Unit 1 Growing Up Developing ideas 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第二册

What do you see? Activity 2 Look at the three drawings and predict what the story is about. Now read the passage and check your prediction. Book 5 Unit 1 Growing up Developing ideas The Little Prince A boa constrictor is swallowing an animal. A boa constrictor is digesting an elephant. the inside of the boa constrictor Now read the passage and check your prediction. (P10) What’s the inspiration of the author’s Drawing Number One? 2.Why did the author make his Drawing Number Two? And what are the responses of the grown-ups to the two drawings? 3. How did the author feel about the responses of the grown-ups? Activity 3 Read for details. Read paragraph 1-7 and answer the questions. 5 What’s the inspiration of the author’s Drawing Number One? The inspiration is a magnificent picture in a book. The grown-ups answer: Frighten? Why should anyone be frightened by a hat? They advised me to _______ my drawings and _______myself to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. lay aside devote 2.Why did the author make his Drawing Number Two? And what were the responses of the grown-ups to the two drawings? He made his Drawing Number Two because the grown-ups were not able to understand Drawing Number One. 3. How did the author feel about the responses of the grown-ups? Why? He felt disheartened/disappointed. Because it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. The most valuable qualities of childhood, such as wonder and imagination, must be carefully sustained into adulthood. Adults tend to judge based on appearances. 4. What problems did the grown-ups have from the author’s perspective? 1. What kind of profession did the author choose? 2. Why did the author try showing other people his drawing again? What were the results? 3. Why did the author choose to talk about other topics with the grown-ups? 4. How did adults feel when talked about their familiar issues? Activity 3 Read for details. Read paragraph 8-12 and answer the questions. 9 1. What kind of profession did the author choose? He chose to be an airplane pilot. 2. Why did the author try showing other people his drawing again and again? What were the results? Because he wanted to find out if these people can truly understand his drawing. As a result, he failed to find a person who could. Because he had to adjust himself to grown-up’s poor comprehension level so that the grown-ups can understand what he talked about. 3. Why did the author choose to talk about other topics? 4. How did the grown-ups feel when talked to about their familiar issues? Why? They felt happy and satisfied because they thought I was a sensible man. Activity 4 Go through the text again and find out one most striking sentence about adulthood. 12 Activity 5 (P13 A4) Read the sentences from the passage and answer the questions. 1.What does the author really mean by these sentences? Most of the grown-ups I have met are the same. They focus on practical matters only and seldom pay attention to imagination or creativity. If I pretend to think the way they do, the adults will conclude that I am sensible and mature. 2. What figure of speech does the author use? How does this figure of speech help to express the author’s attitude? 13 Activity 5 (P13 A4) Read the sentences from the passage and answer the questions. 2. What figure of speech does the author use? How does this figure of speech help to express the author’s attitude? Irony. This figure of speech enables the author to indicate his low opinion of adults’ behaviour and values by stressing such things. 14 Grown-ups are more practical than children. They want to teach children knowledge that will be useful in the future. Grown-ups are no better than children. They lack imagination and only care about matters of consequence. Grown-ups are more knowledgeable than children. They can understand everything by themselves. Activity 4 (P12 A3) Choose the author’s attitude towards grown-ups and find evidence to support your choice. √ The author's attitude towards grown-ups The author's attitude Supporting evidence Grown-ups are no better than children. they lack imagination and only care about matters of consequence. 1. Grown-ups always need to have things explained. (Para. 6) 2. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. (Para. 7) 3. A great many people have been concerned with matters of consequence. (Para. 9) 4. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man. (Para. 12) Name Nationality Identity Interest Masterpiece What experience made him write The Little Prince? What kind of person do you think he was? a writer and pilot flying and writing France The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery Activity 1 Read the introduction to the author and fill in the chart. Probably his plane crash in the desert in 1935. adventurous brave talented in writing Decide whether you agree with the author’s attitude towards grown-ups and why? Think of some examples to support your opinions and make notes. Activity 6 (P13 A5) Work in groups. Give a talk about your attitude towards grown-ups. Organise your talk following the steps below. Explain the author’s attitude towards grown-ups. State your own opinions. Give supporting examples. Conclude by summarising your opinions. Give your talk to the class. Growing up What’s your understanding of growing up after learning this unit? Smart expressions 着迷于 漫步 去打仗 被占领的法国 至今未知 magnificent 原始的 在……过程中 Here is a copy of the drawing. 深思 成功做…… 回应 v./n. 放弃；搁置一边 致力于 be obsessed with wander leave on a wartime mission occupied France remain unknown splendid/impressive in the act of primeval/primaeval /praɪ'miːv(ə)l/ 副本；份 ponder over/at/about succeed in (doing) sth. respond to/in response to lay aside devote/dedicate/commit myself to… be devoted/dedicated/committed to 21 disheartened by 职业 驾驶飞机 看/瞥一眼 区别A与B 有价值的 生命途中 许多 相遇 v./n. 后果 对……太关心 亲密地 近在手边 discouraged by profession pilot (v.) planes at a glance distinguish A from B valuable [SYN.] priceless/invaluable [OPP.] valueless/worthless in the course of life a good/great many + n. (pl.) a good/great deal + of + n. [U] encounter; have an encounter with… consequence be concerned with… intimately close at hand Smart expressions 22 clear-sighted bring myself down to one’s level sensible 比较 sensitive 有清晰判断能力的 贬低我自己到他的水平 明智的；理智的 敏感的 Smart expressions 23 $$