Unit 2 A life’s work Understanding ideas Life Behind the Lens 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修三册

Unit 2 A life’s work Understanding ideas 1 Lead in Look at the photos and answer the question. What differences are there between these two photographers? workplace equipment dress age Lead in Life Behind the Lens (镜头) Pre-reading Background Information Bill Cunningham (1929-2016) How do you feel about these photos? vivid or dull? fantastic or terrible? amazing or ordinary? wonderful or horrible? Pre-reading Life Behind the Lens Look at the photos and title, try to predict the main idea. Bill Cunningham (1929-2016) Fast-reading: skimming What is the genre of the passage? A. Diary B. Biography C. Narrative Match the main idea of each part. A. Bill Cunningham’s lifestyle and philosophy. D. Bill’s fashion beliefs and devotion to photography. C. A brief introduction to Bill Cunningham. B. Bill’s passion for photography and people’s opinions. Para. 1-2 Para. 3-4 Para. 5-6 Para. 7 Fast-reading: skimming What is the genre of the passage? A. Diary B. Biography C. Narrative 2 This ordinary-looking man was Bill Cunningham, one of the most important American photographers of the last 50 years. 3 What made Cunningham so great? It certainly wasn’t the use of expensive, technologically-advanced equipment. Cunningham always used simple, relatively cheap cameras and took all his pictures on the streets of New York, not in a studio... 4 Moreover, what made Cunningham great was his devotion to photography, and the hours and hours of sheer hard work he put into his work. Cunningham would go out onto the streets of New York each and every day... Match the main idea of each part. A. Bill Cunningham’s lifestyle and philosophy. D. Bill’s fashion beliefs and devotion to photography. C. A brief introduction to Bill Cunningham. B. Bill’s passion for photography and people’s opinions. structure Para. 1-2 Para. 3-4 Para. 5-6 Para. 7 Fast-reading: skimming Read para.1-2 and find out the descriptions about Bill Cunningham’s typical features. black running shoes the same blue jacket an ordinary bicycle Careful-reading: scanning white-haired Read para.1-2 and find out the descriptions about Bill Cunningham’s typical features. Careful-reading: scanning An ordinary-looking man An ordinary person? “one of the most important American photographers of the last 50 years” A remarkable photographer Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. Careful-reading: scanning What made Cunningham so great? para.3 para.5-6 para.4 Fashion is not equal to luxury (奢侈品). Beliefs about fashion • Fashion is about what people are wearing, not 1 ___________. • It belongs to 2 ___________, not just to 3 ______________________. high society and big brands the people who they are He opened the doors of fashion to__________. everyone Careful-reading: para.3-4 Devotion to photography • Regardless of the weather, he would 4______________________________. • He wouldn’t come back until 5 ___________________________________. • He hardly ever 6 _______________________________________________. go out onto the streets of New York he knew he had the right photos took a day off and not once stayed home sick Life philosophy • He lived in 7 _________________________________________________. • He ate 8 _____________________________________________________. • He never accepted 9____________________________________________ and valued 10 _________________________________________________. a small apartment with a shared washroom the same meal of sausages, eggs and coffee the benefits offered to him for being a fashion photographer his integrity (正直) and would not be bought by anyone Money’s the cheapest thing. Freedom is the most expensive. He values freedom more than money. Careful-reading: para.5-6 Read para.7 and choose the suitable titles for Cunningham. a fashion photographer a cultural anthropologist an observer the observed (被观察者) a worker a star Careful-reading: scanning Para.7: Choose the suitable titles for Cunningham. a fashion photographer a cultural anthropologist an observer a worker Careful-reading: scanning His hard work made him more than a fashion photographer ------ he was a “cultural anthropologist”, who we can thank for recording the life of a whole city and its people over half a century. Bill Cunningham was an observer, and not one of the observed, a worker not a star--and this was how he wanted it. Why is Bill Cunningham called a “cultural anthropologist”? A. He reflected his culture in photography. B. He focused on people in his photos. C. He was interested in the photography culture. D. He recorded the life of a whole city and its people over half a century. Careful-reading: scanning Summary A brief introduction Bill’s fashion beliefs and devotion His lifestyle and philosophy Bill’s passion and people’s opinions What are the qualities you learn from Bill Cunningham? C ommitted R esponsible A mbitious S killful F aithful T alented Craftsman Craftsmanship spirit 工匠精神 Post-reading: think & share Craftsmen in China ...... We should respect them and try to be one of them. Devote ourselves to our studies and pursue excellence in everything we do. nothing more than relatively belong to sheer regardless of take a day off at once lack of self-interest focus on enable sb to do sth pass away stop sb from doing sth And yet every member of New York’s wealthy high society wanted nothing more than to pose for this man. 然而，纽约富裕的上流社会中每一个人都想着对他摆姿势、请他拍照。 nothing more than 只不过，仅仅 【归纳拓展】 nothing less than 简直是，极其，不亚于 not...anything more than 不过，仅仅 no more than 仅仅，只有 no less than 多达，不少于 It was nothing less than a miracle. I don’t expect anything more than what I have now. These things were real，and it was within their reality that Cunningham saw both beauty and potential. 这些东西是真实的，在这种真实中，坎宁安看到了美好和潜力。 强调句型 结构：It is/was+ 被强调部分+that+ 其他部分.。被强调部分指人时，可用who代替that。该句型可强调主语、宾语、状语等，但不能强调谓语。 I met my teacher in the park yesterday. 我昨天在公园里遇到了我的老师。 → It was I that/who met my teacher in the park yesterday.（强调主语） → It was my teacher that/who I met in the park yesterday.（强调宾语） → It was in the park that I met my teacher yesterday.（强调地点状语） → It was yesterday that I met my teacher in the park.（强调时间状语） These things were real，and it was within their reality that Cunningham saw both beauty and potential. 这些东西是真实的，在这种真实中，坎宁安看到了美好和潜力。 强调句型 【注意】 （1）构成强调句型的it 不能用其他词代替。 （2）用is 还是was 要根据原句的时态而定：属于现在或将来时间范畴的所有时态用is；属于过去时间范畴的所有时态用was。 （3）被强调部分指人时，可以用who 代替that，其他情况一律用that。 判断句子是否为强调句型的方法：去掉it is/was 与that/who，剩余部分若结构完整、句意明确，则为强调句型，否则就不是。 单句语法填空 （1）It was when I got back to my apartment _____ I first came across my new neighbors. （2）You are waiting at a wrong place. It is at the hotel ____ the coach picks up tourists. 用强调句型改写 My grandpa walked the dog in the street yesterday. （3）_________________________ walked the dog in the street yesterday. （强调主语） （4） ___________________ my grandpa walked the dog in the street. （强调时间状语） （5） ____________________ my grandpa walked the dog yesterday. （强调地点状语） （6）I finally settled in Shanghai.（强调状语） ________________________________________________________　 （7）Parents are concerned about children’s safety.（强调宾语） ________________________________________________________　 that that It was my grandpa that/who It was yesterday that It was in the street that It was in Shanghai that I finally settled. It is children’s safety that parents are concerned about. $