Transcript 幻灯片 1

Unit Eight
Teaching Objectives
Understand the main idea and structure
of the text
Appreciate the fluid and sensual writing
style
Grasp the key language points and
grammatical structures in the text
Conduct a series of reading, listening,
speaking and writing activities
Lead-in Activities
Group Discussion
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What are some distinctive features of an
out-of-the-way, inaccessible place such as
a jungle, desert, or remote mountainous
area?
Why would such a place appeal to many
people today?
What are the characteristics of those
people who are attracted to such places?
If you have both time and money, what
places do you like to visit most? Why?
Words to describe the features of an outof-the-way, inaccessible place :
wild, beasts, danger, plants, animals,
natural, mysterious, adventurous, etc.
Words used to describe the
characteristics of those people who are
attracted to such places :
curious, brave, fond of traveling,
interested in nature, etc
Lead-in Activities
Play games with words
Classify the following words into four
categories:
Insects
Birds
Reptiles
Fish
nightjar tarantula moth firefly
parrot anaconda boa crocodile
butterfly ant heron kingfisher cuckoo
paichi
piranha
eel
Word Game
Insects
Birds
tarantu
la
moth
firefly
butterf
ly
ant
nightjar
parrot
heron
kingfisher
cuckoo
reptiles
anaconda
boa
crocodile
fish
paichi
piranha
eel
IN THE JUNGLE
Annie Dillard
Contents
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About the author
Background information
Text organization
Understanding the text
Language Points
Useful Expressions
Word Study
1. About the author
Annie Dillard (1945 — )
A nature writer and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Text A is taken from Teaching a
Stone to Talk (Expeditions and
Encounters) (1988).
2. Background Information
Amazon (river): river in northern South America, largely in Brazil,
ranked as the largest in the world in terms of watershed area.
( 纳波河): river in Ecuador.
Andes（安第斯山脉）: a mountain system of western
South America extending more than 8,045 km along the
Pacific coast. The mountains reach into seven countries:
Venezuela through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia,
Chile and Argentina.
The text is beautifully written. There is
an abundance of sensory impressions in
the essay. We feel the coolness of the drinks
and of the night. We smell the sweetness in
the air. We observe the wonderful sights and
graceful movements on the river, on the lake
and in the jungle. We taste the delicious
village food.
Now read the text and see how the writer
uses her pen to make all these scenes reflect
in our mind.
3. Text Organization
Part One (Para. 1-5)
Description of the Napo River and
surrounding jungle scenery at night, together
with the author’s reflections on it.
Part Two (Para. 6-8)
Recalling of what happened to her at their
arrival at the village and what others felt
about the Napo River and the people there.
Part Three (Para. 9-18)
Detailed description of journeying in the
jungle and her feelings about it.
4. Understanding the text
Part One
1. What happened in this part?
When? in the middle of the night. It was Feb. in
the middle of summer.
Where? the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle, on
the headwaters of the Amazon.
Who?
What?
Why?
the author, three North Americans, and four
Ecuadorians.
like any out-of-the-way place, the Napo River
the Ecuadorian jungle seems real enough
when you are there, even central.
out of the way of what?
4. Understanding the text
2. Find the sensory expressions:
Hearing: A nightjar in deep-leaved shadow called three
long notes;
In the thatch house across the clearing behind
us came the sound of a recorder, playing a
tune that twined over the village,……
Smelling: Each breath of night smelled sweet.
Tasting: We were holding cool drinks
Seeing:
Idly watching a hand-sized tarantula
seize moths ……
Feeling: That will do.
5. Language Points
(Para. 3) it coiled up the sandy bank and
tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the
forest and roots that looped the shore.
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。
coil: move in a spiral course
e.g. black smoke coiling up into the sky.
黑烟盘绕直上天空
tangle: mix together or intertwine in a confused
mass
trail: extend, grow loosely over a surface:
e.g. vines trailing through the garden.
蔓生在整个花园之中的葡萄藤
loop: move in a loop or arc
4. Understanding the text
Part Two
Not only does the author move effortlessly from
one sensory impression to another, but she also
handles the changes in time and place in a smooth,
seamless way.
Find the linking devices used to achieve coherence:
Time
Place
What happened
Later that night
In the tent
Loosed my hair from its braids and
combed it smooth.
That afternoon
At the village
What happened on the arrival of
the village.
Now
(back to night)
In the tent
Combed my hair, and listened to a
free-lance writer.
5. Language Points
（Para 7） who were alternately staring at me
and smiling at their toes.
[alternately doing …..and doing …..]
change between the two actions
alternate:
（1）[vi] if two things alternate, or if you
alternate them, they happen one after the
other in a repeated pattern
[alternate between] 交替
e.g. She alternated between happiness and
depression. 她时而快乐，时而沮丧
[alternate with] 轮流
e.g. Showers alternate with sunshine 时雨时晴
(2) [adj.]
e.g. alternate winter and summer冬夏交替
alternate seasons of the year
alternately [adv.]
e.g. He is alternately rude and polite.
他时而粗鲁时而客气。
4. Understanding the text
Part Three
All through these movements there is
overall coherence. There is an echo --- “It
would be worth it”, “The Napo River: it is not
out of the way. It is in the way”.
Q&A
 What is the point of going to the Napo River in
Ecuador according to the author?
— It is simply to see what is there. We are
here on the planet only once, and might as
well get a feel for the place.
4. Understanding the text
 What did they find along the Napo River?
— Parrots in flocks, anacondas, gray stripes
of sandbar, palm-thatch shelter.
 What message does the author want to
convey to the reader by her description of
what was going on in the evening in that
village?
— The Napo River is not out of the way. It is
in the way.
5. Language Points
(Para. 9) We are here on the planet only once,
and might as well get a feel for the place.
may / might/could (just) as well do….
(1) (informal) used when you do not
particularly want to do something but you
decide you should do it
e.g. I suppose we may as well get started.
(2) used to mean that another course of action
would have an equally good result
e.g. Since the taxi is so slow, we might just
as well go by bus.
5. Language Points
(Para.17) The sun would ring down, pulling
darkness after it like a curtain。
夕阳会西下，像落幕似地把夜暮降下
ring down the curtain
to end a performance, event, or action
ring up the curtain
to begin a performance, event, or action
6. Useful Expressions
– 渴望（做……）
be dying for / to do ……
– 编辫子
braid one’s hair
– 喜形于色
with open delight
– 观赏什么世界奇观
to see the most spectacular anything
– 感受一下…..
to get a feel for …..
– 在眼睛的高度
at the eye level
– 目光所及
as far as the eye can see
– 动人，感动人心
catch the / one’s heart
7. Word Study
spatter
illumine
dissolve
disembark
smear
glide
• spatter: [vt, vi]
to scatter (a liquid) in drops or small splashes.溅污
(syn. splatter )
[spatter somebody/something with something]
e.g. The walls were spattered with blood.
[spatter something on/over etc something]
e.g. Don’t spatter the paint over your sweatshirt.
[spatter on/across/over etc]
e.g. The first drops of rain spattered on the
stones.
Rain spatters on the pavement.
雨滴打在人行道上。
• illumine (also illuminate) :
(1) to make a light shine on something, or to fill
a place with light
e.g. A single candle illumined his face.
The river was illumined by the setting
sun. 这条河被落日照亮。
(2) (formal) to make something much clearer
and easier to understand
e.g. His lecture illuminated and explained
many scientific phenomena.
• dissolve: [vt / vi]
1▶BECOME PART OF LIQUID◀
If a solid dissolves, or if you dissolve it, it mixes
with a liquid and becomes part of it
[dissolve in]
e.g. Sugar dissolves in water.
[dissolve something in something]
e.g. Dissolve the tablet in water.
2▶END◀
to formally end a parliament, business
arrangement, marriage etc
e.g. The monarch had the power to dissolve
parliament.
3▶EMOTION◀
[dissolve into/in laughter/tears etc]
to start laughing or crying
e.g. I dissolved into helpless laughter.
我情不自禁地笑起来
4 ▶BECOME WEAKER◀
to gradually become smaller or weaker
before disappearing, or to make something
do this
e.g. After four days her hope of finding her
son began to dissolve.
四天后，她要找到儿子的希望开始破灭
• disembark:
to go ashore from a ship
e.g. The passengers disembarked at
Southampton.
• embark : [vi /vt] (opposite disembark)
to go onto a ship or a plane, or to put or take
something onto a ship or plane
e.g. The plane has stopped to embark
passengers.
飞机已停止使乘客登机。
We embarked at Liverpool for New York.
我们在利物浦上船前往纽约。
• smear:
(1) to spread a liquid or soft substance over a
surface, especially in a careless or untidy way
涂抹
[smear something with something]
e.g. His face was smeared with mud.
The child's face was smeared with chocolate.
这个孩子的脸上抹得到处都是巧克力。
[smear something on/over etc something]
e.g. Elaine smeared sun tan lotion on her
shoulders.
把防晒膏涂抹在臂上
• glide:
(1) to move smoothly and quietly, as if without
effort
[glide across/over/down etc]
e.g. The couples were gliding over the dance
floor.
The boat glided over the river.
The years glided past.
岁月不知不觉地流逝。
(2) if a bird glides, it flies without moving its
wings; if a plane glides, it flies without using
an engine 滑翔