(共28张PPT)
Understanding ideas
Unit 1 Looking forwards
目录页
contents
Pre-reading
I
Language points
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Fast reading
II
Homework
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Intensive reading
III
VI
Post-reading
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Pre-reading
Pre-reading
SENIOR HIGH QUESTIONNAIRE
Now you’ve been at senior high for over a year, I’d like to know your progress and plans for the future. Thank you!
Your Form Teacher
How do you feel about your performance over the previous terms Why
satisfied so-so not satisfied
What goals have you achieved
What goals have you yet to achieve
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Pre-reading
SENIOR HIGH QUESTIONNAIRE
Now you’ve been at senior high for over a year, I’d like to know your progress and plans for the future. Thank you!
Your Form Teacher
What will you do about the goals you want to achieve
How do you plan to achieve these goals
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Pre-reading
Show the class your answers!
Complete the questionnaire and share your answers with the class.
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Fast reading
Fast reading
Look at the title and predict what the passage is about.
Different jobs people might do in the future.
Stories about different people’s future.
Various possibilities for future development.
Fixed future for everyone.
Now read the passage and check your prediction.
Fast reading
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and short-story writer who
came to literary prominence following the First World War, as a member of the so-called “Lost Generation” in the 1920s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
He had an understated prose style and a restrained method of exposition, which he termed the “iceberg theory” (because he believed that a great deal could be understood in a narration even if it was deliberately unmentioned). His most famous novels include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea.
Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
Fast reading
Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish author, best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories. Doyle trained as a doctor initially, though several efforts to establish himself in the practice of medicine all ended in failure. By contrast, after a rough start, his innovative crime fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes became a
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930)
Fast reading
great success. Although the public adored Sherlock Holmes, Doyle himself felt that the character was a distraction from his other literary ambitions, which included historical novels, plays, poems, and academic papers.
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930)
Fast reading
None of Doyle’s other writing ever achieved close to the success of the Holmes material, however. Holmes and his assistant, Dr Watson, remain popular characters across the world today.
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930)
Fast reading
III
Intensive reading
Intensive reading
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
a. What is possibly the most important concern in life
b. What was Doyle’s main writing ambition
c. What can you do when faced with uncertainty about the future
d. What is the relationship between one’s plans and the
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Intensive reading
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
future
e. Why was Doyle disappointed with the success of his Holmes stories
f. What did Hemingway do to achieve his ambition to become a writer
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Answer the questions.
1. What is possibly the most important concern in life
The most important concern in life is possibly the future.
2. What is the relationship between one’s plans and the future
Sometimes one’s plans may have a great influence on the future, but having plans in place for the future is no guarantee that they will become reality.
Intensive reading
Answer the questions.
3. What did Hemingway do to achieve his ambition to become a writer
On leaving high school, Ernest Hemingway joined a local Kansas newspaper as a trainee reporter. He went on to become foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and used his extraordinary experiences in Europe and later Cuba to inform his writing.
Intensive reading
Answer the questions.
4. What was Doyle’s main writing ambition
Doyle’s main ambition was to become a writer of historical novels.
5. Why was Doyle disappointed with the success of his Holmes stories
He was disappointed because he still longed to become known for his historical novels amongst other academic works but the readers loved his Holmes stories better.
Intensive reading
Answer the questions.
6. What can you do when faced with uncertainty about the future
Be prepared for the unexpected and trust that what you are doing now will somehow connect in your future.
Intensive reading
Organise information from the passage and complete the chart.
Ernest Hemingway
Arthur Conan Doyle
Similarities
He was born in the US in 1899.
He ___________since boyhood.
He wrote __________.
He won ___________.
They both
_________.
They shared _________.
He was born in Scotland in 1859.
He first worked as ________, but ___________.
He created ______, Sherlock Holmes.
He had wanted to be remembered for ______, but ________.
Intensive reading
Ernest
Hemingway
He was born in the US in 1899.
He __________________________________ since boyhood.
He wrote _____________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________.
He won ______________________________
_____________________________________.
was single-minded in his ambition to write
novels and short stories based on his personal experiences of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, bullfighting and deep-sea fishing, amongst others
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature later
Intensive reading
Arthur Conan Doyle
He was born in Scotland in 1859.
He first worked as ________, but ________
___________________________________
___________________________________.
He created __________________________, Sherlock Holmes.
He had wanted to be remembered for ___________________________________________, but ________________________________________.
a doctor
Doyle’s main ambition was to become a writer of historical novels
the fictional detective
his historical novels amongst other academic works
the public couldn’t get enough of Sherlock Holmes
Intensive reading
Ernest Hemingway
Arthur
Conan Doyle
Similarities
They both ______________________.
They shared _____________________
_______________________________.
were ultimately successful
the same ambitious and energetic approach to life
Intensive reading
Now read the sentence from the passage and answer the questions.
So, whatever twists and turns you might encounter, take a leaf out of the books of these two authors and be prepared for the unexpected.
1. What is your understanding of “take a leaf out of the books”
2. What effect is the author aiming to achieve by using it
3. What other expressions do you know that share the same meaning
Intensive reading
1. What is your understanding of “take a leaf out of the books”
One possible answer:
In my opinion, it means that you can copy the way someone else behaves because you want to be like them or be as successful as they are.
Intensive reading
Now read the sentence from the passage and answer the questions.
Now read the sentence from the passage and answer the questions.
2. What effect is the author aiming to achieve by using it
The author aims to maintain the reader’s interest by using this figure of speech, and perhaps to end with a lighter note by using a pun.
Intensive reading
3. What other expressions do you know that share the same meaning
Students’ own answers.
Intensive reading
Now read the sentence from the passage and answer the questions.