高级英语-Lesson-12-The-Loons.pptx

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,*,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,*,*,*,Lesson 12,Species photod DR 5,The Loons,Margaret Laurence,1/118,Canadian National Flag,2/118,3/118,4/118,Margaret Laurence,5/118,Margaret Laurence(1926-1987),One of the major contemporary Canadian fiction writers,best known for her Manawaka novels-THe Side of Jordan,The Stone Angel,;,A Jest of God,;,The First Dwellers,;,The diviners,-all are considered classics of Canadian literature.,Born in Neepawa,Manitoba in 1926,Educated at the University of Manitoba,died at Lakefield,Ontario in 1987,raised by her aunt,6/118,Margaret Laurence(1926-1987),moved with her husband to Africa where he worked as a civil engineer,had lived in England,Canada,Somaliland(A region of eastern Africa),Ghana(A country of western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea),Greece,Crete(An island of southeast Greece),Palestine,India,Egypt,and Spain,spent last years in Lakefield,Ontario,her early work deals with her travels in Africa while later works are often set in the Canadian West,7/118,Novels:,This Side of Jordan,(1960),The Stone Angel,(1964),A Jest of God,(1966)won the Governor Generals Award(总督奖),filmed as,Rachel,Rachel,(1968)The First Dwellers,(1969),A Bird in the House,(1970),Jasons Quest,(1970),The Diviners,(1974)won the Governor Generals Award(总督奖),filmed in 1993,8/118,Short Stories:,T,he Tomorrow-Tamer,(1963),Essays:,Heart of a Stranger,(1976),Travel:,The Prophets Camel Bell,(1963),Biographies：,Margaret Laurence,(1981)by Patricia Morley,Margaret Laurence,(1969)by Clara Thomas,The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence,(1975)by Clara Thomas,9/118,The Loons(1970),First published in 1970 as one story in a book called,A Bird in the House,1.The Sound of the Singing;,2.To Set Our House in Order;,3.The Mask of the Bear4.A Bird in the House;,5.,The Loons,;,6.Horses of the Night;,7.The Half-Husky;,8.Jerichos Brick Battlements,(narrator:,Vanessa MacLeod,),The loons,is included in the,Norton Anthology of Short Fiction,(1980).,10/118,11/118,loon:distinctive Canadian bird,the bird of the lakes,About ten years ago,the Canadian government collected all the one-dollar paper notes and issued a one-dollar coin with a loon engraved on it.So,one dollar is slangily called a,loony,.,12/118,A.A kind of fish-eating,diving bird in North,American,B.One who is crazy or deranged.,loony:,(from lunatic)(person who is)crazy or eccentric;lunatic,He does have some pretty loony ideas.,From the above coincidence,one can easily perceive the underlying reason why the author chooses such a title for her novel.,13/118,Topics for discussion and reflection,Is the loon a symbol?What does it symbolize,something or someone?,How is the disappearance of the loons related to the theme of the story?,What are the different attitudes of Vanessa,s family(the white people)towards Piquette(the native Indians)respectively?,Can you find any change of Vanessa,s feeling for Piquette from the very beginning to the end?,There are many natural scenery descriptions in the text.Why?,Is there prejudice in our society today?What,s your opinion upon prejudice?,14/118,General understanding,The touching story symbolizes the plight of Piquette Tonnerre,a girl from a native Indian family.,Piquette and her family were unable to exist independently in a respectable and dignified way.They found it impossible to fit into the main currents of culture and difficult to be assimilated comfortably,so they failed to find their position in modern society.The disappearance of the loons symbolized the suffering and the death of Piquette(and Indian people as well).,15/118,General understanding,How is the disappearance of the loons related to the theme of the story?,Her death is like the disappearance of the loons on Diamond Lake.Just as the narrator,s father predicted,the loons would go away when more cottages were built at the Lake with more and more people moving in.The loons disappeared as nature was ruined by civilization.In a similar way,Piquette and her people failed to find their position in modern society.,16/118,Life experience,At school,Piquette felt out of place and ill at ease with the white children.,When she had grown up she didnt have any chance to improve her life.,In fact her situation became more and more messed up.In the end she was killed in a fire.,17/118,(At school,the days at Diamond Lake,their meeting four years later,the time she heard of Piquettes death from her mother and she came to the lake again),indifferent,pitiful/curious/mysterious,tiresome/disliking sympathetic understanding,Can you find any change of Vanessas feeling for Piquette from the very beginning to the end of the story?,18/118,The Organization,of the text:,Part I,(Para.1-2):An introduction to Piquettes family,Part II,(Para.3-48):Piqette at school and days on Diamond Lake with the MacLeods,Part III,(Para.49-the end):Piquettes adult life and her suffering/miserable life,.,The Organization of the text,19/118,The Organization,of the text:,PartIII,1.Vanessas meeting with Piquette again at the age of 17,2.The death of Piquette,3.Vanessas coming to the Diamond Lake again and seeing the great changes and disappearance of loons brought by the modern civilization made her really understand Piquette.,20/118,More Thing,Effective Writing Skills:,1.making effective use of specific words(adjectives and verbs).,2.using many elliptical and short sentences to achieve certain effect,3.Scenery description as a transitional device,4.Rhetorical Devices(students job),21/118,Detailed Study of the Text,22/118,the scrub oak:oak is a large tree.,scrub oak is short,stunted oak tree.,chokecheery:North American wild cherry tree.,thicket:a thick growth of shrubs,underbrush or small trees,clearing:an area of land cleared of trees.,shack:a small house or cabin that is crudely built and furnished;shanty,23/118,Chink:n.a very narrow crack or opening in the surface of sth.,v.when objects chink,or you chink them,they touch each other.,chinked with mud:closed the narrow openings with mud,24/118,Riel:Canadian insurrectionist(起义者;造反者)who organized the m,tis settlers in a rebellion over their land rights(1869).After leading the second uprising in Saskatchewan(1884-1885),he was captured and executed by Canadian authorities.,25/118,Metis:people of mixed french and Indian blood.,entered their long silence:put down,repressed,the Tonnerres had increased:the Tonnerre family had become larger,settlement:a small or isolated community;village,a chaos of lean-tos:a disorderly place crowded with sheds having a one-slope roof.,26/118,Lean-to,lean-tos,27/118Lean-to,28/118,Lean-to,29/118,lean-to,1.a simple outdoor building or shelter that uses the side of another building as one of its walls and has a sloping roof:,a lean-to hut,a lean-to greenhouse,2.a simple outdoor shelter that stands alone and has a sloping roof.,They keep hens in a lean-to at the end of the garden.,30/118,barb,31/118,strand:a single piece or thread,Many strands are twisted together to form a rope.,barb:the sharp point of a fish hook,arrow,etc,with a curved shape which prevents it from being easily pulled out,32/118,barbed wire,Her hair got,all,tangled up,in the,barbed,wire,fence.,tangle:(cause,sth to)become,twisted into a confused mass,33/118,Sentence relations in para.1,Just below,Manawaka,where the Wachakwa River,ran brown and noisy,over the pebbles,the,scrub,oak and grey-green willow and chokecherry,bushes,grew in,a dense,thicket,.,In a clearing,at the centre of,the thicket,stood the,Tonnerre familys,shack,.,(background:location),34/118,Sentence relations in para.1,The basis at this dwelling,was a small square cabin made of poplar poles and chinked with mud,(background:condition of dwelling)which had been built by Jules Tonnerre some fifty years before,when he came back from Batoche with a bullet in his thigh,the year that Riel was hung(,hanged?),and the voices of the Metis entered their long silence.(,background:history and politics),35/118,Sentence relations in para.1,Jules had only intended to stay the winter in the Wachakwa Valley,but the family was still there in the thirties,when I was a child.(,background:time,)As the Tonnerres had increased,their settlement had been added to,until the clearing at the foot of the town hill was a chaos of lean-tos,wooden packing cases,warped lumber,discarded car types,ramshackle chicken coops,tangled strands of barbed wire and rusty tin cans.(,family background),36/118,As the Tonnerre had increased,rusty tin cans.,坦纳瑞家人丁兴旺，他们木屋慢慢地扩建，越来越大，到以后，那片林中空地上小披屋林立，处处乱七八糟地堆放着木版包装箱、,晒翘了,木材、,废弃,汽车轮胎、,摇摇欲坠,鸡笼子、,一卷一卷带刺,铁丝和,锈迹斑斑,洋铁罐。,37/118,halfbreed:,a person whose parents are of different ethnic types,esp.an offspring of a North American Indian and a person of European ancestry,patois:,a form of language,differing from the accepted standard,as a provincial or local dialect.,Cree:,a member of a North American Indian people,living mainly in the Canadian Provinces,38/118,obscenities:,offensive,repulsive remarks or ideas.,They did not belong among the Cree.:,They did not have a proper and suitable place among the Cree.,39/118,Belong to/belong among,这笔款子不是他，是他向朋友借。,The money does not,belong to,himHe borrowed it from a friend,这些移民第二代仍感处处于主流文化边缘，不论是在白人社会还是华人社会中他们都找不到恰当位置。,The second generation of immigrants are stiIl marginalized，,belonging,neither,among,the white society，,nor,among the Chinese American community,40/118,section hand/gang,Section,hands,:,a,crew of persons who do the maintenance work on a railroad section,on relief:,receiving government aid because of poverty,unemployment,41/118,relief,You,re safe.What a,relief,!,你平安无事，这么大家就放心了。,a drug for the relief of pain,Relief supplies,were rushed into the flooded area.,（救助物质）,He receives,tax relief,because he supports his old mother.,（减税）,42/118,relief,In the picture,dark green trees stand out,in,bold,relief,against the white snow.,在白云映衬下，深绿色树轮廓极为显著。,relief,map,（地势图）,relief valve=safety valve,（安全阀、减压阀、溢流阀）,43/118,1.,with a face,unfamiliar with laughter.,One of the Tonnerre youngsters,with a face,One of the Tonnerre youngesters,who looked deadly serious,never laughed.,for sale:,to be sold;offered for purchase,44/118,1.,with a face,unfamiliar with laughter.,bruised wild strawberries:,wild strawberries with injured surface,bruise:,to injure the surface or the outside of sth so that there is spoilage,abrasion,denting.,E.g.bruised peaches,a bruised auto fender,45/118,2.Sometimes old Jules,in a,Saturday-night brawl.,Sometimes old Jules,or his son Lazarus would get involved in a rough,noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night after much drinking of liquor.,46/118,before the customer had time to change her mind:,before the customer had time to decide not to buy the bruised strawberries.,get mixed up in a Saturday-night,br,awl,:,get involved in a rough,noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night after much drinking of liquor,47/118,Get mixed up:,mix it(up)with:to argue or threaten to fight with someone.,Do not mix it with him;he is mad.,Hit out,:hit out at/against:to express strong disapproval of sth/sb（,抨击,),;,to try to hit sb（,猛打e.g.,He hit out at the governments policy on the poor.,He hit out at me with no reason.,howl:,to utter the long,loud and wailing cry,like that of wolves,dogs,etc.,48/118,Royal Canadian Mountie,49/118,put/take sb up for the night,这一对美国夫妇让他在客厅沙发上睡了一夜。,The American couple,put,him,up,on the sofa in the living room,for the night,50/118,failed,several grades,:,failed in schoolwork and had to repeat the same grade for several times,fail my father:,to disappoint the hopes or trust of,His friends failed him when he needed them most.,51/118,3.Her attendance,schoolwork negligible.,Her attendance had.negligible:,She often missed her classes and had little interest in schoolwork.,sporadic:not constant,regular,52/118,4.She existed for me,embarrassing presence.,She existed.:,I only knew her as a person who would make other people feel ill at ease.,As far as I am concerned,her presence would only make other people feel ill at ease/uncomfortable.,presence:a person or thing that is present;a persons bearing,appearance,personality,with her hoarse voice.:because of,as a result of,53/118,Otherwise,miles too long.,除此之外，我就知道她是一个让人一见就以为不舒适人：说话时声音沙哑，走起路来踉踉跄跄，身上穿着棉衣裙总是脏兮兮，而且总是长得极不合体。,54/118,5.She dwelt,within my scope of vision.,She dwelled and moved.of vision:,She lived and moved somewhere within my range of sight,./,(Although I saw her,I paid little attention to her.),55/118,peculiar,peculiar:odd or strange,eccentric,strange in a troubling or displeasing way,unusual and strange,sometimes in an unpleasant way:,a peculiar taste,smell,noise,etc,a peculiar feeling that one has been here before.,My keys have disappeared;its most peculiar!,Hes a bit peculiar!,56/118,flare up,flare up:burn suddenly more intensely,The fire flared up as I put more logs on it.,to suddenly become worse,very angry,or violent:,Violence has flared up again in the region,我背疼又发作了。,My back trouble has,flared up,again.,Fighting,flared up,after a two-week lull,(暂停).,战斗在平静了两个星期后又突然暴发。,57/118,like,the dickens,like,the dickens,like the devil 猛烈地,like the deuce 猛然,终究；到底,它终究在哪儿？,Where,the dickens,is it?,这家伙到底是谁呢?,Who,the dickens,is this guy?,58/118,She took off a few years back,She took off a few years back,To suddenly start being successful.,I hear the business is really taking off.,To leave somewhere suddenly without telling anyone.,He just took off with,out,saying goodbye.,59/118,What about,contagious:of disease spread by direct or indirect contact,company:companionship,be good/bad company,be in company,keep company,part company with/from,60/118,For Pete,s sake,:,A mild exclamation of surprise,annoyance,also for heavens sake,for gods sake.,for Peters sake:for Gods/goodness/Heavens/goshs/pitys,etc.sake:used as an interjection before or after a command or request,or to express irritation,For Gods sake,stop that whining!,For goodness sake!How can you be so stupid?,For Christs sake is rather a strong expression and should be used with care.,61/118,cross,cross:,Adj.angry or annoyed.,She gave me a cross look.,Get cross:The teacher will get cross if you fail again.,I was cross with him for being late.,crossly:ill-temperedly,crankly,irritably,62/118,cross,Matron:a woman superintendent or manager of the domestic arrangement of a hospital(such as the work of all nurses)(in Britain now officially called a senior nursing officer),cameo:a carving in relief on certain stratified gems or shells so that the taised design,often a head in profile,is usually in different color from the background.,63/118,rigid,:stiff;not bending or yielding;strict;firm;unchanging,Her face was rigid with terror.,He is a man of very rigid principles,practise rigid economy,厉行节约,麦克里奥祖母那清秀,脸上此时显得像玉石雕像般,冷峻，,64/118,her mauve-veined hands:her hands with visible pale purple veins,vein,（静脉）,artery,（动脉）,blood capillary,（毛细血管）,65/118,If it comes to,nits or not.,If it came to a choice.nits or not:,If my mother had to make a choice bet