一、Teaching goals
1. Target language: new words and expressions
2. Ability goals: Enable students to learn what an allusion is, how an allusion is used, and how to understand an allusion.
3. Learning ability goals: Students are expected to apply what they have learned correctly.
二、Teaching important and difficult points
Students can master the knowledge about allusions and apply what they have learnt correctly.
三、Teaching aids
A multi-computer
四、Teaching procedures and ways
StepⅠ Revision and lead-in
Get the students enjoy the following pictures and answer some questions.
1. Have you heard the story “Mengmu San Qian”?
2. Do you know what the expression self-contradiction means?
3. When you see the picture, what story or expression can you think of?
4. Do you think snakes have feet? What does the expression mean?
Step II More questions
1 What are the expressions above called in Chinese?
典故 Allusions
2 Then do you know some allusions in English? Match the two parts.
borrowed plumes 最大最好的部分
cat’s paw 受人愚弄的人
sour grape 靠別人得來的聲望
the lion’s share 把得不到的說成不 好
kill the goose that lays 絞盡腦汁
the golden eggs
rack one’s brains 打破沉默
break the ice 害群之馬
black sheep 殺鵝取卵
1) When Qin Xiaoyong says that he felt a bit like the prodigal son returning, what do you think he means?
2) Who is scrooge? When Qin Xiaoyong says that he is a bit of a Scrooge, what does he means?
3) Have you heard the person, Mother Teresa? What do know about her?
When we say someone is a Mother Teresa, what kind of person are we describing?
Step III Points1-5
When we refer to words or phrases like these to talk about another person or thing, we are using allusion. Now read the guidelines of this section on Page56 to know what an allusion is.
Read Points1-5 to learn the meaning of each allusion and find the ways of
making an allusion.
According to the Points1-5, fill in the form.
Allusions Come from The meanings
Lei Feng Real life To describe a person who is kind and ready to help others
Mona Lisa A work of art To describe a person with charming smile.
Lin Daiyu The novel Red
Mansion To describe the young lady who is
Sentimental and sickish
Judas
The Bible To describe someone
Who betray their friends or beliefs
The battle of Waterloo
History To describe a final
defeat or failure
Step IV Exercises
Read the instruction and the table to understand the meaning of each allusion
and think over to decide which of them are from literature, religion, history, real life or other sources. After that, put them in the right places in Zhang Hong’s diary.
Step V Discussion
Discuss in groups and decide which situations the following allusions are used in.
the prodigal son be over the moon
Pandora’s box dark horse
A’Q spirit sour grapes
Step VI Homework
1. Try to understand the meanings of allusions learnt this class and use
them correctly.
2 Do PartC1and PartC2 on Page120
in workbook.
3 Preview the text in the Project