[英语考试]新视野第四册讲稿.doc

Unit 1 Teaching aim： 1. To learn and talk about fame; 2. To develop a paragraph supported by details; 3. To hold an interview on those celebrities; 4. To explore the potential meaning in the latest news. Teaching methods： Heuristic teaching, discussion in groups within and outside class, multimedia approach Periods: 1－2课时：Section A部分的单词讲解及课文分析 3－4课时：复习Section A部分主要内容，讲解Section A部分 练习 5－6课时： Section B部分的单词讲解及课文分析 1－4课时 Section A The Tail of Fame 1. Pre-reading 1. 1 Background information Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) As one of the most famous American novelists, short story writers and essayists, Hemingway was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. His deceptively simple prose style has influenced a wide range of writers. His serious novel The Sun Also Rises appeared in 1926. The novel deals with a group of expatriates in France and Spain, members of the disillusioned post-World War I Lost Generation. It became his first great success as a novelist. The Old Man and the Sea, published first in Life magazine in 1952, again restored his fame. The 27,000 word novella told a story of an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago, who finally catches a giant marlin after weeks of not catching anything. As he returns to the harbor, the sharks eat the fish lashed to his boat. On July 2, 1961, Hemingway committed suicide with his favorite shotgun at his home. Robert Frost (1874-1963) As one of America’s leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical dimensions transcend any region. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. He unquestionably succeeded in realizing his life’s ambition: to write “a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of.” Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Renoir was a famous French painter, and one of the founders and exponents of the Impressionist Movement. His works are characterized by an extraordinary richness of feelings, warmth of response to th