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Unit 4 Extended reading (II)
Language points
Teaching aims:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Master core phrases (e.g., "contribute to", "be deeply rooted in") and word usages (e.g., dare, tolerate, distinguish) from the Li Bai-themed text.
2. Understand and apply grammatical structures like past participle as adverbial and present participle as accompaniment.
3. Complete text-review tasks (blank-filling, translation) to reinforce comprehension of Li Bai’s poetic language features.
4. Improve context-based application of target vocabulary and grammar through sentence imitation exercises.
Key points and difficult points:
1. Flexibly use words with multiple parts of speech (e.g., dare as modal/transitive verb) in different contexts.
2. Apply participle structures correctly in sentence imitation and connect them to the text theme.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Dictation and review
Step 2 Read for language points
1. Phrase Matching: Distribute worksheets with English phrases of every paragraph and their Chinese meanings, then ask students to match them in several mins and check answers as a class.
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· reach out for
· for fear that
· 人们认为/ 相信
· 他的少年时期
· 不寻常的想象力
· 浪漫主义风格
· contribute to
· different school
· 博览群书
· 对...谙熟于心
· 历史典故
· 更重要的是
· 汲取先贤智慧
· 受到...驱使
· 强烈的探索欲
· in early twenties
· 寻访名山大川
· 各地文化风俗
· 培养了他对自然的热爱
2. Word Usage Analysis: Explain the meaning and its basic usage.
3. Context Application: Apply the phrases to the context.
1) dare vi.&vt. 勇于,胆敢;有勇气做/试着做某事
dare做实义动词时,其后的动词不定式可带to也可不带to,且dare有人称和数以及时态的变化。
dare (to) do sth. 敢做 dare sth. 敢于面对
dare用作情态动词,后跟动词原形,主要用于疑问句、否定句、条件句whether引导的从句。有时态变化,没有人称变化;疑问式把dare提前。
Eg. 【语境应用】 写出dare的词性。
1) She hardly dared hope that he was alive. _________
2) Dare he tell them what he thinks? _________
2) encounter vt. 偶然碰到;遭遇,冲突n. 相遇;遭遇;冲突
【翻译】eg. The doctor had encountered several similar cases in the past.
那位医生过去曾碰到过好几个类似的病例。
3) tolerant adj. 宽容的,容忍的;能耐……的
be tolerant of 对……容忍,忍耐……
tolerate v. 容许,允许;忍受,容忍;有耐受性,能经受
tolerance n. 忍受,容忍;耐受力,忍受性
【语境应用】eg. We should always be ________(tolerate) of views of others, even if we don’t agree with them.
4) given adj. 特定的,规定的,已安排好的 prep.考虑到,鉴于
given that conj. 考虑到
5) distinguish vi.&vt. 成为……的特征,使有别于;区分,辨别; 使出众
【翻译】eg.语言把人和动物区别开来。Speeches distinguish men and animals.
6) entitle vt. 给……命名;使享有权利,使符合资格
be entitled to (do) sth. 有资格做某事
Step 3 Read for sentences
1. Sentence analysis Present 2 sentences from the text and guide students to analyze its structure.
2. Sentence Imitation: Ask students to imitate the two structures with the theme of "learning English"
1) Driven by a burning desire for adventure, Li Bai left home...(past participle as adverbial过去分词短语driven…在句中作状语)
【仿写】在强烈的求知欲的驱使下,二十出头的Jack来到中国求学。
Driven by a burning desire for knowledge, Jack came to China to study in his early twenties.
2) He visited famous mountains and great rivers, encountering different customs... (present participle as accompaniment动词-ing形式短语在句中作伴随状语)
【仿写】在中国留学期间,Lucy参观了很多在西安的旅游景点,对这座城市有了深入了解。
During her study in China, Lucy visited many tourist attractions in Xi'an, having a deeper understanding of the city.
Step 4 Consolidation
1. Text Blank-filling: Display the text-review blank-filling exercise from PPT
· With ___________(strike) imagination in expressions like “scaring dwellers on high”, this early poem already displayed signs of a romantic style, which was later to _____________(character) Li Bai’s poetry.
· By reading books of all kind, from legends to historical stories, he _________________________ (让自己熟悉) classical Chinese culture.
2. Gap-filling:
Li Bai is widely recognized as one of the greatest romantic poets in China. He showed his talent for writing romantic poems when he was young.
On the one hand, the formation of Li Bai’s romantic style benefited 1. __________ his love of reading and travelling. From the classics to ancient philosophies, from legends to historical stories, this young man familiarized 2. __________ (he) with classical Chinese culture and the wisdom of previous generations. In his early twenties, pushed by a strong desire 3. __________ (take) adventures and travel, he left home and began his travels, during 4. __________ he developed a love of nature and was inspired to write numerous poems in the romantic style. On the other hand, the social and historical context also played 5. __________ important role in the development of Li Bai’s romantic style. 6. __________ (grow) up in the most glorious period of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai developed a free and unconstrained personality, which 7. __________ (strong) influenced his poetic production.
The majority of Li Bai’s poems are in the romantic style and rich in 8. __________ (imagine) and free expression of strong feelings. However, all of them would be less 9. __________ (function) without the use of artistic techniques such as exaggeration and metaphor. Li Bai’s poems have inspired generations of poets both at home and abroad. American poet Ezra Pound is one of them. Today, Li Bai’s poetry continues to 10. __________ (enjoy) by a large number of readers all over the world.
Step 4 Homework
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