Unit 1 Looking forwards Understanding ideas 课件（共40张，内嵌音频） 2024-2025学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修4

(共40张PPT)
Unit 1 Understanding ideas
Facing the Future
面对未来
阅读课件
To learn to summarize main idea of each paragraph by analyzing the passage.
To accumulate some expressions about “determination”.
To review language points by sentences analysis and apply them into writing.
To take a leaf out of books of two authors and be prepared for your future.
Learning objectives
Words and expressions
take action 采取行动 2
* boyhood n. (男性的）童年时期，少年时代 3
ambition n. 追求，理想 3
* trainee n. 接受工作培训的人； 实习生 3
correspondent n. 通讯员，记者 3
* bullfighting n. 斗牛 3
* historical adj. （有关）历史的 3
detective n. 私家侦探 3
ultimately adv. 最后，最终 4
* dot n. 点，小圆点 4
* backwards adv. 往回，往前面 4
Complete the questionnaire and share your answers with the class.
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
① How do you feel about your performance over the previous terms
satisfied
so-so
not satisfied
Why
satisfied. I’m satisfied with my performance over the previous terms because I have made much personal development and have made two sincere friends.

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Activity 1
② What goals have you achieved
③ What goals have you yet to achieve
④ What will you do about the goals you want to achieve
⑤ How do you plan to achieve these goals
I have achieved the goal of being an outing person.
The goals of improving my English writing and making other academic progress.
I will try all my best and make full use of every moment to study.
I will keep a diary every day to improve my English writing and try to focus all of my attention on my schoolwork.
Activity 1
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.

Now open your books at page 2 and listen to the text recording carefully and try to grasp the main ideas of the text!
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Activity 2
展望未来
Facing the Future
面对未来
Unit 1 Looking forwards
Activity 2
What is possibly the most important concern in life
Will we get into the school of our choice
What will we be doing in ten years` time
Can we become the person we really want to be
the future
In the face of such questions, how should we approach the future Can we take action to shape it, or should we just accept whatever comes our way
Activity 2
Para. 1
What is the relationship between one’s plans and the future
As many of us already know, having plans in place for the future is no guarantee that they will become reality.
Activity 2
Para. 2
漂亮得不像实力派
能去非洲狩猎
能上战场立功
能凭一本小说获得普利策奖
还能凭同一本小说获得诺贝尔奖
能飞机失事后大难不死
能在几天后飞机再度失事时再次大难不死
还能在经历无数死里逃生后一枪打死自己
能被毁灭，但不能被打败
他的名字叫
海明威Ernest Hemingway
Activity 2
Para. 2
Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961) 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. 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.
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Para. 2
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Para. 2
Where there is a will , there is a way.( Thomas Edison)
If winter comes, can spring be far behind ( P.B. Shelley)
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of gaining its numinous summits.( Karl Marx)
Youth is our future and our hope.
Future is not in our destiny, but in our own hands.
History is a mirror that illuminates reality and the future.
Famous Quotes about Future
有志者，事竟成。（爱迪生）
冬天来了，春天还会远吗？（雪莱）
在科学上没有平坦的大道，只有不畏劳苦沿着其光辉之路攀登的人，才有希望达到它光辉的顶点。（马克思）
青年是我们的未来，是我们的希望。
未来不是命运所定，而是掌握在自己手中。
历史是一面镜子，照亮现实和未来。
Activity 2
Para. 2
1 现在不是去想缺少什么的时候， 该想一想凭现有的东西你能做什么。
2 优于别人，并不高贵，真正的高贵应该是优于过去的自己。
3 我们花了两年学会说话，却要花上六十年来学会闭嘴。懂与不懂，不多说，心乱心静，慢慢说， 若真没话， 就别说。
Famous sentences written by Ernest Hemingway
Activity 2
Para. 2
4 冰山在海上之所以显得庄严宏伟，是因为它只有八分之一露出水面。
5 一想到我的生命消逝得那么迅速，而我并不是真正地活着，我就受不了。
6 所有人其实就是一个整体，别人的不幸就是你的不幸，不要以为丧钟为谁而鸣，它就是为你而鸣。
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Para. 2
7 除非你是斗牛士，否则没有谁的生活只进不退。
8 没有谁能像一座孤岛，在大海里独居。每个人都像一块泥土，连接成整块陆地。
9 你从一个地方跑到另一个地方，但你还是你，你没法从自己的身体里面逃出去。
10 那时我就明白，不论是好事还是坏事，一旦结束，总会让人感到空虚。如果是坏事，这空虚感会自行消失，而如果是好事，你无法填补这空虚，除非发生更好的事。
Activity 2
Para. 2
11 生活总是让我们遍体鳞伤，但到后来，那些受伤的地方会变得更坚强。
12 黎明前总是特别冷。
13 鸡蛋从外部打破是食物，从内部打破是生命；人来自外部的力量是压力，内在的迸发是成长。
14 等待也是一种信念，海的爱太深，时间太浅。
15 鹰，不需鼓掌，也在飞翔。小草，没人心疼，也在成长。深山的野花，没人欣赏，也在芬芳。
Activity 2
Para. 2
What did Hemingway do to achieve his ambition to become a writer
The American author, Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, was from early boyhood single-minded in his ambition to write.
Activity 2
Para. 3
“I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.”
Having set himself this goal, he wrote 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.
On leaving high school, he joined a local Kansas newspaper as a trainee reporter.
He went to become foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and used his extraordinary experiences in Europe and later Cuba to inform his writing.
Activity 2
Para. 3
His short novel The Old Man and the Sea, about the three-day epic struggle between an elderly fisherman and the biggest fish he had ever caught, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953. He would later go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Activity 2
Para. 3
But man is not made for defeat, a man can be destroyed but not defeated.
-----Ernest Hemingway
Activity 2
Para. 3
Sherlock Holmes
Activity 2
Para. 4
Arthur Conan Doyle(1859-1930) 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 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. 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.
Activity 2
Para. 4
What was Doyle’s main writing ambition
By contrast, the young Arthur Conan Doyle , born in Scotland in 1819, had originally worked as a doctor. But Doyle’s main ambition was to become a writer of historical novels. Although some of his historical novels were published , their success was nothing compared to the stories of his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, which he is still best known for to this day.
Activity 2
Para. 4
Interestingly, Doyle wrote some of his early Holmes stories while he was waiting for patients in his medical practice in London. After Sherlock Holmes made him a household name, Doyle gave up medicine and devoted himself entirely to writing.
Why was Doyle disappointed with the success of his Holmes stories
He still longed to become known for his historical novels amongst other academic works.
Activity 2
Para. 5
The public, however, couldn’t get enough of Sherlock Holmes. In desperation， Doyle killed off the famous detective in a novel published in 1893 so that he could focus on his “serious”writing. However, fans of Holmes were so angry that Doyle, under immense pressure, was forced to bring Holmes back from the dead.
Doyle’s many historical novels , plays, poems and academic papers have remained largely forgotten, but Sherlock Holmes has been entertaining readers for well over a century.
Activity 2
Para. 5
What can you do when faced with uncertainty about the future
Though both of these men were ultimately successful, their paths to success were very different, their futures not necessarily turning out exactly as they planned.
As renowned tech innovator Steve Jobs once said,” You can`t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.“
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.
Activity 2
Para. 6
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
a What is possibly he 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 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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Activity 3
Organise information from the passage and complete the chart.
Activity 4
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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
Arther 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 ________
___________________________ ___________________________.
Similarities
They both ___________________________.
They shared __________________________________________.
novels and short stories based on his personal experiences of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, bull fighting and deep-sea fishing, amongst others
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature later
a doctor
Doyle’s man
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
were ultimately successful
the same ambitious and energetic approach to life
Organise information from the passage and complete the chart.
Try to fill them !
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Think & Share
1. What is your understanding of Steve Job’s words at the end of
the passage
2. What can you learn about facing the future from the two authors
You cannot make sense of your life by looking forward, because the future has not happened yet, and the meaning of future events is therefore uncertain. However, once future events have occurred, you may be able to see how they fit into the pattern of your life. Things which you did not expect to be important may turn out to be very important. You must face the future by believing that everything will work out in the end, and that your life will make sense and have meaning.
Have an ambitious and energetic approach to life. Keep to your goal and work hard at it.
Activity 5
3. What will you do to prepare yourself for the future
4. Do you know any stories about Chinese writers and their plans
for the future What lessons can you learn from their
experiences Share your opinions with the class.
Yes, I know a story about Mo Yan, a famous Chinese writer. After winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, he planned to continue writing and exploring new themes.
From his experience, we can learn that success is not an endpoint but a new beginning. He remained focused on his passion despite the fame. It teaches us to stay grounded and keep pursuing our goals with dedication.
Setting a goal, working hard and preparing for the unexpected.
Activity 5
Think & Share
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.
因此，不管未来你会遇到怎样的坎坷和曲折，都应以这两位作者为榜样，做好应对意外的准备。
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
Here“take a leaf out of the books” means “learn from the books”, following someone in the text.
By using it, the author aims to tell us what you have experienced is meaningful to your life.
The life you live with your heart is the best life.(你用心所经历的人生就是最好的人生。)
Activity 6
判断正(T)误(F)
1.People sometimes want to know what their future will be like.
2.Ernest Hemingway and Conan Doyle had something in common.
3.Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
4.Conan Doyle wanted to write something serious.
5.It was Sherlock Holmes that made Conan Doyle famous.
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Identify True or False
Activity 7
Consolidation
1.What do we know about Hemingway from the third paragraph
A. He did well in all subjects at school.
B. He was once a fisherman and caught a big fish.
C. He was interested in writing from childhood.
D. He worked in Europe immediately after high school.
2.What were Hemingway’s novels and stories based on
A. His own experiences.
B. Others’ experiences.
C. Material from books.
D. News from newspapers.
Reading Comprehension
Activity 7
3.What did Arthur Conan Doyle mainly want to become
A.A famous doctor.
B.A famous detective.
C. An author of detective stories.
D. An author of historical stories.
4.How does the author support his topic
A. By using exact figures.
B. By using examples.
C. By listing some facts.
D. By using quotations.
Reading Comprehension
Activity 7
As is known to all , what we have planned does not necessarily agree with 1 _____ we will become . Let’s take two famous authors Ernest Hemingway and Conan Doyle for example. Although they shared 2 ____ same ambitious and energetic approach to life , their careers unfolded in contrasting3 　　 (way).
Born in 1899,Ernest Hemingway had the ambition 4 _______(write) from early boyhood . On leaving high school , he first worked as a trainee reporter in a local newspaper , and became foreign correspondent . He wrote many novels and short stories 5_____ (base) on his personal experiences , among 6______ The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.
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the
ways
to write
based
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Grammar Filling
Activity 7
By contrast, the young Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Scotland in 1859, had 7___________(origin) worked as a doctor. But Doyle’s main ambition was to become a writer of 8____________(history) novels. Although some of his historical novels were published , their success was nothing compared to the stories of his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, which he is still 9_______(well) known for to this day.
Both of them were ultimately successful , but their paths to 10_______ (succeed) were very different , their futures not necessarily turning out exactly as they planned.
originally
historical
best
success
Grammar Filling
Activity 7
Be prepared to face our future
Write an article to look forwards in future.
Homework
Looking Forward to the Future
As we stand on the threshold of a new era, the future looks full of promise and possibilities. Technology is advancing rapidly, bringing us closer to solving many of the world's problems. We can expect cleaner energy sources, more efficient healthcare, and smarter homes.
Education will become more accessible, allowing everyone to learn and grow. Our understanding of the universe will deepen, unlocking secrets of space and munities will become more connected, fostering greater empathy and cooperation.
The future holds challenges too, but with innovation and determination, we can overcome them. Let's embrace the unknown with optimism and work together to create a brighter tomorrow.
Sample
The future has come, are you ready