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Unit 5Unit 5

Stage 1: Warming-up ActivitiesStage 1: Warming-up Activities Stage 1: Warming-up ActivitiesStage 1: Warming-up Activities

Stage 2: Stage 2: Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities Stage 2: Stage 2: Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities

Stage 3: After-Reading ActivitiesStage 3: After-Reading Activities Stage 3: After-Reading ActivitiesStage 3: After-Reading Activities

Stage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticeStage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticeStage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticeStage 4: Listening-and-Speaking Practice

Warming-up ActivitiesWarming-up Activities

Group work Group work

Questions for thought and discussionQuestions for thought and discussion

Background information Background information

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Comparing the following words Comparing the following words

Group work Group work

Questions for thought and discussionQuestions for thought and discussion

Background information Background information

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Comparing the following words Comparing the following words

Group workGroup work

Go over the preview, the pre-reading questions and the title of the text before listening to the summary of the story and anticipate what we are going to read.

Questions for thought and Questions for thought and discussiondiscussion

Listen to a short passage Listen to a short passage carefully and then answer carefully and then answer the following questions .the following questions .

Background informationBackground information• Henry David Thoreau: U.S. thinker, essayist, and

naturalist (1817—1862). Born in Concord, Mass., Thoreau graduated from Harvard University and taught school for several years before deciding to become a poet of nature. Back in Concord, he came under the influence of R. W. Emerson and began to publish pieces in the Transcendentalist magazine The Dial. In the years 1845—1847, to demonstrate how satisfying a simple life could be, he lived in a hut beside Concord's Walden Pond; essays recording his daily life were assembled for his masterwork, Walden (1854).

His A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) was the only other book he published in his lifetime. He reflected on a night he spent in jail protesting the Mexican-American War in the essay Civil Disobedience (1849), which would later influence such figures as M. Gandhi and M. L. King. In later years his interest in Transcendentalism waned and he became a dedicated abolitionist. His many nature writings and records of his wanderings in Canada, Maine, and Cape Cod display the mind of a keen naturalist. After his death his collected writings were published in 20 volumes, and further writings have continued to appear in print.

• John Milton: English poet (1608—1674). Milton attended Cambridge University (1625—1632), where he wrote poems in Latin, Italian, and English; these included L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, both published later in Poems (1645). During 1632—1638 he engaged in private study — writing the masque Comus (1637) and the extraordinary elegy Lycidas (1638) — and toured Italy. Concerned with the Puritan cause in England, he spent much of 1641—1660 pamphleteering for civil and religious liberty and serving in Oliver Cromwell's government.

His best-known prose is in the pamphlets Areopagitica (1644), on freedom of the press, and Of Education (1644). He lost his sight in the year of 1651, and thereafter dictated his works. His disastrous first marriage ended with his wife's death in 1652; two later marriages were more successful. After the Restoration he was arrested as a noted defender of the Commonwealth, but was soon released. In Paradise Lost (1667), his epic masterpiece on the Fall of Man written in blank verse, he uses his sublime “grand style” with superb power; his characterization of Satan is a supreme achievement.

He further expressed his purified faith in God and the regenerative strength of the individual soul in Paradise Regained (1671), an epic in which Christ overcomes Satan the tempter, and Samson Agonistes (1671), a tragedy in which the Old Testament figure conquers self-pity and despair to become God's champion. Considered second only to W. Shakespeare in the history of English-language poetry, Milton had an immense influence on later literature; though attacked early in the 20th century, he had regained his place in the Western canon by mid-century.

• William Wordsworth: English poet (1770—1850). Orphaned at 13, Wordsworth attended Cambridge Univ., but remained rootless and virtually penniless until 1795, when a legacy made possible a reunion with his sister D. Wordsworth. He became friends with S. T. Coleridge, with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads (1798), the collection often considered to have launched the English Romantic Movement. Wordsworth's contributions include “Tintern Abbey” and many lyrics controversial for their common, everyday language. Around 1798 he began writing the epic autobiographical poem that would absorb him intermittently for the next 40 years, The Prelude (1850).

His second verse collection, Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), includes many of the rest of his finest works, including Ode: Intimations of Immortality. His poetry is perhaps most original in its vision of the almost divine power of the creative imagination reforging the links between man and man, between humankind and the natural world. The most memorable poems of his middle and late years were often cast in elegiac mode; few match the best of his earlier works. By the time he became widely appreciated by the critics and the public, his poetry had lost much of its force and his radical politics had yielded to conservatism. In 1843 he became England's poet laureate. He is regarded as the central figure in the initiation of English Romanticism.

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Read the sentences carefully and guess the meaning of the italicized term in each sentence according to the context and your own experiences.

• A solitary tree remained standing after the hurricane.

• Atomic energy has been tamed and harnessed for useful work.

• He tamed the wild horse. • The birds in the park are quite tame and

will take food from your hand.

• His hard work is a constant inspiration to us all.

孤独

被控制驯服

温顺

激励

• People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude.

• She is beautiful and benign and the embodiment of all the finest qualities of a loyal and loving wife.

• She spent the morning dictating letters to her secretary.

• a high priest of science

• a priest of art

• a Catholic priest

独处

温柔

口述泰斗

宗师牧师

• When shall we do the laundry?

• a self-service laundry

• That man has got such an enormous ego — I‘ve never known anyone so full of themselves.

• I'm glad she got the job — she needed something to boost her ego.

洗衣服洗衣房

自负

自尊心

• He strikes me as a very humble person.

• I do quite a humble job at the hospital.

• I made no apology for what I said — it was a fair comment.

• I thought I‘d leave my trousers to soak for a while to get the worst of the dirt out.

谦虚的

普通的

道歉

浸泡

• You‘ll need something waterproof on top of that sweater if you’re going walking in the hills.

• Drive very carefully; the roads are wet and slippery.

• Once you‘ve given in to temptation for the first time you’ve on the slippery slope.

• Don‘t lend any money to that slippery person.

防水的

滑的

无法抵制

狡猾的

• The surprise farewell party left them all choked up.

• An elderly man choked to death in his home.

• An American general was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

• It required a supreme effort of will to stop myself from laughing.

激动得说不出话

窒息而死

最高的

最大的

• The justice found him guilty and sentenced him to five years in prison.

• There‘s no justice in the world when people can be made to suffer like that.

• The system of justice in this country consists of a series of law courts at different levels.

• I‘ve just got some roller skates, but I can’t balance very well on them yet.

• The ice on the river is thick enough to skate on.

法官

公正

司法体制

旱冰鞋

滑行

• I‘ve just bought a new pair of skis.

• He skied down the hill, past the forest, and into the village.

• All the air is removed from a can of food before it is sealed.

• He sealed the envelope and put a stamp on it.

• If you joke with him, he'll think you're insulting him on purpose.

滑雪板

滑雪

密封

封上

故意

• He is clever, but on the other hand, he makes many mistakes.

• He claimed to have the power to cast out demons.

• They spoke highly of his behavior.

• Don‘t speak ill of the dead.

• The magazine is seeking out readers' opinions.

另一方面

驱除

赞颂备至说…的坏话

征求

• The process often stretches out to years, even decades.

• He stretched out on the grass.

• The rain has filled up the ditches again.

• You‘ve got class tomorrow. I don’t want you staying up late.

• Toby has spent his life comparing the way civilizations rise and fall.

延续手脚伸开

灌满

熬夜

兴盛衰亡

• Many vehicles were backed up at the crossroads because of the accident.

• The correspondence has been backing up for several days.

• Harries will back me up wholeheartedly as he used to.

• He talked at length about his work and family.

• You are not in line with the others.

堵塞

待处理

支持

详细地

排成一行

• He settled down to do his homework.

• I‘m sure the child will soon settle down in his new school.

• All is well, for the time being.

• He wanted to stop but decided to continue for the time being.

• Since you can't win the race, you might as well quit.

安下心来

习惯起来眼下

暂且

倒不如

Vocabulary Comparing Vocabulary Comparing Vocabulary Comparing Vocabulary Comparing • deer doe stag fawn giraffe caribou

• wolf fox dog hound

• pond pool well reservoir swamp moss marsh pit ditch sink

• sunlight sunshine moonlight

• poetry poem

• handwriting penmanship calligraphy script

• kettle pot jar vessel utensil jug pan saucepan

• hut shed shack tent pavilion camp cot cottage villa

• axe hatchet chisel

• saucer dish tray plate disk

• absent present

• pint gallon quart gill

• parcel luggage baggage package sack pocket wallet bag wrap

• cushion pillow • steak noodle powder• skate ski • niece nephew• princess prince • set forth set out set off start off • be fond of be keen on

Homework Homework

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text by heart.

• Go over the text and try to get the main idea of the text.

• Analyze the structure of the text.

Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities

1. Global Reading Task • Reading Skills: • Text structure analysis:

2. Detailed Reading Task • Language points• Simulated writing• Summary of the text

After-Reading ActivitiesAfter-Reading Activities

• Vocabulary Exercises

• Translating and Writing

Listening and speaking activities

• Talking about the topic or retelling the text

• Listening and speaking practice in XP center