Do you enjoy reading books?

Which kind of books do you prefer,

fiction, fairytale, biography or others

and why?

Can you name some famous writers?

a. freshmanb. sophomorec. juniord. seniore. compulsory

coursef. optional course

1. student in the third year of a four-year course at college (university) or high school

2. a course that must be done and is required by the school, college or university

3. student in the second year of a course at a high school, college or university

4. student in the year before graduation from a high school, college or university

5. student in the first year at high school, college, or university

6. a course that may be chosen as one wishes

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English

poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaboration, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.

Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognized as Shakespeare's.

Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a

tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "star-cross'd lovers" whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet and Macbeth, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.

Romeo and Juliet belong to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. Its plot is based on an Italian tale, translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562, and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both, but developed supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris, in order to expand the plot. Believed to be written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597. This text was of poor quality, and later editions corrected it, bringing it more in line with Shakespeare's original.

Shakespeare's use of dramatic structure, especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of sub-plots to embellish the story, has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill. The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops. Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play.

Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous times for stage, film, musical and opera. During the Restoration, it was revived and heavily revised by William Davenant. David Garrick's 18th-century version also modified several scenes, removing material then considered indecent, and Georg Benda's operatic adaptation omitted much of the action and added a happy ending. Performances in the 19th century, including Charlotte Cushman's, restored the original text, and focused on greater realism.

John Gielgud's 1935 version kept very close to Shakespeare's text, and used Elizabethan costumes and staging to enhance the drama. In the 20th century the play has been adapted in versions as diverse as MGM's comparatively faithful 1936 film, the 1950s stage musical West Side Story, and 1996's MTV-inspired Romeo and Juliet.

Directions: Read the Text A by yourself, with

the help of the vocabulary list; Try to complete the blanks in the

text summary; Compare your answers with your

partner.

Romeo and Juliet fall in love with each other in a _____, so they _____latter. However, Rome_____ Juliet’s _____ and his punishment is _____. Juliet refuses to marry _____, and with a friend’s help, she drinks _____ which makes her _____. The plan does not work, because Romeo does not get the message that Julie is still _____. Therefore, he kills himself, and Juliet also kills herself after _________.

Romeo and Juliet fall in love with each other in a ball , so they get married latter. However, Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin and his punishment is exile. Juliet refuses to marry Count Paris, and with a friend’s help, she drinks herb which makes her appear dead .The plan does not work, because Romeo does not get the message that Julie is still alive. Therefore, he kills himself, and Juliet also kills

herself after seeing him dead.

accidentally adv. ball n. mask n. instantly adv. balcony n. vow n. friar n. insult n. sword n.

annoy vt. revenge n. cell n. exile n. banishment n. Count n. wed v. explosion n. abandonment

n. advice n. herb n.

inform vt. grave n. funeral n. messenger n. determine vi. determine on sth. / to do

sth. apothecary n. poison n. burial adj. dagger n.

1. Romeo, son of Lord Montague, accidentally finds out about a ball given by Lord Capulet and plans to attend uninvited.（ Para. 1 ）

“ son of Lord Montague” 对“ Romeo” 做进一步解释，是同位语。

e.g. Football, his only interest in life, has brought him many friends ． 足球，他生活中的唯一爱好，给他带来了很多朋友。

同位语 appositive

a. that 在同位语从句中不做任何成分，仅把主句和从句连接起来。

e.g. He himself told me that his brother John is a famous doctor.

他自己告诉我他的兄弟约翰是个非常有名的医生。

b. 同位语从句的先行词多为 fact, news,

idea, thought, question, report,

remark 等，关联词多用从属连词。 e.g. The news that our team has

won the game was true.

我们小组取胜的消息千真万确。

Mini-quiz

找出下列句子中的同位语： The youngest boy, Peter, refused to

accept the money ． The possibility that the majority of the

labor force will work at home is often discussed ．

The suggestion (that) she has given at

the meeting is good.

2. His dying annoys Romeo, so he

demands revenge and kills Tybalt

forgetting that Tybalt is now his

cousin.（ Para. 3 ）“ forgetting...” 是分词短语做伴随状语。表示谓语动词表示的动作发生时，伴随发生的另一种情况。

现在分词短语和过去分词短语都可以做伴随状语 .

a. 现在分词短语表示与主句的主语在逻辑上有主谓关系，即表主动意义 .

e.g.He sent me an email hoping to get

 further information ． 他给我发了邮件希望能得到更多的信息。 b. 过去分词短语则表示与主句的主语在逻辑上是

动宾关系，即被动意义。 e.g.

He hurried to the hall， followed by t

wo guards ． 他急急忙忙进了大厅，后面跟真两个警卫。

3. His plan is that he will inform Romeo of this, who

will go into her grave and once she awakens Romeo

will take her back with him to Mantuan.（Para. 4 ）

e.g. The trouble is that he misunderstood me.

that 引导表语从句，做 is 的表语。

3. His plan is that he will inform

Romeo of this, who will go into her

grave and once she awakens Romeo

will take her back with him to

Mantuan.（ Para. 4 ）

Our guide，who was a French

Canadian，was an excellent cook.

.

“who”引导非限制性定语从句，先行词是 Romeo。

句中“ once” 译为“一旦”，引出条件状语从句。

e.g. He will not give up this course

once his mind 's made up.

Seeing him dead on the ground, she

takes his dagger and kills herself.

（ Para. 5 ）

e.g. Hearing their teacher's voice,

the students stopped talking at

once

分词短语“ seeing...”作时间状语 , “ ……”意为 当她看见

find out 找出，发现 plan to 计划 put on 穿上 , 戴上 ; 把……放在……上

with the help of 在……的帮助下 ; 借助于 , 利用

lead to 导致 take back 接回，收回 be determined to do sth.

决心做某事 stop by 顺便走访

1. Which statement is true?

A. Romeo attends the ball which is held

by Lord Capulet with an invitation card.

B. Montagues and Capulets have been

enemies for a very long time.

C. Romeo doesn’t get the message which

Balthasar carries.

2. Why is Romeo punished by exile?

A. Because he married Juliet without permission.

B. Because the Capulets set him up.

C. Because he killed his cousin.

3. Why does Juliet drink the herb?

A.Because she finds out Romeo is dead.

B.Because she does not want to marry Count Paris.

C.Because her father exploded with anger.

4. In Paragraph 4,“well-respected”refers to _______.

A. having a lot of money

B. having healthy energy

C. having a good reputation

5. Which event did NOT cause this tragedy?

A. Montagues and Capulets have been enemies for a very long time.

B. Tybalt and Mercutio exchange insults and then Tybalt kills Mercutio.

C. Romeo encounters Paris and they fight. Romeo kills Paris.

__poison

__ grave

__ funeral

__dagger

__vow

a. a place in the ground where a dead person is buried

b. a short pointed knife that is used as a weapon

c. a formal or serious promise d. a ceremony for burying a

dead person e. a substance that can make

people or animals ill or kill them if they eat or drink it

He has not yet me of his plans for the holidays.

2. She him by calling him a coward.

3. We are that the law shall be enforced.

4. He felt to learn that he would not be able to catch the train.

5. He _______her there by chance.

informed

insults

determined

annoyed

met

insult annoy determine meet i

nform

1. Jack, one of mainland China’s richest men, is the founder of this charitable institution.

2. We didn’t know how we would cope once the money had gone 。

3. She lay on her back, hands behind her head.

4. Seen under a microscope, a fresh snowflake has a delicate six-pointed shape.

5. The teacher came into the classroom, holding a book in his hand.

中国大陆最富有的人之一

一旦身无分文

手放在头下面

通过显微镜看

手持书

Statement Your answer

Romeo is bad-tempered, unthinking and behaves moodily.

Tybalt and Mercutio get into a fight and Mercutio is killed.

Juliet has to marry Count Paris. Romeo does not get the letter from Friar.

Romeo encounters Paris and is killed by him.

Romeo is determined not to believe that his love is dead until he has seen it with his own eyes.

What lead to the tragic ending of Romeo and Juliet?

Why can’t Romeo and Juliet be together though they love each other?

How do you deal with the relationship between love and studying?

a 在开音节中 [eI] name plane baby

cake

在闭音节中 [A ] bag dad map black

e 在开音节中 [ i:] he these me Chinese

在闭音节中 [ e] bed let pen desk

i 在开音节中 [aI] bike fly drive time

在闭音节中 [ I ] fish big drink sit

o 在开音节中 [EJ] those go home no

在闭音节中 [ B] clock not box shop

u 在开音节中 [ju:] student excuse

duty Tuesday

在闭音节中 [ Q ] bus cup jump

much

元音字母在重读音节中的特殊读音

a 在 [w] 音后面读 [ B]

e.g. want what watch wash

a 在 f, n, sk, ph, sp, ss, st, th 前读 [B:]

e.g. after plant graph ask grasp glass

fast father

i在 -nd, -ld, gh 前读 [aI]

e.g. find child light high

o在 -st， -ld 前读 [EJ]

e.g. most postcard old cold

o在m ， n ， v ， th 前读 [Q]

e.g. come monkey love mother

u 在 j, l, r, s 后读 [u:]

e.g. June blue ruler super

元音字母在非重读音节中的读音

a [E] China another woman breakfast

e [E] hundred student open weekend

i [I] holiday beautiful family animal

[aI] exercise satellite

o [E] second tonight somebody welcome

[EJ] also zero photo

u [E] autumn difficult

[ju:] popular congratulation January

ar, or, er, ir, ur 元音字母组合在重读音节中的读音

ar [B:] car farm dark sharpener

在 [w] 音后面 [C:] warm quarter towards

or [C:] forty morning short

在 [w] 音后面 [\:] word worker worse

er， ir， ur [\:] certainly bird Thursday

ar, or, er, ir, ur 在非重读音节中通常读 [E] 音，例如： dollar, forget, teacher, Virginia, Saturday

are, ere, ire, ore, ure 元音字母组合在重读音节中的读音

are [eE] care dare hare

ere [IE] here mere

ire [aIE] fire hire wire

ore [C:] more score before

ure [jJE] pure cure

are，ere， ire，ore 很少出现在非重读音节中， ure

在非重读音节中读 [E] 音，例如： picture pleasure

其他元音字母组合在重读音节中的读音 ai/ay [eI] afraid rain wait day play

air [eE] air hair chair pair repair

al [ B] small ball talk wall all

在 f ，m 前 [C:l] always also salt almost

[B:] half calm

au/aw [C:] autumn daughter draw

ea [i:] teach easy cheap please

[e] heavy bread sweater weather

[eI] break great

ear [iE] hear dear near clear year

[eE] bear pear wear swear

[\:] earth learn early

ee [i:] jeep week green three

eer [IE] pioneer deer beer

ei/ey [eI] eight neighbor they

[i:] either key

eu/ew [ju:] new few newspaper

在 j, l, r, s 后 [u:] flew brew jewelry

ie/ei[s] 音之后 [i:] piece field receive

oa [EJ] coat Joan boat goal

oar/oor [C:] roar board door floor

oi/oy [CI] noise point boy toilet

oo [u:] broom food tooth school

[J] book look cook foot good

ou/ow [aJ] flower house down count

[EJ] know row throw though

[Q] young country enough

[u:] group you soup

our [C:] course your four

[aJE] our hour ours

[\:] journey

ui在 j, l, r, s 后 [ju:i] fluid suicide

tuition

[u:] juice fruit suit

非重读音节中元音字母组合的读音

ai/ay ei/ey [I] Sunday foreign monkey

ow [EJ] yellow sparrow tomorrow

元音字母组合在非重读音节中读 [E] 音或 [I] ，例如 : neighbor, biscuit ,coffee

一、仔细读一下以下的几组例词，写出五个元音字母的

发音 name plane Jane face [ ]    

bad dad bat back [ ]

she [ ]  close [ ]   sock [ ]   kite [ ] 

yes [ ] egg [ ] milk [ ] swim [ ] 

lunch [ ] blue [ ] ruler [ ] June [ ]

二、仔细读一下以下的几组例词，写出五个元音字母元音字母在重读音节中的特殊读音

quality [ ]   sign [ ] post [ ]

三、仔细读一下以下的几组例词，写出五个元音字母的发音

policeman [ ]   moment [ ]    exercise [

]   

orange [ ] village [ ] cabbage

[ ]

chicken [ ] pocket [ ] children [

]

difficult [ ] popular [ ] J January [ ]

四、写出几个常用字母组合的发音

adhere [ ] interfere [ ]

tear [ ]  early  [ ]

store [ ] before [ ]

talk [ ] alive [ ]       

please [ ]  read [ ]    

street [ ] weekend [ ]      

door [ ] foolish  [ ]

[ei] plate table baby same shame train waiter rain stay say

[ai] five nine ice side write eye my sky fly shy

[əu] smoke

those joke close window

below show soap coal road

[au] flower vowel brown tower crowd count cloud hour pronounce ounce

[ɔi] boy joy enjoy annoy toy join noise boil voice point

[iə] dear clear hear beer deer cheer really idea area appear

[εə] where pear wear chair hair pair care Mary prepare share

[uə] sure plural tour usually cure February during Europe January insurance

Read aloud these sentences.

1. A penny saved is a penny gained. 2. Little strokes fell great oaks. 3. A stitch in time saves nine.

4. Out of sight, out of mind. 5. The spoilt boy destroys the toys. 6. The theater and museum are near

here. 7. He is an experienced engineer. 8. Where are their parents? 9. Don’t be cruel to the poor tourist. 10. Mary is upstairs, airing the room and

dusting the chairs.

Stephenie Meyer (born December 24, 1973), née Morgan, is an American author best known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition, won multiple literary awards and sold over 85 million copies worldwide, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer is also the author of the adult science-fiction novel The Host.

Meyer was named USA Today's "Author of the Year" in 2008. She was also the biggest selling author of the year, having sold over 29 million books in 2008 alone, with Twilight being the best-selling book of the year. Meyer was ranked 49 on Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People in 2008", and was also included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world's most powerful celebrities in 2009, entering at No.26 with annual earnings exceeding $50 million.

Twilight Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to

her in a dream on June 2, 2003. The dream was about a human girl, and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood. Based on this dream, Meyer wrote the transcript of what is now Chapter 13 of the book. In a matter of three months she had transformed her dream into a completed novel, though she claims that she never intended to publish Twilight and was writing for her own enjoyment. Her sister's response to the book was enthusiastic and she persuaded Meyer to send the manuscript to literary agencies.

Of the 15 letters she wrote, five went unanswered, nine brought rejections, and the last was a positive response from Jodi Reamer of Writers House Eight publishers competed for the rights to publish Twilight in a 2003 auction. By November, Meyer had signed a $750,000 three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company.

Twilight was published in 2005 with a print run of 75,000 copies. It reached No.5 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Chapter Books within a month of its release, and later rose to No.1. Foreign rights to the novel were sold to over 26 countries. The novel was named the Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editor's Choice!

curious adj. cafeteria n. tray n. (浅 ) 盘，碟 e.g. a tray of food 一满盘食物 gawk vi. stare vt. & vi. excessively adv. muscled comb. form.

e.g. He is well-muscled. 他肌肉发达。 muscular adj.

blond adj.

bulky adj.

e.g. a bulky piece of baggage.

一箱笨重的行李。 bronze adj.

e.g. bronze skin 古铜色的皮肤 boyish adj.

opposite adj.

statuesque adj.

figure n.

be/ become a figure of fun: to be/ become sb. that other people laugh at

illustrate vt.

issue n.

self-esteem n.

gently adv.

crop (cropped, cropped) v.

pale adj.

albino n.

range n.

tone n.

sleepless adj.

Sleepless in Seattle.

西雅图不眠夜 ( 电影名称 )

recover v.

similar adj.

airbrush vt.

master n.

e.g. a master in literature.

文学大师

1. It is there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them. (Para. 1)

e.g. It was on Monday night that all this happened ．

a. 助动词“ do（ does／ did ）＋动词原形”也可表示强调

e.g. He does know the place well ．

“ It is... that” 是强调句

b. 形容词 very， only， single， such 等修饰名词或形容词可加强语气

e.g. That's the very textbook we used last term ．

c. 用 ever， never， very， just 等副词和badly， highly， really 等带有－ l y 的副词来进行强调：

e.g. Why ever did you do so？ d. 用 in the world， on earth， at all 等介词短语可以表达更强的语气（常用于疑问句）：

e.g. Where in the world could he be？ e. 用感叹句来表示强烈的感情： e.g. How interesting a story it is！

It is there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them. (Para. 1)

译文：当时我正坐在餐厅里和七个好奇的陌生人交谈，就在那儿 ,我第一次见到了他们。

分词短语“ sitting 和 trying to...” 在句子中均作状语。

She had a beautiful figure, the kind you

saw on the cover of the Sports Illustrated

swimsuit issue, the kind that made every

girl around her take a hit on her self-

esteem just by being in the same room.

(Para. 4)

a. “the kind you saw on the cover of the

Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue” 用作同位语，是对“ a beautiful figure ” 的进一步解释。

e.g. The youngest boy, Peter, refused to

accept the money ．

“ the kind... the kind...” 是并列结构，后接由 that 引导的定语从句。

译文：她有美丽的外表，是那种在体育杂志封面上泳装插画上的女孩，是那种能让任何一个女孩但凡只是跟她共处一室都会觉得自尊心受损的女孩。

... as if they were all suffering from a

sleepless night, or almost done

recovering from an illness. (Para. 5)

“as if”翻译成“好像，似乎”，后面通常接虚拟语气。

译文：似乎他们都睡眠不足，或者是大病初愈。

far away 遥远 stare at 盯 , 凝视 rather than 与其……倒不如…… take a hit 遭受重击 suffer from 因……而受罚（苦 , 损） ; 因……而更糟 ; 受……之苦

recover from 恢复 , 痊愈 look away 不再看（某人）

1. What caught the heroine’s attention about the five people?

A. They weren’t even eating the trays of untouched food in front of them.

B. Their faces were so inhumanly beautiful.

C. They sat in the corner which was far away from where she sat.

2. Which statement is NOT true?

A. The three boys were all muscular.

B. Their faces were so different yet similar.

C. The most beautiful girl was statuesque.

3. Which statement is true?

A. The blond girl was taller than the other girl.

B. The third boy was tiny, short and extremely thin.

C. The most beautiful boy was muscular.

4. In Paragraph 4,“figure”refers to __________.

A. digit B. price C. appearance

5. In the last paragraph, “master” refers to __________.

A. the captain of a ship that transports goods

B. a person who is skilled at something

C. a person who is able to control something

1. She sat there quietly, ______ (stare) out of the window.

2. A complicated rule can be _________ (illustrate) by a simple example.

3. This is an _________ (airbrush) vision of the year.

4. He is big and _________ (muscle).

5. His hair was ________ (crop) when he entered the army

staring

illustrated

airbrushed

muscled

cropped

When I was a little kid, I fell in love with ( 爱上了 ) detective novels. They talked about things which were so far away ( 遥远 ) from our real life. Almost every Friday afternoon, I stopped by ( 顺便走访 ) the bookstore before I went home to find out ( 发现 ) whether they had any new arrivals or not. Once I started one novel, I could never look away ( 不再看 ), as if ( 似乎，好像 ) it had strong magic for me. I was determined to be ( 决心 ) a writer in the near future.