Literature Spot 5 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight优质课一等奖

教学设计内容

Module

Ⅴ

Beijing Normal University Version

Topic

Literature Spot 5 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

1. Ideas and guidance

This lesson is a reading class, and the clues begins with some pictures in order to lead in the topic, students can predict the stories according to the pictures. Based on the pictures, students scan the passage, find the new words and guess them in English. As a reading class, students should also do the careful reading, answer some questions to understand the story in some details. Last, they will listen to the tape and make a discussion in the groups. The thought of the lesson comes from High school English standard , its total aims are: develop the students’ reading skills as well as the writing skills, and their skills of independent study along with cooperative study should be improved. After a class, students should form an effective study strategy, therefore, to cultivate their ability of solving the problems by themselves, the teacher will encourage the students to take part in the activities actively. In a word, in the whole teaching activity, students must be the main body and play a leading role. The intention of this class is to make the students get a better understanding of reading strategies.

2. Analysis of teaching background

The Analysis of the Teaching Material：

Literature Spot 5: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written by an unknown English poet towards the end of the fourteenth century, which was popular in Europe in the later middle ages. This lesson describes not only the life of the noble but most importantly, it eulogizes the bravery and honesty which the knights should possess. The main plot can be divided into four parts. And the lesson is the abbreviation of the plot. The story describes how Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, accepts a challenge from a mysterious "Green Knight" who challenges any knight to cut off his head with his axe if he will take a return blow in a year. The plot wants to draw students’ interesting to the literature.

The Analysis of the Students：

The sophomore year students, after a year’s learning, although most of them can get the main idea of one text, they lack the study strategies, study plans as well as the circumspection. Usually, they can’t value the understanding of the text. And the experience of writing is seldom, they may feel difficult when they do the homework. In addition, they can’t analyze the difficult sentences during new lesson preview.

3. Teaching objectives

(1). Target Language ①.Important words and phrases:

magnificent, test, be famous for, cut off, with no hesitation, pick up, in fact, decide to do,

②. Expressions used to solve problems (2). Ability goals Help students read to pick out the information and structure of the text and fully understand the text . Improve the students’ writing skill. (3). Learning ability goals Students will learn how to write an ancient story or legend. (4). Emotion goals:

Cultivate the students’ interesting of the literature.

Make the students understand the importance of cooperation during discussion.

4. Teaching important and difficult points

(1).Teaching important points Enable students to get the true connotation, which the game want to test. Enable students to catch the order of time for telling a story. (2).Teaching difficult points

Help the students to understand the meaning of “green” in the story.

Help the students to predict and prove their predictions 5. Teaching procedures

(1).

Pre-reading ( 5 minutes ) Step 1. Explain learning objectives to students. (purpose：To make clear learning tasks and teacher’s expectations.)

Step 2

Enjoy some pictures about the story Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Then read the historical background together. Then invite some students to talk about what was happening in China during this period. Finish Exercise One on page 50. (Purpose: To lead the students into the topic and arouse their interest and let the students know different literature would be appeared in different countries at the same time.) Step3 Ask the students to read the title and picture, then guess the plot of the story. Encourage them to express what they thought. (purpose: To create reading expectations to be active readers.) (2). While-reading

(abou 20 minutes )

Step 5 Read the texts fast and choose the best answers.

①. What was the main condition of the “game”

which the green knight played with King Arthur and his knights? A.Honesty and bravery

B.

Arrogance and pride C.Confidence and kindness

D.Aggressive and perfect

……(The exercises are on the 10th page of the PPT)

(purpose: To skim the texts for main idea and improve the skill of reading.) Step 6 Deal with new words and expressions.

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Individual work through referring to the dictionary.

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Check with the whole class (purpose: ①

To find the new words according to the contexts given and guess the meanings of them. ②

To try to explain the words in easy English to form the habit of thinking in English. ③

To prepare for further reading.) Step 7 Read the texts carefully and fill in a table with specific information.

Time New Year Place King The story King Arthur was celebrating when

Arthur’s court 10 months later A Sir Gawain

The Green Knight

Sir Gawain and the lord

magnificent Then the lady of the castle

castle New Year(the next

year)

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The third day

The Green Knight

Sir Gawain went back,

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Individual work

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discuss with partners

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Check with the whole class (purpose: ①

To scan the texts for certain information.. ②

To sort up the information and present it in a table.

③

To practice how to retell a story with their own words.) Step 8 Listen to the tape. The students can choose either to read after in a low voice or just listen. (purpose: ①

To check the pronunciation and intonation. ②

To allow the acquired information to sink in..) (3).Post-reading( 15 minutes ) Step 9 Ask the students to work in groups and discuss the following questions.

①

What “green” present in the English literature according to the story?

②

What do you know about the knights after reading the story?

(purpose:

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To learn some literature quotations and know the social background of the story in depth.

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From the moral character of the knights, let students self-examine themselves.) (4). Voice your opinion( 5 minutes )

Step 10 Tell a short story or legend in the whole class. (purpose: To offer a chance for the students to practice their speaking ability.) (5).

Conclusion ( option) Two questions for consideration: Can you write down what you have learnt from the story?

(purpose: To train the students’ ability of reflection on both knowledge and writing skills.) (6).

Homework

Divide the students into many groups, ask them to play the roles of the story. According to practice the dialogues, students can master the spirit better. (purpose: Make the students practice what have been learned in the class, meanwhile, they can improve their oral English.)

6. Assessment and Evaluation

Assessment content about the teacher: Questions

Does the class obtain the goals?

Your evaluation

Yes

No

Evaluator Does the students obtain the abilities Yes

No

of reading?

Does the teacher focus on developing Yes

No

the students’ reading ability?

How is the teacher’s handwriting?

How is the teacher’s language?

Excellent

Good

Acceptable

Excellent

Good

Acceptable

If you have some advice, please write

down, thank you!

Assessment content about the students themselves: Questions Are you active in the class activities? Can you understand the instructions from the teacher? Write the new words and phrases you have learned in

the class.

Results Yes

No Yes

Not all

No

Talk about what you have learnt in the class.

Write the shortage you have found in the class.

Evaluation Methodology:

This two forms are used to evaluate the teacher and the students dividually. Someone who listen to the class can evaluate the teacher from their angles. The second form is about evaluating the students by themselves. They can rethink the behavior in the class and get a conclusion. Of course, the teacher also evaluate the students with language evaluation or expression evaluation during the class.