Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending说课稿【一等奖】

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Unit 2 King Lear Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading 礼泉二中

朱红梅

Teaching goals教学目标

1．Target language目标语言

a．重点词汇和短语

disrespectful，shorten，modernize，responsibility，allocate，adore，pray，distribute，contradict，flattery，flatter，forecast。，oppose，deceitful，corrupt，

greedy，innocent，hear…out，on behalf of beyond question．

b．重点句子

1．For whichever of you has for me the most devotion 1 will give to her t11e best part of every thing I own．

2．Do not come between me and my anger．

3．Do not contradict me．

4．But sir，please hear me out．I speak on behalf of Cordelia．

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

6．Pack up your things and be gone from my kingdom．

2．Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to-analyze the characters in one of William Shakespeare's play “king Lear” with the target language．

3．Learning ability goals学能目标

Teach the students how to analyze characters in one of William Shakespeare's play “king Lear'’ and how t0 predict what will happen in the next

part of me play．

Teaching difficult points教学重难点

Teach the students how to analyze characters in one of William Shakespeare’s play “King Lear"．

Teaching methods教学方法

Elicitation，discussion and pair work．

Teaching aids教具准备

A computer，a tape recorder and a projector．

Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式

Step I

Warming Up

1.Greetings Task1:Answer the following questions.

1. Is it important to show love and respect for your parents? Why?

2. How do you show love and respect for your parents?

Task2:

Look at picture, What are the famous four tragedies of Shakespeare? Hamlet（

哈姆雷特）

Othello（奥赛罗）

King Lear（李尔王）

Macbeth（麦克白）

Task3

Some questions about ancient China. What was the traditional attitude towards the emperor? Who succeeded him when the emperor died?

2 What did the emperor do to keep his servants loyal to him? What happened to the servants who were not loyal?

3 Who decided who the emperor's children would marry? For what reasons were marriages arranged?

Step II Pre-reading Glance quickly through Part 1 of the play and answer the following questions. .

List the characters who appear in this part of the play

King Lear and

his three

daughters Goneril,

Regan,

Cordelia the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall, the Duke of Kent

Step III Reading TASK1：Read the play and complete the plot diagram.

Setting:

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:

Flattery VS honesty

Words VS action Rising 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.

TASK2：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 _______.

Step III

Analyze the text AUTHOR

TYPE WORK

PROTAGONIST

SETTING(TIME)

FORESHADOWING

William Shakespeare

Play

Lear，king of Britain

Eighth century B．C．

Goneril

and

Regan’s plotting

in

Part

I

foreshadows their later cruel treatment Of Lear．

TONE

THEMES

Serious and tragic

Justice，authority versus chaos，reconciliation，

love and forgiveness，redemption

MOTIFS

Step IV

Comprehending

Madness，betrayal，death

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

S: King Lear is a hard-hearted, corrupt, hotheaded, bad-tempered and foolish king. S: Goneril and Regan are deceitful greedy, hardhearted and cunning ladies.

While

Cordelia is an honest, truthful respectful innocent and lovely girl. S: Duke of Cornwall is a hard-hearted, deceitful and bad-tempered man, while Duke of Albany is an honest, truthful, loving and loyal gentleman. S: Duke of Kent is an honest, respectful, loving, truthful and loyal nobleman. Step Ⅴ Homework

1.

Finish off Ex. 1 & 2 on Page 60.

2.

Act the play out with your mates.