【精品】高中英语（人教大纲）第二册上：Unit4 A garden of poems(第二课时)

The Second PeriodTeaching Aims:1. Learn the following words and expressions: call up, glory, pattern, belong to, absence, translate, come into being, play with, despite, time, remindof, lesd to2. Learn about poets and poems of different countries.3. Improve the students reading ability.Teaching Important Points:1. The usages of some useful words and expressions.2. The similarities and differences between the Chinese and English poets and poems.Teaching Difficult Point:How to grasp and remember the detailed information of the reading material.Teaching Methods:1. Fast-reading to grasp the main idea of the text.2. Talking method to get every student to want to express himself in English.3. Pair work or group work to get every student to join in the class activities.Teaching Aids:1. a tape recorder2. a computer3. a projectorTeaching Procedures:Step I Greetings and Revision(Teacher greets the whole class as usual and checks the students home work.Then teacher and the students learn the new words of this period together. )Step II Reading(A few minutes later.)T: Are you ready?Sa : Yes.T: Who will give us the answers?Sa: Ill try. The style and atmosphere in the poems by Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly and Keats often remind readers of Du Fu and Li Bai.Sb: The works by Donne and Marvell reminds Chinese readers of Su Dongpo.T: Very well. Now read the text again, and try to grasp as much detailed in formation as you can. Then do the exercise on the screen.(Teacher shows the screen. ) Read the text carefully and choose the best answer for each of the following questions:1. Modern English came into being from about the middle of the_ century.A. 16th B. 17th C. 18th D. 19th2. The poetry of Marvell reminds Chinese readers of the poems by_.A. Du Fu B. Li BaiC. Su Dongpo D. Gou Moruo3. Byrons “Isles of Greece” is an example of_.A. a sonnet B. romantic poetry!C. nature poetry D. modern poetry4. The wider public in China discovered English poetry at the beginningof the_ century.A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th5. The advantage of reading English poetry in Chinese translation is_.A. that you have more adviceB. that something of the spirit is lostC. that you understand it betterD. that you learn how to express yourself in new waysSuggested answers:1. A 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. DT: Youve done very well. By the way, have you noticed that there are somebold words in the text? Read the text again and find out what the words inbold refer to. If necessary, you can have a discussion with your partner. Some minutes later, well check the answers.(Students begin to read the text and have a discussion. After a few minutes,teacher says the following. )T: Can you find the answers? (Ss: Yes.)Please tell us.Sc :“That”in the first paragraph refers to “poetry plays with sounds, words and grammar”.Sd :“its” in the fourth paragraph refers to“the poetryn s” .Se : “their” refers to “the nature poems by Wordsworth, Byrons Isles of Greece and the sonnets and long poems by Shelley and Keats”. And it is in the fifth paragraph, on Page 28.Sf : “they”in the sixth paragraph refers to “modern poets”.Sg :“They” in the third line from the bottom of the last paragraph refers to“poems and literature”.T: Are there any different opinions?Ss : No, they are right.T: (Teachers shows the screen.) There are some language points you shouldpay attention to. Read the sentences and try to master the usages of thewords and phrases. 1. play with: The little boy is playing with his dolls.(In the text“play with the sounds , words and grammar”means “to use sounds , words and grammar perfectly”.)2. call up. I called up my brother and told him the good news.He was called up at the beginning of the war.3. despite: He came to school despite (in spite of) his serious illness.4. time: In his speech, he expressed the feelings of the time.5. belong to: Taiwan belongs to China.6. absence: Darkness is the absence of light.7. remindofRemind me of the letter.8. lead to: Differences of opinion led to fierce arguments.9. come into being: When did the Great Wall come into being? Step III Listening and Reading AloudT: Now lets listen to the tape. When I play it for the first time, just listen. Then Ill play it for the second time. This time, you can follow it in a low voice. Then read the text aloud, paying attention to your pronunciation andintonation. Do you understand? OK. Lets begin.(Teacher goes among the students, answers the students questions and corrects the mistakes.)Step IV DiscussionT: Now please turn to Page 29,Post-read-ing 4、5 and 6. Have a discussion aboutthem. Later, Ill ask some of you to give us the answers.(After a while. )T: Wholl give us the answer to the fourth?S1 : Ill try. If a poem is translated into another language, its changed a bit. Thats to say, something of the spirit of the original works is lost.T： Quite right. Lets compare a poem by Chao Zhi with its translation.(Teacher shows the screen. )七步诗曹植煮豆燃豆萁，豆在釜中泣；“本是同根生，相煎何太急？”They were boiling beans on a beanstalk fire,Came a plaintive voice from the pot,“ ( ),why since we sprang from the selfsame root,Should you kill me with anger hot?”T： From the poem above, we can find that when a poem is translated into another language, its rhythm and rhyme, the figures of speech, etc. are differentfrom the original workSuggested answers to Ex. 5 and Ex. 6 ：5. They can be ties that bring the East and the West together and fine wineenjoyed by the East and the West.6. It means that when people from one country read the poems from another, they will be struek by what is inside the poem, so they will understand each other and become good friends.Step V Summary and HomeworkT: Today were learnt a text about poems and poets. Read the text after class and collect as much i