unit 4 reading listening speakingUnit 4 Period Three Reading(人教版高二英語上冊教案教學設計)

發布時間：2016-11-3 編輯：互聯網手機版

Type of lesson: Reading

Teaching Contents: English poetry

Teaching aims:

1. To learn about English poets and their poetry

2. To develop the basic reading skills

Teaching Difficult Point:

1. To develop the basic reading skills

2. The similarities and differences between the Chinese and English poets and poems.

Teaching Aids: a tape recorder, a computer, a projector

Teaching procedures:

Leading in 1 by discussion

A free talk about Chinese poets and their poems.

Ask the students to name some famous Chinese poets and their poems. If possible, ask some students to recite some of their poems.

Do you want to know something about English poetry? Now let’s learn the text English poetry.

Step1. Pre-reading

Can you name some famous poets in other countries?

Look at the pictures and say something about the famous poets.

Step2. While-reading

1. Skimming

Read the text quickly and get the general ideas of each paragraph.

Match the following:

Paragraph 1 early English poets

Paragraph 2 why we read poetry

Paragraph 3 Chinese ancient poets

Paragraph 4 the introduction of English poetry to China

Paragraph 5 why more and more people are interested in

English poetry

Paragraph 6 modern English poets

Paragraph 7 the 19th century English poets

2. Scanning

A. Read the text and complete the following chart.

Qs: 1)What special features or characteristic does poetry have?

2) Name the poets in each time.

3) When and where were the poets born?

Item time characteristic poets

Chinese poetry Has a long history Do Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei

English poetry Early English poetry Difficult to understand

17th century The use of surprising images Shakespear, Donne,

The end of the 17th century The absence of rhyme at the end of each line John Milton

18th century Alexander Pope

19th century Romantic poems

Long poems Wordsworth, Byron and Keats

Modern poets Stand close to us both in the language and images they use the American poet Robert Frost

The end of the 19th century Be introduced to China Be translated by Lu Xun and Guo Moruo

Difficult words and sentences

1 Poetry also calls up all the colours, feelings, experiences and curious images of a dream world.

A．telephone B. cause to arrive

C. bring to memory D. send a message

2. Poems by Do Fu, Li Bai and Wang Wei among others stand out in the halls of glory.

A.have an easily seen colour B. be much better

C. be firm D. support

3. Once published, his work became famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of each line.

As soon as his work was published, it became famous immediately because there was no rhyme at the end of each line.

4. The style and atmosphere in their poems has often led to comparisons with poets such as Do Fu and Li Bai.

People often compare their poems with Li Bai’s and other poets’ because the style and atmosphere in the poems are similar.

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. 19th

2. The poetry of Marvell reminds Chinese readers of the poems by_______.

A. Du Fu B. Li Bai

C. Su Dongpo D. Gou Moruo

3. Byron's “Isles of Greece” is an example of_______.

A. a sonnet B. romantic poetry!

C. nature poetry D. modern poetry

4. The wider public in China discovered English poetry at the beginning

of the_________ century.

A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th

5. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Poetry is a good bridge to connect the East with the West.

B. Different periods of English poems.

C. Modern poems of English.

D. Differences between Chinese and English poetry.

Homework

Make a timeline that shows which poets were living during which century. Put all the foreign poets named in the reading passage on the timeline. (See Sb.P29)