文档介绍：Michael Welzenbach
Lesson Four Wisdom of Bear Wood
Warm-up
Pre-reading discussions:
1) Introduce one of your best friends to your classmates.
2) Are there things mon that lead to your friendship?
3) Why do we need friendship? What can we get from it?
4) Can you give us some tips to better cultivate friendship?
5) List out the ingredients you think of importance to true friendship.
Story Telling
Work in groups.
Your imagination is encouraged!
Make up a story with the following elements.
woodlands
an owl
a boy
Shortbread
an old lady
a cottage
Compare your story with the text. Have you found anything unexpected?
Story Telling
Background Information
Michael Welzenbach (1954—2001) was an art
critic as well as a poet and novelist. He wrote some
of the most stimulating criticisms of art and music
for the Washington Post.
Author
Robin Hood is a legendary hero of a series of English ballads, some of which date from at least the 14th century.
He was a rebel, and many of the most striking episodes in the tales about him show him and panions robbing and killing representatives of authority and giving the gains to the poor.
Their most frequent enemy was the Sheriff of Nottingham, a local agent of the central government. Others included wealthy ecclesiastical landowners.
Berkshire, a county of southern England, that occupies the valleys of the middle Thames and its tributary, the , immediately to the west of London. Its area is 485 sq mi (1,256 sq km), and it is divided into six districts: Bracknell, Newbury, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Wokingham.
Berkshire
Please mark out Berkshire in the map given.
& Avon Canal
Berkshire
Picture Tour of Berkshire
Shaw House—15th century Elizabethan Manor House
Picture Tour of Berkshire
Berkshire
the Weir at Streatley
the sun setting over the River Thames