综合英语 第13课.ppt

Lead-in Questions 1. What’s your favorite bird? 2. Why do most Chinese dislike crows? Main Content 1. Text I：Promise of Bluebirds (The text vividly describes the harmonious relationship between man and nature through the unique friendship between an ordinary old man and bluebirds -- a species of North American songbird.) 2. Text II: My Son, the Lion (The article conveys the message that man needs to seek a harmonious relationship with animals through the writer’s experience of taking care of a young abandoned lion. ) 3. Exercises: comprehension of the texts, vocabulary, grammar, translation, etc Text Analysis This text can be divided into three parts. In Part I (Paragraphs 1 to 7), the author starts the story in a bitter tone against the background of a cold winter. On her way to the hospital she briefly disclosed the importance of the small birds to the old man who was struggling with death. In Part II (Paragraphs 8 to 19), she recalls the life of her father, his philosophy of life and his sacrifice for the family and children. Just after he retired, he became interested in, and even hooked by, bluebirds, a kind of brilliant creature. In Part III (Paragraphs 20 to 30), she concentrates on how her father treated the birds and how the birds paid him back. Paragraph 1-7 These seven paragraphs function as a prelude to the story, where the author sets the wintry landscape as the background. She asked herself the question “… will he ever see one again?” to reveal the critical situation of her father who treated bluebirds as angels of spring and life. Questions: 1 ) Why did the author say the season was wrong ? Because in winter, a season which usually implies severity and bitterness, all birds had flown to the warm south, and it was impossible to see bluebirds in that region then. 2) What gave her father the strength to fight against his heart attack? For one thing, it was the bluebirds that gave him the strength to fight for survival, because he loved the birds,