Unit 6 Nature in words
本单元的主题是语境是“人与自然”，涉及的主题语境内容是不同文学形式中描写的自然。本单元带领学生赏析不同作家笔下妙不可言的自然。他们在描绘自然之美的同时传递了环境保护的主题。通过本单元的学习，学生不仅能够掌握不同文体的特点，体会作者对自然的爱，也能更好地理解人与自然的关系，树立欣赏和保护自然的意识，建立感恩自然、珍视自然、关爱自然的信念。
学生能够围绕本单元的主题语境，基于单元提供的诗歌、散文、小说、博客、书评等多模态语篇，综合运用各种语言技能，赏析描写自然的美文，体会作者的语言魅力；能够听懂并谈论与自然相关的文学作品，恰当使用所学词汇和表达通过不同的文学形式描写自然，深化对单元主题意义的理解；能够运用单元所学内容，提升分析和解决问题的能力，提高自己的理解和表达能力，最终促进自身语言能力，文化意识、思维品质和学习能力的提升。
教学计划
经过对教材内容的分析和重组，本模块可以分五课时教授：
第一课时 哪年建党 Starting out
第二课时 Understanding ideas
第三课时 Using language
第四课时 Developing ideas
第五课时 Prenting ideas
教学步骤：
Period 1 Starting out
Teaching Goals:
1. To arou Ss’ interest in learning about the development of the various literary form related with nature.
2. To develop Ss’ appreciation of the beauty of nature.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Leading-in
Purpo: To activate Ss and arou them to talk about the literary forms they know.
Ask Ss to brainstorm the literary forms they have already known.
What literary forms do you know?？
Suggested answers: novels, poems, essays, letters, travel journals, dramas and folk tales.
Step 2 watch the video and answer questions
Purpo: To learn the development of the various literary form related with nature as well as the nature writers and their works.
Ask Ss to watch the video and answer the following three questions.
1 What literary forms are mentioned in the video?
Suggested answers: 列传Poems, letters, travel journals, essays and novels are the literary forms mentioned in the video.
2 Write down the writers and their works mentioned in the video.
Suggested answers: 二趾树懒Ralph Waldo Emerson ----Nature
Thoreau ------Walden
Jack London----The call of the wild, White Fang
3 What is new of literary works about nature now?
春深似海的意思
Suggested answers: Writers now are more aware of the vulnerability of nature, and they call for the protection of nature.
Step 3 Listen and learn the poem by Emily Dickson.
Purpo: To help Ss understand the message conveyed in the poem and think about the significance of nature to human beings.
1 Give Ss some background information about Emily Dickson and the feature of her poems.
2 Ask Ss to listen and read the poem and answer questions.
3Lead Ss to understand the poem by answering the questons.
1) How many aspects are there to introduce “Nature” in the poem?
Suggested answers: Three aspects. Nature is what we e. Nature is what we hear.
Nature is what we know.
2) What images are ud to symbolize nature? 爱国的格言
Suggested answers: Nature is symbolid by simple images of animals (“Squirrel”, “the Bumble bee”, “The Bobolink”, “the Cricket”) and features (“The Hill”, “the Afternoon”, “Eclip”, “the Sea”, “Thunder”), which are in turn symbolic of the poet’s thoughts and feelings about the simplicity of nature. Nature is also symbolid in a metaphorical n when it is described as “Heaven” and “Harmony”.
3) What message does the poem try to convey?
Suggested answers: The message of the poem is that although what we e and hear in nature appears to be simple, within that simplicity lie great beauty, mystery and magnificence that humans cannot truly appreciate or capture in their art.
4) What does nature mean to you?
Ss’s own answer.
比如英语
Step 4 Describing nature
Purpos: Enable Ss to appreciate the beauty of nature in Charles Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers.
1 Ask Ss to read the paragraph and answer the questions.
1) What does this paragraph mainly describe?
Suggested answers: This paragraph mainly describes the beautiful appearance in the month of August.
2) What aspects does the author describe?
Suggested answers: The author describes the skies, fields, flowers, orchards, trees, wheat and the quality of the light.
2 Ask Ss three more questions to further understand the text.
Why did the passing wagon move slowly?
Why didn’t the author hear no loud nois?
Can you find some clues from the text?
Suggested 刘墉answers: Ss’s understanding of the text.
3 Ask Ss to finish 6 on page 66.
4 To play Thomas Nash’s poem Spring for Ss to further stimulate Ss’s appreciation of the beauty of nature in literature.
Step 5 Homework
1Describe nature during your favorite ason with the words you have learnt.
2 Read the word list of unit6.
Period 2 Understanding ideas
Teaching Goals:
1. To understand First Snow by John Boynton Priestley and analyze the structure and the
purpo of the text.
2. To enable Ss to describe nature.
3. To stimulate Ss’ love for nature and their ability to appreciate the related literary forms.
Teaching Procedures:
