1、The Little PrinceBy Antoine de Saint-Exupery Antoine de Saint-Exupry(1900.6.29-1944.7.31)He was a French writer and pilot.He liked taking adventures and was the pioneer of using flight to send massage to the mountain and desert.In 1944,he disappeared in a mission flying across a desert.It has been a
2、 legend in the literary history of French.The little prince lived on a planet called Asteroid B612.He could see the sunset 44 times a day on his planet.He had an unique rose of his own.He loved her very much.Water the flower.Protect the flower.Pull up all the baobabs regularly.Clean out his active v
3、olcanoes.But one day,he had some quarrel with his rose,so he left his own planet and took an exploration around other planets.On his all-alone journey,he met different kinds of people.The hero of the book-the little prince lived in a planet named Asteroid 612.One day he left the planet and the rose
4、which he loved.And he called at other planets around his one by one,meeting a King,a conceited man,a drunkard,a lamplighter,a businessman and a geographer.Then he came to the earth and met the author and the fox.In the end,he was bitten by a snake and was said to go back home.1.Recall what those inh
5、abitants(people live there)on the six planets did and the princes comments on them.a tipplera tipplera geographera geographera conceited mana conceited mana lamplightera lamplightera kingakinga business mana business manWhat did the little prince discover on the six planets?the platform On the first
6、 planet,the little prince met a king who liked ruling subjects.The grown-ups are very strange.The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man.Except for praise,he could not tolerate any words.The grown-ups are certainly very odd.The little prince visited a tippler（drunkard）who wanted to forget th
7、e shame of drink by drinking on the third planet.The grown-ups are certainly very very odd.After that,the little prince came to a businessman who was constantly busy counting the stars he thought he owned.12345The grown-ups are certainly altogether extraordinary.The little prince met a lamplighteron
8、 the fifth planet.Almost a sunrise or a sunset appeared every minute,so the lamplighter lived a busy life.That man is the only one of them all whom I could have made my friend.The lamplighter:That man,said the little prince to himself,as he continued farther on his journey,that man would be scorned
9、by all the others:by the king,by the conceited man,by the tippler,by the businessman.Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous.Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself.He breathed a sigh of regret,and said to himself,again:That man
10、 is the only one of them all whom I could have made my friend.On the sixth planet,the little prince met a geographer who had never explored the world he was mapping,only learning the world from explorers.The little prince kept asking what ephemeral means.2.What kind of persons do these people repres
11、ent in our real life?a tipplera tipplera geographera geographera conceited mana conceited mana lamplightera lamplightera kingakinga business mana business manWhat did the little prince discover on the six planets?the platformOne day,you will become grown-ups.You might become any one of these ridicul
12、ous people.What did the little prince learn about love?What did he say when he saw many roses like his own one?What did the fox about love?You are beautiful,but you are empty,he went on.One could not die for you.To be sure,an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you-the rose t
13、hat belongs to me.But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses:because it is she that I have watered;because it is she that I have put under the glass globe;because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen;because it is for her that I have killed the c
14、aterpillars(except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies);because it is she that I have listened to,when she grumbled,or boasted,or even sometimes when she said nothing.Because she is my rose.To me,you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other
15、little boys.And I have no need of you.And you,on your part,have no need of me.To you,I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes.But if you tame me,then we shall need each other.To me,you will be unique in all the world.To you,I shall be unique in all the world.Men have forgotte
16、n thistruth,said the fox.But you must not forget it.You become responsible,forever,for what you have tamed.You are responsible for your rose.What did the little prince learn about love?To love is to tame and to be responsible.Discussing some critical qustions about this story:1.Did the little prince
17、 return to his planet?2.What is the authors opinion of adults?3.Imagine rereading this story 10 years later.what do you think might be different?4.How can we make ourselves wonderful grown-ups?“Its too far.I can not carry this body with me.Its too heavy.”What is the authors opinion of adults?In the
18、course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence.I have lived a great deal among grown-ups.I have seen them intimately,close at hand.And that hasnt much improved my opinion of them.They never say to you:What does his
19、voice sound like?What games does he love best?Does he collect butterflies?Instead,they demand:How old is he?How many brothers has he?How much does he weigh?How much money does his father make?Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.If you were to say to the grown-u
20、ps:I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick,with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof,they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all.You would have to say to them:I saw a house that cost$20,000.Then they would exclaim:Oh,what a pretty house that is!Imagine rereading this sto
21、ry 10 years later.What will be different?How can we make wonderful grown-ups?Sharing the enlightening sentences:It is the time you have wasted for your rose that make your rose so important.It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.If you succeed in judging yourself rightly,the
22、n you are indeed a man of true wisdom.It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;what is essential is invisible to the eyes.All grown-ups were once children-although few of them remember it.You are responsible forever,for what you have tames.You are responsible for your rose.To forget a frie
23、nd is sad.Not every one has had a friend.And if I forget him,I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.What makes the desert beautiful,said the little prince,is that somewhere it hides a well.Share their afterthoughts of this novel:I see the difference betw
24、een children and adults.I begin to know the essence of life.I remember many details of the story since I like it so much.Through each word,each sentence,I can feel the tenderness of the author.We live in a turbid society,its hard for us to keep your innocence in our hearts.I feel sad after reading t
25、his story,for the death of the little prince and the possile loss of a childs heart.I dont want to become one of those adults.I dont understand why the little prince doesnt like those people on the six planets,for some of the jobs they do are all necessary on Earth.I still could not understand why s
26、o many people weep after reading it.My little sister thought this book was very interesting while my mum and I considered it boring.Conclusion:Different people see different little princes.People at different ages see differently too.See the world through a childs eyes.You will understand what the essence of life is.
