我会留在巴士上,忘了我俩的过去 责怪我自己
如果我看见老橡树上没有系黄丝带的话 司机先生,请帮我看一下 因为我无法承受即将看到的 我其实仍在监牢 只有吾爱握有钥匙
我需要的仅是黄丝带,即可将我释放 我已写信告诉过她
现在,整车的乘客都在欢呼 我无法相信我所看到的-------- 老橡树上挂满了上百条的黄丝带!
这首歌曲的内容,是一则发生在美国的真实故事.故事的主角是一位因倒闭破产而被判服刑三年的男子,在出狱前
夕,他写了一封信给在乔治亚州的妻子,问她是否还愿意接纳他,如果愿意的话,便在他出狱当天,在家门前那棵老橡树上系上一条黄丝带,如果答案是否的话,也就是他没有看到黄丝带的话,他会识趣的离开.
在返家的公车上,男主角的心里七上八下,既期待又怕受伤害,在即将到家的时候,他甚至不敢睁开眼睛,而恳求公车司机帮他打探结果………………终于,谜底揭晓了,只听见公车司机和车上所有的乘客同声为他欢呼,他睁开双眼,竟然看到老橡树上数以百计的黄丝带在风中飞舞,顿时感动得热泪盈眶! 这首歌曾在1973年登上美国排行榜四周冠军,后来并在美国成为一种风俗:在家门前的树上系上黄丝带,以欢迎久别归来的亲人。
课文释义：
I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl I had met in New York‘s Greenwich Village. Probably the story is one
of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few years, to be told a new in one form or another. However, I still like to think that it really did happen, somewhere, sometime. 几年前我在纽约的格林尼治村从一位遇到的姑娘那儿第一次听到这个故事。它也许是那种隔几年就会改头换面地被重新传播一次的神奇的民间传说。然而我仍然愿意想象它是个某地某时真正发生过的事。
Unit 3 Message of the Land
Ⅰ.教学内容
1．课文背景介绍 2．语言难点 3．语言技能训练 4．难句讲解 5．写作修辞分析 6．篇章结构分析 7．课堂讨论 8．练习及作业 Ⅱ.教学目的
1. 了解文章的泰国作者Pira Sudham。
2. 掌握afford, now and then, mind, bleed, barter, replace, litter, fashion, spring(v.), occur, pass sth. on to sb.，tie sb. down等重点词汇和短语的意义及用法.
3. 掌握、运用简单的修辞手法： 明喻和暗喻。 4. 通过句子释义，理解课文中难句。
5. 通过篇章结构分析，掌握文章的主旨大意和写作方法。 Ⅲ.教学重点
1． 掌握重点词汇及其同义、同形词辨析。 2． 明喻和暗喻写作修辞手法。
3．加强学生的口语练习。 Ⅳ.教学方法
讲授＋问答＋讨论＋练习 及多媒体教学相结合。 Ⅴ.教学过程
Step1. Question discussing for Warming-up Step2. Background Information 1. About the Author
?Pira Sudham spent his childhood in the rice fields on the Korat Plateau, helping his parents and tending a herd of buffaloes until he went to Bangkok at the age of fourteen to be a servant to monks in a Buddhist temple where he was also admitted to a school.
? To support himself through high school and the first year at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, he sold souvenirs to tourists until he won a New Zealand government scholarship to study English literature at Auckland University and later at Victoria University, Wellington.
? His writings began to appear in literary publications in New Zealand, Hong Kong and the United States before his first book, Siamese Drama (entitled Tales of Thailand in the latest editions) was published in 1983, followed by People of Esarn in 1987.
?He has lived for over ten years in Australia and the United Kingdom, where he wrote Monsoon Country (1988), and its sequel, The Force of Karma (2002).
? Pira Sudham‘s literary works are concerned with social-economic-political changes occurring in Thailand. Widely read and highly acclaimed, his books have given an expedient voice to the poor and the voiceless. ? Considered Thailand's leading English language writer, he was nominated for the 1990 Nobel prize for literature.
2. About the Author’s Works Monsoon Country
Depicts the problems of social transition in present day Thailand and gives insights into Thai life in the rural northeast. Pira Sudham's novel Monsoon Country is set in Thailand, England and Germany to convey the cultural tension between the East and the West, the clashes between the new powers and the old values, covering the span
of 25 years of the socio-economic and political changes occurring in Thailand. The Force of Karma This sequel to Monsoon Country covers tumultuous years of the economic crisis, the political upheavals and the massacre of May 1992, right up to the beginning of the year 2002. In The Force of Karma, the
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characters‘ fellowship, the Operation Norma, the damaged ecology, the inheritance, the sinister allegations of drug trading and the force of destiny have been intricately woven. People of Esarn Pira Sudham conveys the inner voices of his subjects regardless of how illiterate, timid and insignificant they seem in their daily lives. Their simplicity and sensitivity come through his direct and clear prose, yet moving and touching. He writes with understanding and compassion for his people. Foreign writers writing about the Thai people look at Thailand from the outside, but Pira Sudham writes about his people and country as seen from the inside. This is one of the things that makes them so fascinating. Tales of Thailand Out of the relocation of millions of people in the path of dam constructions and eucalyptus plantations, the suppression of wages and the price of agricultural produce, the forceful drive to gain more land to grow
eucalyptus trees, the corruption, prostitution, child trade, slave labour, the horror of the Thailand-Burma Death Railway during the World War II, the economic crisis in July 1997, the war to win the people in impoverished Esarn in the seventies and the daily grind in the Mother of Gridlock - Bangkok come tales of hope and tales of woe, tales of acceptance and tales of the struggle for survival that become Tales of Thailand, a book by Pira Sudham.
3.Others’ Comments:
---―Pira Sudham has given a voice to the poor of Thailand.‖
---―Pira Sudham is undoubtedly one of the foremost Thai writers of today, a formidable vivisector to reveal the hidden aspects of Thai society.‖ Pira Sudham's Own Words:
---\floods, drought, disease, ignorance and scarcity. With endurance, I would have accepted them as my own fate, as something I cannot go against in this life.\
--- \child. Every day these images grow, and I know that one day I shall have to give birth to them through the medium of writing. Besides, I don't want people in our villages, so far removed from other peoples because of distance and poverty, to be born, suffer and to die in vain.\Step3. Text Appreciation
Structure of the text Part 1： The wife‘s speech
(para. 1- 3) The wife tells us briefly about each member of her family and how all her children left. (para. 4- 7 ) This part focuses on the changes that she finds she can‘t adjust to.
Part 2： The farmer‘s speech
(para. 8-11)The farmer tells us what he thinks are the roots of all evils. He also tells us what joys he finds in life and in farming
Ⅱ. How to appreciate literature 1.Plot of the text 2.Setting of the text
3.Protagonist（主人公） v.s. Antagonists? 4.Theme of the text 5.Style of text
III. Further discussion Step4. Writing devices
1.Simile：a simile is a brief comparison , usually introduced by the preposition ―like‖ or the conjunction ―as‖, and etc.
A simile consists of two parts: tenor and vehicle. The tenor is the primary subject; the vehicle is the thing to which the main subject is compared to. Examples: subject / tenor simile marker reference/ vehicle Records (fell) like ripe apples (on a windy day). The data processing (is as (slow) as a snail going on) 2.Metaphor：A metaphor is also a comparison. The difference is that a simile compares things explicitly--- that is , it states literally that X is like Y. A metaphor compares things implicitly. Read literally, it does not state that things are alike; it says that they are the same thing, that they are identical. subject / tenor reference/ vehicle Cape Cod (is the bared and bended) arm of (Massachusetts) He (is) a wolf (in sheep‘s clothing).