外研版（2019）选择性必修 第二册Unit 1 Growing up Developing ideas课件（共54张，内嵌视频）
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Unit 1 Growing up
Developing ideas
To get to know the book The Little Prince and the author.
To get the main purpose and the details of the passage.
To infer the author’s attitude towards grown-ups and find the evidence.
To talk about your attitude towards grown-ups.
Learning objectives
The Little Prince
小王子
1. What experience made the author
write The Little Prince
2. What kind of person do you think
Saint-Exupéry was
Read the introduction to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and answer the question.
A plane crash in the desert in 1935.
Adventurous, brave and successful.
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Lead-in
Let’s enjoy this wonderful masterpiece!
Enjoy a video
Look at the picture and guess what it is.
Pre-reading
Look at the three drawings and predict what the story is about.
Now read the passage and check your prediction.
A boa swallowing an animal
A boa constrictor digesting an elephant
The inside of the boa constrictor
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Once when I was six years old
I saw a magnificent picture in a
book, called True Stories from
Nature, about the primeval forest.
It was a picture of a boa constrictor
in the act of swallowing an animal.
Here is a copy of the drawing.
我六岁的时候在一本书里看到了一张非常震撼的图。书的名字是《大自然的真实故事》，讲的是原始森林。那张图片上有一条蟒蛇正在吞掉一只动物。这是那张图的摹本:
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In the book it said: “Boa
constrictors swallow their prey
whole, without chewing it. After
that they are not able to move, and
they sleep through the six months
that they need for digestion.”
书上写着:“蟒蛇把猎物整个吞下，完全不咀嚼。吞下以后一蟒蛇就动不了了。消化食物需要六个月，因此蟒蛇就睡六个月。“
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I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:
那个时候，我深深地思考着原始丛林里的奇遇。我用一支彩色铅笔，成功画出了我的第一幅画作。我的“一号画作”是这样的:
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I showed my masterpiece to the grown
-ups, and asked them whether the
drawing frightened them.
But they answered: “Frighten Why should anyone be frightened by a hat ”
我把我的杰作给大人看，问他们有没有被我的画吓到。
但他们回答:“吓到？为什么有人会被一顶帽子吓到？
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My drawing was not a picture of a hat.
It was a picture of a boa constrictor
digesting an elephant. But since the
grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained.
My Drawing Number Two looked like this:
我画的不是帽子，而是一条正在消化一头大象的蟒蛇。但由于大人们没有看懂，我又画了一幅：我画出了蟒蛇身体的内部，这样大人就能看清楚了。所有事情都非要你跟他们解释清楚，他们才能懂。我的“二号画作”是这样的:
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The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
这次，大人的回答是建议我把不管是蟒蛇内部还是外部的画都放到一边，然后转而专心学习地理、历史、算术和语法。所以，六岁的时候，我放弃了可能会十分辉煌的画家职业道路。“一号画作”和二号画作”的失败使我心灰意冷。大人从来没法自己弄慬任何事情，小孩永远要给他们解释是很辛苦的。
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So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable.
所以后来我选了另一个职业，我开始学习驾驶飞机。世界上每个地方我差不多都去过；地理对我确实很有用。我一眼就能分辨中国和亚利桑那州。如果晚上迷路了，这样的知识很有价值。
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In the course of this life, I have had a great many encounters with a great
many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
在生命历程中，我多次遇到过很多关心大事的人。我在大人之中生活了很久。我密切地观察过他们，近在咫尺地看过。然而我对他们的看法还是没有改观。
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Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say:
“That is a hat.”
每一次我遇到一个看上去头脑完全清楚的大人，我都会给他看我一直带着的“一号画作”，想看看这个人是不是能真正地理解。但是，不论这个人是谁，他(她)总是会说：
那是顶帽子。
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Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.
(Excerpt from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
然后我就不再跟那个人聊任何有关蟒蛇、原始森林或是星星的事情了。我就会把自己降低到他的层次，跟他聊桥梁、高尔夫、政治、领带。而这个大人就会很高兴能遇到这样一个明智的人。
节选自安托万 德 圣埃克苏佩里的《小王子》
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Part 1 (Paras. 1-5)
Part 2 (Paras. 6-8)
Part 3 (Paras. 9-12)
A. Grown-ups’ response to my 2nd drawing
made me change my profession.
B. Later in my life, I held an attitude towards grown-ups.
C. Grown-ups’ response to my 1st drawing
inspired by a book.
Match the parts with the idea according to the passage.
The grown-ups thought the second drawing was scary.
The grown-ups reaction made the child lose interest in drawing.
What the adults told the child to learn was useless for his future work.
All the adults the child met didn't understand what his first drawing was.
True or false
T
T
F
F
1 Grown-ups are more practical than children. They want
to teach children knowledge that will be useful in the future.
2 Grown-ups are no better than children. They lack imagination
and only care about matters of consequence.
3 Grown-ups are more knowledgeable than children. They can
understand everything by themselves.
Choose the author’s attitude towards grown-ups and find evidence to support your choice.
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Post-reading
Grown-ups are no better than children. They lack imagination and only care about matters of consequence.
Evidence:
1. They always need to have things explained. (Para. 6)
2. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. (Para. 7)
3. …, I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. (Para. 9)
4. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man. (Para. 12)
1 What does the author really mean by these sentences
2 What figure of speech does the author use How does this figure of speech help to express the author’s attitude
Read the sentences from the passage and answer the questions.
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1 What does the author really mean by these sentences
Most of the grown-ups I have met are the same. They focus on practical matters only and seldom pay attention to imagination or creativity. If I pretend to think the way they do, the adults will conclude that I am sensible and mature.
Read the sentences from the passage and answer the questions.
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2 What figure of speech does the author use How does this figure of speech help to express the author’s attitude
Irony. This figure of speech enables the author to indicate his low opinion of adults’ behaviour and values by stressing such things.
Read the sentences from the passage and answer the questions.
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Learning to learn
Irony is a subtle figure of speech that refers to things one says that are the opposite of what one really means. It has a humorous, emphatic or sarcastic effect.
For example: Fine, don’t buy me an airline ticket. I’ll just swim across the ocean!
It must be delightful to find oneself in a foreign country without a penny in one’s pocket..
1 What were the grown-ups’ responses to the author’s Drawing Number One and Drawing Number Two Why do you think they responded in this way
2 According to the author, what is a child’s most valuable trait
Do you agree with him
3 After reading the two passages in this unit, think about what you may acquire and lose as you grow up. Share your ideas with the class.
Think Share
1 What were the grown-ups’ responses to the author’s Drawing Number One and Drawing Number Two Why do you think they responded in this way
They thought the author’s Drawing Number One was just about an ordinary hat.
When seeing the author’s Drawing Number Two, they advised the author to change his focus to other subjects such as geography, history, arithmetic and grammar.
Because they lack imagination and patience and just focus on the matters of consequence.
2 According to the author, what is a child’s most valuable trait
Do you agree with him
Imagination and genuineness.
3 After reading the two passages in this unit, think about what you may acquire and lose as you grow up. Share your ideas with the class.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
---The Fox, The Little Prince
只有用心，才能看得清楚;重要的东西用眼睛是看不见的。
——狐狸《小王子》
3 After reading the two passages in this unit, think about what you may acquire and lose as you grow up. Share your ideas with the class.
After reading the two passages in this unit, I have learnt a lot. Being a child or an adult may have its own advantages and disadvantages. As far as I am concerned, being a child is much happier because I don’t take a lot of responsibilities, and I must be taken good care of by my parents, although I have to be supervised by them as well. Being an adult means I will be allowed to do a lot of things that I can’t when I was a child, while I must be mature and strong enough to take responsibilities.
Above all, I can acquire a lot; meanwhile, I may also lose something precious as I grow up. So I hope I will keep a childlike innocence deep in my heart.
Work in groups. Give a talk about your attitude towards grown-ups.
Decide whether you agree with the author's attitude towards grown-ups and why.
Think of some examples to support your opinions and make notes.
Organise your talk following the steps below.
Explain the author’s attitude towards grown-ups.
State your own opinions.
Give supporting examples.
Conclude by summarising your opinions.
4. Give your talk to the class.
Discussing and talking
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Group Work
Step 1: Decide whether you agree with the author’s attitude towards grown-ups and why.
Step 2: Think of some examples and make notes.
Work in groups. Give a talk about your attitude towards grown-ups.
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Group Work
Step 3: Organise your talk following the steps below.
Explain the author’s attitude towards
grown-ups.
State your own opinions.
Give supporting examples.
Conclude by summarising your opinions.
Group Work
Useful expressions:
(1) I totally agree with the author because ... /
I don’t agree with the author because ...
(2) In my view ... / In my eyes ... / Personally, I think ...
(3) Take ... for example ... / For instance ...
(4) To conclude ... / To sum up ... / All in all ...
Step 4: Give your talk to the class.
Now think about your performance during the group discussion. How well did you actively participate and contribute ideas
Group Work
Writing a book review
写书评
Do you read books a lot
How are you take notes while reading
Read the book review and find the information on the right.
The title of the book
The name of the author
The genre
A memorable character
A quote from the book
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The Little Prince
Book Review
the title of the book: _____________________________
the name of the author: __________________________
the genre: _____________________________________
a memorable character: __________________________
a quote from the book: ___________________________
_____________________________________________________
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
a children's fantasy book
a rose
It's the time you spent
on your rose that makes your rose so imortant.
Read the book review again and answer the questions.
What is the plot of the book
What is the key message of the book
3. What is the key reviewer think of the book
The book tells a story about a pilot who has crashed in the desert. While he is trying to fix his plane, a little prince comes to him. Visiting from another planet, the little prince recounts his adventures to the pilot, and the two become friends.
The book talks about the importance of looking beneath the surface of things to uncover their real meanings.
The author thinks this is a touching book that everyone should read, whatever their age.
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Choose a book that means a lot to you. Plan a review of it and make notes.
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Work in pairs. Make improvement to each other’s book reviews and share with the class.
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Work in pairs. Make improvement to each other’s book reviews and share with the class.
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General facts about the book:
The Old Man and the Sea is the representative work of American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Plot of the book:
It tells about the Cuban fisherman Santiago in eighty-four days with no fish caught.He finally caught a big marlin by himself. Unluckily, the fish, too large, dragged his boat on the sea for three days before being exhausted. He killed the fish and tied to the side of the boat, but attacked by sharks in return, the old finally man came back with only the head and tail of the fish and a spine left.
Plan a review of your favourite book.
The old Man and the Sea
Work in pairs. Make improvement to each other’s book reviews and share with the class.
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Comments:
"Man is not made for defeat. A man may be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated." This is Hemingway's dictum, is the eternal motto.Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea is the best interpreter of this golden saying.
Conclusion and recommendation:
In this simple story, there is an unyielding soul -- a poor Cuban fisherman -- Santiago, an unfortunate old man who interprets the image of "tough man" with his tragic experience.Poor and unlucky, his fate is sad, but he is also a failed hero, "undefeated loser".He is the symbol of the perfect person admired by Hemingway: strong, kind, generous, full of love. Even if he fails in the battle field of life, he is still mentally strong and a "tough man" in the face of irreversible fate.
The old Man and the Sea
Presenting ideas＆Reflection
Work in groups and discuss how to make a one-year self-improvement plan. Consider the following:
What you have learnt from the past
What you plan to achieve
What you plan to avoid
What you plan to overcome
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1. What you have learnt from the past:
2. What you plan to achieve:
3. What you plan to avoid:
4. What you plan to overcome:
eg. learn to be independent for their healthy growth
eg. take care of myself in the daily life
eg. make every effort not to avoid forming bad habits such as staying up late, making excuses for bad behaviour and so on.
eg. set a schedule, developing a good learning and life habit etc.
Work in groups and discuss how to make a one-year self-improvement plan. Consider the following:
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Complete the table to help you draft your plan.
Goals What to do
Healthy living Eat more fruit and vegetables. Drink more water. Do exercise three times a week.
Positive thinking
Choose a positive attitude toward life. Deal with the difficult situation in a constructive way. Shift your attention when you are in blue mood.
live in harmony with others
show respect for others. help those in need. have more communication with others
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Share your draft with your group and suggest ways to make improvement to each other’s plans.
Prepare a short presentation about your plan. Consider the following:
The structure of your presentation
Useful words, expression and structures
Give your presentation to the class. Check your self-improvement plan one year from now to see if you have achieves you goals.
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Write a reflection after completing this unit. Consider the following:
1 What is your understanding of growing up
2 What text types have you learnt about What are their features
3 What words, expressions and structures have you learnt
4 What improvement have you made in understanding different cultures
5 What improvement have you made in using learning strategies and exploring effective ways of learning
6 What improvement have you made in analysing and solving problem
Reflection
When I was six years old, after having read the book 1.________ (call) True Stories from Nature and pondered 2.________ (deep), I 3.________ (success) in making my first drawing, which was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But to my 4._____________ (disappoint), when 5._______(show) to the grown -ups, the drawing was misunderstood. They all thought it was a picture of a hat. In order to help them see it clearly, I drew the inside of the boa constrictor.
called
deeply
succeeded
disappointment
showed
Fill in the blanks and reread the passage.
复习巩固
But they advised me 6._______ (lay) aside my drawings of boa constrictors and devote 7.________ (me) instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. I had to give 8.________ my early dream and learned to pilot airplanes. In the course of my life, I have had many 9.____________ (encounter) with people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. The result was 10.________ no one was a person of true understanding. Then I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties.
up
encounters
that
to lay
myself
Fill in the blanks and reread the passage.
复习巩固
写作训练
4月23日是世界读书日(World Reading Day)，假设你所在学校开展读书活动，你选读了美国女作家 Helen Keller的作品Three Days to See, 这是一部自传体小说。该书讲述了Helen Keller自幼生病，丧失听觉和视觉，在Sullivan老师的帮助下，克服困难，努力学习，成为著名作家。该书谈论Helen关于生活和世界的看法与感受；人生的意义在于热爱生活。人人都应对未来满怀希望和心怀感恩。
请根据以上信息用英语为校英语报撰写一篇100-150词书评。
参考词汇：autobiographical 自传的
Homework
Book review on Three Days to See
Three Days to See was written by the American female writer and educator Helen Keller. It is an autobiographical novel, but it is also enjoyed/liked/loved by a lot of people.
The book tells the story of Helen Keller herself who got ill and lost both her hearing and sight when she was very young. With the help of her teacher, Sullivan, she overcame difficulties and studied hard to be a famous writer.
The book talks about Helen's opinions and feelings about life and the world. The real meaning of life is to love life. Everyone should be hope about their future and be grateful for what they have.
Personally, I think this is an inspiring and touching book that everyone should read, whatever their age. （125 words）
Sample writing
Unit 1 Growing up
Developing ideas
To get to know the book The Little Prince and the author.
To get the main purpose and the details of the passage.
To infer the author’s attitude towards grown-ups and find the evidence.
To talk about your attitude towards grown-ups.
Learning objectives
The Little Prince
小王子
1. What experience made the author
write The Little Prince
2. What kind of person do you think
Saint-Exupéry was
Read the introduction to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and answer the question.
A plane crash in the desert in 1935.
Adventurous, brave and successful.
1
Lead-in
Let’s enjoy this wonderful masterpiece!
Enjoy a video
Look at the picture and guess what it is.
Pre-reading
Look at the three drawings and predict what the story is about.
Now read the passage and check your prediction.
A boa swallowing an animal
A boa constrictor digesting an elephant
The inside of the boa constrictor
2
Once when I was six years old
I saw a magnificent picture in a
book, called True Stories from
Nature, about the primeval forest.
It was a picture of a boa constrictor
in the act of swallowing an animal.
Here is a copy of the drawing.
我六岁的时候在一本书里看到了一张非常震撼的图。书的名字是《大自然的真实故事》，讲的是原始森林。那张图片上有一条蟒蛇正在吞掉一只动物。这是那张图的摹本:
1
In the book it said: “Boa
constrictors swallow their prey
whole, without chewing it. After
that they are not able to move, and
they sleep through the six months
that they need for digestion.”
书上写着:“蟒蛇把猎物整个吞下，完全不咀嚼。吞下以后一蟒蛇就动不了了。消化食物需要六个月，因此蟒蛇就睡六个月。“
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I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:
那个时候，我深深地思考着原始丛林里的奇遇。我用一支彩色铅笔，成功画出了我的第一幅画作。我的“一号画作”是这样的:
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I showed my masterpiece to the grown
-ups, and asked them whether the
drawing frightened them.
But they answered: “Frighten Why should anyone be frightened by a hat ”
我把我的杰作给大人看，问他们有没有被我的画吓到。
但他们回答:“吓到？为什么有人会被一顶帽子吓到？
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My drawing was not a picture of a hat.
It was a picture of a boa constrictor
digesting an elephant. But since the
grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained.
My Drawing Number Two looked like this:
我画的不是帽子，而是一条正在消化一头大象的蟒蛇。但由于大人们没有看懂，我又画了一幅：我画出了蟒蛇身体的内部，这样大人就能看清楚了。所有事情都非要你跟他们解释清楚，他们才能懂。我的“二号画作”是这样的:
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The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
这次，大人的回答是建议我把不管是蟒蛇内部还是外部的画都放到一边，然后转而专心学习地理、历史、算术和语法。所以，六岁的时候，我放弃了可能会十分辉煌的画家职业道路。“一号画作”和二号画作”的失败使我心灰意冷。大人从来没法自己弄慬任何事情，小孩永远要给他们解释是很辛苦的。
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So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable.
所以后来我选了另一个职业，我开始学习驾驶飞机。世界上每个地方我差不多都去过；地理对我确实很有用。我一眼就能分辨中国和亚利桑那州。如果晚上迷路了，这样的知识很有价值。
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In the course of this life, I have had a great many encounters with a great
many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
在生命历程中，我多次遇到过很多关心大事的人。我在大人之中生活了很久。我密切地观察过他们，近在咫尺地看过。然而我对他们的看法还是没有改观。
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Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say:
“That is a hat.”
每一次我遇到一个看上去头脑完全清楚的大人，我都会给他看我一直带着的“一号画作”，想看看这个人是不是能真正地理解。但是，不论这个人是谁，他(她)总是会说：
那是顶帽子。
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Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.
(Excerpt from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
然后我就不再跟那个人聊任何有关蟒蛇、原始森林或是星星的事情了。我就会把自己降低到他的层次，跟他聊桥梁、高尔夫、政治、领带。而这个大人就会很高兴能遇到这样一个明智的人。
节选自安托万 德 圣埃克苏佩里的《小王子》
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Part 1 (Paras. 1-5)
Part 2 (Paras. 6-8)
Part 3 (Paras. 9-12)
A. Grown-ups’ response to my 2nd drawing
made me change my profession.
B. Later in my life, I held an attitude towards grown-ups.
C. Grown-ups’ response to my 1st drawing
inspired by a book.
Match the parts with the idea according to the passage.
The grown-ups thought the second drawing was scary.
The grown-ups reaction made the child lose interest in drawing.
What the adults told the child to learn was useless for his future work.
All the adults the child met didn't understand what his first drawing was.
True or false
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T
F
F
1 Grown-ups are more practical than children. They want
to teach children knowledge that will be useful in the future.
2 Grown-ups are no better than children. They lack imagination
and only care about matters of consequence.
3 Grown-ups are more knowledgeable than children. They can
understand everything by themselves.
Choose the author’s attitude towards grown-ups and find evidence to support your choice.
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Post-reading
Grown-ups are no better than children. They lack imagination and only care about matters of consequence.
Evidence:
1. They always need to have things explained. (Para. 6)
2. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. (Para. 7)
3. …, I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. (Para. 9)
4. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man. (Para. 12)
1 What does the author really mean by these sentences
2 What figure of speech does the author use How does this figure of speech help to express the author’s attitude
Read the sentences from the passage and answer the questions.
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1 What does the author really mean by these sentences
Most of the grown-ups I have met are the same. They focus on practical matters only and seldom pay attention to imagination or creativity. If I pretend to think the way they do, the adults will conclude that I am sensible and mature.
Read the sentences from the passage and answer the questions.
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2 What figure of speech does the author use How does this figure of speech help to express the author’s attitude
Irony. This figure of speech enables the author to indicate his low opinion of adults’ behaviour and values by stressing such things.
Read the sentences from the passage and answer the questions.
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Learning to learn
Irony is a subtle figure of speech that refers to things one says that are the opposite of what one really means. It has a humorous, emphatic or sarcastic effect.
For example: Fine, don’t buy me an airline ticket. I’ll just swim across the ocean!
It must be delightful to find oneself in a foreign country without a penny in one’s pocket..
1 What were the grown-ups’ responses to the author’s Drawing Number One and Drawing Number Two Why do you think they responded in this way
2 According to the author, what is a child’s most valuable trait
Do you agree with him
3 After reading the two passages in this unit, think about what you may acquire and lose as you grow up. Share your ideas with the class.
Think Share
1 What were the grown-ups’ responses to the author’s Drawing Number One and Drawing Number Two Why do you think they responded in this way
They thought the author’s Drawing Number One was just about an ordinary hat.
When seeing the author’s Drawing Number Two, they advised the author to change his focus to other subjects such as geography, history, arithmetic and grammar.
Because they lack imagination and patience and just focus on the matters of consequence.
2 According to the author, what is a child’s most valuable trait
Do you agree with him
Imagination and genuineness.
3 After reading the two passages in this unit, think about what you may acquire and lose as you grow up. Share your ideas with the class.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
---The Fox, The Little Prince
只有用心，才能看得清楚;重要的东西用眼睛是看不见的。
——狐狸《小王子》
3 After reading the two passages in this unit, think about what you may acquire and lose as you grow up. Share your ideas with the class.
After reading the two passages in this unit, I have learnt a lot. Being a child or an adult may have its own advantages and disadvantages. As far as I am concerned, being a child is much happier because I don’t take a lot of responsibilities, and I must be taken good care of by my parents, although I have to be supervised by them as well. Being an adult means I will be allowed to do a lot of things that I can’t when I was a child, while I must be mature and strong enough to take responsibilities.
Above all, I can acquire a lot; meanwhile, I may also lose something precious as I grow up. So I hope I will keep a childlike innocence deep in my heart.
Work in groups. Give a talk about your attitude towards grown-ups.
Decide whether you agree with the author's attitude towards grown-ups and why.
Think of some examples to support your opinions and make notes.
Organise your talk following the steps below.
Explain the author’s attitude towards grown-ups.
State your own opinions.
Give supporting examples.
Conclude by summarising your opinions.
4. Give your talk to the class.
Discussing and talking
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Group Work
Step 1: Decide whether you agree with the author’s attitude towards grown-ups and why.
Step 2: Think of some examples and make notes.
Work in groups. Give a talk about your attitude towards grown-ups.
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Group Work
Step 3: Organise your talk following the steps below.
Explain the author’s attitude towards
grown-ups.
State your own opinions.
Give supporting examples.
Conclude by summarising your opinions.
Group Work
Useful expressions:
(1) I totally agree with the author because ... /
I don’t agree with the author because ...
(2) In my view ... / In my eyes ... / Personally, I think ...
(3) Take ... for example ... / For instance ...
(4) To conclude ... / To sum up ... / All in all ...
Step 4: Give your talk to the class.
Now think about your performance during the group discussion. How well did you actively participate and contribute ideas
Group Work
Writing a book review
写书评
Do you read books a lot
How are you take notes while reading
Read the book review and find the information on the right.
The title of the book
The name of the author
The genre
A memorable character
A quote from the book
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The Little Prince
Book Review
the title of the book: _____________________________
the name of the author: __________________________
the genre: _____________________________________
a memorable character: __________________________
a quote from the book: ___________________________
_____________________________________________________
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
a children's fantasy book
a rose
It's the time you spent
on your rose that makes your rose so imortant.
Read the book review again and answer the questions.
What is the plot of the book
What is the key message of the book
3. What is the key reviewer think of the book
The book tells a story about a pilot who has crashed in the desert. While he is trying to fix his plane, a little prince comes to him. Visiting from another planet, the little prince recounts his adventures to the pilot, and the two become friends.
The book talks about the importance of looking beneath the surface of things to uncover their real meanings.
The author thinks this is a touching book that everyone should read, whatever their age.
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Choose a book that means a lot to you. Plan a review of it and make notes.
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Work in pairs. Make improvement to each other’s book reviews and share with the class.
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Work in pairs. Make improvement to each other’s book reviews and share with the class.
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General facts about the book:
The Old Man and the Sea is the representative work of American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Plot of the book:
It tells about the Cuban fisherman Santiago in eighty-four days with no fish caught.He finally caught a big marlin by himself. Unluckily, the fish, too large, dragged his boat on the sea for three days before being exhausted. He killed the fish and tied to the side of the boat, but attacked by sharks in return, the old finally man came back with only the head and tail of the fish and a spine left.
Plan a review of your favourite book.
The old Man and the Sea
Work in pairs. Make improvement to each other’s book reviews and share with the class.
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Comments:
"Man is not made for defeat. A man may be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated." This is Hemingway's dictum, is the eternal motto.Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea is the best interpreter of this golden saying.
Conclusion and recommendation:
In this simple story, there is an unyielding soul -- a poor Cuban fisherman -- Santiago, an unfortunate old man who interprets the image of "tough man" with his tragic experience.Poor and unlucky, his fate is sad, but he is also a failed hero, "undefeated loser".He is the symbol of the perfect person admired by Hemingway: strong, kind, generous, full of love. Even if he fails in the battle field of life, he is still mentally strong and a "tough man" in the face of irreversible fate.
The old Man and the Sea
Presenting ideas＆Reflection
Work in groups and discuss how to make a one-year self-improvement plan. Consider the following:
What you have learnt from the past
What you plan to achieve
What you plan to avoid
What you plan to overcome
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1. What you have learnt from the past:
2. What you plan to achieve:
3. What you plan to avoid:
4. What you plan to overcome:
eg. learn to be independent for their healthy growth
eg. take care of myself in the daily life
eg. make every effort not to avoid forming bad habits such as staying up late, making excuses for bad behaviour and so on.
eg. set a schedule, developing a good learning and life habit etc.
Work in groups and discuss how to make a one-year self-improvement plan. Consider the following:
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Complete the table to help you draft your plan.
Goals What to do
Healthy living Eat more fruit and vegetables. Drink more water. Do exercise three times a week.
Positive thinking
Choose a positive attitude toward life. Deal with the difficult situation in a constructive way. Shift your attention when you are in blue mood.
live in harmony with others
show respect for others. help those in need. have more communication with others
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Share your draft with your group and suggest ways to make improvement to each other’s plans.
Prepare a short presentation about your plan. Consider the following:
The structure of your presentation
Useful words, expression and structures
Give your presentation to the class. Check your self-improvement plan one year from now to see if you have achieves you goals.
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Write a reflection after completing this unit. Consider the following:
1 What is your understanding of growing up
2 What text types have you learnt about What are their features
3 What words, expressions and structures have you learnt
4 What improvement have you made in understanding different cultures
5 What improvement have you made in using learning strategies and exploring effective ways of learning
6 What improvement have you made in analysing and solving problem
Reflection
When I was six years old, after having read the book 1.________ (call) True Stories from Nature and pondered 2.________ (deep), I 3.________ (success) in making my first drawing, which was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But to my 4._____________ (disappoint), when 5._______(show) to the grown -ups, the drawing was misunderstood. They all thought it was a picture of a hat. In order to help them see it clearly, I drew the inside of the boa constrictor.
called
deeply
succeeded
disappointment
showed
Fill in the blanks and reread the passage.
复习巩固
But they advised me 6._______ (lay) aside my drawings of boa constrictors and devote 7.________ (me) instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. I had to give 8.________ my early dream and learned to pilot airplanes. In the course of my life, I have had many 9.____________ (encounter) with people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. The result was 10.________ no one was a person of true understanding. Then I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties.
up
encounters
that
to lay
myself
Fill in the blanks and reread the passage.
复习巩固
写作训练
4月23日是世界读书日(World Reading Day)，假设你所在学校开展读书活动，你选读了美国女作家 Helen Keller的作品Three Days to See, 这是一部自传体小说。该书讲述了Helen Keller自幼生病，丧失听觉和视觉，在Sullivan老师的帮助下，克服困难，努力学习，成为著名作家。该书谈论Helen关于生活和世界的看法与感受；人生的意义在于热爱生活。人人都应对未来满怀希望和心怀感恩。
请根据以上信息用英语为校英语报撰写一篇100-150词书评。
参考词汇：autobiographical 自传的
Homework
Book review on Three Days to See
Three Days to See was written by the American female writer and educator Helen Keller. It is an autobiographical novel, but it is also enjoyed/liked/loved by a lot of people.
The book tells the story of Helen Keller herself who got ill and lost both her hearing and sight when she was very young. With the help of her teacher, Sullivan, she overcame difficulties and studied hard to be a famous writer.
The book talks about Helen's opinions and feelings about life and the world. The real meaning of life is to love life. Everyone should be hope about their future and be grateful for what they have.
Personally, I think this is an inspiring and touching book that everyone should read, whatever their age. （125 words）
Sample writing