Unit 8 Go Traveling

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• What does the author intend to by asking this question? • The author asks a question to arouse the readers’ interest and point out the main idea of the whole essay. This is a good way to begin and to develop an essay.
• …the ring of the little girls who were alternately staring at me and smiling at their toes.(Para7, L4) • =Alternately…and…一会儿……一会儿
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• Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.（Para3, L4） • in (all) silence（完全）不出声地 • with (complete) absence of sound or noise • We should not pass over this unfair thing in silence. • 我们不能对这件不公平的事不闻不问。 • Translate the sentence and enjoy the aesthetic side of English. • 在我们下方，褐黄色的纳波河水正在涨潮。万籁俱寂：惟 见河水沿着沙岸蜿蜒流过，水沫裹挟在蔓生在森林里的藤 蔓间以及盘绕岸边的树根上。
Cultural Background Ecuador
Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border with Brazil.
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Out of the way of what? … Out of the way of human life, tenderness, or the glance of heaven?(Para1, L1) Out of the way adj. 1.not causing a problem已被处置的，已解决的 Now that the main problems are out of the way, we can start working on the details.
twinedmuted突然我们身后空地旁的茅屋里传出了录音机的声音一首乐曲在村子空地之上缭绕减弱了我们在河畔谈话的声音然后又传至河面随流飘去
Unit 8 Go Traveling
Text A In the Jungle
Text A In the Jungle
Pre-reading
Contents
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• Green fireflies spattered lights across the air and illumined for seconds, now here, now there, the pale trunks of enormous, solitary trees.(Para2, L3) • now…now… • at one time...at another time...忽而……忽而 • 1)What mixed weather, now sunny, now cloudy. • 2)The market is very unstable, with the price now rising, now falling.
Main Ideas Detailed description of journeying in the jungle and her feelings about it.
Blank Filling 1. What happens in part one. When: Where: Who: What: in the middle of the night; It was February, the middle of summer. the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle; on the headwaters of the Amazon three North Americans, four Ecuadorians Like any out-of-the-way place, the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle seems real enough when you are there, even central. Out of the way of what?
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2. remote from populous or much-traveled regions远离人烟的， 人迹罕至的，偏僻的 The restaurant is top-notch [tap'nɔtʃ] ( 一流的；拔尖的), but a little out of the way. 3. improper or even offensive荒谬的；不适当的，不成体统的 What made my mood so down is that my son knocked me out of the way.
Recalling what happened to her at their arrival at the village and what others felt about the Napo River and the people there.
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Parts 3
Para(s) 9~18
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• I was sitting on a stump at the edge of a bankside palm-thatch village, on the headwaters of the Amazon.(Para1, L4) • at the edge of • at the furthest point or boundary of (a place)在……边缘 • It would test flight conditions at the edge of Earth's atmosphere. • 它将试验在地球大气层边缘的飞行状况。 • headwater • The origin of a river水源
Part Division of the Text
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Main Ideas Description of the Napo River and surrounding jungle scenery at night, together with the author’s reflectioபைடு நூலகம்s on it.
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Text A In the Jungle
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Annie Dillard tells of her visit to the Napo River in the heart of the Ecuadorian jungle… (introductory [,intrə'dʌktəri] paragraph, L1) in the heart of In the center of 在…中心 1)The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. 幸福之后的渴望是从来不会在人类的心里消失的。 2)I think it's in the heart of our traditions. 我认为它是我们传统的核心所在。
Cultural Background Amazon river
Amazon river in northern South America, largely in Brazil, ranked as the largest in the world in terms of watershed area. It is second in length only to the Nile among the rivers of the world.
Why:
Skimming Make a list of at least eight things that the author finds so attractive about life in the jungle. 1 ) 2 ) 3 ) 4 ) 5 ) _______________________________________ Birds, insects and animals of all descriptions _________________________________ The sweet air Various kinds of trees and other plants __________________________________ _________________________________ River abundant in fish Little girls who liked to play with the writer’s hair _____________________________________________ _________________________________ Children singing lovely songs _________________________________ Treating guests with wonderful foods _________________________________ People and nature in harmony
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Text A In the Jungle
Warm-up Questions
Prereading
Cultural background
Text Analysis
Warm-up Questions • 1.What are some distinctive features of an out-of-theway, inaccessible place such as a jungle, desert, or remote mountainous area? • 2.Why would such a place appeal to many people today? • 3.What are the characteristics of those people who are attracted to such places? • 4.If you have both time and money, what places would you like to visit most? Why? •