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大学英语(全新版)第一册电子教案 Unit Eight Travel Teaching Objectives: Students will be able to : understand the main idea and structure of the text; appreciate the fluid and sensual writing style; grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text; conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities. Text Analysis: The text is beautifully written. That’s why we arrange a post-reading activity simply for students to share favorite sentences with each other. It may be true that the functional use of English will dominate in their life, but it pays to expose them to the aesthetic side of English. There is an abundance of sensory impressions in the essay. All of our five senses are appealed to here. We hear the songs of birds, insects and children. We feel the coolness of drinks and the night. We smell the sweetness in the air. We observe the wonderful sights and graceful movements on the river, on the lake and in the jungle. We taste the delicious village food. Not only does the author move effortlessly from one sensory impression to another, but she also handles the changes in time and place in a smooth, seamless way. In part II, she first writes about what happened “later that night”, then moved back to narrate the incidents of “ that afternoon”, finally back to “now”. she was sitting on a tree stump on the river bank near a palm-thatch village in Part I, then she sat in a camp in Part II, went on a journey away from the river into the jungle and finally returned to riverside village in Part III. All through these movements there is overall coherence. There is an echo—“ It would be worth it”, “The Napo River: it is not out of the way. It is in the way.” Cultural Notes: Amazon (river): river in northern South America, largely in Brazil, ranked as the largest in the world in terms of watershed area, number of tributaries, and volume of water discharged. Measuring 6,400 km (4,000 mi) from source to mouth, it is second in length only to