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西安文理学院外国语言文学系教 案 2009-2010 学年 第 1 学期 教研室 基础教研室 课程名称 英语阅读 授课对象 09级本科1、2、3、4班 授课教师 薛维 职 务 副教授 教材名称 英语泛读教程1 2009年 8 月 泛读1 课程教案授课题目（教学章节或主题）：Unit 1 Little House in the Big Woods授课类型面授授课时间第 3 周Background knowledge： Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in Pepin, Wisconsin, in February 1867. She was the second of four daughters born to Caroline (Quiner) and Charles Philip Ingalls. Wilders early life was spent constantly moving from place to place. Her father called himself a pioneer man and dreamed of going west to explore and settle on unknown territory. They traveled through thick woods, over barren prairies, through the swollen Mississippi, and over icy waters all in their covered wagon. They moved from Missouri, to Kansas, to Wisconsin, to Minnesota, to Iowa and finally settled in De Smet, South Dakota, where her father claimed a homestead. Laura and her three sisters grew up in De Smet. Wilder, however, never could quite see this place as home. The many moves in her early childhood made Laura come to the conclusion that the only way to know that she was truly home was to have her family around her. Following in her fathers dreams, Wilder called herself a pioneer girl and made her home where her family took her. Teaching Ways and Objectives:：Using the information above to lead in new lessonTalking about the type of this compositionAnalyzing the text and then summaryTo know about the authorTo comprehend the textTo understand the vocabulary concerned with the textLearn how to preview a bookTo practice the skills about fast readingTeaching Procedure:Warming-upText1 Little House in the Big WoodsFast ReadingPractice and exercises：Comprehension ExercisesDiscussing topicsVocabulary ExercisesTestingFollow-up ExercisesHomework:Home ReadingKnow more about how children feel towards their dear ones.References：Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishWebsters Dictionary of American EnglishA Chinese-English Dictionary (Revised Edition)A New English- Chinese Dictionary (Enlarged and Updated)Readers DigestNews WeekTeaching ContentsNotesLanguage Notes:1. Pa said he must go to town to trade the furs of the wild animals he had been trapping all winter.The word trade is often used as a noun. But here trade is a verb, means to buy and sell goods. There are many such conversions in English.He watered the wine before drinking it. （water, verb,掺水） 2. Ma was worried, but Pa said that by starting before sun-up and walking very fast all day he could get home again before dark.Sun-up is an American expression for sunrise. Note that sometimes American English and British English have different words for the same thing.3. The sun sank out of sight, the woods grew dark, and he did not come. Ma started supper and set the table, but he did not come. It was time to do the chores, and still he had not come.Note that the sentence he did not come has been repeated three times in this short paragraph. The repetition stresses the anxiety with which the children are waiting for Pas coming back.4. Its sides were of tin, with places cut in them for the candle-light to shine through.The preposition of here means made from. e.g. The dress is of silk.The crown is of gold.5. The woods were dark, but there was a gray light on the snowy path, and in the sky there were a few faint stars.Note that the word woods is different word from its singular form, wood. Woods mean a place trees grow thickly, smaller than a forest. In English, some nouns will carry on new meanings when they are used in their plural forms. See more examples:SingularPluralcolor颜色军旗custom风俗，习惯海关，关税damage损害赔偿金6. But he could have hurt us, couldnt he? she asked.Note that the question is put in its subjunctive mood. From the context we know that Mas consoling remarks make Laura feels better. When she asks this question, she knows well that the bear will not hurt them because they have protections. So what she really implies is that without those protections, the bear will have hurt them. 7. She was sitting up late, waiting for Pa, and Laura and Mary meant to stay awake, too, till he came.The phrase mean to do something is synonymous to intend to do something, or plan to do something. 泛读1 课程教案授课题目（教学章节或主题）：Unit 2 Fools Paradise授课类型面授授课时间第 4 周Background knowledge： Text 1About the author:Singer, Isaac Bashevis , 1904-91, American novelist and short-story writer in the Yiddish language, younger brother of I. J. Singer, b. Poland. He emigrated to the United States in 1935 and worked in New York City as a journalist on the Jewish Daily Forward. In 1943 he became an American citizen. Singers work, often frankly sexual, draws heavily on Jewish folklore, religion, and mysticism. Though he wrote in Yiddish, he was fluent in English and closely supervised the English translations of his works. In 1978 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Yiddish-language author to be so honored. Many of his later works treat the loneliness of old age and the sense of alienation produced in Jews by the dissolution of values through assimilation with the Gentile world. His novels include The Family Moskat (tr. 1950), Satan in Goray (tr. 1955), The Manor (tr. 1967), Enemies (tr. 1972), Shasha (tr. 1978), The Penitent (tr. 1983), Scum (tr. 1991), and the posthumously published Shadows on the Hudson (tr. 1997). Singer is also highly regarded for his imaginative, perceptive, and witty short stories. Collections include Gimpel the Fool (tr. 1961), The Spinoza of Market Street (tr. 1961), Old Love (tr. 1979), and The Death of Methuselah (tr. 1985). He also wrote books for children and several plays, notably The Mirror (tr. 1973).More about the storyThe story has been very popular and has been adapted to the stage. The following is a comment on a version of chamber opera. It can help you understand the story.The chamber opera Fools Paradise is inspired by distinguished Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singers story of the same name. How is it that such a short childrens story should be worthy of an entire opera? While it is a simple tale, it encompasses the full scope of lifes experiences. Childhood, adolescence, love, death, burial, resurrection and wedding all serve to make this a dramatic story which is bigger than life.The opera is intended for children. In approaching such a project one must question whether composing especially for children is any different from composing for adults. Children do not ask for much; they have a great deal of intuition and a wealth of imagination. In fact, in many ways all they ask of the adult author or composer is to speak to them in clear simple language and allow for some mystery and magic. Ignite their imaginations and they can do the rest on their own!There are seven characters in the opera. Each one of them is attached to an instrument or a specific group of instruments. The diversity of instrumentation and unique orchestration made the use of symphonic orchestra unnecessary. There is, in fact, no doubling of instruments except for the clarinets. The importance of each part is dramatically increased as the soloists display the full palette of their instruments abilities. This use of only one instrument of a kind results in a large chamber ensemble with a new quality of sound and acoustic balance.Finally, there is the beautiful message of Fools Paradise. In its absurd way, a simple but important moral lesson is conveyed: life is better than death and wonderful Paradise is nowhere else but here-on earth. This is a lesson relevant to everyone, children and grown-ups alike.Teaching Ways and Objectives:：Using the information above to lead in new lessonTalking about the type of this compositionAnalyzing the text and then summaryTo know about the authorTo comprehend the textTo understand the vocabulary concerned with the textTo practice the skills about fast readingTeaching Procedure:Warming-up Text1 Fools ParadiseFast ReadingPractice and exercises：Comprehension ExercisesDiscussing topicsVocabulary ExercisesTestingFollow-up ExercisesHomework:Home Reading Read Alice in WonderlandReferences：Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishWebsters Dictionary of American EnglishA Chinese-English Dictionary (Revised Edition)A New English- Chinese Dictionary (Enlarged and Updated)Readers DiggestTeaching ContentsNotesText1Language notes1. It was taken for granted that when they grew up they would marry. To take something for granted means to believe something to be true or certain to happen .2. In paradise one ate the meat of wild oxen and the flesh of whales; one drank the wine that the Lord reserved for the just; one slept late into the day; and one had no duties.Just here is an adjective, meaning honorable and fair. The just refers to those people who are just. 注意定冠词与某些形容词或分词搭配，可以表示某一类的人或某一类的事情或概念，例如：The sick （病人）are here very well cared for.The young （年轻人）are impatient; they want changes.The oppressed （被压迫者）and the exploited （被剥削者）all look forward to their liberation.There will always be such opposites as the right and the wrong（正与误）, the good and the evil（善与恶）, the beautiful and the ugly（美与丑）.3. The boy lay on his bed, pale and thin from fasting.Fast means to eat little or no food, esp. for religious reasons. Note the preposition from here means because of, as a result of. e.g. She suffered from heart disease.She was exhausted from all the sleepless nightsThe explorers died from cold before they reached the North Pole.4. The doctor requested that a room be prepared to look like paradise.Note that after the word requested the that-clause is in the subjunctive mood.5. Atzel was beside himself with joy.Beside oneself means in a state of such great emotional excitement or confusion that one lacks self-control. 该习语后面常跟with短语做原因状语，介词with的宾语常见的还有anger, fear, grief, hatred等。6. It was not until after the wedding that Atzel learned how Dr. Yoetz had cured him, and that he had lived in a fools paradise.Not until is used when we talk about an action that does not happen before the given moment. 泛读1 课程教案授课题目（教学章节或主题）：Unit 3 Young William Shakespeare授课类型面授授课时间第 5 周Background knowledge： William Shakespeare, 1564-1616Shakespeare lived a very ordinary life. He was born in a small Midlands market-town (Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire), where his father was a glove-maker. He probably attended the local grammar school, and when he left school, he probably worked in his fathers business, making and selling gloves. When he was eighteen he married a local girl, Anne Hathaway (who was already pregnant with Shakespeares child). The babya daughter, Susanna was born in 1583, and in 1585 Shakespeare became the father of twins, Judith and Hamnei.Births, marriages, and deaths are the stuff of local records. But William left his family in Stratford, and went to make his fortune in London. He attached himself to a company of players under the patronage of the Lord Chamberlain, and followed their success: they later became the Kings Men, and the leading London company. Shakespeare acted some small parts and he took a large share in theatrical management. His financial activities extended beyond the limits of the playhouse and, in the course of time, Shakespeare became a gentleman and a rich one too.With a lot of money and his own coat-of arms, Shakespeare retired from London and went back to Stratford, where he bought the finest house in the town and lived there until his death in 1616. He was buried in the church of the Holy Trinity, where he had been baptized in 1564.Shakespeare lived in exciting, and dangerous, times. He was still a boy when the Pope declared that the Queen of England was a bastard and absolved all Roman Catholics from their allegiance to her. There were plots to overthrow the monarchy and conquer the kingdom: Elizabeth was assailed by the Spanish Armada in 1588, and her successor, James l, was threatened by the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. The first London theatre was built in Elizabeths reign, and the Authorized Version of the Bible was published for King James. Moralists, as always, worried about the state of the world and scientists argued about its position: was the earth the centre of the universe, as they had always been told, or was it only another of the suns satellites? William ShakespeareAll these things-and not these alonehad their influence on Shakespeares writing. His earliest dramatic efforts look English history for their subject: very patriotic audiences enjoyed watching the great moments of their own past, and Shakespeare was an intensely patriotic writer (who also had a shrewd sense of business). He went on to write clever, romantic comedies, imitating (and excelling) the manner of his university-trained contemporaries .Towards the end of the sixteenth century the mood darkened. It was a time of personal distressone of Shakespeares twins had died and , public anxiety. Earlier in her reign Elizabeth I had been honoured as the virgin Queen, but ii later became a matter of concern that she would die and leave no heir to the throne. The theatre of this period favoured plays that were melancholic, bitter, and satiric. Shakespeare confronted social, especially sexual, problems in his plays, he raised awkward questions, and, offered no easy answers. These Problem Plays were followed by the great tragedies, and then the romancesplays with a happiness which is lost, and a greater joy which is found.A few of Shakespeares plays had been published before the dramatist died, but most of them were not available to readers until 1623, when two fellowactors published all thirty-six plays (Pericles was omitted) in a massive folio volume. Some poems were printed during the authors lifetime. There were two long narrative poems on classical themes, and some sonnets which seem to tell of two love-affairs, but without giving away any secrets. The details of Shakespeares personal life are hidden from us. Matthew Arnold uttered the frustration of all biographers when he wrote, in a sonnet To Shakespeare: We ask and askThou smilest and art still.Teaching Ways and Objectives:：Using the information above to lead in new lessonTalking about the type of this compositionAnalyzing the text and then summaryTo know about the authorTo comprehend the textTo understand the vocabulary concerned with the textTo practice the skills about fast readingTeaching Procedure:Warming-up Text1Young William ShakespeareFast ReadingPractice and exercises：Comprehension ExercisesDiscussing topicsVocabulary ExercisesTestingFollow-up ExercisesHomework:Home ReadingKnow the best playwright in England.References：Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishWebsters Dictionary of American EnglishA Chinese-English Dictionary (Revised Edition)A New English- Chinese Dictionary (Enlarged and Updated)The Life and Times of William Shakespeare, by Jennifer Bassett, Oxford University, 2000Teaching ContentsNotesLanguage Notes1. We made lots of plans, but nothing ever came of them.The phrase come of here means to result from.e.g. I doubt if any good will come of these peace initiatives.The car crashed into a tree - thats what comes of buying cheap tyres!2. Lots of church-going, and no singing or dancing.Its a fragmentary sentence, the complete version being she does lots of church-going but no singing or dancing or there are lots of church-going in her life but no singing or dancing. Please note how, through contrast, the sentence effectively sketches out Annes personality.3. An actor had to be versatile.Versatile means capable of doing many things completely.4.I knew that Will loved that boy of hisred-haired, bright as a new penny, full of life.The word bright, in collocation with a new penny, carries multiple implications like clever and intelligent, cheerful and lively, and even promising. Idioms like bright as a new penny, or rather, bright as a button, are abundant in English, e.g. pretty as a picture, strong as a horse, stubborn as a mule.5.To be, or not to bethat is the question.The link verb be can be interpreted in many ways, e.g. to live, to do it, etc. Thats also partly why the line has gained such universal popularity; people tend to quote this line when they are torn between two options.6. .To die, to sleep- To sleep-perchance to dream. Ay, theres the rub. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause. Perchance means perhaps, rub the doubt or difficulty, shuffle off to get rid of. This mortal soil refers to trouble or turmoil of mortal life. Give us pause means to make us hesitate. 泛读1 课程教案授课题目（教学章节或主题）：Unit 4 Migratory Birds and Coffee授课类型面授授课时间第 6-7 周Background knowledge： Text 1Migratory Birds Face StarvationAbout 50,000 migratory birds may not be able to find enough water and food this winter in a 24-square-kilometer wetland that has dried up on Chongming Islands east coast, bird conservationists warn.Wetland manager Shanghai East Coast International Wetland Co Ltd is pumping water into the area, hoping to improve the habitat before the birds fly in on their annual migration in October.In the past, fish and crab ponds were established in the wetland, which is part of the 326-square-kilometer East Coast Internationally Important Wetland.But the artificial ponds