牛津高中英语模块八Unit 1 The written word教学设计
2015-02-13徐申叶
徐申叶
作者信息:215021,江苏苏州,江苏省苏州工业园区星海实验中学
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一、Thoughts on the design
牛津教材中的project板块是为了引导学生进行探究性学习,把英语听、说、读、写的训练从课堂内拓展到课堂外;要求学生能够用英语创造性地完成学习任务,培养学生综合运用语言的能力。本单元的主题是:Recitingapoem,要求学生先学习了解苏格兰最著名的诗人罗伯特·彭斯的生平以及他的诗歌流派特色,然后再学习欣赏他的一首经典诗歌《一朵红红的玫瑰花》,帮助学生有感情地朗诵诗歌并掌握欣赏英文诗歌的技巧。在此基础上,为了让学生学以致用,帮助学生拓展视野,可再让学生欣赏一首英文小诗。
二、Teaching aims
By the end of the period,students will be able to:
a.get a brief idea of Robert Burns basic life experience and his writing style.
b.know some basic information on poetry and learn to enjoy his famous poem and apply the basic knowledge of poetry to another modern poem.
三、Teaching procedures
Step 1:Lead in
Let students enjoy a romantic English song with the lines from the poem:A Red,Red Rose,to lead to the topic of Scotland.Ask students to view part of a speech video made by the Prime Minister of the UK to arouse students interests in Scotland and the most important person in the UK so as to lead to the topic of the period:Robert Burns.
【Explanation】此设计的目的有两个:一是以英文歌曲和英国首相的演讲视频导入,作为学生听说的热身训练,以激发学生的课堂兴趣;二是主要突出本节课的主角Robert Burns,他被称为最重要的苏格兰人。
Step 2:Major classroom arrangements
Section A:Understanding the passage by asking students to:
A.Skim the passage and divide the passage into 3 parts.
【Explanation】此阅读活动的目的是要求学生初读文章,通过所给出的段落大意来确定文章的结构,划分好文章的段落,从整体上把握文章的写作脉络。
B.Complete the profile on Robert Burns and retell his life experience and make a summary.
【Explanation】此阅读活动的目的是要求学生应用寻读(scanning)的阅读技巧,根据框架结构,找出关于诗人生平的主要信息:生卒年份、性格、家庭状况、写作流派等。同时,在此基础上运用自己的语言总结概括诗人的一生,如:In aword,RobertBurns was born in poverty,succeeded overnight,died young but lives in people’s heart forever.以此来训练和提高学生的语言模仿能力及运用能力。
C.Answer two reading questions.
1.Which events show Scottish people adore Robert Burns very much?
2.What are the reasons for their deep love?
【Explanation】第一个问题的目的是帮助学生训练综合文本信息的能力,通过文本中几处阅读信息来说明苏格兰人民崇拜他们的民族诗人;第二个问题的目的是训练学生的推理猜测能力,学生应该有能力从诗人的优美诗歌和谦虚的品格中找到原因。
Section B:Appreciating the poem by asking students to:
1.read the third part and work out the meaning of underlined parts.
2.read the poem and find out the meaning of the poem and answer two more understanding questions.
3.analyze the rhetoric in the poem.
4.listen and learn to recite the poem.
【Explanation】活动1的目的是帮助学生扫除文字障碍,因为19世纪苏格兰英语中某些英文的书写形式与现代英语略有不同,如:luve(love),melodie(melody),thou(you)等。活动 2 的目的是帮助学生进一步理解诗歌的内容,得出三个结论:(1)His love is very pretty and has sweet voice.(2)He is deep in love with her and will love her forever.(3)He promises to come back to her even if it were ten thousand miles.活动3的目的是和学生分析英文诗歌常见的写作手法,即:比喻,如My love is like a red,red rose;押韵,如 June 和 tune,I和dry;重复,如Till all the seas gang dry,Till all the seas gang dry,my dear.活动4的主要目的是培养学生带着诗人深深的情意,充满感情地模仿朗诵全诗,在此过程中更好地体会理解诗人的情感。
Section C:Extending the horizon by appreciating another poem by asking students to discuss the answers to the following 4 questions:
1.What can be severed as a title?
2.What is the main idea?
3.What are the poet’s feelings in it?
4.What kinds of rhetoric are used?
【Explanation】此教学环节的目的是帮助学生拓展视野,通过赏析一首现代英文小诗,创造语境,让学生学以致用(从掌握文本到掌握写作修辞手法),从而提高学生的英语语言欣赏和运用。
Step 3:Homework
1.Recite the poem.
2.Write a similar passage:____and his/her poetry.
【Explanation】作业1的目的是让学生通过朗诵和背诵诗歌,进一步理解和欣赏经典英文诗歌。作业2的目的是落实本节课的重要环节:把读和写的训练从课堂拓展到课外;通过学习Project,再创造性地进行相似写作,学生可以写他们自己所崇敬、喜爱的任何古今中外的诗人,并介绍一首他们最爱的小诗。
四、教学反思
因为project文章介于精读和泛读之间,所以本设计的主要教学目标为:一是帮助学生正确理解文章,主要的训练形式是在把握整体篇章结构的基础上,找出重要的细节,并进行适当的归纳推理。二是初步学习英文诗歌的特点、写作方法,培养学生对英文诗歌的初步赏析能力。这节阅读课教学已初步达到了这两个目标,但对于文章的语言点处理还不够到位,同时阅读训练的形式较单调,学生在学习环节的转换中不是非常流畅,课堂气氛还需改善。