英语：Unit4Reading课件[译林版8年级下].pptVIP

Unit 4 A good read;Words and phrases review;Words review;Match; To understand the extract from the book, Gulliver’s Travels To learn more information about the book, Gulliver’s Travels To learn the words and expressions in the extract;Important words: against, tie, over, stomach, until, finger, tiny, continue, either, manage, lift, army, must, shoulder;Background information;The novel contains four parts. Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput (小人国) During his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore (在岸上) after a shipwreck (船舶失事) and finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people, less than 6 inches tall, who are inhabitants (居民) of the island country of Lilliput. ;Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag (大人国) When the sailing ship Adventure is blown off course (航向) by storms and forced to sail for land in search of fresh water, Gulliver is abandoned (抛弃) by his companions (同伴) and found by a farmer who is 72 feet (22?m) tall. The farmer treats him as a curiosity and exhibits (展览) him for money. ;Part III: A Voyage to Laputa (飞岛国), Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan After Gulliver’s ship was attacked by pirates (海盗), he is marooned (陷于孤立无援困境的) close to a desolate (荒凉的) rocky island near India. Fortunately, he is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom devoted to the arts of music and mathematics but unable to use them for practical ends. ;Gulliver is then taken to Balnibarbi to await (等待) a trader who can take him on to Japan. While waiting for a passage, Gulliver takes a short side-trip to the island of Glubbdubdrib, where he visits a magician’s (魔法师) dwelling (住处) and discusses history with the ghosts of historical figures, the most obvious restatement of the ancients versus moderns theme in the book. ;In Luggnagg he encounters the struldbrugs [斯特勒尔布勒格(虚构的永不死亡的人)], unfortunates who are immortal (长生的). They do not have the gift of eternal (永恒的) youth, but suffer the infirmities (虚弱) of old age and are considered legally dead at the age of eighty. After