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Reading for Writing---Describe a place that you like
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The Unit Theme Analysis(大单元主题简析)
Book 2 Unit 4 History and Traditions
Theme Context:Human and Society
Theme Group:History, Society and Culture
This unit focuses on history and traditions covering the long history and cultural traditions of China, Britain, Russia, Ireland, Brazil, Greece, Egypt and other countries. It’s of great significance for students to understand the English language, the historical and cultural connotation of the world’s important civilization and the way of thinking contained in these history and traditions. In this unit, you will read about history and traditions of the UK; and listen to people talk about historic places and share your own experiences; and write about a place by describing different senses; and learn more about
different tea cultures, etc.
The Target Teaching Text Analysis(目标文本分析)
(What) Theme: The text describes the beautiful landscape of Ireland and its traditions, which are depicted from the perspective of a traveler in spacial order(An obvious clue 明线), with the “beauty” of Ireland among words and between lines, nourishing the strong traditions of Ireland(A hidden clue 暗线). At the same time, the text can be considered an expansion to the previous materials talking about London and other historic sites in Britain, thus presenting European cultural features with
history and modernity, city and country combined.
(How) Feature: Evidently, this text is an exposition on scenery description with exquisite language, short but concise and rich contents. More exactly, the author illustrates the beauty of Ireland from aspects of vision, smell, taste, hearing and touch with specific words and examples in spacial order(An obvious clue 明线), such as rural scenery, the roar of sea waves and the sound of seabirds,etc. and also describes the Irish national traditions such as music, dance and dishes, as well as local residents. Th