Unit 2 Morals and Virtues Reading for Writing & Assessing Your Progress课件-2022-2023学年高中英语人教版必修第三册

人教版（2019）必修三 Unit 2 Morals and Virtues Reading for Writing & Assessing Your Progress Reading for Writing Share your opinions about a moral story Learning objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. get the key information of the fable; 2. infer the writing purpose of the author; 3. learn how to write a review; 4. write a review of the fable you have read; 5. cooperate with group mates actively through checking your reviews together. Let’s look at these pictures and think about the following questions. Lead-in What are the names of these fables? What are these fables about? What’s a fable? The Farmer and the Snake Nu Wa Mended the Sky Houyi Shot the Suns A fable: A traditional short story that teaches a moral lesson, especially a story about animals. Skim the fable and use one or two sentences to summarize the main idea of it. Pre-writing Who? What? Why? The Stone in the Road is an old fable about a king who wants to see his people’s attitudes to problems, so he puts a large stone in the middle of the road. Then he hides and waits to see if anyone will try to move it. Read the fable and answer the questions. What was the king’s idea for teaching an important lesson to his people? What was the response from most of the people? What did the young girl think and do when she saw the coins? He put a huge stone in the middle of a road, and watched to see if anyone would move it. Most of the people just got upset that the stone was in their way. She thought that the money belonged to someone else and that it should be returned. Suggested Answers This story presented different people’s emotions and responses when they came across the same problem. Complete the table according to the story. Person Experience Emotion Response milkman crashed into the stone angry went away woman with water other villagers young girl tripped over the stone sad limped away in tears complained about the stone upset nobody made an attempt to move the stone succeeded