Unit-3-the-rite-of-spring教案.docVIP

Unit 3 Text A The Rite of Spring I. Teaching Objectives Through learning this passage can students： Know something about the author Learn how to interpret and appreciate literary essay Learn some useful words, phrases and expressions II.Teaching Contents Main sentence pattern: noun clauses introduced by wh-words III.Teaching Process Warm-up Activity Questions: Do you still recall a text on gardening we studied last semester? Nelson Mandela: a famous South African leader who struggled against apartheid [?pɑ?ta?t ](种族隔离）in South Africa. Gardening is associated with his revolutionary work and struggle, offering him simple but enduring satisfaction when he was in prison. Similarities: Gardening gives them satisfaction, and made them strong physically and mentally. They learned a lot from gardening. However, there ere also some differences between the two essays. Nelson Mandela：Gardening offers him taste of freedom, and it has become a metaphor of freedom. What’s more, gardening gives him inspiration on how to be a good revolutionary leader and how to nourish important human relationship. Arthur Miller: Arthur Miller is describing the beauty of human activities and experiences. When gardening, he must annually turn his mind toward all the work, and the fruits of gardening can somehow reflect movements in one’s own spirits. He found that gardening is a moral occupation, it needs patience and responsibility. So gardening is all about character building. All of these showed the author’s love to the nature. 2. How do you understand gardening? What is the symbolic meaning of gardening? Gardening is generally regarded as a hobby, a pastime. Many little books as well as essays tell people how to grow tomatoes, beans, cucumbers , etc., in their private gardens. But, like many other human activities, gardening often has symbolic meaning for different people. (For instance, in our culture, it is often compared to the rearing of children, so teachers are often