精读4Unit2 SpringSowing配套课件

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• Symbolic meanings
– Early hour in the morning – Spring sowing
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Detailed Analysis
Part I: Words & Expressions - Compare the following words and give the definition to each word: gleam: glow: glimmer: glisten:
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Author
Unit 2
Background
Genre
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Author
Liam O'Flaherty 1896 –1984
was born in 1896 in a remote village in Ireland. His family were not well off. The Irish language was widely spoken in the area, and in the O'Flaherty household both English and Irish were used. left school in 1917 and joined the Irish Guards .He served on the Western Front, where he was injured, and it is possible that the shell shock he suffered may have been responsible for the mental illness which became apparent in 1933.
His Life
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Author
Irish novelist and short-story writer whose works combine brutal naturalism, psychological analysis, poetry, and biting satire with an abiding respect for the courage and persistence of the Irish people. Major works include: Thy Neighbour's Wife (1924) – thought to be one of his best. The Informer (1925) – for which he had been awarded the 1925 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Famine (1937)
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Detailed Analysis
Part II: Exercises • Rest: to place, put; to base or ground:
我的结论是建立在那个事实上的。 她把胳臂肘放在桌子上。
• take hold (of): to overpower (sb.)
Spring Sowing
Liam O’Flaherty
Spring Sowing
ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ
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W arming up
B ackground
T ext Analysis R einforcement
Spring Sowing
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Questions / Activities Check-on Preview Objectives
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Genre A Short Story
Plot: a young couple’s first day of spring sowing Irish village Setting: In spring Agricultural society (why?)
Theme of the story: what do you think?
Text Analysis
Detailed Analysis
Part I: Exercises – Translating or paraphrasing: • scatter, rake out, hateful, freckled, fair, • on fire with, glamour, open up the earth, • imminence, dejected, shrewd, be fixed on, • worthy, the head of a family
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Structure
Part I (paras. 1-3): Introduction.
Part II (paras. 4-8): Preparation.
Part III (paras. 9-14): In the morning. Part IV (paras. 15-18): At noon. Part V (paras. 19-35): In the afternoon.
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Theme
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Structure
Detailed Analysis
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Theme
Try to interpret the symbolized meaning: • spring • Early in the morning • Newly married • First day of sowing
– Living conditions – relationship
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Detailed Analysis
Part I: Main Idea • How does the author describe the couple’s feeling about the spring sowing? How do you understand such a mixed feeling?
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Detailed Analysis
Part II: Words & Expressions
– Translating or Paraphrasing: • cross, tremor, at this rate, rawhide shoes, • hamlet, soul, crack, cluster of cabins, • throbbing hearts, a patch of, a heap of, • be manured with, striped, seize, boastful
His Works
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His Influence
was a significant Irish novelist and short story writer and was considered to be a leading figure in the Irish literary renaissance.
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Check-on Preview
• Give the definition of the underlined words and phrases.
1. Outside, cocks were crowing and a white streak was rising from the ground, as it were, and beginning to scatter the darkness. 2. They ate in silence, sleepy and yet on fire with excitement… 3. … he swore and said that a man would be better off dead than… 4. …and driving out every other desire but that of asserting his manhood… 5. She looked at Martin wearily and it seem to her … W
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I II III IV V
Main Idea Sentence Paraphrase Words & Expressions Exercise
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Part 1: Introduction
1-3
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Part I: Main Idea
• Please search for words and expressions in the text which may help you describe: • (1) Martin • (2) Mary, and • (3) the life they were living at the time
她感到一阵莫名的激动占据了自己。 他决心不再让疾病重新翻身。
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Part 3: In the Morning
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Detailed Analysis
Part III: Main Idea • Why did Mary put an arm round Martin’s waist and how did Martin react to this? • What did the earth mean to Martin? What did he do to prove himself a worthy husband? Was he exceptional among the men in the village?
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Part 2: Preparation
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Detailed Analysis
Part II: Main Idea • Did Martin feel confident in himself? And was he eager to start the sowing? Please find evidence in the text. • What kind of a role was Mary playing here? • What did they aim to achieve for the day?
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Detailed Analysis
Part III: Main Idea • Notice the words used by the author to describe the man’s actions: advance, commence, spit on palms, spoke rapidly, eyes fixed on, assert manhood, subjugate, worked furiously, whirl, beat the sods… • What was Mary thinking of while gazing distantly at the ground? Why did she suddenly become afraid of the earth?
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Warming up
Warming up
Questions / Activities
1. What would you do in a typical spring morning? 2. What hopes and worries do you have about your future life? 3. What do you know about farming? Do you know how spring sowing is done in our country?
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Objectives
• Understand the structure and the general idea of the story • Think about how to interpret the story • Know something about the symbols • Solve your own questions about the story
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