说课Unit 4A garden of poems.doc

说课Unit 4 A garden of poems Reading说课教案 English poetry 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。 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 f