Unit 5 Learning from Nature Writing & presenting ideas 学案-2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第三册

【学生版】Unit 5 Period 5 Writing & Presenting ideas（配套） 【学习目标】 Learning Objectives 1 To understand the main idea of the passage, analyse its writing skills and write your own story 2 To make a speech on the topic “Nature is our best teacher” 【学习过程】 Learning activities 目标一: To understand the main idea of the passage, analyse its writing skills and write your own story Activity 1: Read the title and look at the picture, predict what the passage is about. The Meaning of Struggle Activity 2: Read the story and answer the questions. One day, a man found the pupa of a butterfly. Seeing an opening in the pupa, he realised that the butterfly was ready to emerge. So he sat down and watched as the butterfly struggled to force its body through the little hole. However, minutes passed and the butterfly still couldn’t get out. The struggle was too hard for its weak body. The man then kindly enlarged the hole in the pupa so that the butterfly could finally break free. But instead of flying away, it just dragged itself around weakly, then died. The struggle to break out of the pupa was necessary for the butterfly's survival because it enabled its wings and body to grow strong. Without the struggle, it was too weak to live. In the same way, we need struggle to grow strong and survive. We must go through some difficult things if we really wish to spread our wings and fly. 1 What does a butterfly do to get out of its pupa? 2 Why did the man think he needed to help the butterfly? 3 What happened to the butterfly after the man enlarged the hole in the pupa? 4 What is the lesson behind this story? What else can you learn from it? Answers: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Activity 3: Read the story carefully. Describe the extended metaphor in the story. Learning to learn An extended metaphor refers to a comparison between two things that is developed at length over many lines of text, or throughout an entire work of liter