Unit 13 Christmas Day in the Morning
教学目的：了解作者及其背景知识；
熟悉本文使用的写作手法；
掌握比喻、头韵及委婉语等修辞手法；
通过深刻理解文章内涵，培养学生的关爱之心和相关的讨论能力，同
时掌握文中的核心语言点。
教学内容 1. 热身：圣诞节
耶稣的诞生
2．作者 教育与背景
主要著作
成就与贡献
金融英语听力
3．作品赏析如何赏析文学作品
倒叙
扩展式讨论
4．写作技巧
比喻
头韵
委婉语
5．语言理解
长难句解析
核心词汇学习
6．课堂讨论
7．练与讲
教学重点 1.背景文化: 赛珍珠及圣诞节；
后期合成2．文学作品的赏析：倒叙;
3．文学中的修辞手法――头韵和委婉语.
教学方法结合实际吸收多种教学法的优点。
Picture Singing for Warming-up (10 minutes)
技术支持英语Today, we will study Christmas Day in the Morning by Pear S. Buck. Let’s firs t sing the song We Wish you a Merry Christmas. Do you like it? Do you like Christmas? Some people think a festival can best offer you a chance to express your love to tho you love deeply. Do you agree?
Background Information (40 minutes)
I.About Pearl S. Buck
Birthday: June 26, 1892
Parents: Absalom & Caroline Sydenstricker (Southern Presbyterian
missionaries, stationed in China )
Came to China: 3 months old
Period of stay in China: 40 years
Residential area: Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province
In 1915 she met a Cornell graduate, John Lossing Buck, who became her husband in 1917. They moved to South Xuzhou, Anhui province where she gathered the materials she would u in the Good Earth and other stories. Their marriage was unhappy but would last 18 years.
Pearl’s first child proved to be retarded智力迟钝的，低能的, and Pearl herlf underwent a hysterectomy子宫切除术. The couple later adopted a baby girl.
II. Pearl and her family
1st husband: J ohn Lossing Buck, a Cornell graduate
Carol (first child): Profoundly retarded
Janice: adopted child
1st Marriage: unhappy but last 18 years
2nd husband: Richard Walsh, a publisher
III. Pearl’s life in 1920s
In 1921, her mother died.
In 1927, Nanking incident broke out which made her suffer a lot. She spent a terrified day in hiding, and was rescued by the American gunboat. The Bucks sailed to Japan for a year.
IV. Pearl’s works
East wind, West Wind
The Good Earth
Dragon Seed
The Big Wave
Satan Never Sleeps Etc.
V. Pearl and Her Prizes
Pulitzer Prize and Howells Medal for The Good Earth
Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 for The Good Earth
VI. Pearl’s Special Contributions
♦In 1942, Pearl and Richard founded the East and West Association, dedicated to cultural exchange and understanding between Asia and the West.
periodicity♦In 1949, outraged that existing adoption rvices considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, Pearl established Welcome Hou, the first international, inter-racial adoption agency; in the nearly five decades of its work, Welcome Hou has assisted in the placement of over five thousand children.
♦In 1964, to provide support for Amerasian children who were not eligible for adoption, Pearl also established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which provides sponsorship funding for thousands of children in half-a-dozen Asian countries.
Writing skills (30 minutes)
Ⅰ. Simile and metaphor
a direct comparison between two unlike elements
“as, as…..so, like”
•As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
•as cunning as a fox, as poor as a church’s mou
•The world is like a stage.
An indirect comparison. It implies the likeness between things without the u of like or as.外交部翻译美女
Life is a highway. The world is a stage.
Exerci:
For crets are edged tools,and must be kept from children and fools.
No man is an island, entire of itlf.
IF poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
His friend has become a thorn in his side.
A dance is a measured pace, as a ver is a measured speech.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Ⅱ. Alliteration
the same consonant sound is repeated at intervals in the initial position
She lls a-shells on the ashore.
Wild Mushrooms: Mysterious-Menacing- Magnificent
Predictably the winter will be snowy, sleety and slushy.蛊惑是什么意思
Weak and weary
Reference 2:
the repetition of identical consonant sounds in different words in clo proximity
接近，邻近 e.g. frothing and fragrant
Slushy：溶雪的，泥泞的
Ⅲ. Euphemism
The substitution of a mild or indirect word or phra for a blunter or harsher one
v ugly: plain-looking; homely-looking
v die: to pass away, to depart, to go to sleep(heaven)
v fat: Plump, stout, chubby, weight catcher
v toilet habits, etc.:
to urinate or to defecate
to go to the bathroom
to do one’s business
to answer nature’s call
In-class discussion and prentation (40 minutes)
1.What is the writing technique here?
2.What is the theme of this text?
3.“Love alone could awaken love.” how do you understand the ntence? And “Love is like measles. Everyone has to go through it.”; “Love is blind.”3. Do you agree that only love can awaken love? What is the esnce of true love? Give your reasons.
4. Is love the solution to all the problems in the world today? Comment.
Text Appreciation (50 minutes)
I. How to appreciate literature (20 minutes)
Plot of the story:
Setting of the story:
Protagonist v.s. Antagonists:
Drama of the story lies in:
Writing technique: (Have you ever read a story using the similar technique?) Theme of the story:
II. Flashback (10 minutes)
III Further discussion (20 minutes)
Love alone could waken love. Do you agree?
Faults are thick where love is thin.
Love and cough cannot be hid.
Love at first sight.
Love cannot be forced.
Love is blind.
Love is neither bought nor sold.
Love is the mother of love.
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
No herb will cure love.副词的比较级和最高级
One love drive out another.
Love me, love my dog.
Language Understanding
institution
I. Sentence Paraphra (30 minutes)
1. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still!(P.1)
It was strange how up to that moment he had continued doing things the way he had always done them from boyhood.
2. He slipped back in time, as he did so easily nowadays.
He had recently got into the habit of recalling things in the past /of reminiscing/ of letting his thoughts go back to the old days.
3. He had never thought of it before, taking for granted the tie of their blood.
He had never thought of the fact that his father loved him becau he took the relationship of father and son as a matter of cour. He had never given this another thought.
4.…there would be no more loitering in the mornings and having to be called again.…he would never loiter in the morning and need no longer to be called again and again.
to loiter: to move or go about business slowly and with many stops
5.… stumbling blind with sleep and pulled on his clothes.
When he got up, it was still very dark and he was still very sleepy. He could hardly open his eyes and could not e or think clearly, so he walked or moved unsteadily and blindly.
cliche6. Then Jesus had been born in a barn,… bring their Christmas gifts.
Bible:
…And when they had come into the hou, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him; and when they had opened their treasures, they prented unto him gifts: gold and frankincen, and myrrh…
7. …he got up and crept downstairs, careful of the creaky boards…
He had to be careful so that the boards would not make any noi and wake up his father, thus spoiling his plan.
Ⅱ. Word study
Game:
U your body language to express the following phras:
dash into the room, steal into the room, to burst into the room, to sneak into the room, to tiptoe into the room, to sail into the room, to break into the room, to dance out of the room, to stagger out of the room, to fly out of the room, to crawl out of the room, to slip out of the room, to creep downstairs, to make her way towards the door, to bow her way out of the room, to shoulder her way through the crowd, to worm his way into the organization, to beg her way back home, to inch his way up the mountain
1.bar: [often passive] v.
1) to clo with a bar to bar the door
2) to make … safe by putting metal bats across it.
The windows are barred.
3) to stop going in a certain direction
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