Choose to Be Alone on
Purpose
Unit 5
Stage 1,Warming-up Activities
Stage 2,Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3,After-Reading Activities
Stage 4,Listening-and-Speaking Practice
Warming-up Activities
Group work
Questions for thought and discussion
Background information
Enriching your vocabulary
Comparing the following words
Group work
Go over the preview,the pre-
reading questions and the title
of the text before listening to
the summary of the story and
anticipate what we are going to
read,
Questions for thought and
discussion
Listen to a short passage
carefully and then answer
the following questions,
Background information
Henry David Thoreau,U.S,thinker,essayist,and
naturalist (1817—1862),Born in Concord,Mass.,
Thoreau graduated from Harvard University and
taught school for several years before deciding to
become a poet of nature,Back in Concord,he came
under the influence of R,W,Emerson and began to
publish pieces in the Transcendentalist magazine
The Dial,In the years 1845—1847,to demonstrate
how satisfying a simple life could be,he lived in a
hut beside Concord's Walden Pond; essays
recording his daily life were assembled for his
masterwork,Walden (1854),
His A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
(1849) was the only other book he published in his
lifetime,He reflected on a night he spent in jail
protesting the Mexican-American War in the essay
Civil Disobedience (1849),which would later influence
such figures as M,Gandhi and M,L,King,In later
years his interest in Transcendentalism waned and he
became a dedicated abolitionist,His many nature
writings and records of his wanderings in Canada,
Maine,and Cape Cod display the mind of a keen
naturalist,After his death his collected writings were
published in 20 volumes,and further writings have
continued to appear in print,
John Milton,English poet (1608—1674),Milton
attended Cambridge University (1625—1632),
where he wrote poems in Latin,Italian,and
English; these included L'Allegro and Il
Penseroso,both published later in Poems (1645),
During 1632—1638 he engaged in private
study — writing the masque Comus (1637) and
the extraordinary elegy Lycidas (1638) — and
toured Italy,Concerned with the Puritan cause
in England,he spent much of 1641—1660
pamphleteering for civil and religious liberty
and serving in Oliver Cromwell's government,
His best-known prose is in the pamphlets
Areopagitica (1644),on freedom of the press,and
Of Education (1644),He lost his sight in the year of
1651,and thereafter dictated his works,His
disastrous first marriage ended with his wife's
death in 1652; two later marriages were more
successful,After the Restoration he was arrested as
a noted defender of the Commonwealth,but was
soon released,In Paradise Lost (1667),his epic
masterpiece on the Fall of Man written in blank
verse,he uses his sublime,grand style” with
superb power; his characterization of Satan is a
supreme achievement,
He further expressed his purified faith in God
and the regenerative strength of the individual
soul in Paradise Regained (1671),an epic in
which Christ overcomes Satan the tempter,and
Samson Agonistes (1671),a tragedy in which the
Old Testament figure conquers self-pity and
despair to become God's champion,Considered
second only to W,Shakespeare in the history of
English-language poetry,Milton had an immense
influence on later literature; though attacked
early in the 20th century,he had regained his
place in the Western canon by mid-century.
William Wordsworth,English poet (1770—1850),
Orphaned at 13,Wordsworth attended Cambridge
Univ.,but remained rootless and virtually penniless
until 1795,when a legacy made possible a reunion
with his sister D,Wordsworth,He became friends
with S,T,Coleridge,with whom he wrote Lyrical
Ballads (1798),the collection often considered to
have launched the English Romantic Movement,
Wordsworth's contributions include,Tintern
Abbey” and many lyrics controversial for their
common,everyday language,Around 1798 he
began writing the epic autobiographical poem that
would absorb him intermittently for the next 40
years,The Prelude (1850),
His second verse collection,Poems,in Two Volumes
(1807),includes many of the rest of his finest works,
including Ode,Intimations of Immortality,His poetry is
perhaps most original in its vision of the almost divine
power of the creative imagination reforging the links
between man and man,between humankind and the
natural world,The most memorable poems of his
middle and late years were often cast in elegiac mode;
few match the best of his earlier works,By the time he
became widely appreciated by the critics and the
public,his poetry had lost much of its force and his
radical politics had yielded to conservatism,In 1843 he
became England's poet laureate,He is regarded as the
central figure in the initiation of English Romanticism,
Enriching your vocabulary
Read the sentences carefully
and guess the meaning of the
italicized term in each sentence
according to the context and
your own experiences,
A solitary tree remained standing
after the hurricane,
Atomic energy has been tamed and
harnessed for useful work,
He tamed the wild horse,
The birds in the park are quite tame
and will take food from your hand,
His hard work is a constant
inspiration to us all,
孤独被控制驯服温顺激励
People need a chance to reflect on
spiritual matters in solitude,
She is beautiful and benign and the
embodiment of all the finest qualities
of a loyal and loving wife,
She spent the morning dictating
letters to her secretary,
a high priest of science
a priest of art
a Catholic priest
独处温柔口述泰斗宗师牧师
When shall we do the laundry?
a self-service laundry
That man has got such an enormous
ego — I?ve never known anyone so
full of themselves,
I'm glad she got the job — she
needed something to boost her ego,
洗衣服洗衣房自负自尊心
He strikes me as a very humble
person,
I do quite a humble job at the
hospital,
I made no apology for what I said —
it was a fair comment,
I thought I?d leave my trousers to
soak for a while to get the worst of
the dirt out,
谦虚的普通的道歉浸泡
You?ll need something waterproof on
top of that sweater if you?re going
walking in the hills,
Drive very carefully; the roads are
wet and slippery,
Once you?ve given in to temptation
for the first time you?ve on the
slippery slope,
Don?t lend any money to that
slippery person,
防水的滑的无法抵制狡猾的
The surprise farewell party left them
all choked up,
An elderly man choked to death in
his home,
An American general was appointed
Supreme Allied Commander in
Europe,
It required a supreme effort of will to
stop myself from laughing,
激动得说不出话窒息而死最高的最大的
The justice found him guilty and sentenced
him to five years in prison,
There?s no justice in the world when people
can be made to suffer like that,
The system of justice in this country consists
of a series of law courts at different levels,
I?ve just got some roller skates,but I can?t
balance very well on them yet,
The ice on the river is thick enough to skate
on,
法官公正司法体制旱冰鞋滑行
I?ve just bought a new pair of skis,
He skied down the hill,past the forest,
and into the village,
All the air is removed from a can of
food before it is sealed,
He sealed the envelope and put a stamp
on it,
If you joke with him,he'll think you're
insulting him on purpose,
滑雪板滑雪密封封上故意
He is clever,but on the other hand,he
makes many mistakes,
He claimed to have the power to cast
out demons,
They spoke highly of his behavior,
Don?t speak ill of the dead,
The magazine is seeking out readers'
opinions,
另一方面驱除赞颂备至说 … 的坏话征求
The process often stretches out to years,
even decades,
He stretched out on the grass,
The rain has filled up the ditches again,
You?ve got class tomorrow,I don?t
want you staying up late,
Toby has spent his life comparing the
way civilizations rise and fall,
延续手脚伸开灌满熬夜兴盛衰亡
Many vehicles were backed up at the
crossroads because of the accident,
The correspondence has been backing
up for several days,
Harries will back me up wholeheartedly
as he used to,
He talked at length about his work and
family,
You are not in line with the others,
堵塞待处理支持详细地排成一行
He settled down to do his homework,
I?m sure the child will soon settle
down in his new school,
All is well,for the time being.
He wanted to stop but decided to
continue for the time being.
Since you can't win the race,you
might as well quit,
安下心来习惯起来眼下暂且倒不如
Vocabulary Comparing
deer doe stag fawn giraffe caribou
wolf fox dog hound
pond pool well reservoir swamp
moss marsh pit ditch sink
sunlight sunshine moonlight
poetry poem
handwriting penmanship calligraphy
script
kettle pot jar vessel utensil
jug pan saucepan
hut shed shack tent pavilion
camp cot cottage villa
axe hatchet chisel
saucer dish tray plate disk
absent present
pint gallon quart gill
parcel luggage baggage package
sack pocket wallet bag wrap
cushion pillow
steak noodle powder
skate ski
niece nephew
princess prince
set forth set out set off start off
be fond of be keen on
Homework
Learn the new words and
expressions of the text by heart,
Go over the text and try to get
the main idea of the text,
Analyze the structure of the text,
Reading-Centred Activities
1,Global Reading Task
Reading Skills,
Text structure analysis:
2,Detailed Reading Task
Language points
Simulated writing
Summary of the text
After-Reading Activities
Vocabulary Exercises
Translating and Writing
Listening and speaking
activities
Talking about the topic
or retelling the text
Listening and speaking
practice in XP center
Purpose
Unit 5
Stage 1,Warming-up Activities
Stage 2,Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3,After-Reading Activities
Stage 4,Listening-and-Speaking Practice
Warming-up Activities
Group work
Questions for thought and discussion
Background information
Enriching your vocabulary
Comparing the following words
Group work
Go over the preview,the pre-
reading questions and the title
of the text before listening to
the summary of the story and
anticipate what we are going to
read,
Questions for thought and
discussion
Listen to a short passage
carefully and then answer
the following questions,
Background information
Henry David Thoreau,U.S,thinker,essayist,and
naturalist (1817—1862),Born in Concord,Mass.,
Thoreau graduated from Harvard University and
taught school for several years before deciding to
become a poet of nature,Back in Concord,he came
under the influence of R,W,Emerson and began to
publish pieces in the Transcendentalist magazine
The Dial,In the years 1845—1847,to demonstrate
how satisfying a simple life could be,he lived in a
hut beside Concord's Walden Pond; essays
recording his daily life were assembled for his
masterwork,Walden (1854),
His A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
(1849) was the only other book he published in his
lifetime,He reflected on a night he spent in jail
protesting the Mexican-American War in the essay
Civil Disobedience (1849),which would later influence
such figures as M,Gandhi and M,L,King,In later
years his interest in Transcendentalism waned and he
became a dedicated abolitionist,His many nature
writings and records of his wanderings in Canada,
Maine,and Cape Cod display the mind of a keen
naturalist,After his death his collected writings were
published in 20 volumes,and further writings have
continued to appear in print,
John Milton,English poet (1608—1674),Milton
attended Cambridge University (1625—1632),
where he wrote poems in Latin,Italian,and
English; these included L'Allegro and Il
Penseroso,both published later in Poems (1645),
During 1632—1638 he engaged in private
study — writing the masque Comus (1637) and
the extraordinary elegy Lycidas (1638) — and
toured Italy,Concerned with the Puritan cause
in England,he spent much of 1641—1660
pamphleteering for civil and religious liberty
and serving in Oliver Cromwell's government,
His best-known prose is in the pamphlets
Areopagitica (1644),on freedom of the press,and
Of Education (1644),He lost his sight in the year of
1651,and thereafter dictated his works,His
disastrous first marriage ended with his wife's
death in 1652; two later marriages were more
successful,After the Restoration he was arrested as
a noted defender of the Commonwealth,but was
soon released,In Paradise Lost (1667),his epic
masterpiece on the Fall of Man written in blank
verse,he uses his sublime,grand style” with
superb power; his characterization of Satan is a
supreme achievement,
He further expressed his purified faith in God
and the regenerative strength of the individual
soul in Paradise Regained (1671),an epic in
which Christ overcomes Satan the tempter,and
Samson Agonistes (1671),a tragedy in which the
Old Testament figure conquers self-pity and
despair to become God's champion,Considered
second only to W,Shakespeare in the history of
English-language poetry,Milton had an immense
influence on later literature; though attacked
early in the 20th century,he had regained his
place in the Western canon by mid-century.
William Wordsworth,English poet (1770—1850),
Orphaned at 13,Wordsworth attended Cambridge
Univ.,but remained rootless and virtually penniless
until 1795,when a legacy made possible a reunion
with his sister D,Wordsworth,He became friends
with S,T,Coleridge,with whom he wrote Lyrical
Ballads (1798),the collection often considered to
have launched the English Romantic Movement,
Wordsworth's contributions include,Tintern
Abbey” and many lyrics controversial for their
common,everyday language,Around 1798 he
began writing the epic autobiographical poem that
would absorb him intermittently for the next 40
years,The Prelude (1850),
His second verse collection,Poems,in Two Volumes
(1807),includes many of the rest of his finest works,
including Ode,Intimations of Immortality,His poetry is
perhaps most original in its vision of the almost divine
power of the creative imagination reforging the links
between man and man,between humankind and the
natural world,The most memorable poems of his
middle and late years were often cast in elegiac mode;
few match the best of his earlier works,By the time he
became widely appreciated by the critics and the
public,his poetry had lost much of its force and his
radical politics had yielded to conservatism,In 1843 he
became England's poet laureate,He is regarded as the
central figure in the initiation of English Romanticism,
Enriching your vocabulary
Read the sentences carefully
and guess the meaning of the
italicized term in each sentence
according to the context and
your own experiences,
A solitary tree remained standing
after the hurricane,
Atomic energy has been tamed and
harnessed for useful work,
He tamed the wild horse,
The birds in the park are quite tame
and will take food from your hand,
His hard work is a constant
inspiration to us all,
孤独被控制驯服温顺激励
People need a chance to reflect on
spiritual matters in solitude,
She is beautiful and benign and the
embodiment of all the finest qualities
of a loyal and loving wife,
She spent the morning dictating
letters to her secretary,
a high priest of science
a priest of art
a Catholic priest
独处温柔口述泰斗宗师牧师
When shall we do the laundry?
a self-service laundry
That man has got such an enormous
ego — I?ve never known anyone so
full of themselves,
I'm glad she got the job — she
needed something to boost her ego,
洗衣服洗衣房自负自尊心
He strikes me as a very humble
person,
I do quite a humble job at the
hospital,
I made no apology for what I said —
it was a fair comment,
I thought I?d leave my trousers to
soak for a while to get the worst of
the dirt out,
谦虚的普通的道歉浸泡
You?ll need something waterproof on
top of that sweater if you?re going
walking in the hills,
Drive very carefully; the roads are
wet and slippery,
Once you?ve given in to temptation
for the first time you?ve on the
slippery slope,
Don?t lend any money to that
slippery person,
防水的滑的无法抵制狡猾的
The surprise farewell party left them
all choked up,
An elderly man choked to death in
his home,
An American general was appointed
Supreme Allied Commander in
Europe,
It required a supreme effort of will to
stop myself from laughing,
激动得说不出话窒息而死最高的最大的
The justice found him guilty and sentenced
him to five years in prison,
There?s no justice in the world when people
can be made to suffer like that,
The system of justice in this country consists
of a series of law courts at different levels,
I?ve just got some roller skates,but I can?t
balance very well on them yet,
The ice on the river is thick enough to skate
on,
法官公正司法体制旱冰鞋滑行
I?ve just bought a new pair of skis,
He skied down the hill,past the forest,
and into the village,
All the air is removed from a can of
food before it is sealed,
He sealed the envelope and put a stamp
on it,
If you joke with him,he'll think you're
insulting him on purpose,
滑雪板滑雪密封封上故意
He is clever,but on the other hand,he
makes many mistakes,
He claimed to have the power to cast
out demons,
They spoke highly of his behavior,
Don?t speak ill of the dead,
The magazine is seeking out readers'
opinions,
另一方面驱除赞颂备至说 … 的坏话征求
The process often stretches out to years,
even decades,
He stretched out on the grass,
The rain has filled up the ditches again,
You?ve got class tomorrow,I don?t
want you staying up late,
Toby has spent his life comparing the
way civilizations rise and fall,
延续手脚伸开灌满熬夜兴盛衰亡
Many vehicles were backed up at the
crossroads because of the accident,
The correspondence has been backing
up for several days,
Harries will back me up wholeheartedly
as he used to,
He talked at length about his work and
family,
You are not in line with the others,
堵塞待处理支持详细地排成一行
He settled down to do his homework,
I?m sure the child will soon settle
down in his new school,
All is well,for the time being.
He wanted to stop but decided to
continue for the time being.
Since you can't win the race,you
might as well quit,
安下心来习惯起来眼下暂且倒不如
Vocabulary Comparing
deer doe stag fawn giraffe caribou
wolf fox dog hound
pond pool well reservoir swamp
moss marsh pit ditch sink
sunlight sunshine moonlight
poetry poem
handwriting penmanship calligraphy
script
kettle pot jar vessel utensil
jug pan saucepan
hut shed shack tent pavilion
camp cot cottage villa
axe hatchet chisel
saucer dish tray plate disk
absent present
pint gallon quart gill
parcel luggage baggage package
sack pocket wallet bag wrap
cushion pillow
steak noodle powder
skate ski
niece nephew
princess prince
set forth set out set off start off
be fond of be keen on
Homework
Learn the new words and
expressions of the text by heart,
Go over the text and try to get
the main idea of the text,
Analyze the structure of the text,
Reading-Centred Activities
1,Global Reading Task
Reading Skills,
Text structure analysis:
2,Detailed Reading Task
Language points
Simulated writing
Summary of the text
After-Reading Activities
Vocabulary Exercises
Translating and Writing
Listening and speaking
activities
Talking about the topic
or retelling the text
Listening and speaking
practice in XP center
