Unit 2  What is happiness to you?

s: the russian couples tie a doll to their wedding car if they want to have a daughter. if they want to have a son, they tie a toy bear.
t: ok. and the last question.
s: the woman who catches the bouquet is supposed to be the next person to get married.
t: good, well done. i believe every one of you have had a better understanding of the text. right?
ss: yes!
t: good! now let’s move to the next text.

step ⅳ lead-in (text b)
t: have you ever read jane eyre?
s: yes!
t: what’s the end of the story?
s: she and her bus band lead a happy life.
t: so, what qualities do you think help her find the happiness.
s: i think it should be diligence. or we can say hard-working.
s: self-confident.
s: strong-willed.
s: positive no matter how hard the time is.
s: do what she thinks is right.
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t: yes, i think all the qualities are important. now we will read a book review of jane eyre. after numerous difficulties, jane eyre won her happiness at last. it is one of the literary classics of the nineteenth century. do you know the writer of the novel?
s: she is charlotte bronte.
t: you are right. before reading the text, let’s learn something about the author.
show the students the following introduction:
 charlotte is the author of jane eyre and a member of the remarkable bronte family. the sisters charlotte, emily and anne first published their poetry under pseudonyms: poems by currer, ellis and acton bell (三姐妹的筆名：柯勒•貝爾、艾利斯•貝爾、阿克頓•貝爾)was released in 1846, selling only a few copies. charlotte’s novel jane eyre was published in 1847, shortly after emily’s wuthering heights; the sisters had almost simultaneously written what later became known as two of the great novels of english literature. jane eyre was an immediate success and charlotte went on to publish shirley（《雪莉》1848) and villette（《維萊特》1853). she outlived her sisters but still was only 38 when she died in pregnancy. charlotte was the only one of the sisters to marry. her novel the professor（《教師》1857）was written before jane eyre but not published until 1857. as children the three sisters and their brother branwell dreamed up and wrote intricate histories of the fantasy kingdoms of angria and gondal; legends of angria, a collection of charlotte’s childhood writings, was published in 1933.

step ⅴ careful-reading (text b)
t: as you have read the novel before, i think it is easy for you to understand the book review. now i will give you five minutes to read the passage carefully. and then try to answer the questions below the passage.