外研版（2019）选择性必修四册Unit 2 Lessons in Life Developing ideas P26-31课件(共40张PPT)

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Developing ideas P26-31
Unit 2 Lessons in life
新外研版选择性必修Book 4
Learning objectives
In this class, you will be able to
know an introduction to The Blue Bird;
read the text to identify the main characters, setting and plot;
participate in acting out the play to deepen your appreciation for it;
read the summary of The Blue Bird and then attempt to compose your own summary.
Did you watch the play The Blue Bird before
Can you share your opinions about it
Warming-up
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 — 1949, Nice, France), Belgian Symbolist poet, playwright, and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 for his outstanding works of the Symbolist theatre. He wrote in French and looked mainly to French literary movements for inspiration.
Introduction of the author
Read the introduction to The Blue Bird and answer the questions.
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Pre-reading
1. Do you know the symbolic meaning of the Blue Bird in Chinese and Western cultures Share your understanding of the meaning with the class.
2. Where do you think the children find the Blue Bird
In Western culture the Blue Bird symbolizes happiness and it brings good luck and health to people, while in Chinese culture the Blue Bird symbolises the messenger.
While-reading
Read the text and complete the notes with information from the play.
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ACT IV SCENE II
Characters
Setting
Plot
Tyltyl, (Mytyl,) a troop of Happinesses, the (chief) Happiness
Tyltyl and Mytyl have been searching for the Blue Bird in the Land of Memory, the Palace of Night and the Forest. Now they have arrived at the Palace of Happiness. A troop of Happinesses rush into the hall and speak to them.
The children come to the Palace of Happiness and are welcomed by a
troop of Happinesses...
ACT IV SCENE II
Plot
The children come to the palace of Happiness and are welcomed by a troop of Happinesses. The children do not recognise them, but the Happinesses tell them that they are the only things the children know and they are all around them. Tyltyl wonders whether there are happinesses in his home, and at this, all the Happinesses burst out laughing. The Chief of the Happinesses tell him that his home is filled with Happinesses. The Chief introduces himself to Tyltyl as the Happiness of Being Well, and then introduces him to the other Happinesses: of Pure Air, of Loving One’s Parents, of the Blue Sky and of the Forest. Tyltyl just wants to ask the Happinesses one thing: the whereabouts of the Blue Bird.
ACT VI SCENE II
Characters
Setting
Plot
Tyltyl, (Mytyl,) Mummy Tyl, the neighbour Berlingot, the little girl
Unable to find the Blue Bird anywhere, the children return home. While they are trying to tell their parents about their adventures, their neighbour comes in. She is asking for Tyltyl’s bird for her sick little girl.
The children return home without finding the Blue Bird...
ACT VI SCENE II
Plot
The children return home without finding the Blue Bird.
The neighbour Berlingot, a little old woman, enters Tyltyl's home, leaning on a stick.
Berlingot is telling Mummy Tyl that Tyltyl's bird is the one thing that will cure her sick daughter. Tyltyl then sees that his bird is blue - much bluer than when he went away. Tyltyl gives his bird to his neighbour.
The little girl comes along and thanks Tyltyl, but as lyityl goes to take the bird to show the little girl how to feed him, the bird flies away.
The little girl lets out a cry of despair. Tyltyl comforts her and turns to the audience. He asks the audience to return the Blue Bird if they see him, for the bird is needed for their future happiness.
Learning to learn
The Blue Bird is a typical full-length play, which means it has several acts and each act is composed of several scenes. The whole play depicts actions that take place over a long period of time. Various characters appear in different acts and scenes, and settings and costumes change accordingly. The running time of a full-length play can last for several hours, even days.
What are the basic elements of a typical play
Acts and scenes
Characters in different acts and scenes
Settings and costumes
1. Why can’t Tyltyl recognize any of the Happiness
Because he doesn’t realise the fact that the Happinesses are all around him in his home.
2. Are there any Happiness in your home What are they
Yes. My home is crammed with Happiness, such as the Happiness of Being Well, of Pure Air, of Loving One’s Parents, of the Blue Sky, of the Forest and so on.
After-reading
3. What does the author want to express by making the Blue Bird fly away at the end of the play
If we don’t value it or place too much emphasis on it, it may be lost but it can be found again. So we should be grateful for what we have.
4. What different life lessons can you learn from the two reading passages in this unit
From the first one, we know that happiness is always around us, while it can’t fly away and be found again from the second one.
Work in groups and act out the play.
1. Read the play again and discuss how you might present it on stage. Consider the following:
Plot - Is there anything you will cut from, or add to the play
Setting - What costumes and props will you need
Roles - Will you need a narrator to give the background to the play and introduce the new scenes
Language - Will you revise the language to make it easier to remember
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2. Adapt the play based on your discussion. You may refer to the original play for more ideas if necessary.
3. Decide roles for each group member and practise performing the play.
4. Act out the play in class.
Developing ideas P26-29
Unit 2 Lessons in life
新外研版选择性必修Book 4
课文回顾：
Tyltyl and Mytyl 1_______________(search) for the Blue Bird in the Land of Memory when a troop of happinesses rushed into the hall, 2___________(sing). They introduced 3_______________(they) to the brother and sister4____________(separate), who were surprised that happiness was around.
5________(able) to find the Blue Bird anywhere, the children said goodbye to their friends and returned home. While they were trying to tell their parents about their adventures, their neighbour came to ask for help, 6_______ sick daughter wanted Tylty`s pet bird. And the neighbour thought the bird could cure his daughter.
had been searching
singing
themselves
separately
Unable
whose
课文语法填空
So Tyltyl took his bird to the little girl 7_________ nothing. The little girl was so 8______________(delight) with the bird! However, the Dove escaped and 9__________(fly) away. Tyltyl was determined to catch him again and asked the audience to search for him. The main idea of the play is that happiness is to be found not in luxuries such as wealth, 10_____ in simple things that are found in family life, and in acts of friendship and kindness.
for
delighted
flew
but
课文语法填空
Tyltyl and Mytyl have been searching for the Blue Bird in the Land of Memory, the Palace of Night and the Forest.
句意：狄蒂尔和梅蒂尔一直在寻找青鸟，他们一行已经踏过了记忆之土，夜宫和森林。
search for 搜索；查找
search...for... 搜查……以寻找……
search sp. for sb. / sth. 搜查某地寻找某人/某物
search sb. for sth. 搜某人的身寻找某物
in search for 寻找，寻求
例句：
You can use a directory service to search for people on the Internet.
你可以利用目录服务在因特网上搜索人。
Police searched the area for clues.
警察在那一地带查找线索。
Visitors are searched for a thousand pounds worth of jewellery.
为寻找一件价值一千英镑的珠宝, 参观者被搜查。
He framed this question in three different ways in search of an answer. 为了寻求答案，他以三种不同方式提出了这个问题。
1. Relief workers are still searching the collapsed buildings ______ victims.
2. The young man drove around town _____ search of a good hotel.
3. He has gone to a big city _____________ (寻找) a better job.
随堂练
for
in
to search for
All the other Happinesses burst out laughing.
burst out (+doing) 突然……起来
burst into laughter 突然笑起来
burst into tears 突然哭起来
burst into + 地点 突然闯进……
句意：其他幸福哄然大笑。
例句:
Everyone who heard it just burst out laughing when he came out with it. 当他说出这句话时，听到的人都大笑起来。
Gunmen burst into his home and opened fire.
持枪歹徒突然闯进他家里开始射击。
随堂练
1. One minute she burst into _______ (tear) and the next minute she burst out __________ (laugh). We just couldn’t catch her mood at any moment.
2. Don’t ___________ (突然闯入) my room without knocking.
3. On hearing the joke, we _________________ (突然笑起来)
tears
laughing
burst into
burst into laughter
He is no more absurd than the majority of men...
句意：他并不比大多数人更荒唐……
no more absurd than 并不比……更荒唐（和大多数人一样不荒唐）
相同用法:
no better than = as bad as 与……一样不好 （坏）
no faster than = as slow as 与……一样不快（慢）
no taller than = as short as 与……一样不高（矮）
no earlier than = as late as 与……一样不早（迟）
...
例句：
He is no clever than her. 他不比她聪明。
Each question required a response no longer than one and a half minutes. 每个问题要求的回应都不超过一分半钟。
随堂练
同义句转换：
1. He ran no faster than the rest of participants.
He ran _____________ the rest of participants.
2. Tom seems no happier than his friends.
Tom seems __________his friends.
as slowly as
as sad as
Writing P30
Unit 2 Lessons in life
新外研版选择性必修Book 4
Read the summary of The Blue Bird and answer the questions.
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1. Which paragraph introduces the main charaters, setting and start of the play.
2. What is the climax of the play
3. What is the theme of the play
Pre-writing
Read the summary of The Blue Bird and answer the questions.
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1. Which paragraph introduces the main charaters, setting and start of the play.
Paragraph one.
The Blue Bird is a six-act fairy play written by Maurice Maeterlinck. It’s a story about Tyltyl and Mytyl’s adventures as they search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. As the children of a poor woodcutter, they are secretly observing a party at the home of their wealthy landlords when a fairy appears. She uses a magic diamond to bring animals (their dog and cat), objects (sugar and bread) and elements (light, fire, water) in their home to life. Together, they set off on a dangerous journey in search of the Blue Bird.
2. What is the climax of the play
Read the summary of The Blue Bird and answer the questions.
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The play’s climax of the play happens when Tyltyl discovers the Blue Bird has been there in his home all the time.
Tyltyl and Mytyl go to many magical places. They encounter numerous characters such as their departed grandparents, trees that hate mankind, the greedy and ugly Luxuries, and children waiting to be born. Although they try very hard to find the Blue Bird, the birds they find either change colour or die. The children return home at last, and Tyltyl discovers the Blue Bird has been there all the time! He gives the bird to the neighbour’s little girl, curing her illness.
Read the summary of The Blue Bird and answer the questions.
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The theme of the play is that happiness is to be found not in luxuries, but in simple things, such as family life, acts of friendship and kindness.
But in the end, the bird flies away, and Tyltyl asks the audience to search for it.
The central idea of the play is that happiness is to be found not in luxuries such
as wealth, but in simple things that are found in family life, and in acts of friendship and kindness.
3. What is the theme of the play
When writing a summary of a long story, your purpose is to convey the basic ideas of the original what is it about and what does the author want to communicate First identify the title and author of the piece. Then use your own words to describe relevant details that lead to the climax of the story. State the central idea of the story but don’t give your own opinion of it. A good summary needs to be concise, precise and to the point.
Learning to learn
The basic elements of a summary
Title and author
Main characters
Plot
Conclusion
Choose another play you have read and write a summary of it.
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Writing
Robinson Crusoe is a 1719 novel by English author Daniel Defoe. With its simple narrative style, it is considered the original adventure novel and the first novel in the realistic fiction genre. Robinson Crusoe is the story of a man who was shipwrecked for almost 30 years on a tropical island. The novel recounts Robinson’s struggle to survive alone as well as his adventures among cannibals and with his friend and servant Friday.
Daniel Defoe (1660—1731), an English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, author of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722).
Organise your ideas by completing the table.
Title and author of the play
Main character(s)
Start of the play
Climax
Conclusion
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe, savages, a young native called Friday, captain of a ship
Robinson Crusoe went sailing and his ship went under the sea.
Crusoe helped the captain and returned to England.
Look for what’s good for you even in desperate situations and always be optimistic and enthusiastic about life.
Write your summary.
Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English author Daniel Defoe, which is a widely influential literary masterpiece. It has been popular all over the world and has been read by generations all over the world.
It gives an account of Robinson Crusoe, an Englishman whose boat goes under the sea. Finally, he finds himself on a lonely island. He isn’t panicked but sets out to build a hut as a shelter, as well as growing his own food.
Four years later, an English ship appears, and the captain gets Crusoe’s help. As a reward, the captain takes Crusoe and Friday back to English.
On the beach, he once finds strange frightening footprints and savages eating people, which makes him very terrified. He once rescues a young native; he calls him Friday and they becomes close friends.
Work in pairs. Make improvements to each other’s summaries and share them with the class.
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You should focus on:
Content
Language
Writing sryle
Word limit
Thank you!