UnitTheEnglishCountryside英国的乡村.pptVIP

Once there was a true love at my hand ,but I didnt cherish it .I didnt realize it until it was gone. There is nothing more miserable than it .If God can give me a chance to restart ,Ill tell the girl I Love You. If I have to add a deadline to the love I hope it will be ten thousand years. Popular idea of an English village in a valley overlooked from the hills clustered about its ancient church General conception of a farm of a more or less commodious homestead in a valley sheltered by ample trees with broad fields with a river flowing not far away English rivers small and insignificant in which a boy can bathe in which a farm-hand can tickle a trout permit of homely occupations men lean over the weirs and watch the swallows Text Analysis—Para. 1 Cottage The Cotswolds Meadow The Severn Valley The Malverns The Welsh Mountains The estuary Garden Orchards Pastures In small groups, study the 2nd paragraph and draw a picture of the views from the writer’s cottage. The Cotswolds The River Severn Severn estuary Wide tree-lined waters of the River Severn The Malverns Cowslips Cottage Bee-orchis The English Countryside 1 Most Englishmen, if only because of the natural formation of their island, are essentially more at home in the lowlands than on the heights. The popular idea of an English village is of one in a valley, where it can be overlooked from the hills, clustered about its ancient church; and similarly, the general conception of a farm in this country is of a more or less commodious homestead in a valley, sheltered by ample trees, with broad fields like open hands stretched out to receive the sun, and a river flowing not far away. There is always a river not far away, in England; and although, judged by Continental standards, our rivers may for the most part be small and insignificant, they are perhaps more intimately known for that. 2 Certainly they are not the kind about which national songs are composed, as in the case of the Rhine or