Unit 4 Welcome to the unit & Reading （ppt课件）-2022新牛津译林版《高中英语》选择性必修第一册.pptx

1、Lead-in “Preface to The Book of Songs”A Spring Morning By Meng HaoranThis spring morning in bed Im lying,Not to awake till birds are crying.After one night of wind and showers,How many are the fallen flowers!Translated by Xu YuanchongLead-inPoems create vivid pictures and tell stories by using langu

2、age creatively.Readers enjoy the challenge of trying to understand the poets intention in writing a happening during the time when it was written.Readers can look at the poems form and literary devices to see what the poet saw.By reading it aloud,they can feel the rhythms and rhymes of the poem as w

3、ell as the poets emotions.Pre-reading(1)_Global Reading:scan the lecture transcript and complete the chart below.Poetry(2)_Follow your ears and ask“(3)_”Approach the poem as(4)_.Be(5)_.Remember that it is not necessary to(6)_.SoundSenseHow does it sound?an explorer in an unfamiliar lanscapepatientfu

4、lly understand a poem to appreciate itDetailed Reading:read Para.1&2 and the first poem and answer the questions.More than other types of literature,it usually implies a deeper meaning beyond the words on the page.The aspect of rhythm,repeated words,rhymes and other special effects.Detailed Reading:

5、read Pa.1&2 and the first poem and answer the questions.Detailed Reading:read Para.1&2 and the first poem and answer the questions.Alfred,Lord Tennyson(18091892)More than any other Victorian-era writer,Tennyson has seemed the representative of his age.In his own day he was said to bewith Queen Victo

6、ria and Prime Minister William Gladstoneone of the three most famous living persons,a reputation no other poet writing in English has ever had.Detailed Reading:read Pa.1&2 and the first poem and answer the questions.(From“Sweet and Low”by Alfred Tennyson)Detailed Reading:read Para.3 and the second p

7、oem and finish the chart.Approach the poem as if you were an _ in an unfamiliar_?As you approach the poem,you should ask:As you explore the poem,you should ask:As you slowly explore your surroundings,you willWho is talking?Who is being talked to?What is being described?Is there a sense of place?Are

8、there other people or objects there?What are the images?What happens when they are put together?start to _ that give you a greater _ of the poem.dig up cluesunderstandingDetailed Reading:read Para.3 and the second poem and finish the chart.When I read it,I can see in my mind the image of a bird in a

9、 cage,which is desperately singing for freedom.Detailed Reading:read Para.3 and the second poem and finish the chart.An acclaimed American poet,storyteller,activist,and autobiographer,Angelou worked for Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.and was also an educator who served as a professor in the university.Det

10、ailed Reading:read Para.3 and the second poem and finish the chart.(From“Caged Bird”by Maya Angelou)Detailed Reading:read Para.3 and the second poem and finish the chart.Detailed Reading:read Pa.4-6 and the third poem and answer the questions.Detailed Reading:read Pa.4-6 and the third poem and answe

11、r the questions.They are often less interesting than those that constantly reveal deeper and previously unrecognized meanings.We should set it aside and come back to it later.With our insight into life becoming deeper,we may one day find it not so hard to understand at all.Detailed Reading:read Pa.4

12、-6 and the third poem and answer the questions.Poetry reading can make us feel something or let us perceive another level of meaning,which is more important and worth our effort.This poem is not easy to understand and is suitable as an example to support the tip of“be patient when having trouble in

13、understanding a poem”.Detailed Reading:read Pa.4-6 and the third poem and answer the questions.Robert Frost(1874-1963)was an American poet who was much admired for his description of the rural life of New England,and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.His famous po

14、ems include:Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and The Road Not Taken.Detailed Reading:read Pa.4-6 and the third poem and answer the questions.From“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”by Robert FrostPost-readingPost-readingThe poem by Maya Angelou describes the image of a caged bird wanting to be

15、 free.The lines are short and simple,which makes the message more direct and powerful.The short lines could also imply the sense of being in a small cage with very little space to fly around in.This does not stop the bird from singing though,and by repeating the sound of some words:“trill”,“still”,a

16、nd“hill”I can imagine the sound that the bird makes it sings its lonely song.“Caged Bird”reminds me of the possibilities we have in life and that we should look past our current limitations.Post-readingFrom my point of understand a poem better,we should also know more about the poet and the background in which the poem was created the theme of a poem usually has a close relationship with the background in which the poet wrote it.