Unit 5 Literature：the dream keeper
Section one
Step I. Greeting and speech time
Let one of the Ss give his/her speech in the front of class.
Step II. Go over the new words.
1. Listening to the tape of vocabulary and let the Ss read following it twice.
2. Have a dictation to the following words.
important ones: whisper, literature, eagle, feather, swan, beauty, muddy, peace,
sharp, familiar, identity, somehow, press, bite, expectation, statement,
content, entire, respond, material, challenge, vocabulary
Step III. Pre-reading
1. Read through the whole text and let them do the following simple questions 伴读P72
Answer the following questions.
A. Why did the girl walk into the forest one day?
B. What is the purpose of the eagle?
C. What is the purpose of the hawk?
D. What is the purpose of the hummingbird?
E. What is the purpose of the swan?
F. Did the girl find her dreams?
G. What was the dream of the girl?
2. Help the students identify the theme in this story.
Read the text more carefully and then answer the following questions.
1) What is the underlying idea?
2) What is the story trying to tell us?
3) What is the symbolic meaning?
4) What do the characters or the evens in the story stand for in the real world?
Possible answers:
1) a difficult journey
2) persistence
3) patience
4) Identifying one’s purpose in life and finding yourself and who your are.
Step IV. Language points
1. Deep into the forest
2. There is no hesitation in their flight. (There is no hesitation…)
3. fly away/ fly by /fly over
4. still 的各种含以及用法
5. from + 介词短语 ：from within her heart
Section Two
Step I. Build your comprehension
1. Ask the Ss to do brain-storm: what can you see in the forest?
What can you hear in the forest?
What can you feel in the forest?
Then collect the answers to enrich their vocabulary.
2. Finish the questions (见课本58页)
Step II. Build your vocabulary
1. Finish the exercise on P58.1
2. Lead the Ss to understand the rule of forming new words by adding Adv. Suffix “ly”.
Step III. Listening skills
Listening to the tape and finish the questions 课本59页
(Answers: a. a. a. b)
Step IV. Speaking skills
1. Giving out some expressions of making suggestions.
(If you want to…? / Do you like…? / Are you interested in…? / I would like you to…/ You’d better…)
2. Asking the Ss to give suggestions in order.
3. Let the Ss work in pairs to form dialogues.
Section Three
Step I. Let Ss read the text content (课本61页).
Step II. Lead them to the conclusion of the following rules:
1. ability: can / could/ be able to
2. request & permission: can / could / may/ might / must not / shall / will / would
3. duty & obligation: should /ought / must / have to
4. intention: will / would / shall / should
5. possibility & prediction: may / might / can / could / must / will / would / ought
Step III. Exercise
用适当情态动词填空：
1. You ________ work harder if you want to succeed.
2. ________ I have some more tea?
3. Where ________ it be? It ________ be in your desk.
4. Who ________ it be? It ________ not be the headmaster for he is now attending a meeting.
5. I ________ read English very fluently.
6. He ________ swim across the channel when was only 12.
7. It ________ rain at any moment.
8. Listen! It ________ be mother back. Let’s hurry up.
9. It ________ not be him, but I am not sure.
链接高考题：
1． You might just as well tell the manufacturer that male customers ________ not like the design.
A. must B. shall C. may D. need
2． How ________ you say that you really understand the whole story if you have covered only part of the article?
A. can B. must C. need D. may
3. My English-Chinese dictionary has disappeared. Who ________ have taken it?
A. should B. must C could D. would
4. -Is John coming by train?
-He should, but he ________ not. He likes driving his car.
A. must B. can C. need D. may
5. I heard they went skiing in the mountain last winter.
It ________ true because there was little snow there.
A. may not be B. won’t be
C. couldn’t D. mustn’t be
6. I hear you’ve got a set valuable Australian coins. ________ I have a look?
A. Do B. May C. Shall D. Should
Step IV. Let the Ss analyze several sentences to help them make clear about the sentence
structures.
1. In Africa I met a boy，who was crying as if his heart would break and said，when I spoke to
him，that he was hungry because he had had no food for two days.
分析: 第一，拆分句子:这个长句可以拆分为四段:In Africa I met a boy/who was crying as if his heart would break/when I spoke to him，that he was hungry because/he had had no food for two days.
第二，句子的结构分析:（1）主干结构是主语+过去式+宾语:I met a boy…。（2）crying后面是壮语从句“as if his heart would break”。（3）“when I spoke to him”是介于“said”和“that he was hungry because”之间的插入语。
2. There was little hope of continuing my inquiries after dark to any useful purpose in a neighborhood that was strange to me.
分析: 该句可分为三部分:There was little hope/continuing my inquiries after dark to any useful purpose/in a neighborhood that was strange to me.
Section Four
Step I. Introduction of background information of the woman writer.
谭恩美，著名美籍华裔女作家。1952年出生于美国加州奥克兰，曾就读医学院，后取得语言学硕士学位。她因处女作《喜福会》而一举成名，成为当代美国的畅销作家。著有长篇小说《灶神之妻》、《灵感女孩》和为儿童创作的《月亮夫人》、《中国暹罗猫》等，作品被译成20多种文字在世界上广为流传。
艾米谭是当代讲故事的高手。她是一个具有罕见才华的优秀作家，能触及人们的心灵。
艾米谭的处女作《喜福会》既获得了批评界的一致好评，也成了一本十分抢手的畅销书。她的新作写得更优美、更大胆，也取得了更大的成功。谭用她那讲故事的天才创造了一个丰富多彩的世界，这种才能时时照亮书中的每一个页码。
Step II. Check of understanding
1. How would you feel if you were a Chinese person born in the USA?
2. Are you still Chinese when you don’t know any Chinese?
3. Why do you think the author simply denied that she was Chinese?
4. What is it that drives her to go back to her roots?
5. Toward the end of the story, do you think the author comes to see that she is Chinese? Why or why not?
Step III. Difficult points
1. take off
2. feel my excitement rising
3. cannot be helped
4. I was about as Chinese as they were
5. someday
6. with引导的伴随状语
7. if only / only if
8. as though / as if
Step IV. Language points
1. be worth doing / sth. be worth while doing / to do sth.
It’s worth seeing / hearing / reading值得一看/一听/一读
be worth notice / the trouble 值得注意/费点事
It is worth while the place.这地方值得参观。
The problem is worth .这个问题值得讨论一下。
比较：上面两句中的主语, worth 前面的主语是名词或代词, 后面的动名词其逻辑宾语是句子的主语, 这是一种用主动式表达被动式的一种句型。worth while 前面的是It 是形式主语。
2. close to：
Our house is quite close to the town center.
Don’t get close to the falling building.
They were standing close to each other.
第一句中的close 是______ 词.二三句中的是______ 词.
The two things are closely interconnected.这两个事物是相互紧密地联系在一起的。
本句中的closely的意思是_________词，意思是__________。
3． follow
指出下列例句中follow的意义：
The children followed their mother into the room.
We shall follow closely the latest advance of the subject in the world. We followed the road to the top of the hill.
I didn’t follow his line of reasoning.
The soldiers must follow the officer’s orders.
Please follow the instructions on the packet when you take the drug. Disease often follows war.
4. cannot help but 不能不，不得不 can’t help 情不自禁地做某事
One cannot help but be struck by the enthusiasm of the representatives present.
人们不能不被到场的代表们的热情所感动。
I cannot help doing so under these circumstances.在这样的情况下我不得不这样做。
比较上面两句话,can’t help but 后面接__________ , can’t help 后接的是____________ .
It can’t be helped. 这是没办法的.
5. go through
to go through two stages （时期，阶段）
These countries have gone / been through too many wars.
上面两句中go through 意思是______________
The law has gone through Parliament(议会).
Their plans went through.他们的计划得到了批准。
You should go through the official channels to get help instead of through private relationship.
你应该通过官方渠道而不是通过私人关系寻求帮助。
归纳上面句子中go through的意思:
6. as though = as if ( means in a way that suggests that something is true )
The animal was walking as though it had hurt its leg.这动物走路的样子好像伤了腿似的。
She looked as if she’d been crying. 她看上去好像哭过.
He shook his head as if to say no.
7. similar 相似的, 类似的
My new dress is similar to the one you have.我的新衣服和你的那件相似。
be similar to
比较：familiar 熟悉的,熟知的
Are you familiar with this type of car? 你熟悉这种型号的汽车吗？
Are you familiar with the rules of baseball? 你熟悉棒球规则吗?
He is familiar with Chinese ancient history.他通晓中国古代史。
be familiar with 表示 ________ 对________ 熟悉.
Those plants are familiar to me.
The history of Tang Dynasty is quite familiar to him.
be familiar to
8. doubt 学习下列例句,归纳doubt 的用法
I doubt whether/if he is at home.我看他不一定在家。
I do not doubt that he can recite it.我相信他能把它背下来。
Can you doubt that he will win? 你不相信他会获胜吗?
I doubt what he said.我不相信他说的话。
9. intend vt.想要, 打算, 意指, 意为
We intend to go. They intend going. You intended that she go.
intend 后接_______和_________ 意思一样 , 如果接从句,从句中的谓语动词用_________.
intend...for 打算供...使用;打算使...成为;
The book is intended for beginners.本书是为初学者编写的。
The parent intended their daughter for a doctor . (翻译)
10. regard...as...把...视为; 认为...是
You can’t regard him as a friend but a business associate.
"你不能把他看作朋友,只是个生意合伙人。"
‘Titanic’ .
‘泰坦尼克号’被认为是到目前为止他拍得最好的影片。
At that time the ship’Titanic’was regarded as unsinkable.
当时’泰坦尼克号’船被认为是不会下沉的.
regard ... as ... 后面可接名词或 .
11.challenge向……挑战；邀请比赛
He challenged me to play another tennis game.他向我挑战要我跟他再打一场网球。
I challenged him to a game of chess.我邀他跟我下棋。
向...挑战的句型为 其中的to 后接动词时，是不定式符号, 接名词时to为介词。
12. purpose
What is your purpose in doing that? 你做那件事的意图是什么?
set the purpose for 为...确立目标 When you read , you must set the purpose for reading.
on purpose 故意地；为了；特地
I came here .我特地来这里看你。
for/with the purpose of ; 为的是; 为了....起见; 为了...的目的
He went to town .
他进城的目的是买一台新电视机。
13. more than
比较下面四个句子，试着翻译一下：
I have been there more than once.
More than one student has been to the Great Wall in our class.
Reading is more than rapidly running one’s eyes over the words.
My English teacher is more than a teacher, he is also my friend.
前两句中的more than 意思是 ；后面两句中的more than 意思是 。
Step IV. Homework
Review the whole unit and finish the exercise