教材试题 Unit 2 (Workbook) Listening Task

Unit 2 King Lear(Workbook)LISTENING TASK1 Study the pictures and discuss with a partner what is happening in each picture. Try to work out who each person is.2 Listen to Part 5 of the play and number pictures A-E to show the order of the events.3 Listen again and answer the questions.1 Where do the Duke of Gloucester and Kent take Lear?2 What strange thing does Lear do that shows he is mad? What reason do they give for his madness?3 What news does the servant give Gloucester? What do they decide to do?4 Summarize what has happened to each of the following characters.A Goneril and ReganB Regans husbandC Gonerils husband, the Duke of Albany4 If you were going to perform this part of the play for an audience, what furniture would you need? Make a diagram of the stage showing where you would put the things.LISTENING TEXTKING LEARPart 5 (N = Narrator G = Gloucester K = Kent L = Lear) N： Kent is taken out of the stocks and allowed to go free. He finds Lear walking around the countryside in a storm. He tries to get Lear to go into an old hut to shelter from the storm, but Lear has become mad after all that has happened to him. An old friend, the Duke of Gloucester finds the King, and he and Kent take him to Gloucester home. Now they are in Gloucesters bedroom. G：Youll be much warmer in here. K：I thank you for your kindness. Come, Your Majesty, would you like to Iie down and rest?L： No, no, not yet. First I must see Goneril in prison. N： Lear points at a stool. L： Here she is. This is the daughter who kicked the king, her poor father. N： Here now points at a chair. L： And heres another. She has a heart of stone. Quick, quick, dont let her escape. K： He thinks the furniture is his daughters! The king grows mad. G： Its no wonder with all thats happened to him. He was once a great king and now he has nothing no home, no friends, no daughters, no soldiers. N： A servant rushes into the room, bows to everyone and then whispers in Gloucesters ear. (Scene：Hurried footsteps come into the room and stop. ) G：Excuse me. (Sound of whispering) The devils! Ive just been told that there is a plan to kill the king. Hes not safe here. Quickly, take the King to Dover where the Queen of France, Cordelia, his daughter, has just arrived with an army. He will be safe with her. N：They leave, holding Lear between them. Goneril, Regan and their husbands prepare to march to Dover to fight the French. However, Regans husband is killed in a fight and Gonerils husband, the Duke of Albany, hating the cruel way his wife is behaving, decides to leave her and go to fight with Cordelia and the French army. Answer key for Exercise 1：1 Picture A：Caius and another man are taking the King somewhere. It is raining. 2 Picture B：Gonerils husband, the Duke of Albany is leaving the castle on his horse. 3 Picture C：Lear seems to be mad. He is pointing at a chair and seems to be talking to it. 4 Picture D：Caius is leading Lear to some place (probably the French army), Lear does not look well. 5 Picture E：King Lear has probably just left Regans castle and is walking around alone in the rain. Answer key for Exercise 2：1 E 2 A 3 C 4 D 5 BSuggested answers to Exercise 3：1 To the Duke of Gloucesters castle. 2 Lear thinks the chair and the stool are his daughters. They say he has gone mad because he has lost everything. 3 There is a plan to kill the king. They decide to take Lear to Cordelia and the King of France. 4 A Gonefil, Regan and their husbands get ready to go to Dover in order to fight the French army. B Regans husband is killed in a fight. C Gonerils husband, the Duke of Albany, l