Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending优质教案设计

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 EXPLANATION

1. hand over

移交；让与

to hand over command of a ship 移交军舰的指挥权

The pickpocket was handed over to the police. 扒手被送交警方。

hand down

传给后代

= hand on, pass down This pair of bracelets were handed down from my greatgrandmother. 这副手镯是我曾祖母传下来的。

hand on

1)传递

2)把…传下来

(= hand down) Please read

this and hand it on. 请你读后加以传阅。

Please read this notice and hand it on. "请把这张通知看一下,并传阅。" 2. riches

(n.)

财富，财宝，金钱。

没有单数形式。

如：

Riches have wings. 钱财易散。（谚语）

She gave away all her riches. 她把自己的全部财产赠送给了别人。

3. even 在句中起强调作用，常放在行为动词之前、助动词、情态动词之后。如：

In order to watch the World Cup soccer game, they even closed the sore. 为了看世界杯足球赛，他们甚至把店门关了。

I didn’t even know his name.

我甚至不知道他的名字。

Some robots can even talk to .

一些机器人甚至能和你对话。

4. It’s one’s turn to do sth. 轮到某人做某事。

Today it is my turn to clean our classroom.今天轮到我打扫教室。

It’s your turn to recite the poem.

到你背这首诗了。

常用带turn的

Take turns doing sth. 轮流做某事。

In turn 轮流地; 挨个, 依次; 反过来

By turns 轮流地; 时而...时而... 5. be equal in 在某方面相等

如：Are men and women equal in physical strength?男人和女人在体力上相当吗？

You and I are equal in strength, but not in intelligence.你我力气相当，但智力有高下之分。

be equal to 与… 相等

They receive an income that is equal to the value of the goods they produce.他们所得的收入与他们生产的产品价值相当。

6. Try harder, Cordelia, or you may lose your share of the kingdom.

这是“祈使句+or/and +陈述句” 句型，陈述句表示结果。

Get up earlier, or you will miss the first train.早点起床，否则你会错过第一班火车。

Use your head, and you will have a way to solve the problem.动动脑筋，你就会想出解决问题的办法。

7.be a stranger to

对… 陌生，对… 没有经验，对…不习惯

He is a stranger to our country.

他不了解我们国家。

He is no stranger to hardship.

他曾历尽沧桑。

8. We’ll see if either wants to be a bridegroom when she has no riches to bring to the marriage. 我们倒要看看，她没有分毫嫁妆，谁愿意当她的新郎。

When 表示“如果，既然”之意，相当于if, since, now that. How can he get good grades when he doesn’t study hard? 他不用功的话

Why does she always drive to work when she could easily take the bus? 9. But sir,please hear me out. I speak on behalf of Cordelia. 但是，先生，请听我说完。让我代表科迪莉亚说几句。

hear sb out 听某人说完

Don’t interrupt, just hear me out.别打扰我，听我说完。

Sorry, I wish I had time to hear you out, but could you make your story shorter?我真希望我有时间听你说完，你能不能把故事缩短些？

on behalf of 代表，为了…的利益

I am writing this letter on behalf of my mother, who wants to thank you for your nice gift.我代表我的妈妈写这封信，她要感谢你送的精美礼物。

They are collecting on behalf of charity.他们以慈善的名义集资。

10. Cordelia’s devotion to Your Majesty is beyond question.

科迪莉亚对陛下的爱是毋庸置疑的。

Beyond question = cannot be doubted 不用怀疑的，毋庸置疑的

His honesty is beyond question. 他的忠诚是毋庸置疑的。

out of question

毫无疑问

out of the question不可能, 不容讨论

11. I would rather lose my life than see you make such a mistake.

我宁愿丢了性命也不愿看到你犯这样的错。

would rather … than …

宁愿

… 而不

…

I would rather stay at home than go to cinema?我宁愿待在家里也不去看电影？

Would rather die than surrender. 宁死不投降。

12. I will have you killed. 我叫人杀了你。

have / get … done

1)叫别人做某事(= ask sb to do sth ) We’ve just had the house decorated.我们刚叫人把房子装修了一下。

Doesn’t Mike look smart? He has had that suit made specially for the wedding.迈克看上去很潇洒，是吧？他那身西装是专为婚礼而定做的。

2) 遭受某种不幸

I had my watch stolen last night.

昨晚我的手表被偷了。

Mind you. It's easy to have your pocket picked in a big crowd. "请注意,在人群中你衣袋内的东西是很容易被人扒窃的。"

HOMEWORK 1. Act the play out with your mates. 2. Complete the exercises in Comprehending and Learning about Language.