“The eighteen tides in August are as spectacular as any in the world.” This is a famous line from Su Dongpo, a great poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, praising the autumn tides in Qiantang. For thousands of years, the Qiantang River has attracted countless tourists with its unique and extraordinary tides. This article describes a grand event of watching the tide. It writes about the scenes before, during and after the tide that the author has heard and witnessed. It describes the whole process of the tide from far to near and rushes westward, and depicts the river tide from calm to calm. The dynamic changes from roaring to roaring and then returning to calm describe the strangeness, majesty and grandeur of the spring tide.
The text structure is clear and layered. In the article, the author not only uses metaphors, descriptions, foils and other methods to directly describe the situation and power of the surging and thundering tide, but also indirectly expresses the strangeness of the tide through the large number of people watching the tide and the high enthusiasm, which makes people read I can’t help but express my heartfelt admiration: The Qiantang River tide is truly worthy of being a “wonder of the world” since ancient times!
The third and fourth paragraphs of the text are the key parts of the text, describing the spectacular scene when the tide comes. He writes about sounds, from "muffled thunder rolling" to "landslides and ground cracking"; he writes about scenes, from "a white line" to thousands of horses galloping... His vivid, beautiful and contagious language depicts the tide of the Qiantang River vividly and with extraordinary momentum. It seems that the picture of the spring tide appears before our eyes, and we feel that the sound of the spring tide is getting louder and louder, the tide is getting closer and closer, the tide is getting higher and stronger, and the momentum is getting stronger and stronger. Reading it makes people feel as if they are there, as if they hear the sound, as if they see the scene, and are deeply shocked.
The textbook includes two pictures that closely follow the text content. In the first picture, what is shown in front of us is "the broad Qiantang River lying in front of us", with "a sea of ??people" on the seawall embankment, and the white line on the water is moving towards us; in the second picture, another picture is After a while, what we saw was the spectacular sight of a "wall of water more than two feet high" rushing towards us. These two pictures provide students with a basis for in-depth understanding of the text content.
The purpose of selecting this text is, first, to enable students to feel the "wonder" of the Qiantang Tide through reading, and to inspire students to love nature and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland; second, to guide students to imagine the picture while reading , and experience the expression characteristics of the text by tasting the key words and sentences and paragraphs.
The teaching focus of this article is to guide students to experience the magic and magnificence of the Qiantang tide. The difficulty of teaching is to understand the relevant sentences in the text and imagine the spring tide scene described in the text.