Before the high tide, the sea was calm and the shore was crowded with people. When the tide comes (moves), people buzz and the mountains fall; After the tide came, the (static) aftermath still existed and the bagpipes roared.
Watching the Tide introduces the tide of Qiantang River, which has been called "the wonder of the world" since ancient times, and expresses the author's thoughts and feelings of loving nature and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
The extended material "Watching the Tide" is a short essay focusing on landscape writing. This paper mainly describes the magnificent scene of the spring tide of Qiantang River in Zhejiang Province, which is called "the wonder of the world". The text first writes about the calm river before the tide comes, people are anxiously looking forward to it, then writes about the magnificent and thrilling scene when the tide comes, and finally writes about the aftermath after the tide surges.
The text has clear structure and distinct levels. In this paper, the author not only directly describes the situation and momentum of the surging tide with metaphors and other methods, but also indirectly shows the strangeness of the tide from the number of people watching it and the high enthusiasm, which makes people sincerely admire: the Qiantang River tide is really a "wonder of the world" since ancient times!
The purpose of writing this text is to let students feel the "wonders" of Qiantang through reading, and to inspire students to love nature and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland; The second is to guide students to imagine the picture while reading, and to experience the expression characteristics of the text by tasting keywords and phrases.
The teaching focus of this paper is to guide students to feel the wonders of Qiantang River, and the teaching difficulty is to understand the relevant sentences in the text and imagine the spring tide scene depicted in the text.