Project(1): Putting on a play优质课教案内容

Unit 1 Laughter is good for you Project Teaching aims:

Improve the students’ ability of practice. Important points & difficult points: Read the two passages about drama. Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Lead- in 1. What do you know about drama? Drama means a piece of writing to be performed by actors, a play for theatre, television, radio, etc. 2. Have you ever seen dramas either on TV or in a theatre? 3. Have you ever acted in a drama? 4. In your opinion, in order to put on a drama, what preparations should be made? What steps are needed to prepare a play? (1) Listen to the director (2) Learn lines by heart (3) Find out when the character (he or she is playing) is on stage. (4) Make a list of which acts and scenes you are in. (5) Dressed in your costume and waiting in the wings at least one scene before you go on stage. (6) Follow the stage directions. Well done! You all know how to prepare a play. Step 2 Today, you will have a chance to experience dramas. Ok. Let’s move to the project section. In this section, you’ll read two short plays and choose one to perform. In order to finish the project, you are expected to learn how to cooperate as a team and how to fulfil each part of the work. T: Ok. Let’s come to the first play: The invisible bench

Read it please, and then answer the questions:

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1) What kind of comedy does this play use?

The play mainly uses the physical style of comedy. 2) What do you think of the children except Mike?

They are dishonest, insincere, false/ hypocritical 3) At the end of the play, Mike said, “No. I must have forgotten to tell you. It got too crowded, so I moved the bench.” Why did he say so?

He wanted to punish them or make fun of them. 4) Is there a bench in the play?

No. There isn’t any.

The important papers Read it quickly and answer the following questions? 1) Do you think these plays are funny? Why? 2) Who do you think is the main character in the play? 3) What does the king actually want? 4) Why are the others unable to understand him?

Because he was a king and he says that he wants important papers. The others would mistake them for some official documents. 5) How does the playwright make the play funny? The playwright uses a play upon words---- important paper and toilet paper---- to make people laugh. Step 3 Discussion

Divide the students in two. Discuss the questions: What do you think the playwright wants to tell us?

The Students’ answers

T: The two plays have a similarity. That is, both the playwrights tell us a phenomenon in our society. A small group of people around us are hypocritical and proud of themselves. They save their faces at all costs, but actually they will suffer from their own actions.

The playwrights write the plays in an ironic way. This kind of play always leads us to thinking, because they always reflect some social problems around us.

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Step 4 Act out the two plays Step 5 Language points 1. I am sitting on an invisible bench, of course. (page 14) invisible adj.

1) impossible to see: The aircraft is designed to be invisible to radar. These bacteria are invisible unless viewed with a microscope. 2) [before noun] describes money that is added to a country's economy by activities such as the service and financial industries rather than the production of goods in factories: an increase in invisible exports Tourism brings in 40% of the island's invisible earnings. 相关高考试题

You can see the stars on a clear night, but in the daytime they are ________.

A unavoidable

B invisible

C inaccessible

D unavailable 答案: B 2 You should join us. It’s nice and cosy. (page 14) cosy

adj. comfortable and pleasant, especially (of a building) because small and warm: This room is nice and cosy in the winter. He showed me into a cosy little room. 3 Mike looks annoyed.(page 14)

annoyed adj.

angry I was so annoyed with him for turning up late. He was annoyed at the way she tried to take over the whole meeting. My parents were rather annoyed (that) I hadn't told them about the accident. She was annoyed to discover that her husband had taken her car keys.

annoying

adj.

making you feel annoyed:

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It's really annoying when a train is late and there's no explanation. He's got a really annoying laugh. annoy

vt.

to make someone angry. Tim really annoyed me in the meeting this morning. I'm sorry - is my cough annoying you? [+ that] It annoys me that she just expects us to help. It really annoys me when people expect me to tip as well as pay a service charge in a restaurant. 4 Mike stands up and wanders over to the middle of the stage and “sits” down.(page14) wanders vi. or vt.

to walk around slowly in a relaxed way or without any clear purpose or direction. We spent the morning wandering around the old part of the city. She was found several hours later, wandering the streets, lost. He was here a moment ago but he's wandered off somewhere. 5 It got too crowded, so I moved the bench.（page 14）crowded adj.

If a place is crowded, it is full of people. By ten o'clock the bar was crowded. group noun

[C] a large group of people who have gathered together. A crowd of about 15 000 attended the concert. Step 6 Homework

1.

Review words and phrases in this unit. 2.

Review the whole unit. 3.

Preview the next unit

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