新标准大学英语综合教程3unit2active_reading_1课件

Active reading 1,Mapping,Embarkation,Navigation,Destination,Resources,Learning to identify collocations in the passages as a way to enhance the understanding of meaningUnderstanding the effect of giving different viewpoints through story,Active reading 1: Mapping,Sylvia Plath,Superman,Icarus,Mecca,Salvador Dali,Active reading 1: Embarkation,Jerusalem,Photo scrapbook,Photo scrapbook,More,Photo scrapbook,whip a top,trundle a hoop,play on the swing,blow soap bubbles,ride a goat,play slingshot,trace the playmate,skip the rubber band,play the house plan,play glass marbles,More,Photo scrapbook,Work in pairs. Look at the photo scrapbook of childhood memories. Talk about what kind of childhood memories they show. Do any photos remind you of anything from your childhood?,click,click,click,click,click,Photo scrapbook,A boy is making bubbles using a stick attached with a loop of flexible wire (in a round shape or curve) and a bucket of soapy water. I used to do this with a small piece of circular wire and it was fun to see how many bubbles you could make and try to make the biggest bubble ever.,Back,Photo scrapbook,A child is feeding a sheep. I remember feeding dogs and chickens when I was about four, and there are photos of me playing with a cat at that age.,Back,Photo scrapbook,A more formal photo. It reminds me of the occasion when I joined the Young Pioneers at seven years old. The photographer kept trying to make me smile, but I was shy so I didnt want to.,Back,Photo scrapbook,A child writing yes, this is a familiar memory for me! Writing seemed to be so difficult then, and it was always a struggle to finish the page. Funnily enough, reading seemed to be easy, though.,Back,Photo scrapbook,The girl here seems to be about to wash the dog. This isnt something I used to do. I simply dont recall ever washing an animal, but we had dogs at home when I was small.,Back,Sylvia Plath (1932-1963),Work in pairs. Finish Activity 1 of Active reading (1), P18. who she waswhen she livedwhat kind of person she might have been,More,Self portrait by Sylvia Plath,Sylvia Plath (1932-1963),one of the major American poets of the 20th centurylived between 1932 and 1963seemed to have been depressed and unhappy,More,Ted and Sylvia,Sylvia with her kids,Sylvia Plath (1932-1963),Her works The Bell Jar 钟形罩(1963) her struggle with depression under her pseudonym Victoria Lucas Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1979, written around 1952) a collection of short stories, essays and extracts from diaries,More,Sylvia Plath (1932-1963),“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination we want to be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.”,Sylvia Plath,Mecca,Mecca: a city in Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Islam, where Prophet Muhammad was born,The name Muhammad in traditional Islamic calligraphy,Work in pairs and explain the significance of Mecca.,Jerusalem,A holy city for Jews (Judaism), Muslims (Islam) and Christians (Christianity)The 2000 Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem lists 1204 synagogues (Jewish house of prayer), 158 churches, and 73 mosques within the city.,the Omar Mosque,the Belz Great Synagogue (犹太会堂;犹太教堂 ),the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (圣墓，耶稣之墓）,Work in pairs and explain why Jerusalem is a holy city.,Salvador Dali (1904 -1989),a Spanish surrealist painter known for his strange dream-like paintings (Surrealism),More,The Persistence of Memory, 1931,Self Portrait as Mona Lisa, 1954,Work in pairs and discuss which of Dalis works of art impresses you most and why.,Salvador Dali (1904 -1989),Venus de Milo with drawers, 1964,Mae Wests Lips Sofa, 1936-1937,Icarus,In Greek mythology, Icarus was a man who tried to fly using wings held together with wax. When he got too close to the sun, the wax melted, and he fell to the ground and died.,Work in pairs and discuss if you can find a similar person to Icarus in Chinese literature or Chinese history.,Superman,Work in pairs. Look at the title of the extract from Sylvia Plaths book Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. Answer the questions. 1 Who is Superman? 2 Why do you think the writer talks about Superman? 3 What role might Superman play in her childhood?,click,click,Superman,1. Who is Superman?a newspaper reporter in comics, films, and the 1940 radio series special abilities to fly and fantastically strong a special blue suit with a red capefights crime always turns up at the right moment to solve problems,Back,Superman,2. Why do you think the writer talks about Superman?She might have been a huge superman fan when she was young, and have a lot of good childhood memories associated with superman.3. What role might Superman play in her childhood?Superman might have been the writers hero and played an important role in her childhood.,Back,Comprehending the text,Interpreting,Active reading 1: Navigation,Text organisation,Text exploration,Text evaluation,Comments,Critical thinking,Text organisation,Pre-Supermanmemories,Superman memories,click,click,Identify the textual pattern.,Text organisation,Pre-Supermanmemories,Prize winner,Browns snowsuit,A landscape by Dali,Flying dreams,Nightly Adventures in space,Back,Text organisation,Superman memories,Superman games,Where,When,Who,alcove by the parking lot,during recess,the authorDavie StirlingSheldon Fein,Seldons tortures,Uncle FrankSuperman incognito,Back,Comprehending the text,Choose the best summary of the passage. Sylvia Plath wrote about her real and imaginary life as a child.,Interpreting,Imagery the use of words and phrases in literature to create an image of something. Sylvia Plaths creative use of imagery bywords and ideas in unusual and unexpected waysthe connotational meaning of words to create striking and memorable images, and shows the writers unique gifts for poetry and for more literary prose e.g. my technicolor dreams; his cape whistling in the wind The opposite of imagery collocation, in which words are combined in expected ways.,More,Interpreting,Word combinations,Sentences,Word combinations,Look at the word combinations from the passage and explain the images they create. 1. the darkening water 2. the perpetual droning 3. the vague twilight 4. the sheer poetry of flight 5. a sense of windy superiority 6. the broken insect,click,click,click,Word combinations,1. the darkening waterThe water looked darker in the sunset because there was less daylight.2. the perpetual droningThe planes landing and taking off at Logan Airport made a continuous low sound.3. the vague twilightThe twilight was vague because objects couldnt be seen very clearly at this moment between day and night.,Back,Word combinations,4. the sheer poetry of flight,Back,The writer thinks of flight as exciting, innovative movement which gives a different view of the world, as poetry does through words. She also feels that flying is full of beauty and gracefulness.,Word combinations,5.a sense of windy superiorityThe writer and David felt superior because they played imaginative games which the other children didnt (or couldnt) play. This feeling was windy because wind can give people a sense of excitement and difference.6. the broken insectsSheldon pulled the wings and legs off the insects so they were not whole anymore they were broken.,Back,Sentences,Work in pairs and Look at the sentences from the passage and answer the questions in Activity 10, P21. Sentence 1 Sentence 5 Sentence 2 Sentence 6 Sentence 3 Sentence 7 Sentence 4,click,click,click,click,click,click,click,Sentences,1. . I can recall the changing colors of those days, clear and definite as a pattern seen through a kaleidoscope. What sense (sound, sight, taste etc) is the writer describing? What are the key words in this sentence?The sight in which colors and perhaps shapes change rapidly, like looking through a kaleidoscope. The key words “changing colors”, “clear”, “definite”, and “pattern”, and the comparison with a “kaleidoscope”.,Back,Sentences,2. and the sound of waves was lost in the perpetual droning of the planes. What sense is the writer describing here? What do planes do on a runway?The writer is describing the sounds of the planes as they land on and take off from the runway.,Back,Sentences,3. a breathless sense of having tumbled like Icarus from the sky and caught myself on the soft bed just in time. What does the writer feel as she comes out of her dream? What happened to Icarus?She feels she has been falling out of the sky, like Icarus. But, unlike him, she caught herself on the bed to save herself, while Icarus fell and died in the sea.,Back,Sentences,4. Out by the parking lot David and I found the perfect alcove for our Superman dramas. Do they play alone or with other children? Where is this likely to be a place where lots of people go?They play alone away from the other children in a place where few people go at recess time. The alcove by the back entrance would be used only at the beginning and end of the school day.,Back,Sentences,5. Our Superman games made us outlaws, yet gave us a sense of windy superiority. Why do you think theyre outlaws? Are they similar to or different from the other children?They are different from the other children and they do not join the others for playground games, so they think of themselves as outlaws.,Back,Sentences,6. After school we left him to his mamma and his bonbons and his helpless insects. So how does Sheldons behaviour while he plays with the writer contrast with his behaviour after they finish playing?Sheldon joined them as a villain. After being prompted, he could invent tortures in the games, as a villain might. However, after the games were over he went back to his mothers sweets and he continued the torture outside the games by pulling off the legs and wings of insects.,Back,Sentences,7. he admitted that Uncle Frank was the strongest man he had ever known, and could do lots of tricks like making caramels disappear under napkins and walking on his hands. How is Uncle Frank compared with Superman in real life?Uncle Frank was very strong and he could do magic tricks and gymnastics, like walking on his hands.To the writer, Uncle Frank was as powerful as Superman.,Back,Comments,Read Activity 6, P20 and finish the comments of Active reading (1). Plath never needed to be (1) _ to talk about her childhood memories. They were very (2) _ and still real to her as an adult. She imagined she could fly and (3) _ through the air like Superman.,prompted,definite,whirl,More,Comments,Coming from the highways around Boston was the(4) _ sound of traffic. In the distance a plane was taking off, its lights (5)_ into the night sky. She remembered the sound of (6) _ which came from the group of girls. Sadly in her later life it seemed as if Superman had (7) _ to earth.,perpetual,giggling,tumbled,blazing,Critical thinking,Work in groups. Discuss the questions, each group with one question only.,1. As a child, which dreams, sights, sounds and feelings did you share with Sylvia Plath? Do you still have them now?,2. Do you think Sylvia Plath imagined she was a Superman herself?,3. Who in the passage do you think is the most important real-life person to her can you add to her description of them? What did they really look like?,4. Do you think Sylvia Plath had a happy childhhood? How different do you think her adult life was?,5. What importance events in childhood can affect people when theyre old?,click,click,click,click,click,Critical thinking,1. As a child, which dreams, sights, sounds and feelings did you share with Sylvia Plath? Do you still have them now?I also had dreams about flying. I dreamed I was a bird, not Superman, though. I also remember pink sunsets which were similar to her description. However, we didnt have the droning sounds of planes. I admired my uncle but I didnt think he was Superman!,Back,Critical thinking,2. Do you think Sylvia Plath imagined she was a Superman herself?No. When she was a child she dreamed superman was teaching her and he looked like her uncle.But in a different way she was a Superman when she wrote poems later, because she became a different person who could do super things with words.,Back,Critical thinking,Back,3. Who in the passage do you think is the most important real-life person to her? Can you add to her description of them? What did they really look like?Probably her Uncle Frank she admires him and thinks hes like Superman he is strong and can do magic tricks and gymnastics.Maybe David David shares her love for the sheer poetry of flight and listens to the Superman serial on the radio with her in the evenings. Especially, hes her main companion at school they play Superman games together.,Critical thinking,Back,4. Do you think Sylvia Plath had a happy childhood? How different do you think her adult life was?She seems to be lonely but imaginative when she was young with only one friend David, a pale and bookish boy. But generally, she enjoyed her childhood. Her adult life was, it seems, also lonely and, as a poet, imaginative. She apparently got depressed from time to time and although her marriage was very productive and creative for five years, it did not end well and there were times when she was unhappy as an adult.,Critical thinking,5. What important events in childhood can affect people when theyre older?Many significant family events in childhood can.,examples,moving house,changing school,divorce,death,poor health,unemployment of parents,your family suddenly becomes rich or poor,More,Critical thinking,Back,5. What important events in childhood can affect people when theyre older?,criticalevents,war,famine,epidemics,disasters likeearthquake,landslide,accidents likecar crash,ship wreck,financial changeslike depression,financial crash,Summarising,Talking point,Active reading 1: Destination,Summarising,Work in pairs and summarise the text by filling the blanks. The extract from Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath is a combination of her real life and _ life in her childhood. In the real life, Plath was a winner of the prize for drawing the best Civil Defense signs, lived by an airport and had an Uncle who bore _ to Superman. In her imagination, the airport was her Mecca and _ because of her flying _. Superman _ her dream at the moment.,imaginary,Jerusalem,dreams,More,fulfilled,resemblance,Summarising,David Stirling, a _ boy, also worship Superman. During the _ at school, he and the author played Superman games. Compared with their school-mates who played the routine games, they felt they were _ but had a sense of windy _. They also found a _, Sheldon Fein, who later invented _.,bookish,recess,outlaws,superiority,stand-in,tortures,Talking point, family and friends books imaginary friends smells toys and games food and drink special places possessions festivals and holidays school fantasy and adventure clothes,More,Work in pairs. Read the quotations on childhood and decide what kind of childhood memories they describe. Choose from the list:,Talking point,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Orlando Bloom,Eric Allin Cornell,Diane Ackerman,Charles Dickens,Dennis Potter,JFK,Dickens,More about the quotations,Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher,“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”,This seems to be about school,Rousseau seems to be critical, saying that your reasoning, your ability to think, is not awake at school. It only wakes up when you leave childhood. Perhaps thats how he remembers his childhood.,Orlando Bloom, British actor,“My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.” about a childhood of fantasy and adventure in which Bloom imagined he was lots of different people, real or imaginary. He is fulfilling his childhood, completing it in a happy, satisfying and important way, through his job.,Eric Allin Cornell, US physicist,“My mother taught me to read when I was still quite young, and at least in my memory I passed the majority of my childhood reading.”about memories of books. Obviously, Cornell remembers that he was taught to read when he was young, presumably before going to school, and that he spent most of his time reading. However, he recognises that this is only in his memory.So perhaps he actually spent a lot of time doing other things but only remembers reading books because thats what he liked to do.,Diane Ackerman, US writer/poet,“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.”,smells,the most outstanding memories,a whole childhood summer,other memories of sights and scenes,triggers of her childhood memories,Charles Dickens, British writer,“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions 错觉of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveller back to his own fireside and quiet home!”memories of festivals and holidays are important through time or space or taking old people back to the pleasures of when they were young or travellers back home. However, this may well be delusions, ideas or beliefs that are not true childhood memories may not be memories of what actually happened.,Dennis Potter, British dramatist,“I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.” Memories are posse