unit13christmasdayinthemorning

Unit 13 Christmas Day in the Morning教学目的：了解作者及其背景知识；熟悉本文使用的写作手法；掌握比喻、头韵及委婉语等修辞手法；通过深刻理解文章内涵，培养学生的关爱之心和相关的讨论能力，同时掌握文中的核心语言点。

教学内容 1. 热身：圣诞节耶稣的诞生2．作者教育与背景主要著作成就与贡献3．作品赏析如何赏析文学作品倒叙扩展式讨论4．写作技巧比喻头韵委婉语5．语言理解长难句解析核心词汇学习6．课堂讨论7．练与讲教学重点 1.背景文化: 赛珍珠及圣诞节；2．文学作品的赏析:倒叙;3．文学中的修辞手法――头韵和委婉语.教学方法结合实际吸收多种教学法的优点。

Picture Singing for Warming-up (10 minutes)Today, we will study Christmas Day in the Morning by Pear S. Buck. Let’s first sing the song We Wish you a Merry Christmas. Do you like it Do you like Christmas Some people think a festival can best offer you a chance to express your love to those you love deeply. Do you agree Background Information (40 minutes)I. About Pearl S. BuckBirthday: June 26, 1892Parents: Absalom & Caroline Sydenstricker (Southern Presbyterian missionaries, stationed in China )Came to China: 3 months oldPeriod of stay in China: 40 yearsResidential area: Zhenjiang, Jiangsu ProvinceIn 1915 she met a Cornell graduate, John Lossing Buck, who became her husband in 1917. They moved to South Xuzhou, Anhui province where she gathered the materials she would use in the Good Earth and other stories. Their marriage was unhappy but would last 18 years.Pearl’s first child proved to be retarded智力迟钝的，低能的, and Pearl herself underwent a hysterectomy子宫切除术. The couple later adopted a baby girl.II. Pearl and her family1st husband: John Lossing Buck, a Cornell graduateCarol (first child): Profoundly retardedJanice: adopted child1st Marriage: unhappy but last 18 years2nd husband: Richard Walsh, a publisherIII. Pearl’s life in 1920sIn 1921, her mother died.In 1927, Nanking incident broke out which made her suffer a lot. She spent a terrified day in hiding, and was rescued by the American gunboat. The Bucks sailed to Japan for a year.IV. Pearl’s worksEast wind, West WindThe Good EarthDragon SeedThe Big WaveSatan Never Sleeps Etc.V. Pearl and Her PrizesPulitzer Prize and Howells Medal for The Good EarthNobel Prize in Literature 1938 for The Good EarthVI. Pearl’s Special ContributionsIn 1942, Pearl and Richard founded the East and West Association, dedicated to cultural exchange and understanding between Asia and theWest.In 1949, outraged that existing adoption services considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, Pearl established Welcome House, the first international, inter-racial adoption agency; in the nearly five decades of its work, Welcome House has assisted in the placement of overfive thousand children.In 1964, to provide support for Amerasian children who were not eligible for adoption, Pearl also established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which provides sponsorship funding for thousands of children in half-a-dozenAsian countries.Writing skills (30 minutes)Ⅰ. Simile and metaphora direct comparison between two unlike elements“as, as…..so, like”•As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. •as cunning as a fox, as poor as a church’s mouse•The world is like a stage.An indirect comparison. It implies the likeness between things without the use of like or as.Life is a highway. The world is a stage.Exercise:For secrets are edged tools,and must be kept from children and fools.No man is an island, entire of itself.IF poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.His friend has become a thorn in his side.A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Ⅱ. Alliterationthe same consonant sound is repeated at intervals in the initial positionShe sells sea-shells on the seashore.Wild Mushrooms: Mysterious-Menacing- MagnificentPredictably the winter will be snowy, sleety and slushy.Weak and wearyReference 2:the repetition of identical consonant sounds in different words in close proximity接近，邻近. frothing and fragrantSlushy:溶雪的，泥泞的Ⅲ. EuphemismThe substitution of a mild or indirect word or phrase for a blunter or harsher onev ugly: plain-looking; homely-lookingv die: to pass away, to depart, to go to sleep(heaven)v fat: Plump, stout, chubby, weight catcherv toilet habits, etc.:to urinate or to defecateto go to the bathroomto do one’s businessto answer nature’s callIn-class discussion and presentation (40 minutes)is the writing technique hereis the theme of this text3.“Love alone could awaken love.” how do you understand the sentence And “Love is like measles. Everyone has to go through it.”; “Love is blind.”3. Do you agree that only love can awaken love What is the essence of true love Give your reasons.4. Is love the solution to all the problems in the world today Comment.Text Appreciation (50 minutes)I. How to appreciate literature (20 minutes)Plot of the story:Setting of the story:Protagonist . Antagonists:Drama of the story lies in:Writing technique: (Have you ever read a story using the similar technique)Theme of the story:II. Flashback (10 minutes)III Further discussion (20 minutes)Love alone could waken love. Do you agreeFaults are thick where love is thin.Love and cough cannot be hid.Love at first sight.Love cannot be forced.Love is blind.Love is neither bought nor sold.Love is the mother of love.Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.No herb will cure love.One love drive out another.Love me, love my dog.Language UnderstandingI. Sentence Paraphrase (30 minutes)1. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still!It was strange how up to that moment he had continued doing things the way he had always done them from boyhood.2. He slipped back in time, as he did so easily nowadays.He had recently got into the habit of recalling things in the past /of reminiscing/ of letting his thoughts go back to the old days.3. He had never thought of it before, taking for granted the tie of their blood.He had never thought of the fact that his father loved him because he took the relationship of father and son as a matter of course. He had never given this another thought.4.…there would be no more loitering in the mornings and having to be called again.…he would never loiter in the morning and need no longer to be called again and again.to loiter: to move or go about business slowly and with many stops 5.… stumbling blind with sleep and pulled on his clothes.When he got up, it was still very dark and he was still very sleepy. He could hardly open his eyes and could not see or think clearly, so he walked or moved unsteadily and blindly.6. Then Jesus had been born in a barn,… bring their Christmas gifts. Bible:…And when they had come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him; and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts: gold and frankincense, and myrrh…7. …he got up and crept downstairs, careful of the creaky boards…He had to be careful so that the boards would not make any noise and wake up his father, thus spoiling his plan.Ⅱ. Word studyGame:Use your body language to express the following phrases:dash into the room, steal into the room, to burst into the room, to sneak into the room, to tiptoe into the room, to sail into the room, to break into the room, to dance out of the room, to stagger out of the room, to fly out of the room, to crawl out of the room, to slip out of the room, to creep downstairs, to make her way towards the door, to bow her way outof the room, to shoulder her way through the crowd, to worm his way into the organization, to beg her way back home, to inch his way up the mountain 1.bar: [often passive] v.1) to close with a bar to bar the door2) to make … safe by putting metal bats across it.The windows are barred.3) to stop going in a certain directionHe stood in the door and barred my way.4) n. barrister, the profession of lawyerbehind the bar; go to the barbolt v. to close the door with a bolt 闩门，栓住2.burst:His heart was bursting with love.（shyness and pride)1) (to be filled ) to the breaking point (with a substance or usually pleasant things)The bag is bursting with potatoes.He is bursting with health.The hall was bursting with people.The barns were bursting with grain.3. cling to sth/an idea/the hopeHis mother’s last words clung to his memory.The wet clothes clung to his body.The child clung onto its mother.4. chore n.Milking for once was not a chore.do one’s daily choresdo odd choresdomestic choresFeeding the chickens and milking the cows were John’s chores on the farm.5. creep: to move slowly and quietly with the body close to the ground(usu. stealthily)creep into the barn; crept downstairs; creeping up to where the star had beena creeping plantcreep on all foursThe hours crept by.We took off our shoes and crept cautiously along the passage. crawl: to move slowly with the body close to the ground/floor, or on the hands and kneescrawl about on all foursThey crawled into their beds to get warm.She crawled across the pool in record time.6. grant1). to give what is wanted/requested准许，授予They were granting a holiday for their achievement2). to admit to the truth of sth.I had to grant him the reasonableness of his argument.7. loiter: to move on /about with frequent stopsloiter the whole afternoonloiter along the streetloiter over a jobYou should not loiter your time away.8. stable n.Lock the stable door after the horse is stolen.贼走关门。