Unit 1 Looking Forwards Developing ideas Reading 学案-2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第四册

【学生版】Unit 1 Period 4 Reading（配套） 【学习目标】 Learning Objectives 1 To understand the poem “The Road Not Taken”, its writing features and figures of speech, analyse its symbolic meaning and the theme of it 2 To use the key language points from the passage correctly 【学习过程】 Learning activities 目标一: To understand the poem “The Road Not Taken”, its writing features and figures of speech, analyse its symbolic meaning and the theme of it Activity 1: Look at the picture and the title, predict what the passage is about. The Road Not Taken Activity 2: Read the passage and find out what it is about. ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Activity 3: Complete the table with information from the passage. Summary of the poem A traveller in the wood comes to a fork in the road and he feels sorry for 1 _____________. After close observation, he decides to choose the one which 2_________________, though 3 __________________________________. He tells himself 4 __________________ some day, but he doubts 5_____________________. He imagines that, many years in the future, he will tell this story with a sign, saying that his choice has 6 ___________________. Appreciation and interpretation • It is one of the most famous American poems of all time. •The diverged roads in the poem symbolise 7 ________________________________________________. •Once we have taken a road, we might wonder 8 __________________________________. Instead of looking back with regret, we should 9_________________ _______________________________________________. Answers: ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Activity 4: Read the poem again and find out the symbolic meaning of the images in it. Learning to learn Symbolism is the use of an object to represent an abstract idea. For example, the rose could represent love and affection, and the rainbow could symbolise hope. It allows the poet t