Unit Five
The Nightingale and the Rose
Unit Five
The Nightingale and the Rose
Period 1-2
Arrangements (Period 1-2)
•Assignment checking
•Lead-in and warm-up activity
•Summary & Problems solving
•Assignment
Assignment checking
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Preview unit three (answer the following
questions)
What’s true love in your opinion? Tell some
stories about true love .
If you really love a person, will you
sacrifice your life for love?
In your mind, can money and power buy
true love? Why?
Is love really more precious than precious
stones?
Is love basically a commodity in the market
like any other goods?
Is love silly and unpractical?
What is love
What is love
What is love
Is this a true love?
Topic Discussion: What Is Love???
Love is appearing in the various aspects in our daily life.
e.g. parents’ love to the children,
the love between the lovers, between the colleagues,
the doctor’s love to the patients,
God’s benevolence towards mankind, etc.
Love is the most important part to the human being.
The true love is that you care about someone, he/she cares about
you at the same time!
Love is something you can devote your life to.
→Love is better than life. ( the Nightingale believed)
→Sacrifice
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I. Listen to A Song: The Rose
Some say love
It is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love
It is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love
It is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love
It is a flower
And you it's only seed
It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
Who can not seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live
When
the night has been
too lonely
And the road has been too
long
And you think
That love is only for the
lucky and the strong
Just remember in the
winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed
That with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the
rose
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II.
Love
Mottos
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am
when I am with you.
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No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won‘t
make you cry.
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Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who
is falling in love with your smile.
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be
the world.
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Don‘t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn‘t willing to waste
their time on you.
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Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting
the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will
know how to be grateful.
III. Take a Love Quiz
1. You are walking to your love's house.
There are two roads to get there.
One is a straight path which takes you there quickly,
but is very plain and boring.
The other is curvy & full of wonderful sights on the
way, but takes quite a while to reach your love's
house.
WHICH PATH DO YOU CHOOSE? Short or Long?
Take a Love Quiz
2. On the way, you see two rose bushes. One is full
of white roses; the other is full of red roses. You
decide to pick twenty roses for your love.
(You could pick all of the same color or half & half or
whatever combination that suits your taste.)
WHAT COLOR COMBO DO YOU CHOOSE?
Take a Love Quiz
3. You finally get to your love's house. You
ring the bell and a family member answers
the door. You can ask the family member to
get your love, or
you may get him/her yourself.
WHAT DO YOU DO? Ask or Get Yourself?
Take a Love Quiz
4. Now, You go up to your love's room.
No one is there. You could leave the roses
by the windowsill or on the bed.
WHERE DO YOU PUT THE ROSES? Window or Bed?
Take a Love Quiz
5. Later it's time for bed. You and your love go to sleep
in separate rooms (we're very politically correct, here).
You wake up in the morning and go to
your love's room to check up on him/her.
You enter the room:
IS HE/SHE AWAKE OR SLEEPING?
Take a Love Quiz
6. It's time to go home now and you start to head back.
You can take either road home now. The plain and boring
one that gets you home faster or the curvy and sight-filled
road that you can just take your time with.
WHICH ROAD DO YOU CHOOSE? Short or Long?
About the Author –Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)
•He is a famous English writer, dramatist and poet.
•He is the founder of one of the chief advocates of
"art for art's sake“.
•He is the son of the late Sir William Wilde, an
eminent Irish surgeon.
•His mother was a graceful writer, both in prose and
verse.
In1874-1878, He had a brilliant career at Oxford,
where he won the Prize for English verse for a
poem.
Even before he left the University in 1878 Wilde
had become known as one of the most affected of
the professors of the aesthetic craze, and for
several years it was as the typical aesthete that he
kept himself before the notice of the public.
Criticism:
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All these pieces had the same qualities--a
paradoxical humor and a perverted
outlook on life being the most prominent.
They were packed with witty sayings, and
the author’s cleverness gave him at once a
position in the dramatic world.
Oscar Wilde’s Works
Novel:
 The Picture of Dorian Gray
《道林·格雷的画像》1891
Tales:
 The Happy Prince And
Other Tales
1888
A House Of
Pomegranates 1891
《石榴屋》
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Poems：
Poems，1881
Sphinx，1894
The Ballad of Reading Gaol，1898
Plays:
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Lady Windermere's
Fan 1892.
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An Ideal Husband 1895
A Woman of No
Importance 1893.
The Importance of
Being Earnest 1895
Oscar Wilde’s Belief
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Art for art’s sake
The only purpose of the
artist is art, not religion, or
science, or interest. He who
paints or writes only for
financial return or to
propagandize political and
economic interests can only
arouse feeling of disgust.
Quotes
Quotes on Men
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Men become old, but they never become good.
--Lady Windermere's Fan.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men
should be happier than others.
--In Conversation.
Men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably
conceited when they are not.
--A Woman of No Importance.
Lady Windermere: ...I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man
should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her
awhile heap of things that he doesn't mean.
--Lady Windermere's Fan.
Quotes
Quotes on Women
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman
who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
--A Woman of No Importance.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
--Lady Windermere's Fan.
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Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and
women.
--A Woman of No Importance.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
--The Sphinx Without a Secret.
Quotes
Quotes on Love
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never
marry.
--In Conversation.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
--Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young.
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
--The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be
faithless and cannot.
--The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Quotes
Humorous Words
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so
much.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to
alter it every six months.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated
his ability.
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I can resist everything except temptation.
Summary & Problems solving
Assignment
1. Review:
Go over the background information in Unit 5.
2. Preview:
(1)Read through text A, pick out and learn the language
points.
(2)Study the new words in Unit 5.
(3)Do preview exercise 1 on page 107.
(4)Give the subsection of text A.
3. Written exercises:
(1)Do exercise 2 on page 108, speaking exercise 1
on page 110, exercise 1 on page 111,exercise 4 on
page 113,exercise 6 on page 114.
(2) Translate a poem Annabel Lee.
Unit Five
The Nightingale and the Rose
Period 3-4
Arrangements (Period 3-4)
•Assignment checking
•Text analysis
•Summary & Problems solving
•Assignment
Assignment checking:
1. Review:
Some questions about he background information and
the key words.
2. Written exercises:
Exercise 1 on page 111,exercise 4 on page
113,exercise 6 on page 114.
3. Preview:
(1) Preview exercise 1 on page 107.
(4) The structure of text A.
Text Analysis
Structure
Part 1 (Paras. 1-12 ): Nightingale struck by “the mystery
of love”
Part 2 (Paras. 13-33): Nightingale looking for a red rose
to facilitate the love
Part 3 (Paras. 34-44): Nightingale sacrificing her life for
a red rose
Part 4 (Paras. 45-53 ): Student discarding the red rose
Warming up
Text Analysis--Questions/Activities
• Did you enjoy fairy tales as a child? Why or
why not?
•Can you name some of the fairy tales that
you have read?
•Who are the most famous fairy tales
collectors and writers?
Warming up
Questions / Activities
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Warming up
Questions / Activities
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The prince asked
who she was and
how she came there.
She looked at him
tenderly and with a
sad expression
in her dark blue
eyes, but could not
speak.
Warming up
Questions / Activities
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“Oh, very badly
indeed!” she replied.
“I have scarcely
closed my eyes the
whole night through.
I do not know what
was in my bed, but I
had something hard
under me, and am all
over black and blue.
It has hurt me so
much!”
Warming up
Questions/Activities
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But the emperor
isn't wearing any
clothes!
Warming up
Questions/Activities
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Yes Beast,
I will
marry you.
Warming up
Questions/Activities
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“She said that she
would dance with
me if I brought her
red roses,” cried
the young Student,
“but in all my
garden there is no
red rose.”
Hans Christian Andersen
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The Little Mermaid 小美人鱼
The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Ugly Duckling
The Princess and The Pea 豌豆公主
Grimm Brothers
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Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
The Frog King
The Fisherman & His Wife
Snow White
Little Red-Cap
Text Analysis--Discussion
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What characteristics of fairy tales did you
find?
What style can this story be categorized
into? What are the characteristics of the
story?
What’s the difference between Wilde’s
fairy tales and other’s?
The characteristics of the
above fairy tales
1. Witches and Queens
2. Giants and elves (精灵)
3. Princes and princesses
4. Talking animals
5. Marvelous and magical things happen:
a) a boy may become a frog
b) a princess may sleep for a hundred
years
6. Always same ending and similar theme:
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truth prevails over deception
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generosity is ultimately rewarded
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hard work overcomes obstacles
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love, mercy and kindness are the
greatest powers of all
Style of this story and its characteristics
Fairy tales
 - contain
supernatural or
magical elements
 - children’s stories
 - full of veiled
comments on life
Characteristics:
a) personification of
birds, insects,
animals and trees
b) vivid, simple
narration --- typical
of the oral tradition
of fairy tales
c) repetitive pattern
What’s the difference between
Wilde’s fairy tales and other’s?
Other's
Optimism
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Fairy tales conclude
with the same topic.
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‘They all lived happily
ever after,’ implying
better living
circumstances for all.
Wilde's
Pessimism
•Wilde’s fairy tales have no
happy endings. Even in his
most popular tales, the
protagonists die.
•His tales end mostly in
unresolved tensions,
provoking readers to consider
necessary improvements
which need to be made within
the social order.
Fairy Tales’ Performance
Choose one of them to make a performance:
 Cinderella
 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
 The Emperor's New Clothes
 The Frog King
 Thumbelina
 Aladdin
 Beauty and the Beast …
Criterion
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Best Leading Actor
Best Supporting Actor
Best Director
Stage & Sound Design
Costume & Make-up (服装) 20%
Plot and Imagination (剧情创意）20%
Pronunciation & fluency (语音，流利度）30%
Stage Performance (舞台表现）30%
Legend of the White Snake Lady &
The Legend of Lady White
Journey To the West
Summary & Problems solving
--A Poem: Annabel Lee
Assignment
1. Review:
Go over the topic discussion.
2. Preview:
(1)Preview the content in the unit and pick
out the key language points.
(2) Do exercise 2 on page 108.
3. Written exercises:
Do exercise 2、3 on page 112, exercise1、 2
on page 116, exercise 3 on page 117.
Unit Five
The Nightingale and the Rose
Period 5-6
Arrangements (Period 5-6)
•Assignment checking
•Text analysis
•Summary & Problems solving
•Assignment
Assignment checking:
1. Review:
Some questions about the topic discussion.
2. Written exercises:
Exercise 2、3 on page 112, exercise1、 2 on page
116, exercise 3 on page 117.
3. Preview:
Some questions about the text and language points.
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that he decided to devoted his whole life to
teaching in his home village after he finished
school/graduation.
that he soon lost his power/was overthrown.
that people generally agree that few major
issues/big problems can be resolved without
China’s participation.
with a gun in his hand.
with a page boy standing on either side of him
and a few elderly soldiers sweeping the ground
outside the city gate.
with the roaring river in front and the enemy
soldiers following closely.
to keep calm
To be a professor means
To know a lot of names, persons and events in
the past does not mean
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The doctors did all they could
everything he says
anything they ask for/demand
all he get from a week of hard work
All/Everyhing that is written in his wife’s letter
nothing the doctor said
anything you suggest
Something he read in a popular magazine
All that can be done has been done
Anything the artist painted
something that never existed before
nothing the doctors could do
Text Analysis
Theme
A young student seemed to be madly in love. He felt
wretched because he couldn’t find a Red Rose for his
love.
The nightingale was so moved by this student’s love
that she was determined to help him. But the only way
to get a Red Rose in the cold winter was for the
nightingale to build it out of her music and to stain it
with her heart’s blood. That was what she did. Thus
she sacrificed her life for the student.
Detailed Study to the text
Introductory questions:
Q1: What does the student want? Why is it so important for
him?
Q2: Why does the nightingale feel so interested and go to
great lengths to help him?
Q3: Why is a red rose so difficult to get?
Please find the exact sentence indicating the answer
from the text .
Q4: How can the nightingale get a red rose?
Q5: How many songs does the Nightingale sing to bulid the
rose ?
Q6: What happens to the Nightingale?
Q7: Does the girl appreciate it? Why?
Q8: Does the Student treasure it? What does he do later?
Three Songs:
Change of love
grow old and died
crimson, opened
thorn touch the heart
love of man and maid
pink
Press closer but not touch the heart
love of boy and girl
blossomed but white
breast against thorn
Discussion & Presentation
What are the symbolic meanings of
“Student”, “Red rose”, “Lizard”,
and “Nightingale”?
 Is Nightingale's death worthwhile?
Why or why not?
 Is the story a tragedy? Why or why
not?
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What are the symbolic meanings of “student”,
“Red rose”, “Lizard”, and “Nightingale”?
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Student --- not a true lover, ignorant of love, not persistent
in pursuing love
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Red rose --- true love, which needs constant nourishment
of passions of the lovers.
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Lizard --- cynic (cynical people), a person who sees little
or no good in anything and who has no belief in human
progress; person who shows this by sneering and being
contemptuous.
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Nightingale --- a truthful, devoted pursuer of love, who
dares to sacrifice her own precious life
Reinforcement
Interpretation
• On Nightingale’s Sacrifice:
 It is worthwhile, because:
– Love in her heart deserves what it costs.
– She died for her own belief.
– It’s Nightingale’s love for “LOVE” itself that impulses
her to make such great sacrifice. “Love for Love’s
Sake”
 It is not worthwhile, because:
– She found true love but couldn’t protect and promote
it.
– Her sacrifice went unknown and wasted.
Reinforcement
Interpretation
• On love:
 It is because of this sacrifice that love is
worth to be preserved and cherished.
 Real love could only be interacted with
people who understood it.
 True love doesn’t need to be answered
back.
 The fact that I love you has nothing to do
with you.
Reinforcement
Interpretation
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On Whether this is a Tragedy:
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Yes, it is a tragedy, because:
 It is a tragedy from all perspectives, both the
nightingale and the boy.
 Tearing up the purist and the loveliest stuff just
in front of the readers endows the story with the
power of tragedy.
 A strong contrast between the pure love and the
cruel reality.
Wilde’s comments in a letter to
one of his friends (May 1888):
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The nightingale is the true lover, if there is one.
She, at least, is Romance, and the student and the
girl are, like most of us, unworthy of Romance.
So, at least, it seems to me, but I like to fancy that
there may be many meanings in the tale, for in
writing it I did not start with an idea and clothe it
in form, but began with a form and strove to make
it beautiful enough to have many secrets and many
answers.
1. “ Ah, I have read all that the wise men have written…my life is
made wretched.”
for want of: for the lack of
e.g.
For want of a better word, let’s call it Me-firstism.
( As I can’t think of a better word, Let’s call it Me-firstism.)
For want of something better to do she decided to try
gardening.
( As she could not find anything more interesting to do, she
decided to try gardening.)
want:
e.g. The plants died for/from want of water.
1)the condition or quality of lacking something usual or necessary
for /from want of 由于缺少
e.g. to live in want = to live in poverty
2) pressing need; 贫困
e.g. Are you in want of money?
3) something desired:
in want of = in need of
2. “Here at last is a true lover,” said the Nightingale. “ Night
after night have I sung of him, and now I see him.”
(the inverted order)
sing of him: to sing about him
3. “ The Prince gives a ball tomorrow night,…and my love
will be there.”
my love: my sweetheart.
love: used as a term of endearment as in:
e.g. My love is like a red, red rose,
Newly sprung in spring.
(1759-1796)
友谊地久天长
---Robert Burns罗伯特伯恩斯
“Auld Lang Syne”=“Old Long Ago”
Listen to A Song: Auld Lang Syne
*Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of Auld Lang Syne.
For Auld Lang Syne, my friends,
For Auld Lang Syne,
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For Auld Lang Syne.*
For Auld Lang Syne, my friends,
For Auld Lang Syne,
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For Auld Lang Syne.
4. Emeralds and opals
jewels (gems): emeralds（绿宝石）
, ruby（红宝石）, sapphire（蓝宝石）,
jade（翡翠）diamond
plants: daisy（雏菊）, rose, oak-tree（
橡树）daffodil 水仙花）
animals: nightingale, lizard（蜥蜴）,
butterfly
subjects: philosophy, metaphysics（形而
上学）, logic
stringed instruments: harp, violin，
guitar, cello,Guzheng
5. dance to the sound of the harp: dance
according to the sound of the harp, e.g.
The snake would then dance to the music.
The soldiers marched through the square to the
drumbeat.
6. for: When used as a conjunction, it means
“because”, but it is now considered quite
formal, and it is not as strong as “ because”,
therefore in adverbial clauses of reason, “
because” is always used.
flung himself down on the grass: threw himself
down on the grass
7….fluttering about
flying by a quick, light flapping of the wings
8….and the little Lizard, who was something of a cynic, laughed
outright.
sth. of a cynic: a cynic without fully deserving the name, e.g.
He is sth of an economist among us because his grandfather used to
own a little store.
cynic: a cynical person; a person who believes that everybody is
motivated by selfishness
laughed outright: laughed out loud; burst out laughing
9. Sat silent: “silent” here is again part of the complex subject.
in the Oak-tree: Notice the use of “in” instead of “on” here. The use
of “in” suggests that it is a large tree for a little bird like the
Nightingale.
Language Points:
1. flight: n. of “to fly”. It can also be used as the n. “flee”.
soar: to fly upward quickly
2. grass-plot
plot: a small piece of ground used for a special purpose
3. and= as a result of this
e.g. One step forward, and he would fall down the cliff.
Come late again, and you are fired.
sweet could refer to taste, smell, or sound.
e.g. sweet air, song, music, wine, flowers, cake, smile.
4. mermaiden (also mermaid): a fabled creature of the sea
with the head and upper body of a woman and tail of a
fish
blooms in the meadow: bears flowers in the meadow
5. fan= metaphorical use, refers to anything resembling a fan.
e.g.
the mouth of a river; the foot of the page;
the northern face of the mountain; the limbs of a tree;
the eye of a needle; an arm of the sea;
the tail of a comet; the teeth of a saw
6. chill: to freeze; to numb; to lower the temperature
chilly (adj.): cold
nip the buds: to stop the growth of the buds
nip it in the bud: to prevent sth. form becoming a problem by
stopping it as soon as it starts, e.g.
Their policy was to throw the first person who dared to protest
openly into prison so as to nip it in the bud.
and= also, in addition to (first two)
as a result (the last)
7. out of music: using music as the material,
e.g. This chair is made out of hardwood.
stain: to color; to dye; to tarnish
8. “…what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?”
--rhetorical question—a question in form, not a statement in meaning.
= The heart of a bird is nothing compared to the heart of a man.
In other words, for the Nightingale, the Student’s love is much more
important than her life.
9….swept over the garden…
…moved quickly over the garden…
e.g. A new broom always sweeps the room clean.
A terrible storm swept across the whole city.
The general’s eyes swept over the soldiers and gave the order to
attack.
10. all= apart from style, there is nothing else
e.g. Don’t listen to him. It’s all stuff and nonsense.
He was all hot air. A lot of beautiful words, but completely
meaningless.
11. After a time= after some time, after a moment
Language Points:
1. spray= a small branch bearing buds, flowers or berries
2. A delicate flush of pink
When used to refer to color, “delicate”= soft, subdued, or faint
3. A pang: a sudden sharp pain
shoot through: to pass through swiftly
4….the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the
tomb.
…the love that grows and grows until they die, and of the love that will
live in eternity
“…the love that dies not in the tomb” ( old-fashioned)
“ the love that does not die in the tomb’ (modern English)
5. girdle: a belt or sth. like a belt worn at the waist.
Here it means a band of red color round the middle of the petals.
6. film: a thin covering or coating
7….lingered in in the sky.
…tried to delay the departure; stayed in the sky, reluctant to leave or
move on
8. ecstasy: intense delight
all over: everywhere or all parts of one’s body,
e.g. He was sweating all over.
She was shuddering all over.
9.…for she was lying dead in the long grass,...
“in” rather than “on”: to emphasize the tallness thickness of the grass
10. go with my dress: to match my dress; to be harmonious with my dress
e.g. This furniture does not go with the color of these walls.
11. the Chamberlain: the official who manages the household of the king.
Here, it refers to a high-ranking official in general.
Language Points:
1. “Well, upon my word, you are very ungrateful,”…
(irony)
The Student accused the girl of being ungrateful
without realizing that he was no better.
2.as: because; when or while
unpractical: impractical
Summary & Problems solving
Assignment
1. Review:
Go over the language points, sentence structures.
2. Preview:
(1)Go over the content in the whole unit and prepare for
the quiz.
(2)Do speaking exercise 2 on page 110.
(3)Analyze the writing device in the text.
3. Written exercises:
Do exercise 5 on page 114, exercise 7 on
page 115, exercises 4 & 5 on page 118.
Arrangements (Period 7-8)
•Assignment checking
•Quiz for Unit 5
•Summary & Problems solving
•Assignment
Unit Five
The Nightingale and the Rose
Period 7-8
Assignment checking:
1. Review:
Some questions about the language points in the text.
2. Written exercises:
Exercise 5 on page 114, exercise 7 on page 115,
exercises 4 & 5 on page 118.
2. Preview:
(1) Speaking exercise 2 on page 110.
(2) The writing device in the text.
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This is a wonderful chance. You would
be foolish to let it slip by.
Compared with last year, our exports
have increased by 20%.
For want of a better word, let’s call it
“backdoorism”.
This young man is fond of fixing
things. He is sth. of a Jack of all
trades.
Compared to their parents’
generation, young people today
consider them to be a more practical
generation.
His face turned blue with anger. He
was determined to nip the mass
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It is a long story, but I won’t go into the
history today.
It took us much more time than we had
expected to go through the customs.
The power went out suddenly, and the
whole city was thrown into complete
darkness.
Don’t wait for me. You go ahead. I must go
over this document.
We cannot deny the fact that we have paid
heavily for our economic development.
Had the firemen arrived a bit later, the fire
would have spread to the nearby oil tanks.
Oscar Wilde’s writing style
The story is written with:
 Humour and witty sayings
 aesthetic craze
The story is written in concrete style or flowery style?
concrete style
(mostly nouns and few adjectives)
flowery style
(very descriptive with adjectives)
Oscar Wilde’s writing style
His fairy tales have been described as
“poems in prose”.
“Death is a great price to pay for a red rose…”
assonance
Alliteration: the use of identical
consonant with different vowels
Assonance:
the
resemblance
of sound
between
syllables in
nearby
words, arising
from the
rhyming of
two or more
stressed
vowels, but
not the
consonants
Oscar Wilde’s writing style
Simile & Metaphor
Simile:
… her voice was like water bubbling from
a silver jar.
… as white as the foam of the sea…
Metaphor:
… and redder than the fans of coral
… and the cold crystal moon
Oscar Wilde’s writing style
Climax & Anticlimax
e.g. I came, I saw, I conquered.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some
few to be chewed and digested.
Climax: derived from the Greek word “ladder”, implying the
progression of thought
So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the
thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through
her. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her
song, for she sung of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the
Love that dies not in the tomb.
Climax & Anticlimax
e.g. 1. As a serious man, I loved Beethoven, Keats, and
hot dogs.
2. For God, for America, for Yale.
3. You manage a business, stocks, bonds,
people. And now you can manage your hair.
Anticlimax: stating one’s thoughts in a descending order
of significance or intensity, often used to ridicule or satire
Syntactical Structures
Inversion
… and louder and louder grew her song…
Find more
examples in
the text.
Rhetorical Question
What is a heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?
Repetition
And a delicate flush of pink came into leaves of the rose,
like the flush in the face of the bridegroom where he kisses
the lips of the bride.
Inversion
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…yet for want of a red rose my life is made wretched. (for emphasis)
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…Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as ruby was the heart.
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She passed through the grove like a shadow and like a shadow she
sailed across the garden.
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Night after night have I sung of him.
Quiz for Unit 5 (30 minutes)
Summary & Problems solving
Assignment
1. Review:
(1) Go over all the contents in unit 5.
(2) Read text B on page 120.
(3) Read The Importance of Being Earnest.
2. Preview:
(1)Study the brief life experience about the author in unit 11.
(2)Answer the following questions:
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What’s your favorite pet?
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Do you have any moving stories with them?
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What are the different types of wolf?
(3) Find out the phrases using wolf.
3. Written exercises:
Do exercises on the exercises book (Focus on the language
points).