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核心素养拓展练(五) 语言能力+思维品质
[素养解读] 2017版《普通高中课程标准》首次提出“学科核心素养”。英语学科核心素养由语言能力、文化意识、思维品质和学习能力构成。随之而来,以后的英语考试将更加坚持能力立意,突出核心素养的考查。A篇是围绕“语言能力”这一核心素养展开的,有助于学生了解阅读小说的方法;B篇是围绕“思维品质”这一核心素养展开的,有助于学生了解一些健康的生活方式。
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学科素养
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阅读小说的方法
语言能力
How can we read better? Recently I suggested the value of reading with a pen in the hand, ready to mark the pages at any moment.In return I received a score of emails from readers complaining that even thus__armed they felt the text was passing them by.“Tell us how you read and mark a novel.”
I do believe reading is a skill and there must be techniques that everyone can use or try.
Experience is important.No one is born a fine reader.In my case, translation has been important.I came to Italy when I was twentyfive.Living in a second language, I became more aware of how language drives and shapes thought. Translating and teaching translation forced me constantly to take texts to pieces in order to put them back together in my own tongue.
This will not be much help for those who do not write, translate or teach.So, let me try to say a few words about how I go about reading a novel.
As I dive into the opening pages, the first question I’m asking is what are the qualities or values that matter most to this author? I start Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and at once it is about a man who has been excluded from a group of friends without knowing why; the misfortune has put him into sadness.So I begin to look for everything relating to the individual’s relationship to the community, to loneliness and companionship.
Or I start a novel by Hemingway and at once I find people taking risks, forcing themselves toward acts of courage.I wonder if courage is considered more important than being just or good, more important than friendship.I’m on the lookout for how each character positions himself in relation to courage.Sometimes, if you’re reading an ebook, it’s fun to run a search on a key word:fear, strength, in this c