《高级英语教案U》

1、 Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldThe ground looked black because it was covered with numerous black ants. These vigorous, strong and powerful ants, without paying any attention to the boy, were moving quickly towards the wounded buck which was struggling helplessly. The ants looked like brightly shinnin

2、g black water running through the grass. The ground was black with ants, great energetic ants that took no notice of him, but hurried and scurried towards the fighting shape, like glistening black water flowing through the grass.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingWhat does th

3、e sentence mean? What figure of speech is used in this sentence? Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldParaphrase this sentence. Just as he took a breath, feeling pity for the buck and somehow afraid, the buck fell down and became silent; it probably had died. as he drew in his breath and pity and terror seiz

4、ed him, the beast fell and the screaming stopped.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldApart from the singing of a bird, what he could hear now was only the sound of the ants devouring the buck. Now he could hear nothing but one bird singing, and the

5、 sound of the rustling whispering ants.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingParaphrase the sentence.It implies that the sound seemed very loud and significant.What does this sentence imply? Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldWhat does this sentence mean? He looked closely at the black

6、 twitching shape, which moved suddenly with the sudden movements of its nerves.He peered over at the writhing blackness that jerked convulsively with the jerking nerves.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldWhat does this sentence mean?Though the buc

7、ks heart might have stopped beating, its other organs were still functioning and its nerves still jerking.its fighting was a mechanical protest of the nerves.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Re

8、adingIt was a swelling feeling of rage and misery and protest that expressed itself in the thought.Explain this sentence in your own words.The thought well expressed his growing feeling of anger and unhappiness and objection to what was happening. Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldParaphrase the sentence.

9、Near him the ants were gradually going home in small groups with bits of pink meat in their mouths and there was in the air a sharp fresh smell, that of blood and flesh, raw flesh.At his feet, now, were ants trickling back with pink fragments in their mouths, and there was a fresh acid smell in his

10、nose.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingThe author uses specific, concrete details sounds, light, movements, smells and color to make the scene realistic and vivid. Here is a table of the specific and concrete words she uses to appeal to our senses: Unit 7 A Sunrise on the Ve

11、ldDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading“light” wordsglow, glitter, sparkle, glistening, shineWord categorySpecific, concrete words“look” wordsgaze, peer“walk” wordsstride, step“sound” wordswhisper, scream, rustling, whispering (ants)“movement” wordshurry, scurry, jerk, frisk, c

12、rush, flow, trickle“smell” wordsa fresh acid smell, sniff“color” wordsblackness, bits of white, pink fragments of flesh, white bone, white tail Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldWhat does this sentence imply? He firmly fought against the pointless heaving of his empty stomach. It implies that he resisted

13、being overcome by disgust and feeling of sickness.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingHe sternly controlled the uselessly convulsing muscles of his empty stomach. Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldParaphrase the sentence.People might think the buck had been lying there for years, if

14、 there had not been scraps of pink meat on the white bone.It might have been lying there years, except that on the white bone there were pink fragments of flesh.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldParaphrase the sentence. The buck, walking around h

15、appily and proudly with its beautiful white tail swishing from side to side, had breathed in and smelt the cold morning air.Proudly stepping the earth, frisking a pretty white tail, it had sniffed the cold morning air.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 7 A Sunrise on th

16、e VeldDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingWhat figure of speech is used in this sentence?Personification. The writer describes the buck before it was attacked by the ants as if it were a human being enjoying all the privileges of nature happily, to create a contrast between the buck before and after the attack by the ants. Unit 7 A Sunrise on the VeldWhy does the writer use two questions to end the narration?She ends the passage by asking two rhetorical questions to focus t