精读4Unit2-SpringSowing配套课件备课讲稿

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Author
His Works
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.
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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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.
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Spring Sowing
Theme
Structure
Detailed Analysis
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Text Analysis
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Text Analysis Theme
Try to interpret the symbolized meaning: • spring • Early in the morning • Newly married • First day of sowing
manhood…
5. She looked at Martin wearily and it seem to her …
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Warming up 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
Famine (1937)
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Author
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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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?
Warming up 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
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Spring Sowing
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Author
Background
Genre
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His Life
Background
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.
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
精读4Unit2-SpringSowing配 套课件
Spring Sowing
Questions / Activities Check-on Preview Objectives
Hale Waihona Puke Baidu
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Warming up
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Warming up Questions / Activities
1. What would you do in a typical spring morning?