1、Developing ideas reading Unit 2 Lessons in life目录contentsPre-readingILanguage pointsFast readingIIHomeworkIntensive readingIIIPost-readingIPre-readingPre-readingRead the introduction to The Blue Bird and answer the questions.The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck(1862
2、-1949),winnerof the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911.Maeterlinck wrote many plays,but The Blue Bird was the most popular and has been widely translated and adapted all over the world.Pre-readingPerformed in 1921 in Shanghai by Chinese students,it was the first foreign play staged in China.The Blue
3、Bird tells the tale of brother and sister,Tyltyl and Mytyl,as they are sent by a fairy to search Read the introduction to The Blue Bird and answer the questions.Pre-readingfor the Blue Bird of Happiness.The childrens adventure takes them through many magical places before they at last find the Blue
4、Bird in a most unexpected place.Read the introduction to The Blue Bird and answer the questions.Pre-reading1.Do you know the symbolic meaning of the Blue Bird in Chinese and Western cultures?Share your understanding of the meaning with the class.2.Where do you think the children find the Blue Bird?R
5、ead the introduction to The Blue Bird and answer the questions.Pre-reading1.Do you know the symbolic meaning of the Blue Bird in Chinese and Western cultures?Share your understanding of the meaning with the class.In Western culture the Blue Bird symbolises happiness and it brings good luck and healt
6、h to people,while in Chinese culture the Blue Bird symbolises the messenger.Read the introduction to The Blue Bird and answer the questions.Pre-reading2.Where do you think the children find the Blue Bird?The children find the Blue Bird in a most unexpected place:perhaps at their home or neighbourhoo
7、d.Read the introduction to The Blue Bird and answer the questions.IIFast readingFast readingACT IV SCENE IICharactersTyltyl,(Mytyl,)a troop of Happinesses,the HappinessNow read the passage and complete the notes with information from the play.Fast readingACT IV SCENE IISettingTyltyl and Mytyl have b
8、een searching for theBlue Bird in the Land of Memory,the Palace ofNight and the Forest.Now they have arrived atthe Palace of Happiness.A troop of Happinessesrush into the hall and speak to them.Now read the passage and complete the notes with information from the play.Fast readingACT IV SCENE IIPlot
9、The children come to the Palace of Happiness and are welcomed by a troop of Happinesses.The children do not recognise them,but the Happinesses tell them that they are the only things the children know and they are all around them.Tyltyl wonders whetherNow read the passage and complete the notes with
10、 information from the play.Fast readingACT IV SCENE IIPlotthere are Happinesses in his home,and at this moment,all the Happinesses burst out laughing.The chief of the Happinesses tells him that his home is filled with Happinesses.The chief introduces himself to Tyltyl as the Happiness of Being Well,
11、and then introduces himNow read the passage and complete the notes with information from the play.Fast readingACT IV SCENE IIPlotto other Happinesses:of Pure Air,of Loving Ones Parents,of the Blue Sky and of the Forest.Tyltyl just wants to ask the Happinesses one thing:the whereabouts of the Blue Bi
12、rd.Now read the passage and complete the notes with information from the play.Fast readingACT VI SCENE IICharactersTyltyl,(Mytyl,)Mummy Tyl,the neighbour Berlingot,the little girlNow read the passage and complete the notes with information from the play.Fast readingACT VI SCENE IISettingUnable to fi
13、nd the Blue Bird anywhere,the children return home.While they are trying to tell their parents about their adventures,their neighbour comes in.She is asking for Tyltyls bird for her sick little girl.Now read the passage and complete the notes with information from the play.Fast readingACT VI SCENE I
14、IPlotThe children return home without finding theBlue Bird.The neighbour Berlingot,a little old woman,enters Tyltyls home,leaning on a stick.Now read the passage and complete the notes with information from the play.Fast readingACT VI SCENE IIPlotBerlingot is telling Mummy Tyl that Tyltyls birdis th
15、e one thing that will cure her sick daughter.Tyltyl then sees that his bird is blue much bluerthan when he went away.Tyltyl gives his bird to his neighbour.Now read the passage and complete the notes with information from the play.Fast readingACT VI SCENE IIPlotThe little girl comes along and thanks
16、 Tyltyl,butas Tyltyl goes to take the bird to show the littlegirl how to feed him,the bird flies away.The little girl lets out a cry of despair.TyltylNow read the passage and complete the notes with information from the play.Fast readingACT VI SCENE IIPlotcomforts her and turns to the audience.He as
17、ks the audience to return the Blue Bird if they see him,for the bird is needed for their future happiness.Now read the passage and complete the notes with information from the play.IIIIntensive readingIntensive reading Learning to learnThe Blue Bird is a typical full-length play,which means it has s
18、everal acts and each act is composed of several scenes.The whole play depicts actions that take place over a long period of time.Various characters appear in different acts and scenes,and the settings and costumes change accordingly.The running time of a full-length play can last for several hours,e
19、ven days.Intensive readingThink and Share1.Why cannot Tyltyl recognise any of the Happinesses?2.Are there any Happinesses in your home?What are they?Where else can you find them?3.What does the author want to express by making the Blue Bird fly away at the end of the play?4.What different life lesso
20、ns can you learn from the two reading passages in this unit?Intensive reading1.Why cannot Tyltyl recognise any of the Happinesses?Because he doesnt realise the fact that the Happinesses are all around him in his home.2.Are there any Happinesses in your home?What are they?Where else can you find them
21、?Share your opinions with the class.Intensive reading3.What does the author want to express by making the Blue Bird fly away at the end of the play?One possible version:By making the Blue Bird fly away at the end of the play,the author wants to tell us great happiness is not based on material things
22、,but a more meaningful,spiritual joy and that giving and sharing sometimes mean the true happiness.Intensive reading4.What different life lessons can you learn from the two reading passages in this unit?From the first reading passage Tuesdays with Morrie,I have learnt that we should appreciate what
23、we have and make the most of each day;its up to us to find out what is important in our lives and establish our own dreams;love each other as much as we could.From the second reading passage the Blue Bird Ive got that great happiness is not based on material things,but a more meaningful,spiritual joy.HomeworkVIHomeworkWrite a short passage about what you have learnt from the play with 100 words.
