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Unit 3? Message of the Land 教学目的：了解文章的作者Pira Sudham。 ?掌握afford, now and then, mind, bleed, barter, replace, litter, fashion, spring(v.), occur, pass sth. on to sb.，tie sb. down等重点词汇和短语的意义及用法. 掌握、运用简单的修辞手法： 明喻和暗喻。 通过句子释义，理解课文中难句。 通过篇章结构分析，掌握文章的主旨大意和写作方法。 ?教学重点： 掌握重点词汇及其同义、同形词辨析。 ? 明喻和暗喻写作修辞手法。 加强学生的口语练习。 教学内容：1．作者简介 2．语言难点 3．语言技能训练 4．难句讲解 5．写作修辞分析 6．篇章结构分析 7．课堂讨论 8．练习及作业? 教学方法：精讲多练 ?Unit 3? Message of the Land I．About the Author Pira Sudham spent his childhood in the rice fields on the Korat Plateau, helping his parents and tending a herd of buffaloes until he went to Bangkok at the age of fourteen to be a servant to monks in a Buddhist temple where he was also admitted to a school. ?? To support himself through high school and the first year at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, he sold souvenirs to tourists until he won a New Zealand government scholarship to study English literature at Auckland University and later at Victoria University, Wellington. His writings began to appear in literary publications in New Zealand, Hong Kong and the United States before his first book, Siamese Drama (entitled Tales of Thailand in the latest editions) was published in 1983, followed by People of Esarn in 1987. ? He has lived for over ten years in Australia and the United Kingdom, where he wrote Monsoon Country (1988), and its sequel, The Force of Karma (2002). Pira Sudham’s literary works are concerned with social-economic-political changes occurring in Thailand. Widely read and highly acclaimed, his books have given an expedient voice to the poor and the voiceless. ? ? Considered Thailands leading English language writer, he was nominated for the 1990 Nobel prize for literature. II．Language Points 1) marry: vt./vi. ?????? ??? They married young. ?????? ??? John is going to marry Jane. ?????? marry sb off married: a.? married to sb. ?????? ??? He is married to a famous writer. ????married to sth.: dedicated to sth ?????? ??? He is whole-heartedly married t