Unit 6 Nature in Words Starting out & Understanding ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第三册

外研选择性必修 第三册 Unit 6 Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas (I) 1 2 To understand how nature is reflected in literary works To understand the main idea of the passage, learn how the picturesque language is used to depict the first snow and how the author feels 学习目标 目标一: To understand how nature is reflected in literary works Activity 1: Watch the video and answer the questions. 1 What literary forms are mentioned in the video? Poems, letters, travel journals, essays and novels are the literary forms mentioned in the video. 2 Write down the writers and their works mentioned in the video. Ralph Waldo Emerson——NatureThoreau——Walden Moby DickJack London——The call of the wild, White Fang 3 What other nature writers do you know of? Tell the class about him or her. Samuel Taylor Coleridge; William Wordsworth Activity 2: Listen and read the poem by Emily Dickinson. Answer the questions. “Nature” Is What We See by Emily Dickinson “Nature” is what we see – The Hill – the Afternoon – Squirrel – Eclipse – the Bumble bee – Nay – Nature is Heaven – Nature is what we hear – The Bobolink – the Sea – Thunder – the Cricket – Nay – Nature is Harmony – Nature is what we know – Yet have no art to say – So impotent Our Wisdom is To her Simplicity. 1 What images are used to symbolise nature? Nature is symbolised by simple images of animals (“Squirrel”, “the Bumble bee”, “The Bobolink”, “the Cricket”) and features (“The Hill”, “the Afternoon”, “Eclipse”, “the Sea”, “Thunder”), which are in turn symbolic of the poet’s thoughts and feelings about the simplicity of nature. Nature is also symbolised in a metaphorical sense when it is described as “Heaven” and “Harmony”. 2 What message does the poem try to convey? The message of the poem is that although what we see and hear in nature appears to be simple, within that simplicity lie great beauty, mystery and magnificence that humans cannot truly appreciate