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1、,Lesson Two,Spring Sowing,,Contents,I Revision of the words,II Group discussion,III Background information,VI Assignment,IV Comprehensive questions,V Role play,,More questions for discussion,1. Have you ever sowed before? Do you know how spring sowing is done in your hometown? Try to work out a list
2、 of words or expressions used in sowing. 2. Whats your opinion of being a farmer?,,III About the Author,Liam OFlaherty is one of the most significant and important modern Anglo-Irish authors.He was born in Ireland in 1896. Both his novels and his short stories define Anglo-Irish literature in that h
3、is themes stem from his experiences growing up in a poverty-stricken society on the island of Aran; his naturalistic, mystical, romantic, and realistic styles were also defined by his experiences in his native Ireland.,To be continued on the next page.,Background information,,III. Ireland,Ireland is
4、 an island in the Atlantic Ocean which appears about to alight on the coast of Britain 80km to the west across the Irish Sea. Much of Irelands elevated ground is close to the coast, and almost the entire Atlantic seaboard is a bulwark of cliffs, hills and mountains, with few safe anchorages.,Backgro
5、und information,,Ireland is a small, modern, trade-dependent economy with growth averaging a robust 7% in 19952004. Agriculture, once the most important sector, is now dwarfed by industry and services.,III. Ireland,Background information,,IV Comprehensive questions,What do you know about the young c
6、ouple?,What kind of life do they have? (Are the young couple in the story engaged in industrial or high-tech work, or in traditional farming? ),What is their staple food ?,Where do they live?,What kind of clothes do they wear?,,IV Comprehensive questions,What do you know about the young couple?,Are
7、they typical or exceptional?,Do they love each other?,What are their lifes ambitions?,Why is it that the two of them feel particularly excited this day?,What do you think they regard as the most important qualities in their spouse?,,V Role play & Discussion,Imagine that you were a young couple in 21
8、st century, what will you do in a sunny spring morning? Please act it out. Imagine that you were Martin and Mary who lived in the early 20th century, what would you do then?,,Discussion,Can we really have such a clear break with our past? Is it really true that what our grandparents or great grandpa
9、rents did and experienced is meaningless and useless?,,V Theme of the story,The story describes the first day of the first spring planting of a newly-wedded couple against the background of a traditional agricultural country. In Ireland at that time, most people still depended on farming for a livin
10、g, and the main crop was the potato. Modern science and technology had not yet caught up with the land.There was little machinery. Practically everything was still done by hand. For Mary and Martin Delaney, this was an extremely important day, because it not only would determine the crop they would
11、harvest in autumn, but would also show what kind of wife and husband they would prove to each other and what kind of family they were going to have.,,Assignment,. Please give a simple character sketch of one of your friends. Some useful words and phrases for your reference.,be unique in ones persnality reserved big-featured well-featured double-chinned a baby-face dimpled rosy pale plump hooked a high-bridged nose an upturned nose drooping shoulders imaginative meek retard a man of quick action a man of ideas a man of great potential superficial,,Thank you !,
