高三英語king lear教案

unit 2
king lear
teaching goals:
i . emotional teaching:
1. to make the ss familiar with the great works by shakspere and the life story of the great literaturer.
2. to instruct the ss to analyse the desire and the greed and the greatness of the different characters . help the ss sort out the good qualities from the two plays.
ii. teaching aims:
1. this unit includes two scenes of the play king lear. ss should learn the plots by themselves after class and then put forward their questions and present their views in class.
2. help the ss to get rid of the hurdle of learning language and the grammer part by combining practice and extension exercises.
iii. teaching important and difficult points:
1.how to enable the ss have a better understandnig of the theme of the play.
2. how to instruct ss to find approach to improving their ability, especially reading, teaching themselves

teaching procedures:
reading (part 1) 
warming up
complete the following love test.
1. do you love your father?
     yes.___________
no. ___________
2. how much do you love him?
   a. very much   b. so-so 
   c. very little    d. not at all
3. which of the following best describes your feeling towards your father?
a.i loves him more than my life.
b.i love him as much as i love my eyes.
c.i love him as much as i should, no more and no less.
d.i don’t know how much i love him. i have never thought about the question.
e.i don’t love him, but i don’t hate him either.
f.i hate him.
g._________ (your own sentence)
4. if you were married, whom would you love more, your wife/husband or your father?
5. if your father gave you 1,000 yuan on condition that you tell him that you love him very much, would you say so?
yes._______     no. _________
6. if you could choose a father, which would you choose?
 a. a father who was very rich but didn’t love you.
 b. a father who had no money but loved you very much.

pre-reading
glance quickly through part 1 of the play and answer the following questions.
1. list the characters who appear in this part of the play.
king lear, goneril, regan, cordelia,
the dukes of albany and cornwall,
the duke of kent
2. which of the characters do you think are shown in the picture on page 11.
king lear and his three daughters----goneril, regan, cordelia

while-reading
3.1 read the play and complete the plot diagram.
a plot diagram description
setting
 king lear has 3 daughters. he is old and wants to divide his kingdom among his daughters. he is going to do this through a “love test”.