Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计实例

Unit 2 King Lear Teaching aims and demands Topic: Talk about Shakespeare’s play: King Lear

Vocabulary: respectful modernize burden responsibility allocate adore majesty distribute contradict flattery oppose deceitful Function: Emotions: anger sadness friendliness unfriendliness, etc

Period One

Teaching aims: to train the ability of listening and speaking Teaching procedures: Step I: lead in As we all know, there are no parents but love their children. How do the children assess their parents in different stages?

Step II: warming up Ask them to discuss the following questions 1. Is it important to show love and respect for your parents? Why? 2. How do you show love and respect for them? Can you give a good example?

3. If you were married, would you love your parents less than you do now? 4. If parents believe their child has been disrespectful, what should they do about it? Step III: Lead in: Do you want to learn something about the system for the ancient Empire? Let’s discuss these questions about ancient China. 1. What was the traditional attitude towards the emperor? Who succeeded him when the emperor died? 2. What did the emperor do to keep his servants loyal to him? What happened to the servants who were not loyal? 3. Who decided who the emperor’s children would marry? For what reasons were marriages arranged? Step IV

pre-reading Lead in: What about in the west. Do you want to know them?

Today we are going to read a play by Shakespeare”

It has been shorted and simplified. The language has been modernized. I think it easy to understand.

Period Two Teaching aims: to train the students’ ability of understanding

Teaching procedures:

Step I: Reading Glance quickly through part 1 of the play and answer the questions.(look at the picture on the right) 1. List the characters who appear in this part of the play 2. Which of the characters do you think are shown? 3. Use the pictures that illustrate part 1 of the play to predict what is going to happen. For what reasons were marriages arranged? Step II

Scan the part and answer the questions below 1. Why does King Lear want to give away his kingdom? 2. How is he going to decide who to give the best part of his kingdom to ? 3. At the beginning of the play ,of which daughter is King Lear most fond ? 4. Which daughters are already married and which is not ? 5. What are the names of the men who want to marry King Lear’ youngest daughter?

6. Who tries to defend Cordelia? What happens to him when he speaks out? Step III: Practice

1. Choose words from the words below. Some words belong to more than one character. Honest

loyal

hot-headed

truthful;

deceitful

hard-hearted

corrupt

greedy

innocent

cunning

loving

bad-tempered 2. In fours prepare a role-play. One plays Regan, and another plays Cordelia. One plays the king. The fourth plays the Duke of Kent and will interview the three characters to find out what they really think. 3. After the role-play discuss these questions Do you think these characters are true to life? Why do you think King Lear did this while he was alive and not after his death? If you are King Lear, what would you do to divide up your kingdom among your children? Step IV: Summarize the general idea of this part.

Period There Teaching aims: to train the ability of listening and reading Teaching Procedures:

Step I : In part 2 of the play, King Lear asks the Duke of Burgundy and the king of France whether they still want to marry Cordelia. What do you think the two men will say? Step II: Listen again and discuss these questions .There are no right or no wrong answers. 1. What do you think of the Duke of Burgurdy’decision?

2. What is your opinion of the king of France? 3. How do Goneril and Regan act towards their sister after the king has left? 4. What does this tell you about the character of the two elder sisters? 5. What do you think will happen next? Step III: Read part 3 with a partner and together make notes about the main events in this part

Step IV: Listen to the tape. This time make notes about how the characters speak their lines. For example, which lines are spoken loudly, which softly? Step V: Practice Form groups of six and give each person a different character to play .Act it out. Summarize the whole play using the version in the book.

Period Four Teaching aims: to train the ability of using the language

Teaching procedures: Step I: practice the play

Step II: finish off the exercise on page 16 Step III:explain the language points 1. allocate :to give sth. officially to sb or sth for a particular purpose allocate sth (for sth) allocate sth to sb

allocate sb sth e.g They intend to allocate more places to mature students this year. A large sum has been allocated for buying new books for the library. The project is being allocated more resources. Allocation :n. an amount of money ,space, etc, that is given to sb for a particular purpose e.g We’ve spent our entire allocation for the year.

2. distribute: to give things to a large number of people ; to share sth between a number of people distribute sth to/ among sb/sth

e.g. distribute food and blankets to the victims to spread something or different pats of something, over an are e.g. Your weight is evenly distributed. 3. oppose to disagree strongly with somebody’s plan, ect to change it or prevent it from succeeding

oppose doing I would oppose changing the law. Opposed: adj

Disagreeing strongly with something and trying to stop it Be opposed to

They are totally opposed to the advice. 4. suspect somebody of something He has been suspected of the murderer. I suspected him of lying to us. 5. be fond of / be attached to / lose one’s heart to / take a fancy to / be wrapped up in / fall in love with / be involved in / lose one’s head over

Step IV ask them to look up the following words burden

contradict

flattery

deceitful

adore

majesty