teaching reading 阅读课教案

Teaching Reading Background information: Students: 50 Senior High School Students, Grade 1Lesson duration: 40minsTeaching objectives:By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:a) know the information ofArthur Millerb) get information from the Arthur Millers life within short timec) get the gist of the passage d) learn what are skinning and scanning Teaching contents: a) watch the video of Death of a Salesmanb) know the basic information of the Death of a Salesmanc) know the basic information of Arthur Millerd) learn the passage Arthur Millers lifee) know how to use skinning and scanning in readingTeaching procedures:Step1. Warming up (10mins)a) Watch the selected section of the play of Death of a Salesman for 5mins. (The content of the play:微利是一名推销员，他常常幻想自己变成某为名人，这种梦想一直不断欺骗著他，终其一生。在追逐理想与美梦的同时，屈辱、劳累与工作的不得志，不停的困扰著他，成为威利成功的障碍，直到他的儿子长大，他幻想著藉由他的儿子来完成他的梦想，但是一切总是漂浮在渐入佳境的梦幻和真实的窘境之中，几乎要毁掉了自己的家和他唯一的救赎)b) The teacher asks students to guess the author of the play Death of a Salesman and then introduces the authors background information.Arthur Miller was born in 1915 and raised in Brooklyn, New York.He left school and worked odd jobs around NY after 1929. No Villain won the Avery Hopwood Award .In 1937, Miller wrote Honors at Dawn, which also received the Avery Hopwood Award. In 1944 Miller wrote the first broadway play. The Man Who Had All the Luck, and won the Theatre Guilds National Award. All My Sons 1947, won a Drama Critics Circle Award. Death of a Salesman received the Drama Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize.Step 2. Extensive reading of the passage Arthur Millers life (15mins)a) The teacher explains what is extensive readingto read fast and abstract the information and get the main idea.b) The teacher shows the passage Arthur Millers life to students and then asks them to finish reading it in 5mins. Arthur Miller (19152005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Millers father had moved to the USA from Austria. Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early 1930s.Millers most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with this system. Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he cant do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.c) The teacher asks them to find out the answers to the following questions.What does Arthur Miller do? (A dramatist)Where is Arthur Miller from? ( Austria)Which is Arthur Millers most famous play? ( Death of a Salesman)When was the play Death of a Salesman showed on?( In 1949)d) Then the teacher checks the answers of the questions.Step3.Intensive reading.(15mins)a) The teacher asks students to read the passage again and then finish the following questions.1Why did Arthur Millers father move to the USA?A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country. B. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream.”C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.D. His family business failed2The play Death of a Salesman_.A. exposes the cruelty of the American business worldB. discusses the ways to get promoted in a companyC. talks about the business career of Arthur MillerD. focuses on the skills in doing business3What can we learn about Willy Loman?A. He treats his employer badly.B. He runs the Wagner Company.C. He is a victim of the American system.D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.4After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman_.A. achieved huge successB. won the first Tony AwardC. was warmly welcomed by salesmenD. was severely attacked by dramatists5What is the text mainly about?A. Arthur Miller and his family.B. The awards Arthur Miller won.C. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.D. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.b) The teacher asks some students to tell the answers and then check out.1B细节理解题。根据第一段第二句“Millers father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary，drawn like so many others by the Great American Dream”可知，他父亲移居美国像其他许多人一样是受当年伟大的美国梦吸引。2. A推理判断题。根据第二段可知，这部戏剧对美国制度是一个抨击，它表现了咄咄逼人的做生意的方式以及坚信金钱和社会地位才是财富的象征。主人公Willy陷入困境，然而生意场上残酷无情：如果他做不了，那么对老板而言，他就一无是处，他必须离开。故此部戏剧揭露了美国职场的残酷。3C推理判断题。根据第二段最后两句“Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.”可知主人公面对失败无所适从，无法面对现实，从而走向毁灭，成了美国资本主义制度下美国梦的牺牲者。故选C项。4. A细节理解题。根据第三段可知，这部戏剧自1949第一次搬上银幕就获得了“托尼戏剧音乐奖”、“纽约戏剧评论奖”、“普利策戏剧奖”三项大奖，获得极大的成功。因此A项正确。5D主旨大意题。纵观全文不难看出本文主要介绍Arthur Miller 以及他的戏剧Death of a Salesman推销员之死。其他选项都不全面，只是文中叙述的一部分。故D项正确b) The teacher asks the students to read the whole passage again and give the main idea of the passage and then the teacher evaluates and summarizes it.Homework：Do the following exercise in the Exercise Book page 10.Many people believe Henry Ford invented the automobile (汽车). But Henry Ford did not start to build his first car until 1896. That was eleven years after two Germans developed the worlds first automobile. Many people believe Henry Ford invented the production line that moved a cars parts to the worker, instead of making the worker move to the parts. That is not true, either. Many factory owners used methods of this kind before Ford. What Henry Ford did was to use other peoples ideas and make them better. And he made the whole factory a moving production line.The race was in 1901, at a field near Detroit. All of the most famous cars had entered, but only two were left: the Winton and Fords. The Winton was famous for its speed. Most people thought the race was over before it began.The Winton took an early lead. But halfway through the race, it began to lose power. Ford started to gain. That sale was the beginning of Henry Fords dream.Ford said: “I will build a motor car for the great mass of people. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for one person to operate and care for. It will be built of the best materials. It will be built by the best men to be employed. And it will be built with the simplest plans that modern engineering can produce. It will be so low in price that no man making good money will be unable to own one.”The Model T was a car of that kind. It only cost $850. It was a simple machine that drivers could depend on. Doctors bought the Model T. So did farmers. Even criminals. They considered it the fastest and surest form of transportation. Americans loved the Model T. They wrote stories and songs about it. Thousands of Model Ts were built in the first few years.1What do we know about Henry Ford from Paragraph 1 ?A. He made good use of ideas from others.B. He produced the first car in the world.C. He knew how to improve auto parts.D. He invented the production line.2Why did Henry Ford take part in the 1901 car race?A. To show off his driving skills.B. To draw public attention.C. To learn about new technology.D. To raise money for his new company.3“That sale” in Paragraph 4 refers to _.A. the selling of Ford cars at reduced pricesB. the sale of Model T to the mass of peopleC. the selling of a car to a Detroit doctorD. the sales target for the Ford Company4What was Henry Fords dream according to the text?A. Producing cars for average customers.B. Building racing cars of simple design.C. Designing more car models.D. Starting more companies.答案与解析1A细节理解题。根据第一段的“What Henry Ford did was to use other peoples ideas and make them better”可知，A项符合题意。2B细节理解题。根据第二段的“In the early days of the automobile, almost every car maker raced his cars. It was the best way of gaining public notice. Henry Ford decided to build a racing car. Fords most famous race was his first one.”可知，B项符合题意。3C词义猜测题。由第四段画线单词前的一句“In 1903, a doctor in Detroit bought the first car from the company.”以及画线单词所在的一句可知，C项符合题意。4A推理判断题。根据第四段的 That sale was the beginning of Henry Fords dream. Ford said：“ I will build a motor car for the great mass of people. making good money will be unable to own one.”可知，A项符合题意。Reflection: ( to be written immediately after the lesson)7