1、The Fourth Period Extensive ReadingTeaching goals教学目标1. Target language 目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语authentic, burglar, antique, basement, calculate, chief, circulate, courtyard, crossing, crossroads, dash, debt, drawback, inspiration, inspire, liberty, merely, movable, official, outcomeb. 重点句子 Perugia had stolen
2、 the Mona Lisa on behalf of the chief organizer of the crime, Eduardo de Valfierno.After two years, Perugia got tired of waiting to be paid, and tried to sell the painting. When the real Mona Lisa turned up in Florence, de Valfierno simply told his buyers that it was merely a copy. 2. Ability goals能
3、力目标Enable the students to talk about the puzzle of the Mona Lisa and the development of printing.3. Learning ability goals学能目标Help the students learn how to talk about the puzzle of the Mona Lisa and the development of printing. Teaching important & difficult points 教学重难点How to talk about the puzzle
4、 of the Mona Lisa and the development of printing.Teaching methods 教学方法Asking-answering and summarizing. Teaching aids 教具准备A computer and a project. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式Step Revision and lead-inT: Good morning / afternoon everyone!Ss: Good morning / afternoon, Sir / Madam!T: Now, Ill c
5、heck your homework like this: Read the sentences you made one by one. Who would like to be the first?S: Id like to try first. The foreign visitors enjoyed seeing Chinese acrobatics.S: The students studying in this university are all excellent.S: We consider him to be a good teacher.S: Reading Englis
6、h aloud every day is very important for an English learner. S: He likes to drink cold boiled water.S: We are brothers sharing happiness and sadness.T: OK, so much for your homework. Now look at the screen.Show the following picture on the screen.T: Do you know the person on the screen?Ss: No.T: It d
7、oesnt matter. Do you know the poem “Manjianghong”?Ss: Yes. T: Who is the writer?Ss: Yuefei. T: And this is the statue of his wife. In 2005, the statue was stolen. The police tried their best to search for it. Fortunately, they found it and brought the thief to trial. Can you tell me why the thief st
8、ole this statue? S: We all know that Yuefei was a famous official in the Song Dynasty. In honour of him, people built a temple and placed the statues of him and his wife in it. The statues must be worth a large amount of money, so thieves stole the statue.T: Thats right. Some people want to become r
9、ich in illegal ways, but they never consider the benefits of our country. Their greed leads to the loss of many valuable things in our country. And it is the same with foreign countries. Today we will learn a passage about a theft in France. Now turn to Page 25. Step Reading (Activity 1: Page 25)Pre
10、-readingT: In this module, we mainly talk about the Renaissance, and a famous painting. Do you remember what the painting is？Ss: The Mona Lisa.T: What can you remember about the Mona Lisa?S: The Mona Lisa is a famous 16th century portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisas mysterious smile has interes
11、ted generations of viewers. T: Why is the painting special?S: The secret behind the Mona Lisa is that the “happy” part of her smile is actually buried in a low spatial pattern. So if you are not looking directly at her mouth, her smile looks cheerful. But when you look directly at her smile, some pa
12、rts of it disappear into the background. As a result, youre never quite sure if shes smiling or not. T: We are going to learn the passage “The Puzzle of the Mona Lisa”. Can you guess what the puzzle of the Mona Lisa might be?S: I think the puzzle is that people dont know how Leonardo painted the Mon
13、a Lisa. S: I dont agree with you. From question 3, I guess the puzzle is that people dont know which one is the authentic one.S: Maybe people dont know what Leonardo wanted to express through this painting.T: All you said is reasonable. Now lets read the passage and find out the answer. Fast-reading
14、T: Now read the passage quickly. After reading, try to decide what text type the passage is and choose the best summary in Activity 2. Are you clear?Ss: Yes.Then give the students some minutes to read the passage, and then ask some students to answer thequestions.T: OK, time is up. Is there anyone w
15、ho wants to have a try?S: The passage is a narrative. S: The title of the passage is “the puzzle of the Mona Lisa”, so the passage certainly will tell us what the puzzle is. In Activity 2, the third statement can explain this question. So I choose “c”.T: Very good.Careful-readingT: After reading the
16、 passage, I think all of you have known something about the puzzle of the Mona Lisa. Now who can explain what the puzzle is?S: After being stolen, the Mona Lisa was copied. There were six copies altogether. So the puzzle is that people dont know whether the returned one in the Louvre Museum is the a
17、uthentic one painted by Leonardo himself.T: Yes, excellent. Now lets read the passage again. This time please read it carefully, and after reading, try to summarize Paragraphs 2, 5 and 8 by choosing the most important sentence from the given choices in Activity 4. And also you should finish Activity
18、 5. Got it?Ss: Yes.Some minutes later.T: Now lets summarize the three paragraphs. Any volunteers?S: I want to have a try. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911. So for the first question, I choose a. T: Thank you for your bravery. You are right. Now who can summarize Paragraph
19、 5?S: Paragraph 5 mainly explains the reason why the burglar didnt sell the painting until two years later. So I think the most important sentence in this paragraph is a.T: Yes, thats right. Now how about Paragraph 8?S: It explains the puzzle of the Mona Lisa. So I choose c. T: Right. OK, lets deal
20、with the questions in Activity 5. Who would like to read your answers?Then ask a student to read his answers, and check the answers with the whole class.Then show the following questions on the screen.1. Why did Perugia steal the painting?2. Did Eduardo de Valfierno really need the painting? Why?3.
21、Why did Vincenzo Perugia wait for two years before he sold the painting?4. What was de Valfiernos reaction when the buyers heard that Perugia had tried to sell the painting?5. If the Mona Lisa in the Louvre had only been a copy when it was stolen, what would have been the result?T: First try to come
22、 up with all the answers to these questions, and then make a summary by joining them up. You can add something more when it is necessary. I will give you five minutes to discuss, and then show me the result. Five minutes later.T: Who wants to share your result with the others? S: Let me have a try.
23、In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen. The case was not solved until the burglar, Perugia tried to sell it two years later. In fact, Perugia stole the painting on behalf of the chief organizer of the crime, Eduardo de Valfierno so that he could get some money from him. But de Valfierno didnt need the pa
24、inting. It was only the news of the burglary that he really needed. After the loss of the Mona Lisa was published in newspaper, de Valfierno sold six copies which he made beforehand, claiming that each one was the authentic painting. Perugia waited for de Valfierno to pay him for two years until one
25、 day he went to a buyer to sell the painting. When the real Mona Lisa turned up, de Valfierno simply told his buyers that it was a copy. But this led to a puzzle: If Perugia stole a copy, who has the authentic Mona Lisa? Thats all, thank you for listening.T: Very good.Post-readingT: In the passage,
26、it mentions that the news of the loss of the Mona Lisa was circulated in all the French newspapers. From this sentence, we can see whenever a big event happens, the newspaper will report it in a short time. Now imagine someone has stolen a famous work of art in China. Suppose you are a reporter, wri
27、te a newspaper article describing what happened. Now take out a piece of paper, write it immediately and try to finish it in 10 minutes. Later I will call some of you to report the theft. Are you clear?Ss: Yes.Then the students begin to write. Fifteen minutes later, ask one or two students to read t
28、heir articles.Sample report:“Thieves have stolen 15 rare items of medieval Chinese jewelry from the Capital Museum, including historically important gold earrings, amulets and hair pins,” a museum spokeswoman said on Monday. The items, dating from between 700 and 1400 AD, were taken from a glass cab
29、inet in the Oriental Antiquities Gallery on Friday, but their loss was only spotted by security staff on Saturday. “The items are rare and easily portable and of great historical importance,” the spokeswoman said. She declined to put a monetary value on the missing items. The Capital Museum, home to
30、 such kind of treasures, suffered a number of robberies in the 1990s which forced changes in its security procedures.Step Reading (Printing: P27)T: From the passage “The Puzzle of the Mona Lisa”, we can learn that at the beginning of the 20th century, newspaper had already appeared. But if we want t
31、o make a large number of copies of newspapers, a kind of technology is very important. Do you know what it is? And why is it important?S: Printing. Because if we copy all the contents on a piece of newspaper by hand, it will take a long time to make many copies. But printing answered a need because
32、people were thirsty for knowledge. Without printing, we can not know what is going on around the world in a short time.T: Yes. Since printing is so important in our daily life, it is necessary for us to learn more about it. Do you think so?Ss: Yes.T: Now turn to Page 27. First go through the two que
33、stions, and then skim the passage and answer the questions.Then give the students some time to skim the passage, and then check the answers.T: OK, time is up. Who can answer the first question?S: From the passage, we can learn that a German, Johann Gutenberg, made the first printing press in Europe.
34、 So we can conclude that printing began in Germany. T: Yes, I agree with you. Next question?S: As the ideas of the Renaissance developed, people demanded for the Greek and Latin classics, and they also wanted books in their own languages. So at that time, people had a strong desire for knowledge. Th
35、e traditional way of making a book cannot satisfy peoples desire. Printing solved this vital problem for the people. So without the development of the printing press, the Renaissance may never have happened.T: Very good. Now lets read the passage carefully and try to make a summary of the passage. S
36、ample summary:Printing is the process of making many copies of a single document using movable characters or letters. But it didnt appear in Europe until a German, Johann Gutenberg, made the first printing press, which made it possible to produce more copies in a few weeks than could have been produced in a lifetime written out by hand. And also printing made it possible for people to get enough knowledge in a short time. For the Renaissance, printing played a fundamental role.Step HomeworkT: Homework for today: Try to retell the passage on Page 25. See you next period!Ss: See you!