高二英語上冊Units1-8同步優質教案
3. practice listening actively
4. to get ss know the good that poems and songs do to people.
5. to appreciate some songs and poems and enjoy the feeling that songs and poems bring to you.
teaching procedures:
step1 warming-up
read the lyrics and sing to the music.
emilia - big big world
after enjoy the song, ask the ss what the song about? do you like it? why?
ask them to compare singing songs to reading poems.
step2 pre-reading
after the previous brief activity of comparing singing songs and reading poems, lead them to the title songs and poems. ask “are the song words also a kind of poem lines?” they may think of the fact that in ancient times poems were sung.
step 3 while-reading
invite students to list unfamiliar words that they noticed in the passage.
e.g. avoid, recite, extraordinary
step 4 post-reading
assess students understanding by asking their a few questions:
1. when does the writer sing songs?
2. when did the writer begin to touch on poetry?
3. when does the writer read keats and when wordsworth?
step5 exercise i
briefly introduce "dust of snow" by robert frost.
1. listening and reading aloud
play the recording of robert frost's dust of snow at a high volume as the students listen and then have them repeat after the recording. guide them to read with expression.
2. discussion
discuss how many characters are involved in the poem.
(there is no right or wrong answer here as long as the students can give a reason why they want to assign a part to a certain character.)
possible answers include:
two (a crow and a person),
four ( a crow, a person, a tree a heart)
3. analysis
guide them to notice the line "a change of mood".
ask them a few questions
1. his mood has changed, from what mood to what mood?
2. what happens to bring about the change?
4. appreciation
brainstorm about how students feel at the beginning of the poem.
answers may vary:
the crow may let some of them think of bad luck.
the crow above the writer’s head may let some of them think of a lonely place.
5. practice
get students to read the poem aloud again and have some of them to recite the poem in class.
homework:
1. draw a couple of comic strips according to the imagery of dust of snow
2. finish the workbook passage "the birth of modern poetry" by yourself.
record after teaching:
unit 5 the british isles
teaching goals:
1. talk about the uk and ireland.
2. practise expressing agreement and disagreement.
3. learn about noun clauses (1).
4. write a description of a town and the countryside.