Unit 24 Literature and Art
Listening & Speaking
请听录音,模仿朗读下列短文,注意重音、连读、升降调和语义群。
模仿朗读
To`day ↗︱ we are `going to `read the ex`tract ↘︱from The Ad`ventures︿of `Tom `Sawyer, ↘︱an︿`article↗︱`written by `Mark `Twain. ↘︱`Tom `Sawyer ↗︱︿ex`perienced `many `different︿e`motion︿in︿a `day. ↘︱Be`fore we `study the `lesson, ↘︱I'd `like to `say `something about the `author. ↘︱`Mark `Twain was `born︿in `1835↗︱and `died︿in `1910. ↘︱He is one︿of the `most `famous and suc`cessful `writers︿in︿A`merica. ↘︱How`ever, his `life was `very un`happy: ↘︱his `father `died ↗︱when he was `12; ↘︱his `wife `died︿of︿a `serious `illness; ↘︱his `son `died︿at `19 `months; ↘︱what's `more, ↘︱`both his︿`eldest︿and `youngest `daughters `died be`fore him. ↘︱`All this `made him very `sad and︿un`happy ↘︱through`out︿his `life. ↘︱`Now `let's look︿at the `article ↗︱in `detail. ↘
情景提示:
在2007年，纽约时报记者Mr. Black采访了享誉全球的畅销书作家J. K. Rowling， 了解了J. K. Rowling的个人情况，创作背景以及未来的创作计划。
角色扮演
根据下面中文提示,用英语提出3个问题。
角色扮演
你是什么时候、 在哪里出生的？
2. 在你成为作家之前， 你从事什么工作？
3. 你什么时候开始创作 “哈利·波特” 系列
故事的？
When and where were you born?
What did you do before you became a writer?
When did you begin to write the story of Harry Potter?
角色扮演
请听一段对话和对话后面的录音提问,根据对话内容回答5个问题。
4. What does the man do?
He is a journalist from the New York Times.
5. How old is J. K. Rowling?
Now she is 47 years old.( In 2012)
6. What’s the name of J. K. Rowling’s first fiction story?
J. K. Rowling’s first fiction story is Rabbit.
7. What happened to J. K. Rowling after her first book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was published in 1997?
She became one of the richest women in the world.
8. What was J. K. Rowling planning to do in 2007?
She was planning to write the seventh novel about Harry Porter in 2007.
故事复述
Do you think a little boy can paint an attractive painting and hang it in a museum?
故事复述
梗概提示:
一幅无人认领的画被视为杰作展示在博物馆中,后来发现原来是一个小男孩画的。
John claim (认领)
director (馆长) expert (专家)
prove (证实)
故事复述
John found a beautiful painting in the museum. Since no one claimed it, the director of the museum decided to hang it in the museum. All the experts said it was beautiful and had very deep meaning. But some weeks later a little boy looking at the new painting began to cry and told the director that the painting was his and he wanted it back. And his mother proved that by pointing out that there was the boy’s name on the painting.
Goodbye!
