李观仪四册7课.doc

Unit Seven A Sunrise on the Veld Teaching Aims 1. Master the usage of some words and expressions 2. Understand Text I 3. Oral practice Teaching Process. 1. Spoken English. 2.Words and expressions. 3.Understanding of Text I. 4.Exercises. Teaching Process A. Pre-reading Questions To many readers, the title may suggest that the passage is a descriptive piece of writing. Actually it is an excerpt from Doris Lessings short story A Sunrise on the Veld. Here is a brief summary of the opening of the story: Very early one cold morning, the fifteen-year-old boy rose, dressed rapidly and, holding his gun under his arm and accompanied by his dogs, quietly stole out of his house. He began walking swiftly along the path of the bush, and soon he was running in the wild. He had come out to shoot guinea fowls, but he was too late. However, he did not mind. In fact, he was so exhilarated that he shouted and yelled and sang at the top of his voice. Suddenly he heard a new voice, not his own. somewhere close to him there was a sound of pain, a kind of shortened scream. He stopped, listened, and looked. Between two trees was a small buck, covered with what appeared to be bits of black fur, screaming and staggering drunkenly and even leaping from side to side, as if it were blind. veld: (a stretch of) wild, high, flat, mostly treeless grassland in South Africa bush: wild, uncultivated land, especially in Africa or Australia buck: male deer B. Detailed study of the text 1. ?The ground was black with ants, great energetic ants that took no notice of him, but hurried and scurried towards the fighting shape, like glistening black water flowing through the grass.” (1) take (no) notice of: pay (no) attention to E.g.: Taking no notice of what was happening around him, Langston Hughes continued to sit on the mourners bench, waiting for Jesus Christ to come into his life. At the Chinese Commodities Fair, people couldn’ t fail to take notice of the rapid progress th