高中新教材英语外研版选择性必修第三册学案-2-A-life’s-work-Section-Ⅰ-Starting-out-&-Understanding-ideas-含解析.docx

Unit 2 A life’s work单元目标主题学习目标通过本单元的学习，了解不同的人、不同的工作的故事，加深学生对各种手艺的了解，培养学生对于尊重人一生工作、热爱工作的能力语言能力目标核心单词pose, grocery, store, fascination, fashion, uncomplicated, celebrity,anthropologist, trial, eraftsmanship. acclaim, shun, harsh, prosperous,precious, restoration, workplace, intricate, maximum, painstaking, melody, polish, bark, exaggeration, metaphor, nonetheless, preserve, apt, timeless,sedately, modest, esay, dominate, arehitecture, ambitious, associate, analysis, comprise重点词块back down, nothing more than, the cutting edge （of sth.）, think outside the bos, beak new ground, compare... to.., pay attention to, belong to, regardless of, focused on, pass away, by trial and error, contribute to, raise one’s awareness of, play a role in, dedieate to, regard... as..…date back to, range from... to..., wind up, come back to life, pass on... to..…, vary from... to...单元语法识别并正确运用表语从句（Predicative clauses）写作能力利用本单元所学的语言知识、技能和策略，能够写一篇语言简洁、结构清晰的说明文。

背景导学NEW YORK-Gordon Parks, who experienced the struggles and victories of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood’s first major black director with “The Learning Tree” and the hit “Shaft”, died Tuesday, his family said.Parks, who also wrote fiction and was a gifted composer, died at his home in New York, according to a former wife, and a nephew Charles Parks.“Nothing came easy,” Parks wrote in his autobiography（自传）.“I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness. ”He covered everything from fashion to politics to sports at Life from 1948 to 1968.But as a photographer, he was perhaps best known for his photo essays on the effects of poverty in the United States and abroad and on the spirit of the civil rights movement.He went through a series of jobs as a teen and young man, including the piano player and railroad dining car waiter. The breakthrough came when he was about 25, when he bought a used camera in a pawnshop （当铺） for ＄7.50. He became a freelance （自由职业的） fashion photographer, went on to Vogue magazine and then to Life in 1948.“Reflecting now, I realize that, even within the limits of my childhood vision, I was on a search for pride, meanwhile taking measurable glimpses of how certain blacks, who suffered from racism, were against it,” he wrote.When he accepted an award from Wichita State University in May 1991, he said it was “another step forward in my making peace with Kansas and Kansas making peace with me.”1.Which of the following jobs did Gordon Parks not do?A. A photographer.B. A director.C. A composer.D. A politician.答案：D2.What can you infer from the passage?A. Parks thought not everything was easy.B. Parks was later fond of exploring every person.C. Parks worked for Life for 20 years.D. Parks married only once.答案：CSection Ⅰ Starting out & Understanding ideas自主学习激发潜能见学用22页Ⅰ. 课文翻译教材原文Life Behind the LensA white-haired old man riding an ordinary bicycle around the streets of New York, always wearing the same blue worker’s jacket and simple black running shoes. If you saw him, you’d never think there was anything remarkable about him. And yet every member of New York’s wealthy high society wanted nothing more than to pose for this man.This ordinary-looking man was Bill Cunningham, one of the most important American photographers of the last 50 years.What made Cunningham so great? It certainly wasn’t the use of expensive, technologically-advanced equipment. Cunningham always used simple, relatively cheap cameras and took all his pictures on the streets of New York, not in a studio. Nor was it a wide range of contacts and connections. Although he always knew where fashionable parties and events were happening, Cunningham liked to photograph ordinary people in the poor Bronx as much as VIPs in rich Manhattan. He found inspiration where others could not, in simple, everyday scenes, such as a man buying oranges at the local grocery store, or a woman riding home on the graffiti-covered subway. These things were real, and it was within their reality that Cunningham saw both beauty and potential. Through his fascination with what people were wearing, and not who they were, he opened the doors of fashion to everyone-fashion as he saw it belonged to the people, not just to high society and big brands.Moreover, what made Cunningham great was his devotion to photography, and the hours and hours of sheer hard work he put into his work. Cunningham would go out onto the streets of New York each and every day, regardless of the weather. He would even stay outside in a storm, not coming back until he knew he had the right photos. He hardly ever took a day off and not once stayed home sick. This devotion and hard work is what we see reflected within his photos. This is what makes them so special.Although he was a world-famous fashion photographer, Cunningham’s appr。