高級英語第一冊face_to_face_with_hurricane2教案

1、整理課件Lesson One Face to Face with Hurricane Camille整理課件 Gulfport This sailboat washed ashore in front of the First Baptist Church 整理課件Gulfport - Gulfports new $160,000 Recreation Center, it had been open less than a month 整理課件One of the many homes along the Mississippi Gulf Coast that were lost durin

2、g Hurricane Camille 整理課件The destruction of Hurricane Katrina整理課件整理課件 NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29, 2005) - Flooded roadways can be seen as the Coast Guard conducts initial Hurricane damage assessment overflights here during late August 2005. 整理課件整理課件整理課件George Stewart, 57, a New Orleans evacuee, arrived at

3、the Wesley Methodist Center Wednesday, after walking a two-day, 85-mile journey from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.整理課件The detailed study of the text Introductory paragraphs 1 - 6 - time - place - background - conflict: man VS hurricanes/nature - character: John Koshak整理課件Paragraph 1There are two citie

4、s of There are two cities of Gulfport in the U.S. The Gulfport in the U.S. The one mentioned in the text one mentioned in the text is in Mississippi, which is in Mississippi, which is often visited by is often visited by hurricane. The other is in hurricane. The other is in Florida.Florida.整理課件整理課件Q

5、. for Para.2 and 3: Why did John Koshak decide to stay and face the dangers of a devastating hurricane? 1. He is a self-employed businessman Magna product - the name of his companyimplication: How great the loss it would be if the house was destroyed. 2. His present house was in a better condition t

6、han his former house.整理課件Demolish: to destroy completelydemolish, destroy, raze, annihilateDestroy is a general word with few overtones beyond its emphasis on force and thoroughness. Demolish and raze are generally applied to big or substantial things, such as buildings or other edifices. A building

7、 is demolished if smashed to pieces and razed if leveled to the ground. Demolish, unlike raze, is often used figuratively of the reduction of any complex whole to ruins. Raze is used almost invariably of buildings or their remains.Annihilate is the most extreme word in this list , and literally mean

8、s to reduce to nothingness. As more commonly used, however ， it denotes a severe degree of damage to a thing or person. An army may annihilate an enemy force by so damaging it as to render it incapable of further offensive or defensive action, but without literally removing all traces of its existen

9、ce. A debater may be said to annihilate his opponent if he defeats him decisively.整理課件More examples of blendingboatel (boat+hotel) brunch (breakfast + lunch)chunnel (channel + tunnel) slurb (slum + suburb)slanguage (slang + language) sitcom (situation + comedy )cafetorium (cafe + auditorium)talkatho

10、n ( talk + marathon) masscult (mass + culture) comsat (communications + satellite) 整理課件How is the description of the elder Koshak different from that of young Koshak? The elder Koshak is gruff, which implies roughness or surliness but does not necessarily suggest rudeness. Thats why it is not contra

11、dictory with “warmhearted”. Comment on the composure of an old man in his 60s. 整理課件Paragraph 4 batten down: to fastenwith boards of wood ride out: to keep floating till the end of; to come safely through trouble or difficult things without taking any violent action How to understand the metaphor in

12、Para. 4?整理課件Paragraph 6 scud: to race along swiftly (esp. used of clouds) the rising wind: wind that is getting stronger and stronger sit out: to stay until the end of sth. Vietnam War lasted from 1959 to 1975. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s and combat units were deployed beginning in

13、 1965. Involvement peaked in 1968. 整理課件Paragraph 6 Q. What is the function of the dash?整理課件Paragraph 7 As the wind mounted to a roar: the sound of the wind gets louder and louder as the force of the wind increases, reaching the strength of a hurricane.整理課件Paragraph 8 Windows disintegrated: windows b

14、roke into pieces.decay, rot, spoil, molder, decompose, disintegrate Decay implies gradual, often natural, deterioration from a normal or sound condition. Rot refers to the decay of organic, esp. vegetable, matter caused by bacteria, fungi, etc. Spoil is the common informal word for the decay of food

15、s. Molder suggests a slow, progressive, crumbling decay. Disintegrate implies the breaking of something into parts of fragments so that the wholeness of the original is destroyed. Decompose suggests the breaking up or separation of something into its component elements. It is also a somewhat euphemi

16、stic substitute for rot. 整理課件the French doors 整理課件Paragraph 10-12 Q. What are the features of the sentences in these paragraphs? What are their functions? Q. Why did the children “scramble” (Para. 12)?整理課件Paragraph 13-14 Q. Why did the house “shudder”? on the verge of panic (Para. 14): Verge is an e

17、xtreme terminating line or edge: the suns afterglow on the verge of the horizon. Figuratively it indicates a point at which something is likely to begin or to happen: an explorer on the verge of a great discovery. Brink denotes the edge of a steep place: stood on the brink of the cliff. In an extend

18、ed sense it indicates the likelihood or imminence of a sudden change: on the brink of falling in love. 整理課件Paragraph 16-17 Q. Why did Grandpas voice lack its usual gruffness? Q. Why did John feel a crushing guilt? Q. Why is “You” capitalized?整理課件 lap (Para. 17): 1. To take up drink or food with the

19、tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something. The dogs by the River Niluss side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. Sir K. Digby. 2. To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue. I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on

20、the crag. Tennyson. 整理課件Paragraph 18-19 Study these words in these two paragraphs: swipe, skim, shoot out and seize. Analyze the diction. maroon (Para. 18): term for a fugitive slave in the 17th and 18th cent. in the West Indies and Guiana, or for a descendant of such slaves. They were called marron

21、 by the French and cimarrn by the Spanish. Formerly much used in the West Indies and South America, the term later came to be used with particular reference to certain blacks living in W Jamaica. The maroons fled when the British began their conquest of the island from the Spanish in 1655 and mainta

22、ined a hostile independence until 1739, when a treaty granting them lands of their own and virtual independence was concluded. 整理課件Paragraph 19-20 Q. What is the function of these two paragraphs? Are they coherent with the whole? 整理課件Paragraph 21 Q. Why did Grandmother Koshak “implore” the children

23、to sing? beg, crave, beseech, implore, entreat, importune These verbs mean to make an earnest request. Beg and crave mean to ask in a serious and sometimes humble manner, especially for something one cannot claim as a right: I begged her to forgive me. The attorney craved the courts indulgence. Bese

24、ech emphasizes earnestness and often implies anxiety: Be silent, we beseech you. Implore intensifies the sense of urgency and anxiety: The child implored his father not to be angry. Entreat pertains to persuasive pleading: “Ask me no questions, I entreat you” (Charles Dickens). Importune adds the sense of persistent and sometimes irksome pleading: The foundation was importuned by fundraisers. 整理課件The Richelieu Apartments 整理課件Run-on sentences A r