Unit 4 Exploring poetry Integrated skills 课件(共33张PPT，内镶嵌视频)译林版(2019)选择性必修第一册

(共33张PPT)
Unit 4
Integrated skills
Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
Understand and express the thematic meaning through listening, viewing, reading, speaking, and writing.
Acquire knowledge related to poetry, familiarize oneself with and comprehend the connotations of poetry, develop cultural literacy, and enhance subject-specific competencies.
Observe and understand the characteristics of poetry from different countries from a cross-cultural perspective, learn to write poetry reviews, and express personal viewpoints logically and creatively.
Obtain background knowledge of this lesson through multiple channels, select appropriate learning methods, and improve comprehensive language application ability.
Key Points and Difficult Points
Key points:
Acquiring knowledge related to poetry, familiarizing oneself with and comprehending the connotations of poetry, developing cultural literacy, and enhancing subject-specific competencies.
Difficult Points:
Observing and understanding the characteristics of poetry from different countries from a cross-cultural perspective, learning to write poetry reviews, and expressing personal viewpoints logically and creatively.
Lead-in
Suppose you travel alone to such a wood and now have to choose one of the roads while you have no idea where either of them will lead you to. Tell me which road you will take and explain why.
I will choose one road to take. Since life offers no guarantee and I will never know if my decisions are wrong until I have made them. I might as well take the risk and decision. It is definitely better than keeping myself at a loss. Although it is true that one wrong turn could get myself lost, the turn could also be an opportunity for an adventure, or could even open more roads. It is all a matter of perspective. We have the choice between being a lost traveller or an accidental tourist of life.
Integrated skills
Listen to the poem and try to find the answers to the following questions.
Where is the writer travelling
What does he have to do
What is the wood like in the writer's eyes
Where is the writer travelling
What does he have to do
What is the wood like in the writer's eyes
He is travelling in the countryside.
He has to make his own decision and see what will happen.
He uses the image of a fork in the road to symbolize any decision in life.
Are there any repeated words, rhymes or other special sound effects in this poem
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
B1 Watch the video and answer the following questions.
1. What is Robert Frost’s writing style like
2. When was “The Road Not Taken” first published
3. What does the image of the two roads stand for
4. What was the difficult path the poet took
1. What is Robert Frost’s writing style like
Honest and direct.
2. When was “The Road Not Taken” first published
In 1915.
3. What does the image of the two roads stand for
Any choice in life.
4. What was the difficult path the poet took
Continuing to write poems even though his poetic career was not successful in the beginning.
Understanding a
lecture
While listening to a lecture, you can read the PPT slides, which usually give the outline of the lecture. If the lecturer stresses a certain word or phrase,or repeats it, it is probably a key point and you must pay special attention to it.
Tip
B2 Watch the video again and complete the notes below.
Robert Frost and his poem “The Road Not Taken”
About the poet
Robert Frost was a famous American poet.
He lived from 1874 to (1) _______.
He won (2) ______ Pulitzer Prizes.
He often used rural scenes to explore deep questions about
(3) ____________________________.
1963
four
the human condition
About the poem
The story behind the poem
The poem was inspired by Frost’s (4) ____________ in the countryside with Edward Thomas.
Thomas often spent a long time choosing which path to take and afterwards, he would complain that he had picked (5) _______________________.
How to understand the poem
When faced with two paths, people have no choice but to make a decision and see what will happen.
Many people assume that the poet encourages the reader to take (6) _____________________ through life. You can have your own understanding of the poem.
long walks
the wrong one/path
the difficult path
C In pairs, discuss the poem “The Road Not Taken”. Use the following questions and expressions to help you.
What message do you think the poem is trying to get across to readers
Have you ever been in a similar situation Connect your personal experience with the poem.
Sample
A:
B:
A:
The poem “The Road Not Taken” is great. I like Robert Frost’s honest and direct style in this poem. It feels conversational—like he is speaking to me. Do you know what I mean
Definitely! Throughout the poem the speaker uses the word “I”, so he seems to be telling me his own experiences. When reading it, I feel like I am also walking in those woods.
I agree! I also like Frost’s way of using rural scenes to explore the deep questions about life. He uses the metaphor of the two roads to describe the issue of making choices. At the start of the poem, the speaker sounds resigned while the imagery captures his feelings of uncertainty and regret very well. But by the end of the poem, we know he has accepted his choice, which is wonderful!
B:
A:
B:
A:
Yes, and I can relate to the poem because I came across two diverging roads recently.
Are you saying that because making decisions is sometimes difficult, we should accept the feelings we have and trust in the choice we’ve made
Well, I had to make a decision whether to continue violin lessons or calligraphy classes. I just started calligraphy and I’ve been learning the violin for eight years already. Unfortunately I don’t have enough time for both.
What happened
B:
A:
B:
A:
B:
I chose calligraphy because it interests me even though I am not very good at it.
Which one did you choose
Exactly! I wonder if choosing it will make all the difference to my life!
Do you mean that you chose “the one less traveled by”
I’m sure it will!
D Write an article about your understanding of “The Road Not Taken”. Use your ideas from part C and the information in parts A and B to help you.
Planning your writing
· Learning about the text type
An article about your understanding of a poem is called a poetry review, in which you describe the symbolic meaning of the words and images in a poem, and provide a personal understanding of the poem.
· Learning about the structure
When writing an article about your understanding of the poem, you can follow the structure below:
Introduce the poet and the poem briefly.
Analyse and evaluate the artistic characteristics of the poem, such as its sound, images and figurative devices.
Give your understanding of the poem’s meaning. It is a good idea to refer to your personal experience or emotion in this part.
· Learning about the language
To express your opinion, you can use expressions such as
in my opinion
from my point of view
in my eyes
I think/find/suppose/assume
my opinion/view/belief/impression is that
as for me
it seems to me that
Understanding "The Road Not Taken"
"The Road Not Taken" is a poem written by Robert Frost, a famous American poet. Frost is known for his honest and direct style which makes his poems feel conversational. This poem uses the first person perspective throughout, such as in the first stanza, "And be one traveler, long I stood", so the speaker is sharing his own experiences with us. Frost also uses rural scenes to explore deep questions about life, and metaphor and imagery are employed to represent the feelings we have when faced with decisions. In the first stanza, the readers are asked to visualize diverging roads as the choices we are faced with. Then it continues to connect with emotions we feel during the decision-making process.
Sample
For example, regret is expressed in the line, "And sorry I could not travel both". The second and third stanzas focus on the explanations we give for the choices we have made. The speaker justifies his choice of taking the more mysterious road, when he says, "Because it was grassy and wanted wear".But, in stanza three we know that he is still thinking about the other more traveled road when he says,"Oh, I kept the first for another day!" However, by the final stanza, the speaker expresses acceptance of his choice, "I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference." Just as in our lives, we should accept the choices we make.
Sample
Exercise
Exercise: 语法填空
1. The impact of such chemicals __________ the human body is still not well understood but there are some indications that harmful effects can occur even at low concentrations（浓度）.
2. Alice overslept this morning. As __________ result, she was late for school.
3.___________ (climb) mountains is a good way to keep healthy.
4. It usually takes me half an hour __________ (drive) home every day.
5. Hurry up, __________ we will miss the train.
on
Climbing
a
to drive
or
Summary
New words: bend,claim,hence...
Expressions: be faced with
spend a long time doing...
Functions: 鉴赏英文诗歌
Sentences: And looked down one as far as I could,to where it bent in the undergrowth.
When faced with two paths, people have no choice but to make
a decision and see what will happen.
Summary
Homework
Review the language points and complete the exercises.
Homework
SEE YOU NEXT CLASS!
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