新编英语教程3Unit_4.pptVIP

A New English Course  Teaching Aims 1. Enable students to know something about Shakespeare; 2. Learning vocabulary, phrases and patterns 3. Improving students reading skills 4. Improving students oral and writing skills Main Teaching Points： 1. The comprehension and appreciation of Text I; 2. New words and expressions 3. Do oral work; 4. Guided writing: paragraph writing of narration 1. Reading I 2. Reading II 3. Oral works 4. Guided writing 5. Assignment 6. Pictures and photographs Text I: A Man from Stratford—William Shakespeare Pre-reading Questions: What do you know about Shakespeare? What do you expected to be told by the text? Among Shakespeares works, which one do you like best? Stratford: where Shakespeare was born Shakespeare’s works: 10 histories 13 comedies 11 tragedies 3 legendary plays 2 poems 154 sonnets The 1st period: (1590-1600) The 2nd period: (1601-1608) The 3rd period: (1609-1612) Text Structure: Para 1: His activities are so vague Para 2 : His birthplace has made a thriving business out of him. Para 3: To plot his life is to become involved in detective story. Organization Para 4: the years he traveled abroad Para 5: He wrote more than 30 plays as well as marvelous verse. Para 6: After his death, Shakespeare left behind a mass of questions. Para 7: nothing remains of the writer’s own handwriting but his signature Intensive Study On March 25th, 1616, fifty-two-year-old Master William Shakespeare signed his will leaving the famous legacy of his “second best bed and furniture” to his wife and the greater part of his estate to his married daughter, Susanna Hall. It was the will of a comfortably off man, for the income from the estate probably amounted to about $200 a year, which was a lot of money over three hundred and sixty years ago. For historians, the most interesting part of the will was that signature, because it and other signatures are all we have left of the handwriting of the world’s l