the second period
teaching aims:
1. learn the following words and expressions: call up, glory, pattern, belong to, absence, translate, come into being, play with, despite, time, remind…of, lesd to
2. learn about poets and poems of different countries.
3. improve the students" reading ability.
teaching important points:
1. the usages of some useful words and expressions.
2. the similarities and differences between the chinese and english poets and poems.
teaching difficult point:
how to grasp and remember the detailed information of the reading material.
teaching methods:
1. fast-reading to grasp the main idea of the text.
2. talking method to get every student to want to express himself in english.
3. pair work or group work to get every student to join in the class activities.
teaching aids:
1. a tape recorder
2. a computer
3. a projector
teaching procedures:
step i greetings and revision
(teacher greets the whole class as usual and checks the students" home work.
then teacher and the students learn the new words of this period together. )
step ii reading
(a few minutes later.)
t: are you ready?
sa : yes.
t: who will give us the answers?
sa: i’ll try. the style and atmosphere in the poems by wordsworth, byron, shelly and keats often remind readers of du fu and li bai.
sb: the works by donne and marvell reminds chinese readers of su dongpo.
t: very well. now read the text again, and try to grasp as much detailed in formation as you can. then do the exercise on the screen.
(teacher shows the screen. )
read the text carefully and choose the best answer for each of the following questions:
1. modern english came into being from about the middle of the_____ century.
a. 16th b. 17th c. 18th d. 19th
2. the poetry of marvell reminds chinese readers of the poems by_______.
a. du fu b. li bai
c. su dongpo d. gou moruo
3. byron"s “isles of greece” is an example of_______.
a. a sonnet b. romantic poetry!
c. nature poetry d. modern poetry
4. the wider public in china discovered english poetry at the beginning
of the_________ century.
a. 17th b. 18th c. 19th d. 20th
