A Guessing Game I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.--- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken Class: 8 Presenter: 何利敏 Members: 喻晓静 杜京晶 张卓娟 樊秋玉 苗昱佶 周聪贤 张庆凯 张丽 粟倩梅 韩志凌 李欣 魏永佳 侯丽琴 李先玉

Contents Context Coherence Culture Critique Cohesion 1 2 Coherence Culture 3 Critique 4 5 Cohesion 6 Discourse activity

Part I Context About the poet and his work Robert Frost:(1874-1963), four-time Pulitzer Prize winning American poet. His works are principally associated with life and landscape of the nature. His poetry, sometimes are bitter, at times sweet, or ironic, using plain language and precise images. This poem was published in 1915. About the poet and his work About the poem: This poem has a context of two choices, in which someone has to move on it once he chooses one.

Part V Cohesion Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. repetition hyponym Reference Ellipsis Substitution Synonyms Phonology Conjunction

Part II Coherence T Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Clause relation: chronology comparison Lexical signals Rhetorical relation: concession Micro-structure Result-Reason

Macro-structure Situation Problem Solution Reflection Standing in a yellow wood Two roads to taken Problem Chose the less traveled one Solution Sigh; made all the difference Reflection

I took the one less traveled by… American’s value: individualism Part III Culture I took the one less traveled by… Then took the other… American’s value: individualism

3.2 Critique He knows time will not come back, so the fate will be determined by the choice. He demonstrates he is kind of regretful for choosing one instead of another. “Perhaps the better claim” has strongly indicates the poet’s impluse when making choices.

Part VI Discourse Activity Story: A man fell in love with a girl whom he had never seen. One day, they dated. In order to test if the man really loves her, the lady made a test. She asked an old woman to pretend to be her to meet the man. What happened then? ----A Test of True love

Activity: Predict the end of the story Ask students to predict what happened after the man met the old lady by showing some pictures.

What happened to the man, the old woman and the lady?

Thank You!