Unit 1 Growing Up Using language Reading课件 2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 1 Period 4 Reading 新 课 导 入 What do you know about The Little Prince and its author? 课 堂 学 习 1 Read the introduction to Antoine de Saint-Exup ry and answer the questions. Antoine de Saint-Exup ry (1900-1944) was a French writer and pilot. As a young boy, he was obsessed with aeroplanes, riding in one for the first time at the age of 12. He spent much of his life flying and writing about his adventures. Saint- Exup ry's most successful work, The Little Prince, is one of the best-selling books ever published. The story was probably inspired by his plane crash in the desert in 1935. Saint-Exup ry nearly died, and wandered around for four days before being rescued. In 1944, Saint-Exup ry left on a wartime mission over occupied France, from which he never returned. Although the remains of his plane were discovered in 2000, Saint-Exup ry's body has never been found, and the cause of his death remains unknown. 1 What experience made the author write The Little Prince? The story was probably inspired by his plane crash in the desert in 1935. 2 What kind of person do you think Saint-Exup ry was? He was a person of adventurous spirit. He was also creative and had big imagination. 2 Look at the three drawings and predict what the story is about. Predicting The Little Prince 1 Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. 2 In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion.” Now read the passage and check your prediction. 3 I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this: 4 I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, a