本课的教学内容“Things we never said”选自北京师范大学第二附属中学校本选修课教材(高一版)。文章描写了恋人Amanda和Peter在失去联系多年之后在家乡重逢的情景。文章通过描写Amanda和Peter看似毫无意义的对话,生动地展示了人物的心理活动。作者选择的词汇精彩传神,形象地传达了人物的情感态度。
(4) What do you think the relationship is between them?
2.教师列出生词,引导学生根据上下文猜测词义。学生可以利用电子辞典验证自己的猜测正确与否。
3.教师让学生猜测句子“訮eter!?as she said his name, her heart quickened.”中quicken的含义,然后指导学生使用电子辞典的“模糊查询”功能,找到以en结尾的动词,引导学生关注由“形容词+en”构成动词的构词法知识(见图1、2),并设计练习让学生按照所学构词方法完成句子。
例:
(1)He was ______(唤起,唤醒) at dawn by the sound of crying.
(2)Spending a year abroad helped to _____ (拓宽) his horizons.
4.在解决了词汇障碍并了解文章大意后,教师提出问题引导学生体会语言背后隐含的深层内容。
(1) How do they feel about each other now? Why do you think so?
(2)Why do they carry on such a meaningless and awkward conversation when they meet again after 15 years?
5.教师从文中选出两组句子,让学生根据上下文说出句中划线词汇的同义词。
例1:I誱 surprised you recognize me.?he said, burying his hands in the pockets of his coat.
学生提供了bury的同义词put。教师指导学生查询电子辞典,学生发现bury可以表示“put sth. deeply into sth. else”的意思(见图3),因此,与put相比,bury能够更形象地表达出Peter再次见到分别多年的女友Amanda时紧张的心情。
例2:She remembered their first summer together. They誨 lain together by the river at Cliveden. They were both 18 and he誨 rested his head on her stomach, twisting grass in his fingers, and told her that he couldn誸 live without her.
学生认为,put, place等动词可以替换单词rest。这时,教师指导学生通过Casio电子辞典的“追加查询”功能,比较rest和place(图4、5)的区别。通过查询,学生发现rest表示“stop being active for a while and relax”,而place指的是“put sth. in a particular place or position, especially in a careful, firm and deliberate way”。这样,学生就能体会到使用rest更符合恋爱中的情侣轻松愉快的心情,进而学习了如何使用词汇表达情感态度。
6.教师提供一段描述性文字,要求学生阅读,并借助Casio电子辞典进行改写,使文章读起来更加生动。
教师提供的文字:
I was alone in the house, reading a ghost story as rain fell heavily outside. The dying fire put a pale glow onto the walls of my study. I was reading the story when I suddenly began to feel that someone was looking at me. The clock stopped suddenly. I felt a biting wind blowing in through the now open window. After a few seconds, though, the book fell to the floor by an unseen hand. 襑ho誷 there??I said, shaking uncontrollably with fear.
学生改写后的文字:
I was alone in the house, reading a terrifying ghost story as rain poured down outside. The dying fire cast a pale glow onto the walls of my study. I was absorbed in the story when I suddenly began to feel that someone was watching me. The clock stopped abruptly. I felt a biting wind blowing in through the now open window. After a few seconds, though, the book was knocked to the floor by an unseen hand. 襑ho誷 there??I cried, shaking uncontrollably with fear.