I. Teaching Contents:

Reading and vocabulary 2 + writing

 

II．Teaching objectives:

1．Knowledge objectives

▲Important words and expressions

Orphan, starving, convict, cold, cruel, wedding, educated, illegally, sadly, meanwhile, career, marry, escape from, be fond of , as a result, make money, in order to, in fact

▲    Important structures

1).Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, is an orphan who lives with his sister and her husband.

2). It is Miss Havisham who has done this for him.

3). …it is he, Magwitch, who has been giving Pip the money.

2. Ability Objectives

A). Enable the students to learn about another novel by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

B).Enable the students to understand the text and analyze the main characters in this novel.

C).Enable the students to describe the characters in Great Expectations.

3. Learning Strategies:

A).Learn to get the useful information by reading.

B).Learn to analyze or describe the characters of this novel.

C).Learn to write a short description of the characters in Great expectations.

4. Moral and emotion：

To arouse Ss’ interest in learning English literature and love Chinese literature..

5. Cultural awareness:

 Enable the students to know more about classical English literature and Chinese literature that have made great contribution to the world culture.

 

III. Teaching important points:

To understand the text better.

To learn how to analyze or describe the characters of this novel.

To write a new ending for this novel.

IV. Teaching difficult points:

To learn how to analyze or describe the characters of this novel.

To write a new ending for this novel.

V. Teaching methods:

Task-based activity, reading, free discussion method ，communicative approach , situational approach, cooperative learning,

VI. Teaching aids

Multi-media, computer

 

VII. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Lead-in

Play a part of English film--Great Expectations and then ask the Ss to talk about the plot that they have known.

Talk about the background of this novel.

 (Purpose: To arouse the students’ interest by seeing film, and lead to the topic of this lesson.)

 

Step 2 Reading

Let the Ss read the passage and find out the main characters, then ask them to work in pairs to analyze the relationship among the characters.

 Call back their answer from some pairs.

 

(Purpose: Improve the students’ reading ability and help the Ss to get the detailed information.)

Step 3 Speaking

1. Divide Ss into 4 groups and give several minutes for them to talk about the different characters in this novel with the help of the form above.

2.（Competition）Then ask each group to choose the number which lead to different characters. And each group will ask their representative to talk about the character that they choose in the limited time.

 

(Purpose: Develop the Ss’ ability of speaking and consolidate the passage by a competition to stimulate the enthusiasm of the Ss. Meanwhile ,this step is designed to prepare for the next step-writing.)

 

Step 4. Writing

Get the ss to write a short description of these characters in Great Expectations,

 

 Ask the Ss to mention the following information:

(Purpose: Train the Ss’ writing ability )

 

Step 5 Discussion

Ask the Ss to work in small groups to rewrite the last two paragraphs of the story, changing the story and giving it a different ending.

 The students are required to discuss and share their ideas together and decide on the changes and make notes.

Give some useful phrases to help the students:

 (7minutes later) Ask some groups to report their new ending to the class.

(Purpose: Group work can improve their cooperative ability .

Develop the Ss’ imagination. And prepare for the writing.)

 

Step 6 Homework

Write a new ending to the story according to their discussion

(Purpose: Develop the Ss’ skill of writing.)

 

Record after teaching design:

The topic of this period is literature-Great expectations. The main aim is to enable the students to understand the text and analyze the main characters in this novel, to talk about the different people in the novel and to describe the characters in Great expectations.

 In fact, the students are interested in literature, with the activities that the teacher designs, they are aroused. They can understand the text better and talk about the different characters and their relationship of this novel. In this happy and relaxed situation, they have much to say, and they have learned the new knowledge and improve the ability of using English.