Reading: English Poetry
--Book 2A Unit4 A Garden of poems
Good morning, teachers, It’s my great pleasure to have this opportunity to be here sharing my lesson with you. The content of my lesson is English Poetry taken from Senior English for China Book2A Unit4 A Garden of poems. I’ll be ready to begin this lesson from three parts, my understanding of this lesson, my teaching theories、methods and aids, my teaching procedures. First, let me talk about my understanding of this lesson. Part 1 My understanding of this lesson The Analysis of the teaching material
This text focus on the development of all stages of poetry and the representative writer of each stage in English while compare them with the famous poets in history of China. This kind of comparison will help the Ss understand the characteristics of English poetry meanwhile their ability and interest to appreciate the English poetry can be inspired and lay the foundation for their literary accomplishment. Teaching Aims:
1. To understand the development of literature in European countries
2. According to simple comparison, make the Ss understand the characteristics of foreign poetry 3. To inspire the Ss’ interest in the foreign poetry. Teaching Important Points:
Master the useful words and phrases appearing in this period.
eg. more… than; remind sb of sth;no matter how(what…)引导让步状语从句 listen to A Song: no matter what by Boyzone to help the Ss recite and understand
Teaching Difficult Point:
how to help the Ss finish each task and improve their skills to use language.
Part 2 My teaching theories, methods and aids
In my opinion, the main instructional aims of learning English in the Middle School is to develop the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading, writing and their good sense of the English language. Therefore, according to the modern social communication teaching theories(现代社会交际教学理论), I’ll mainly adopt the two following teaching methods. Teaching Methods:
1. Task-based language teaching Approach. 2. Communicative Approach. Teaching Aids:
1. The Multimedia 2.The blackboard Part 3 Teaching procedures
In order to achieve my teaching aims and help my Ss to improve their ability of reading , I have designed the three teaching steps. The entire steps are: Summarize, find the key words to retell and Make a timeline.
Step 1 Summarize (practice in five groups)
In this step, first of all, I will ask Ss to summarize the main idea of each paragraph according to the “pre-reading”, next, I’ll encourage my Ss to find the difficult points by themselves, and then to solve the problem by group cooperation.
Reference: Para1 why we read poetry
Para2 Chinese poets and poetry Para3 Early English poets
Para4 The 19th century English poets Para5 Modern English poets
Para6 The introduction of English poetry into China Para7 Why more people are interested in English poetry
Step 2 Find the key words to retell (individual activity) Step 3 Make a timeline
Step 4 Homework
1 Read the text again to get a better understanding
2 Read and translate several good English poems
3 Get some information about famous poets on Internet if possible That’s all for my teaching plan about this lesson. Thanks!