Maheegun-My-Brother(课堂PPT).ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Lesson 2Maheegun My Brother,by Eric Acland,1,About wolf,Many of the prevailing stories depict wolves in a negative way.,In fiction,the wolf is sometimes represented as an evil carnivore which preys on small children and livestock.While wolves do sometimes prey on livestock,they are responsible for a very small percentage of the livestock deaths in North America.,2,Attacks by healthy wild wolves on humans is almost unheard of,and there has never been a fatal attack on a human by a healthy wild wolf in North America.Those attacks that do take place might involve an unhealthy wolf,or a human who is somehow inciting the wolf to action or impinging upon the wolfs territory.,3,Other cultures have better views of the wolf.In Roman mythology,the god Mars considered the wolf a sacred animal,and the founders of Rome were raised by a wolf.Native Americans also hold the wolf in high regard and believe that wolves carry characteristics that humans should also find important,such as strong family structure and teaching the young.Eastern Europeans often viewed wolves as protectors of the harvest.,4,The people underneath the wolf are Romulus and Remus,the founders of Rome.Legend has it that they were orphans,raised by a she-wolf,and then Romulus killed Remus and then founded Rome.There are statues of this kind everywhere in Rome.,5,There seems to be very little in the way of a middle ground about wolves.They will probably always be both revered and hated.However,As time passes and education efforts continue,these perceptions seem to be changing to a more realistic view of the wolf as a vital part of a balanced ecosystem.,phrases,cry wolf,a lone wolf,wolf in sheeps clothing,have/hold a wolf by the ears,have a wolf in the stomach,keep the wolf from the door,see a wolf,wolf-whistle,wake a sleeping wolf,set the wolf to keep the sheep,7,He who keeps company with a wolf will learn to howl.,One must howl with the wolves.,8,Maheegun,Maheegun is the name of the wolf in the text.The word,originally as mahikan comes from a Cree dialect called the Plains Cree and simply means wolf.Cree is a native American people,an Indian people inhabiting a large area from eastern Canada west to Alberta and the Great Slave Lake.,www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/sils/ourlanguages/,9,Structure of the text,Part I,(Para.1-3):Introduction,Part II,(Para.4-17):the happy days the boy and Maheegun had together and how Maheegun returned to the wild where he belonged,Part III,(Para.18-40):the reunion of the two when the boys life was endangered by two hungry wolves,Part IV,(Para.41-44):The brothers returned to the place where they each belonged the boy to his warm home,the wolf to his kind in the wild.,The story,begins,in Spring and,ends,in early spring,in the normal sequence of Nature.,10,Para.1,The year I found Maheegun,spring was late in coming.,In the year when I found Maheegun,the spring was unusually cold.,Noun phrase as adverbial,The moment I saw her,I liked this little girl.,Next time you give a presentation,you should try to have some eye contacts with your audience.,11,Para.2,I got the first few drops of warm milk in him,.,I fed the wolf cub by getting the milk into his mouth probably by a spoon or eyedropper.,12,Para.5,Not that,we didnt have our troubles.,Although I say that the year I got Maheegun was the happiest year of my life,I do not mean that he never caused troubles.,This semester I choose Dr Martins course.Not that he is an easy-going teacher.,13,Para.8,It all served to fog my mind with pleasure so that I forgot my Grandpas repeated warnings,and one night left Maheegun unchained.,What does“it”refer to?,Although Grandpa had warned me to chain Maheegun at night,the happiness that I had enjoyed with Maheegun slackened my alertness and made me forget to chain him one night.,14,The following morning in sailed Mrs.Yesno,wild with anger,who demanded Maheegun be shot because he had killed her rooster.,The next morning,Mrs.Yesno came in furiously and demanded that Maheegun should be killed because he had killed her rooster.,Wild with sth.:showing strong uncontrolled feelings,Sail in:begin sth.with energy and confidence,Sail into sb.:scold,attack,15,Para.11,On the top was the clear outline of a great wolf sitting still,ears pointed,alert,listening.,On the top of the rock,the shape of the a great wolf can be seen clearly with the moonlight.He was sitting without moving and his ears were raised.It seemed that he is listening to something.,16,Para.17,I tried to tell myself it was all for the best,but it was hard to lose my brother.,(all)for the best:,best for the long run although sth.appears bad or unpleasant,His parents didnt want him to work in London,but they knew it was perhaps for the best.,17,Easter,Easter is a religious festival celebrating the resurrection of Christ observed on the first Sunday after a full moon on or after,the Spring Equinox.,The Easter Bunny and the Easter Egg are two items in the folk customs for Easter celebration.Possibly it is because both of them are regarded as emblems of fertility.,22,A mile down the road I slipped into my snowshoes and turned into the bush.,After walking a mile along the road,I decided to take a shortcut through the bush.So I quickly put on my snowshoes,left the road and moved into the bush.,Slip into/out of:to put on/take off quickly,19,Para.23,By then the snow had made a blanket of white darkness,but I knew only too well there should have been no creek there.,By then it was snowing heavily and the sky was thick with big snow flakes that I couldnt see through them.However there was one thing for certain(I knew it very well that):I must have got lost,for there was no creek where I should have moved to.,20,Para.24,I tried to travel west but only to hit the creek again.,I tried to move towards west but only found myself comeback to the creek again.,Only to do sth.:usually used to described a surprising or disappointing result,Hit:to come upon or discover,especially by chance,We finally hit the right exit.,21,Para.30,The howl seemed to freeze the world with fear.,The long loud cry seemed to have struck terror into every living creature,and they suddenly became still.,22,Para.36,The cold and loss of blood were taking their toll.,The weather was very cold and I had lost a lot of blood,so as a result of these,I was sick and weak.,Take its/their/a heavy toll on sb./sth.:to have a negative effect on sb./sth.,Smoking has taken its toll on his health.,23,Para.41,It was quite some time before my eyes came into focus enough to see my grandfather sitting by my bed.,I took quite some time for my eyes to adjust themselves to be able to see clearly my grandfather sitting by my bed.,To see:adverbial of result,The word“by”(P.39),24,in(to)focus,焦点对准;清楚的,明白的,The image is,in focus,.,His explanation brought the meaning of the event,into focus,.,She always wants to be,the focus of,attention.,Many firms,are focusing on,increasing their markets overseas.,25,Writing technique:,wolfs howl,howl,rumble,snarl,whimper,狼、狗、狐狸的嚎叫，常指夜间嗥叫,隆隆的响声,露齿而吠，嗥叫,动物的悲嗥声，唔咽,26,Writing techniques:,simile&metaphor,Simile,is a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds(usually formed with like or as).,Metaphor,is,a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity.,27,Examples from the text,grasshoppers that leaped about like little rockets,I was as busy as a squirrel storing nuts for the winter.,In its place was a handsome black mantle.,a blanket of white darkness,More clich examples,(P 43),28,Writing technique:,inversion,Examples from the text:,Gone was the puppy-wool coat.,In its place was a handsome black mantle.,In sailed Mrs.Yesno.,On the top was the clear outline of a great wolf sitting still.,There,about 50 feet away,crouched my two attackers,There stood a giant black wolf.,More examples:,Here comes the bus.,There goes the bell.,go,come,stand,be,the“there be”construction,29,Topics for discussions,What roles do you think wild animals play in nature?,Do you have a similar and touching story between man and(wild)animals to share with us?,30,Questions to be considered,31,What kind of relationship do you think should be hold between human beings and animals?Equal?Peaceful?Do we have such a relationship?Or can we?,32,Do whales deserve to be tortured because their fins can provide nutrition to human beings?,33,Do wolves,tigers,or even wild boars deserve to be killed because they are dangerous to human beings?,34,Does every species have equal right of existence on this planet?,35,Then how about other life forms such as plants?,36,Then how about germs and viruses?,37,How can you decide whether getting rid of a life form is good or bad for human beings in the long run?,38,If there should be an equal relationship between human beings and other life forms,then the perspective good for other life forms should enjoy equal importance with good for human beings,shouldnt it?,39,Such questions are the concerns of researchers of,among other disciplines,environmental ethics.,40,Thank you!,41,