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Unit2 Reading for Writing
Share your opinions about a moral story
Learning objectives
By the end of the class, students will be able to:
1. get the main idea and the implied meaning of the fable “The Stone In the Road”
2. get inspired by the virtue of the characters in the story and have a better understanding of morality.
3. know the structure of a review and write a review of the fable.
a fable
common
Activity1: Warming-up
a traditional short story
teach a
moral lesson
The Stone in the Road
Activity2: Read para.1, para.2 and para.9 to find out the answers to these questions.
1. Who placed the stone in the road?
2. What did he/she do after placing the stone and gold coins there?
3. Why did the King do so?
People shouldn't complain or expect others to solve their problems.
A king
He hid himself and watched people’s response.
To teach his people the lesson.
_______(who) wanted to______________________(why) so________________________________________________________________________________(what).
Summary: Use one sentence to summarise what happened in the story.
A King
teach his people a lesson
he placed a large stone on the road , hid gold coins under it and watched people’s response
character response
milkman
woman with water
other villagers
young girl
Activity3: Read para.3-8 to complete the table.
pick himself up; went away
limped away in tears
made no attempt to move the stone
move the stone to the side of the street
Summary: people's response
However, different people have different __________ . Most people _____________________________________. Only _______________ moved it over at the last.
a young girl
response
complained about the stone in their way
a. We shouldn't complain or expect others to solve problems
when meeting with problems.
b. We should take responsibility for our community.
1. What's the implied (暗指的)meaning of the “stone” ?
2. What do you think the fable is trying to tell us?
Activity4: Work in group to discuss the following questions.
Problems, difficulties...
Please find out how to write a review of a fable.
1.
2.
3. your opinion about the fable
a short description
details & writer's purpose
Example
The beginning part
Recently, I have read a story/fable...
The title of the story/fable is...
The story tells...
Body
I'm impressed with some people in the fable, for example...
The story’s purpose is to tell us that
The author wrote the story with the purpose of ...
The ending part
I like the story because…
In a word/all in all/in brief… ,I think this story is worth reading because...
I strongly recommend this story to you because...
have a try:
Write a review of a fable
Example:
Recently, I have read a fable, whose title of the fable is “The Stone in the Road”. It tells a king who wanted to teach his people a lesson by placing gold coins under the stone in the street.
However, people’s emotions and responses are different when they come across the stone. The story’s purpose is to tell us that when meeting with problems, we shouldn't complain and expect others to solve them. Indeed, we should take responsibilities for our community.
I like the story very much because it is meaningful and helpful to us. I will recommend it to people.
Homework
Continue to polish your draft and share with your partners.
Thanks for your watching
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