【教材全解】2014-2015学年高中英语外研版选修六教案：M2 Period 2.docVIP

Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary Step 1. According to asking some questions about INTRODUCTION , the teacher leads the Ss into the study of READING. The teacher can say like the following. The topic in this module is fantasy literature. In the part INTRODUCTION, we have learned that one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written is His Dark Materials. Could you say anything about its author, hero, heroine or the main plot of the story? Step 2. Ask the Ss to read the text quickly and grasp the main idea Ask some Ss to answer the questions and help the Ss understand the main idea of the passage. Step 3. Ask the Ss to read the whole text and do Activity2 and Activity3, then give them the right answers. Step 4. Important word or phrases At this time of night there was very little traffic… Traffic means vehicles of pedestrians in transit.交通流动中的车辆或行人。 e.g. 警察拦住迎面而来的车流让孩子们过街。 The police stopped oncoming traffic to let the children cross. In addition, traffic has another meaning. the passage of people, vehicles, or messages along routes of transportation of communication交通 e.g. 交通繁忙 the heavy traffic 交通阻塞traffic jam the commercial exchange of goods; trade贸易货物的商业交换；商贸 e.g. 酒业 the traffic in liquor 2. The cat approached the place again, just an empty patch of grass between the trees and the bushes, and patted the air once more. Here approach means come near or nearer to somebody/something in space or time.接近，靠近（某人/某事物） e.g. 接近那座城镇的时候，首先看到的就是教堂。 As you approached the town the first building you see is the church. Approach has another meaning go to somebody for help or support or in order to offer something（为求助或提供某事物）接近（某人） e.g. 找银行经理寻求贷款 approach one’s bank manager for a loan (2)be similar in quality or character to somebody/something（在性质或特点上）接近（某人或某事物） e.g.莎士比亚的伟大，鲜有作家能望其项背。 Few writers even begin to approach Shakespeare’s greatness. 3. But Will knew without any doubt that that patch of grass on the other side was in a different world. Here without doubt is phrase; its m