Unit 2

Demeter and Persephone

Deborah Soong

Teaching Activities Index

Teaching Activities1st period 1. Warm-up

2. The Vocabulary, and Idioms & Phrases within Paragraphs 1-4

3. Reading – Paragraphs 1-42nd period 1.

The Vocabulary, and Idioms & Phrases within Paragraphs 5-8

2. Reading – Paragraphs 5-83. Post-reading

3rd period 1. Word File2. Sentence Patterns3. Expansion4. Writing Practice

4th period Part II Oral & Listening~Unit 2

Warm-up

VocabularyIdioms & Phrases

Reading~Paragraphs 1-4

Listen to paragraphs 1-4.

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Now,answer the following questions.

Where did the story happen?

Greece.

Who are the three main characters?

Demeter, Hades,and Persephone.

Reading

People have always tried to understand why certain things happen. In early times, people lacked the knowledge to give scientific answers.

times 時代；時勢，年頭 ( 常作複數 )• in Napoleon’s times• in those difficult times• in these times• move with the times• We have hard times ahead of us.

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People have always tried to understand why certain things happen. In early times, people lacked the knowledge to give scientific answers.

原句 =→ In ancient times, people did not hav

e enough of the knowledge for many questions about the world around them/to explain in a scientific way why certain things happened in the world.

They, therefore, explained natural events by stories about gods and goddesses. Such stories are known as myths. The following Greek myth explains why it gets cold in the winter and warm in the restof the year.

原句 =→ Therefore, they explained natural events in terms of stories about gods and goddesses.

Demeter was the goddess of the harvest, the gathering of ripe fruits and vegetables. People lovedDemeter because she was kind and generous and gave them plenty of food.

the gathering of ripe fruits and vegetables 為 harvest 的同位語。 plenty of = a lot of; much/many; a great deal of; a large amount/quantity/number of　‧There are plenty of books and magazines in the library.‧We had plenty of rain last year.

It was because of her that cropsgrew in the fields and the earth was green.

原句 = → Because of her, crops grew in the fields, and the earth was green. 此句為分裂句，強調副詞片語的重要性。

Demeter had a daughter, called Persephone, whom she loved very much.

此為關係子句省略關係代名詞和助動詞後的分詞構句 。

非限定用法中，受格關係代名詞不能省略。‧Jack introduced me to the lady, whom I hadn’t met before.‧Tom, with whom I play basketball on Sundays, is taller than me.

—as she was to everyone she met—= —(as friendly) as she was to everyone that she met—此處用破折號 (dash) 來插入補述句 .

One day, when Hades, the god of the underworld, was riding his chariot over the earth, he saw Persephone. She was so beautiful and friendly—as she was to everyone she met—that he fell in love with her right there.

He asked her to marry him and come to his kingdom in the underworld and be his queen. However, Persephone loved her mother and the beautiful earth shelived on, so she didn’t want to go with him to the underworld.

原句 =→ the beautiful earth which she lived on....→ the beautiful earth on which/where she lived....

He wanted her to be with him, so he swooped her into his chariot and carried her down into the underworld. Persephone was scared and very unhappy. The underworld was dark and shadowy, like a great cave that went on forever.

原句 =→ The underworld was dim and gloo

my, like a huge endless/bottomless cave.

Hades didn’t care.

Oh, how Persephone longed to be with her mother and run across the bright green fields!

感嘆句 How + S + V !• How I wish to see him again!

原句 =→ how Persephone was longing/eager to stay with her mother

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