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Unit 4
Stories and Poems
Lesson 21
The Fable of the Woodcutter
Have you ever read these stories
Free Talk
The Farmer and the Snake
Mosquitoes and lions
Have you ever read these stories
Free Talk
wait for windfalls
To Help the Shoots Grow by Pulling Them Upward
These stories are all fables.
What is a fable
Learning Tips
A fable is a fictional story about animals, plants, forces of nature, etc. It always has a moral lesson.
Moral teaches right and wrong, good and bad.
Lead in
Do you know the story
The woodcutter and Hermes
It is a fable. It is adapted from a European fable named Aesop's Fables.
Act the fable out with your partner.
Reading tasks
1. What happened to the woodcutter when he was cutting wood beside a lake
2. Who appeared as the woodcutter cried
3. How many times did the spirit dive into the water
4. What did the woodcutter get at last？
Read the lesson and answer the questions.
He lost his axe in the water.
A spirit.
Three times.
A gold axe, a silver axe and his own axe.
New words
The boy _________ to his mother that it was his fault.
admitted
1. admit 表示“向某人承认”要搭配介词 to
He admitted to me that he was wrong.
他向我承认他错了。
2 承认做过某事: admit doing sth.
He admitted stealing a car.
他承认偷过一辆车。
New words
The cion is made of _________ .
gold
This is a________ coin.
The axe is made of ________.
silver
iron
New words
Did you see a girl ________ into the water when you passed by
diving
dive 跳水，俯冲
dived 或 dove/dived
New words
We all call her the little ______ .
spirit
spirit “精灵”, 可数, 复数形式是spirits
“精神, 不可数
the spirit of ......“......的精神”
The spirit of the Olympics is Faster, Higher and Stronger.
奥林匹克运动会的精神是：更快、更高、更强。
Read the lesson again. Think about the spirit and the woodcutter. Match each person with the words that describe them.
honest
foolish
helpful
clever
kind
poor
warm-hearted
dishonest
Reading tasks
What can we learn from the fable
Honesty truly is the best policy.
He had only one axe, and he needed it to make his living.
make/earn one’s living “谋生”
他只有一把斧子, 他需要靠它谋生。
make/earn one’s living by doing “通过某方式谋生”
那个老人以打鱼为生。
The old man made his living by fishing.
Language Points
The spirit went down a third time and returned with the woodcutter’s old axe.
“不定冠词+序数词”表示相对前一个而言的“又一, 再一”
精灵又一次潜下去，带着樵夫的旧斧子回到水面。
那部电影他已看过三次, 可他还想再看一次。
He has seen the film three times, but he wants to see it a fourth time.
“定冠词+序数词”表示按顺序排列的“第……次”
It is the fifth time that I have met him.
这是我第五次和他见面了。
Language Points
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words or phrases in the box.
silver admit make one's living come up with dive into
1．He _________to his parents that he broke the window. They were happy with his honesty.
2．That old lady is very poor. She ________________by selling newspapers.
3．I'm afraid to __________the swimming pool.
4．He _____________a fun way to learn maths.
5．She wore a ________chain around her neck.
admitted
makes her living
dive into
comes up with
silver
Exercises
补充： One of the government's _________(policy) is double reduction.
policies
Work in groups to learn more about fables. You can do one of the following tasks：
Find the rest of the fable on the Internet. Act it out.
Find another fable and act it out. You can search on the Internet or look in books. Don't forget to find the moral in your fable.
Group work
fable woodcutter axe dive admit silver
policy get back make one’s living
dive into… come up with bring back
One day,when he was cutting wood beside a lake,he lost his axe in the water.
As he cried,a spirit appeared.
The spirit went down a third time and returned with the woodcutter’s old axe.
He admitted to the spirit that it wasn’t his axe.
Honesty truly is the best policy.
Summary
