Module 2Fantasy Literature【外研版高中英语必修六课本文本（word版）】.docx

Module 2 Fantasy LiteratureIntroductionRead the passage and underline the words and phrases that show His Dark Materials is a fantasy story.His Dark Materialsby Philip PullmanHis Dark Materials is one of the greatest fantasy stories ever written. There are three books in the series, Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. The heroine is a young girl called Lyra and the hero is a boy called Will. In the first book, Lyra's scientist father makes it possible to enter other worlds. The children have many extraordinary adventures in these different worlds, and play an important part in a war that could destroy the universe. It's an exciting novel with witches, talking bears, and other strange creatures. It is also very philosophical, with ideas that both adults and children will enjoy.Read the passage and answer the questions about the words and phrases in the box.adult; bear (n.); creature; extraordinary; hero; heroine; philosophical; play a part; witch Which of these words or expressions:1. refer to people? ; ; ; 2. refers to someone who uses magic? 3. refer to the most important people who have the main part in a story? ; 4. refer to animals? ; 5. means very unusual or special? 6. means to have influence in a situation? 7. relates to ideas? Discuss your answers to the questions.1. Have you ever read a fantasy novel? If not, why not? 2. Have you read His Dark Materials? If not, would you like to read it? Say why / why not. 3. Have you read a Harry Potter novel or seen one of the films? If you have, did you enjoy it? Say why / why not.Reading and VocabularyThe Cat That VanishedWill was stupefied with exhaustion, and he might have gone on to the north, or he might have laid his head on the grass under one of those trees and slept; but as he stood trying to clear his head, he saw a cat.She was a tabby, like Moxie. She padded out of a garden on the Oxford side of the road, where Will was standing. Will put down his shopping bag and held out his hand, and the cat came up to rub her head against his knuckles, just as Moxie did. Of course, every cat behaved like that, but all the same Will felt such a longing to turn for home that tears scalded his eyes.Eventually this cat turned away. This was night, and there was a territory to patrol, there were mice to hunt. She padded across the road and towards the bushes just beyond the hornbeam trees, and there she stopped.Will, still watching, saw the cat behave curiously.She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will. Then she leapt backwards, back arched and fur on end, tail held out stiffly. Will knew cat-behaviour. He watched more alertly as the cat approached the spot again, just an empty patch of grass between the hornbeams and the bushes of a garden hedge, and patted the air once more.Again she leapt back, but less far and with less alarm this time. After another few seconds of sniffing, touching, whisker-twitching, curiosity overcame wariness.The cat stepped forward, and vanished.Will blinked. Then he stood still, close to the trunk of the nearest tree, as a truck came round the circle and swept its lights over him. When it had gone past he crossed the road, keeping his eyes on the spot where the cat had been investigating. It wasn't easy, because there was nothing to fix on, but when he came to the place and cast about to look closely, he saw it.At least, he saw it from some angles. It looked as if someone had cut a patch out of the air, about two metres from the edge of the road, a patch roughly square in shape and less than a metre across. If you were level with the patch so that it was edge-on, it was nearly invisible, and it was completely invisible from behind. You could only see it from the side nearest the road, and you couldn't see it easily even from there, because all you could see through it was exactly the same kind of thing that lay in front of it on this side: a patch of grass lit by a street light.But Will knew without the slightest doubt that patch of grass on the other side was in a different world.He couldn't possibly have said why. He knew it at once, as strongly as he knew that fire burned and kindness was good. He was looking at something profoundly alien.And for that reason alone, it enticed him to stoop and look further. What he saw made his head swim and his heart thump harder, but he didn't hesitate: he pushed his shopping bag through, and then scrambled through himself, through the hole in the fabric of this world and into another.He found himself standing under a row of trees. But not hornbeam trees: these were tall palms, and they were growing, like the trees in Oxford, in a line along the grass. But this was the centre of a broad boulevard, and at the side of the boulevard was a line of cafés and small shops, all brightly lit, all open, and all utterly silent and empty beneath a sky thick with stars. The hot night was laden with the scent of flowers and with the salt smell of the sea.Will looked around carefully. Behind him the full moon shone down over a distant prospect of great green hills, and on the slopes at the foot of the hills there were houses with rich gardens and an open parkland with groves of trees and the white gleam of a classical temple.Just beside him was that bare patch in the air, as hard to see from this side as from the other, but definitely there. He bent to look through and saw the road in Oxford, his own world. He turned away with a shudder: whatever this new world was, it had to be better than what he'd just left. With a dawning light-headedness, the feeling that he was dreaming but awake at the same time, he stood up and looked around for the cat, his guide.The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman copyright © PhilipPullman, 1997 the second book in the His DarkMaterials trilogy, published by Scholastic Children'sBooks. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permissionof Scholastic Ltd.Read the extract from The Subtle Knife, the second book of His Dark Materials and put the sentences in the correct order.1. Will decides not to return to his world. 2. The cat vanishes. 3. The cat comes up to Will. 4. Will climbs through a hole. 5. The cat behaves in a strange way.Match the words from the passage with their meanings.behave; bush; definitely; guide; hesitate; leap; scent; vanish 1. : to do things in a particular way 2. : someone who shows you which direction to go in 3. : to jump high into the air or over something 4. : to wait before you do or say something because you are not sure 5. : a nice smell 6. : without any doubt 7. : a small tree 8. : to suddenly disappearChoose the best meaning for the expressions from the passage.1. . the cat came up to rub her head against his knuckles . The cat came up to bite Will's hand. The cat wanted Will to touch her head with the back of his hand.2. She padded across the road and towards the bushes . She ran across the road. She walked quietly across the road.3. . keeping his eyes on the spot where the cat had been investigating.  He watched the place that the cat had been looking at and touching. He looked once at the place where the cat had been sleeping.4. If you were level with the patch so that it was edge-on, it was nearly invisible . If you were standing next to the area of grass you could not see it. If you were looking at the grass you could see it.5. He was looking at something profoundly alien. He was looking at something very exciting. He was looking at something very different and strange.6. He turned away with a shudder . His body shook slightly because he was afraid. He laughed nervously.Read the passage again and choose the best answers.1. The cat vanishes through _. something Will can't see some bushes an empty patch of grass2. Will blinks because _. he can't see clearly he can't believe what he saw his eyes hurt3. It is _. easy to see the patch in the air from some positions difficult to see the patch impossible to see the patch4. Will looks through the hole in the air _. because he is frightened because it is alien because he knows there is a different world on the other side5. Will does not go back to his world because _. life is difficult in his world it is difficult to see the old world he wants to learn about this new worldGrammar Read sentences 14 from the passage. Compare them with the rewritten sentences ad.1. Will put down his shopping bag and held out his hand. 2. Will, still watching, saw the cat behave curiously. 3. He crossed the road, keeping his eyes on the spot where the cat had been investigating. 4. He pushed his shopping bag through, and then scrambled through himself.a. Putting down his shopping bag, Will held out his hand. b. Will watched and saw the cat behave curiously. c. He kept his eyes on the spot where the cat had been investigating and crossed the road. d. Pushing his shopping bag through, he scrambled through himself.Underline the words that use the -ing form of the verb. How is the -ing form of the verb used?Answer the questions about the following sentences.1. Which sentences describe two things that happen at the same time? 2. Which sentences describe one thing happening immediately after another? 3. Look at sentences a and d. Do the two parts of the sentences refer to the same person?Rewrite the sentences using the -ing forms of the underlined verbs.Example:The cat stepped forward and climbed through the patch in the air. Stepping forward, the cat climbed through the patch in the air.1. The witch leapt into the air and vanished. 2. The man shouted angrily and waved his sword at the stranger. 3. She picked up the cat and rubbed its head affectionately. 4. The bear came out of the bushes, showed its teeth and made a loud noise.5. Complete the passage.6. Last weekend I walked into our local bookshop, to find a copy of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. All my friends read it and I wanted to know people liked it so much. I bought all three books and hurried out of the shop, pleased that I had found it easily. a No. 88 bus coming along the road, I decided to take it, it was quite a long walk home.7. on the bus, I was surprised to see an old friend of . We started talking and I realised that we had arrived at my stop. up, I cried, "Please wait! This is my stop!" I off the bus in time and smiled happily. Then, suddenly I had left my books behind on the bus, I , "Stop, please!" But it was late. The bus had gone away, my books with it.Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs below.think; know; sit; see; leave 1. On her, the king immediately falls in love with her. 2. He marries her, not who she really is. 3. Before his kingdom, he calls his son to him. 4. After about the situation, he decides to kill the witch himself. 5. While by a pool, Ferdinand sees a frog.Rewrite the following sentences.1. On seeing her, the king immediately falls in love with her. 2. He marries her, not knowing who she really is. 3. Before leaving his kingdom, he calls his son to him. 4. After thinking about the situation, he decides to kill the witch himself. 5. While sitting by a pool, Ferdinand sees a frog.1. When the king sees her, he immediately falls in love with her. 2. He marries her, but he . 3. Before the king , he calls . 4. After Ferdinand , he decides . 5. While he is , Ferdinand sees .Rewrite the sentences with the -ing forms of the verbs.Example:When he returns to the palace, the king marries the woman. On returning to the palace, the king marries the woman.1. When he saw the witch, the boy ran away.On , . 2. Before he starts the war, the king speaks to the prince.Before , . 3. While he was fighting in the war, the prince learnt many things.While , . 4. After he had spoken to his son, the king went to war.After , . 5. Because he doesn't know what to do, Ferdinand follows the frog's advice.Not , .Complete the passage.entering the palace, the witch immediately given her own rooms, looked out onto a beautiful garden. The king took her into garden, and walking around it, he said, "All this is yours now." On these words, the witch turned away smiled, that she had won the king's heart. " you be my wife?" asked the king, into the witch's beautiful green eyes. The witch turned from him. "I will," she said, looking at him, but looking down at the ground. Then she opened her green eyes wide and said, "I am happiest woman in the world." leaving the witch, the king went to tell his people the good news. But the witch sat alone, with a wicked smile on her face.Listening and Vocabulary Put the sentences in the correct order. Listen and check your answers.1. Before he leaves for the war, Argon asks his handsome son, Ferdinand, to revenge if he gets killed. 2. The king takes the woman to his palace and marries her, not knowing that she is a wicked witch. 3. Argon, the king's brother, who rules a nearby kingdom, goes to war with the witch. 4. A beautiful woman comes out and the king falls in love with her. 5. A king goes out hunting and comes to a cottage. 1 6. The witch wins the war and kills Argon and all his army. 7. A frog jumps out of a pool and tells Ferdinand that he can help him kill the witch. 8. The witch puts a spell on the king and becomes the ruler of the land. Answer the questions.brave; cottage; frog; handsome; hunt; kingdom; land; nearby; palace; pool; put a spell on (someone); wicked Which of these words or phrases:1. refer to country? ; 2. refer to buildings? ; 3. describe people? ; ; 4. means to use magic? 5. means to chase and kill? 6. refers to water? 7. tells you where a place is? 8. refers to animal? Make sentences with the words in the box. Each sentence should have two of these words.brave; cottage; frog; handsome; hunt; kingdom; land; nearby; palace; pool; put a spell on (someone); wicked Example:A frog jumped out of a pool.Match the words and phrases with their meanings.army; go to war; king; rule (v.); take revenge 1. : to control a country 2. : a man who rules a country and belongs to the ruling family 3. : a large organised group of soldiers that fight for a country 4. : to do something in order to hurt or punish someone because they have hurt you or someone else 5. : when two large groups of people fight each otherAnswer the questions about the story. Listen and check.1. What does the girl say about His Dark Materials? 2. What does the girl say it is easy to do? 3. When does the witch put a spell on the king? 4. What does