Transcript 新编英语教程4

新编英语教程4
For your promising future
Unit Fourteen
Objectives
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1. to learn to appreciate narration with
description
2. to grasp different ways to show one’s
horror
Teaching Tasks and Process
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I. Pre reading questions
The year 2008 was a year full of
unexpected events. What do you think
are the reasons and effects of these
disasters?
II Background Information
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On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, an earthquake measuring
8.0 on the Richter scale hit Sichuan Province, a mountainous
region in Western China. The quake, whose death toll has
exceeded 40,075, has seriously damaged buildings, bridges
and other public facilities in an area of more than 100,000
square kilometers, which is the second largest earthquake
after the foundation of People’s Republic of China.
China State Council decreed that a national mourning from
May 19 to 21 be held, during which flags throughout this
country are to be flown at half-mast. The BOCOG also
indicated that, from May 19 to 21, the Olympic torch relay in
China will be suspended for 3 days of mourning.
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Faced with the sudden terrible natural disaster, CWE staff have donated
large sum of money to show our deep condolences and sincere support
to the victims in this earthquake, even many overseas staff expressed
their determination, confidence and love to help them overcome the
difficult time. “We are trying our best to support them” is the common
aspiration of all CWE members.
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Until May 20, CWE has raised more than 146,687 RMB donation fund,
overseas staff members have also actively raised money for the
motherland victims, among them, Ghana Road project donated 4,540
USD, Ghana Branch Office 5,500 USD, United States and Pakistan
Branch raised 900USD and 451,600 Rupee respectively.
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All CWE staff are eagerly expecting that people in disaster area can
successfully reconstruct their homeland at an early date.
III Language points
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1. A brief summary of different kinds of “fear”
1) Fear is the general term for the feelings of
anxiety and agitation caused by the presence,
nearness or possibility of danger, evil or pain.
Examples:
Children can be taught to hold their breath in the
sea at a very early age without fear of the water.
I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a
degree and with no experience of teaching my
chances of landing the job were slim. (Level 3, Unit 1)
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2) Dread refers to the great fear or depression felt
when anticipating something very dangerous,
disagreeable or harmful.
Examples:
Maggie always dreads taking down the
Christmas tree, so I thought I’d do it for her. (Level 4,
Unit1)
Wealth didn’t bring happiness to that eccentric
peer because he lived in constant dread of losing his
property.
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3) Horror refers to the feeling of extreme fear,
revulsion and possibly shock.
Examples:
Hanging in the vast void between sleeping and
waking, he remembered with nightmare horror that
he had gone to sleep under circumstances of crisis.
She considered the horror film to be unsuitable for
her teen-age children because the subject matter and
the treatment were intended chiefly to arouse
feelings of revulsion.
At the sight of the snake, she drew back in horror.
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4) Panic refers to a frantic, desperate and unreasoned fear. It
can exist in one individual or spread quickly to others, even
affecting whole groups and leading to irrational action and
uncontrolled, possibly dangerous and destructive, behavior.
Examples:
Panic seized him as it flashed through his brain that he
might have dozed off to sleep at the controls of his plane.
There was a great panic among the audience when gunshots
were heard in the theatre.
Anybody who had heard the lion roar in the jungle would have
panicked.
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5) Terror refers to very strong, paralyzing fear.
Examples:
His brain reeled in terror, and for
moments he could not even tell how near or
far it was.
As he drew in his breath and pity and
terror seized him, the beast fell and the
screaming stopped. (Unit 7)
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6) Alarm implies sudden fear at the realization of danger.
Examples:
… but is kept edging its way in again with alarming
persistence.
Then he was alarmed that he had been pleased by such a
grim thought.
We all felt alarmed at the news that the enemy was
bombarding the village except the calm guerrilla leader, who
immediately arranged for our evacuation.
“When Peter shot down one of the five birds in the tree,
how many of them were left?” Father asked Tom.
“None. The remaining four flew away in alarm,” was Tom’s
quick answer.
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2. … and had managed to extricate himself from his
little plane…
extricate oneself from — get oneself free from /
free oneself from / get oneself out of something with
some difficulty
More examples:
The unlucky hare found itself caught in the hunter’s
trap, and it seemed impossible that it would be able
to extricate itself.
The steep incline resulted in the overturning of the
car, and the driver died because he simply couldn’t
extricate himself from the wreckage.
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3. … and his heart sank with the memory of how
difficult it was to spot a man in the vastness of the
sea.
his heart sank— he lost hope, courage or any
feeling of optimism; he felt depressed
More examples:
The children were excited because they were going
to the beach for a picnic and swim the next day, but
their hearts sank when it began to rain.
When the enemy troops learned that they had run
out of ammunition and were surrounded by the
guerrillas, their hearts sank.
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4. He kept a sharp eye open for sharks.
Keep a sharp eye open for — keep eyes
open for, watch carefully for
More examples:
They kept a sharp eye open for a petrol
station as they drove on because the petrol
was running short.
When the hunters walked through the damp
forest, they kept a sharp eye open for
rattlesnakes.
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5. … but it kept edging its way in again with
alarming persistence.
edge its way (in) — move (in) gradually; get (in) bit
by bit, perhaps with some difficulty
More examples:
A crowd of people had surrounded the president, but
the journalist succeeded in edging his way in and
took some wonderful picture.
Whenever there was a variety show in the village,
she would always edge her way to the front and keep
her eyes fixed on the acrobat.
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6. Each time they grew louder he cheered under his
breath…
under his breath—in a low, very quiet voice,
inaudible to most people
More examples:
When the economics professor heard the student say
something under his breath, he thought it was the
correct answer and asked him to repeat it audibly.
The soprano sang so marvelously that the audience
was spellbound and silent.
“Unbelievable”, muttered Linda, under her breath.
Discussion/Exercises
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What do you think we should do in face
of emergencies?
Assignments
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Appreciation:
A poem written especially for the
children who died in the disaster
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O, My Babe, Please don't cry,
O, My, it is just flying away, you
hear?
Let' me sing you, once again, a
lullaby,
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O, No cry, my dearest,
brightest, the shortest, in the night
it's fading away in the seconds when beautiful, die
dropped alike, tears in your face, was I,
O, Please don't cry,
I know, this is a sleep has no mornings
but when you see the stars smile in the sky
when you see the brightest, that was I……
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O, please remember, I say in pride,
i have been here, on this land, once a while,
but don't tell me what is mortality, n' forever,
the beautiful, in the shortest moment, sadly die
I don't wanna know 'mature', it ends when it starts
Please don't cry, n No cry,the weariness and sufferings,
never, and forever, sleep in the holy light,
peaceful and quite in this holy night.
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Please don't cry, no cry,don't u see your mother,
still holding your hand? in sorrow n love,
Please don't cry n No cry, the tear-drops hammered the hearts
of loving you n' the ones you love
Please don't cry, O babe, I knew, you worked hard,
see, those books dropped? n' pencils in your hand?
O, My Child, Ya' re dearest mine，No cry, tonight, No cry,
Please don't cry, O dearest, Let's be-light the 12 candles, along n bright
for your journey to the life on other side
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No cry, it's no darkness to fear, it's bright now
O, My child, Life is not easy, and short, but why?
O, My Child，China，it's just a while, the saddest moment now,
When you see below from above, your loved one, and other
children
Don't cry, My child, we are together as we pray at same time
together,
God Bless China, n' we don't cry, n' No Cry.