高中英语第二册上Unit4AgardenofpoemsTheFirstPeriod.docx

1、高中英语第二册上Unit4AgardenofpoemsTheFirstPeriod2019-2020年高中英语第二册上Unit4Agardenofpoems-TheFirstPeriodI. Brief Statements Based on the Unit Do you like poetry? Have you read a limerick? The whole contents of Unit 4 are about poetry. Four separate parts consist of this unit. First, the simple questions bring

2、the students back to the poems, songs and rhymes they have learned. By reciting them, the students will be struck by the words and colorful meaning of some poems. Then they are arranged to read and enjoy a special, funny poem-a limerick, listen to a passage about poems and talk about all kinds of po

3、ems written by some great masters. This will greatly raise the students interests about poems. They will be sure to want further information about English poems. The text“English Poetry”describes the advantages of reading poems. Plenty of detailed information about the history and development of Eng

4、lish poems is also given in the text. The parison of English and Chinese poems shows us a clear picture of the similarity and difference between the poems of the two countries. The text sings high praise for the two great translators -Lu Xun and Guo Moruo. However, at the end of the text, the writer

5、 tells us that something of the spirit of the original works is lost in translated works. This means that we should read original works instead of translated ones as many as possible. Plenty of exercises before and after the text get the students to understand the whole text and grasp its detailed i

6、nformation. The third part is mainly about past participle used as attribute and adverbial. Through different kinds of exercises the students can master this part well. At the end of this unit,a simple but interesting passage tells us a lot and gives us a perfect answer to the question why people re

7、ad and sometimes even write poetry. A simple and practical way to enjoy the poems is shown to us. This will encourage more students to join in the learning and appreciating poetry. The students will improve their ability to listen, speak, read and write as well as learning plenty of useful words and

8、 expressions after they learn the unit.II Teaching Goals1. Talk about English poetry.2. Practice expressing intention and decision.3. Learn about the Past Participle (3) used as Adverbial.4. Write about a poem. III. Teaching Time: Five periods IV. Background Information1. Shakespeare For any English

9、man, there can never be any discussion as to who is the worlds greatest poet and greatest dramatist. Only one name can possibly suggest itself to him: that of William Shakespeare. Every Englishman has some knowledge, however slight, of the work of our greatest writer. All of us use words, phrases an

10、d quotations from Shakespeares writings that have bee part of the mon property of English-speaking people. Most of the time we are probably unaware of the source of the words we use. rather like the old lady who was taken to see a performance of Hamlet and plained that it was full of well-know prove

11、rbs and quotations! Shakespeare, more perhaps than any other writer, made full use of the great resources of the English language. Most of us use about five thousand words in our normal employment of English; Shakespeare in his works used about twenty-five thousand! There is probably no better way f

12、or a foreigner (or an Englishman) to appreciate the richness and variety of the English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it. Such a study is well worth the effort (it is not, of course, remended to beginners), even though some aspects of English usage, and the mea

13、ning of many words, have changed since Shakespeares day. It is paradoxical that we should know paratively little about the life of the greatest English author. We know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon and he died there in 1616. He almost certainly attended the Grammar School in

14、 the town, but of this we cannot be sure. We know he was married there in 1582 to Anne Hathaway and that he had three children, a boy and two girls. We know that he spent much of his life in London writing his masterpieces. But this is almost all that we do know. However, what is important about Sha

15、kespeares life is not its incidental details but his products, the plays and the poems. For many years scholars have been trying to add a few facts about Shakespeares life to the small number we already possess and for an equally long time critics have been theorising about the plays. Sometimes, ind

16、eed, it seems that the poetry of Shakespeare will disappear beneath the great mass of ment that has been written upon it. Fortunately this is not likely to happen. Shakespeares poetry and Shakespeares people ( Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, Falstaff and the others) have long delighted not just the Englis

17、h but lovers of literature everywhere, and will continue to do so after the scholars and mentators and all their works have been forgotten.2. About Shakespeares Plays William Shakespeare ( 1564 1616), English dramatist and poet, is regarded by many people as the greatest English writer of all time.

18、He wrote his first play when he was twenty-six years old. Within about twenty- two years of this writing career, he gave to the world nearly forty plays, including edies, histories and tragedies. Of all his plays,“Hamlet” is perhaps the best known. His plays, written in the late 16th and early 17th

19、centuries for a small theatre, are today per- formed more often and in more countries than ever before. Many of the words first used by him, and many of his expressions have bee everyday usage in English speech and writing. Of Shakespeares plays have e down to us. Their probable chronological order

20、is arranged as follows： The First Period(15901600) 1590-Henry VI, Part I. Henry VI, Part II. 1591-Henry VI, Part III. 1592-Richard III. The edy of Errors. 1593-Titus Andronicus. The Taming of the Shrew. 1594-The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Loves Labours Lost. Romeo and Juliet. 1595-Richard II A Mid-sum

21、mer Nights Dream. 1596-King John. The Merchant of Venice. 1597-Henry IV, Part I. Henry IV, Part II. 1598-Much Ado About Nothing. Henry V. The Merry Wives of Windsor. 1599-Julius Caesar. As You Like It. 1600-Twelfth Night. The Second Period( 1601 1608) : 1601- Hamlet. 1602-Troilus and Cressida. Alls

22、Well That Ends Well. 1604-Measure for Measure. Othello. 1605-King Lear. Macbeth. 1606-Antony and Cleopatra. 1607-Coriolanus. Timon of Athens. 1608-Pericles. The Third period(16091612) :1609-Cymbeline.1610-The Winters Tale.1612-The Tempest. Henry VIII.The First PeriodTeaching Aims:1. Talking about po

23、ems to raise the students interest in poems.2. Listening to improve the students listening ability.3. Making up dialogues to improve the students speaking ability.Teaching Important Points:1. How to get the students to grasp the main idea of a passage by listening.2. How to improve the students spea

24、king ability.Teaching Difficult Point:How to direct the students to grasp the detailed information to finish the listening task.Teaching Methods:1. Pair work or group work to make every student join in the class activities.2. Discussion to make every student express himself freely.Teaching Aids:1. a

25、 tape recorder2. a puter3. a projectorTeaching Procedures:Step I Greetings and Revision T: Good morning, everyone! Ss: Good morning, Mrs/Mr ! T: Sit down, please. Have you finished your homework? Ss: Yes. T: Please take out your exercise-books. Lets check your homework. Wu Dong, (Teacher checks the

26、students homework. Then the teacher and students learn the new words of this period together. ) Step II Warming upT: Do you like poetry, SA? SA: Yes, I do. I like it very much. T: Why do you like it? SA: I learn a great deal from poetry. When I was a small child, my mother taught me the poem: 锄禾日当午，

27、汗滴禾下土。谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。And she explained the meaning of it. I know from a little child that grain es from pains and we should not waste whatever we eat. T: How about you, SB ? SB: I dont like poetry very much, because I had a bad memory when I was a small child. I like to make something. T： What English

28、poems, song words or rhymes have you read? Can you recite any?Sc：Ive read some English poems when I was in Junior Middle School. And it is like this:I Love the Sun I love the sun, I love the spring, I love the birds, That gaily sing. I love my school, I love my play, And I love all, That is nice and

29、 gay. SD: I remember Ive read a poem about the names of the months. It is: Thirty days have September. April, June and November, All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, And that has twenty-eight days clear, And twenty nine in each leap year. T: Very good. Now turn to Page 25. Do the

30、third part. Do you know“打油诗”? In English limerick is like“打油诗”in Chinese. It is a special, funny poem and is written just to make people laugh. Read the two limericks and enjoy them. (Students read the poems together and at last two students are asked to read them.) T: What is the pattern of each po

31、em? “pattern” means “格调”. SE: Its funny. It is written just to make others laugh, I think. T: Now, please answer the last question on Page 25.SF :To talk about poets and poetry, we often use the words ：“good, bad, interesting, funny, dull, meaningful, meaningless, etc”. Sa: We will also use“ moving,

32、 instructive, encouraging, make me happy, sad, etc”. T: What phrases do you think will be useful when you express your intentions and reach decisions? SH :When we want to express our intentions, we often say: Im going to; I intend/mean/plan to ; I will; I feel like (doing sth. ); Id like to ; Im ready to; I would rather notetc. SI：When we want to reach decisions, we often use: In my