高中Unit 2 Lessons in life教案设计

Topic

The Blue Bird

Teacher

Teaching

Aims:

1.Get the students to understand the whole passage.

2.Improve students’ ability of reading information .

3.Master some usage of key sentences.

4.Help the students deepen their understanding of the theme,master the writing method of the plot summary and improve their appreciation of the play .

Teaching important

Points:

1.Help the students to get the main idea by reading the passage.

2.Guide the students to understand the characters, setting,plot and development of the excerpts from “The Blue Bird”.

Teaching difficult points:

1.Training the students to grasp the skills of fast-reading and getting the text’s structure.

2.Stimulate the students’ reading interests of learning English by reading the text.

Teaching methods:

Question-inquiry Teaching

Teaching type:

Reading

课 时

one

Teaching procedure:

Teaching contents:

Step1:Greeting

Step2:

Pre-reading

Step3:

Fast-reading

Step4:

Careful-reading

Step5:

Post-reading

Summary:

Homework:

Greet the whole class as usual.

Task1:Lead the students to know about the author's life and the introduction of "Blue Bird" to stimulate their interest in learning.

Task2:Ask the students to read the instruction to The Blue Bird and answer the questions.

1. Do you know the symbolic meaning of the Blue Bird in Chinese and Western cultures? Share your understanding of the meaning with the class.

2. Where do you think the children find the Blue Bird?

Answers:

1. In Western culture the Blue Bird symbolizes

happiness and it brings good luck and health to people, while in Chinese culture the Blue Bird symbolizes the messenger.

2. Students' own answers.

Task1:Ask the students to read the play and check their answers.

Task2:Find out the main idea of the passage.

Task3:Let the students read the text quickly and then  choose the best answers.

1. How do the Happinesses feel when they meet with Tyltyl and Mytyl?

A.Disappointed.      B. Anxious. 

C. Delighted.         D. Surprised. 

2. What are Tyltyl and Mytyl doing at the Palace of Happiness?

A. They are searching for the Happinesses.

B. They are searching for the Blue Bird.

C. They are playing with the Blue Bird.

D. They are playing with the Happinesses.

3. Which word can describe the boy according to the text?

A. Caring.    B. Selfish. 

C. Stubborn. D. Naughty. 

4. Which of the following is RIGHT according

to the whole text?

A. Tyltyl and Mytyl don't want to give the Blue Bird to the little girl.

B. The Blue Bird will never be back again.

C. The little girl doesn't want to give the bird something to eat.

D. The Blue Bird they are searching for is in fact their own dove.

参考答案：1-4 CBAD

Ask the students to work in groups and finish the following tasks.

Task1.Fill in the blanks according to the text.

The Blue Bird is a play written by Maeterlinck. This play was 1.           most popular one among all his plays and has been 2.          (wide) translated and adapted all over the world.3.          (perform) in 1921 in Shanghai by Chinese students, it was the first foreign play staged in China. Maeterlinck 4.          (win) the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911.

The Blue Bird is a typical full-length play,

5.          means it has several acts and each act is composed of several scenes. Various 6.          (character) appear in different acts and scenes, and the settings and costumes change accordingly.

This play tells the tale of a brother and a sister, Tyltyl and Mytyl, as they are sent by a fairy

7.          (search)for the Blue Bird of Happiness.The children's adventure takes them through many magical places 8.          they at last find the Blue Bird in a most unexpected place.

The central idea of the play is that 9.         

(happy) is to be found not in luxuries such as wealth, 10.          in simple things that are found in family life, and in acts of friendship and kindness.

参考答案：

1. the 2.widely 3.Performed4.won5.which

6.characters 7.to search 8.before 9.happiness 10.but

Task2. Guide the students to complete the notes with information from the play.

ACT IV SCENE II           ACTVI SCENE II

Characters                Characters

Setting                   Setting

Plot                      Plot

The children come to      The children return

the Palace of             home without finding

Happiness and are         the Blue Bird…

welcomed by a troop of

Happinesses…

参考答案：

ACT IV SCENE II

Characters

Tyltyl, (Mytyl,) a troop of Happinesses, the Happiness Setting

Tyltyl and Mytyl have been searching for the Blue Bird in the Land of Memory, the Palace of Night and the Forest. Now they have arrived at the Palace of Happiness. A troop of Happinesses rush into the hall and speak to them.

Plot

The children come to the Palace of Happiness and are welcomed by a troop of Happinesses. The children do not recognise them, but the Happinesses tell them that they are the only things the children know and they are all

around them. Tyltyl wonders whether there are Happinesses in his home, and at this moment, all the Happinesses burst out laughing. The chief of the Happinesses tells him that his home is filled with Happinesses. The chief introduces himself to Tyltyl as the Happiness of Being Well, and then introduces him to other Happinesses: of Pure Air, of Loving One's Parents, of the Blue Sky and of the Forest. Tyltyl just wants to ask the Happinesses one thing: the whereabouts of the Blue Bird.

ACT VI SCENE II

Characters

Tyltyl, (Mytyl,) Mummy Tyl, the neighbour Berlingot, the little girl

Setting

Unable to find the Blue Bird anywhere, the children return home. While they are trying to tell their parents about their adventures, their neighbour comes in. She is asking for Tyltyl's bird for her sick little girl. Plot

The children return home without finding the Blue Bird.

The neighbour Berlingot, a little old woman, enters Tyltyl's home, leaning on a stick.

Berlingot is telling Mummy Tyl that Tyltyl's bird is the one thing that will cure her sick daughter. Tyltyl then sees that his bird is blue - much bluer than when he went away.

Tyltyl gives his bird to his neighbour.

Task1:Let the students work in groups to think about the following questions.

(1)Why cannot Tyltyl recognise any of the Happinesses? 

(2)Are there any Happinesses in your home? What are they? Where else can you find them?

(3)What does the author want to express by making the Blue Bird fly away at the end of the play?

(4)What different life lessons can you learn from the two reading passages in this unit?

Answers:

(1)Because he doesn’t realise the fact that the Happinesses are all around him in his home.

(2)Students' own answers.

(3)Students' own answers.

(4)Students' own answers.

Task2:Let the students work in groups and act out the play.

(1)Read the play again and discuss how you might present it on stage. Consider the following:

·Plot -Is there anything you will cut from,or add to the play?

·Setting -What costumes and props will you need?

·Roles -Will you need a narrator to give the background to the play and introduce the new scenes?

·Language -Will you revise the language to make it easier to remember?

(2 )Adapt the play based on your discussion. You may refer to the original play for more ideas if necessary.

(3)     Decide roles for each group member and practise performing the play.

(4)     Act out the play in class.

This lesson successfully completed the pre-set tasks

and achieved good effects.

Review this lesson and complete some exercises.

Blackboard design

The Blue Bird

1. burst out 突然开始（做某事）；爆发

  burst into/in 突然闯进；破门而入

  burst into tears/laughter=burst out crying/laughing

2. majority n.大多数

  a majority of 大多数…

  major v.主修 n.专业 adj.主要的

  major in 主修

3. set off 出发，动身

  set down 写下

  set up 建立

4.every time 引导的时间状语从句