Unit 7 A Christmas Carol
ⅱ.teaching goals
1.learn about charles dickens and his works.
2.talk about social responsibilities.
3.review the adverbial.
4.write a review of a play.
ⅲ.background information
dickens’ novels
for the convenience of study,we divide dickens’ literary career into three periods,as follows:
the first period
1836 sketches by boz
1836-1837 the pickwick papers
1837-1838 oliver twist
1838-1839 nicholas nickleby
1840-1841 the old curiosity shop
1841 barnaby rudge
the second period
1842 american notes
1843-1845 martin chuzzlewit
1843 a christmas carol(a christmas book)
1844 the chimes(a christmas book)
1845 the cricket on the hearth(a christmas book)
1846-1848 dombey and son
1849-1850 david copperfield
the third period
1852-1853 bleak house
1854 hard times
1855-1857 little dorrit
1859 a tale of two cities
1860-1861 great expectations
1864-1865 our mutual friend
1870 edwin drood(unfinished)
ⅳ.teaching time:five periods
the first period
teaching aims:
1.learn and master the following:
carol,employee,fake,bacteria,powder,standard,conscience,care for
2.do some listening.
3.do some speaking to talk about dickens and his works,and talk about social responsibilities.
teaching important points:
1.train the students’ listening ability.
2.improve the students’ speaking ability by discussion and talks.
teaching difficult points:
1.how to improve the students’ listening ability.
2.make the students be free to talk about social responsibility.
teaching methods:
1.warming up to arouse the students’ interest in dickens and his works.
2.listening activity to help the students go through the listening material.
3.speaking activity to practise the students’ speaking ability.
4.individual,pair work or group work to make every student work in class.
teaching aids:
1.a computer and a courseware
2.a tape recorder
teaching procedures:
step ⅰ greetings
greet the whole class as usual.
step ⅱ lead-in
t:do you often read novels?
ss:yes.
t:have you read dickens’ novels?
s1:i’ve read one of his works.it is“a tale of two cities”.
(teacher uses multimedia to show a picture of dickens on the screen.)
t:ok.now look at the picture on the screen.he was charles dickens,the greatest representative of english critical novelist in the 19th century.he wrote a lot of novels in his life.some of them are still famous today.which novels of his do you know?any volunteers?