traditional virtues: hard work, simple living, discipline, and above all, a strong
sense of responsibility, responsibility for the happiness of your wife/husband,
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spring planting of a newly-wedded couple against the backraditional agricultural country.
3. In Ireland at that time, most people still depend on farming for a living, and the
happiness of your wife/husband, parent, and children.
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In the Classroom or Language Laboratory English-speaking Environment
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课堂讲授（√ ）； 实验（ ）； 实践（ ）；双语（ ） 课时分配
bears the same title published in 1924. The story describes the first day of the first spring planting of a newly-wedded couple against the backgrounds of a traditional agricultural country. 2. In Ireland at that time, most people still depend on farming for a living, and the main crop was the potato. Modern science and technology had not yet caught up with the land. There was little machinery. Practically everything was still done by hand. A typical farmer believed in traditional virtues: hard work, simple living, discipline, and above all, a strong sense of responsibility, responsibility for the happiness of your wife/husband, parent, and children. Part Two Detailed Discussion of the Text 1. What the author describes here, of course, is largely a thing of the past. The story describes the first day of the first spring planting of a newly-wedded couple against the backgrounds of a traditional agricultural country. 2. In Ireland at that time, most people still depend on farming for a living, and the main crop was the potato. Modern science and technology had not yet caught up with the land. There was little machinery. Practically everything was still done by hand. A typical farmer believed in traditional virtues: hard work, simple living, discipline, and above all, a strong sense of responsibility, responsibility for the happiness of your wife/husband, parent, and children. 3. In spite of their almost primitive living and working conditions, however, they also had their joys and love, and their longings for the future as does the newly-married couple described here. For Mary and Martin Delaney, this was an extremely important day, because it not only would determine the crop they would harvest in autumn, but would also show what kind of wife and husband they would prove to be each other and what kind of family they were going to have. 4. Detailed Discussion of the Text (see Reference Book)
hand. A typical farmer believed in traditional virtues: hard work, simple living,
discipline, and above all, a strong sense of responsibility, responsibility for the
which must have had very big influence on his character as well as on his writing.
He once said: “I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of
sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men’s bones.”
教 2. “Spring Sowing” is taken from the author’s first collection of short stories which
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bears the same title published in 1924. The story describes the first day of the first
parent, and children.
1. Liam O’Flaherty is considered one of the most important modern Anglo-Irish
authors together with James Joyce. He was born in 1896 on an island in Ireland,
(3) to imagine that sth is true
2. compare (1) (~ with) to examine in order to note the similarities or differences of
(2) (~ to) to represent as equal, similar, or analogous
12 节
Teaching and Practice
教学手段
网络教学（ ）； 多媒体（√ ）
Tape-Recorder, Pictures of peasants’ working in the field
教学内容提要
备注
Lesson Seven Spring Sowing
Part One: Introduction to the Text 1. “Spring Sowing” is taken from the author’s first collection of short stories which
5. Part Five: More work on the Text.
1. The emphasis in teaching should be on content and clear presentation.
2. Emphasize the importance of understanding the values and moral principles of
(3) (~ with) to be worthy of comparison; to be considered as similar
3. burst (1) to break open or apart suddenly or violently
(2) to be bursting with: to be full of
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3. Part Three: Vocabulary — pretend, compare, burst, dot, rebel
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4. Part Four : Grammar — Sentence analysis
的
Some uses of “as”
要
Absolute construction
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Tenses & verb forms
main crop was the potato. Modern science and technology had not yet caught up