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,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,Unit 7,A Sunrise on the Veld,-,Doris Lessing,1/18,Small,questions,:,1.What does the title,o,f the text suggest to you?,2.What type of writing do you ex,pect,it to be,？,Exercise your imagination and make some prediction.,o,2/18,Lessing was born in Persia(now Iran)and grew up in Southern Rhodesia,(,(now Zimbabwe),where her father made an unsuccessful attempt to farm maize.Though she loved living on the farm,her family life was often tense and unhappy.Lessing married at the age of 20,but three years later,feeling stifled by colonial life and increasingly distressed by the racism of her society,she joined the Communist Party,because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.,Soon after that,she left her husband and first two children to marry fellow Communist Gottfried Lessing,with whom she had a son.They divorced,and she took her son with her to England,where she published her first novel,The Grass Is Singing,to high acclaim.After several more novels,including the semi-autobiographical series Children of Violence,Lessing wrote The Golden Notebook,a,post,m,odern,fragmentary narrative about a writers search for identity.The Golden Notebook gained a passionate following in the feminist movement and left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women,as Elizabeth Hardwick wrote.,Brief entroduction of Doris Lessing,3/18,writer introduction,：,Doris Lessing,at the age of 42,Doris Lessing,at the age of 82,4/18,On the world there is a k,ind of animal which,can be,small,or,strong,sometimes even dangerous.Do you know it?,5/18,6/18,Ants have been living on the Earth for more than 100 million years and can be found almost anywhere on the planet.,It is estimated that there are about 20,000 different species of ants.For this reason ants have been called Earths most successful species.Ants also use chemicals called pheromones to leave scent trails for other ants to follow.,Ant facts,Ants belong to the insect order Hymenoptera and are close relatives of bees and wasps.,More than 12,000 species occur throughout the world.,200 species occur in California,but fewer than a dozen are important pests.,Ants are common pests in homes,restaurants,hospitals,and warehouses.,Ants enter buildings seeking shelter,food,and water.,Established ant colonies are difficult to control.,7/18,A single ant is vulnerable,8/18,But when they work together,they can be terrible.,9/18,Vocabulary,A:,scurry,:move in haste(at a low level,e.g.,on or near the ground),peer,:look carefully,perhaps with some difficulty,jerk,:move suddenly(here),twitch,:a repeated short sudden movement of the muscles made without conscious control,protest,:objection,anguish,:great physical and mental suffering,ebbing,:going back(as a group),pincers,:hand-like parts of the head of an ant,used for seizing and holding food,socket,:an opening,or a hollow place,here,”hole”,skull,:the bone of the head in which is enclosed the brain,frisk,:run or jump about palyfully,here,move quickly from side to side and up and down,sniff,:draw air into the nose with a sound,here,also”smell”and“breathe”,10/18,B:,glistening,:shining,rustling,:making slight sounds when moving together,writhe,:twist(the body),convulsively,:in the way that the body twists when in great pain,interfere,:get in the way of another,trickle,:flow in small drops or in thin stream,skeleton,:the famework of all the bones in a human or animal body,glittering,:shining brightly,showing tiny flashes,incredulously,:showing disbelieve,unbelievingly,exhilarated,:in very high spirits,11/18,I.Pre-reading Questions,To many readers,the title may suggest that the passage is a descriptive piece of writing.Actually it is an excerpt from Doris Lessings short story A Sunrise on the Veld.,Here is a brief summary of the opening of the story:,Very early one cold morning,the fiftenn-year-old boy rose,dressed rapidly and,holding his gun under his arm and accompanied by his dogs,quietly stole out of his house.He began walking swiftly along the path of the bush,and soon he was running in the wild.He had come out to shoot guinea fowls,but he was too late.However,he did not mind.In fact,he was so exhilarated that he shouted and yelled and sang at the top of his voice.Suddenly he heard a new voice,not his own.Somewhere close to him there was a sound of pain,a kind of shortened scream.He stopped,listened,and looked.Between two trees was a small buck,covered with what appeared to be bits of black fur,screaming and staggering drunkenly and even leaping from side to side,as if it were blind.,veld:(a stretch of)wild,high,flat,mostly treeless grassland in South Africa,bush:wild,uncultivated land,especially in Africa or Australia,buck:male deer,12/18,II.The Main Ideas,Answer for reference:,A young boy watches a buck being eaten by a swarm of black ants,is overcome by a feeling of rage,misery and protest,and reaches a new understanding.,13/18,III.Teaching Points for Reference,1.great energetic ants that,took no notice of,him,but hurried and scurried towards the fighting shape,take(no)notice of,pay(no)attention to,More examples:,Taking no notice of what was happening around him,Langston Hughes continued to sit on the mourners bench,waiting for Jesus Christ to come into his life.,2.It might have been lying there years,except that on the white bone there were pink fragments of flesh.,except(that)not including(the fact);leaving(the fact)out,More examples:,He does not have any idea about symbiosis except that it is a term in biology.,3.“I am not for younot just yet,at any rate,”,at any ratein any case,whatever happens,anyway,More examples:,If I dont see you tomorrow,Ill see you on Thursday at any rate.,14/18,He does not have any idea about symbiosis except that it is a term in biology.,3.“I am not for younot just yet,at any rate,”,at any rate,in any case,whatever happens,anyway,More examples:,If I dont see you tomorrow,Ill see you on Thursday at any rate.,She fancied shed suffer from intense heat this summer.,5.he thought incredulously,remembering the liquid dark eyes of a buck,rememberkeep in the memory;here,recall,Cf.:and reminded himself:the ants must eat too!,remindcause(someone)to remember,15/18,II.Interaction Activities,The boys realization of the natural law!,The Boys Feeling,The Reason for the Feeling,1.fear,anticipating something unknown,2.pity and terror,Seeing the wounded buck still struggling,3.rage,misery,protest,Seeing the buck fall and being devoured by the ants,4.resignation,Feeling unable to help the buck,5.nausea,an acid smell in his nose,6.anger,the ants having clean-picked the whole buck,7.incredulity,Thinking the buck still fresh and lively only moments ago,General comments:,(Let the students air their views freely.),16/18,Text 1:Comprehension&Analysis,Which paragraphs can be put together?And whats the main idea of each part?,Paras 1-3:,Para 4:,Paras 5-6:,Paras 7-9:,Paras 10-12:,The ants killing of the buck.,The boys realization of the natural law.,The ants eating of the buck.,The encounter between the boy and the ants.,The buck before and after its death.,17/18,Thanks for your attentions!(*_*),Producers:,18/18,
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