外研版九年級英語上冊《We're still influenced by Confucius's ideas》Great books PPT免費課件，共34頁。
Say who the people are and why they are famous.
well-known adj. 眾所周知的；著名的
thinker n. 思想家
plays and poems 戲劇和詩歌
writer n. 作家
stories n. 故事
Check the answers.
1. What are they mainly talking about?
They are mainly talking about the three great writers, Confucius, Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
2. Why do they talk about this topic?
Because Betty wants to join an Internet group to discuss great books by great writers.
discuss [dɪˈskʌs] v. 討論；談?wù)?/p>
3. What does Betty have to do for the discussion?
She has to read a favourite book and write a review for the discussion.
review [rɪˈvjuː] n. 評論 (文章）
Language focus
1. What’s up?
What’s up 怎么了？/ 出什么事了?
是一種非正式的用法。
e.g. What’s up? You look very worried.
怎么了？你看上去很焦慮。
2. …I’ d describe Confucius more as a thinker than a writer.
我更愿意把孔子描述為一位教育家和思想家，而非作家。
more… than… 與其說是……不如說是……
e.g. Success is more hard work than good luck.
成功來自努力，而非好運。
3. We’re still influenced by Confucius’s ideas.
現(xiàn)在，孔子的思想仍然在影響著我們。
influence v. 影響；作用于
e.g. His advice strongly influenced my decision.
我的決定深受其建議的影響。
4. Shakespeare’s plays also make a lot of sense to us today.
莎士比亞的戲劇對我們來說也仍然很有意義。
sense n. 道理；意義；合理性
make sense 易理解；合情理；有意義
e.g. No matter how I tried to read it, the sentence still did not make any sense to me.
不管我怎么努力地讀，還是不懂這個句子的意思。
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