Unit 1 Food matters Extended reading课件-2022-2023学年高中英语牛津译林版(2020)选择性必修第一册

Unit 4 Extended Reading What do you know about Li Bai? Poet Martial Arts Tang Dynasty Alcohol The Moon The Yangtze River Something else… Li Bai and his romantic poetry Extended Reading Watch the video about the essay and try to find the general idea of each paragraph. Listen to the essay and answer the questions. 1. What contributed to Li Bai’s romantic style? 2. When did Li Bai begin his travelling around? 3. What are the features of Li Bai’s romantic style poems? His love of reading and travelling from an early age. In his early twenties. There are various features of Li Bai’s romantic style, such as the rich imagination, free expression of strong feelings, plus the wide use of exaggeration, metaphor and other artistic techniques. 4. How does Li Bai show his imagination in his poetry? 5. What’s the biggest difference between Li Bai and other landscape poets? Li Bai shows his imagination through the moon and stars, the natural landscapes and the figures in legends. Li Bai breathes vitality into the lifeless objects he describes, which is his free expression of strong feelings. Suggested answer Li Bai started writing poetry from a young age. He wrote many poems inspired by what he read and what he saw when he was travelling, which helped him gain a reputation as a romantic poet. Write a summary of the essay on Li Bai’s life and poetry. 7 Growing up during the most glorious period of the Tang Dynasty also impacted Li Bai’s poems greatly. Most of his poetry is of the romantic style, featuring rich imagination, free expressions of strong feelings and wide use of artistic techniques like exaggeration and metaphor. Li’s works influenced generations of poets. Today they continue to inspire new generations of poets in China and abroad and are still enjoyed by many readers. Language Usage (1)I dare say ( that)... 我想……，很可能…… (2)dare to do 最常用于否定句中，在口语中，也可 接不带to的不定式。 model verb敢，胆敢; vt.敢于，胆敢 But I dare not speak in a voice loud. She dare _________ what she thinks.