Reading and vocabulary优秀公开课教案

Module5

The First Period

Reading Teaching goals

教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇

huge, human being, lip, monster, terrifying, ugly, create, frightening, horror, resemble, terrify, wrinkled, beauty, bone, chase, creation, disgust, emotion, fear, fiancée, lifeless, murder b. 重点句子

The novel immediately became very popular and it is generally agreed that it is one of the best science fiction stories ever written. Using bones from dead bodies, he creates a creature that resembles a human being and gives it life. Feeling very anxious, I prepared the equipment that would give life to the thing that lay at my feet. 2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to talk about the novel and film Frankenstein. 3. Learning ability goals

学能目标

Help the students learn how to talk about the novel and film Frankenstein. Teaching important & difficult points

教学重难点

Learn to talk about the novel and film Frankenstein. Teaching methods

教学方法

Task-based activities.

Teaching aids

教具准备

A computer and a projector.

Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式

Step I Warming Up Talk about horror films with the students. T: The large film industry of today had a relatively simple beginning. The first public showing of a motion picture —

on May 22, 1891, at Thomas Edison’s workshop in

New Jersey —

consisted of a polite man who bowed to the audience, smiled, waved, and took off his hat. Thus, the motion picture industry was born and began to develop quickly. Today, we can see many kinds of films, such as action films like “House full of flying daggers”, war films like “The Boys in Company”, etc. Today we’ll mainly talk about horror films. What is a horror film, do you know? T: Frankenstein is one of the famous early horror films. Have you seen it before? What do you know about the story? Ask the students to read the short passage.

T: Frankenstein is the world-famous story of a doctor whose brilliant mind gets the better of him, one of the first and certainly most enduring Gothic novels of the English literary tradition. Many films have been made on it. The classic monster or horror film of all time, director James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) is the screen version of Mary Shelley’s Gothic 1818 nightmarish novel of the same name. Now read about the background passage and say what new things you have learnt.

T: Reading is always beneficial. Besides what you’ve said, we can still find something new in the passage. For example, some new words and expressions. Now please finish the following exercises.

Show the following to the students.

Match the correct definition in Column A with the words or phrases in Column B.

Column A 1. extremely frightening Column B a. resemble 2. a line on your face of skin that b. create you get when you are old

3. to make something exist that did c. terrifying

not exist before 4. a strong feeling of shock and fear 5. to look like, be similar to Sample answers:

d. wrinkle e. horror

1-c; 2-d; 3-b; 4-e; 5-a

And then ask the students to complete the sentences in Exercise 3. Step II Reading

Task 1: Ask the students to read the text first and then finish the Exercises 2 and 3.

T: Perhaps the longest-lasting and most memorable image of Frankenstein and his monster was created in 1931, when Universal Pictures released what is now often praised as the definitive horror film: Frankenstein. Now please read the text about the story and finish the Exercises 2 and 3. Check the answers with the students.

Task 2: Ask the students to read the text again and then finish Exercises 1 and 4. Sample answers to Exercises 4:

1) The monster has human emotions, he has eyes, he can breathe, he has veins, hair, skin, teeth, lips, hands and he can make sounds. 2) Frankenstein created the monster by using bones from dead bodies. 3) Because the monster had killed his wife, his brother and his best friend. 4) The monster’s appearance: ugly, huge, with wrinkled yellow skin, yellow eyes, black hair and lips and white teeth. 5) Because the monster he created was too ugly.

6) What Frankenstein had wanted more than anything in the world is to give life to the

lifeless matter.

7) Because Frankenstein had a nightmare.

8) Because the monster wanted to kill him.

9) Frankenstein hid in the garden and stayed there till morning after running out of the

room for the second time.

10) Because the monster was too ugly, frightening and had killed many people.

Task 3: Ask the students to discuss the questions in Exercise 5. Task 4: Text analyzing

T: The text is obviously divided into two parts. The first part is a simple introduction of the story. What is the second part mainly about? S1: The second part is an extraction of the story. It is mainly about how Frankenstein

felt about his creation.

T: How did Frankenstein feel about the monster? S2: He felt the monster was too frightening and ugly. And he regretted for what he did.

T: The second part is mostly about Frankenstein’s feelings about the monster. Now read the text and find out the expressions the author used to describe his feelings.

Task 5: Summary

T: In the summer of 1816, nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover, the poet Percy Shelley (whom she married later that year), visited the poet Lord Byron at his villa beside Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Stormy weather frequently forced them indoors, where they and Byron’s other guests sometimes read from a volume of ghost stories. One evening, Byron challenged his guests to each write one themselves. Mary’s story, inspired by a dream, became Frankenstein. Later on, films began to be made on it. The monster in the story was just an imagination, but it might be the origin of today’s cloning. The more you think, the more time you have. So do more thinking and imagination from now on, you’ll get more than others.

Step III Homework 1. Find more about the film Frankenstein and retell the story.

2. Prepare for the next period: Find some information about cloning.