外研版（2019）选择性必修 第三册Unit 6 Nature in words Developing ideas 名师教案
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Unit 6 Nature in words
单元主题
本单元的主题是语境是“人与自然”，涉及的主题语境内容是不同文学形式中描写的自然。本单元带领学生赏析不同作家笔下妙不可言的自然。他们在描绘自然之美的同时传递了环境保护的主题。通过本单元的学习，学生不仅能够掌握不同文体的特点，体会作者对自然的爱，也能更好地理解人与自然的关系，树立欣赏和保护自然的意识，建立感恩自然、珍视自然、关爱自然的信念。
单元目标
学生能够围绕本单元的主题语境，基于单元提供的诗歌、散文、小说、博客、书评等多模态语篇，综合运用各种语言技能，赏析描写自然的美文，体会作者的语言魅力；能够听懂并谈论与自然相关的文学作品，恰当使用所学词汇和表达通过不同的文学形式描写自然，深化对单元主题意义的理解；能够运用单元所学内容，提升分析和解决问题的能力，提高自己的理解和表达能力，最终促进自身语言能力，文化意识、思维品质和学习能力的提升。
教学计划
经过对教材内容的分析和重组，本模块可以分五课时教授：
第一课时 Starting out
第二课时 Understanding ideas
第三课时 Using language
第四课时 Developing ideas
第五课时 Presenting ideas
教学步骤：
Period 1 Starting out
Teaching Goals:
1. To arouse Ss’ interest in learning about the development of the various literary form related with nature.
2. To develop Ss’ appreciation of the beauty of nature.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Leading-in
Purpose: To activate Ss and arouse them to talk about the literary forms they know.
Ask Ss to brainstorm the literary forms they have already known.
What literary forms do you know ？
Suggested answers: novels, poems, essays, letters, travel journals, dramas and folk tales.
Step 2 watch the video and answer questions
Purpose: To learn the development of the various literary form related with nature as well as the nature writers and their works.
Ask Ss to watch the video and answer the following three questions.
1 What literary forms are mentioned in the video
Suggested answers: Poems, letters, travel journals, essays and novels are the literary forms mentioned in the video.
2 Write down the writers and their works mentioned in the video.
Suggested answers: Ralph Waldo Emerson ----Nature
Thoreau ------Walden
Jack London----The call of the wild, White Fang
3 What is new of literary works about nature now
Suggested answers: Writers now are more aware of the vulnerability of nature, and they call for the protection of nature.
Step 3 Listen and learn the poem by Emily Dickson.
Purpose: To help Ss understand the message conveyed in the poem and think about the significance of nature to human beings.
1 Give Ss some background information about Emily Dickson and the feature of her poems.
2 Ask Ss to listen and read the poem and answer questions.
3Lead Ss to understand the poem by answering the questons.
1) How many aspects are there to introduce “Nature” in the poem
Suggested answers: Three aspects. Nature is what we see. Nature is what we hear.
Nature is what we know.
2) What images are used to symbolize nature
Suggested answers: Nature is symbolised by simple images of animals (“Squirrel”, “the Bumble bee”, “The Bobolink”, “the Cricket”) and features (“The Hill”, “the Afternoon”, “Eclipse”, “the Sea”, “Thunder”), which are in turn symbolic of the poet’s thoughts and feelings about the simplicity of nature. Nature is also symbolised in a metaphorical sense when it is described as “Heaven” and “Harmony”.
3) What message does the poem try to convey
Suggested answers: The message of the poem is that although what we see and hear in nature appears to be simple, within that simplicity lie great beauty, mystery and magnificence that humans cannot truly appreciate or capture in their art.
4) What does nature mean to you
Ss’s own answer.
Step 4 Describing nature
Purposes: Enable Ss to appreciate the beauty of nature in Charles Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers.
1 Ask Ss to read the paragraph and answer the questions.
1) What does this paragraph mainly describe
Suggested answers: This paragraph mainly describes the beautiful appearance in the month of August.
2) What aspects does the author describe
Suggested answers: The author describes the skies, fields, flowers, orchards, trees, wheat and the quality of the light.
2 Ask Ss three more questions to further understand the text.
Why did the passing wagon move slowly
Why didn’t the author hear no loud noises
Can you find some clues from the text
Suggested answers: Ss’s understanding of the text.
3 Ask Ss to finish 6 on page 66.
4 To play Thomas Nash’s poem Spring for Ss to further stimulate Ss’s appreciation of the beauty of nature in literature.
Step 5 Homework
1Describe nature during your favorite season with the words you have learnt.
2 Read the word list of unit6.
Period 2 Understanding ideas
Teaching Goals:
1. To understand First Snow by John Boynton Priestley and analyze the structure and the purpose of the text.
2. To enable Ss to describe nature.
3. To stimulate Ss’ love for nature and their ability to appreciate the related literary forms.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Introduction
Purpose: To present Ss the background information of the author.
1 As Ss to quickly read the paragraph and answer two questions to get the background information of the author.
1) What careers did Priestley have in his lifetime
Suggested answers: Priestly joined the army in World War I before going on to study at Cambridge University. After graduation, he worked as a freelance writer and radio presenter.
2) What kind of person do you think Priestley was
Suggested answers: talented, productive, observant = being good at observing, imaginative, quick-minded
2 Present Ss several breathtaking pictures of the snow to arouse their interest and provide words related to this topic.
blizzard大风雪
snowstorm暴风雪
blowing snow 飞雪
drifting snow 飘雪
sleet雨夹雪
snow drift雪堆
snow shower 阵雪
light snow 小雪
flurry阵雪/小雪
heavy snow 大雪
snowfall降雪
snowflake雪花
Step 2. Reading.
1. Scanning
Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text and learn to read for the main ideas by looking for topic sentences.
A Ask Ss to go through the text and underline the expressions the author uses to describe the first snow.
B Ask Ss to match the main ideas of each paragraph by looking for topic sentences.
C Finish the task on page 64 to understand the purpose of the text.
2. Skimming
Purpose: To get Ss to further understand the text and learn the words and expressions in the text as well as the structure and the author’s attitude and emotions behind the text.
A Learn the text paragraph by paragraph.
B Ask Ss to finish task 4 on page 64 to learn how the author describe the first snow.
C Enable Ss to retell the passage based upon the mind map.
To deal with the new words in the text.
Step 3. Post-reading& Homework
Purpose: To further consolidate the words and expressions as well as the way to depict nature in the text.
1. To ask Ss to finish a grammar filling text based upon the passage.
2.Ask Ss to write a short article within 100 words to depict anything they like in nature.
Try to use as many words you have learnt in this unit as possible.
Try to use different images to make your description vivid.
Period 4 Developing ideas
Teaching Goals:
1. To consolidate a basic reading skill—analyzing the text.
2. To understand the words and expressions in the text.
3. To learn the basic elements of a book review and how to write a book review.
4 Arouse Ss’ awareness of environmental protection.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Leading-in
Purpose: To provide background information about DDT and its harmfulness.
1Ask the Ss to look at at the infographic below and answer the questions.
1) How does DDT reach the human body in the food chain
Suggested answers: When DDT is sprayed onto plants in order to kill insects, it is absorbed by the plants and later consumed by animals; humans in turn eat those animals. DDT also leaks through the soil and into rivers and lakes, where it contaminates fish consumed by humans.
2) What harm does DDT cause
Suggested answers: DDT is highly poisonous to living organism, including humans.
2 Ask Ss to brainstorm the basic elements of a book review and provide the answers.
A book review: an article in a newspaper or magazine giving opinion about a new book
It includes basic information of the book, the reason for its publication, features of the writing, comments on this book and influence of this book.
3 Ask Ss to read the book review on Silent Spring, a book that led to the banning of DDT. Predict what will be mentioned in the passage.
Step 2 Reading
Purpose: To consolidate a basic reading skill—analyzing the text, understand the words and expressions in the text and learn the basic elements of a book review and how to write a book review.
1Read and choose the correct answers to five questions.
2Further understand the text by learning the words and difficult sentences in the text.
3Fill the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.
4Analyze the the structure of a book review by learning the structure of the text.
5Ask Ss to write their own book review.
Step 3 Post reading
Purpose:
Arouse Ss’ awareness of environmental protection.
Ask Ss four questions and allow them to discuss with their group members or partners.
1 )Why was Silent Spring so successful
Suggested answers: Silent Spring was so successful because it alerted the general public to the dangers of DDT. It planted important new ideas in the public mind, such as that spraying chemicals to control insect populations has an impact on other wildlife, and that the chemicals got into the food chain.
2 )What is the moral lesson behind “A Fable for Tomorrow”
Suggested answers: The moral lesson is that financial profit should not come at the expense of the environment and the creatures living in it.
3) Why did some people challenge Carson’s findings
Suggested answers: Some people challenged Carson’s findings because they were concerned about the negative impact they would have on business in the pesticide industry.
4) In what different ways do First Snow and Silent Spring raise people’s awareness of nature
Suggested answers: First Snow shows the beauty of nature—and in particular the snow—through its words and imagery, while Silent Spring describes an unnatural spring without the beauty of birdsong. They each raise people’s awareness of nature by highlighting the interplay between nature and human behavior.
Step4 Homework
1. Use the new words and expressions to make some sentences.
2. Finish the following exercises on P70 of the workbook.
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单元主题
本单元的主题是语境是“人与自然”，涉及的主题语境内容是不同文学形式中描写的自然。本单元带领学生赏析不同作家笔下妙不可言的自然。他们在描绘自然之美的同时传递了环境保护的主题。通过本单元的学习，学生不仅能够掌握不同文体的特点，体会作者对自然的爱，也能更好地理解人与自然的关系，树立欣赏和保护自然的意识，建立感恩自然、珍视自然、关爱自然的信念。
单元目标
学生能够围绕本单元的主题语境，基于单元提供的诗歌、散文、小说、博客、书评等多模态语篇，综合运用各种语言技能，赏析描写自然的美文，体会作者的语言魅力；能够听懂并谈论与自然相关的文学作品，恰当使用所学词汇和表达通过不同的文学形式描写自然，深化对单元主题意义的理解；能够运用单元所学内容，提升分析和解决问题的能力，提高自己的理解和表达能力，最终促进自身语言能力，文化意识、思维品质和学习能力的提升。
教学计划
经过对教材内容的分析和重组，本模块可以分五课时教授：
第一课时 Starting out
第二课时 Understanding ideas
第三课时 Using language
第四课时 Developing ideas
第五课时 Presenting ideas
教学步骤：
Period 1 Starting out
Teaching Goals:
1. To arouse Ss’ interest in learning about the development of the various literary form related with nature.
2. To develop Ss’ appreciation of the beauty of nature.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Leading-in
Purpose: To activate Ss and arouse them to talk about the literary forms they know.
Ask Ss to brainstorm the literary forms they have already known.
What literary forms do you know ？
Suggested answers: novels, poems, essays, letters, travel journals, dramas and folk tales.
Step 2 watch the video and answer questions
Purpose: To learn the development of the various literary form related with nature as well as the nature writers and their works.
Ask Ss to watch the video and answer the following three questions.
1 What literary forms are mentioned in the video
Suggested answers: Poems, letters, travel journals, essays and novels are the literary forms mentioned in the video.
2 Write down the writers and their works mentioned in the video.
Suggested answers: Ralph Waldo Emerson ----Nature
Thoreau ------Walden
Jack London----The call of the wild, White Fang
3 What is new of literary works about nature now
Suggested answers: Writers now are more aware of the vulnerability of nature, and they call for the protection of nature.
Step 3 Listen and learn the poem by Emily Dickson.
Purpose: To help Ss understand the message conveyed in the poem and think about the significance of nature to human beings.
1 Give Ss some background information about Emily Dickson and the feature of her poems.
2 Ask Ss to listen and read the poem and answer questions.
3Lead Ss to understand the poem by answering the questons.
1) How many aspects are there to introduce “Nature” in the poem
Suggested answers: Three aspects. Nature is what we see. Nature is what we hear.
Nature is what we know.
2) What images are used to symbolize nature
Suggested answers: Nature is symbolised by simple images of animals (“Squirrel”, “the Bumble bee”, “The Bobolink”, “the Cricket”) and features (“The Hill”, “the Afternoon”, “Eclipse”, “the Sea”, “Thunder”), which are in turn symbolic of the poet’s thoughts and feelings about the simplicity of nature. Nature is also symbolised in a metaphorical sense when it is described as “Heaven” and “Harmony”.
3) What message does the poem try to convey
Suggested answers: The message of the poem is that although what we see and hear in nature appears to be simple, within that simplicity lie great beauty, mystery and magnificence that humans cannot truly appreciate or capture in their art.
4) What does nature mean to you
Ss’s own answer.
Step 4 Describing nature
Purposes: Enable Ss to appreciate the beauty of nature in Charles Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers.
1 Ask Ss to read the paragraph and answer the questions.
1) What does this paragraph mainly describe
Suggested answers: This paragraph mainly describes the beautiful appearance in the month of August.
2) What aspects does the author describe
Suggested answers: The author describes the skies, fields, flowers, orchards, trees, wheat and the quality of the light.
2 Ask Ss three more questions to further understand the text.
Why did the passing wagon move slowly
Why didn’t the author hear no loud noises
Can you find some clues from the text
Suggested answers: Ss’s understanding of the text.
3 Ask Ss to finish 6 on page 66.
4 To play Thomas Nash’s poem Spring for Ss to further stimulate Ss’s appreciation of the beauty of nature in literature.
Step 5 Homework
1Describe nature during your favorite season with the words you have learnt.
2 Read the word list of unit6.
Period 2 Understanding ideas
Teaching Goals:
1. To understand First Snow by John Boynton Priestley and analyze the structure and the purpose of the text.
2. To enable Ss to describe nature.
3. To stimulate Ss’ love for nature and their ability to appreciate the related literary forms.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Introduction
Purpose: To present Ss the background information of the author.
1 As Ss to quickly read the paragraph and answer two questions to get the background information of the author.
1) What careers did Priestley have in his lifetime
Suggested answers: Priestly joined the army in World War I before going on to study at Cambridge University. After graduation, he worked as a freelance writer and radio presenter.
2) What kind of person do you think Priestley was
Suggested answers: talented, productive, observant = being good at observing, imaginative, quick-minded
2 Present Ss several breathtaking pictures of the snow to arouse their interest and provide words related to this topic.
blizzard大风雪
snowstorm暴风雪
blowing snow 飞雪
drifting snow 飘雪
sleet雨夹雪
snow drift雪堆
snow shower 阵雪
light snow 小雪
flurry阵雪/小雪
heavy snow 大雪
snowfall降雪
snowflake雪花
Step 2. Reading.
1. Scanning
Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text and learn to read for the main ideas by looking for topic sentences.
A Ask Ss to go through the text and underline the expressions the author uses to describe the first snow.
B Ask Ss to match the main ideas of each paragraph by looking for topic sentences.
C Finish the task on page 64 to understand the purpose of the text.
2. Skimming
Purpose: To get Ss to further understand the text and learn the words and expressions in the text as well as the structure and the author’s attitude and emotions behind the text.
A Learn the text paragraph by paragraph.
B Ask Ss to finish task 4 on page 64 to learn how the author describe the first snow.
C Enable Ss to retell the passage based upon the mind map.
To deal with the new words in the text.
Step 3. Post-reading& Homework
Purpose: To further consolidate the words and expressions as well as the way to depict nature in the text.
1. To ask Ss to finish a grammar filling text based upon the passage.
2.Ask Ss to write a short article within 100 words to depict anything they like in nature.
Try to use as many words you have learnt in this unit as possible.
Try to use different images to make your description vivid.
Period 4 Developing ideas
Teaching Goals:
1. To consolidate a basic reading skill—analyzing the text.
2. To understand the words and expressions in the text.
3. To learn the basic elements of a book review and how to write a book review.
4 Arouse Ss’ awareness of environmental protection.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Leading-in
Purpose: To provide background information about DDT and its harmfulness.
1Ask the Ss to look at at the infographic below and answer the questions.
1) How does DDT reach the human body in the food chain
Suggested answers: When DDT is sprayed onto plants in order to kill insects, it is absorbed by the plants and later consumed by animals; humans in turn eat those animals. DDT also leaks through the soil and into rivers and lakes, where it contaminates fish consumed by humans.
2) What harm does DDT cause
Suggested answers: DDT is highly poisonous to living organism, including humans.
2 Ask Ss to brainstorm the basic elements of a book review and provide the answers.
A book review: an article in a newspaper or magazine giving opinion about a new book
It includes basic information of the book, the reason for its publication, features of the writing, comments on this book and influence of this book.
3 Ask Ss to read the book review on Silent Spring, a book that led to the banning of DDT. Predict what will be mentioned in the passage.
Step 2 Reading
Purpose: To consolidate a basic reading skill—analyzing the text, understand the words and expressions in the text and learn the basic elements of a book review and how to write a book review.
1Read and choose the correct answers to five questions.
2Further understand the text by learning the words and difficult sentences in the text.
3Fill the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.
4Analyze the the structure of a book review by learning the structure of the text.
5Ask Ss to write their own book review.
Step 3 Post reading
Purpose:
Arouse Ss’ awareness of environmental protection.
Ask Ss four questions and allow them to discuss with their group members or partners.
1 )Why was Silent Spring so successful
Suggested answers: Silent Spring was so successful because it alerted the general public to the dangers of DDT. It planted important new ideas in the public mind, such as that spraying chemicals to control insect populations has an impact on other wildlife, and that the chemicals got into the food chain.
2 )What is the moral lesson behind “A Fable for Tomorrow”
Suggested answers: The moral lesson is that financial profit should not come at the expense of the environment and the creatures living in it.
3) Why did some people challenge Carson’s findings
Suggested answers: Some people challenged Carson’s findings because they were concerned about the negative impact they would have on business in the pesticide industry.
4) In what different ways do First Snow and Silent Spring raise people’s awareness of nature
Suggested answers: First Snow shows the beauty of nature—and in particular the snow—through its words and imagery, while Silent Spring describes an unnatural spring without the beauty of birdsong. They each raise people’s awareness of nature by highlighting the interplay between nature and human behavior.
Step4 Homework
1. Use the new words and expressions to make some sentences.
2. Finish the following exercises on P70 of the workbook.
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1