Unit 1 Looking Forwards Understanding ideas 高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修四册.pptx

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1、Activity 1Complete the questionnaire and share your answers with the class.Look at the title and predict what the passage is about.Different jobs people might do in the future.Stories about different peoples future.Various possibilities for future development.Fixed future for everyone.Now read the p

2、assage and check your prediction.Activity 2Activity 3 Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.a What is possibly the most important concern in life?b What was Doyles main writing ambition?c What can you do when faced with uncertainty about the future?d What is the relationship

3、 between ones plans and the future?e Why was Doyle disappointed with the success of his Holmes stories?f What did Hemingway do to achieve his ambition to become a writer?146 253 Organise information from the passage and complete the chart.He was born in the US in 1899.He _ since boyhood.He wrote _.H

4、e won _.He was born in Scotland in 1859.He first work as _ but _.He created _,Sherlock Holmes .He had wanted to be remembered for _ but _.Ernest HemingwayArthur Conan Doyle Similarities They are both _.They share _.Activity 4Ernest Hemingwayhas been single-minded in his ambition to writenovels and s

5、hort stories based on his personal experiences of the First World War,the Spanish Civil War,bullfighting and deep-sea fishing,among othersthe Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature later Arthur Conan Doylea doctor;Doyles main ambition was to become a writer of histo

6、rical novelsthe fictional detectivehis historical novels amongst other academic works;the public couldnt get enough of Sherlock HolmesSimilaritieswere ultimately successfulthe same ambitious and energetic approach to life Now read the sentence from the passage and answer the questions.So,whatever tw

7、ists and turns you might encounter,take a leaf out of the books of these two authors and be prepared for the unexpected.1 What is your understanding of“take a leaf out of the books”?2 What effect is the author aiming to achieve by using it?3 What other expressions do you know that share the same mea

8、ning?Activity 51.My understanding of“take a leaf out of the books”is to copy the way someone else behaves because you want to be like them or be as successful as they are.It is a metaphor based on books,it is also a pun,because it appears in a text about writers.2.The author aims to maintain the rea

9、ders interest by using this figure of speech,and perhaps to end on a lighter note by using a pun.Think&Share What is your understanding of Steve Jobs words at the end of the passage?What can you learn about facing the future from the two authors?What will you do to prepare yourself for the future?Do

10、 you know any stories about Chinese writers and their plans for the future?What lessons can you learn from their experiences?Share your opinions with the class.You cannot make sense of your life by looking forward,because the future has not happened yet,and the meaning of future events is therefore

11、uncertain.However,once future events have occurred,you may be able to see how they fit into the pattern of your life.Things which you did not expect to be important may turn out to be very important.You must face the future by believing that everything will work out in the end,and that your life will make sense and have meaning.Homework Recite the introduction of the two figures according to the information in activity 4See you next lesson!