新視野大學(xué)英語第三版3第六單元U6SectionA

3Unit 6 War and peace FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH PRESS HEBEI UNIVERSITY 1 use the key language to talk about the cruelty of war2 apply the reading skill reading for main ideas in paragraphs3 develop a descriptive essay4 translate with the skill of free translation5 conceive the cruelty of war on the common people Objectives Section A Under the bombs: 1 9 4 5Project of the unitInspiring your thoughtsEnhancing your skillsPresenting your project Project forecastingInspiring your thoughts Enhancing your skills Presenting your project Project of the unitLead-in Watch the video clip and discuss the following question in pairs. Step 1 Talking about the cruelty of warTask Lead-in Project of the unitAccording to the video, how did war affect peoples daily life? Injury to people. Death. Daily life full of digging shelters. Vacant city. Slowdown economy. Work in groups and discuss the following question.Step 2Lead-in Project of the unitWhat would you feel if you were under the air raid? Scared. Want to find some shelter / run for life. Want to find parents and family members. Hate the enemy. Hate the war. Want to fight back. Lead-inInspiring your thoughts Enhancing your skills Presenting your project Project of the unit Project forecasting Please get prepared by doing the following activities. Although war seems far away from our lives, it happens in the other corner of the world the very minute we study or play. War affects not only the officers and soldiers in the battlefield but also the common people who are in the rear area. By the end of this unit, you are expected to write a descriptive essay on the following topic: The cruelty of war in my eyes. Project of the unit Global understanding Detailed understandingEnhancing your skills Presenting your project Project of the unit Inspiring your thoughts Skim the text in two minutes and then answer the following questions.1) What type of writing is the text?2) What does the author mainly talk about in the text?3) What order does the text generally follow?G lobal understanding of the textTask 1Inspiring your thoughtsGlobal understandingDescription.His experience during the war.Time order. Read the text again. Try to figure out the general structure of the text.Inspiring your thoughtsTask 2 Identifying the structure of the textGlobal understandingParas. 1-2: Beginning of the war.Paras. 3-5: Running away.Paras. 6-8: Suffering in winter.Para. 9: Feelings about the war.Step 1 Work in groups and tell one another how you identified the text structure.Step 2Inspiring your thoughtsGlobal understandingThere are many words of time and place in the text which help the reader identify the flow of ideas or information, such as:Para. 1: Today, when I look back, ; It begins with Para. 3: Its night Para. 4: Im walking with my sister beside a wagon.Para. 6: When winter comes, Para. 8: One day Para. 9: I cant quite remember when or how the war ended for us; my mind is always drawn back to that first day in the meadow, Global understanding Detailed understandingEnhancing your skills Presenting your project Project of the unit Inspiring your thoughts Inspiring your thoughts1) Why does the author run toward the forest in the direction of the falling bombs? What does it imply?2) What does the author think of their flight when he sees that everyone is running away? What does it indicate?3) Why does the author write in detail his grandfathers situation? 4) What does the author want to convey by describing the “increasingly appalling landscape” (Para. 5)?5) Why does the authors mother stand brooding at the window for hours with a fixed stare? 6) Why does the author regard the metal container as something valuable?Read the text again and answer the following questions.Detailed understandingTask 1 Detailed understanding of the text 1) Why does the author run toward the forest in the direction of the falling bombs? What does it imply?Because he has not grown accustomed to war and cannot conceive of the danger, and he is fascinated by the bombs explosion. The naivety of the author mirrored the cruelty and mercilessness of the war.Inspiring your thoughtsDetailed understanding to be continued 2) What does the author think of their flight when he sees that everyone is running away? What does it indicate?The author feels that flight has suddenly become some kind of higher necessity, some new form of life. It indicates that the sudden imperativeness of flight because of the war disturbed and overturned the childs peaceful and carefree life.Detailed understandingInspiring your thoughts to be continued 3) Why does the author write in detail his grandfathers situation?Because the author wants to take his grandfather, a victim of war, as a typical example to reveal the helplessness of individuals in the cruel war. Detailed understandingInspiring your thoughts to be continued 4) What does the author want to convey by describing the “increasingly appalling landscape” (Para. 5)?By describing the “increasingly appalling landscape”, the author wants to convey that war only brings people huge disasters, destroying everything without mercy and ruining peoples life completely. Detailed understandingInspiring your thoughts to be continued 5) Why does the authors mother stand brooding at the window for hours with a fixed stare? Because she is worried and helpless. They have nothing to eat, and she doesnt know whether they can survive the severe war. Detailed understandingInspiring your thoughts to be continued 6) Why does the author regard the metal container as something valuable?Because they have nothing to eat and the sugar residue inside the container serves as their only nutrition for days.Detailed understandingInspiring your thoughts 1) Does war solve problems, or create new ones in todays world?2) Can you name several factors contributing to a war?3) How do you think about the relationship between war and peace?Discuss the following questions in groups:Detailed understandingInspiring your thoughtsTask 2 Critical thinking 1) Does war solve problems, or create new ones in todays world? War sometimes does help solve some tough problems such as territory disputes, but it can never solve them once and for all. Losers may take revenge on winners several years later or even decades later, and then wars will continue on and on. Common people will live in constant chaos of war and suffer the most. National hatred between the countries involved in wars will be triggered and will remain in peoples hearts for many years.Detailed understandingInspiring your thoughts to be continued 2) Can you name several factors contributing to a war? There are many factors that are widely believed to contribute to a war in human history, such as territory expansion or dispute, economic crisis, terrorism, religious conflict, etc.Detailed understandingInspiring your thoughts to be continued 3) How do you think about the relationship between war and peace? It is war that inflicts devastation and destruction. It is peace that facilitates long lasting prosperity and happiness. Any peace brought by war is just temporary. Only the sincere desire for peace radiating from peoples hearts can bring aboutworld peace.Detailed understandingInspiring your thoughts Language learningLanguage focusPresenting your project Project of the unit Inspiring your thoughts Structure analysisDevelop a descriptive essay Enhancing your skills Language highlighting Match the verbs with their explanations.Step 1Step 2 Make a sentence with each verb.Step 3 Share your sentences in the class.Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language learning Task 1 Learning verbs to describe war leave a building or other place because it is not safe become red in the face when you are angry or embarassedmanage to produce a quality or a reaction that helps you deal with a difficult situationproduce heat, light, or energy turn sth. so that its bottom or side is upward make sb. suffer sth. unpleasant think and worry about sth. a lot radiateevacuateinflictflushsummonoverturnbrood Read the text and find at least five nouns that are related to war. Step 1Step 2 Share your answers in groups. Step 3 Work together on more words and enlarge your vocabulary about war.Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language learning Task 2 Learning nouns about war About weapons:bomb, airplane, landmine, air raid, ammunition, battle, battlefield, war equipment, gunpowder, explosionAbout effects:hunger, tragedy, death, flight, casualty, massacre, corpse, disaster, slum, damage, suffering, destruction, terror, violence, fear, devastation, loss, wartimeEnhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language learning 1) a bomb hidden under the ground that explodes when sb. moves over it 2) bullets, bombs, etc. that can be fired from a weapon 3) a poor area of a town 4) A dead body, esp. of a human being5) the killing of a lot of people6) sb. or sth. that is damaged or suffers as a result of sth. elseFigure out the nouns that are described as follows.landmineammunitionslumcorpsemassacrecasualtyStep 4Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language learning Fill in the blanks with the words or phrases in the box.stray inflict huddle together weave ones way around / through / to sth. 1) Dont _ damage on any person. 2) An 8-year-old boy was killed by a _ bullet. 3) It was so cold outside that beggars had to _ for warmth. 4) There were so many people in the street that William had to _ the crowds.inflict stray huddle togetherweave his way throughStep 1Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language learning Task 3 Using words and phrases pervasive casualty appalling overturn fly at5) The lorry veered out of control, _ and smashed into a wall.6) He lives with a _ sense of guilt. 7) In this fire accident, most of the _ were women.8) The mad man suddenly _ me; he was kicking and scratching, and all I could do was to call for help.9) They have been living under the most _ conditions for two months. pervasive overturnedcasualtiesflew at appallingEnhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language learning Choose no less than five words or phrases from the following list and write a passage in groups to describe the cruelty of war. Step 2 Expressionsappalling evacuatemassacre inflicthuddle together casualtycorpse fly atammunition strayEnhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language learning 1. radiate (Para. 2)vi.if things radiate from a central point, they spread out in different directions from that point 從中心向四周散開；從中心輻射狀發(fā)出 Task 4 Detailed learning of key vocabularyTranslation:在巴黎，街道以凱旋門為中心向四方伸展。Avenues radiate from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 1. radiate (Para. 2)v. 1. produce heat, light, or energy 輻射；發(fā)射Translation:冬天，厚厚的墻壁白天吸收太陽的熱量，晚上釋放出熱量。In the winter, the thick walls absorbed the suns warmth during the day and radiated the heat at night. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 1. radiate (Para. 2)v. 2. show a particular feeling or attitude in your expression or behavior 流露，顯示（感情或態(tài)度）Translation:盡管她聲音沒變，但我還是感受到了她所流露出的怒氣。Her voice hadnt changed but I felt the anger that radiated from her. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 1. radiate (Para. 2)radiate from: spread out from sb. or sth., as with rays 自發(fā)出Translation:帳篷吸收著地面散發(fā)出來的熱量以及太陽光線的熱量。The tents were collecting both the heat that radiated from the ground and the rays that came from the sun.Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 2. evacuate (Para. 3)v. leave a building or other place because it is not safe 撤離，撤出（某危險建筑物或地方）Translation:大學(xué)化學(xué)實驗室著火了，校警讓所有人盡快從大廈中撤離。The college chemistry lab was on fire, and the campus police told everyone to evacuate the building as quickly as possible.Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 3. tangle (Para. 3)n. C 1. the untidy shape that things make when they are twisted round each other or round sth. else 糾結(jié)的一團(tuán)；亂糟糟的一堆 Translation:原來的計算機(jī)和電話系統(tǒng)如今只剩下亂糟糟的一團(tuán)電線。A tangle of wires is all that remains of the computer and phone systems. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 3. tangle (Para. 3)n. C 2. a situation that is difficult to deal with because things are not organized properly 混亂Translation:我們雇了一位律師來理清這起法律糾紛的頭緒。We employed a lawyer to straighten our legal tangle. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 3. tangle (Para. 3)v. 1. (also up) become twisted together, or make sth. become twisted together, in an untidy mass（使）纏結(jié)在一起；（使）亂成一團(tuán)Translation:我的新長裙纏進(jìn)了自行車輪子里。My new long skirt got tangled up in the wheel of my bike.Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 3. tangle (Para. 3)v. 2. ( with sb. / sth.) become involved in a quarrel or fight with sb. / sth. 與某人吵嘴或打架；與某事有糾葛Translation:我不應(yīng)該與彼特吵架，他的塊頭比我大。I shouldnt tangle with Peter; he is bigger than me. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 4. permeate (Para. 3)v. 1. (of an idea, an influence, a feeling, etc.) affect every part of sth.（ 思想、影響、感情等）感染，傳播，擴(kuò)散Translation:金錢的力量浸透著我們生活的方方面面。The power of money permeates every aspect of our existence. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 4. permeate (Para. 3)v. 2. (of a liquid, gas, etc.) spread to every part of an object or a place（ 液體、氣體等）滲透，彌漫，擴(kuò)散Translation:花朵的芬芳彌漫著每個房間。The fragrance of flowers permeates every room. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 5. summon (Para. 8)vt. 1. (also up) manage to produce a quality or a reaction that helps you deal with a difficult situation 鼓起（勇氣）；振作（精神）Translation:經(jīng)歷了一個漫長的無眠之夜后，露絲深吸一口氣， 鼓起所有的勇氣把她決定要說的事情講了出來。After her long, sleepless night, Ruth took a deep breath and summoned all her courage to put into words what she had decided to say. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 5. summon (Para. 8)vt. 2. (fml.) officially order sb. to come to a place, esp. a court of law 召見，召喚，傳喚（某人到庭）Translation:今天下午院長已經(jīng)召集所有教師開會，討論學(xué)校預(yù)算縮減的問題。The dean has summoned all teaching staff to a meeting for a discussion of the schools budget cuts this afternoon. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 6. naive (Para. 9)a. 1. (of people and their behavior) innocent and simple 天真的；率直的Translation:總的說來，人一開始都是天真無邪的兒童，然后成長為成熟的大人。但有一些人似乎拒絕長大。Generally, humans start as naive young children and grow into mature adults, but there are some, who, it seems, resist growing up. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 6. naive (Para. 9)a. 2. lacking experience of life, knowledge or good judgment and willing to believe that people always tell you the truth 毫無經(jīng)驗的；幼稚的； 無知的；輕信的Translation:指望任何社會都能一勞永逸地解決面臨的所有社會問題是幼稚的。It is naive to expect that any society can resolve all of the social problems it faces, once and for all. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting Task 5 Sentence analysis1. I have not yet grown accustomed to war and cant relate into a single chain of causes and effects these airplanes, the roar of the bombs, the earth radiating out from the forest, and my seemingly inevitable death. (Para. 2)The direct objectives of relate are: these airplanes, the roar of the bombs, the earth radiating out from the forest and my seemingly inevitable death. Into a single chain of causes and effects is the indirect objective of relate. The latter part of the sentence means: I dont know that it is the planes that drop the bombs, and that the explosions of the bombs raise the earth out from the forest, and that all these may lead to my probably inescapable death.Translation:我還沒有習(xí)慣戰(zhàn)爭，也不能把這些飛機(jī)、炸彈的轟鳴、森林那邊飛濺開來的泥土以及我看似必然的死亡聯(lián)系成單一的因果關(guān)系。Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 1. I have not yet grown accustomed to war and cant relate into a single chain of causes and effects these airplanes, the roar of the bombs, the earth radiating out from the forest, and my seemingly inevitable death. (Para. 2) try as I might = although I try hardWar inevitably inflicts is an attributive clause modifying suffering to express that suffering is inescapable in a war.Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 2. Try as I might, I still cant understand what we could have done to justify all the suffering war inevitably inflicts. (Para. 9)Translation:無論我如何努力，我還是不清楚當(dāng)初到底我們做了什么， 要讓我們承受戰(zhàn)爭不可避免帶來的所有這些傷害。 1. It begins with my suddenly noticing . (Para. 1)Task 6 Language appreciationEnhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting In this text, the narrative present is used. As we learned in B1U2, with a narrative present, the story which happened in the past is written in present tense in order to create a sense of urgency and immediacy and produces the effect of great vividness. Meanwhile, the use of first person narrative poses a feeling of the reader being right there, seeing through the main characters eyes and thinking their thoughts. 2. “Stay down,” I hear my mothers trembling voice, “Dont move!” (Para. 2)The short, brisk sentences such as Stay down and Dont move create a sense of danger, unease and anxiety and reflect the helpless and frightful atmosphere prevalent among people under war.Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting Work in groups, find more examples of short and powerful sentences from the text. 1. That way is death. (Para. 2) 2. Where to, I dont know; (Para. 3) 3. All highways, roads, and even country paths are a tangle of wagons, carts, and bicycles, with bundles and suitcases, and innumerable terrified, helplessly wandering people. Some are running away to the east, others to the west, north, south; they run in circles, fall from profound fatigue, sleep for a moment, then begin anew their aimless journey. (Para. 3) 4. We mustnt get lost, my mother warns; (Para. 3)5. He cant move; he is paralyzed, another casualty of a landmine. (Para. 4) Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting 3. Were entering an increasingly appalling landscape. Theres smoke on the horizon, the blaze of battle fading. We pass by deserted villages, solitary, burned-out houses. We pass battlefields dense with the garbage of abandoned war equipment, bombed-out railway stations, overturned cars. It smells of gunpowder, and of burning, decomposing meat after a massacre. Everywhere are the corpses of horse, too defenseless in this human war. (Para. 5)Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting In this paragraph, sensory language is used to describe the appalling landscape and helps create a vivid picture which makes the reader feel as if he / she were present at the scene. Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting Very often the perceptions through sight are presented. But to some extent we can also describe senses of touch, hearing, smell, and perhaps even taste. Step 1 Divide the class into five groups, each assigned with one of the five senses: sight, touch, hearing, smell, or taste. Step 2 Students work in groups and work out at least three words that are associated with the senses they are assigned with.Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting Do the following activities and appreciate the true-to-life picture that sensory language brings about. Sight: red, green, triangular, round, smile, blood Touch: soft, hard, rough, smooth H earing: hum, muffle, rumble, pop, ping, roar Smell: rancid, fragrant, smoky, stinky Taste: sour, salty, sweet, bitter Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting Work in groups and find the sensory language from the text. Discuss how they help the description of war.Step 3Enhancing your skillsLanguage focus Language highlighting It begins with my suddenly noticing 12 distant silver points in the clear brilliant sky (sight) filled with an unfamiliar abnormal hum (hearing). (Para. 1) Suddenly, nearby, at the edge of the forest, theres the tremendous roar of bombs exploding (hearing). From my standpoint, I see gigantic fountains of earth spraying upward (sight). (Para. 2) Theres smoke on the horizon, the blaze