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牛津英语模块八unit2教案 Teaching aims: (1) Students are expected to retell the story or talk about the opera and the performance to reinforce their speaking ability. (2) Get students to learn the language points appearing in the text and grasp them. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Revision－Finish the passage according to the text Turandot, a ________ opera set in ________, was written by an ________ composer called Giacomo Puccini towards the end of his life. He also wrote _________, which is set in ________. Jane Jones was lucky enough to ________ the first of only eight performances in ________ in Beijing. She wrote a ________ after watching the opera. In her opinion, the performance was ________ and ________. The music and the ________ were two of the key __________ of the opera. Besides,it _______ many Western and Chinese talents. For example, the orchestra was ________ by Zubin Mehta, a famous conductor born in ________. The well-known Chinese ________ Zhang Yimou directed the opera. Some of the world’s greatest opera singers as well as many great Chinese ________, actors and singers were cast. Step 2 Language points (Learn and use) 1. Last night, I witnessed the first of only eight performances of Giacomo Puccini’s world-famous opera, Turandot, being performed in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. (page 18, lines 1-3) 昨天晚上，我去看了贾科莫·普契尼闻名世界的歌剧《图兰朵》，那是在中国北京紫禁城八场演出的首场。 ⑴. Here the word witness is a verb, meaning “to see something happen, for example a crime or an accident, with one’s own eyes”. 你确实目击了发生在我们学校附近的事故了吗？ Did you really witness the accident that happened near our school? Several journalists witnessed the incident in which eight people were injured. ⑵. Witness can also be used as a noun meaning “a person who sees with his/her own eyes what has happened”. Mr. Green was asked to act as a witness to the agreement between his two friends. 他告诉警方他是那起事故的目击者。 He told the police that he was a witness to the car accident. 2. Just imagine performing such an opera