原版阅读 -- 风语河岸柳3
已经读到了第六章了。孩子们读着读着也找到感觉了。
开始留心文中的文学修辞手法:
比如 Simile (明喻):
....and your feet dragging like lead...
....self-indulgent begger you seem to be...
Alliteration(头韵):
...rested on familiar and friendly things.....
...when his violent paroxysmspossessed him....
...brain against brute force - and brain came out on top....
Parallelism(排比):
As if in a dream he found himself, somehow, seated in thedriver's seat; as if in a dream, hepulled the level and swung the car round the yard and out throughthe archway; and, as if in a dream,all senses of right and wrong, all fear of obvious consequences,seemed tempprarily suspended.
我让孩子们准备一个本子,把见到的文学修辞方法抄下来,有意识的慢慢积累。
第六章里,Toad先骗了Badger,又骗了Rat,从家里逃出去。孩子们讨论:
- 我们可不可以认为Badger和Rat"gullible"?(读过“夏洛的网”的,应该对这个词印象深刻)
- 还讨论了Rat的20年监禁是 justified 还是 unfairlygiven。孩子们的观点可以不同,这种讨论的目的是,无论你持什么观点,都必须从原文中找出论证你的观点的词句,段落。这是一个很重要,也很需要锻炼的阅读能力。
另外,我们也留心 descriptive writing片段。比如第五章里,描写Mole的小窝,Mole 用的词(cheerless, deserted, long-neglected,narrow, shabby, meager, worn) 和Rat用的词 (capital, well planned)是不一样的,Mole一开始心情沮丧时看到他自己的家的感觉和他后来心情转变后看到的家感觉 (familiar and friendly,so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for thesame simple welcome)也是不一样的。