Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学内容分析

人教版高中英语选修10《Unit 2 King Lear》教案【一】

Teaching Goals:

I . Emotional teaching:

1. To make the Ss familiar with the great works by Shakspere and the life story of the great literaturer.

2. To instruct the Ss to analyse the desire and the greed and the greatness of the different characters . Help the Ss sort out the good qualities from the two plays.

II. Teaching aims:

1. This unit includes two scenes of the play King Lear. Ss should learn the plots by themselves after class and then put forward their questions and present their views in class.

2. Help the Ss to get rid of the hurdle of learning language and the grammer part by combining practice and extension exercises.

III. Teaching Important and difficult points:

1.How to enable the Ss have a better understandnig of the theme of the play.

2. How to instruct Ss to find approach to improving their ability, especially reading, teaching themselves

Teaching Procedures:

READING (PART 1)

WARMING UP

Complete the following love test.

1.

Do you love your father?

2.

Yes.___________

No. ___________

3.

2. How much do you love him?

A. Very much

B. So-so

C. Very little

D. Not at all

3. Which of the following best describes your feeling towards your father?

A.I loves him more than my life.

B.I love him as much as I love my eyes.

C.I love him as much as I should, no more and no less.

D.I don’t know how much I love him. I have never thought about the question.

E.I don’t love him, but I don’t hate him either.

F.I hate him.

G._________ (your own sentence)

4. If you were married, whom would you love more, your wife/husband or your father?

5. If your father gave you 1,000 yuan on condition that you tell him that you love him very much, would you say so?

Yes._______ No. _________

6. If you could choose a father, which would you choose?

A. A father who was very rich but didn’t love you.

B. A father who had no money but loved you very much.

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 on Page 11.

King Lear and his three daughters----Goneril, Regan, Cordelia

WHILE-READING

3.1

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.

3.2

Read the play again, and complete the following main points.

3.3

MAIN POINTS:

3.4

King Lear gave away his land to his daughters according to how much they

________him.

1 King Lear wants to ______ and decides to ______ his land to three daughters.

2 He wants to know ____ ________ they love him.

3 Goneril and Regan make the king _________by saying they love him very much. They ______ the land

4 Cordelia makes the king angry by being _________ and not _________ him. She gets ________.

5. Kent, the servant, makes the king _________ by defending Cordelia and begging the king to listen to the _______.