高二英語 Unit 19 The Merchant of Venice教學設計

ss: to help his friend bassanio, who had no money to marry portia, a rich and beautiful lady.t: quite right. now, please turn to page 70 and read the material in the box. then work in pairs to change it into dialogues.act 1:the dialogue between bassanio and antonio.act 2:the dialogue between antonio, shylock and bassanio. do you see what i mean?ss: yes.(the students begin to work. teacher goes among the students to see how they are going on. at last, teacher asks some pairs to act out their dialogues.)sample dialogues:act 1:(b=bassanio; a=antonio)b: antonio, i want to tell you a good piece of news that i am in love with portia, a rich and beautiful lady.a: does she love you?b: she loves me too.a: then why don’t you get married?b:i can not ask her to marry me because i have no money. i wonder if you can lend me three thousand ducats.a: i’d like to help you, but all my ship are at sea. i have no money at present.act 2:(s=shylock)a: shylock, i want to know if i can borrow some money from you.s:i agree to lend you the money on one condition. if you don’t pay the money back at the end of three months, i’ll have the right to have a pound of your flesh to be cut off from any part of your body.a: ok.i would accept these terms.b: please, antonio, don’t accept these terms.a: don’t worry. i’ll take his offer and sign the agreement.t: wonderful. you did a good job. next, let’s look at the second exercise. here are two letters. one is the letter that antonio wrote to bassanio. the other one is the letter from the lawyer to the duke. by reading them, you’ll know more about the play. are you interested?ss: yes.t: now, begin to read. after that, change them into indirect speech. then correct mistakes each other. at the end, i’ll ask some students to read to the class. is everything clear?ss: yes.suggested answers:letter 1:bassanio received a letter from antonio. in the letter, antonio said that all his ships were lost at sea and that now he had to pay shylock with a pound of his flesh according to their agreement. antonio also said how he wished to see bassanio before he died, since it was impossible that he should live in paying shylock. antonio told bassanio to forget about the letter if his love for antonio was not enough to lead him there.letter 2:doctor bellario wrote in his letter that he was very ill. he said that when the duke’s letter (had) reached him, he(had)had with him a learned young doctor from rome and that he had told the doctor about the quarrel between shylock and antonio. he wrote to the duke they had studied many law books and the doctor knew what he would say. he asked the duke to let the doctor stand in his place and give judgement. he told the duke that he had never known so young a body with so wise a head though he was young.