Lesson 21 The Fable of the Woodcutter教学实录

Lesson 21:

The Fable of the Woodcutter

●Key points and difficult points:

1.

Catch the words: fable，woodcutter，axe，

dive，

admit，

Silver, policy; Be able to use the important phrases and

sentences correctly;Master the way to use the past

continuous tense.

the woodcutter.

2.

Learn about fables and learn the spirit of honesty from

一、Find the phrases and write them down:

1.get

back

回来;找回

2.make

one’s

living

谋生

3.sit

down

坐下来

4.a

third

time

又一次

5.跳入……中;潜入

dive

into...

6.向……承认

admit

to...

7.为……感到难过

feel

sorry

for...

8.对……感到满意

be

happy

with

二、Translate the sentences into English:

1.一天,当他正在湖边砍伐木头时,斧头掉到水里了。

One day, when he was cutting wood beside a lake, he lost

his axe in the water.

2.他只有一把斧子,他需要它谋生。

He had only one axe, and he needed it to make his living.

3.因为他很诚实,他向精灵承认它不是他的斧子。

Because he was honest, he admitted to the spirit that it

wasn’t his axe.

4.精灵又一次下去,带回伐木工的斧头。

The spirit went down a third time and returned with the

woodcutter’s old axe.

5.诚为上策。

Honesty truly is the best policy.

三、Think and answer:

1.文中提到伐木工为什么哭?

Because he lost his axe in the water. He could not get his

axe back.

2.最后谁帮助他从水里取回他的斧头?

A spirit.

3.

Through the sentence “One day, when he was cutting

三、Make up a sentence with “was/were doing”:

wood beside a lake, he

lost his axe in the water.”

We

have learned the use of the past continuous tense,we

mustbe able to do problems with it. He was watching TV when I came home yesterday evening.

Activity 1: 1.

Do Exercise One: Read the lesson and answer the

questions.Then work in pairs like this:

A:What happened to the woodcutter?

B:He lost his axe in the water. A:Why didn’t he get his axe back?

B:Because the water is deep. ... 2.Exercise Two: Read the lesson again. Think about the spirit and the woodcutter. Match each person with the words that describe them. Then describe the two like this: Woodcutter was poor. He needed his axe to make his living. He was an honest man. He only wanted to get back his old axe... Activity 2: 1.Exercise Three:Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words or phrases in the box.

2.Work in groups to learn more about fables.You can finish a fable like the following: We walked along under that silver moon. The old man makes his living by selling vegetables. ... Activity 3: Exercise Four:Work in groups to learn more about fables. You can do one of the following task:

Find the rest of the fables on the Internet.Aci it out. Find another fable and act it out.You can search on the Internet or look in books.Don’t forget to find the moral in your fable. Grammar: ●One day,

when he was cutting wood beside a lake,

he lost his axe in the water.

一天,当他正在湖边砍伐木头时,斧头掉到水里。

本句中的when引导的时间状语从句使用的是过去进行时态。

过去进行时态表示在过去某时刻或某一阶段正在发生的动作。

常用的时间状语有at nine last night, at that time, this time of yesterday, when/while引导的时间状语从句,等等。其构成是“主语+was/were+v-ing”

Exercises: (D)1.I

at home at seven yesterday evening.

A.wrote

B.am writing

C.write

D.was writing (B)2.Jenny

in the kitchen when you called her at 5 o’clock this afternoon. A.is cooking

B.was cooking

C.cooks

D.cooked ●Because he was honest, he admitted to the spirit that it wasn’t his axe.

因为他很诚实,他向精灵承认它不是他的斧子。

本句中的

“admit to sb. +that”引导的从句表示“向某人承

认……”

admit一般为及物动词,直接跟宾语;表示向某人承认用介词to; admit doing sth. = admit having done sth.表示“承认做过某事”。

Exercises: (B)1.I admitted

the window.

A.break

B.breaking

C.to break

D.broken (C)2.He admitted

the teacher that he wrong.

A.with

B.of

C.to

D.in

was