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Transcript of Issue.945 Issue.945 Mar.26,2012 Mar.26,2012 P.7: Culture P.7: Culture P.12: hotshots P.12: hotshots...
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Chick-lit Chick-lit Passes AwayPasses Away
General Questions
Warming-up Discussion
Detailed Study
Warming-up Discussion Chick-lit passes away
1. Have you ever seen the film “Bridget Jone’s Diary” or “Vampire Diary”? And do you love them?
2. Why do you think these novels are popular? And What kind of people would love storyies like these?
Go over the passage in 3 minutes and answer the following questions concerning general comprehension.
Instruction
General Questions Chick-lit passes away
1. What is Bridget Jones’s Diary about?
2. What is chick-lit?
It’s about Bridget’s job, her poor self-image, her vices (overeating, getting drunk, smoking), her friends, family and love life.
General Questions
It’s literature for young women (and young men interested in finding out how young women think).
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3. What kind of main characters does chick-lit portray?
4. Why is chick-lit dying?
Ambitious, materialistic, upwardly-mobile young women.
General Questions
Britain is suffering form economic crisis and The Shopaholic stories seem irrelevant, even distasteful to many readers living in austerity-hit Britain
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5. What are women readers reading according to Literary experts?
6. According to Kathy Lette, what kind of character will be liked by women readers today?
more complex, psychological novels by women.
General Questions
literary lionesses
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Detailed Study
Read the passage closely and find out the following sentences.
Instruction
Chick-lit passes away
1. We learn about Bridget’s job, her poor self-image, her vices (overeating, getting drunk, smoking), her friends, family and love life.
vice : a bad or immoral quality in a person, or bad or immoral behavior 。
Jealousy is a vice.
Chick-lit passes awayDetailed Study
嫉妒是一种恶习。
2. The male love interest in both books is a character called Darcy.
male love interest: (also called romantic interest), a man who enjoys admiration.
Detailed Questions
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3. It is fun with a dash of romance.
a dash of romance : a small amount of romantic atmosphere.
They seem the perfect couple , full of glamour and bringing a dash of romance to the White House
Chick-lit passes awayDetailed Study
在他人眼里,米歇尔和奥巴马就是光彩照人的完美结合,他们的到来也为白宫里增添了些许浪漫气息。
4. The female characters are well-groomed, sassy, urban women obsessed with fashion and finding eligible men
eligible : an eligible man or woman would be good to marry because they are rich, attractive, and not married
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5. She gets into all sorts of amusing scrapes because of her extravagance.
extravagance the trait of spending in a wasteful way.
His extravagance kept him always in debt
.
Chick-lit passes awayDetailed Study
他的挥霍无度使他常常负债。
6. Miller says chick-lit flourished at a time when ambitious young women “poured into a robust job market
flourish : to develop well and be successful
When railroads adopted the technology of steam , they too began to flourish
.
Chick-lit passes awayDetailed Study
当蒸汽的技术运用到铁路上之后,铁道也开始繁荣起来。
7. During its heyday publishers created imprints specifically for chick-lit.
heyday : the time when someone or something was most popular, successful, or powerful
The analyst 's heyday would
seem to be long gone .
Chick-lit passes awayDetailed Study
分析师的辉煌时代看来已经过去了。
8. Perhaps in this economic downturn a creative cull may ensure only literary lionesses prevail.
downturn : a period or process in which business activity, production etc is reduced and conditions become worse
经济衰退时期: economic downturn economic recession 经济危机: economic crisis
It is a terrible mistake to raise taxes during an economic downturn .
Chick-lit passes awayDetailed Study
在经济衰退时提高征税是一个可怕的错误
Read the short passage and discuss with your group members on the following topic:
How do you view Cheung winning this award?
金扫帚奖,是由《青年电影手册》办的,华语电影史上首个为年度最差影片颁发的奖项。是由网友和独立影评人参与评选,从电影文本出发,以专业的立场,独立的身份,以电影批判影响电影创造,为鞭策中国电影而设立的奖项 .
The Golden Raspberry award (or Razzie for short 金酸莓奖 ) is a recognition for a motion picture that had a poor outcome.
The annual Razzie Awards ceremony in Los Angeles precedes the corresponding Academy Awards ceremony by one day.
It is founded by American copywriter and publicist John J. B. in 1981.
The awards themselves typically cost $4.97 each, in the form of a “golf ball-sized raspberry” which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray-painted gold.
Debate: whether there should be such an award.
Thank you!