The Third Period
Listening and speaking
Teaching goals 教学目标 Target language 目标语言
1. Key words and expressions重点词汇和短语
apologize, approve (of), convince, go mad, jewel, relieved, request 2. Learn the steps to end a story. Ability goal能力目标
Enable students to listen to and present a story. Learning ability goal学能目标
Help students learn how to listen to and present a story. Teaching important and difficult points教学重难点 How to listen to and present a story. Teaching methods教学方法 Cooperation and task-based learning. Teaching aids教具准备 A projector and some slides.
Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式
Step I Revision Activity one: Revision
1. In what situations can’t you use “very”?
Keys: “Very” can’t be used in the following situations:
1. Very can’t be used to strengthen comparative or superlative adjectives.
2. Very can’t be used to strengthen adjectives which are already absolute, e.g. dead, alive, finished, destroyed.
3. With many adjectives starting with a, e.g. awake, asleep, we use other words as intensifiers, not very.
2. Give me an example to show that “most” is similar to “very” in usage. Keys: It is most (very) important to master a foreign language. 3. Translation
用钢笔写, 以温柔的方式说话, 穿着套装, 惊讶地, 在雨中 Sample answers:
in ink, in a soft voice, in a suit, in surprise, in the rain
Step Ⅱ Listening Activity one: Pre-listening
T: Turn to page 6 and look at activity 1. Answer the questions about the words in the box. Sample answers:
1. After we landed safely on the airport we all felt relieved. 2. People wear jewels as necklaces and rings. 3. I think Mrs. Bennet will approve of the engagement.
4. Because he was too proud and insulted Elizabeth’s family, which hurt Elizabeth much. 5. Darcy invites Elizabeth to dance and in extract 2 he asked her to marry him. 6. Yes, because he is a proud man and he thinks she will. 7. It is very unpleasant to go mad. Activity two: Prediction
T: According to the above answers, can you predict what will be the listening material about? Ss: I guess Darcy will ask Elizabeth to marry her. Activity three: Listening for the first time
T: Listen to another extract from Pride and Prejudice for the first time and answer the questions in activity 2.
Check the answers with the class. Activity four: Listen for the second time
T: Listen to the tape again and find out the correct answers to the questions (activity three on page 6).
Check the answers by asking some students to read the sentences. Activity five: Post listening
Ask students to work in pairs and discuss the questions in activity 4.
Step Ⅲ Presentation Activity one: Warming up
T: Just now we listened to another extract of the story. Now you have known more about the whole story. And also you’ve been able to predict and develop a story in your own sense. This time please go through extract 1 quickly and predict the sequence of the story. Sample prediction:
Sa: I think Elizabeth doesn’t enjoy dancing with Darcy. Darcy is silent and unsociable. They didn’t talk much when they were dancing.
Sb: I agree with Sa. But I think the reason is different. Elizabeth doesn’t like being together with Darcy because she has had the prejudice against Darcy. If her attitude doesn’t change, she will not like Darcy at all.
T: You have come to the same conclusion according to different reasons. This proves that you’ve understood the story very well. Now please write down the ending for the story. Sample endings:
1. The silence continued for a few minutes and Elizabeth found it a pleasure to have mocked at Darcy. Just then, the music stopped and Elizabeth asked Darcy to excuse her and left.
2. Although Elizabeth forced him to speak, Darcy still kept silent after each mechanic question and answer practice. This made Elizabeth annoyed. She decided to end their partnership as soon as possible.
Ask students to write an ending for extract 2. Sample endings:
1. After hearing Elizabeth’s refusal, Darcy felt very frustrated because he never expected he would be rejected. However, his pride made him not express his disappointment on his face. He left Elizabeth without a word.
2. Elizabeth’s refusal didn’t hurt him at all. He thought he would still have chances to win her heart. However, the defeat really eliminated his pride. He left the room silently.
Activity two: Summarize skills to end a story
T: Just now we have learnt how to end a story, what skills do we need to end a story? Sa: First we should predict the sequence of the story in a reasonable way. Sb: We can write down the reaction of the hero or heroine.
Sc: We can follow the clue of the story. It may be the character of hero/heroine or it may be the plot.
T: Good. We should find out the main clue and or characters of the story and predict the sequence in a reasonable way. This way we will develop our logic of prediction in a reasonable way.
Show the following.
1. Predict the result in a reasonable way.
2. Pick out the clue that threads the whole story such as the characters of the hero and heroine. 3. Write down the reaction of the hero or heroine. 4. Integrate all the factors.
5. Organize the language and write down the ending of the story. Activity three: Develop a story
T: When we develop a story, we should use some skills to make your story readable. In extract 2 we can find a lot of expressions about time. These expressions are very useful because they can thread the story logically and make the story readable. Look at the following connectives and learn to use them in your own story. Now pick out the original sentences with the connectives in the sentences and find out their functions in the whole text. Sample answers:
Sa: The expressions of time are used mainly to continue or carry on the topic. They make the story develop continuously.
Sb: “But, unfortunately, in spite of” are used to change or convert the topic. Therefore, they are used to make the story full of excitement. Sample connectives:
1. The doorbell rang, and a few minutes later, to her complete astonishment, Elizabeth saw… 2. He sat down for a few minutes, and then getting up… 3. After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her and …