现代大学英语四册 spring sowing.ppt

Lesson Two Spring Sowing IV Comprehensive questions IV Comprehensive questions What do you know about the young couple? V Role play Discussion Imagine that you were a young couple in 21st century, what will you do in a sunny spring morning? Please act it out. Imagine that you were Martin and Mary who lived in the early 20th century, what would you do then? Discussion Can we really have such a clear break with our past? Is it really true that what our grandparents or great grandparents did and experienced is meaningless and useless? V Theme of the story The story describes the first day of the first spring planting of a newly-wedded couple against the background of a traditional agricultural country. In Ireland at that time, most people still depended on farming for a living, and the main crop was the potato. Modern science and technology had not yet caught up with the land.There was little machinery. Practically everything was still done by hand. For Mary and Martin Delaney, this was an extremely important day, because it not only would determine the crop they would harvest in autumn, but would also show what kind of wife and husband they would prove to each other and what kind of family they were going to have. LOGO I Revision of the words II Group discussion III Background information VI Assignment IV Comprehensive questions V Role play More questions for discussion 1. Have you ever sowed before? Do you know how spring sowing is done in your hometown? Try to work out a list of words or expressions used in sowing. 2. What’s your opinion of being a farmer? ?????????????????? III About the Author Liam OFlaherty is one of the most significant and important modern Anglo-Irish authors.He was born in Ireland in 1896. Both his novels and his short stories define Anglo-Irish literature in that his themes stem from his experiences growing up in a poverty-stricken society on the island of Aran; his naturalistic, mystical