牛津高中英语导学案：U1M3 reading

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　　U1M3 Reading

　　Fog

　　Learning Goals

　　After reading the story, you should

　　1. know the plot of the story and learn how stories are generally organized;

　　2. grasp the message conveyed by the story;

　　3. achieve the right understanding of human society;

　　预学案

　　Read the story on Pages 2 and 3, and then

　　A. Do C2 on page 4. (put the events in the correct order)

　　B. Answer the following questions:

　　1. Why did Polly leave work early?

　　2. Why did Polly take the underground to Green Park?

　　3. Why was it that the old man could show the way round the city in such a heavy fog?

　　4. Why did the old man volunteer to help people in the fog?

　　5. Besides the bus conductor and the old man who helped her home, how many other people did Polly see or hear on the way?

　　探究与运用案

　　Step 1 Lead-in

　　As we have already learned in “Welcome to the Unit”, people use one or two senses more than they do other senses. Also, if one sense is impaired or damaged, other senses might become stronger. So blind people usually have sharp sense of hearing and/or touching and a splendid memory. In the story you have just read, the old man has lost his sight, but he is able to move around in the fog while normal people could get lost.

　　Step 2 Check-up

　　A. (答案见教参)

　　1. Because it was forecast that there would be a thick fog in the afternoon.

　　2. Because the bus could not go as far as her home due to the fog.

　　3. Because the old man was blind and the fog wouldn’t prevent him being able to move around.

　　4. Because he wanted to pay back the help people had given him when it was sunny.

　　5. Three. The tall man on the underground, the owner of the footsteps and the owner of the rough hand.

　　Step 3 Discussion

　　A. Learn the general organization of stories and then tell why the writer describes the tall man on the underground, the footsteps and the rough hand.

　　The general organization

　　of strories

　　Note:

　　Beginning: “Polly left work and stepped out into the fog.” (with no tension, i.e. Polly had no fear.)

　　Upward trend: (Polly became more and more frightened.)

　　Climax: Now she wanted to run, but fear held her still. (with the greatest tension, Polly was too frightened to move.)

　　Downward trend: (Tension by and by fades away, with occasional little ups in the general downward trend: e.g. Line 45: Polly was beginning to feel frightened again. )

　　Ending: (Tension completely disappears. )

　　For teachers’ reference: those three people are arranged in the plot to increase tension, or to create a situation in which Polly became more and more frightened.

　　B. Tell why the story is titled “Fog” (with the following to help you)

　　1. When you read the story, did you feel anxious or worried about Polly’s safety?

　　2. Some were afraid that someone was following Polly when they read about footsteps approaching her on her way to Park Street. Did you feel the same?

　　3. When you read about a rough hand brushing Polly’s cheek, did you also think the man was attempting something ill?

　　4. If all your answers to the above questions are “yes”, can we say that common people have an unreasonable prejudice against strangers?

　　So, given the special heroin (a young girl alone) and the special setting (a heavy fog where nobody else could see what wrong a stranger might do to her), tell why the story is thus titled.

　　For teachers’ reference: The story took place in a fog, but, more significantly, the title “Fog” is to indicate people’s prejudice against strangers or the fact that we tend to think ill of people in a strange environment.

　　C. There are in the story some hints suggesting that the three strangers Polly saw or heard on her way had no ill intention for her at all. Find the examples of foreshadowing(伏笔)in the story that are to show us readers that we needn’t have been worrying about Polly.

　　For teachers’ reference:

　　Line17: The tall man was nowhere to be seen.

　　Line 23: The footsteps were gone.

　　Line 24: The man moved away.

　　Step 4 Presentation

　　Tell the whole class what answers you have got to the three questions in Step 3.

　　Step 5 Summary

　　From the story, what can we learn?

　　For teachers’ reference: From the story we learn that most people are kind and helpful. We shouldn’t habitually think ill of strangers. Prejudice prevents us from truly understanding humans, so we normal people sometimes are not so wise as the blind because there is no fog in their eyes. Just as fogs don’t stay, we should not let our prejudice last.

　　检测巩固案

　　Retell the story with the following to help you:

　　take the underground, where ...

　　first heard footsteps, then a rough hand ..., which ...

　　a man’s voice, a hand grasped her arm

　　an old man standing before her

　　helped her home

　　it turned out that ..., blind, volunteered to help, grateful

　　tend to guard against, but ...

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