Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehendingppt课件课堂实录

Unit 2 King Lear Period 1 Warming-up, Reading I Teaching Goals: (1)Enable the students to-analyze the characters in one of William Shakespeare's play “king Lear” with the target language．

(2) Enable the students to master some knowledge about Shakespeare and his plays

Teaching Procedures: 

Warming-up Step 1. Leading- in

Purpose: to let the students think about their relationships with parents

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A love test: ask the students to do a love test

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1. Do you love your parents?

Yes.____

No.____ •

2. How much do you love them?

A. very much

B. So-so

C. Very little

D. Not at all

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3. Which of the following best describe your feelings towards your father?

A. I love 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 sentences)

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4. If you were married, whom would you love more, your wife/ husband or your parents?

My wife/ husband__________

My parents_______________

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5. If your father gave you 1,000yuan on condition that you tell him 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 Step 2: Discussion: ask the students to discuss: 

How do we show love and respect to our parents? 

If we have problems in getting along with our parents? How to communicate with them?

Purpose: lead the students to think about how to get along with parents •

Requirements:

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Four students a group

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3 minutes for discussion

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2 minutes for presentation

Step3. Background knowledge Purpose: To provide the students with information about Shakespeare and his plays, let the students prepared for the reading part William Shakespeare

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A dramatist,

an actor, a poet

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The greatest and most famous English writer

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A master of language and a prolific writer

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38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.

Shakespeare’s Quotes

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A light heart lives long .

The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long .

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

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Reading

Step 1. Pre-reading

Purpose: to provide some background knowledge of drama and King Lear

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What is a drama?

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.

Six Elements of drama

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Plot – what happens in a play; the order of events, the story as opposed to the theme; what happens rather than what it means. –

Theme – what the play means as opposed to what happens (plot); the main idea within the play. –

Character– the personality or the part an actor represents in a play; a role played by an actor in a play. –

Diction/Language/Dialogue – the word choices made by the playwright and the enunciation of the actors delivering the lines. –

Music/Rhythm – by music meant the sound, rhythm and melody of the speeches. –

Spectacle – the visual elements of the production of a play; the scenery, costumes, and special effects in a production.

King Lear •

Considered as William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy Key words: Flattery, honesty, loyalty, Respect, love Step 2. Fast reading Purpose: To get the gist of the passage.

To correctly understand some information given in the text.

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Ask the student to listen to the tape and read the text quickly and try to answer the while-reading questions 

List the characters who appear in this part of the play 

Which of the characters do you think are shown in the picture on the right? 

Use the pictures that illustrate Part 1 of the play to predict what is going to happen? Suggested answer:

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King Lear, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, the Duke of Albany, the Duke of Cornwell, Kent

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King Lear and his three daughters

Step 3. Intensive reading Purpose: to get the students to learn the details of the text. 1. The teacher Read King Lear’s first speech and asked a student to summarize what Lear has decided to do. 2. Ask four students role play Lear, Regan, Goneril, and Cordelia’s part

Ask why do the daughters answer in different way?

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Ask two students role-play Lear and Kent

Ask why does Lear became angry with Kent?

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Fill the diagram

Requirements:

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Two students a group

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Fill the diagram in 5 minutes

Setting

Conflict

Rising action climax

Suggested answer:

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King Lear has three daughters. He is old and wants to divide him kingdom among his daughters, he is going to do a “love test”.

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Flattery VS honesty; words VS actions 

His first two daughters flatter him with nice words, but the youngest daughter insists on telling the truth 

Hearing the truth, the king gets very angry. He gives his land to his first two daughters and leaves nothing to the youngest one 5. Answer the questions for comprehending

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Why does King Lear want to give away his kingdom? 2.

How is he going to decide to give the best part of his kingdom to?

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At beginning of the play, of which daughter is King Lear most fond? 4.

Who tries to defend Cordelia? What happens to him when he speaks out?

Suggested answer:

1. Lear is old and tried and wants to retire

2. He is going to ask his three daughters to tell him how much they love him and divide up the kingdom according to their answers 3. Cordelia

4. Kent tries to defend Cordelia but Lear banishes him 6. Study the characters Learn the adjectives that describe people’s character.

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Honest, loyal, hot-headed, truthful, deceitful, hard-hearted, respectful, corrupt, greedy, innocent, foolish, cunning, bad-tempered.

Try to use those adjectives to fill the form

Characters

Relationships to King Words to describe personality

Lear daughter King Lear Goneril

Regan Cordelia Duke of Albony Duke of Cornwell Son-in-law Duke of Kent Suggested answer:

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Hot-hearted, hard-hearted, foolish, bad-tempered 

Deceitful, corrupt, greedy, cunning 

Daughter, Deceitful, corrupt, greedy, cunning 

Daughter, Honest, truthful, loving. innocent 

Not know yet 

Son-in-law, Not know yet 

Friend, Loyal, respectful, honest, truthful 7. Role-playing

Requirements:

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Fours students a group

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One plays the king, one plays Regan, and another one plays Cordelia, one plays the Duke of Kent

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The one who plays the Duke interview the three characters to find out what they really think 

5 minutes for role-playing, 3 minutes for presentation. 8. Further discussion:

Discuss these questions in your group

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Do you think these questions are true to life?

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If you were King Lear, what would you do to divide up your kingdom among your children? Homework: •

Preview the exercises in learning about language