Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending板书设计及意图

Teaching Plan for King Lear Teaching Goals: 1.

Emotional aims: To make the students familiar with the great works by Shakespeare . To instruct the students to analyze the desire and the different characters II. Teaching aims: The students learn the plots by themselves and according to questions , present their views in class. III. Teaching Important and difficult points:

How to enable the students have a better understanding of the theme of the play.

How to instruct the students 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? Yes.___________ No. ___________ 2. How much do you love him?

A. Very much

B. So-so

3. Which of

the following best describes your feeling towards your father? A. I love 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.

4. 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. FAST-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. the relationships to the king Lear King Lear and his three daughters----Goneril, Regan, Cordelia 3. 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 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 _______. CAREFUL-READING 1 . Why does King Lear want to give away his kingdom?

Because Lear is old and tired and wants to retire 2. How is he going to decide who to give the best part of his kingdom to?

He is going to ask his three daughters to tell him how much they love him and divide up the kingdom according to their answers. 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 Personality

King Lear Goneril Regan

Cordelia

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

Deceitful, corrupt, greedy, cunning Honest, truthful, loving, innocent Loyal, respectful, honest, truthful 4. Read the play and complete the plot diagram. 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 Flattery vs honesty;

words vs 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. 5. Make a summary and reflect our daily life. When we put the situation into reality, what we should do? Listen to a song about showing filial obedience.

6.Homework

Act the play out with your classmates