Unit 5 Literature：the dream keeper

Unit 5 Literature：the dream keeperSection oneStep I. Greeting and speech timeLet one of the Ss give his/her speech in the front of class.Step II. Go over the new words.1. Listening to the tape of vocabulary and let the Ss read following it twice.2. Have a dictation to the following words.important ones: whisper, literature, eagle, feather, swan, beauty, muddy, peace, sharp, familiar, identity, somehow, press, bite, expectation, statement, content, entire, respond, material, challenge, vocabularyStep III. Pre-reading1. Read through the whole text and let them do the following simple questions 伴读 P72 Answer the following questions.A. Why did the girl walk into the forest one day?B. What is the purpose of the eagle?C. What is the purpose of the hawk?D. What is the purpose of the hummingbird?E. What is the purpose of the swan?F. Did the girl find her dreams?G. What was the dream of the girl?2. Help the students identify the theme in this story.Read the text more carefully and then answer the following questions.1) What is the underlying idea?2) What is the story trying to tell us?3) What is the symbolic meaning?4) What do the characters or the evens in the story stand for in the real world?Possible answers:1) a difficult journey2) persistence3) patience4) Identifying one’s purpose in life and finding yourself and who your are.Step IV. Language points1. Deep into the forest2. There is no hesitation in their flight. (There is no hesitation…)3. fly away/ fly by /fly over4. still 的各种含以及用法5. from + 介词短语 ：from within her heartSection TwoStep I. Build your comprehension1. Ask the Ss to do brain-storm: what can you see in the forest?What can you hear in the forest?What can you feel in ...