Unit 6 Starting Out & Understanding ideas 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第三册

Nature in words 选择性必修三Unit 6 B6U6 Starting out & Understanding ideas Pre-reading Read the short introduction to the author of First Snow and answer the questions. 1 What careers did Priestley have in his lifetime? Priestly joined the army in World War I before going on to study at Cambridge University. After graduation, he worked as a freelance writer and radio presenter. 2 What do you think Priestley will write about snow? If you were Priestley, what would you write? Activity 1 While-reading How does the author organise the structure of the passage? By the order of time. When I got up this morning… The sun came out… An hour or two later… Now… While-reading The author uses picturesque language to depict the first snow. Complete the diagram with the expressions you find in the passage. Activity 4 /ˌpɪktʃəˈresk/adj. producing strong mental images by using unusual words 生动的；栩栩如生的 While-reading Activity 4 Timeline Scenery When I got up this morning… The sun came out… The world became a 1________________________ ____________. The light coming through the windows seemed quite strange, and it made the familiar business of splashing and shaving and brushing and dressing very strange too. The snow became 2______________. My dining-room window changed into 3___________________. The little plum tree outside, with snow 4__________ _______________________________________, stood in full sunlight. cold place of dead white and pale blues delicate pinks a lovely Japanese print lining its branches and artfully disposed along its trunk While-reading Activity 4 Timeline Scenery An hour or two later… Now… Everything was a 5___________________________. The ground 6_______________, the sky was 7__________, and all the trees 8________________ __________________. The entire scene looked 9___________________. The snow is 10______________________________. The roofs are 1