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Lesson Four Wisdom of Bear Wood Warm-up (optional) Make up a story with the following elements.(explicit,concise and vivid) woodlands an owl a boy an old lady shortbread a cottage Compare your story with the text. Have you found anything unexpected? Pre-reading questions 1. Do you think people who are very different in age can develop a rewarding friendship? Do you have such friends? Have you heard of such cases? 2. What position is friendship taking in your life? 3. What kind of person can become your lifelong friend? 4. What do you think are the secrets to keep friendship fresh? Introduction to Background Knowledge 1. to the author Michael Welzenbach (1954—2001) was an art critic as well as a poet and novelist. He wrote some of the most stimulating criticisms of art and music for the Washington Post. 2. to the text The theme of this story is concluded at the end of the text. It is about “a wisdom tutored by nature itself, about the seen and unseen, about things that change and things that are changeless, and about the fact that no matter how seemingly different two souls may be, they possess the potential for that most precious, rare thing – an enduring and rewarding friendship.” The story is not very subtle to understand, while it is still a moving and beautiful story, for it is about the precious friendship between two seemingly different souls – a twelve-year-old American boy and an old English woman. 3. Robin Hood Robin Hood is a legendary hero of a series of English ballads, some of which date from at least the 14th century. He was a rebel, and many of the most striking episodes in the tales about him show him and his companions robbing and killing representatives of authority and giving the gains to the poor. Their most frequent enemy was the Sheriff of Nottingham, a local agent of the central government. Others included wealthy ecclesiastical landowners. Robin treated women, the poor, and people of humble status with courtesy. A good deal of the impetus a