【教材全解】2014-2015学年高中英语外研版选修六教案：M4 Period 4.docVIP

Period Four Listening and Everyday English Teaching objectives: 1. To enable the students to recognize and understand some new words and expressions in a dialogue or a section. 2. To finish the exercises in SB according to what they hear. 3. To be able to catch the useful information from their discussion. Important and difficult points: ⒈ To have the Ss understand what they hear. ⒉ To enable the students to know how to catch the useful information. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Listening background Porgy and Bess started life as a 1925 novel by Dubose Heyward called Porgy, about the life of African Americans in Charleston. George Gershwon (1898-1937), a composer of popular and classical music read the book, and saw its potential（潜在的）as an opera. With his brother, the lyricist（歌词作者）Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) and Heyward, they put together a startling（惊人的）new work, called Porgy and Bess , which was premiered（首次公影）at the Alvin Theatre on New York’s Broadway on October10th 1935. It soon became a classic（杰作）of modern American music, and the songs (Summertime, I loves you Porgy, It ain’t necessarily so, I got plenty of nothin) have became standards（要求达到的规范或水准, particularly of the jazz repertoire（演奏曲目. Gershwin said, “Porgy and Bess deals with Negro life in America---it brings to(产生) the operatic form elements that have never before appeared in the opera and I have adapted my method to utilise（利用）the drama, the humour, the superstition, the religious fervour（热诚）, the dancing and the irrepressible（无法抑制的）high spirits of the race.” Step 2. While-listening activities I. Directions: Listen to the tape check your answers. Step 3. Everyday English: Choose the correct answers according to the context of Listening. ⑴ If something is your favourate of all time, it means ______ (a)you like it now; (b)you have always liked it ⑵If you’re missing the point, it means _______ (a)you don’t understand sth; (b)you can’t see sth ⑶If you can’t stand something, it means _____ (a)you have to