Project(1): Putting on a play优秀教学设计范文

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Laughter is good for you

Project(1)

Learning aims：

1. Guide students to read two short plays.

2. Help students have a deep and clear understanding what they learned in this unit to analyze the play.

3. Encourage the students to work in groups and improve their team spirits. Important and difficult points：Have a good understanding of the two short plays.

Teaching

Procedures

Step1. Self-learning guidance 1. Ask the students the following questions and lead into the new lesson.

1) Do you like seeing plays?

2) Have you ever acted in a play?

3) Do you know anything about the play?

2. Give the students the general introduction about a play. 

Theme

(topic/ title)

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Characters

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Setting

(background) 

Plot

(what happened) 

Moral meanings (寓意) 3. Get them to read through the two passages quickly and answer some questions.

Step2. Self-learning checking 

The invisible bench: ① Is there a bench in the courtyard?

___________________________________________________ ②

What does the word “invisible”

mean?

___________________________________________________ ③

Is this a comedy? Why or why not?

___________________________________________________ ④

In which style of stand-up is this play, observational, prop, physical or impressionist?

___________________________________________________ 

The important paper: ①

How many characters are there in the play?

____________________________________________________ ②

Who do you think is the main character/ hero in the play?

____________________________________________________ ③

What does the King actually want?

____________________________________________________ ④

Why are the others unable to understand him?

____________________________________________________ ⑤

In what style of stand-up comedy is this play?

____________________________________________________ ⑥

How does the playwright make the play funny?

____________________________________________________

Step3. Cooperation & Expansion 

Passage1：

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Task1. Read the first play and fill in the table: Characters:

Setting:

1 Notes

Mike pretends ___________on an invisible bench. The other students ________________ the activity. Mike moves the bench due to _______________ and the entire _______________. The reason why they sit on

this invisible bench one after another What the play satirizes (讽

刺)

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Task 2. Read carefully, and then try to find out the main idea of this play.

Five students are putting on a short play, which is set in ____________. While Mike is wondering where to put the ____________bench, Tony and Cathy step on the stage, they sit together on the invisible bench, and they feel ________. Just then Paula also joins them, which makes Mike ____________. So Mike gets up, moves over to the middle of the stage, and sits down as if he ___________ the invisible bench there. Finally, when Ann arrives, Mike tells them he has moved the bench and they all ___________________. 

Task3. Discussion:

What can we learn from this play?

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Passage2：

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Task1. Read the play and

fill in the table: Characters:

Setting:

Theme:

The event – beginning: The king needs some ____________________. The event – process: They pass on ________________, ___________, _____________,______________and__________. The event – ending: At last the king needs ______________. The reason why the king can't

be understood The way the playwright make

the play funny

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Task2. Summarize the play:

In the palace, a king said that he wanted some ____________________, and because he was a king, his queen and servant all mistook what he wanted for some__________________. At last, the servant realized that the king wanted some_____________.

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Task3. Discussion:

What can we learn from this play?

Step4. Immediate test

The two plays have a s______________. Both the plays tell us a p__________ in our society. A group of people around us are hypocritical and p_________ of themselves. They save their faces at all c_________, but actually they will s_______ from their own actions. The playwrights write the plays in an i__________ way. This kind of play always sets us thinking, because they always reflect some s___________ problems around us.

Summary & Reflection:

Theme: The event – beginning: The event – process: The event – ending:

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