Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教案范文

Module 10 Unit 2 King Lear Reading

I . Teaching Goals: 1. To make the Ss familiar with the great works by Shakespeare and especially the story of King Lear 2. To instruct the Ss to analyse the different characters. Help the Ss sort out the good qualities from the two plays. 3.Students should learn the plots by themselves after class and then act out one scene in class. II. Teaching Important and difficult point: How to enable the Ss have a better understanding of the theme of the play. III. Teaching Procedures: 一.WARMING UP Introduce the story of King Lear to students in Chinese . 二.PRE-READING Glance quickly through Part 1 of the play and answer the following questions. 1. List the characters who appear in this part of the play. King Lear, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall, the Duke of Kent 2. Which of the characters do you think are shown in the picture?

King Lear and his three daughters----Goneril, Regan, Cordelia 3.Match the important words with their Chinese meanings. 三. WHILE-READING (一)Read the play and answer these following questions. 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's youngest daughter? 6 Who tries to defend Cordelia? What happens to him when he speaks out? （二）

Read the play and complete the plot diagram. A plot diagram Description Setting ： King Lear has 3 daughters. He is old and wants to divide his kingdom among his daughters. He is going to do this through a “love test”.

Conflict： Flattery vs honesty; words vs action Rising action： His first two daughters flatter him with nice words, but the youngest daughter insists on telling the truth. Climax：Hearing the truth, the king gets very angry. He gives all his land to the first two daughters and leaves nothing to the youngest one. 四. Comprehending

Read the play again, and choose the proper words to describe the Characters’ Personality.

Honest \loyal\ hot-headed \truthful\ deceitful\ hard-hearted \respectful\ Corrupt\ greedy\ Innocent \foolish \cunning \bad-tempered \loving Characters Personality King Lear Hot-headed, hard-hearted, foolish, bad-tempered Goneril Deceitful, corrupt, greedy, cunning Regan Deceitful, corrupt, greedy, cunning Cordelia Honest, truthful, loving, innocent Kent Loyal, respectful, honest, truthful 五. Homework

Read KING LEAR after class and try one part to act out.