Listening and vocabulary教学设计思路

Teaching aims: a learn some new words related to plays. b improve reading skills. c improve listening skills. Teaching important point: Learn some new knowledge about the play Porgy and Bess through listening. Teaching difficult point: How to deal with the tasks related to the play. Teaching Procedures: Step 1.

Lead-in

A brief introduction about the play. Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward.

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Step 2. Read the passage on Page 47 and finish Activity

1. Revision: soloist n. ---

solo a.

alone

n. a musician who does the

musical

performance alone repertoire

n. 演奏曲目；演出节

superstition

n. 迷信

fervour

n. 热情；热切

Step 3

Listen and check your answers: Step 4

Answer the questions: 1. What’s Porgy and Bess about? 2. Why did it take a long time to put on the show? 3. Was the show an immediate success? 4. What’s the effect of the review? 3. Was the show an immediate success? 4. What’s the effect of the review? Step 5

Summary of the passage:

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Porgy and Bess, a _______ by Dubose, started______ about the life of African

Americans in Charleston. George Gershwin, a __________,together with his brother and the

writer made it a good opera. It soon became a classic, especially “Summertime” and “I Got

Plenty of Nothing” have become _________,

particularly for the jazz repertoire. •

At first it wasn’t easy to put on the __________ because Afro-American actors were _________ from performing and Gershwin didn’t want it done with white actors ______ _____ like blacks.

At first the opera received depressing

________ but it became an extraordinary _____.

Porgy and Bess combines elements that have

never before appeared as _________ and it

shows the misery and the high spirits of black Americans in the early 20th century. Step 6

Enjoy the songs

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Summertime •

I Got Plenty of Nothing

Step 7

Conclusion

After this lesson, students have had a better understanding about the play. Students had a wonderful time enjoying the class through music.