【人教课标选修10】Unit 2 King Lear

Book 10   Unit 2 King Lear
Teaching aims and demands
Topic: Talk about Shakespeare’s play: King Lear
Vocabulary: respectful modernize burden responsibility allocate adore majesty distribute contradict flattery oppose deceitful
Function: Emotions: anger sadness friendliness unfriendliness, etc

Period One

Teaching aims: to train the ability of listening and speaking
Teaching procedures:
Step I: lead in
As we all know, there are no parents but love their children. How do the children assess their parents in different stages?
Step II: warming up
Ask them to discuss the following questions
1. Is it important to show love and respect for your parents? Why?
2. How do you show love and respect for them? Can you give a good example?
3. If you were married, would you love your parents less than you do now?
4. If parents believe their child has been disrespectful, what should they do about it?
Step III:
Lead in: Do you want to learn something about the system for the ancient Empire?
Let’s discuss these questions about ancient China.
1. What was the traditional attitude towards the emperor? Who succeeded him when the emperor died?
2. What did the emperor do to keep his servants loyal to him? What happened to the servants who were not loyal?
3. Who decided who the emperor’s children would marry? For what reasons were marriages arranged?
Step IV  pre-reading
Lead in: What about in the west. Do you want to know them?
Today we are going to read a play by Shakespeare”
It has been shorted and simplified. The language has been modernized. I think it easy to understand.

Period Two
Teaching aims: to train the students’ ability of understanding
Teaching procedures:

Step I: Reading
Glance quickly through part 1 of the play and answer the questions.(look at the picture on the right)
1. List the characters who appear in this part of the play
2. Which of the characters do you think are shown?
3. Use the pictures that illustrate part 1 of the play to predict what is going to happen. For what reasons were marriages arranged?
Step II
Scan the part and answer the questions below
1. Why does King Lear want to give away his kingdom?
2. How is he going to decide who to give the best part of his kingdom to ?
3. At the beginning of the play ,of which daughter is King Lear most fond ?
4. Which daughters are already married and which is not ?
5. What are the names of the men who want to marry King Lear’ youngest daughter?
6. Who tries to defend Cordelia? What happens to him when he speaks out?
Step III: Practice 
1. Choose words from the words below. Some words belong to more than one character.
Honest  loyal  hot-headed  truthful;  deceitful  hard-hearted  corrupt  greedy  innocent  cunning  loving  bad-tempered
2. In fours prepare a role-play. One plays Regan, and another plays Cordelia. One plays the king. The fourth plays the Duke of Kent and will interview the three characters to find out what they really think.
3. After the role-play discuss these questions
Do you think these characters are true to life?
Why do you think King Lear did this while he was alive and not after his death?
If you are King Lear, what would you do to divide up your kingdom among your children?
Step IV: Summarize the general idea of this part.

Period Three
Teaching aims: to train the ability of listening and reading
Teaching Procedures:

Step I : In part 2 of the play, King Lear asks the Duke of Burgundy and the king of France whether they still want to marry Cordelia. What do you think the two men will say?
Step II: Listen again and discuss these questions .There are no right or no wrong answers.
1. What do you think of the Duke of Burgurdy’decision?
2. What is your opinion of the king of France?
3. How do Goneril and Regan act towards their sister after the king has left?
4. What does this tell you about the character of the two elder sisters?
5. What do you think will happen next?
Step III: Read part 3 with a partner and together make notes about the main events in this part
Step IV: Listen to the tape. This time make notes about how the characters speak their lines. For example, which lines are spoken loudly, which softly?
Step V: Practice
Form groups of six and give each person a different character to play .Act it out.
Summarize the whole play using the version in the book.
 
Period Four
Teaching aims: to train the ability of using the language
Teaching procedures:
Step I: practice the play
Step II: finish off the exercise on page 16
Step III:explain the language points
1. allocate :to give sth. officially to sb or sth for a particular purpose
allocate sth (for sth)
allocate sth to sb
allocate sb sth
e.g They intend to allocate more places to mature students this year.
A large sum has been allocated for buying new books for the library.
The project is being allocated more resources.
Allocation :n. an amount of money ,space, etc, that is given to sb for a particular purpose

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