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Unit 3 The Ant and the Grasshopper

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Before-Reading Warm-up Activities Easy Chat Background Information Main Idea of the Text

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Warm-up ActivitiesIntroduce to the students the fable The Ant and the Grasshopper and invite comments on the ant and grasshopper in the fable. To which party does your sympathy go?

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In a field one summer’s day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest. “Why not come and chat with me,” said the Grasshopper, “instead of toiling and moiling in that way?” “I am helping to lay up food for the winter,” said the Ant, “and recommend you to do the same.” “Why bother about winter?” said the Grasshopper, “ we have got plenty of food at present.” But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing, every day, corn from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.Before-Reading While-Reading After-Reading 5

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Easy ChatYou will watch a video clip “How Britney went bad?”, and answer questions according to the video1. What kind of person did Britney use to be? 2. How is she nowadays? 3. In your view, what cause her to change so much? 4. Do you really believe “an ill life, an ill end”?Video clipBefore-Reading While-Reading After-Reading 6

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Some difficult words related to the video. idol 偶像 stardom明星地位，演员身份 paparazzo专门追逐名人的摄影记者 racy活泼的 cement结合，巩固 seductively 诱惑的 python巨蟒 whim 心血来潮 deadbeat游手好闲者 bull’s eye 靶心 dangle摇摆 erratic古怪的 tattoo刺花样，纹身

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Maugham, W. Somerset (1874-1965) British novelist, playwright, short-story writer, highest paid author in the world in the 1930s. Despite his popularity, Maugham did not gain serious recognition – he stood “in the very first row of the second-raters”. Maugham's skill in handling plot has been compared by critics in the manner of Guy de Maupassant.

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Maugham, W. Somerset(1874-1965) "I have never pretended to be anything but a story teller. It has amused me to tell stories and I have told a great many. It is a misfortune for me that the telling of a story just for the sake of the story is not an activity that is in favor with the intelligentsia." (

Creatures of Circumstance, 1947)Before-Reading While-Reading After-Reading 10

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Maugham, W. Somerset (1874-1965) He was born in Paris as the youngest son of the solicitor to the British embassy. He learned French as his native tongue. At the age of 10 Maugham was orphaned. Maugham studied medicine at Heidelberg University and in London. He qualified in 1897 as doctor from St. Thomas' medical school but abandoned medicine after the success of his first novels and plays.Before-Reading While-Reading After-Reading 11

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威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1915)《人性的枷锁》 THE MOON AND SIX PENCE (1919) 《月亮和六便士》 THE TREMBLING OF A LEAF (1921) 《叶之颤抖》 ON CHINESE SCREEN (1922) 《中国见闻录》 THE PAINTED VEIL (1925) 《彩色的面纱》 CAKES AND ALE (1925) 《寻欢作乐》 …Before-Reading While-Reading After-Reading 12

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2. La Fontaine La Fontaine (拉.封丹)was a French writer(1621-1695), remembered especially for his Fables (1668 -1694), moral tales drawn from AESOP and oriental sources which he used to comment satirically on contemporary society.

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3. Monte Carlo Monte Carlo is a town in the independent principality of Monaco, on the Mediterranean coast known as the French Riviera. It is an international resort with a gambling casino, a yacht harbor and an annual automobile rally and the Monaco Grand Prix car race.

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Main Idea of the Text In this short story, Somerset Maugham, by describing two brothers' attitudes toward life, examines the nature and inconsistent qualities of human beings. George was a hard-working and respectable man with a decent job as a lawyer. He was also a faithful husband and loving father to four daughters. He believed that the industry should be rewarded and giddiness punished. His brother Tom, however, was an unscrupulous and good-for-nothing scoundrel. He philandered with the prettiest girls, danced, ate in the most expensive restaurants, and dressed beautifully. He borrowed money from relatives and friends. At the beginning, he fooled George by making empty promises repeatedly. Later on he even went to such an extreme that he blackmailed his brother.Before-Reading While-Reading After-Reading 15

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Loading money to his brother, George appeared to be in Tom's favor at the first sight. On a second thought, readers can find that George helped his brother only for his own sake. For instance, he gave Tom some money in order that Tom might quit his job as a bartender. By doing so, he saved his face and the good reputation of his family. But unfortunately Tom took advantage of his weakness of vanity over and over again. The story offers a new interpretation of the fable of La Fontaine The Ant and the Grasshopper whose classical teaching is that in an imperfect world industry is rewarded and giddiness punished, and reveals the d

ual personality of ordinary people.

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