Using LanguageⅠ公开课教案

Using Language

The Second Period Speaking Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language

目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

pattern, sunlight, darkness, warmth, thread b. 交际用语

Do you enjoy ... P49 Do you think ...

P49 What did it make you feel or ...

P14 2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to talk about poems.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to talk about poems.

Teaching important & difficult points教学重难点

How to talk about poems. Teaching methods 教学方法

Discussion.

Teaching aids 教具准备

A tape recorder. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step ⅠRevision and Lead-in Ask the students to read the words aloud. Then ask them to explain why “rhyming”

can make vocabulary easy? T: Poems are often short, personal and not easy to understand but reading them is a very good way to learn language. For example, words that rhyme makes vocabulary easy to remember. Now look at Exercise 1 on page 12. Let’s see how easy it is to remember rhymed words. First, look at the example words that rhyme each other. Read aloud the words and try to explain why “rhyming”

can make vocabulary easy? S: (After reading) Words that rhyme have the same or similar sound and their spelling forms may be quite similar, so it can be easy to learn.

Ask the students to show their work.

T: Well. Read out the words you’ve found for the given words.

Ask the students to answer the questions in TALKING on page 49 in the workbook.

T: We can see from the above that words become much easier to remember. So learning by reading poems can be a good way. Do you enjoy listening to poetry or reading it? S1: Yes. I enjoy reading it very much. And I sometimes write a few. I practice my language in this way.

S2: I enjoy listening to poetry. It’s like listening to music. I often listen to Li Moran on CCTV reading Chinese poems. His voice often makes me feel inspired and excited.

S3: I don’t like reading or listening to poetry at all. I think poems are often dull, meaningless and artificial.

S4: I don’t like poems, either. Because poems are sometimes difficult to understand. Readers

can’t understand the poet completely because of different situations and moods. Just think when the others are happy and you read a sad poem to them, how will the others respond? S5: I don’t like poems. Poetry’s rubbish if you ask me.

T: Do you enjoy writing it? S6: Yes. But not often. I always find it difficult to find the right words to show my feelings. I just write down whatever comes into my head.

S7: No, never. Writing poems is nothing different from killing myself.

S8: Yes. Sometimes when I am alone or not in a good mood. I found right words just come spilling out. You just have to make it sound right.

S9: Yes. I like how poetry lets you experiment. I like playing with words and sentences and lines.

Step ⅡListening and Speaking Task 1: Ask the students to listen to the poem “I’ve saved the summer”. And then answer the questions in Exercise 1.

T: Next we’ll listen to a poem “I’ve saved the summer”. What does the title make you feel or think of? S1: It makes me think of something regretful.

S2: It makes me feel hopeful and look back to the happy days in the summer.

T: Well. Let’s listen and find out what the poem tells us.

After listening, ask the students to answer the questions.

Sample answers: S1: I think the speaker in the poem is more likely to be a parent. Because the writer shows his great love to his son in the poem.

S2: Yes. The poem has a rhythmic pattern.

S3: Yes. The poem has rhyming words. S4: Yes. When I was listening to the poem, I felt great love in it and thought of someone who recalled the past happy moment. Ask the students to read the poem after the recording and circle the words that rhyme in the poem.

T: Rod McKuen is an American poet, singer, songwriter and musician. “I’ve saved the summer”

is his last work. McKuen himself took it as a lullaby that a father might sing to his growing son. Now read after the recording and circle the words that rhyme. Sample answers: Words that rhyme: you, new; need, feed; nineteen, mean; way, day; own, own Task 2: Ask the students to discuss about the poem.

T: Now work in groups and discuss the questions on page 15.

Sample answers:

S1: The speaker in the poem is a parent. He / She is speaking to his / her son. Reasons: firstly, the parent sends his / her son warmth of the summer; secondly, he / she leads the son to brightness; thirdly, he / she teaches the son to be brave; finally, he / she would give the son all his / her love to help him down the road. All these show the great and selfless love of a parent.

S2: I think the second statement is closest in meaning to the speaker’s message. In the poem, the speaker says to his / her son that he / she has no answers to help him on the way. Instead, the son should find the answers himself.

Step Ⅲ

Discussing Task 1: Ask the students to think about the kind of poem they would write / translate.

T: Suppose you want to write or translate a poem. Now think about the kind of poem you would like to write or translate.

Sample answers: Kinds of poems: nursery rhymes; list poems; cinquain; haiku; Tang poems Task 2: Ask the students to discuss the kind of poem they are going to write / translate.

Sample dialogue 1:

S1: When are you going to do your poetry homework? S2: I’ll have a go in the evening.

S3: What kind of poem are you planning to write? S2: I think I’ll try writing some nursery poems.

S1: What are you going to write about? S2: I’m going to write about a birthday.

S3: What are you going to do yours on? S2: I’m going to see if I can use my computer.

Sample dialogue 2:

S1: When are you going to do your poetry homework? S2: I’ll do it at this weekend.

S3: What kind of poem are you planning to write? S2: I think I’ll try writing some haiku poems.

S1: What are you going to write about? S2: I’m going to write about trees.

S3: What are you going to do yours on? S2: I’m going to see if I can use my computer.

Sample dialogue 3:

S1: When are you going to do your poetry homework? S2: I’ll do it after supper.

S3: What kind of poem are you planning to translate? S2: I think I’ll try translating some Tang poems.

S1: Whose poems are you going to translate? S2: I’m going to translate He Zhizhang’s poems.

S3: What are you going to do yours on? S2: I’m going to see if I can use my computer.

Step Ⅳ

Homework Ask the students to write / translate the poems they talked about in the class.