unit 5上课课件.ppt

;;;Warming up;Lesson 11 – Silent Spring ;Lesson 11 – Silent Spring ;Lesson 11 – Silent Spring ;Lesson 11 – Silent Spring ;Lesson 11 – Silent Spring ;Lesson 11 – Silent Spring ;Check-on Preview;1. Content Message: Develop an environmental consciousness (live and let live). 2. Language: Practice reading skills. – understanding extended essays (a combination of description, exposition and argumentation) – understanding complicated paragraphs – reading for gist – inferring the author’s attitudes/feelings/opinions/conclusions (her love for the beauty and integrity of nature; her view of man’s relation to nature) – drawing inferences;2. Language: Appreciate descriptive writing (use of sensory words to paint pictures). Appreciate devices to make writing precise and powerful. Learn how to use “so” and “such.” ;; Rachel Carson (1907-1964) biologist, writer, ecologist;She was once bitterly attacked: “an anti-humanitarian crank, a priestess of nature, and a hysterical woman” But she courageously went on fighting until her idea caught on and more and more people joined in. →the mother of modern environmental movement ; Rachel Carson (1907—1964) was an American biologist and writer. She was a quiet, private person, fascinated with the workings of nature from a scientific and aesthetic point of view. ;grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm, went to the Pennsylvania College, majored in zoology, and then went to John Hopkins for a master’s degree in genetics. published Under the Sea-Wind, then The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea, and finally Silent Spring in 1962. In the wake of Silent Spring, she was attacked personally and as a scientist by many. While she was working on Silent Spring, she was seriously ill, a niece died and left a young son whom she adopted, her mother died, and she learned she had breast cancer. died two years after Silent Spring was published, at age 56. ;1. When was it published? 2. Wh