1、Unit 5 Period 1The First Period ReadingTeaching goals教学目标1Target language目标语言a重点词汇和短语 consensus，equality，twist，contradiction，hopeless，skeptical，approval，explicit，outspoken，growth，childhood，premier，ambiguous，possess，generous，sponsor，in force，get round，under the name of，see through，struggle against，st
2、and outb重点句子 Can you believe that there used to be a consensus in society that opposed the writing of novels by authoresses? The three Bronte sisters adopting this practice Mary Ann Evans did the same and wrote under the name of George Eliot With the 19th century being regarded as one of great women
3、 writers， there were also some excellent male authors2Ability goals能力目标 Enable the students to learn about the world famous literary works and authoresses and improve their reading abilities3Learning ability goals学能目标 Help the students learn to appreciate English novels and know about some authoress
4、esTeaching important points教学重点Let the students understand the whole passage and identify new words and expressions which appear in the textTeaching difficult points教学难点Enable the students to improve reading abilities and appreciate English novelsTeaching aids教具准备Computer and some slidesTeaching met
5、hods教学方法Task-based learning and communicativeTeaching procedures ways教学过程与方式Step I Lead-in Warming upT：Good morning，studentsI heard that most of our students like to play the computer games，such as“大话西游”and“三国志”We are all familiar with these storiesDo you know where t11ese stories are from?S1: They
6、are all from ancient，Chinese storiesS2:“大话西游”comes from the novel “Journey to the WestS3:“三国志”comes from the novel “Romance of Three KingdomsT：These novels are very popular in ChinaThe two novels are called “the Four Chinese Classical Novels” by ChineseThe others are “Dream of Red Mansions”红楼梦and “W
7、ater Margin”水浒传Have you read them?Ss: Yes.T: They are the representations of Chinese novels. Have you read any foreign novels?Ss: Yes.T: OK. Today we will have a new period about literature. Lets have a discussion about literature according to these questions.Show the four questions on the slides.T:
8、 Ill give you five minutes to discuss and then ask some students to answer the questions.S1: I like novels because we can learn the background of that society after reading novels. I am very relaxed when I read a novel.T: Good. The next one.S2: I like classical literature. Reading classical literatu
9、re written by native speakers can improve my English language skills in several ways and we could get knowledge about history. Ive read Jane Eyre and I like the heroines very much.T: Well done. The third one.S3: I like English novels better. Ive read Wuthering Heights.T: Good. The last question. Its
10、 a little difficult.S4: Yes. Once there was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that when he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the fence. The first day the boy hammered 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control
11、 his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.Finally the day came when the boy didnt lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy pull out o
12、ne nail for each day when he was able to hold his temper. The day passed and one day the young boy told his father that all the nails were gone. The fence would never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like those nails.T: You have done a good job. I am very glad youve
13、read some English novels.Step Pre-readingT: Please look at the slides. Can you match the titles of these famous novels to the authors? Maybe some authors whom you are not very familiar with. Have a try.Show the slide.Three minutes later, check the answers.T: There are nine authors. Do you know how m
14、any female authors are there?S1: There are six female authors. They are Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Harper Lee, Anne Bronte and Margaret Mitchell.T: Please look at the picture on the right. She is the famous author who writes the novel Gone with the Wind.Step While-readingT: How man
15、y English authoresses in the 19th century in the text? Who are they? What are their works mentioned in the text? Read the text as quickly as possible, and try to find out the answers to the questions in two minutes, Ill time you. (Design a clock which can work and sound when time is up) Have you got
16、 your answers?S6: There are five authoresses in the 19th century in the text. They are Jane Austen, the three Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne), and the writer known as George Eliot. Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte and Silas Marner written b
17、y George Eliot are mentioned in the text.T: Well done. Sit. down, please. Do you understand this passage? What does the author tell us in the first paragraph?S7: Consensus in society opposed the writing of novels by authoresses. But this period produced five of the most courageous and gifted authore
18、sses. They are Jane Austen, the three Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne), and the writer known as George Eliot.T: Good. Who can tell us the general idea of paragraphs 2 to 3?S8: The general idea of paragraphs 2 to 3 is the introduction of Jane Austen and her work Pride and Prejudice.T: It is
19、 not very specific. Lets learn more about Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen was born in a country clergymans family on 16 December, 1775, in the parish of Steventon. She was brought up in an intelligent but restricted environment. Her father was a priest and scholar with a good librar
20、y. She was. educated at home with her sister. Through a wide reading of books available in her fathers library, Jane acquired a thorough knowledge of eighteen century English literature, including the moral philosophy of Dr Johnson, the, poetry, of W. Cowper, as well as the novels by Richardson and
21、Fielding. She lived in a quiet, retired and, in public terms, uneventful life, though she did move to several places like Bath, Southampton and Chawton. And her closest companion was her elder sister Cassandra, who, never married. Austen began as a child to write novels for her family entertainment.
22、 Her works were later published anonymously due to the prejudice against women writers then. In her lifelong career, Jane Austen wrote altogether six complete novels. She died in Winchester. Jane Austen is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between men and women in love. Stories of love
23、and marriage provide the major themes in all her novels, in which female characters are always playing an active part. In their pursuit of a marriage, they are usually categorized into three types according to their different attitudes: those who would marry for material wealth and social position,
24、those who would marry just for beauty and passion, and those who would marry for true love with a consideration of the partners personal merit as well as his economical and social status. In another word, Jane Austen tries to say that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also
25、 wrong to marry without it. Do you understand the paragraphs 2 to 3 ?Ss: Yes.T: The fourth paragraph means that after Jane Austen, authoresses found it an even more hopeless task to publish novels under their own names. So they chose to publish their works using mens names. How much do you know Char
26、lotte Bronte and her work Jane Eyre?S9: Charlotte Bronte was the most famous of the three Bronte sisters. Her most famous book, Jane Eyre, describes the growth of a poor, abused heroine with an unhappy childhood who finds eventual happiness after many struggles and disappointments. Being immediately
27、 hailed as the master work of a great genius, Jane Eyre became a great success.T: Do you want to know more about Charlotte Bronte and her work Jane Eyre?Ss: Yes.T: Charlotte Bronte came from a large family of Irish origin. Their father was a clergyman at Haworth, Yorkshire. When they were young, the
28、 Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymens daughters. The eldest two died there due to the poor and unhealthy conditions. This experience inspired the later portrayal of Lowood School in the novel Jane Eyre. As they grew up, the sisters worked either as teacher or governess in some private
29、 families. In 1842, in order to open up a school of their own, Charlotte and Emily went to Brussels to improve their foreign language. The two years there left hardly any trace on Emily but for Charlotte the change was most fundamental. There she fell in love with her German professor, a married man
30、. This passionate yet one-side love was later recounted in her works, especially in Villette. Charlottes works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, hap
31、py life.T: Look at the sixth paragraph, boys and girls. This paragraph has to do with George Eliot and her work Silas Marner. I would like to tell you more about George Eliot and her work Silas Marner. George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, was born on Nov. 22, 1819 into an estate agents family
32、in Warwickshire, England. As a small child, she showed no evidence of special talent except a passionate longing to be loved. By the time of her teenage, however, her extraordinary intelligence began to be acknowledged both at home and at school. Brought up with the strict orthodox teaching and influenced by her first school-teacher Miss Lewis, the bookish girl devoted herself, for four years, to a diligent study of the Scripture. Unfortunately, she was forced to drop school at the
