Unit 6 An old man tried to move the mountains.Section B 2a-2e 课件(共33张PPT)

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Unit 6 An old man tried to move the mountains.
Section B 2a-2e
Period 5
To learn and master the new words and expressions : stepmother, wife, husband, whole, scene, moonlight, shine, bright, ground, lead(led), voice, brave, lead sb. to, (be) made of.
To learn about the elements, language features of a play.
To summarize the main idea of each scene in the play.
Comprehend the social or moral messages old tales contain.
Learning goals
Lead in
Lead-in
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella
Little Red Riding Hood
The Emperor’s New Clothes is an old traditional story. It is also called a fairy tale. What other fairy tales do you know
Snow White and the Severn Dwarfs
The Wild Swans
Thumbelina
2a
A fairy tale is an old, traditional story. Do you know what these fairy tales are about
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella
Little Red Riding Hood
Discussion
What do you know about these fairy tales
Sleeping Beauty
A lovely princess had to sleep for a hundred years because of an evil magic. One hundred years later, a young prince came and saved the princess. They got married and had a happy life.
Good things can sometimes take a long time to happen.
Cinderella is about a young woman who is bullied (欺负) by her stepmother and stepsisters.
Using magic, she has a beautiful dress and a carriage to attend a ball at the palace, but she must return home by midnight before the magic ends.
Cinderella
Pesentation
Cinderella meets a prince but has to leave the ball in a hurry and she loses a glass slipper. The prince finds it and tells everyone he will marry the person to whom the slipper belongs. The stepsisters each try on the slipper but it does not fit them. Cinderella tries on the slipper and it fits. She marries the prince and they live happily ever after.
Good may triumph over evil if one is willing to overcome adversity.
Little Red Riding Hood is about a young girl who faces
danger when she meets a big, bad wolf. While she is on her way to visit her grandmother, the wolf dresses up and pretends to be her grandmother waiting in her bed. The wolf hopes to catch and eat Little Red Riding Hood. She is saved by a woodcutter who kills the wolf.
Little Red Riding Hood
We should be careful of people trying to cheat us for their own reasons or purposes.
Language points
Reading
Hansel and Gretel
《韩塞尔与葛雷特》/《糖果屋》
Do you know Hansel and Gretel What do you know about it
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel are poor children. Their mother died because of an accident when they were 3 years old. Nowadays, they lived with their father and stepmother.
One day, a bad news happened to Gretel and Hansel. It’s a midnight, their stepmother advised their father to leave the children to die in forest. Otherwise the whole family could die.
Finding Out the Text Type
Before you read, decide what kind of text it is. Is it a letter, a play, a short story or something else
First, read the passage quickly. Can you tell what kind of text it is Is it a letter, a play, a short story or something else
Task 1
What’s the type of the text in 2b
A. a letter B. a play C. a short story D. something else
title
background introduction
scene
character
dialogue
The characteristics of a play
Task 2
Read the first paragraph of Hansel and Gretel. Think about how the fairy tale will continue. Then read the rest of the story.
2b
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel lived near a forest with their father and stepmother. One year, the weather was so dry that no food would grow. The wife told her husband that unless he left the children to die in the forest, the whole family would die. Gretel heard this, and Hansel made a plan to save himself and his sister.
n. 继母
adj. 全部的;整体的
leave sb. to do sth. 让某人做某事
make a plan 制订计划
2b. Think about how the fairy tale will continue.
Hansel and Gretel’s plan didn’t work. They were left in the forest and lost their way, and they were saved by a kind grandpa.
Hansel and Gretel’s father didn’t want to leave his children, so he farmed them out to his friend in the forest.
Hansel’s plan was brilliant. The children returned home safe and sound. Their stepmother thought it was the will of the heaven and decided to treat the children well.
Hansel’s plan didn’t work. The children decided to keep alive by picking wild fruit and hunting wild animals.
Read the rest of the story and check your prediction.
SCENE ONE: ________________________
Gretel: Did you hear our stepmother planning to kill us
Hansel: Don't worry! I have a plan to save us.
Gretel: How can you save us
Hansel: Be quiet! I'm going outside to get something in the moonlight. Now, go to sleep.
SCENE TWO: _______________________
Wife: Get up, lazy children!
Husband: Yes, dears. You must come with me to the forest to get wood.
Wife: Here's some bread. Don't eat it until you get to the forest.
n. （戏剧或歌剧的）场；场景
n. 月光
hear sb. doing sth. 听到某人正在做某事
Summary
Language points
SCENE THREE: ______________
Gretel: Hansel, what are you doing
Hansel: I'm dropping white stones along the way. Unless I do, we'll be lost. Tonight, when the moon is shining bright, we'll be able to see the stones.
SCENE FOUR: ______________
Wife: You bad children! What a long time you slept in the forest!
Husband: We thought you were never coming back.
Wife: Now, go to bed. As soon as you wake up, you must go to the forest with your father.
Hansel: What, again I want to go out to look at the moon.
Wife: No. You can't go out now.
shine v. (shone) 发光；照耀
adv. 光亮地；明亮地
adj. 明亮的，光线充足的
be able to do能够做某事
be/get lost迷路
Language points
SCENE FIVE: ______________
Gretel: What can we do You have no more stones.
Hansel: I'll drop pieces of bread. As soon as the moon rises, we can follow them instead.
SCENE SIX: ______________
Gretel: I can't see any bread on the ground. Maybe it was the birds.
Hansel: Never mind! Just keep walking. Unless we do, we won’t find our way out.
n. 地；地面
Summary
SCENE SEVEN: ______________
Gretel: Hansel, we're really lost!
Hansel: Listen! That bird's song is so beautiful that we should follow it.
Gretel: Look! It's leading us to that wonderful house made of bread, cake and candy.
Hansel: Let's eat part of the house!
n. 声音
adj. 勇敢的；无畏的
(be) made of…用……做的
enough 作副词，修饰前面的形容词brave。 enough修饰形容词或副词时，应置于所修饰词之后。
(Then they hear an old woman's voice from inside the house. )
Voice: Who is that Who is brave enough to eat my house
lead v. (led)带路；领路
The children get lost.
The children wake up.
The children cannot find the pieces of bread.
Gretel learns about Hansel’s plan.
The children surprise the parents.
Hansel has to change his plan.
The children learn that something bad is going to happen.
Match each description below with the correct scene.
2c
Task 3
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Exercise
Read the play again and answer the questions.
2d
Task 4
1. Why does the wife tell her husband to leave the children in the forest
Unless he leaves the children to die in the forest , the whole family will die because they don’t have enough food.
2. What does Hansel go out and get
He goes out to get some white stones.
Exercise
Task 4
3. Why does he do this in the moonlight
Because when the moon is shining bright, they’ll be able to see the stones.
4. How do Hansel and Gretel find their way home
They follow the white stones which Hansel dropped along the way.
5. Why do Hansel and Gretel get lost the second time
They can’t find any of the pieces of bread they dropped on the ground.
Exercise
Task 4
What does this tale inspire you
Thinking
Growing Up
In many Western societies, parents encourage their children to be self-reliant(自立的) and independent. After a certain age, for example， after high school in modern society, children are expected to leave home and make their own way in the world.
Culture
Language points
1. The wife told her husband that unless he left the children to die in the forest, the whole family would die. (教材P46 2b)
whole 位于冠词、物主代词等限定词之后，即“限定词 + whole + 名词”。 the whole family
all 位于冠词、物主代词等限定词之前，即“all + 限定词 + 名词”。 all the family
注意：whole 一般不用来修饰不可数名词或物质名词
whole adj. 全部的；整体的
【易混辨析】 whole 与 all
Language points
2. It’s leading us to that wonderful house made of bread, cake and candy. (教材P47 2b)
lead在此作动词，意为“带路；领路”。此外，lead还可表示“通向；导致；过（某种生活）”等。 lead的过去式和过去分词均为led。
lead v. 带路；领路
He led us into the classroom.
Eating too much sugar can lead to health problems.
What led you to change your idea
She leads a happy life with her brother and sister.
lead 的常用结构
Language points
3. Then they hear an old woman’s voice from inside the house. (教材P47 2b)
【易混辨析】 voice, sound 与 noise
voice 指人的声音或说话、唱歌发出的声音。 She said in a low voice.
sound 泛指自然界的各种声音。 I heard a strange sound.
noise 多指不悦耳的“噪声，喧闹声”。 What’s up There’s such a loud noise in the classroom.
voice n. 声音
Language points
Exercises
用括号内所给单词的正确形式填空
1. Yesterday afternoon Dale _____(lead) us to the library.
2. The couple’s son, a 7-year-old boy got ______(lose) ten years old.
3. There are two lions ______(make) of stone in front of the building.
led
lost
made
Summary
New words
Expressions
Reading
stepmother wife husband whole scene moonlight shine bright
ground brave lead(led) voice
leave sb. to do sth. lead sb. to (be) made of hear sb. doing sth.
be able to do be/get lost be made of
Hansel and Gretel
To learn about the elements, language features of a play
To comprehend the social or moral messages old tales contain.
Exercise
Task 4
Homework
Act out the play in groups of four.
2e
Read the play a third time and underline the key words in each scene.
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