WELCOME

TO MISS LI’S CLASS

Idiom stories:

1.The Guizhou Donkey Has Exhausted Its Tricks 2.Mao Sui Recommending Himself3.An Old Horse Knows The Way 4.Drawing A Snake and Adding Feet5.Putting The Finishing Touch to the Picture of A Dragon6.Beating the Grass and Flushing Out the snake

黔驴技穷

毛遂自荐 老马识途画蛇添足

画龙点睛

打草惊蛇

From Bad to Good to Bad to Good

Task 1:Skimming and answer the following questions.

1.Where and when did the story happen?

2.How many characters are mentioned in the story? What are they?

3.Which animal is mentioned in the story?

When

Where

Who

Animal

Ancient times

Northern China

Horse

A young farmer /his father

Neighbors&friends

Barbarians

Task2.Scanning and answer the following questions

1.How many times did the young farmer’s friendsand neighbors come to sympathize with him?

2.How many times did the young farmer’s father say “wait and see”?

---twice

---three times

Do you want to know WHY?

Task3.Detailed information:

One day… ran away /crossed…into…

a great blow to/sad

sympathize

Strangely cheerful

Bad fortune

Task3.Detailed information:

Several months later…

Came back,bringing…runningalongside

Admire…celebrate…good fortune

Shake his head…

Good fortune

Task3.Detailed information:

After that… Fell …broke his hip

sympathize

Looking happy

Bad fortune

Task3.Detailed information:

Before the month was over…Barbarians attacked frontier…abled-bodies men…Fight against…fighting …fierce…died

How about the young farmer?

Unfit for battle ----DISABLEDBe alive

Good fortune

Suppose you were the young farmer orhis father, please retell the story according to the key words and pictures

Retell the story

Task3.Detailed information:

One day… ran away /crossed…into…

a great blow to/sad

sympathize

Strangely cheerful

Bad fortune

Task3.Detailed information:

Several months later…

Came back,bringing…runningalongside

Admire…celebrate…good fortune

Shake his head…

Good fortune

Task3.Detailed information:

After that… Fell …broke his hip

sympathize

Looking happy

Bad fortune

Task3.Detailed information:

Before the month was over…Barbarians attacked frontier…abled-bodies men…Fight against…fighting …fierce…died

How about the young farmer?

Unfit for battle ----DISABLEDBe alive

Good fortune

Task4.Post reading

A. Main idea of each partPart1. lost a horse ---bad fortune

Part2. got two horses

---good fortune

Part3. fell from the horse and broke his hip

---bad fortune

Part4. keep alive from fighting ---good fortune

NOW do you know the meaning of the Title?

Task4.Post readingB.summary of the story.

rontierympathize

ortune

In a_____ times there lived in n______ China a young farmer who loved horses so much that it was a great b___to him when his favorite m___ran away and crossed the f_____ into the land of the b_______.People around him came to s_______ him except his father who considered that b______might come froma bad f_____.Several months later,the mare come back ,together with a h_______ stallion.So people gathered to admire it and c______ him.But his father disagreed with them.Then one day,an a_______ happened to the young farmer.He fell from the stallion and broke his h__.But this unfortunate fall from the horse left him u___ for a f____ battle with barbarians in which few soldiers survived.So this bad fortune made him be alive.

ncient orthern

low

arearbarians

lessing

andsome

elebrate

ccidentip

nfit ierce

Task4.Post readingC.Discussion1. Find the key words said by the young farmer’s father .

Who knows what blessing might come from this bad fortune? Who knows what bad thing might come of it?Who knows what blessing is on its way because of this accident.

Did his words prove to be right?What do you think of him?

He was open-minded/wise/optimistic/self-confident,etc.

---Every thing/coin has two sides.

GOOD BAD

2.What can you get from them?one sentence

Suppose a good fortune happens to you ,will you value it or just treat it as the young farmer,who just enjoyed the luxury of life ?Suppose a bad fortune happens to you,will you just feel sadand do nothing or just like the young farmer’s father “wait and see”but do nothing ?

I f….good, we’d better…I f….bad, we’d better…

What will you do?Give me an EXAMPLE

Task5.Homework

Please write a composition within 150words, you are required do as follows:

1. Summary of the story”from bad to good to bad to good”.

2. Your opinion about it.3. Offer an example to support it.

In the first paragraph the word “frontier”means____

A. Land near the line between two countriesB. The front fighting battle of a countryC. The front place of a countryD. The fields

His neighbors and friends came to sympathize with him,in other words,they came to ______

A. laugh at himB. look after himC. take pity on himD. give some advice

In paragraph two the word “blessing”has the closest meaning as_____

A. happinessB. disasterC. resultD. fortune

His father said darkly,because________

A.his face was blackB. he was dirtyC. it was late when he was said this sentence.D.he thought it was not good fortune and felt unhappy and serious

The fighting was fierce , which means _______

A. the war was excitingB. the war was cruelC. the war was violentD. all above