Unit 8 Go Traveling

1、Unit 8 Go TravelingText A In the JunglePost-readingWhile-readingPre-readingText A In the JungleText AnalysisCultural backgroundWarm-up QuestionsText A In the JungleWarm-up Questions 1.What are some distinctive features of an out-of-the-way, inaccessible place such as a jungle, desert, or remote moun

2、tainous area? 2.Why would such a place appeal to many people today? 3.What are the characteristics of those people who are attracted to such places? 4.If you have both time and money, what places would you like to visit most? Why? Cultural Background Amazon river Amazon river in northern South Ameri

3、ca, largely in Brazil, ranked as the largest in the world in terms of watershed area. It is second in length only to the Nile among the rivers of the world. Ecuador Cultural BackgroundEcuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the eas

4、t and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border with Brazil. Part Division of the TextParts Para(s)Main Ideas 21 15Description of the Napo River and surrounding jungle scenery at night, together with the

5、 authors reflections on it.68Recalling what happened to her at their arrival at the village and what others felt about the Napo River and the people there.PartsPara(s)Main Ideas3918Detailed description of journeying in the jungle and her feelings about it.Blank Filling What happens in part one.in th

6、e middle of the night; It was February, the middle of summer.the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle; on the headwaters of the Amazon three North Americans, four EcuadoriansLike any out-of-the-way place, the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle seems real enough when you are there, even central.Out o

7、f the way of what?When:Where:Who:What:Why:SkimmingMake a list of at least eight things that the author finds so attractive about life in the jungle.1)2)3)4)5)6)7)8)Birds, insects and animals of all descriptions The sweet airVarious kinds of trees and other plantsRiver abundant in fish_Little girls w

8、ho liked to play with the writers hairChildren singing lovely songsTreating guests with wonderful foods_People and nature in harmony_While-readingText A In the JungleWhile-ReadingAnnie Dillard tells of her visit to the Napo River in the heart of the Ecuadorian jungle (introductory ,intrdktri paragra

9、ph, L1)in the heart of In the center of 在在中心中心 1)The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.幸福之后的渴望是从来不会在人类的心里消失的。2)I think its in the heart of our traditions.我认为它是我们传统的核心所在。While-Reading Out of the way of what? Out of the way of human life, tenderness, or the glance of hea

10、ven?(Para1, L1) Out of the way adj. 1.not causing a problem已被处置的，已解决的 Now that the main problems are out of the way, we can start working on the details. 2. remote from populous or much-traveled regions远离人烟的，人迹罕至的，偏僻的 The restaurant is top-notch tapntapnt t ( ( 一流的；拔尖的), but a little out of the way.

11、 3. improper or even offensive荒谬的；不适当的，不成体统的 What made my mood so down is that my son knocked me out of the way.While-Reading What does the author intend to by asking this question? The author asks a question to arouse the readers interest and point out the main idea of the whole essay. This is a go

12、od way to begin and to develop an essay.While-Reading I was sitting on a stump at the edge of a bankside palm-thatch village, on the headwaters of the Amazon.(Para1, L4) at the edge of at the furthest point or boundary of (a place)在边缘 It would test flight conditions at the edge of Earths atmosphere.

13、 它将试验在地球大气层边缘的飞行状况。 headwater The origin of a river水源While-Reading Green fireflies spattered lights across the air and illumined for seconds, now here, now there, the pale trunks of enormous, solitary trees.(Para2, L3) nownow at one time.at another time.忽而忽而 1)What mixed weather, now sunny, now clou

14、dy. 2)The market is very unstable, with the price now rising, now falling. the ring of the little girls who were alternately staring at me and smiling at their toes.(Para7, L4) =Alternatelyand一会儿一会儿一会儿一会儿While-Reading Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy

15、 bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.（Para3, L4） in (all) silence（完全）不出声地（完全）不出声地 with (complete) absence of sound or noise We should not pass over this unfair thing in silence. 我们不能对这件不公平的事不闻不问。 Translate the sentence and enjoy the aesthet

16、ic side of English. 在我们下方，褐黄色的纳波河水正在涨潮。万籁俱寂：惟见河水沿着沙岸蜿蜒流过，水沫裹挟在蔓生在森林里的藤蔓间以及盘绕岸边的树根上。While-Reading All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the ri

17、ver, dissolving downstream.(Para4, L2) mute v. reduce or stop the sound of使声音减弱或停止 1)We muted our voices at the sight of the national flag. 2)He muted but stared at his father to protest.） 他不语但瞪着他的父亲以表示抗议。While-Reading dissolve: v. fade away, disappear消失 1)His strength dissolved. 2)The view dissolve

18、d in mist. become liquid 变成液体 1)Water dissolves salt. 水溶解盐。 2)Salt dissolves in water. 盐溶解于水中。 3)Heat dissolved the candle into a pool of wax in a few minutes.While-ReadingPay attention to the structure of the sentence.If the prepositional phrase（介词短语） is at the beginning of a sentence, the followin

19、g subject and the predicate should be of inverted order（倒装）. Note the parallel construction of three verbs: twined, muted and wandered. Translate the sentence into Chinese.突然，我们身后空地旁的茅屋里，传出了录音机的声音，一首乐曲在村子空地之上缭绕，减弱了我们在河畔谈话的声音，然后又传至河面，随流飘去。While-Reading 倒装包括全部倒装和部分倒装。 一、一、 部分倒装部分倒装 部分倒装是将谓语的一部分，如助动词或情

20、态动词提到主语之前。如果句子的谓语部分没有助动词或情态动词，则需添加助动词do, does或did，并将其置于主语之前。 1.句首为否定或半否定的词语。句首为否定或半否定的词语。如：not, never, seldom, rarely, at no time, not . until ., not only ., hardly/ . when .等。 2.用于用于so, neither, nor 开头的句子开头的句子，重复前句中的部分内容, 表示“也(不)这样”。其结构为：so / neither / nor + be /have / 助动词 / 情态动词 + 主语。While-Reading

21、 3. “only + 状语状语”位于句首时位于句首时，后面的主句要用部分倒装。 4.在虚拟条件句中，当从句谓语动词有在虚拟条件句中，当从句谓语动词有were, had, should等等词时词时，可将if 省略，而把 were, had, should 移到主语之前。如： Were it to snow tomorrow, many crops will die. Had you come yesterday, you would have seen him. Should I be free tomorrow, I will come. 5.在以在以often, many a time,

22、now and then等表示方式或频度的等表示方式或频度的副词（短语）开头的句子副词（短语）开头的句子，有时也有倒装现象。如： Now and then do our teachers donate some money and clothes to the poor students. While-Reading 二、二、 完全倒装完全倒装 完全倒装是将句子中的谓语动词全部置于主语之前。此结构通常用于一般现在时和一般过去时。出现较多的是：地出现较多的是：地点状语提前。点状语提前。 1. 为了保持句子平衡且谓语是be, stand, sit, lie 等动词时。 In front of th

23、e lecture hall sat the speaker. 2. 在there, here 引导的句子中，谓语是be, exist, live, lie 等表示状态的不及物动词时。 There lived a cruel queen long ago. 3. 在there, here 引起的句子中, 谓语动词用come, go, follow, enter, rush, occur等时。如： There comes Yao Ming, a famous basketball superstar.While-Reading This will do, I thought. This will

24、 do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.(Para5) What does this sentence mean? I feel happy to live here for a weekend or a season, or even to make my home here. Translate the sentence into Chinese. 人生遇此情景足矣，我暗想。在此度过周末足矣，在此小住数月足矣，在此安家足矣While-Reading I spoke anyway, and fooled with my hair, which t

25、hey were obviously dying to get their hands on (Para7, L7) be dying to do sth./for sth. urgently want to do/get sth非常想做某事情（或得到某物） She was dying to tell them that she had won first prize in the speech contest. 她迫不急待想告诉他们自己获得了演讲比赛一等奖。 Having worked for hours, I am dying for a break. 工作了这么长时间，我很想休息一会儿。

26、While-Reading get their hands on catch hold of, find or get (sth)抓到；得到 =lay ones hands on 1)The old woman keeps everything she can get her hands on. 2)I have the book, but now cant get my hands on it. 我是有这本书的，就是现在找不到。While-Reading And they took it apart and did it again, laughing, and teaching me Sp

27、anish nouns, and meeting my eyes and each others with open delight(Para7, L9) took apart separate into its different parts拆开，分开 1）He took the clock apart to repair it. 2）When I was little boy, I liked to take the toys apart and put them together again and again. Translate “meeting my eyes and each o

28、thers with open delight” 望望我，又相互对望，个个喜形于色。望望我，又相互对望，个个喜形于色。While-Reading “It makes me wonder,” he said, “what Im doing in a tent under a tree in the village of Pompeya, on the Napo River, in the jungle of Ecuador.” After a pause he added, “It makes me wonder why Im going back.” (Para8, L5) 我不由得纳闷我不由

29、得寻思 wonder what/why/if/how 不知道，感到疑惑/好奇，想知道 I wonder if you could post this letter for me. 你能帮我寄下这封信吗？ What can you refer from this sentence? They enjoy the peaceful life here very much and dont want to go back to the modern world.While-Reading The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecua

30、dor is not to see the most spectacular anything. (Para9, L2) spectacular adj. extraordinary; very attractive or impressive与众不同的；壮观的，引人入胜的 1)His achievement on science is spectacular . 他在科学上的成就是很显著的。 2)We enjoyed a spectacular display of fire works on Tiananmen Square. 我们在天安门广场观看了一场精彩的烟火表演。While-Read

31、ing We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.(Para9, L3) Translate this sentence. 人生在世，唯有一次，我们不妨去感受一下那个地方。人生在世，唯有一次，我们不妨去感受一下那个地方。While-Reading We might a well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived, for., and for(Para9, L5) fringe n. the

32、 outer edge or limit of sth.边缘，边界 This is an enormous field of which l can here touch only the fringe. 这是一个很广阔的领域, 我在这里只能谈个大概。 hollow n. a space sunk into something 洞穴 More sand is needed to fill the hollow in the driveway. While-Reading What is there is interesting. (Para10, L1) Pay attention to th

33、e structure. Here “what is there” is used as a subjective clause with the meaning: 那里的一切. So we can translate this sentence like this: 那里的一切充满趣味。While-ReadingParrots in flocks dart in and out of the light.(Para10, L3)in flocksn. a group of certain animals; (informal) a crowd, large number of people1

34、)Many small birds feed in flocks.2)People came in flocks to see the new hydraulic haidr:lik power station. 人们成群结队地来参观新建的水电站。 v. gather or move in large crowds Birds of a feather flock together. 物以类聚，人以群分。 While-Reading He was even more startled, night after night, to hear them walk down to the river

35、 slowly, half asleep, and bathe in the water.(Para12, L5) startle n. a sudden involuntary movement惊愕；惊恐 v. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm 惊吓；惊跳；惊奇 She startled when I walked into the room. night after night / day after day for an indefinite number of successive nights / days一夜又一夜，

36、日复一日 The headache occurs day after day without a specific cause.While-Reading Only later did he learn what they were doing: they were getting warm. (Para12, L7) Analyze this sentence. This is an inverted sentence倒装句. When “only + adverbial” is used at the beginning of the sentence, the following sub

37、ject and predicate should be partially inverted. Examples: 1）Only in this way can you solve the problem. 2）Only when we had studied the data again did we realized that there was a mistake。While-Reading When you are inside the jungle, away from the river, the trees vault out of sight.(Para13, L2) out

38、 of sight no longer in view在视野以外，看不见 Out of sight, out of mind. 人别情疏；眼不见，心不烦。 Collocation: at first sight 乍看起来，初次看见 in sight 可见，看得见；在望；不远 lose sight of看不见；失去联系；忘记While-Reading There was all the time in the world.(Para15, L4) Translate the sentence into Chinese. 我们毋庸为时间担忧，可以从容地欣赏周围的一切。 What is implie

39、d in this sentence? Life here is quiet, peaceful and happy. There isnt much tension and pressure, so we can enjoy and relax ourselves.While-Reading I saw the shoreline water heave above a thrashing paichi(Para16, L3) heave n. an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) It took fi

40、ve strong men to heave it up a ramp and lower it into place. 用了5个壮汉把它拉上斜坡并向下放置到位。 v. (cause to) rise up or swell, as if pushed up （使）升起或鼓起 It took only one heave to hurl him into the river. 只是一推，就把他推进了河里。While-Reading We would eat chicken that right in the village, togeher with rice, onions and heap

41、s of fruit.(Para17, L2) heap n. plenty of, a lot of (usu. in plural: heaps of 大量，许多) 1）We have heaps of / a heap of work to do. 2）My mother has been there heaps of times, but she would still get lost. 妈妈曾经去过那里很多次，但依然会迷路。While-Reading Twilight is short, and the unseen birds of twilight wistful, catch

42、ing the heart.(Para17, L4) wistful adj. showing pensive sadness渴望的；留恋的；沉思的 A child stood looking with wistful eyes at the toys in the shop window. 小孩子一直用渴望的眼神盯着商店窗户里的那个玩具。 What does this sentence mean? The songs of the birds sound touchingly sad as they sing, hidden from sight in the dim light of th

43、e short period between sunset and nightfall. 黄昏短暂，暮色中，看不见的鸟儿的啼鸣声发人幽思，声声动人。While-Reading The two nuns in their dazzling white habitsthe beautiful-boned young nun and the warm-faced oldwould glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing.(Para17, L5) “start/get/have/