文档介绍：Language
Unit 5
Part One Preparation
Post Reading
prehension
1. Introduction: the most important day in her life()
2. ______________________________________(-3)
3. The first encounter with the teacher. ()
4. ______________________________________(-9)
A. Her initial ess in learning : she learned the spelling of a few words. ()
B. The difficulties encountered in _______________________ ()
C. Her new insight: Everything had a name and each name gave birth to a new thought. (-8)
D. ___________________________________________ before she fell asleep that night after her trip to the well-house.
Her feelings before her teacher arrived
How she discovered words
learning the meaning of words and her reaction
Her feelings and her new outlook on life
Work in pairs to answer the following questions
1. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrast between the two lives which it connects. ()
A. What do the two lives refer to?
B. What does it refer to?
C. What is the immeasurable contrast?
The two lives she led before and after the teacher came
The day when her teacher came to her.
Before the teacher came, she lived in a still, dark world in which there was no strong sentiment or tenderness. From that day on, she not only began to learn language but also gained a new insight into life.
2. On the afternoon of the eventful day, I stood on the porch, dumb, expectant.()
Why did Helen consider the day an eventful day、
3. …when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line…()
A. White and dark are opposite in meaning. Then what does white darkness mean?
B. What does her refer to?
Because the day marked a turning point in her life. On that day , the teacher came to her to reveal all things to her, including love.
Here being shut in the “white darkness” refers to a feeling of being l