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Unit 6
Nature in words
外研版高中英语选择性必修三
1.To learn something about John Boynton Priestley
2.To skim the text and get the general idea
3.To read the text carefully and learn the picturesque language the author used
4.To understand the text and share more literary works about snow
Learning Objectives 学习目标
Read the short introduction to the author of First Snow and answer the questions.
John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984) was born in the English county of Yorkshire, and knew early on that he wanted to become a writer. When World War I broke out, Priestley joined the army, and escaped death on a number of occasions.
After the war, he gained a degree from Cambridge University, and then moved to London, where he worked as a freelance (adj. 自由职业的) writer. During World War II, he presented a weekly radio programme, which became immensely (adv. extremely) popular.
Priestley wrote many successful articles, essays, novels and plays, but is best remembered for his play An Inspector Calls. Priestley loved snow and expressed a desire to live in a country where it often snowed.
1. What careers did Priestley have in his lifetime
Priestley joined the army in World War I before going on to study at Cambridge University. After graduation, he worked as a freelance writer and radio presenter.
2. What kind of person do you think Priestley was Do more research if necessary.
More information about him: British journalist, novelist, playwright, and essayist. His output was vast and varied, including literary and social criticism. He was known for his perceptive and often humorous characterizations of people in their day-to-day lives.
Describe snow in your own words.
And then read the passage.
1 Mr Robert Lynd once said of Jane Austen's characters: "They are people in whose lives a slight fall of snow is an event." Even at the risk of appearing to ir and witty reiewe as another Mr Woodhouse, I must insist that last night's fall of snow here was an event.I was nearly as excited about it this morning as the children, whom I found all looking through the window at the magic outside and talking away as excitedly as if Christmas had suddenly come round again. The fact is, however,that the snow was as strange and fascinating to me as it was to them. It is the first fall we have had here this winter, and last year I was out of the country, sweating in a hot climate,during the snowy season, so that it really does seem an age since I saw the ground so fantastically carneted.
Snow is really exciting.
The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not magic, then where is it to be found The very secrecy and quietness of the thing makes it more magical.
3 When I got up this morning the world was a cold place of dead white and pale blues. The light that came through the windows was very strange, and it made the familiar business of splashing and shaving and brushing and dressing very strange too. Then the sun came out, and by the time I had sat down to breakfast it was shining bravely and flushing the snow with delicate pinks. The dining-room window had been transformed into a lovely Japanese print.The little plum tree outside, with the faintly flushed snow lining its branches and artfully disposed along its trunk,stood in full sunlight.
Snow can change the world.
How snow makes everything more beautiful.
4 An hour or two later everything was a cold sparkle of white and blue. The world had completely changed again.e little Japanese prints had all disappeared. I looked out of my study window, over the garden, the field, to the low hills beyond, and the ground went on and on, the sky was thick grey, and all the trees so many black and threatening shapes. There was indeed something curiously disturbing about the whole prospect. It was as if our kindly countryside, close to the very heart of England, had been turned into a cruel grassland. At any moment, it seemed,a body of horsemen might be seen breaking out from the black trees, so many weapons might be heard and some distant spot of snow be reddened. It was that kind of landscape.
How snow made things frightening.
5 Now it has changed again. The glare has gone and no touch of the disturbing remains. But the snow is falling heavily, in great soft flakes, so that you can hardly see across the shallow valley, and the roofs are thick and the trees all bending, and the weathercock of the village church, still to be seen through the grey loaded air, has become some creature out of Hans Andersen. From my study, which is apart from the house and faces it, I can see the children flattening their noses against the window, and there is running through my head a rhyme I used to repeat when I was a child and flattened my nose against the cold window to watch the falling snow:
How appealing snow is to children.
Snow, snow faster:
White alabaster!
Killing geese in Scotland,
Sending feathers here!
(Adaptation from First Snow by John Boynton Priestley)
本文语篇类型为散文。作者把下雪视为一件“神奇的大事件”，通过形象生动的语言描写了冬天的第一场雪，表达了自己对雪的喜爱，营造了人与自然和睦共存的景象。
While reading, underline the expressions the author uses to describe the first snow.
The expressions used by the author to describe the first snow: an event, so fantastically carpeted, a magical event, a cold place of dead white and pale blues, faintly flushed, artfully disposed, a cold sparkle of white and blue, falling heavily, in great soft flakes…
…last night’s fall of snow here was an event…
…the snow was strange and fascinating…
…the ground was so fantastically carpeted…
The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event.
Some sentences describing snow:
The little plum tree outside, with the faintly flushed snow lining its branches and artfully disposed along its trunk, stood in full sunlight.
…the world was a cold place of dead white and pale blues.
personification 拟人
But the snow is falling heavily, in great soft flakes, so that you can hardly see across the shallow valley, and the roofs are thick and the trees all bending, and the weathercock of the village church, still to be seen through the grey loaded air, has become some creature out of Hans Andersen.
雪的形态
雪后的场景
用Hans Andersen 笔下的生物借代描写教堂上风信鸡的美与奇，描绘出一个雪后的童话世界。
Skim the text and match the main idea with its corresponding paragraph.
A. Snow can change the world.
B. How snow made things frightening.
C. How appealing snow is to children.
D. Snow is really exciting.
E. How snow makes everything more beautiful.
Read the text carefully and choose the right answers.
Where was the author last winter
In a hot country
At Jane Austen’s home
In a meeting with Mr Woodhouse
In his own country
A
2. When did the dining-room window become a lovely Japanese print
When I woke up B. When I slept
C. When the sun came out D. An hour or two later
3. What is the fourth paragraph mainly about
The countryside turned into a cruel grassland.
Some horsemen broke out from the trees.
The change of scenery
A terrible accident happened.
C
C
4. What were the children doing in the last paragraph
Reading Andersen’s story in the study
Looking for creatures
Repeating a rhyme
Looking at the snow outside the window
D
Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage and give your reasons.
1. By describing the magical scenery of the first snow, the author encourages readers to come to England and experience its beauty for themselves.
2. By depicting the beautiful near-magical scenery of the first snow, the author wants to convey his love for snow.
3. By recalling his memories as a child during the first snow, the author expresses his longing for the innocent happiest of childhood.
The author expresses his love for the first snow and the nature. His heart is as pure and peaceful as the first snow, which reflects a positive and optimistic attitude towards life and a state of mind free from worldly disturbance.
The author uses picturesque language to depict the first plete the diagram with the expressions you have underlined in the passage.
(语言)生动的，形象化的，绘声绘色的
v. 描写，描述，描绘
The world became a ______________
_____________________. The light coming through the windows seemed quite strange, and it made the familiar business of splashing and shaving and brushing and dressing very strange too.
cold place of dead
white and pale blues
The snow became _______________. My dining-room window changed into __________________________. The little plum tree outside, with snow _____________________
_______________________________, stood in full sunlight.
lining its branches and
delicate pinks
a lovely Japanese print
artfully disposed along its trunk
Everything was a _______________________
__________. The ground ________________, the sky was ____________ , and all the trees _______________________________________. The entire scene looked ___________________.
cold sparkle of white and
went on and on
thick grey
so many black and threatening shapes
pale blue
like a cruel grassland
The snow is _____________________________. The roofs are _______. The trees are __________. I can see the children flattening their noses against the window.
falling heavily, in great soft flakes
thick
all bending
Now work in pairs and talk about how the author organizes the structure of the passage.
This text is mainly progressing in chronological order (按时间顺序) because the author has his timeline: “When I got up this morning…” “The sun came out…” “An hour or two later…” “Now…” .
Text structure
“Text structure” refers to how a piece of text is built.
Below is a summary of the text with some content missing. Choose the right item from the box and make the summary complete. Change the form if necessary.
flush, excite, flake, grassland, kid, magic
Last night's fall of snow was the first fall we have had here this winter. I was nearly as 1. ________ about it as the children this morning. The snowfall was a(n) 2. ________ event because I woke up to find myself in an entirely different world, a cold place of dead white and pale blues. Then the sun shined bravely and 3. ________ the snow with delicate pinks.
excited
magical
flushed
flush, excite, flake, grassland, kid, magic
Everything was a cold sparkle of white and blue an hour or two later. The world had completely changed again. The sky was thick grey, and all the trees became black and threatening shapes. The countryside had also turned into a cruel 4. ________. Now it has changed again. The snow is falling heavily in great soft 5. ________. From my study, I can see the children flattening their noses against the window, just like I did when I was a(n) 6. ________.
grassland
flakes
kid
1. Why does the author mention Jane Austen at the beginning of the passage
By referencing the characters of Jane Austen, who is known for her witty, perceptive observations of early 19th century English country life, the author is emphasizing the irony and self-awareness with which he goes on to make his statement about the first snow.
Background information
She was an English novelist, best known for her social commentary in novels such as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma. Mr Woodhouse is the father of the protagonist, Emma. He is constantly worried about his health and wants a quiet simple life.
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
2. What images does the author use to enhance the description of snow
Images used by the author to enhance the description of snow: a cold place of dead white and pale blues, flushing the snow with delicate pinks, a cold sparkle of white and blue, falling heavily, in great soft flakes…
3. What other literary works about snow do you know Share them with the class.
Enjoy the first snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The first snow
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! All white saved the river, that marked its course by a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless trees,
that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.
4. Have you encountered any difficulties in understanding this passage Can you use visualization to better understand the passage
Visualizing text is a proven way to improve reading comprehension. A reader can purposely create mental images while and after reading. The images emerge from all five senses as well as the emotions, and are anchored in the reader’s prior knowledge.
When I am reading these sentences, there is a picture just like this in my mind. In this way, I just see the strange and fascinating snow.
I was nearly as excited about it this morning as the children, whom I found all looking through the window at the magic outside and talking away as excitedly as if Christmas had suddenly come round again.
Read the passage again, and appreciate the picturesque language and beautiful description while reading.

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