Unit 6 Nature in Words Understanding ideas 课件-2024-2025学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第三册

Unit 6 Nature in words 外研版高中英语选择性必修三 1.To learn something about John Boynton Priestley 2.To skim the text and get the general idea 3.To read the text carefully and learn the picturesque language the author used 4.To understand the text and share more literary works about snow Learning objectives学习目标 weekly /ˈwiːkli/ adj. 每周的；一周一次的 inspector /ɪn'spektə/ n. 检查员；巡视员 insist /ɪnˈsɪst/ v. 坚称;坚持认为 secrecy /ˈsiːkrəsi/ n. 保密 shaving /'ʃeɪvɪŋ/ v. 刮胡子 flush /flʌʃ/ v. 发红 plum /plʌm/ n. 李子;梅子 faintly /ˈfeɪntli/ adj. 微弱的 flake /fleɪk/ n. 小薄片 bend /bend/ v. 变弯曲 dispose v. 排列;布置 sparkle /ˈspɑːkl/ n. 闪光；闪耀 prospect /ˈprɒspekt/ n. 景色 glare /ɡleə/ n. 刺眼的强光 rhyme /raɪm/ n. 儿歌；童谣 Lead-in Read the short introduction to the author of First Snow and answer the questions. John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984) was born in the English county of Yorkshire, and knew early on that he wanted to become a writer. When World War I broke out, Priestley joined the army, and escaped death on a number of occasions. After the war, he gained a degree from Cambridge University, and then moved to London, where he worked as a freelance (adj. 自由职业的) writer. During World War II, he presented a weekly radio programme, which became immensely (adv. extremely) popular. Priestley wrote many successful articles, essays, novels and plays, but is best remembered for his play An Inspector Calls. Priestley loved snow and expressed a desire to live in a country where it often snowed. 1. What careers did Priestley have in his lifetime? Priestley joined the army in World War I before going on to study at Cambridge University. After graduation, he worked as a freelance writer and radio presenter. 2. What kind of person do you think Priestley was? Do more research if necessary. More information about him: British journalist, novelist, playwright, and essayist. His output was vast and varied, including literary and social criticism. He was known for his perceptive and often humorous characterizations of people in their day-to-day lives. Describe snow in your own words.And then read the passage. 本文语篇类型为散文。作者把下雪视为一件“神奇的大事件”，通过形象生动的语言描写了冬天的第一场雪，表达了自己对雪的喜爱，营造了人与自然和睦共存的景象。 1. Mr. Robert Lynd once said of Jane Austen’s characters: “They are people in shows lives a slight fall of snow is an event.” Even at the risk of appearing to this fair and witty reviewer as another Mr. Woodhouse, I must insist that last night’s fall of snow here was an event. 罗伯特·林德先生曾经这样评价简·奥斯汀笔下的人物：“在这些人的生命里，场场小雪皆是大事。”即使冒着让自己看起来像伍德豪斯先生那样的风险，我也必须坚持说： “昨晚这儿下的那场雪是件大事”。 For Jane Austen’s characters, even something as small as a slight fall of snow is significant and exciting. Even though this fair and witty reviewer might think of me as another Mr. Woodhouse, I have to say that last night’s fall of snow here was significant and exciting. at the risk of doing sth.: used when you think that what you are going to say or do may have a bad result, may offend or annoy people etc 冒着做某事的危险 eg 他冒着生命危险救了我的命。 He saved my life _____ _____ _____ _____ ______ his own. at the risk of losing 13 insist: v. to say firmly and often that something is true, especially when other people think it may not be true 坚称，坚决认为 insist (that) eg Mike insisted that he was right. Mike坚决认为自己是正确的。 14 insist: v. to demand that something should happen 坚持主张，要求 insist on (doing) sth. 坚持(做)某事 eg He insisted on checking everything himself. 他坚持自己检查一切。 We insist on the highest standards of cleanliness in the hotel. 我们坚持酒店最高标准的清洁。 15 【注意】 insist后面接that从句时，有两种情况：表示“坚持主张，坚决要求”时，从句用虚拟语气，即从句谓语用“should+动词原形”，should可以省略。表示“坚称，坚决认为”时，从句用陈述语气。 eg She insisted that the man had stolen her wallet and that he (should) be sent to the police station. 她坚持说那个人偷了她的钱包，并坚决要求把他送到警察局。 【语境应用】翻译句子。 1) John坚持要我们收下这些礼物。 2) 女孩儿坚持认为是她哥哥错了。 3) 我坚决要求你立刻采取行动。 John insisted that we should accept these gifts. The girl insisted that her brother was wrong. I insist on your taking / insist that you take immediate action. 2. I was nearly as excited about it this morning as the children, whom I found all looking through the window at the magic outside and talking away as excitedly as if Christmas had suddenly come round again. 今天早上我和孩子们一样兴奋，我发现他们都透过窗户看着外面奇妙的世界，兴奋地说个不停，好像圣诞节又突然到来了。 talk away: to continue to talk for a long time 说个不停 eg They’re talking the long night hours away. 他们在漫漫长夜中交谈。 Nobody’s listening, but she just keeps talking away. 没人在听，但她一直说个不停。 She could sometimes talk away for hours on end. 有时候她可以连续不断地谈上几个小时。 come round: to happen, often referring to a regulare event （指有规律的事情）来到; 发生 eg The summer holidays have come round again. 暑假又来了。 I’ve been saving for months, with the goal of buying a car by the time my next birthday comes around. 我已经攒了好几个月了，目标是在下一个生日到来时能买一辆车。 20 3. It is the first fall we have had here this winter, and last year I was out of the country, sweating in a hot climate, during the snowy season, so that it really does seem an age since I saw the ground so fantastically carpeted. 这是今年冬天我们在这里的第一场雪，而在去年的雪季，我身在异国，在酷热的天气里流汗不止，所以离我上次欣赏到这银装素裹的世界，着实过了些日子了。 【分析】sweating和carpeted在此句中是非限定动词，分别作状语和补语。非限定动词（不定式、动名词和分词）具有名词、形容词或副词的特征，不能在句中单独作谓语。 除了主语、宾语、标语外、非限定动词还能充当什么成分？ 非限定动词还可以作定语、状语、补语等。 作定语：He may be in the reading room. 作状语：He has returned only to be sent away again. 作补语：The fire is reported controlled. 4. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not magic, then where is it to be found? 入睡时，世界是一个模样，醒来则是完全不同的另一番模样，若非有魔力，如何才能这般？ You go to bed and the world changes while you are sleeping, and when you wake up it is quite different. If you don’t consider this magic, then where else could you find it? this指代本句前半句的内容；it指代magic。 5. Then the sun came out, and by the time I had sat down to breakfast it was shinning bravely and flushing the snow with delicate pinks. 接着太阳出来了，等我坐下来吃早饭时，太阳的光彩已是绚烂夺目，给雪地添了一抹柔和的粉红色。 24 Then the sun appeared, and by the time I had sat down to eat breakfast it was shining brightly and causing the snow to appear delicate shades of pink. 【分析】bravely是副词，修饰shining；flush是动词，意为“（使）发红”， 与shine并列，一起描述阳光洒下的情形，这两个词生动地描写了阳光的状态，将阳光拟人化，体现了它的明媚、耀眼；delicate是形容词，意为“柔和的，淡雅的”，修饰pinks, delicate pinks表示“淡粉红色”。 从句 主句 一般过去时 过去完成时 一般现在时（表将来） 一般将来时或将来完成时 eg By the time I got to the station, the train had already gone. You will not give up the drug by the time you become addicted to it. By the time you get back, we will have finished the work. by the time可用作连词，意为“到……时为止”，引导时间状语从句。 【语境应用】 When I talked with my grandma on the phone, she sounded weak, but by the time we ________ up, her voice had been full of life.    A. were hanging        B. had hung               C. hung                     D. would hang C 6. It was as if our kindly countryside, close to the very heart of England, had been turned into a cruel grassland. 就好像我们这个靠近英格兰中心的友好的小乡村，变成了一个暴躁的草原。 It was as if our gentle countryside, which was close to the central area of England, had been turned into a harsh, vast landscape. 28 【分析】close to the very heart of England是插入语，修饰countryside,指出它的具体方位，即“靠近英格兰的中心”。这样的描写加强了气氛的渲染，使读者更加清楚地感受到countryside原本的样子。 as if (=as though) 仿佛，好像 可以引导方式状语从句，也可以置于look, seem, feel等系动词之后引导表语从句。 eg He talks to them as if they were children. It seemed as if he didn’t care about everything around him. 在本句中，as if引导表语从句，从句内容不是真实的情况，故用虚拟语气。 30 时间 从句谓语动词形式 现在 过去式(be动词用were) 过去 had+过去分词 将来 would/could/might＋动词原形 eg She looks as if/though she were ten years younger. The girl listened as if/though she had been turned into a stone. He opened his mouth as if/though he would say something. as if/though引导的从句中，常用虚拟语气表示所述的情况与事实不符： 【语境应用】翻译下列句子。 1) Henry对他们很好，好像他们是他的父母。 2) Ben不停地看表，好像在等什么人。 3) 看起来这趟火车不会按时到。 Henry treats them very well as if they were his parents. Ben watched his watch again and again as if waiting for someone. It looks as if the train won’t arrive on time. 7. …and the roofs are thick and the trees all bending … 屋顶上存了厚厚的雪，树木被压得弯下腰来…… bend: v. to become curved and no longer flat or straight 变弯曲 to move part of your body so that it is not straight or so that you are not upright（使）倾侧; 俯身;（使）弯曲 eg Bend your knees, but keep your back straight. Lie flat and let your knees bend. He bent the wire into the shape of a square. I bent down to lift the box off the floor. 33 常见的含bend的短语： bend down/ over 弯下腰 bend towards 弯腰靠近 bend one’s mind / efforts to sth. 致力于某事，专心致志于某事 bend the truth扭曲事理，歪曲事实 bend the rules (for sb.)（对某人）放宽规定，通融 【语境应用】翻译下面句子。 1) She bent forward and whispered in my ear. 2) I wasn’t exactly lying when I said I hadn’t seen her — I was just bending the truth a little. 她往前倾身，在我耳边低语。 当我说我没看见她时，确切地说我并没有说谎，我只是稍微歪曲了一下事实。 While reading, underline the expressions the author uses to describe the first snow. The expressions used by the author to describe the first snow: an event, so fantastically carpeted, a magical event, a cold place of dead white and pale blues, faintly flushed, artfully disposed, a cold sparkle of white and blue, falling heavily, in great soft flakes… …last night’s fall of snow here was an event… …the snow was strange and fascinating… …the ground was so fantastically carpeted… The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. Some sentences describing snow: The little plum tree outside, with the faintly flushed snow lining its branches and artfully disposed along its trunk, stood in full sunlight. …the world was a cold place of dead white and pale blues. personification 拟人 But the snow is falling heavily, in great soft flakes, so that you can hardly see across the shallow valley, and the roofs are thick and the trees all bending, and the weathercock of the village church, still to be seen through the grey loaded air, has become some creature out of Hans Andersen. 雪的形态 雪后的场景 用Hans Andersen 笔下的生物借代描写教堂上风信鸡的美与奇，描绘出一个雪后的童话世界。 Skim the text and match the main idea with its corresponding paragraph. A. Snow can change the world. B. How snow made things frightening. C. How appealing snow is to children. D. Snow is really exciting. E. How snow makes everything more beautiful. Read the text carefully and choose the right answers. Where was the author last winter? In a hot country At Jane Austen’s home In a meeting with Mr Woodhouse In his own country A 2. When did the dining-room window become a lovely Japanese print? When I woke up B. When I slept C. When the sun came out D. An hour or two later 3. What is the fourth paragraph mainly about? The countryside turned into a cruel grassland. Some horsemen broke out from the trees. The change of scenery A terrible accident happened. C C 4. What were the children doing in the last paragraph? Reading Andersen’s story in the study Looking for creatures Repeating a rhyme Looking at the snow outside the window D Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage and give your reasons. 1. By describing the magical scenery of the first snow, the author encourages readers to come to England and experience its beauty for themselves. 2. By depicting the beautiful near-magical scenery of the first snow, the author wants to convey his love for snow. 3. By recalling his memories as a child during the first snow, the author expresses his longing for the innocent happiest of childhood. The author expresses his love for the first snow and the nature. His heart is as pure and peaceful as the first snow, which reflects a positive and optimistic attitude towards life and a state of mind free from worldly disturbance. The author uses picturesque language to depict the first snow. Complete the diagram with the expressions you have underlined in the passage. (语言)生动的，形象化的，绘声绘色的 v. 描写，描述，描绘 The world became a ______________ _____________________. The light coming through the windows seemed quite strange, and it made the familiar business of splashing and shaving and brushing and dressing very strange too. cold place of dead white and pale blues The snow became _______________. My dining-room window changed into __________________________. The little plum tree outside, with snow _____________________ _______________________________, stood in full sunlight. lining its branches and delicate pinks a lovely Japanese print artfully disposed along its trunk Everything was a _______________________ __________. The ground ________________, the sky was ____________ , and all the trees _______________________________________. The entire scene looked ___________________. cold sparkle of white and went on and on thick grey so many black and threatening shapes pale blue like a cruel grassland The snow is _____________________________. The roofs are _______. The trees are __________. I can see the children flattening their noses against the window. falling heavily, in great soft flakes thick all bending Now work in pairs and talk about how the author organizes the structure of the passage. This text is mainly progressing in chronological order (按时间顺序) because the author has his timeline: “When I got up this morning…” “The sun came out…” “An hour or two later…” “Now…” . Text structure “Text structure” refers to how a piece of text is built. Below is a summary of the text with some content missing. Choose the right item from the box and make the summary complete. Change the form if necessary. flush, excite, flake, grassland, kid, magic Last night's fall of snow was the first fall we have had here this winter. I was nearly as 1. ________ about it as the children this morning. The snowfall was a(n) 2. ________ event because I woke up to find myself in an entirely different world, a cold place of dead white and pale blues. Then the sun shined bravely and 3. ________ the snow with delicate pinks. excited magical flushed flush, excite, flake, grassland, kid, magic Everything was a cold sparkle of white and blue an hour or two later. The world had completely changed again. The sky was thick grey, and all the trees became black and threatening shapes. The countryside had also turned into a cruel 4. ________. Now it has changed again. The snow is falling heavily in great soft 5. ________. From my study, I can see the children flattening their noses against the window, just like I did when I was a(n) 6. ________. grassland flakes kid The first snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! All white saved the river, that marked its course by a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless trees, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children. 4. Have you encountered any difficulties in understanding this passage? Can you use visualization to better understand the passage? Visualizing text is a proven way to improve reading comprehension. A reader can purposely create mental images while and after reading. The images emerge from all five senses as well as the emotions, and are anchored in the reader’s prior knowledge. When I am reading these sentences, there is a picture just like this in my mind. In this way, I just see the strange and fascinating snow. I was nearly as excited about it this morning as the children, whom I found all looking through the window at the magic outside and talking away as excitedly as if Christmas had suddenly come round again. Read the passage again, and appreciate the picturesque language and beautiful description while reading. Thank you $$