廣東 王君華
針對讀后續(xù)寫這一綜合題型,情感描寫的微技能培養(yǎng)一直是教學(xué)的重難點(diǎn)。正所謂,讀書破萬卷,下筆如有神。所以筆者嘗試在教學(xué)中,緊密結(jié)合名著導(dǎo)讀,通過以讀帶寫的方式,引導(dǎo)學(xué)生鑒賞經(jīng)典作品,從而學(xué)習(xí)潤色句子。本文通過解析近年來高考英語真題中對“眼睛”的描寫,展示名著《秘密花園》(The Secret Garden)和《傲慢與偏見》(Pride and Prejudice)中對“眼睛”的經(jīng)典刻畫,探索文本亮點(diǎn),歸納句式特點(diǎn),提煉寫作微技能。
1.教學(xué)重難點(diǎn):掌握刻畫眼睛的三個常用方式,包括經(jīng)典句式和??荚~匯:(1)shining/sparkling/twinkling/glittering eyes(2)eyes sparkle/shine/twinkle/glitter with excitement/pleasure/delight/determination(3)too terrified/scared to open one’s eyes,with eyes wide open。
2.筆者展示青春偶像鞠婧祎的照片,請學(xué)生描述她的美貌??深A(yù)知的學(xué)生答案:She is beautiful.此類描述在讀后續(xù)寫中屬于to tell 而非to show 的方式,表達(dá)太寬泛,人物描寫也不夠生動,難以讓人產(chǎn)生畫面感。筆者展示英語歌曲Just the Way You Are 中的歌詞“Her eyes,her eyes make the stars look like they are not shining.Her hair,her hair falls perfectly without her trying.She’s so beautiful.”。歌曲先刻畫閃亮的眼睛和完美的秀發(fā)等細(xì)節(jié),使人物形象躍然紙上,最后的“She’s so beautiful.”就顯得自然有力。而shining 一詞,既可以修飾stars,也可以通過比喻來修飾eyes,閃亮靈動的眼睛,給讀者留下深刻的印象。
筆者通過解析三篇高考讀后續(xù)寫真題,結(jié)合經(jīng)典英語作品,歸納展示描寫眼睛的地道表達(dá)。
【例1】(2020 年1 月浙江卷,讀后續(xù)寫)Para 1:Dad opened the box and a sweet little dog appeared.It has shining/______________________ dark eyes.
筆者直接設(shè)計(jì)補(bǔ)全句子的練習(xí),引導(dǎo)學(xué)生思考小狗眼睛的特點(diǎn)和尋找刻畫小狗眼睛的突破口。然后筆者運(yùn)用歸納法進(jìn)行教學(xué),展示儲備材料,引導(dǎo)學(xué)生探索亮點(diǎn)詞匯:(1)童謠 Twinkle,Twinkle,Little Star 中的歌詞“Twinkle,twinkle,little star.How I wonder what your are.”;(2)經(jīng)典名著《威尼斯商人》The Merchant of Venice 中的名句“All thatglittersis not gold.”;(3)經(jīng)典名著《傲慢與偏見》里對班納特太太眼睛的刻畫“Mrs.Bennet’s eyessparkled.‘A gentleman and a stranger! It is Mr.Bingley.’”。通過對語境和語義的解讀可知,其中的動詞twinkle,glitter 和sparkle 都是shine 的同義詞。再結(jié)合范例詞shining 的形式變化,學(xué)生不難總結(jié)出twinkling/glittering/sparkling 都可修飾eyes,意為“閃亮的”。類似的“發(fā)光”詞,表面上刻畫了眼睛的狀態(tài),實(shí)際上折射出角色的心靈。
【例2】(2017 年11 月浙江卷,讀后續(xù)寫)Para 1:The next day we remembered the brand-new tent we had brought with us.
同上,筆者設(shè)計(jì)補(bǔ)全句子的練習(xí),引導(dǎo)學(xué)生思考人物的情緒,并直接利用上例中的關(guān)鍵詞twinkle,通過同詞復(fù)現(xiàn)的方式,增強(qiáng)學(xué)習(xí)的連貫性?!癢hy not just make full use of the tent and go camping?”asked Dad.We winked at Mom,finding her eyes twinkling ___________________.同上例,筆者運(yùn)用歸納法,展示儲備材料,引導(dǎo)學(xué)生探索亮點(diǎn)詞匯:經(jīng)典名著《傲慢與偏見》里對班納特太太眼睛的刻畫“Mrs.Bennet’s eyessparkled with pleasure,and she was eagerly calling out,while her daughter read the letter from the gentleman.”。通過對語境和語義的解讀可知,sparkle 可作為謂語動詞來刻畫眼睛的動態(tài),再利用with 加名詞(如excitement,pleasure,delight,determination)的復(fù)合結(jié)構(gòu)來描寫情緒狀態(tài)。所以,結(jié)合考題中的結(jié)構(gòu)和語境可知,設(shè)空處可填 with excitement/eagerness 等。在例1 的“發(fā)光”詞匯的基礎(chǔ)上,例2 的結(jié)構(gòu)加上with 復(fù)合結(jié)構(gòu)中具體的情緒詞,人物的內(nèi)心活動就被展示得淋漓盡致。
小結(jié)前兩例中的“發(fā)光”詞匯可知,該類詞匯適用于積極正面的語境,如例1 中展示對小狗的喜愛。而例3 將為學(xué)生展示對消極負(fù)面情緒下的眼睛的刻畫。
【例3】(2017 年6 月浙江卷,讀后續(xù)寫) ...As they got closer,they realized that the dog was a wolf.Mac heard a large vehicle behind him.He pulled in front of it as the wolf was catching up fast,just a dozen yards away now.
分析語境可知,這段話并沒有傳遞出對wolf 的喜愛或者期待,所以上例中的詞匯并不是最優(yōu)選擇。筆者也借此提醒學(xué)生,沒有萬能的詞匯,只有合適的語境。這個故事中傳遞出來的“害怕”,將在以下兩個句子中得到體現(xiàn)。
(1) Mac was too terrified to ___________________.
(2) Suddenly,Mac let out a scream of terror with eyes____________.The wolf was almost catching up!
句(1)中的too...to 結(jié)構(gòu)淺顯易懂,根據(jù)語境學(xué)生不難得出答案open his eyes。通過too...to 結(jié)構(gòu)強(qiáng)化其中的情感詞,加上open 這一動作,動靜結(jié)合,使描寫更生動自然。句(2)同上例,筆者運(yùn)用歸納法,展示儲備材料,引導(dǎo)學(xué)生探索亮點(diǎn)詞匯:With my eyes wide open,I’m dreaming.—Patti Page;Counting days with eyes wide open.—Wild Nothing 兩句歌詞都使用了with eyes wide open 這一復(fù)合結(jié)構(gòu),使句子更有層次感,通過“瞪大眼睛”來流露出內(nèi)心的感受。
總結(jié)例3 可知,眼睛的閉合之間,也是心靈感受的流露時刻,抓住這個細(xì)節(jié),有助于突破對角色的刻畫。除了“害怕”而瞪大眼睛,筆者還引導(dǎo)學(xué)生結(jié)合實(shí)際,得出“好奇、驚訝、懷疑”等語境也適用于該句式。
(1)(2018 年6 月浙江卷,讀后續(xù)寫)Para 1:Suddenly a little rabbit jumped out in front of my horse.分析語境可知,作者的感受是“喜愛”和“驚訝”。因此,筆者設(shè)計(jì)了以下2 個補(bǔ)全句子的練習(xí),幫助學(xué)生強(qiáng)化結(jié)構(gòu)運(yùn)用,使其關(guān)注語法細(xì)節(jié)。
I yelled out loud with eyes ___________ (sparkle) with terrific excitement.(答案:sparkling)
I yelled out loud with eyes ___________(open),hoping to catch the rabbit as the reward of my trip.(答案:wide open)
(2)借助名著《秘密花園》中對人物眼睛的描寫,設(shè)計(jì)填空練習(xí)。筆者認(rèn)為,讀寫不分家,教師可以鼓勵學(xué)生嘗試從寫作的角度去刻畫角色,通過與原著進(jìn)行對比,使學(xué)生體會其中的寫作精妙之處。在這一練習(xí)之前,筆者對該小說作簡要的介紹,同時展示主要角色的圖片以增強(qiáng)畫面感,便于學(xué)生了解他們的性格特點(diǎn)和故事線索。以下為原著中的經(jīng)典句子,畫線詞在課堂中被挖空,要求學(xué)生填空,答案可以是開放的,但教師依然要引導(dǎo)學(xué)生體會原句的地道表達(dá)和細(xì)膩刻畫。
①Dickon had stood listening to the lecture,his round eyes shining with curious delight.
round 一詞和下文的curious 相呼應(yīng),畫面自然生動。
②His eyes twinkled and secretly he was pleased.
twinkled 與下文的secretly 表里結(jié)合,眼里有光,心中竊喜。
③Dickon stopped weeding and sat up on his heels to tell her the story.His eyes were twinkling with fun.
fun 一詞作為補(bǔ)充,緊隨上文的stopped...to tell her the story,故事的趣味已經(jīng)在眼里透露。
④She had large laughing eyes.(Mary’s mother)
結(jié)合圖片及角色介紹,提供關(guān)鍵詞laugh,可讓學(xué)生遷移sparkle 等詞作定語時的詞性變化,推理得出laughing修飾名詞。
⑤ She was a stout(結(jié) 實(shí) 的)woman,with very red cheeks and sharp black eyes.(Mrs.Medlock)
⑥Her eyes had a sharp,curious look.(Mary)
⑦Dickon’s curious blue eyes grew rounder and rounder.
⑤⑥⑦3 個例子均提供故事配圖,讓學(xué)生用最貼切的詞來刻畫眼睛。⑥⑦中均出現(xiàn)了curious 一詞,結(jié)合故事情節(jié),引導(dǎo)學(xué)生體會故事人物的心理感受,再將人物的心理感受表露到其眼神中。
⑧Color glowed(發(fā)光) in his face and his strange eyes widened with joyfulness.
⑨Colin watched them with widening eyes.
⑧⑨兩個例子是互相推斷的兩個知識點(diǎn),with 這個結(jié)構(gòu)可以從課堂中的sparkle with 加名詞的表達(dá)中得出。而⑧中的widened 一詞則讓學(xué)生推斷出wide 一詞的形式變化及用法,從而推斷出⑨中的widening,既是考查動詞形式的變化,也是讓學(xué)生體會角色心理變化的動態(tài)過程。用動詞的進(jìn)行時態(tài)來體現(xiàn)時刻變化的情緒情感。
1.閱讀《秘密花園》第一章的結(jié)尾部分,嘗試分析畫線部分的語義和寫作技巧。
2.嘗試挖掘出其他的寫作技巧,并加以分類整理。
作業(yè)范例:(上文簡介)Mary,a little girl whose parents died of Cholera and now was alone in her big house,wondering what had happened...
原著展示:
Mary was standing in the middle of the nursery when they opened the door a few minutes later.She looked an ugly,cross little thing and was ①frowningbecause she was beginning to be hungry and feel disgracefully neglected.The first man who came in was a large officer she had once seen talking to her father.He looked tired and troubled,but when he saw her he was ②so startled that he almost jumped back.
“Barney!”he cried out.“There is a child here! A child alone! In a place like this! Mercy on us,who is she!”
“I am Mary Lennox,”the little girl said,③drawing herself up stiffly.She thought the man was very rude to call her father’s bungalow “A place like this!”“I fell asleep when everyone had the cholera and I have only just wakened up.Why does nobody come?”
“It is the child no one ever saw!”exclaimed the man,turning to his companions.“She has actually been forgotten!”
“Why was I forgotten?”Mary said,stamping her foot.“Why does nobody come?”
The young man whose name was Barney looked at her very sadly.Mary even thought she saw him ④wink his eyes as if to wink tears away.
“Poor little kid!”he said.“There is nobody left to come.”
畫線部分的語義和寫作技巧分析:
①frown:to make a serious,angry or worried expression by bringing your eyebrows closer together so that lines appear on your forehead 皺眉;蹙額。與上文的cross (annoyed or angry) 呼應(yīng),通過眉宇之間的描寫來體現(xiàn)她的憤怒。
②startle:to surprise sb.suddenly in a way that slightly shocks or frightens them 使驚嚇。結(jié)合下文的jumped back這一肢體動作來表達(dá)內(nèi)心的驚訝。
③stiffly:in a way that is not friendly or relaxed 不友好地。結(jié)合上文的“drawing herself up”“步步逼近”,及下文的She thought the man was very rude 可知,此處是肢體動作加上心理描寫,來體現(xiàn)人物內(nèi)心的憤怒。
④wink:to close one eye and open it again quickly,especially as a private signal to sb.眨眼。通過這個面部表情描寫表達(dá)他的同情之心。
文段中其他表達(dá)情緒的亮點(diǎn):
對話描寫,簡潔生動,如:“‘Why was I forgotten?’Mary said,stamping her foot.”“Why does nobody come?”這兩個問句緊扣第一段中She looked an ugly,cross little thing...這一特點(diǎn),體現(xiàn)她當(dāng)時“不友善”的性格特點(diǎn)。
巧妙使用感嘆句來表達(dá)出官員們發(fā)現(xiàn)Mary 時的驚訝和憐憫之心?!啊瓸arney!’he cried out.”“There is a child here! A child alone! In a place like this! Mercy on us,who is she!”連續(xù)5 個感嘆句,將官員們心中的不可思議表達(dá)得淋漓盡致?!癙oor little kid!”省略句加上最后的感嘆號,將官員們的憐憫之心表達(dá)得恰到好處。