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1、.Unit 2 King LearPart One: Teaching DesignPeriod 3: A sample lesson plan for Using Language(KING LEAR )AimsTo help students read the passage KING LEAR on page 17To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writingProceduresI. Warming up by learning about the complete work

2、s by William ShakespearComedyHistoryTragedyPoetryAll's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labours Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre Tam

3、ing of the Shrew The Tempest Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Winter's Tale Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry V Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3 Henry VIII King John Richard II Richard IIIAntony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King

4、Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus AndronicusThe Sonnets A Lover's Complaint The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis Funeral II. Reading for forms Read the play King Lear on page 17 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives a

5、nd underline all the useful expressions. KING LEAR (on page 17)Part 3NARRATOR: As soon as Goneril has got all/ she can/ from her father, she begins treating him disrespectfully. When Lear wants to speak to her, Goneril tells her servant, Oswald, to say/ she is sick. She encourages her staff /to be d

6、isrespectful towards Lear/ and begins complaining about the hundred soldiers/ Lear has brought with him. However, King Lear soon has a friend by his side. The Duke of Kent, who Lear ordered to leave Britain, cannot abandon his king. He /therefore comes to Lear /disguised as a servant/ called Caius/

7、and asks for a job. (Enter Lear, several of Lears soldiers/ and Kent/ disguised as a servant.)LEAR: OK Caius, Ill give you a trial. And /if you prove to be good at your job, Ill keep you on /as my servant. (Oswald enters.) Hey, you there. Wheres my daughter? (Oswald ignores the king/ and hurries out

8、 of the room.) Hey. Whats going on? Call him back. Is he deaf? (A soldier rushes out after Oswald.) Its as though /the whole world has gone to sleep. (Soldier reenters.) Wheres that servant? Why didnt he come back /when I called? SOLDIER: Sir, he answered me very rudely /and said/ he would not come

9、back.LEAR: I dont believe it!SOLDIER: Sir, I am sorry, to tell you this, but it seems to me that /you are not being treated with the respect /due to a king. Everyone here, including your daughter, is behaving very coldly towards you.LEAR: Mmm. I suspected the same, but I kept telling myself/ it was

10、my imagination. Please tell my daughter /I wish to speak with her. (Soldier bows /and leaves. Oswald enters.) Ah, come here my man/ and answer me. Who am I?OSWALD: My ladys father.LEAR: Your ladys father? Is that all /I am to you, you dog, you slave! (Lear raises his arm/ as though to strike Oswald.

11、)OSWALD: Ill not be hit, my Lord.KENT: (Kent kicks Oswalds feet out/ from under him.) And you wont be laid flat /on your back/ either, I suppose. Now/ get up /and get out of here. (Oswald leaves.)LEAR: My thanks, Caius. I can see /you will be a most valuable servant.(Enter Goneril.) Whats up, daught

12、er? You always seem to be frowning lately.GONERIL: Is it any wonder/ that I frown /when your soldiers are continually drinking /and fighting? I thought /when I told you about their behaviour/ you would make them behave, but now/ I hear /you have insulted Oswald. I do believe /you are encouraging you

13、r soldiers /in their bad behaviour.LEAR: Is this my daughter scolding me?GONERIL: I have had enough of your soldiers. They are expensive to keep /and you dont need them. Besides, their drunken behaviour /and bad manners are disgusting. You will send half of them away. And /unless you want me to get

14、rid of the rest of them /too, I suggest /you teach them how to behave properly.LEAR: Thats a lie. My soldiers are good men /who know how to behave properly. I wont stay here/ to be insulted. I still have one more daughter. Shell scratch out your eyes/ when she hears how /youve treated me. Men! Get m

15、y horses ready/ and collect my baggage. Ill leave immediately. I wont stay /where Im not welcome. (Lear /and companions leave.)NARRATOR: Lear sends Kent on ahead/ to the castle of his other daughter, Regan, to tell her that/ he will soon be arriving. Goneril sends her servant Oswald to Regan/ to tel

16、l her side of the story.III. Copying expressionsNow try to find and copy all the useful expressions from the play.as soon as, begin doing sth., treat sb. disrespectfully, speak to sb, tell sb. to do sth., encourage sb. to do sth., complain about, bring with sb., have a friend by ones side, order to

17、do, abandon sb., disguise as, ask for a job, give sb. a trial, to be good at, keep sb. on as, ignore sb., hurry out of, go on, call sb. back, rush out after sb., as though, go to sleep, come back, it seems to sb. that, be treated with the respect, due to, keep telling oneself, wish to speak with sb.

18、, come here, raise ones arm, kick ones feet out from under one, be laid flat on ones back, get up, get out of, be up, seem to do, tell sb. about, make sb. behave, encourage sb. in ones bad behaviour, scold sb., have enough of, be expensive to do, send half of sb. away, get rid of, the rest of, teach

19、 sb. how to do.,stayto be insulted, have one more daughter, scratch out ones eyes, getready, collect ones baggage, on ahead, send sb. to do., tell ones side of the story.IV. Writing a summary of King Lear-Part IIILear makes a vivid speech about his current situation and begins to show signs of losin

20、g his sanity. Lear, The Fool, and Kent come upon Edgar disguised as an insane beggar named Poor Tom. Tom's deranged babble seems to compliment Lear's downward spiral of sanity. Gloucester leaves the castle (defying Regan) and locates Lear. Lear's old friend persuades him to take shelter

21、in a barn from the wicked elements of the storm.Edmund displays his vile disregard for his father by letting The Duke of Cornwall see a fabricated letter implicating Gloucester in a plot to conspire with France to attack Britain Cornwall's land. Cornwall intends to reward Edmund for his loyalty,

22、 and severely punish Gloucester upon his return.Sheltered from the storm in the barn, Lear's madness reaches a new peak. He creates a fictional courtroom in which The Fool and Poor Tom are judges. Lear charges Regan and Goneril for their crimes. Lear goes to sleep with persuasion by Kent. Glouce

23、ster returns from fetching supplies and informs everyone that Lear's life is in danger. Regan and Goneril, he says, intend to kill their father. Gloucester sends Lear to Dover, because he believes he will be safe there.Gloucester then thinks he should return to his castle. Upon arriving, however

24、, he is met with accusations. The French had landed and Cornwall says Gloucester is a traitor. Regan excitedly states they should pluck Gloucester's eyes out. Ironically, one of Cornwall's own servants pulls his sword to defend the Earl. During the ensuing battle the servant manages to morta

25、lly wound Cornwall, but is himself killed by Regan. In a grizzly scene, Cornwall gouges Gloucester's eyes out and Regan sends him outside the castle to wander until he dies. Cornwall, assisted by Regan, exits bleeding profusely.V. Reading a short storyOn page 19 there is an article entitled &quo

26、t;The three daughters of the king"You are going to read it to cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF THE KING ( on page 19)A long, long time ago, there was a king/ who ruled over the

27、 southwest part of England. One day, the king asked his three daughters/ how much they loved him. Two of them said /they loved him more than anyone /or anything /on the earth. The third daughter chose not to flatter her father/ with dishonest claims/ and instead /told him/ she loved him /only as muc

28、h as her duty/ as a daughter required. The king, who was not a very good judge of character, believed the two dishonest daughters /and gave them his kingdom. He told the honest daughter that/ she was ungrateful /and unnatural. He made her leave his kingdom /and she traveled across the sea /to France

29、.The king then went to live with his eldest daughter, bringing with him a hundred soldiers /to look after him. But the eldest daughter demanded that/ he reduce the number of his soldiers/ to fifty. The king was angry/ and went to live with his second daughter /instead. But /the second daughter was n

30、o different /and she further reduced his soldiers /to twenty-five. The king then went backwards/ and forwards /between his two daughters/ until he had no soldiers /at all.The youngest daughter, hearing what had happened to her father, gathered together an army/ and defeated her two sisters. She then /put the old king back /on his throne. When the king died peacefully /in his sleep /the honest daughter became queen.a long, long time ago, rule over, ask sb