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1、Who choose to be alone?,Divorced,Widowed,Never yet committed,Special people,Elizabeth I the queen of England,Mother Theresa,How famous peaple think about loneliness?,Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. -Mother Teresa Be good and you will be lonely. -Mark Twain
2、Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. -Honore de Balzac Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. -Winston Churchill,William Wordsworth English poet (17701850). Orphaned at 13, Wordsworth attended Cambridge Univ., but remained rootless and virtually pennil
3、ess until 1795, when a legacy made possible a reunion with his sister D. Wordsworth. He became friends with S. T. Coleridge, with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads (1798), the collection often considered to have launched the English Romantic Movement. In 1843 he became Englands poet laureate. He is rega
4、rded as the central figure in the initiation of English Romanticism.,Main idea of the text ? The reading passage focuses on a social phenomenon choosing to be alone on purpose. The passage mainly tells us: what living alone is, what people think of living alone, who prefer living alone, the authors
5、comments on living alone and what he advises for living in solitude.,Living alone a common social phenomenon.,Part I (para. 1),Part II (para. 2）,What do people think of living alone?,The author mentions 3 famous literary giants who choose to be alone and tells us what message we can draw from the pe
6、ople who choose to be alone.,Part (paras. 3-10),The author makes his comments on living alone.,Part (paras. 11-16),Para.1 Living alone is a _ phenomenon in U.S.A. Para.2 People think of living alone as _ or _ _. Paras.310 _, and _ prefer living alone for inspiration. Paras.1113 The life of the solit
7、ary people and their need _. Paras.1416 The author advises people to _, _ and _.,common social,a national disease,a characteristic of American heroes,Poets,philosophers,stay rational,settle down,make themselves comfortable,Text StudyStructure Analysis,B. Complete the Main Ideas,to talk,II. Question
8、Answering,Why is loneliness a sort of national disease in the US?,Because there are altogether 22 million of people living alone in their rooms in the US.,Text StudyUnderstanding,2. Why do poets like solitude?,Because they get inspiration from it, and they feel good about themselves for seeking it o
9、ut.,Text StudyUnderstanding,3. What can be learned from Thoreaus choice of the solitary way of life?,The more positive one is toward oneself, the less the need for staying with others.,Text StudyUnderstanding,4. Who may the person living in solitude talk to?,They may call friends to tell them import
10、ant things, or talk to himself, his pets, the television, or even to strangers in the supermarket.,Text StudyUnderstanding,5. How is a solitary man advised to enjoy life?,To stay rational, settle down in a comfortable way and find pleasure from the current life, wait for anything happy that may happ
11、en.,Text StudyUnderstanding,e.g. She did it on purpose, of course. 她当然是故意那样做的。,1. to be alone on purpose, (Para. 2),purposely 故意的,on purpose,Detailed study of the text:,e.g. We have found a meetingplace that will serve our purpose. 我们找到了一个很合适的会址。,扩展,e.g. He managed to seek out his friend in the crow
12、d. 他设法在人群中找出了自己的朋友。,2. They all speak highly of themselves for seeking it out, (Para. 3),find sth. or sb. by looking hard 找出，搜寻出,seek out,3. he calls the girls to come back and write it down while he dictates. (Para. 6),e.g. She spent the morning dictating letters to her secretary. 她花了一上午向她的秘书口述信件。,
13、dictate,v. speak sth. aloud for another person or for a machine to record the words said 听写，口授,4. The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. (Para. 10),n. ones idea or opinion of oneself, or a great feeling of ones own importance and ability 自我，自尊心,ego,e.g. Im glad she got the job
14、she needed something to boost her ego. 我很高兴她得到了那份工作她需要那份工作来增强她的自尊心。,e.g. That man has got such an enormous ego Ive never known anyone so full of themselves. 那个人非常自负，我从来没有见过 那么以自我为中心的人。,egoism: n.自我主义；自私；利己 egoist: n.自私自利者；自我中心者 egoistic(al): a.自私自利的；利己主义的 ego-trip: n.(俚）以自我为中心的活动 e.g. Her life is ju
15、st one big ego-trip. 她的一生都是以自我为中心的。,e.g. I do quite a humble job at the hospital. 我在医院从事很普通的工作。,5. The more modest and humble we feel, the more we suffer from solitude. (Para. 10),adj. having a low opinion of oneself 谦逊的，谦虚的,e.g. He strikes me as a very humble person. 他的谦虚给我留下了深刻的印象。,humble,6. you can stretch out your soul (Para. 11),lengthen sth. by pulling; cause to reach forward, as with the hands 拉长，伸长，伸出,e.g. He stretched out on the grass. 他手脚伸开着躺在草地上。,stretch out,e.g. She doesnt have all the qualifications but I think we should stretch a point in her favour. 她并非全部合格，但我认为我们可
