旧人教版高三英语全一册 Unit7 A Christmas Carol.doc

Unit 7 A Christmas Carol Teaching aims: Goals: Learn about Charles dickens and his works Talk about social responsibilities Review the Adverbial Write a review of a play Special focus: Improve reading skills and Enlarge vocabulary. Direct Ss to read the 3 passages on the text book; Guide Ss to learn to use the following words and expressions: Occupy, wage, nephew, frost, welfare, abundant, admit, in need of, in want of, in honour of, in charge of, in memory of, in the face of, ambition, feast, taxpayer, conscience, shadow, grave, close up, roll up,etc. Period 1 Reading A Christmas Carol (1) (on P57) Step 1. Warming up Task 1. Check how much the Ss know about the background knowledge: Can you name out some of Dickens’ great works? How is Christmas Eve celebrated in Western countries? What Christmas songs do people sing? Can you sing some of them? What do you know about Santa Claus? What is his role? If necessary give more information about Charles Dickens according to the following chart: Birth He was born in Landport, Hampshire on February 7th, 1812. Nationality English Achievements He wrote many famous novels. Novels A Christmas Carol A Tale of Two Cities Hard Times Oliver Twist Great Expectation David Copperfield The times in which he lives He lived in the times when great changes happened in England and other European countries. Step 2. Reading Task 2. Read the passage and try to get the main clues of the story. Fill in the blanks according to the story: It was the day before C________ and the w______ was terrible. Bob want to have a day o_____ in order to have a good Christmas dinner but his boss, Scrooge, who was c_____, mean and only interested in making m______ didn’t allow him to do so at first. Scrooge’s nephew, Fred, wanted to i_______ Scrooge to attend their Christmas dinner but he was r________. A gentleman who wanted to collect some money for the poor was also t____ down by Scrooge. At last when all the others left Scrooge had a d______, in