Section A
1a-2d
To learn the story
Yu Gong Moves a
Mountain.
To learn new words:
shoot, stone,
weak, god, remind, bit, silly…
To learn how to tell stories.
Objectives
Do you like to listen to stories?
Have you ever heard of these stories?
J
ing Wei
Determines to Fill
up the Sea
Kua Fu
Chases
the Sun
Hou Yi Shoots the
Suns
Have you ever heard of these
stories? Can you tell them to your
partners?
Nu Wa Repairs the
Sky
Chang E Flies
to
the Moon
Have you ever heard of these
stories? Can you tell them to your
partners?
Yu Gong Moves a
Mountain
shoot
stone
weak
god
remind
bit
a little bit
silly
instead of
v.
射击；发射
n.
石头
adj.
虚弱的；无力的
n.
神；上帝
v.
提醒；使想起
n.
一点；小块
有点儿；稍微
adj.
愚蠢的；不明事理的
代替；反而
Words & expressions
Look at the four
pictures
b
d
a
c
Match the story titles with the
pictures
[a-d].
______ Journey to the West
______ Yu Gong Moves a
Mountain
______ Hou Yi Shoots the Suns
______ Nu Wa Repairs the Sky
b
d
a
c
1
a
Do you know this
story?
Listen and check (✓) the facts you hear.
Which story are Anna and Wang Ming
talking about?
___The two mountains were very high
and big.
___ A very old man tried to move the
mountains.
___ A man told Yu Gong that he could
never
do it.
✓
✓
1
b
Discuss the questions with your
partner.
1. How does the story begin?
2. What happened next?
3. Where would they put all the earth
and stones from the mountains?
1
c
Listen and number the pictures [1-4] in
order to tell the story.
1
2
3
4
2
a
Listen again and circle the words you
hear.
1. A man saw Yu Gong and his (children /
family)
when they were working on moving the
mountains.
2. He told Yu Gong he could never do it
because he
was old and (poor / weak).
3. As soon as the man finished (talking /
speaking),
Yu Gong said that his family could
continue to
move the mountains after he died.
2
b
4. Finally, a god was so moved by Yu
Gong that
he sent (two / three) gods to take the
mountains
away.
5. This story reminds us that you can
never
(know / see) what’s possible unless
you try to
make it happen.
Look at the pictures in 2a and tell the
story in your own words.
Once upon a time, there was a man
called(
叫做
) Yu Gong
. He wanted to
move two high and big mountains
…
2
c
How to
tell a story
How does the story begin?
Why was that?
structures
What happened
(next
、
at last)?
Who is the main
character?
Role-play the conversation.
Teacher: So
what do you think about
the story
of
Yu Gong?
Wang Ming:
I think it’s really interesting.
Yu Gong
found a good way to solve
his problem.
Claudia: Really?
I think
it’s a little bit
silly. It
doesn’t seem very possible
to move a
mountain.
2
d
Wang Ming: But the story is trying to show
us that
anything is possible if you
work hard!
Yu Gong kept trying and
didn’t
give up.
Claudia: Well, I still don’t
agree with
you. I
think we should try to find
other ways
to solve a problem.
Wang Ming: But what could Yu Gong do
instead of
moving the mountains?
Claudia: Well, there are many other ways.
For
example, he could build a road.
That’s
better and faster than moving
a
mountain!
Teacher: You have different opinions
about the
story, and
neither of
you are
wrong.
There are many sides to a
story and
many ways to understand it.
Interview
Suppose you’re a reporter. You can ask
your partner some questions about the
story. Then have a report.
The questions you can use:
Who’s the main character in the story?
How old is him/her?
What did he/she do?
What do you think of his/her activity?
You can have a report like this
：
This is a story about *** . He …. But I
don’t agree with him. I think we
should…
This story
reminds
us
that
you can never
know what’s possible unless you try to
make it happen.
remind
意为
“
提醒；使想起
”
。
remind sb of/about sb/sth
意为
“
使
(
某人
)
想起
(
相似的人或物
)”
。
remind sb. to do
提醒某人做某事
remind sb. + that/what
从句
Language points
我想让你想一想学校的纪律。
I want to
remind
you
of
the school rules.
请提醒我寄信。
Please
remind
me
to post
the letter.
你能提醒一下他咱们的会议取消了吗？
Would you please
remind him that
our
meeting has been put off?
提醒她明天上午早点来。
Remind her to come
earlier tomorrow
morning.
I think it’s
a little bit
silly
.
a little bit
有点儿；稍微
例：往这边挪一挪。
Move over this way
a little bit
.
对我来说，这本书有点难。
This book is
a little bit
difficult for
me.
silly
愚蠢的；不明事理的
你太傻了，这么大的太阳，不戴帽子就出去
了。
It was
silly
of you to go out in the sun
without a hat.
在这个问题上他们相当愚蠢。
They’re quite
silly
on this subject.
… and
neither of
you are wrong.
neither
两者都不
，
谓语动词用第三人称单
数
Neither
of
them
likes
football.
他们俩都不喜欢足球。
Neither of
them
has
a job now.
他们俩目前都没有工作。
But what could Yu Gong do
instead of
moving the mountains?
instead of
介词短语
“
代替；反而
”
，后面
接名词，代词，动名词等。
你替我赴宴好吗
?
Will you go to the party instead of
me
?
我们去上生物课而不去上英语课。
We went to the Biology class instead of
attending
the English lesson.
remind sb. of sb. / sth.
使某人
想起
remind sb. to do sth.
提醒某人做
某事
a little bit
有点儿；稍微
silly
愚蠢的；不明事理
的
neither of
两者都不
instead of
代替；反而
Summary
walk _______
live ______
pick _______
stop ________
watch ________
push _______
notice _________
hurry
__________
I.
写出下列动词的过去式。
walked
lived
picked
stoppe
d
watche
d
pushe
d
notice
d
hurried
Exercises
1. She was _____________ (
有点儿
) frightened.
2. Life was harder then because n_________ of us
had a job.
3. I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten your name. Can you
_______ me?
4. She was too w______ to stand.
5. Don’t make a move or I’ll
________ (
开枪
).
6. How can you explain such a ________ (
愚蠢的
)
remark?
II.
根据提示完成句子。
a little bit
either
remind
eak
shoot
silly
III.
翻译下列句子。
1.
你为什么不参加踢足球而只是看热闹？
2.
我的两个哥哥都不能来晚会了。
3.
提醒他打电话给我。
Why don’t you play football instead
of just looking on?
Neither of my brothers could come to
the party.
Remind him to call
me.
Snow White ________(walk) in the forest and
_______(pick) some flowers. Soon she ____
(be)
lost. She ______(look) around her. Then she
_______(notice) a little house. She _______
(hurry) to the
house. She ________(knock) on the door. It_
___(be)
open. She ______ (look) and ________
(listen).
IV.
用所给词的适当形式填空。
walked
picked
was
looked
noticed
hurried
knocked
was
looked
listened
There ____ (be) no one there, so she
_______ (enter)
the house. Snow White_______ (look)
into a small room. On a table she _______
(count) three bowls. But she didn’t ______
(like)
the big bowls. She _________
(finish) all the food
in the little bowl.
entered
looked
counted
like
finished
was
It’s
not good for you to smoke so much,
you’d better ________.
A
.
give up it
B
.
give them up
C
.
give
it up
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C
They’ll
succeed in working out the
problem because they never ________.
A
.
wake up
B
.
give up
C
.
look up
D
.
make up
B
Homework
Practice with your classmates to
tell more interesting stories. Then
role-play
them.
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