Our team members are conscientiously working together to achieve the quality teaching effect. Both our teachers and teaching assistants are always ready to communicate with the online learners on line. We aim to help story-lovers with 4,000 words to read the selected chapters in these classic novels easily, enjoy English originals with beautiful lines at their fingertips in the digital era, and experience the progress of vocabulary and thought in a wonderful spiritual journey.
The classic novels involved in our course are outlined in the following:
1. The first British novel is Robinson Crusoe, which tells a story of adventure and self-reliance, a dream of a romantic adventurer.
2. In Gulliver's Travels, the author tells a fable about a resident living on the island of Lilliput, who is only 15 cm tall, but good at mathematics and craftsmanship. They are not only small in physical size but also narrow in mind, because the reason for their dispute is to beat the egg with a small head or with a big head; and the difference between wearing high-heeled shoes and low-heeled shoes forms two factions.
3. A Christmas Carol tells us the three ghosts called "the Ghost of Christmas past", "the Ghost of the Christmas present" and " the Ghost of the Christmas Yet-to-come" to wake up the good side of Scrooge. He learned the Christmas spirit and changed from a miser into a king and charitable man.
4. Pride and Prejudice tells us in an amusing way that the second rich generations are not all dandies; the daughters of ordinary people with dignity can also marry well. This novel can help people in love affairs to get rid of their arrogance and prejudice with a touch of modern flavor, a sense of humor and vivid middle-class atmosphere.
5. Jane Eyre is a mirror of many a self-reliant girl. Pure in heart, deep in thinking and independent in personality, Jane bravely pursues a new female image with true love, and encourages women of the same era to get rid of the shackles of the subordinate status of women in Victorian era, encourage new women of the same generation to have independent personality, to pursue love in the spiritual world and achieve a new self.
6. Wuthering Heights is a Gothic novel with poetic flavor. It unfolds a revengeful story to the readers who may find desolation, mystery, passion, barbarity and revenge permeate the gothic atmosphere of the whole novel.
7. Hardy's Tess of D'Urbervilles tells how the beautiful, lovely and pure Tess moved towards the doomed tragedy with individual, family, religious and social factors. Tess's tragedy may teach the girls how to protect themselves in the complicated society and find their true love.
8. The colonial Rip Van Winkle is also a kind of vagabond novel. In his humorous writing, the author Washington Irving vividly depicts a good old man husband who is frequently scolded by his wife. He fled to the forest and slept in the valley for 20 years..
9. In the early stage of pursuing the American dream, in the social custom was dominated by strict Puritanism, the author Hawthorne narrated a bitter love tragedy about adultery between faithful and brave Hester and a weak but guilty Priest in The Scarlet Letter.
10. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the humorous Mark Twain describes how Tom makes trouble with and his Aunty Polly. He enjoys freedom and romance from outdoor games and adventures in the wilderness to pursue freedom, leading a naive, free and relaxed ideal life, which is unforgettable after reading.
11. Melville, who has a lot of whaling experiences, tells us the thrilling story of an old captain's whaling in Moby Dick. After years of searching, the captain finally succeeded to encounter the giant whale, but his whole ship was pulled to the bottom of the sea by it.
12. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for The Old man and the Sea. He told the profound philosophy of life with a simple fishing story. He applied "Iceberg Principle" to portray a Heming-code hero image: a real hero can be defeated by the enemy, but his spirit can never be conquered, which is also known as “Grace under pressure”.
This course adopts online and offline interactive teaching and uses the concept of course 2.0 to realize the whole-person education concept of improvement both in knowledge and quality. The steps are listed as follows:
1) Watch movies with Chinese and English subtitles in the references of our online course before reading. (2-3 hours required)
2) Watch the recorded videos by teachers and read the corresponding chapters of the original novel and the Chinese translation version downloaded from the references of our online course, and compare your reading with the videos you have watched. (half an hour a day, 7-10 days for each novel)
3) In order to release the burden of consulting new words, we have designed a reading APP named BOOKBOSS which is still being upgraded now. And readers can get the exact interpretations of those new words by touching the screen.
4) Other recorded videos about close-reading of the selected chapters are also put on the platform in the live-teaching section for this course. In addition, we are very responsive to the words learners posted in our discussion section, and PBL project will make you cooperate with others as a team member. .
Put your heart into learning this course with delight, and you may find your vocabulary rise to 10,000 amazingly.
