2018届外研版选修七一轮复习：Module3Literature教学设计（14页） 14页

Module 3 Literature 教学设计说明 话题介绍 本模块主要介绍英国古典文学中狄更斯作品及其生平，了解上述内 容并掌握有关的词汇，培养有关的语言技巧。 Period 1 Reading INTRODUCTION Vocabulary and reading 和 READING AND VOCABULARY 合并为第一课时“阅读课”。课文 Oliver Asks for More 让学习了解狄更斯作品。在学生课前自学、预习的基础上， 以背景介绍导入新课，然后采取“自上而下”的阅读教学模式，引 导学生关注文章的篇章结构、段落大意，得出“树型图”，进行“信 息转换”，理解全文、复述意义。 教师还可以参考“教学资源”中 关于 Charles Dickens 相关信息的材料，帮助学生更多了解英国作 品。 Period 2 Function 第二课时 FUNCTION Emphatic sentences 是“功能课”，学习倒装句 的用法”。教学重点是倒装的用法。 Period 3 Grammar 课本 32 页 GRAMMAR 1 Inversion used for emphasis 为第三课时 “语法课”，集中学习和演练 Inversion used for emphasis。 Period 4 Writing Write a description of characters Period 5 Reading and Vocabulary(2) 课本 37 页的 Reading and Vocabulary(2) “为泛读课 ”，学习 Philip Pirrip。引导学生阅读课课文，然后模仿其语篇结构、尽量运用课文 中学到的词语、结构和话题模式，用记叙文体介绍自己熟悉和喜爱 的人物。 Period 6 Listening and Everyday English 能识别所学词语及结构并听懂意义，能听懂并理解包含感情和情感 的日常用语；能理解《雾都孤儿》的内容。 Period 7 Reading Practice 课本 39 页的 Reading practice 让学生进行阅读，然后完成书上练习 题。 Period 8 Cultural Corner 该部分简单介绍了 Charles Dickens 的生平，是本模块的一个重要内 容。教师可以按教学时间来决定教学方法，如果时间紧，可以用泛 读、速读、略读的方法处理。了解英国古典文学和同期的古典文学， 了解它们对世界文化的贡献 Period 9 Task TASK “任务课”，学生课前利用图书馆、网络等手段收集某一地 区的 facts，课上教师出示若干 file 范例，指导学生完成 Period 1 Reading---Oliver Asks for More ▇ Goals ●To learn to read passages with Inversion used for emphasis about literature ●To learn to read with strategies ■ Procedures Step 1: Warming up by learning about Charles Dickens Charles Dickens’s father was a clerk at the Naval Pay Office and because of this, the family had to move from place to place: Plymouth, London, and so on. It was a large family and despite hard work, his father couldn’t earn enough money. In 1823 he was arrested for debt and Charles had to start working in a factory, labelling bottles for six shillings a week. After leaving school, Charles started to work in a solicitor’s office. He learned shorthand and started as a reporter working for the Morning Chronicle in courts of law and the House of Commons. In 1836 his first success was published, The Pickwick Papers. This was followed by more novels: Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39) and Barnaby Rudge (1841). He travelled to America later that year and aroused the hostility of the American press by supporting the abolition movement. In 1858 he divorced from his wife Catherine, who had borne him ten children. During the 1840s his social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage: Novels like David Copperfield (1849-50), A Tale of Two Cities (1959), Great Expectations (1860-61) only increased his fame and respect. His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood was never completed and was later published posthumously. Step 2: Before you read Please go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling Step 3: While you read Cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives. Step 4: After you read Copy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book. If possible, make your own sentences with these expressions. Useful expressions from Oliver Asks for More need washing, try to, in this way, become wild with hunger, be tall for his age, be used to doing, pick out, it was…who…, stare at, for support, not until, no sooner…than…, seize somebody’s arms, rush into the room, be sure of Sentences made with expressions from Module 3 1. That young thief needs a good beating! 2. Most young smokers who try to quit usually do so on their own instead of using recommended methods. 3. In this way, I can finish the job ahead of time. 4. His face became red with cold 5. The merchant’s son is mature for his age. 6. I have always lived in the country but now I’m beginning to get used to living in the city. 7. Can you pick out your sister in this crowd? 8. It was they that (who) cleaned the classroom yesterday. 9. It is so peaceful to stare at the clouds without a care in the world on bright warm sunny day. 10. The old man held a stick for support. 11. Not until the child fell asleep did the mother leave the room. 12. No sooner said than done! 13. He seized the gun from the enemy soldier. 14. When the bell rang, students rushed into the classroom like bees. 15. It is our responsibility as citizens to be sure of the truthfulness of information before we act on it or pass it on. Step 5: Drawing a diagram of the text to show its organization Oliver Asks for More The beginning of the film: The boys became quite wild with hunger Children chose Oliver to ask for more soup and he did so Oliver was locked in a room and maybe would be hanged Step 6: Closing up by retelling the text To end this period we are going to retell the text with the help of the diagram above, using as many inversion sentences as possible. Period 2 Function--Emphatic sentences ■ Goals ● To learn sentences about emphatic sentences ■ Procedures Step 1: Learning about Emphatic sentences A cleft( or emphatic) sentence is a device for focusing attention on a particular piece of information. Sentence structure It is/was+被强调部分 （人 主语） +who/that （人 宾语）+ whom/that + the rest part of the sentence （其他）+that 要强调句子的某一部分(通常是主语常是主语 状语 宾语), 可以把 it 当作先行词.例如： It was in 1975 that I worked in a factory.（强调时间状语） It was in Shanghai that I saw the film. （强调地点状语） It is English that Prof. Lin teaches us. （强调宾语） It is Prof. Lin who teaches us English. （强调主语） It was not until at least 30 seconds had passed that the man was able to speak. (强调 not until 句型) Step 2: Correct the statements Example: It was a bag that Oliver was holding. (books) No, it was books that he was holding. 1. It was a man who said, “Go home, your monster.” (woman) No, it was the woman who said “Go home, your monster.” 2. It was early that this happened. (late) No, it was late that this happened. 3. It was meat that the boys were eating. (soup) No, it was soup that the boys were eating. 4. It was Mr. Bumble who gave the boys their food. (the warden) No, it was the warden who gave the boys their food. 5. It was Mr. Bumble who was locked in a room. (Oliver) No, it was Oliver who was locked in a room. Example: Did Oliver want more clothes? (food) No, what Oliver wanted is more food. 1. Did Charles Dickens write novels about modern London? (Victorian London) No, what Charles Dickens wrote was novels about Victorian London. 2. Did Nancy pretend to be Oliver’s mother? (sister) No, what Nancy did was to pretend to be Oliver’s sister. 3. Did Nancy terrify Oliver? (the man) No, what terrified Oliver was the man. 4. Did Oliver go with the man? (shout for help) No, what Oliver did was shouting for help. 高考链接 1. It was not until she got home ____ Jennifer realized she had lost her keys. (2006 全国 II) A. when B. that C. where D. before 2. It was after he got what he had desired ____ he realized it was not so important. (2006 辽宁) A. that B. when C. since D. as 3.ＩIt wasn’t until nearly a month later __________ I received the manager’s reply . (2005 全国 I) 　　A．since 　　B．when 　　C．as 　　D．that 4. ---- ______ that he managed to get the information? ----- Oh, a friend of his helped him. (2005 山东) A. Where was it B. What was it C. How was it D. Why was it 5. Why! I have nothing to confess. _______ you want me to say? (2004 上海) A. What is it that B. What it is that C. How is it that D. How it is that 6. It was _________ back home after the experiment. （2004 湖北） 　　A．not until midnight did he go 　　 B．until midnight that he didn’t go 　　C．not until midnight that he went 　　D．until midnight when he didn’t go 7. It was because of bad weather ____ the football match had to be put off. (2003 上海春) A. so B. so that C. why D. that 8. It is these poisonous products ____ can cause the symptoms of the flu, such as headache and aching muscles. (2003 上海) A. who B. that C. how D. what 9. It is the ability to do the job _____ matters not where you come from or what you are. (2000 全 国) A. one B. that C. what D. it 10. It was only when I reread his poem recently ____ I began to appreciate their beauty. (98 全国) A. until B. then C. that D. so Keys: 1-5 BADCA 6-10 CDBBc Period 3 Grammar -- Inversion used for emphasis ■ Goal ● To learn about Inversion ■ Procedures Step1: Learning about Inversion 倒装是一种语法手段，用于表示一定的句子结构或强调某一句子成分。 一、从句子结构上看，倒装句可分为完全倒装和部分倒装。 1. 完全倒装 完全倒装即把整个谓语放到主语之前（使整个谓语动词，而非助动词），谓语形式不作变化。 In came the teacher. 比较该句的正常语序：The teacher came in. 完全倒装主要分以下几种情况： (1) here, there, out, in, up, down, now, then, away 等副词置于句首时。例如： Down fell the rotten branches from the tree. There appeared to be a man in black in the distance. 注意：在这些副词引出的倒装句中，当主语是普通名词时用完全倒装句，但当主语是代词时， 主语和谓语的位置就不能颠倒。例如： Here comes the postman! Out he rushed. (不能说：Out rushed he.) (2) 在含有直接引语的句子中。例如：“Where were you born?” asked the man (3) 为了句子的平衡。例如： Under that tree sits a beautiful girl, who is dressed in white. Lucky is he who has been enrolled into a famous university. 如不倒装，句子的语序为： A beautiful girl, who is dressed in white, sits under that tree. He who has been enrolled into a famous university is lucky. 不难看出，不倒装的句子显得头重脚轻。 2. 部分倒装 部分倒装是只把谓语的一部分（如助动词、情态动词等）放到主语前，或把句子的强调成分 提前。例如： Not until yesterday did little John change his mind Little do I know that what I said hurt her deeply. 部分倒装分以下一些情况 (1) only 修饰的副词，介词短语或状语从句放在句首时。例如： Only in this way can you learn from your mistakes. Only when the war was over in 1918 was he able to get happily back to work. (2) 含有否定意义的副词或连词。如：hardly, never, not only, little 等放在句首时，例如： Not a single mistake did he make. Little does he care about what others think. (3) 用于 no sooner……than…, hardly….when 和 not until 的句型中。例如： Not until quite recently did he finish his work. Hardly had he finished when someone rose to refuse his points. No sooner had he arrived there than he fell ill. (4) as, however 连接的主步副词分句，例如： Small as the pen is, it is a powerful weapon. However busy you are, you should spend some time reading the newspaper. (5) 省略连词 if 的条件副词分句，例如： Were I you, I would not do such a thing. Should the machine break down again, send it back to us. Had you worked harder, you would have passed. (6) 由连接词 so, neither, nor 引导的句子，例如 Tom can ride a bicycle; so can I. She can’t sing; nor (neither) can he. John has never been late; nor (neither) have I. 二、从倒装句的功能来看，倒装句中以起到一些特定的语法功能，也可表示强调。 1.起到一些特定的语法功能 (1) 构成疑问句。例如： Where did you go yesterday? Were you listening to music at that time? (2) 表示愿望的句子，例如： May God bless you. Long live the king! (3) 构成感叹句，例如： How beautiful the flower is! What a smart boy you are! 2.表示强调 (1)把表示否定的副词或副词短语提到句子前，强调否定意义。例如： Never have I seen such a wicked man. On no account must this employee be removed. Not until he told me had I heard anything of it. (2)以 here, there 或 out, in, up , down, away 等词开头的句子，倒装以示强调。例如： There goes the bell. Here come the children. Out rushed the children. Away went the boy. (3)Only 修饰的副词、介词短语或状语从句放在句首表示强调。例如： Only then did I realize that I was wrong. Only in this way can you learn from your mistakes. Only when the war was over in 1918 was he able to get happily back to work. (4)强调介词短语表示方位地点，用倒装。例如： From the valley came a frightening sound. North of the city lies a university. Step 2: Exercises for consolidation 1. __to come over to have a talk with him in those days. A. Seldom did I have time B. I had seldom time C. Seldom had I time D. Had I seldom time 2. No sooner had the teacher left the classroom __ the pupils rushed out. A. that B. when C. than D. then 3. Not until then ___ how important the brakes were. A. I realized B. do I realized C. did I realize D. I did realize 4. Not only __ more correctly, but also _______ more easily. A. she spoke, she spoke B. does she speak, she spoke C. did she speak, he speak D. did she speak, she spoke 5. So difficult __ that I could not answer it then. A. the question is B. the question was C. was the question D. is the question 6. Hardly __ it began to snow. A. did I arrived when B. had I arrive when C. had I arrived when D. had I arrived than 7. ____, who was frightened of the strange noise from the floor. A. Out rushed the boy B. Out did the boy rush C. Out the boy rushed D. Out was the boy rushed 8. Never before _______ in greater need of modern public transport than it is today.（2005 上海） A. has this city been 　　B. this city has been　　C. was this city　　D. this city was 9. I failed in the final examination last term and only then ___ the importance of studies.（2004 重庆） A.I realized B.I had realized C. had I realized D. did I realize 10. Of the making of good books there is no end; neither ______ any end to their influence man’s lives. (2004 广东) A. there is B. there are C. is there D. are there Keys: 1-5 ACCDC 6-10 CAADC 高考链接 1. ---Did Linda see the traffic accident? (2006 天津) ---No, no sooner ____ than it happened. A. had she gone B. she had gone C. has she gone D. she has gone 2. I’ve tried very hard to improve my English. But by no means ____ with my progress. (2006 重 庆) A. the teacher is not satisfied B. is the teacher not satisfied C. the teacher is satisfied D. is the teacher satisfied 3. At the foot of the mountain____.(2006 四川) A. a village lie B. lies a village C. does a village D. lying a village 4. So difficult ____ it to work out the problem that I decided to ask Tom for advice. (2006 广东) A. I have found B. have I found C. I did find D. did I find 5. Never in my wildest dreams ____ these people are living in such poor conditions. (2006 安徽) A. I could imagine B. could I imagine C. I couldn’t imagine D. couldn’t I imagine 6. ___ homework did we have to do that we had no time to take a rest. (2006 福建) A. So much B. Too much C. Too little D. So little 7. ---It’s burning hot today, isn’t it? (2006 福建) ---Yes. ____ yesterday. A. So was it B. So it was C. So it is D. So is it 8. Only then ____ how much damage had been caused. (2006 陕西) A. she realized B. she had realized C. had she realized D. did she realized 9. ____ by keeping down costs will Power Data hold its advantage over other companies. (2006 浙江) A. Only B. Just C. Still D. Yet 10.______ about wild plants that they decided to make a trip to Madagascar for further research. (2005 江苏) A. so curious the couple was B. So curious were the couple C. How curious the couple were D. The couple was such curious Keys: 1-5 ADBDB 6-9 AACAB Period 4 Writing ■ Goal ● Practice writing a description of characters ● Enjoy the reading of Great Expectations ▇ Procedures Step 1: Read the passage Great Expectations again and try to fill in the blanks before doing the writing. characters family situation in life personality Pip Estella Miss Havisham Abel Magwitch For reference characters family situation in life personality Pip poor orphan; living with his sister’s; helps a starving convict; years later, receives money every month; educated; lives comfortably; has a successful career; marries Estella at last. kind, helpful Estella a little complicated Magwitch’s daughter; seem to be abandoned; living with a wealthy old lady; married a wealthy man; treated badly; then became a widow; at last learnt the meaning of love; marries Pip beautiful; cold and cruel to men at one time Miss Havisham wealthy fiancé left her on her wedding day; encourages Estella to treat men coldly and cruelly lonely; hates all men Abel Magwitch a little complicated a convict escaped from prison; caught again and sent to Australia; made a lot of money in Australia; gives Pip money every month to repay his kindness; indomitable ( 百 折 不 挠的) loyal(讲义气的) returns to England illegally; then caught and dies. Step 2: Discuss your ideas with your partner Step 3: Write a short description of the characters in Great Expectations according to the form above. Step 4: Now here’s some part from chapter 59 in Great Expectations. Shall we enjoy reading it together? Great Expectations Charles Dickens Chapter 59 I had heard of her as leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband, who had used her with great cruelty, and who had become quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice ( 贪 婪 ), brutality ( 野 蛮 ), and meanness ( 卑 鄙 ). And I had heard of the death of her husband, from an accident consequent on his ill-treatment of a horse. This release had befallen her some two years before; for anything I knew, she was married again. The early dinner-hour at Joe's left me abundance of time to walk over to the old spot before dark. A cold silvery mist had veiled the afternoon, and the moon was not yet up to scatter it. But, the stars were shining beyond the mist, and the moon was coming, and the evening was not dark. I could trace out where every part of the old house had been, and where the brewery (酿酒厂) had been, and where the gates, and where the casks (木桶). I had done so, and was looking along the desolate (荒凉的) garden- walk, when I saw a solitary (孤独的) figure in it. The figure showed itself aware of me, as I advanced. It had been moving towards me, but it stood still. As I drew nearer, I saw it to be the figure of a woman. As I drew nearer yet, it was about to turn away, when it stopped, and let me come up with it. Then, it faltered (支吾地说) as if much surprised, and uttered my name, and I cried out: `Estella!' `I am greatly changed. I wonder you know me.' The freshness of her beauty was indeed gone, but its indescribable majesty and its indescribable charm remained. Those attractions in it, I had seen before; what I had never seen before, was the saddened softened light of the once proud eyes; what I had never felt before, was the friendly touch of the once insensible hand. We sat down on a bench that was near, and I said, `After so many years, it is strange that we should thus meet again, Estella, here where our first meeting was! Do you often come back?' `I have never been here since.' `Nor I.' `I have very often hoped and intended to come back, but have been prevented by many circumstances. Poor, poor old place!' The silvery mist was touched with the first rays of the moon- light, and the same rays touched the tears that dropped from her eyes. Not knowing that I saw them, and setting herself to get the better of them, she said quietly: `Were you wondering, as you walked along, how it came to be left in this condition?' `Yes, Estella.' `The ground belongs to me. It is the only possession I have not relinquished. Everything else has gone from me, little by little, but I have kept this. It was the subject of the only determined resistance I made in all the wretched years.' `Is it to be built on?' `At last it is. I came here to take leave of it before its change. And you,' she said, in a voice of touching interest to a wanderer, `you live abroad still?' `Still.' `And do well, I am sure?' `I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore -- Yes, I do well.' `I have often thought of you,' said Estella. `Have you?' `Of late, very often. There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But, since my duty has not been incompatible ( 一致的) with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart.' `You have always held your place in my heart,' I answered. And we were silent again, until she spoke. `I little thought,' said Estella, `that I should take leave of you in taking leave of this spot. I am very glad to do so.' `Glad to part again, Estella? To me, parting is a painful thing. To me, the remembrance of our last parting has been ever mournful (悲哀的) and painful.' `But you said to me,' returned Estella, very earnestly, ``God bless you, God forgive you!'' And if you could say that to me then, you will not hesitate to say that to me now -- now, when suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but -- I hope -- into a better shape. Be as considerate and good to me as you were, and tell me we are friends.' `We are friends,' said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench. `And will continue friends apart,' said Estella. I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil (安静的) light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her. Period 5 Reading and Vocabulary (2) ■ Goal ● To learn reading with strategies ■Procedures Step 1: Before you read Please go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its speeding. Step 2: While you read Cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives. Step 3: Do exercises: Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box. convict escape gentleman illegal kindness make money prison repay In the nineteenth century a person found guilty of a crime was called a 1 Instead of being sent to 2 , thousands of them were sent to Australia by ship. Many people found they were able to 3 in Australia but it was 4 to return to England. In the story of Great Expectations, Magwitch always remembers Pip’s 5 and this is 6 years later when Magwitch sends money to make Pip a 7 .Magwitch returns to England to visit Pip. He tries to 8 from the police but finally he gets caught and dies. Keys: 1. convict 2. prison 3. make money 4.illegal 5. kindness 6. rapid 7.gentleman 8.escape Period 6 Listening and Everyday English ■ Goal ● Practise listening ability ■ Procedures Everyday English 1. She threw her arms round him means that a. she put her arms round him b. she threw something at him 2. Thank goodness means a. thank you b. I’m so glad 3. What’s going on means a. What’s going to happen b. What’s happening 4. To break my heart means a. to make someone very unhappy b. to hurt someone in the chest 5. It will do him good means that a. it will be good for him b. he will be good 6. You rascal means a. you funny boy b. you bad boy Keys: 1-6 abbaab Period 7 Reading Practice ■ Goals ●To learn something about literal background information—Dickens’ London ●To learn the text with strategies ■ Procedures Step 1: Before you read Please go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling. Step 2: While you read Cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives. Step 3: After you read The main idea of each part Part 1 (paragraph1-2): A general introduction to Dickens’ London, Dickens’ cast of characters lived in London, and London was a filthy city for rich and poor people alike in the middle of the nineteenth century. Part 2 (Paragraph3-5): Detailed description of Dickens’ London, about the east end and west end. Part 3 (Paragraph6): The ending of the passage, London has changed, but you can still see many of sights which Dickens saw and wrote about in his novels. Period 8 Cultural Corner—Charles Dickens ■ Goal ● To read about Charles Dickens ■ Procedures Step1: Before you read Please go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling. Step 2: While you read Cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives. Step 3: After you read Copy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book. You may make sentences with these expressions. Useful expressions from Charles Dickens be put in prison, pay one’s bill, experience real poverty, a huge amount of energy, as a political journalist, in his early thirties, tell the story of, bring child poverty to the attention of the public, for this reason alone, a large number of popular novels, as a result of, be popular in, have a heart attack Period 9 Task—Preparing a fact file on Charles Dickens ■ Goal ● To learn to make a file ■ Procedures Step 1: Surf the Internet for related information Step 2: Make a display of your fact file More about Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth on 7th February 1812, the second of eight children. His father was a government clerk who was put in prison for three months for debt. After working in a factory and his father’ release from prison, Dickens was sent to school. At 15, he started working in a firm of attorneys in London’s Gray’s Inn. Dickens taught himself shorthand and in 1834 he became a reporter for debates in Parliament for the Morning Chronicle newspaper. In 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth, with whom he had ten children. His first novel was The Pickwick Papers which became a national success. Like all of his subsequent novels, it was published serially in parts, and also very cheaply. It was only published as a complete novel later. His novels then flowed in quick succession: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, and Barnaby Rudge. Dickens then visited America, and had a triumphant reception; however he was disillusioned by the young republic. He wrote about his experiences in America Notes. He published first, and most famous, of his Christmas Books—A Christmas Carol in 1843, followed by Martin Chuzlewit. He traveled in Europe—Italy, Switzerland and Paris in the period 1844—1846, and on his return wrote Dombey and Son and David Copperfield which were more serious and better planned than his earlier novels. In 1850 he founded his weekly magazine Household Words. In his later works, Dickens’ social criticism became stronger, and his satire more concentrated: Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend. In1858 he had separated from his wife and befriended a young actress called Ellen Terman, who may have become his mistress. In that year, he also began an endless series of public readings of his work. From 1865 he started to become ill, and a reading trip to America in 1867-1868 certainly didn’t help his health. Dickens’ last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was never completed, as he suffered a stroke and died on 9th June, 1870. Main works: The Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist Our Mutual Friend Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit Our Mutual Friend A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations If you want to more works, please go to http://www.dbmov.com/People/16372/Filmography/ Oliver Twist tells the story of a poor child named Oliver Twist. He is born in a workhouse and brought up under miserable conditions. After experiencing an unhappy apprenticeship to undertaker, he runs away to London, where he falls into the hands of a gang of thieves. Then he is made to be a pickpocket. A benevolent rich old man called Mr. Brownlow rescues him and takes him home, but the thieves kidnap him and make him join them once again. A bad person named Monks, who turns out to be Oliver in the gang, in order to ruin him and obtain the whole of his father’s property. Then Oliver is made to help one of the thieves in breaking into a lady’s house. He gets wounded, and comes into the hands of a lady who turned out to be her aunt. Finally the thieves in the gang are punished and Oliver’s half brother is compelled to confess his evil doings and put into prison. Oliver is adopted by Mr. Brownlow. This novel is a powerful exposure of bourgeois society. It shows the extreme brutality and corruption of the oppressors and their agents under the mask of philanthropy. Dickens, the great critical realist gives vivid descriptions of their sufferings of the poor and oppressed. We see that Dickens, while sympathizing with the miseries of the people, did not know what or who was responsible for such miseries and even cherished illusion about rich, idle and benevolent people like Mr. Brownlow. He believed that the whole social problems would be solved if only every employer followed the example set by “good gentlemen” like Brownlow.