Unit8Isthereapostofficenearhere？

SectionB(1a—2b)ObjectivesTolearnthenewwordsandexpressions:ugly,search,hopefully,lay,believe,die,someone,powerful,laughat,goaway,searchfor...TolearnthestoryTheUglyDucklingandsummarywhatthestoryteachus.What’syourfavouritestorybook?Canyouintroduceit?《丑小鴨》是丹麥作家安徒生創(chuàng)作的童話，首次出版于1843年。這本書寫了一只天鵝蛋在鴨群中破殼后，因相貌怪異，被鴨群鄙棄，歷經(jīng)千辛萬苦、重重磨難之后長成了白天鵝。Lookatthepictures.Whatdoyouthinkhappensinthisstory?Numberthepictures.________________________3241a

1ReadthestoryadaptedfromHansChristianAndersen’sTheUglyDuckling.Discussthequestionwithapartner.·Istheuglyducklingarealduck?1b

Onceuponatime,therewasamotherduck.Shehadsixlittleducklings.Fiveoftheducklingsweresmallandyellow，butthelastducklingwasbigandgrey.“Hedoesn'tlooklikeus!Whatanuglyduckling!”theotherducklingssaid.“That'snotnice!”saidmotherDuck.“He'sstilladucklikeus!”Attheriver,theuglyducklingswamwell,justlikealltheotherducklings.Buttheotherducklingsstilllaughedathimandtoldhimtogoaway.Itmadethepoorducklingverysad，sohedecidedtosearchforanewhome.Hemetmanyotherbirds,butallofthemthoughtthathewasuglytoo.Theydidnotwanthimtolivewiththem.Oneday,theducklingmetacatandahen.“MayIstaywithyou?”heaskedhopefully.Butthetwoanimalssaidno.Theydidnotlikehimbecausehecouldnotpurrorlayeggs!Somedayslater,theuglyducklingcametoalake.There,hesawthreebeautifulswanswithlongnecksandwhitefeathers.“IwishIlookedlikeyou!”hecried.“Myfriend,youdolooklikeus!Lookinthewater!”oneoftheswanssaid.Theducklinglookeddown,andtohissurprise,hesawthathewasabeautifulwhiteswantoo!Readagainandanswerthequestions.Howwastheuglyducklingdifferentfromtheotherducklingsinsizeandcolour?Howwashesimilartothem?Theotherducklingsweresmallandyellow,buttheuglyducklingwasbigandgrey.Heswamwell,justlikealltheotherducklings.1c

2.Whatdidtheuglyducklingsearchfor?Why?3.Whatdidtheswanslooklike?Weretheyfriendly

totheuglyduckling?Hesearchedforanewhome.Becausetheotherducklingslaughedathimandtoldhimtogoaway.Itmadethepoorducklingverysad.Theswanshavelongnecksandwhitefeathers.Yes,theywerefriendly.4.Whatdoyouthinkthestoryteachesus?Thestoryteachesusthatbeautyisnotjustskin-deepandthateveryonehasthepotentialtogrowandbecomesomethingspecial.Matchthecharacterswiththeiropinions.Canyougivethesecharactersanyadvice?Shareyourideas.Weonlylikeanimalswithspecialskills.Youarewelcomehereonlyifyoucanpurrorlayeggs.1d

You’rebigandgrey,butwearesmallandyellow.You’reveryuglybecauseyoudon’tlooklikeus.Wewantyoutogoaway.Youcannotlivewithusbecauseyou’retoougly!I’mnothappyhere.Istherearightplaceformeoutthere?TheuglyducklingB.ThefiveducklingsC.TheotherbirdsD.ThecatandthehenDBCAReadthebeginningofthestory.Writeanendingforit.Usethequestionstohelpyou.Onceuponatime，afishermancaughtabottleinhisfishingnet.Whenheopenedit,agreatcloudcameoutandbecameagenie!2a

“Preparetodie!”shoutedthegenie.“Alongtimeago,Imadeapromise.Ifsomeonesetmefree,Iwouldmakethemrichandpowerful.Butnooneevercame.Afteryearsandyearsofwaiting,

Ibecameveryangry.Ifanyonesetmefree,Iwouldkilltheminsteadofgivingthemanything.So,youmustdie!”...·Whatwouldthefishermansaytothegenie?·Wouldthegeniekillthefisherman?Ifso,how?·Wouldthefishermansucceedinsavinghimself?

Ifso,how?·Whatwouldhappenintheend?

Thinkaboutthesequestions,andgiveyouranswers.1.goaway意為“走開；離開”e.g.Ithinkweneedtogoawayandthinkaboutthis.

我認(rèn)為我們需要離開，然后考慮這件事。

拓展

away的相關(guān)短語runaway逃跑takeaway拿走;帶走giveaway贈(zèng)送;捐贈(zèng)washaway沖走;洗掉putaway把……收起來;放好throwaway扔掉;拋棄LanguagePoints2.search

意為“尋找；搜尋”

searchfor意為“搜尋；尋找”，相當(dāng)于lookfor。

search...for...意為“在……搜查……”e.g.Isearchedamongtherocks,

buttherewasnothing.

我在巖石間尋找,但什么也沒找到。

Policesearchedforcluesinthearea.

=Policesearchedtheareaforclues.

警察在那一地帶查找線索。3.similar

意為“相似的”

besimilarto意為“與……相似”

besimilarin意為“在某方面相似”e.g.Thebrotherslookverysimiar.兄弟幾個(gè)長得很像。

Myteachingstyleissimilartothatofmostother

teachers.我的教學(xué)風(fēng)格和多數(shù)教師相似。Thetwohouesaresmilarinsize.兩座房子大小差不多。4.comeout在文中意為“出來”，其他常見用法如下：e.g.Theseanimalsonlycomeoutatnight.這些動(dòng)物只在夜晚出來。Thesuniscomingout.太陽就要出來了。e.g.Theflowerscameoutearlythisyear.花今年開得早。Whendoeshernewbookcomeout?她的新書什么時(shí)候出版?Thetruthisbeginningtocomeoutaboutwhat

happ