英语阅读Unit 2 Post-Reading.ppt

Reading Skills walk Reading Skills Core words use the core words to know more synonyms and antonyms Reading Skills Core words use the word association to extend your vocabulary Post-Reading What lesson did Haley learn in the end? It was telling him that only courage and persistence may bring success and when one had gained fame one should not forget the past, be proud and self-complacent. Keys for the fast reading exercises: d b c c a / c b b c d / d c d c d Unit 2 A Very Special Gooseby Isaac Asimov I. Pre-reading What do you think of the title of the text? How will the goose in the story differ from any other ordinary goose? Have you ever read the fable about a goose that laid golden eggs? The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs? This phrase comes from the English proverb kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, which means destroy a source of riches through stupidity or greed. The proverb alludes to Aesops fable about a farmer whose goose lays one golden egg a day, and who kills the goose in the mistaken belief that he will get all the eggs at once. I. Pre-reading I. Pre-reading Do you think the story was a real story or an imagined one? Science fictions （科幻小说） stories dealing with imaginary future developments in science and their effects on human life. Popular science readers（科普读物） articles dealing with some serious scientific theories in simple language, easily understood way II. Reading Discussing Find a special goose Who found the special goose first? Was the goose looked very special? What was it look like? How can people hear the capital in other’s words? How did the egg the farmer showed differ from a common one? II. Reading Discussing Study of “The egg” Did they believe the yellow metal was brass? Why? In what way is the egg not normal as a common one? II. Reading Discussing In ordinary shape with a radius of 35mm and a 2.5mm thick of gold shell. Inside was the “real egg” but the prot