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课件网) Book 7 Unit 1 Looking forwards Developing ideas The ROad not taken 外研版2019 Look at the picture and share with us what you know of the man. Activity 1 Lead-in Robert Frost (1874-1963) Read the short introduction to Robert Frost and answer the question: What are the special features of Frost’s poetry Robert Frost (1874-1963) was one of America’s most famous poets. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his works. His poetry has been praised for its natural themes, mostly set in the rural areas of New England where Frost lived most of his life, and for his colloquial approach to American language. His poetry generally has a regular rhythm and rhyme, and is easy to read aloud and remember. He often used simple settings in his poems to explore complex personal and social themes. Among Frost’s best-known poems are The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and Birches(桦树). ① ③ ④ ② Activity 1 Lead-in /k l kwi l/ Have you read any poems written by Robert Frost Let’s watch a video and learn more about Robert Frost. Activity 1 Lead-in Let’s read the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and finish the summary of the poem.(Ex3 PartI) Activity 2 Reading a poem A traveler in the wood comes to a fork in the road and he feels sorry for 1_____. After close observation, he decides to choose the one which 2_____, though 3_____. He tells himself that 4_____ some day, but he doubts 5_____ . He imagines that, many years in the future, he will tell this story with a sigh, saying that his choice has 6_____. being unable to take both roads is grassy and wants wear the passing there has worn the two roads really about the same he will take the other road if he should ever come back made all the difference Let’s reread the poem, better understand it and underline the rhyming words. Activity 2 Reading a poem Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same， v. extend in a different direction /da v d / n. small trees and bushes growing under taller trees in a wood n. statement of sth as a fact n. (damage or loss of quality caused by) use And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sign Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. / tr dn/ tread--trod--trod/trodden v. put one's foot when walking; step adv. from this time Rhyming words ... ...
