1、B5U1Developing ideasLead inLead inHave you ever read the novel The Little Prince?What do you know about it?Lead inLead inRead the book review on P11 and answer the questions.1.Whos the writer and illustrator?2.Whats the genre?3.Who are the main characters?What happened between them?4.Whats the theme
2、 of the book?5.What does the quote mean?Lead inLead inRead the introduction to Antoine de Saint-Exupry and answer the questions.What experience made the author write The Little Prince?The story was probably inspired by his plane crash in the desert in 1935.What kind of person do you think Saint-Exup
3、ry was?Activity 1Pre-readingPre-readingLook at the picture and guess what it is.Read the passage and check your prediction.While-readingWhile-readingRead the passage and check your prediction.Activity 2Find out the information and fill in the diagram.Drawing No.2 Author:inside of _.Grown-ups:lay asi
4、de _ _.Read for detailsRead for detailsThe 1st picture:A picture of a boa constrictor in the act of _.swallowing an animal Drawing No.1 Author:A picture of _.Grown-ups:_.a boa constrictor digesting an elephanta hatthe boa constrictormy drawings of boa constrictors,whether from the inside or the outs
5、ideRead for detailsRead for detailsWhats the influence of the grown-ups response to the author?I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter.So then I chose another profession,and learned to pilot airplanes.I would talk to him about bridge,and golf.a sensible man.Read for detailsR
6、ead for detailsHave a discussion with your classmates about why the author and the grown-ups have different ideas.Because they have different perspectives on the world.Children understand the world by senses,so they are more creative and imaginative;while the grown-ups are more knowledgeable and exp
7、erienced,so they are limited and reasonable.Read for attitudeRead for attitudeChoose the authors attitude towards grown-ups and find evidence to support your choice.1 Grown-ups are more practical than children.They want to teach children knowledge that will be useful in the future.2 Grown-ups are no
8、 better than children.They lack imagination and only care about matters of consequence.3 Grown-ups are more knowledgeable than children.They can understand everything by themselves.Activity 3Read for attitudeRead for attitude2 Grown-ups are no better than children.They lack imagination and only care
9、 about matters of consequence.Evidence:1.They always need to have things explained.(Para.6)2.Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves,and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.(Para.7)3.,I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who
10、 have been concerned with matters of consequence.(Para.9)4.I would bring myself down to his level.I would talk to him about bridge,and golf,and politics,and neckties.And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.(Para.12)Activity 3Read for writing techniquesRead for writi
11、ng techniquesRead the sentences from the passage and answer the questions.1 What does the author really mean by these sentences?2 What figure of speech does the author use?How does this figure of speech help to express the authors attitude?Activity 4Read for writing techniquesRead for writing techni
12、quesRead the sentences from the passage and answer the questions.1 What does the author really mean by these sentences?Most of the grown-ups I have met are the same.They focus on practical matters only and seldom pay attention to imagination or creativity.If I pretend to think the way they do,the ad
13、ults will conclude that I am sensible and mature.Activity 4Read for writing techniquesRead for writing techniquesRead the sentences from the passage and answer the questions.2 What figure of speech does the author use?How does this figure of speech help to express the authors attitude?Irony.This fig
14、ure of speech enables the author to indicate his low opinion of adults behaviour and values by stressing such things.Activity 4Learning Learning to learnto learnIrony is a subtle figure of speech that refers to things one says that are the opposite of what one really means.It has a humorous or sarca
15、stic effect.For example:Fine,dont buy me an airline ticket.Ill just swim across the ocean!Think and shareThink and share According to the author,what is a childs most valuable trait?Do you agree with him?Imagination and genuineness.Activity 5Useful expressionsUseful expressions着迷于漫步去打仗被占领的至今未知magnif
16、icentprimeval/primaeval/pramiv()l/在过程中Here is a copy of the drawing.the book sold 200 copies within two weeks.有些书可以浅尝辄止，有些书可以生吞，而有少数书应该细嚼细嚼慢咽，融会贯通慢咽，融会贯通。be obsessed withwanderleave on a wartime missionoccupiedremain unknownsplendid/impressive原始的in the act of副本；份Some books are to be tasted,others to
17、 be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested.Useful expressionsUseful expressionsponder over/at/about成功做回应 v./n.lay aside致力于disheartened byIt is _(tire)for children _ always and forever _(explain)things to them.职业驾驶飞机看/瞥一眼深思succeed in(doing)sth.respond to/in response to放弃；搁置一边devote/dedicate
18、/commit myself to be devoted/dedicated/committed todiscouraged byprofessionpilot(v.)planesat a glancetiresometo beexplainingUseful expressionsUseful expressions区别A与B有价值的生命途中许多相遇 v./n.后果对太关心intimatelyclose at handdistinguish A from BvaluableSYN.priceless/invaluableOPP.valueless/worthlessin the course
19、 of lifea good/great many+n.(pl.)a good/great deal+of+n.Uencounter;have an encounter withconsequencebe concerned with亲密地近在手边Useful expressionsUseful expressionsclear-sightedbring myself down to ones levelsensible比较比较 sensitive有清晰判断能力的贬低我自己到他的水平明智的；理智的敏感的Useful expressionsUseful expressions由配插图的科幻小说坠机描述自己的冒险透过表面看本质难忘的与建立纽带对负责无论年龄be illustrated byfantasy book/novelcrash(on/in)n./v.recount ones adventureslook beneath the surface of things to uncover their real meaningsmemorableform special bonds withtake responsibility for whatever their age
