Unit Three
The Ant and the Grasshopper
I. New Words
II. Brief Introduction
In this short story, which is chon from Maugham’s Collected Short Stories, Maugham, by describing two brothers’ attitude toward life, examines the nature and inconsistent qualities of human beings.
George was a hard-working and respectable man with a descent job as a lawyer. He was also a faithful husband and a loving father to four daughters. He believed that industry should be rewarded and giddiness punished.
His brother Tom, however, was an unscrupulous and good-for-nothing scoundrel. He philandered with girls, danced, ate in most expensive restaurants…… Motto：
What are your expectations / speculations of their respective old age?
III. Character Analysis
George:
1) a rious man;
2) a loving father;
3) respectable and straightforward;
4) never unfaithful to his wife even in thought;
5) to make a point of saving…..;
6) a life of industry and thrift;
7) a blameless life
8) Motto: Industry is rewarded and giddiness punished.
Tom:
1) a black sheep and a sore trial to….;
2) perfectly worthless;
3) unscrupulous, wild, thoughtless and lfish;
4) dishonest and does discreditable and infamous things;
5) to dress beautifully and philander with women;
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6) to have unfailing gaiety and incredible charm;
7) an amusing companion.
8) Motto: The money you spent on necessities was boring; the money that was amusing to spend was the money you spent in luxuries.
IV. Detailed studies
A. Lines 1---18
任字姓氏读音1. Questions
What is the moral of the fable?
2. Expressions
1) the moral of a fable;
2) to bring sth home to sb.:
3校园歌曲） to spend a laborious summer;
4) to gather the winter store;
双鱼座和双子座 5) to be comfortably provided;
6) to have an empty larder;
7) saving your prence.
3． Word Studies
1）to bring sth home to sb.:
to make sth explicit in an emphatic way
To bring home to the students the importance of ….;
The point is brought home in the article.
More: to make onelf understood; to get onelf across
4. translation of the part: Lines 7---11.
5. politely but inexactly
一、什么叫评注性状语(Comment adjuncts)
英语的状语主要有三种，一种是修饰性状语；二是评注性状语，即用于发表评论或表明看法；周庄古镇三是连接性状语，它在句子中既不起修饰作用，也不表明态度或看法，而是用于句子间起承接作用。如：
He did it carefully. 他做这事很仔细。(carefully为修饰性状语)
He is mad, I think. 我看他是疯了。（I think为评注性状语）
He learns easily, and what’s more, he remembers what he has learnt. 他学习起来很容易，而且他所学习过的都记得住。(what’s more为连接性状语)
二、评注性状语的种类
1) to be honest / frank/ polite (with you).
To be honest, I don’t like him at all. 老实说，我根本不喜欢他。
2) Generally/ frankly/ honestly/ riously speaking
Generally, men can run faster than women. 一般说来，男人比女人跑得快一些。
3) Frankly/ briefly/ simply/ roughly speaking, I look upon it as a promising experiment. 坦白地讲，我把它看作一次很有希望的试验。
4) in short / brief / general / particular/ summary / in a word
二、评注性状语的功能
用来解释说话者对自己所述事情的可能性和真实性所持的态度，或表现说话者对所述事情是好还是坏的看法和评判。如：
Certainly they must know the results of such speeches. 肯定他们知道这样发言的
Luckily, the police came鱼疗是什么鱼 in time. 幸亏警察及时赶到。
The syllabus of military academies were understandably dominated by the stud
Foolishly, I didn’t write the phone number down. 我真蠢，没有把电话号码记下
B. Lines 19---42
1. Questions
What was the author’s respon to the moral when he first read it?
2. Expressions
罐子图片1) to ascribe A to B;
2) the inconquence of childhood;
3) to express one’s disapproval of….;
延迟拍摄4) to wear an expression of…;
