1. An old man tried to move the mountains.
Unit 6
An old man tried to move the mountains.
Section B 2a-2e
八年级(下)

2. Objectives
To learn about Hansel and Gretel.
To learn some new words: wife, husband, whole, shine, bright, ground, lead, voice, brave…

3. 2a A fairy tale is an old, traditional story
2a A fairy tale is an old, traditional story. Do you know what these fairy tales are about?
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella
Little Red Riding Hood

4. A fairy tale is an old, traditional story.
Do you know what these fairy tales are
about. (2a)
Little Red Riding Hood
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella

5. Sleeping Beauty is about a princess who falls asleep for a long time under a spell by a wicked fairy. She is awakened by a prince’s kiss years later.

6. Cinderella is about a young woman who is bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters. Using magic, her fairy godmother gives her a beautiful dress and a carriage to attend a ball at the palace, but she must return home by midnight before the magic ends.

7. Cinderella meets a handsome prince but has to leave the ball in a hurry and she loses a glass slipper. The prince finds it and tells everyone he will marry the person to whom the slipper belongs. The stepsisters each try on the slipper but it does not fit them. Cinderella tries on the slipper and it fits. She marries the prince and they live happily ever after.

8. Little Red Riding Hood is
about a young girl who
meets with danger when
she meets a big, bad wolf.
While she is on her way to
visit her grandmother, the wolf dresses up and pretends to be her grandmother waiting in her bed. The wolf hopes to catch and eat Little Red Riding Hood. She is saved by a woodcutter who kills the wolf.

10. 2b Read the first paragraph of Hansel and Gretel
2b Read the first paragraph of Hansel and Gretel. Think about how the fairy tale will continue. Then read the rest of the story.
Finding Out the Text Type
Before you read, decide what kind of text it is. Is it a letter, a play, a short story or something else?

11. Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel lived near a forest with their father and stepmother. One year, the weather was so dry that no food would grow. The wife told her husband that unless he left the children to die in the forest, the whole family would die. Gretel heard this, and Hansel made a plan to save himself and his sister.

12. G
SCENE ONE：______________________
Gretel: Did you hear our stepmother
planning to kill us?
Hansel: Don’t worry! I have a plan to save us.
Gretel: How can you save us?
Hansel: Be quiet! I’m going outside to get
something in the moonlight. Now, go
to sleep.

13. B
SCENE TWO：______________________
Wife: Get up, lazy children!
Husband: Yes, dears. You must come with
me to the forest to get wood.
Wife: Here’s some bread. Don’t eat it
until you get to the forest.

14. SCENE THREE_____________________
Gretel: Hansel, what are you doing?
Hansel: I’m dropping white stones along the
way. Unless I do, we’ll be lost.
Tonight, when the moon is shining
bright, we’ll be able to see the stones. D

15. SCENE FOUR_____________________
Wife: You bad children! What a long
time you slept in the forest!
Husband: We thought you were never
coming back.
Wife: Now, go to bed. As soon as you
wake up, you must go to the forest
with your father.
Hansel: What, again? I want to go out to
look at the moon.
Wife: No. You can’t go out now. E

16. SCENE FIVE:________________________
Gretel: What can we do? You have no more
stones.
Hansel: I’ll drop pieces of bread. As soon as
the moon rises, we can follow them
instead. F
SCENE SIX: ___________________
Gretel: I can’t see any bread on the ground.
Maybe it was the birds.
Hansel: Never mind! Just keep walking. Unless
we do, we won’t find our way out. C

17. SCENE SEVEN：________________________
Gretel: Hansel, we’re really lost!
Hansel: Listen! That bird’s song is so beautiful
that we should follow it.
Gretel: Look! It’s leading us to that wonderful
house made of bread, cake and candy.
Hansel: Let’s eat part of the house!
(Then they hear an old woman’s voice from
inside the house.) Voice: Who is that? Who is
brave enough to eat my house? A

18. 2c Match each description below with the correct scene.
. The children get lost.
. The children wake up.
. The children cannot find the pieces of bread.
. Gretel learns about Hansel's plan.
. The children surprise the parents.
. Hansel has to change his plan.
. The children learn that something bad is
going to happen.

19. 2d Read the play again and answer the questions.
1. Why does the wife tell her husband to leave
the children in the forest?
2. What does Hansel go out to get?
3. Why does he do this in the moonlight?
4. How do Hansel and Gretel find their way
home?
5. Why do Hansel and Gretel get lost the
second time?

20. 1. Why does the wife tell her husband to leave
the children in the forest?
Because that year, the weather was so dry
that no food would grow. And the family
had little to eat.
2. What does Hansel go out to get?
White stones.
3. Why does he do this in the moonlight?
Because when the moon is shining bright,
the stones will be white and bright enough.

21. 4. How do Hansel and Gretel find their way
home?
They left some stones on the way. When the
moon is shining bright, the stones will be
bright enough to find the way home.
5. Why do Hansel and Gretel get lost the
second time?
They left some bread on the way. And the
bread was gone.

22. Group work
Act out the play in groups of four. (2e)

23. Language points

24. 1. Did you hear our stepmother planning to kill us?
hear sb. doing sth.表示“听到某人正在做某事”。
Practise
他昨晚正要上床睡觉的时候听见有人在外面大叫。
He heard someone shouting outside while he was going to bed last night.

25. hear sb. do sth.表示“听到某人做了某事”。
Practise
我们昨晚听到那个女孩在隔壁房唱歌了。
We heard the girl sing in the next room last night.
我听到他关掉电视。
I heard him turn off the TV.

26. 2. What a long time you slept in the forest!
感叹句通常由what和how引导，表示赞美、惊叹、喜悦等感情。what修饰名词，how修饰形容词或副词。
Practise
多么聪明的一个女孩！
What a clever girl she is!
= How clever the girl is!
多么惊人的成绩！
What an amazing achievement!

27. 感叹句的语序：
how和what与被修饰词放在句首，其它部分用陈述句语序。
(1) How＋形容词(副词)＋主语＋谓语！
How作状语，修饰形容词或副词。
这箱子多重啊！
How heavy the box is！
他跑得多快啊！
How fast he runs!

28. (2) What＋名词＋主语＋谓语！
多大的一个盒子啊！
What a big box it is!
多美的画呀！
What beautiful pictures they are!
(3)在口语中，感叹句中的主语和谓语经常略去不说。
How hot (it is)! 好热啊！
What a question!问得多妙！

29. 3. It’s leading us to that wonderful house made of bread, cake and candy.
lead to “把…带到;领到;（道路）通向;导致”。
Practise
你的粗心会导致严重的后果。
Your carelessness can lead to serious consequences.
这条街通向超级市场。
The street leads to the supermarket.

30. Review
课时重点回顾
hear sb. doing sth.
hear sb. do sth.
lead to…
What引导的感叹句的用法。

31. Spelling Bee Now 2 means to test your spelling. 1. English-Chinese
stepmother, wife, husband, scene,
moonlight, ground, voice
2. Chinese-English
全部的；发光；光亮地；带路；勇敢的
When finished, exchange your papers to see who does the best.

33. 一、根据提示完成句子。
1. An earthquake sometimes destroys the_____ (整个的) city.
2. Stars s_____ brightest in the long dark night of winter.
3. He was so ______ (勇敢的) that he saved the little girl from the river.
4. He described the _____ (场景) to me.
5. He took Lily by the hand to ____ (带领) her into the house.
whole
hine
brave
scene
lead

34. 二、翻译下列句子。
1. 有一年，天气太干燥了，寸草不生。
2. Hansel制定了一个计划来拯救自己和
他的妹妹。
One year, the weather was so dry that no food would grow.
Hansel made a plan to save himself and his sister.

35. 3. 他们一直走着，直到看到了面包做的房子。
4. 妻子告诉他的丈夫，除非把孩子们留在森林里饿死，否则全家人都会死。
The kept walking until they saw a house made of bread.
The wife told her husband that unless he left the children to die in the forest, the whole family would die.

36. 5. 你听到我们的继母正打算杀我们吗？
6. 这是面包。你们到了森林里才能吃。
7. 花香引领他们来到一座奇妙的房子前。
Did you hear our stepmother planning
to kill us?
Here’s some bread. Don’t eat it until
you get to the forest.
The smell of flowers leads them to a wonderful house.

37. 8. 我一进门，露西就高兴地哭了起来。
9. 她是一个多么好的女孩啊！
10. 鸟唱的那么美，我们应该跟着它。
As soon as I went in, Lucy cried with pleasure.
What a good girl she is!
That bird’s song is so beautiful that
we should follow it.

38. Homework
Try to retell the fairy
tale Hansel and Gretel.

39. Thank You!