Unit 4 Exploring poetry Integrated skills(1)—Reading and watching 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语译林版(2020)选择性必修第一册

Integrated skills(1) Reading and watching Unit 4 Exploring poetry In this lesson, you are going to: appreciate the poem The Road Not Taken； reveal the message the poet tries to get across; analyse Robert Frost’s writing style used in this poem； listen to a poetry review and think about how to write one. Suppose you travel alone to such a wood and now have to choose one of the roads. While you have no idea where either of them will lead you to, tell me which road you will take and explain why. Lead-in I will take either road. Since life offers no guarantee and I will never know if my decisions are wrong until I have made them. Reading Read the poem and then do the following exercises. Read for some details 1．Listen to the poem and find the repeated words，rhymes or other special sound effects in this poem. the repeated words In each stanza，the last words of lines 1, 3 and 4 rhyme with each other. In each stanza，the last word of line 2 rhymes with the last word of line 5. The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost 2．What image appears in your mind when you read the poem？What are the words and expressions that help you see the image? I see a peaceful wood in the countryside，where few people go. I see this image from the following words and expressions: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”, “it bent in the undergrowth”, “it was grassy and wanted wear”, “In leaves no step had trodden black”, etc. 3．What did the poet do when he faced the two roads and what might be his feeling? He looked at them one after another as far as he could and felt undecided which to take. 4．Which road did the poet take finally and what did he think of his choice? He took the less travelled road and he was uncertain whether he had made the right choice. 5．What do you think the two roads in the poem symbolize? (1)The road itself symbolizes the journey of life. (2)The image of the diverging roads symbolizes the choices and opportunities which ultimately lead us into the unknown future ahead of us. A tea