The Ant and the Grasshopper.ppt

The Ant and the Grasshopper
1. Retell the story of “The Ant and the Grasshopper” from Aesop's Fables after the flash.
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Aesop's Fables refers to a collection of fables credited to a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. Aesop's Fables have e a blanket term for collections of brief fables. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today.
Many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived), The Tortoise and the Hare, The North Wind and the Sun, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Ant and the Grasshopper are well-known throughout the world.
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2. Now read from Line 9 to line 18, the adapted story of The Ant and the Grasshopper by La Fontaine and tell the obvious difference between these two stories.
The end is different.
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3. What is the significance of the adaptation?
To elicit the moral that in an imperfect world industry is rewarded and giddiness punished.
To prove the writer’s hostility towards the ants is entirely human.
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4. What did the writer as a child react to the fable?
My sympathies were with the grasshopper.
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The story of the Ramsay bothers.
The moral of the ant and the grasshopper doesn’t hold true for the Ramsay brothers.
I met e Ramsay in a deep gloom because of his younger brother Tom Ramsay. (Line 27 – 42)
The flashback of the introduction to the Ramsay brothers’ contradictive life attitudes. (Line 43 – 127)
The fortune of Tom has proved the moral from the beginning fable to the contrary. (Line 128 – 159)
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1. What was e’s mood when the narrator saw him in a restaurant?
Wear an expression of such deep gloom
2. What was the narrator’s predicted cause to his mood?
Tom had caused the trouble again.
Will the prediction to be confirmed or not in the end?
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1. What accounted for Tom’s decision to leave his family and office?
2. How did Tom make a living without a job?
To b