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Teaching Plan for King Lear READING (PART 1) WARMING UP

Complete the following love test. 1. Do you love your father?

Yes.___________ No. ___________ 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 Setting

Description 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

Rising action His first two daughters flatter him with nice words, but the youngest daughter insists on telling the truth. Climax

3.2 Read the play again, and complete the following main points. MAIN POINTS:

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 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. Flattery vs honesty; words vs action

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 _______.

3.3 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 King Lear Goneril Regan

Cordelia

Kent

Personality

Hot-headed, hard-hearted, foolish, bad-tempered Deceitful, corrupt, greedy, cunning

Deceitful, corrupt, greedy, cunning Honest, truthful, loving, innocent Loyal, respectful, honest, truthful HOMEWORK 1. Act the play out with your mates. 2. Complete the exercises in Comprehending and Learning about Language.