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Period 2

Reading 教学设计

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

Warming up, pre-reading and reading Teaching prcedures: 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.