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

1、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

2、 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 m

3、ain 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 gree

4、ts 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 Wor

5、dsworth, 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

6、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 Bai C. Su Dongpo D

7、. Gou Moruo3. Byron's “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 beginning of the_ century.A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th 5. The advantage of reading English poetry in Chinese

8、 translation is_. A. that you have more advice B. that something of the spirit is lost C. that you understand it better D. that you learn how to express yourself in new waysSuggested answers: 1. A 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. D T: You've done very well. By the way, have you noticed that there are somebold

9、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, we'll check the answers. (Students begin to read the text and have a discussion. After a few minutes,teacher says the following.

10、 ) 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, Byron's Isles of Greece and the

11、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, the

12、y are right. T: (Teachers shows the screen.) There are some language points you should pay attention to. Read the sentences and try to master the usages of the words 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 us

13、e 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: Ta

14、iwan 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 Aloud T: Now let's listen to the tape. When

15、 I play it for the first time, just listen. Then I'll 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 and intonation. Do you understand? OK. Let's begin. (Teacher goes among the students, answers the s

16、tudents' questions and corrects the mistakes.)Step IV DiscussionT: Now please turn to Page 29,Post-read-ing 4、5 and 6. Have a discussion about them. Later, I'll ask some of you to give us the answers.(After a while. ) T: Who'll give us the answer to the fourth? S1 : I'll try. If a po

17、em is translated into another language, it's changed a bit. That's to say, something of the spirit of the original works is lost. T： Quite right. Let's 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

18、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 o

19、riginal workSuggested answers to Ex. 5 and Ex. 6 ： 5. They can be ties that bring the East and the West together and fine wine enjoyed 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 we're learnt a text about poems and poets. Read the text after class and collect as much info