The 7th Period---Listening/speaking/reading ( act two )
Teaching aims and demands:
*Knowledge aims:
1. To get the students to know more about the whole play by listening reading and acting, and make sure the students have a full understanding of the text.
2. To guide the students to have a discussion about the characters in the text .
3. To guide the students to get to know the features of a play.
Step 1. Lead-in
Greet the students as usual.
调令模板T: We have learned the first part of the play “one million pound bank note”, can anyone tell us what happened to our hero Henry?
S: Let me have a try. Henry is an American. He came to Britain by chance and was very poor. But the honest man was very lucky. He got a million pound bank note from two rich old men, who wanted to e what would happen to him after he had the big note.
T: Well done. Now our hero has got the bank note, and had a good meal for free. You e his coat is shabby, so where will he go next?
adsl拨号S: the tailor’s
T: Do you want to know what will happen to him next? Let’s watch the next part of the play.
Step 2. Watch the play “at the tailor’s”
After watching the film clip, the teacher asks the students to fill in the blanks according to the film.
After reading the letter from the brother, Henry puts it back into his coat pocket. Then he 经期保养
notices his coat is w____ out. So he finds a t_____ shop and goes in to get a new coat. Seeing the poor customer, none of the waiters is willing to s____ him. At last, the third waiter asks Henry to try on an ugly coat and tells him that is p______ in England at prent. Before paying the money, Henry tells the rude waiter not to j____ people by their clothes.
However, after Henry shows the clerk and the owner the b_________. Both the clerk and the owner were s_______. The owner p_______ to be angry with the clerk. He becomes really p______ to Henry, and wants to ll more coats to him, even though he ______ want to buy them. When Henry tells him he is moving, the owner isn’t s________, becau ______ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
广东海洋大学学报Step 3. ActII scenes 4—meet Portia
T: With the help of the one-million pound bank note, Henry got almost everything he needs without paying a cent. Then Henry meets the Heroin Portia at a big party of the up
per class.
T: Listen to the tape, to e how the two young people meet. And tell us what kind of person do you think Portia is?
Here is the listening script.
Step 4. Discussing & Acting
T: Obviously, we can e that Henry and Portia fell in love when they first saw each other. What’s more, I want to tell you that Portia is the step-daughter of Abel, one of the brothers who made the bet.
After a ries of stories, the play comes to an end. Could you u your imagination to create an end? You’d better work in groups of 4. Plea discuss which one of the brothers win the bet, whether Henry and Poria can get together, if Henry wins, what kind of job will he get. After discussing, plea act the end out.
Rules of acting the play: two play as the brothers, one as Henry and one as Portia.
S: various of ideas.
Step 5. Watching the end & Discussing
Thank you for your perfect performance. Now let’s enjoy the end of the play. Pay attention to the words the bothers and Henry say.
Do you agree “Money is everything”? Tell me what money is?
If you get a large amount of money, is it good or bad for your life ?
Step 6. Learn about the play
The language of the theatre
Ask the students to read some of the lines and find the features of the language.
The clue of the theatre
Clue is another characteristics of a theatre or a play. What is the clue of the whole story?龟峰
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S: the bank note.
T: Good. From the very beginning to the end, the whole story is all about the bank note. How it changes Henry’s life, how it shows all the people’s real mind, how it leads to a love story, and how it affects our attitude towards money.
T: the bank note is the clue, and also the centre of the conflicts.
高清望远镜>萤火虫之森Step 7. Appreciation of the whole play
If time permits, the teacher can show the students the whole movie.
