Unit 4 A garden of poems Reading 人教版高二英语说课

人教修订版英语高二上Unit 4 A garden of poems

Reading说课教案

English poetry

一、  教学课型：阅读课

本单元中心话题是“英文诗歌”具体涉及英文诗歌的种类、英国诗人、英文诗歌的发展史等。语言技能和语言知识几乎都围绕介绍“英文诗歌”这一中心话题设计的。阅读部分是一篇典型的说明文，文章段落清晰，每一段落都围绕一个主题逐步详细描述。通过本单元阅读课的教学，使学生了解英文诗的历史、不同时期英文诗的特点、不同时期的英文诗人及其在文学殿堂中的作用。同时，锻炼学生学会欣赏并朗读英文诗，为他们的文学修养打下一定的基础。

二、  教材分析

1.教学内容

English Poetry

Reading poetry brings people from different places and different times together. More than any other form of literature, poetry plays with sounds ,words and grammar. That makes poetry difficult to write, but very interesting to read . Poetry also calls up all the colours ,feelings, experiences and curious images of a dream world.

  China has a long history during which many of the world’s greatest poets were active. Poems by DuFu, LiBai and WangWei among others stand out in the halls of glory. When you have read some Chinese poems , you will have seen and heard some of the features that all good poetry shares. The form is very  important : the number of lines and the number of characters in each line. Poetry often follows special patterns of rhyme.

Despite its short history ,there is a lot of good English poetry around .The earliest English poetry was written in a kind of English that is now difficult to  understand . Modern English started around the time of William Shakespeare, towards  the end of the sixteenth century .The seventeenth century was a great time for English poetry . Shakespeare is famous for his plays . His sonnets , however, belong to the best English poetry .In the next generation of great English poets  we meet John Donne. Chinese readers admire his works because of his use of surprising images that reminds them of the works of poets  such as Su Dongpo. Before  the end of the century ,there was another famous writer, John Milton . Once published ,his works became famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of each line. In the eighteenth century it was Alexander Pope who wrote the finest poetry in England.

  The next period that produced a great number of fine poets was the nineteenth century . Greatly loved in China are the English Romantic poets . Although they were all born in the eighteenth century, they wrote their major works in the early years of the nineteenth century. John Keats died at a very young age in 1821; while William Wordsworth, who spent mush of his time in the English Lake District ,lived to the age of 80 and died in 1850. The nature poems by William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron’s Isles of Greece and the sonnets and long poems by John Keats have long been favourites. The style and atmosphere in their poems has often led to comparisons with poets such as DuFu and LiBai.

Finally ,modern poets have their special attraction because they stand closet  to us both in the language and images they use . Among them we find the American poet Robert Frost.

The introduction of English poetry to China came late . Towards the end of the nineteenth century Chinese writers  started reading more foreign poetry. The great moment for European literature to come to China is between 1910 and the late 1930s when famous writers such as Lu Xun and Guo Moruo translated  both poetry and novels into Chinese.

 More and more people are interested to read modern poetry in English .Translations can be good, but being able to read in English gives you much more choice. Besides , no matter how well a poem is translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost. Reading poetry in English also opens the door to finding new ways of expressing yourself in Chinese. Finally, poems and literature can be bridges between the East and the West. They can help us to understand each other better, or as MuDan wrote:     Quietly , we embrace

 In a world lit up by words.

2.教材处理：

笔者将Pre-reading、Reading和 Post-Reading三部分进行适当地删减和补充设计为一节阅读课。在本节阅读课前，笔者要求学生通过预习课文，完成Post-reading中的第一和第二部分的细节性问题。并自觉主动通过网络查找资料，了解不同时期的英国著名诗人和英文诗的特点，为能更好地展开该节阅读课学习做好充分地准备。Pre-reading是Reading的热身活动。通过组织学生对这些问题的讨论，回答，激活他们头脑中相关的内容模式，为下一步“阅读”做好铺垫。在处理阅读文章的过程中，要求学生在读后对文章的各段主旨大意进行概括，帮助学生整体把握文章的脉络。其次要求学生逐段阅读文章，旨在使学生了解英文诗，英文诗的历史和不同时期的英文诗人及其在文学殿堂中的作用。同时，锻炼学生对英文诗的欣赏；并让学生深刻体会到poems and literature can be bridges between the East and the West的含义。笔者根据学生的认知水平和实际情况，在处理阅读文章的过程中，还适当穿插了一些中英文诗歌让学生欣赏。目的在于进一步增加学生的语言体验和文化、情感的熏陶。

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