The Old Man and The Sea

编写人：刘静

Teaching aims:

1.   To enjoy the description of actions and appearance

2.   To understand the feelings behind the old man and the boy’s behaviours

3.   To analyse the personalities of the old man and the boy according to their words and actions

Teaching procedures:

一、自主阅读：P32-P48

阅读策略：参照参考词汇逐段阅读，勾画动作描写、外貌描写、环境描写的句子，通过人物的语言、动作、心理活动的描写思考总结人物性格特点，细心揣摩作者通过这些描写想要传达给读者的信息。

二、佳句欣赏

1. When the boy came back the old man was asleep in the chair and the sun was down. The boy took the old army blanket off the bed and spread it over the back of the chair and over the old man’s shoulders. They were strange shoulders, still powerful although very old, and the neck was still strong too and the creases didn’t show so much when the old man was asleep and his head fallen forward. His shirt has been patched so many times that it was like the sail and the patches were faced to many different shades by the sun. The old man’s head was very old though and with his eyes closed there was no life in his face. The newspaper lay across his knees and the weight of his arm held it there in the evening breeze. He was bare footed.

2. Where did you wash? the boy thought. The village water supply was two streets down the road. I must have water here for him, the boy thought, and soap and a good towel. Why am I so thoughtless? I must get him another shirt and a jacket for the winter and some sort of shoes and another blanket.

Think and discuss

Describe the boy’s personalities

                                                          

3.He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains. He lived along that coast now every night and in his dreams he heard the surf roar and saw the native boats come riding through it. He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning.

4.   Usually when he smelled the land breeze he woke up and dressed to go and wake the boy. But tonight the smell of the land breeze came very early and he knew it was too early in his dream and went on dreaming to see the white peaks of the Islands rising from the sea and then he dreamed of the different harbors and roadsteads of the Canary Islands.

5. He no longer dreamed of storms, no of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on. He urinated outside the shack and then went up the road to wake the boy. He was shivering with the morning cold. But he knew he would shiver himself warm and that soon he would be rowing.

6.But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Think and discuss

Describe the old man’s personalities

 

 

                              

 

 

 

Think and Share

What have we learned today?

                                                         

反思：本节课带领学生对一些精彩的段落进行了赏析，并且引领学生分析了人物特点和一些情节的写作意图，从精神层面上鼓励学生要有爱心，有信心，有毅力，不轻言放弃，还是比较成功的一堂课，如果细节分析再详细一些，学生可能会体会更深。