Unit 2 The universal language课件20（牛津高中选修8）.pptVIP

* * The home-made ball Kevin and Mike are good friend and they both love to play soccer. But they have no money to buy real one. Every afternoon after school they meet at an old bench and play with a home-made ball ade by Mike. The pair of good friends lives a Happy life until one day Steven appears, laughing at their ball and their broken sneakers. By chance, Kenvin gets a pair of new sneakers and a new soccer ball as his birthday presents from his uncle the next day.And Steven, who is stout and a strong soccer player, invites him to play soccer together. Now the story has a twist in the plot. Here, the writer uses the home-made ball and the old bench as the symbols of friendship, while Steven and “Kevin, hugging his new soccer ball to his chest, walked on and did not look back.” But Kevin is not calm inside. “One afternoon as Kevin walked past the old bench, he saw something lying under it. He looked closer and saw that it was the sight of his old soccer ball and he let out a sad sigh.” From this description,we can see Kevin is struggling between friendship and money the new soccer and sneakers as the symbols of power and money.In this way the theme “friendship” pops out. It seems that Kevin has a bit dislike to Mike. When Steven invites him to play together,”Kevin did not want Mike to join then. Mike’s sneakers were old and muddy and he had little talent for soccer.” When Steven throws a stone at Mike, “ Project Reciting a poem Part A Discussion What’s poetry? Poetry is a form of literature which often focuses on the theme of love or other feelings. It’s a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. 2. What’s more important than the language in the poem? The emotions expressed by the poet. Skimming Read the report on poetry of Robert Burns on page 14 and skim for its main idea and structure. Main idea of paragraphs Part1 introduction of Robert Burns Part2 some information about a movement of poets called the