Unit 1 Looking forwards Starting out & Understanding idea 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语外研版选择性必修第四册

Book 7 Unit 1 Looking forwards Starting out Understandingideas By Mr. Able 外研版2019 Look at the statements and guess whom they describe. Activity 1 Lead-in He is a most recognisable figure among writers of the 20th century. He was a student of Western medicine in his early life. He realised that people of China were more in need of treatment for their minds than their bodies. He abandoned medical studies and took up writing. He thought people from a weak and backward country would suffer or witness suffering. He dedicated his life to teaching and inspiring young people to strive for a better future for China. Activity 2 Watch and think Discuss the questions with your parnter. Activity 3 Discussion straight and smooth full of obstacles full of twists and turns Q2. Look at the picture. What paths is the man faced with? Q1. Do you agree with Lu Xun’s decision? Why? Q3. What path would you choose if you were the man? Q4. Which path is closest to our real life? How would you face it? Activity 4 Self-reflection SENIOR HIGH QUESTIONNAIRE Now you’ve been at senior high for over two years, I’d like to know your progress and plans for the future. Thank you! Your Form Teacher ➊ How do you feel about your performance over the previous terms? satisfied so-so not satisfied Why? ➋ What goals have you achieved? ➌ What goals have you yet to achieve? ➍ What will you do about the goals you want to achieve? ➎ How do you plan to achieve these goals? Complete the questionnaire and reflect on your performances. (p2 Ex1) Life is full of possibilities, and what you have is the future. Let’s scan the passage Facing the future and answer the questions. Activity 5 Fast reading 2. Whose life stories are used for examples in the passage? Ernest Hemingway □ Different jobs people might do in the future. □ Stories about different people’s future. □ Various possibilities for future development. □ Fixed future for everyone. 1. What is the passage mainly about ?  a What is possibly the most important concern in life? b What was Doyle’s main writing ambition? c What can you do when faced with uncertainty about the future? d What is the relationship between one’s plans and the future? e Why was Doyle disappointed with the success of his Holmes stories? f What did Hemingway do to achieve his ambition to become a writer? 1 4 6 2 5 3 What is possibly the most important concern in life? What is the relationship between one’s plans and the future? What did Hemingway do to achieve his ambition to become a writer? What was Doyle’s main writing ambition? Why was Doyle disappointed with the success of his Holmes stories? What can you do when faced with uncertainty about the future? Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers. Activity 5 Fast reading 7 Introduction Main body Conclusion Author’s opinion Example 1 Example 2 What is the structure of the passage? Activity 5 Fast reading 8 Read the 1st para and answer the questions. 1 For many of us, it’s something we already have experienced. One moment, we are lying comfortably in bed, about to fall into a deep sleep. The next, our eyes are open and we find ourselves wondering or even worrying about possibly the most important issue of our lives -- the future. Will we get into the school of our choice? What will we be doing in ten years’ time? Can we become the person we really want to be? In the face of such questions, how should we approach the future? Can we take action to shape it, or should we just accept whatever comes our way? 1. What is possibly the most important concern in life? Activity 6 Intensive reading The future. happen to sb. 2. Why does the author ask so many questions in the first paragraph? A．To introduce the topic. B．To seek a certain answer. C．To turn to readers for help. D．To entertain readers.  2 As many of us already know, having plans in place for the future is no guarantee that they will become reality. In this respect, some people are more fortunate than others, as can be illustrated by comparing the lives of two famous authors, born 40 years apart. Although they shared the same ambitious and energetic approach to life, their careers unfolded in contrasting way. Read the 2nd para and answer the question. Activity 6 Intensive reading What is the relationship between one’s plans and the future? Having plans in place for the future is no guarantee that they will become reality. plans future develop in different ways 3 The American author, Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, was from early boyhood single-minded in his ambition to write. On leaving high school, he joined a local Kansas newspaper as a trainee reporter. He went on to become foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and used his extraordinary experiences in Europe and later Cuba to inform his writing. In his words, “I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.” Having set himself this goal, he wrote novels and short stories based on his personal experiences of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, bullfighting and deep-sea fishing, amongst others. His novel The Old Man and the Sea, about the three-day epic struggle between an elderly fisherman and the biggest fish he had ever caught, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953. He would later go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read the 3rd para and answer the question. Activity 6 Intensive reading What did Hemingway do to achieve his ambition to become a writer? He joined a local newspaper as a trainee reporter after leaving high school, then he became a foreign correspondent and used his personal experiences to inform his writing. Date of Birth：_________ Nationality：___________ Ambition :_____________ Experience and achievement: joined a local newspaper as________________ became ______________________ for the Toronto Star wrote novels and short stories based on ________________ The Old Man and the Sea, about ________________________________ _____________________, won the Pulitzer Prize. won the Nobel Prize in ____________. 1899 American writer a trainee reporter foreign correspondent personal experiences fisherman and the fish literature Find information in the text and finish the profile of Ernest Hemingway. Activity 6 Intensive reading the struggle between an elderly Read the 4th para and answer the question. Activity 6 Intensive reading 4 By/in contrast, the young Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Scotland in 1859, had originally worked as a doctor. But Doyle’s main ambition was to become a writer of historical novels. Although some of his historical novels were published, their success was nothing compared to the stories of his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, which he is still best known for to this day. What was Doyle’s main writing ambition? Read the 5th para and answer the question. Activity 6 Intensive reading Why was Doyle disappointed with the success of his Holmes stories? 5 Interestingly, Doyle wrote some of his early Holmes stories while he was waiting for patients in his medical practice in London. After Sherlock Holmes made him a household name, Doyle gave up medicine and devoted himself entirely to writing. He still longed to become known for his historical novels amongst other academic works. The public, however, couldn’t get enough of Sherlock Holmes. In desperation, Doyle killed off the famous detective in a novel published in 1893 so that he could focus on his “serious” writing. However, fans of Holmes were so angry that Doyle, under immense pressure, was forced to bring Holmes back from the dead. Doyle’s many historical novels, plays, poems and academic papers have remained largely forgotten, but Sherlock Holmes has been entertaining readers for well over a century. Date of Birth：_________ Nationality：___________ Ambition:_____________________ Experience and achievement: His first work as _______, but Doyle’s main ambition was ______________________________. He created ___________________ Sherlock Holmes. He had wanted to be remembered for ____________ ________________________________, but the public _____________________________Sherlock Holmes. 1859 Scottish a writer of historical novels Find information in the text and finish the profile of Arthur Conan Doyle. Activity 6 Intensive reading a doctor to become a writer of historical novels the fictional detective his historical novels amongst other academic works couldn’t get enough of Ernest Hemingway Arthur Conan Doyle Similarities They both ______________________________. They shared _____________________________ ________________________________________. were ultimately successful the same ambitious and energetic approach to life What similarities do they share? Find information in the text. Activity 6 Intensive reading Read the 6th para and answer the questions. Activity 6 Intensive reading What can you do when faced with uncertainty about the future? How do you understand what Jobs said? 6 Though both of these men were ultimately successful, their paths to success were very different, their futures not necessarily turning out exactly as they planned. So, whatever twists and turns you might encounter, take a leaf out of the books of these two authors and be prepared for the unexpected. As renowned tech innovator Steve Jobs once said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” ups and downs learn from “你无法预见性地将生命中的点滴串联起来，只有在回头看时，你才会发现这些点滴之间的联系。所以你要坚信，你现在所经历的，将在你未来的生命中串联起来。” You cannot make sense of your life by looking forward, because the future has not happened yet, and the meaning of future events is therefore uncertain. However, once future events have occurred, you may be able to see how they fit into the pattern of your life. What will you do to prepare yourself for the future? Think carefully before you make a move. Ignore criticism (although sometimes, you can take some into consideration) and stay focused. Know what you exactly want to do or have. Be your own person, not a follower! Activity 7 Talking 19 Preparedness ensures success and unpreparedness spells failure. 凡事预则立，不预则废。 But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. -- Hemingway "The future depends on what you do today." — Mahatma Gandhi End of this part Lavf52.84.0 $