Unit_11_The_Poets_and_the_Housewife

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1、UNIT11THEPOETSANDTHEHOUSEWIFEPartIListening&SpeakingActivitiesPartIIReadingComprehension&LanguageActivitiesPartIIIExtendedActivities1.ThestoryiswritteninalanguagewhichresemblesthestyleofoldEnglish.Canyoufindanylinguisticcluesthatenableyoutorecognizesuchastyle?-“quoth”,“lightedd

2、own”;thealternativeuseof“and”and“but”atthebeginningofalmostalltheparagraphscreatestheimpressionofastorybeingtoldinadramaticway.2.Whatlinguisticfeaturesinthetextrenderthestoryafable?-thebeginningparagraphstartswiththesetphrase“onceuponatime”;thelastparagraphconcludeswithamoral.C

3、haracteristicsofafablePurpose-toteachalesson(moral)oratruththroughastoryofanimals,plants,thingsorpeopleAesop’sFablesLiteraryfeatures1)structure:beginningwithsuchphraseas“onceuponatime”,or“longlongago”,andconcludingwithamoral2)rhetoricaldevices(figuresofspeech):personification;s

4、imileandmetaphorLinguisticfeatures1)theuseofarchaicwordsandexpressions2)theuseofsimplesentencesListsomewell-knownAesop'sFablesTheCrowandthePitcherTheFoxandtheGrapesTheFarmerandtheViperTheTortoiseandtheHareWORDS&EXPRESSIONSshutupshop[tocloseabusinesspermanentlyortostopworkingfor

5、theday]停业；打烊；倒闭e.g.Manycompaniesareconsideringshuttingupshopinthiscountryandtransferringproductiontolowwageeconomies.shutsb/sthaway把…藏起来；隔离；禁闭shutsthinsth把某物卡在…里shutyourselfoff(fromsth)躲开；不接触exhausted[adj.usedup]e.g.Howlongwillitbebeforetheworld'sfuelsuppliesareexhausted?reckle

6、ss[doingsomethingdangerousandnotcaringabouttherisksandthepossibleresults]鲁莽的；不计后果的；无所顾忌的e.g.Hehasalwaysbeenrecklesswithmoney.pokeabout/around[searchforsomethingbymovingthingsabout]摸索pokeaholeinsth(withsth)捅窟窿；扎洞pokefunatsb/sth拿…开心；奚落；嘲弄pokeatsth(用手指、物件等反复地)捅，戳，扎leaveoff(sth./do

7、ingsth.)[stop,ortostopdoingsomething]e.g.Startreadingfromwhereyouleftofflasttime.Andatthepropermomentthestormburstandtheraincamedownandthepoetsleftoffseekingforcopyandhuddledunderahawthorntree.Andtheyappearedastwoexoticbirds,lighteddownfromtheLordknowswhere.顷刻间暴雨倾盆，诗人停止了收集素材，蜷缩

8、在一棵山楂树下。他们像两只古怪的鸟雀，从只有上天知道的地方来此落脚。bloom[ahealthyfresha