课件19张PPT。1Myths,traditions and opinionsMore practice3Pets Look at the title and the picture. The story is based on a poem. Do you know who wrote the poem?Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin亚历山大· 谢尔盖耶维奇· 普希金be famous as:
be born:
died:
Occupation(job):the greatest Russian poet, the
founder of modern?Russian literature6 June 179910 February 1837 (aged 38)Poet, novelist, playwright
works styles
Narrative Poems 叙事诗
Verse novel 诗歌型小说
Drama 戏剧
Prose 散文
Fairy Tales in verse诗歌型童话故事
1830 – The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
1830 – The Tale of the Female Bear (was not finished)
1831 – The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1833 – The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
1833 – The Tale of the Dead Princess
1834 – The Tale of the Golden CockerelTrue or FalseHow much do you know about the tale?①Once upon a time, a fisherman caught a golden fish with a fishing rod. ( )
②The fish was so unusual that he could make people’s wishes come true. ( )
③The fisherman’s wife was very happy because she got the things she wanted. ( ) ④The weather was beautiful and the waves were gentle each time the man met the fish. ( )⑤In the end the fisherman and his wife remain the same life as before. ( ) TFTFFnetgetting more terribleAlthough unhappygetting worseHow many characters are there in the story?
Who are they? There are three .
They are the fisherman, his wife and the fish.3. What happened while the fisherman was at work? He caught a small, golden fish in his net.It happened near the sea in Russia
once upon a time.Read P1 and Think2. When and where did the story happen?4. What did the fish do after being caught? He begged the fisherman to let him go and
offered to grant him any wish in return.5. The fisherman asked for nothing, did he? No, he didn’t.What were the fisherman’s wife’s four wishes? I want a new bucket.I want a new cottage. I want to be mayor of the city. I want to be queen of all the land.[?b?k?t][?k?t?d?][me?(r)]rude, greedy,
unreasonable,
insatiable…hard-working,
kind,
coward… grant[grɑ:nt]honest, faithful, principled…2.What did the changes of the weather in the story symbolize?The changes in the weather symbolized the golden fish getting angry because the wife wanted so many things. 1. What was the weather like in the story ?The sun was shining.The weather was getting bad.The waves were getting big and sky was becoming dark.There was a terrible storm.
There was thunder and lightning and giant waves.Further discussion:1.What can you learn from the story?We can’t be greedy.Content is happiness.We must work hard to support
ourselves.2.Suppose I am the golden fish, What do you
want from me?...We can’t depend on others too
much. In groups of four, make up a play about ‘The fisherman and the fish’. There should be three characters and one narrator. Act your play in front of the class. You may begin like this:1234Narrator Once upon a time in Russia, there lived an old fisherman and his wife. They were poor and lived in an old, mud hut near the sea. One morning, something unusual happened while the fisherman was at work.
Fisherman Oh, look! I’ve caught a small,golden fish in my net.
Fish Please let me go, kind fisherman.I will grant you any wish in return.
Fisherman ...5 A short playHomeworkRead the article fluently
Improve the short play a mud hut a cottage [m?d]a sticky mixture of earth and water[h?t]?a small house with only one
or two rooms [?k?t?d?]a small house, usually
in the country.muddy adj. a bucket [?b?k?t]a round metal or plastic container with a handle attached to its sides grant[grɑ:nt]agree to make something come trueEg. I will grant you any wish.This wish was granted. comfort[?k?mf?t]make sb. feel less worried, unhappy, or upsetEg. My mother always comforts me when I am unhappy.Ex:
Lie down on your bed and make yourself_____________.comfortableWe can study _____________in a classroom with an air
conditioner.comfortably[me?(r)] mayor?the person who controls a town or a cityEg. The fisherman’s wife wanted to be mayor of the city.ask for sth. in a very forceful waydemand[d??mɑ:nd]Eg. You?demand?too?much.I?demand?to?talk?to?my?lawyer!12 Find words or phrases to match the meanings in the story.a long time ago ______________________
ask somebody for something in a very strong way __________
give somebody what they have asked for __________
stupid person __________
not polite __________
make somebody feel less worried __________
a small house in the country __________
the leader of a group of people who control a town __________ or city
want something strongly __________
very big __________once upon a timebeggrantfoolrudecomfortcottagemayor34demandgiant5