高中英语Unit 15 The necklace(1)旧人教第一册下

Unit 15 The necklace.Teaching Goals:1.Talk about drama and theatre.2.Use the modal verbs:must,can/could,may/might(1)ask for permission;(2)ask about possibilities3.Write and act a simple play.Teaching Time:Five periods.Background Information：1.About the AuthorGuy de Maupassant,the well-known French shortstory writer and novelist,was born on August 5,1850.When he was young,he had a great interest in literature.He practised writing literary works under the guidance of the famous novelist Flaubert.And Balzac was another teacher of his.So he wrote in the tradition of 19th century French realism,and became one of the most famous French critical realists of the late 19th century.Maupassants stories were built around the everyday life of the simple humble people.He had a fine use of irony.His style was direct and simple,with attention to realistic details.He saw clearly the toil,sufferings and the bitterly ironic happenings in human lives.At his best,he was able to put into a few pages a life story which would take other writers a whole volume to describe.Most of Maupassants works are about the peasant life in Normandy,the France-Prussian War and the life of the petty bourgeoisie.As he had held a number of government positions in Parice since 1871,he became familiar with the life of the government workers.And this experience helped him create his best short story“The Diamond Necklace”,from which our present text is adapted.Almost a hundred years after its first publication the story still touches the readers deeply to their hearts.Maupassant suffered a great deal from illness in his late life.Yet he struggled to continue writing with tremendous will power.He had but a short life,and died at the age of 43(on July 6,1893).2.About the TextThis short play is a stage version of The Necklace,one of Maupassants best-known short stories.It tells about a vain woman,wife of a small clerk,who borrowed a diamond necklace to go to the palace ball.But unfortunately she lost the necklace.Then she and her husband had to work ten long years to pay for it.The heroine was named Mathilde,who used to be a pretty girl.Being born in a clerks family,she had no hope of marrying a man of wealth and position.So she let herself be married to Pierre Loisel,a small clerk in a government office.They were not rich and lived a simple life.One evening her husband brought home an invitation for the palace ball.It was the first time in their lives that they had been invited to an important occasion like this.But the wife did not feel happy at all,because she had no dress for the ball.As the ball was very important to Pierre,he decided to buy her a new dress,which cost about four hundred francs.That was all he had saved.But Mathilde had no jewellery and she didnt want to go to the palace without jewelley.Her husband suggested that she should go and borrow some jewellery from a rich friend of hers,Jeanne Forrestier.Jeanne was very kind and friendly.She brought out her jewelry for Mathilde to choose from.Mathilde borrowed a diamond necklace.Mathilde was the prettiest woman that night at the palace.She was a great success.All the men wished to dance with her.She danced madly,forgetting herself,her husband,her home and all.On the way home Mathilde found that the necklace was gone.She and her husband returned to the palace and looked for it in every room but couldnt find it,and they never saw it again.They had to borrow thirty-six thousand francs,buy a diamond necklace exactly like the one they had lost and return it to Jeanne.Then they worked hard for ten years to pay for the money.At the end of ten hard years,Mathilde had changed a great deal and looked so old that Jeanne couldnt recognize her when they met in a park one day.When Jeanne heard Mathildes story,she was amazed.She told Mathilde that the necklace she had lent her ten years before was made of glass.It was worth five hundred francs at the most.The First PeriodTeaching Aims:1.Learn and master the following words:footprintshoeprintfingerprinttiremysterymysteriousscarydormitory2.Do some listening.3.Do some speaking by acting out some short plays.Teaching Important Points:1.Do listening and speaking practice.2.Improve the students listening ability.3.Improve the students speaking ability by acting out some short plays in English.Teaching Difficult Points:1.How to finish the task of speaking.2.How to make up short plays.Teaching Methods:1.Warming up to arouse the students interest in creating good stories.2.Listening-and-choosing activity to help the students go through with the listening material and understand it.3.Making and acting out simple plays to practise the students speaking ability.4.Individual,pair or group work to make every student work in class.Teaching Aids:1.a tape recorder2.a slide projector3.a computer for multimedia useTeaching Procedures:Step . GreetingsGreet the whole class as usual.Step . Lead-inT:Have you read thrilling and exciting stories?S1:Yes,Ive read one.It is Huckleberry Finn.It was written by Mark Twain.It tells us something about a boy who met with much danger and trouble.T:Have you seen the soul-stirring film?S2:Yes.I have seen the film“Titanic”.It tells us that the largest and finest ship at that time sank because it hit an iceberg.It is terrible to see the ship sink under the sea.T:I think most of you have seen the film.It is really a good and soul-stirring film.It won its Oscar.It is well worth seeing.OK.Which of you had adventurous experience?S3:I had one.T:Would you like to tell us your experience?S3:Id love to.One afternoon when I went home after school,I found our door open.Suddenly I felt something happen.It was a thief who broke into my house.I was about to leave for help when the thief saw me,He tied me to a chair and took away our money and some valuable things.It took me an hour to untie the rope and call the police.T:What an advanture experience!Sometimes,all of us are likely to be in trouble.What should we do when we get into trouble?Now well have a discussion in pairs.Begin,please.(After two minutes,teacher collects some advice from the students and shows them on the screen.)DosFind a good chance to get rid of dangerous situationCall 110 for help.Ask neighbours for help.Use your clever head to defeat the other.DontsDont enter the dangerous situation.Dont fight with him,for you are weak.T:Your advice is very good.Step . Warming upT:Today a foreign senior boy and a Chinese senior girl are travelling on a small island.They have adventurous experience.Now open your books and look at the pictures in Unit 15.Make up a story about something happening to the boy and the girl.Prepare it in four groups.(Teacher gives students enough time to prepare it.Then ask one group to read the story.)T:(After some minutes.)Are you ready?Now Ill ask one group to read the story to the whole class.Which group will try?Group 2:A foreign senior boy and a Chinese senior girl were travelling on a small island when they met an old wise man with long beard.They talked with the man,who had a map in his hand.He told them there were valuables in a certain castle according to the map.So the boy and the girl came to a secret chambers in a mysterious castle on the island and they found a box full of jewellery.They were very excited.And they were thinking about what to do when a huge monster appeared.The monster was angry with them and began to run after them.They were frightened and ran quickly.But the monster went on running after them and they couldnt get away from the monster.At that time the wise old man suddenly appeared before them and helped them leave the dangerous situation.At last he told them that everyone liked treasures.But only when we worked hard by hand to get treature could we own them.T:Thank you for your story.Step . ListeningT:Now lets do some listening.Listen to a short play on the tape.The play has three scenes.There are two questions for each scene.First well learn some new words on the blackboard.(Write the words“footprints,shoeprints,fingerprints”on the blackboard.)We have known“print”means“a mark mad e on a surface showing the shape pattern of a thing”.Can you guess the meaning of the words?S4:Ill try.I think“footprint”is a mark made by the foot of a person or an animal.S5:I think“shoeprint”is a mark made by a sole of a shoe.S6:“fingerprint”is a mark or pattern of lines made by the end of a finger.T:(Teacher shows some pictures on the screen.)Yes.You are right.Look at the pictures.(Teacher points at them.)This is a footprint.This is a shoeprint and this is a fingerprint.footprintshoeprintfingerprint(Teacher writes the words“tire,mystery”on the blackboard and explain them.)T:Now look at your books on Page 11 and go through the information and make sure you know what you must do before listening.(After a while.)T:Now,do you know what you should do after you listen to the tape?Ss:Yes.T:Ill play the tape three times.For the first time,you just listen to get a general idea.Then listen to the tape a second time and do the exercise.At last you can check your answers when I play the taperecorder for the third time.Lets begin.(If the students have any difficulty,teacher plays it once more.At last,teacher checks the answers.)Step . SpeakingT:You have read,seen and heard many exciting stories.Have you written any plays?Ss:No,we havent.T:Today well write one to give the rein to your imagination.Before doing it,first read the situations and choose one of them to make up a short play,according to the situation you choose.Meanwhile,pay attention to the meanings of a few words:scary,mysterious,dormitory.(Teacher writes them on the blackboard and explains them to the students.)Now you are divided into three groups.One group,one short play.After ten minutes,I will ask each group to act out the play in front of the class.(After some time,teacher asks each group to act out the play before class.)Sample plays:The Secret of the Black Tower(It is a dark night in April.Three friends have been hiking in the mountains all day.)A:Its getting dark.I think we cant go home tonight.B:Im tired.Wed better find a place to spend the night.C:Where shall we go?There is no house for us to live in.B:Look!There is a tower over there.Lets go to see if we can spend the night there.(They walk to the tower and enter it.)A:Its so dark here.But we have no choice but so stay here.C:Its so large and empty.I feel afraid.B:Dont be afraid.There are even no windows in the walls.Nobody can move in if we put a big stone at the entrance.(They go to bed and try to fall asleep.Suddenly they hear a sound.)A:Listen!B:It may be a mouse.A:Really?Let me see.(Lighting a match and walking around)Oh,dear!B and C:What happened?A:Come and have a look.There is a man lying on the ground.B:A man?What about him?Can he breathe?(B and C