Exercises

Introductory Remarks

Ⅰ. Introductory Remarks

About the title

“There is deceptive or delusive quality about love”. “Love can not be deduced from a set of given premises”.

About the author

Max Schulman an American’s best-known humorists a productive writer of many talents

His works

Barefoot boy with Cheek The Feather merchant Rally Round the Flag, Boys The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

About the text

The text is excerpted from The Many loves of Dobbie Gillis by Max Shulman. It is a piece of narrative writing.

The narrator of the story, Dobie Gillis, a self-conceited freshman in a school struggles against Petey Burch, his stupid roommate whose girl friend he plans to steal and Polly Espy, the beautiful dumb girl he intends to marry after suitable reeducation.

Detailed Study of the Text

Ⅱ. Background Information

Explanation of thelogical Fallacies A logical argument gives evidence to support some conclusion. two necessary parts:

a conclusion the thesis argues for certain premises or facts on which to base the conclusion