"Letter to Butler" PPT courseware

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"Letter to Butler" PPT courseware

teaching objectives

1. Read the text emotionally and understand the author’s thoughts and feelings.

2. Compare reading and appreciate the distinctive language.

3. Cherish the achievements of human civilization, respect the creations of human civilization, and cultivate a love for all human cultures.

Introduction to Hugo

The leader of the active romantic literary movement in the early 19th century and an outstanding bourgeois democratic writer in the history of French literature.

The dominant ideas throughout his life's activities and creations were humanitarianism, opposition to violence, and the use of love to control "evil".

His creative period lasted for more than 60 years, and his works include 26 volumes of poetry, 20 volumes of novels, 12 volumes of scripts, and 21 volumes of philosophical works, totaling 79 volumes, adding a very brilliant culture to the treasure house of French literature and human culture. heritage.

His representative works are: "Notre Dame de Paris", "Les Misérables" and other novels.

Introduction to Old Summer Palace

The Old Summer Palace is a royal garden, known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens". Historically, the Old Summer Palace is composed of the Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden, and Qichun Garden (Wanchun Garden). The three gardens are closely adjacent to each other and are commonly known as the Old Summer Palace. It covers a total area of ​​about 5,200 acres, has a circumference of nearly 10 kilometers, and a construction area of ​​160,000 square kilometers (equivalent to the construction area of ​​the Beijing Imperial Palace). It was first built in 1709 and took 150 years to complete.

writing background

The Battle of the British and French Allied Forces, also known as the Second Opium War, was a war of aggression against China jointly launched by Britain and France from 1856 to 1860.

In October 1860, the British and French allied forces occupied Beijing. While they savagely looted the city, they broke into the Old Summer Palace, looted wantonly, and set fire to this magnificent royal garden.

The destruction of the Old Summer Palace

The British and French allied forces invaded Beijing in 1860. After massive looting, they burned the Old Summer Palace. On October 17, the British troops came from the south and the French troops set fire to it from the north. For three days in a row, the sky was filled with flames and ashes. In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces looted the Old Summer Palace for the second time, and the Old Summer Palace became a ruin.

Check words

stolen goods (zāng) box (qiè)

sanction (cái) give (jǐ) to

Huǎng Ruo liú glass lí

Fa (fà) Lang (láng) dazzled (liáo)

Horror (hài) Dawn (xī)

glimpse (piē) see; robbery (jié) plunder

embellished (zhuì) full of silk (chóu) satin

Interpretation:

Stolen property: Property obtained through corruption, bribery or theft.

Box: box.

Sanctions: use strong control and punishment to prevent misbehavior.

Disappeared: To describe the original thing being completely lost and non-existent.

Indescribable: cannot be described in words. Name, say it.

Self-learning

1. Please use wavy lines to underline Hugo’s words praising the Old Summer Palace in the letter to see how Hugo evaluated the Old Summer Palace.

2. According to Hugo’s description, what items are in the Old Summer Palace? Please mark them with horizontal lines.

3.Who did Hugo think the Old Summer Palace was built for? Why?

4. Who are the two "robbers"? What crimes did they commit in the Old Summer Palace? Who were the two rulers at that time?

Collaborative discussion

1. General Barrett asked Hugo for his opinion on the expedition to China and wanted Hugo's praise. Has his wish been realized? What is Hugo's position and attitude towards this?

He has a firm stance and a clear attitude: he condemns the banditry of the British and French forces and the crime of destroying the world miracle Yuanmingyuan; he sympathizes with the unprecedented disaster suffered by China.

2. When China was plundered, it was natural for the Chinese to condemn the robbers and accuse them of plundering. But when Hugo, a foreigner, said this, what kind of mind and character did he show?

Fair, humane, clear-cut between right and wrong, no narrow nationalistic complex, broad-minded, chivalrous, and daring to speak out for justice.

3. Did Hugo criticize all British and French people? Why?

no. “The crime of those who govern is not the fault of those who govern” “Governments can sometimes be robbers, but people will never be robbers.”

The robber government does not represent the people. The British and French people are friendly to the Chinese people. Hugo stood on the side of the people to protest against the crimes committed by the government.

language appreciation

Can you name the synonyms for the following words in red? Through these words, what characteristics of Hugo's language can you summarize in this article?

1. What was done to the Parthenon in the past is what is being done to the Old Summer Palace now, only more thoroughly and more beautifully, so that nothing remains.

2. Great achievements! Huge gains! Of the two victors, one has his pockets full, which is visible, and the other has his trunks full.

3. We Europeans are civilized people, but the Chinese are barbarians in our eyes. This is what civilization does to barbarians.

4. The above is all my praise for the expedition to China.

Speaking ironically, using irony, has an extremely sharp sense of irony.

Expand and extend

What was the fundamental reason why China was invaded and plundered? What progress has China made in more than a century?

(Tip: The "reasons" can be discussed from the Qing government's corruption and incompetence, economic and technological backwardness, and decline in national power; the "progress" should be compared with the situation at the end of the Qing Dynasty.)

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"Letter to Butler" PPT:

"Letter to Butler" PPT Part One Content: Target Navigation 1. Master words such as stolen goods, sanctions, gone, magnificent, etc., and understand the author and background information. 2. Grasp the overall meaning of the text, appreciate Hugo’s broad mind and noble character; figure out the key sentences in the text,...

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"Letter to Butler" PPT courseware 2 There are roads in the mountains 1. Get to know the author Victor Hugo (1802～1885), a French romantic writer, is known as the Shakespeare of France. Representative works include "Notre Dame de Paris", "Les Misérables", "1993" and "The Man Who Laughs"...

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