1、The Fourth Period Reading (II)Teaching goals 教学目标1. Target language 目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语conference, enthusiastic about, refer to as, compliment, knowledge, Renaissance, statesman, procedure, ornament, discourse, disposition, marshalling, counsel, sloth, affectation, contradict, confute, take sth for grant
2、ed, that is, scholar, bound, crafty, swallow, digest, diligence, deputy, distillb. 重点句子1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.2. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them.3. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted;
3、nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.4. Reaaketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.2. Ability goals 能力目标Enable students to talk about Francis Bacon and Of Studies.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标Help students learn how to talk about Francis Bacon and Of
4、Studies.Teaching important & difficult points 教学重难点How to talk about Francis Bacon and Of Studies.Teaching aids 教具准备Computer and some slides.Teaching methods 教学方法Task-based learning and communicative. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式Step I Lead-inTalk about Francis Bacon. T: Reading maketh a full
5、man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Do you know where the statement is from?S: Of Studies. T: Do you know anything about the author? S: Yes. Francis Bacon (15611626) was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of tr
6、ansition from the Renaissance to the early modern era. S: He is a lawyer, member of Parliament, and Queens Counsel.S: Bacon wrote on questions of law, state and religion, as well as on contemporary politics.S: He also pub texts in which he speculated on possible conceptions of society, and he ponder
7、ed questions of ethics (Essays) even in his works on natural philosophy (The Advancement of Learning).T: Great. Now work in pairs and answer the questions in part 1. After a few minutes. T: There are many wise sayings in Bacons works. Put the quotation “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready
8、man; and writing an exact man” into Chinese, we get “读书使人充实,讨论使人机智,写作使人严谨”. What do you think this means?S: By reading, we can learn a lot and enrich our mind. S: By discussion and debating with others, we can become wise. S: By writing, we can be precise. T: Do you agree?S: Yes. It is similar to re
9、ading, speaking, writing in English learning. T: I agree with you. Is there a similar idea expressed by a Chinese thinker?S: Yes. “读万卷书,行千里路”, by Mao Zedong.Step II Reading Pre-readingT: Open ooks and turn to P53. Read Francis Bacons introduction quickly and answer the questions in part 2. Check the
10、 answers after a few minutes. Suggested answers:1. Francis Bacon was most enthusiastic about science.2. Bacon is referred to as a Renaissance man because he was an English philosopher and statesman, who became well known for his enthusiasm for the scientific revolution, which the discoveries of Gali
11、leo, Newton and others had led to in 17th century Europe.3. Francis Bacon developed a procedure of scientific inquiry which is still known as the Baconian method.While-readingAsk students to read “Of Studies” and deal with some language difficulties. Activities 3. T: There are six main ideas in the
12、text. Can you mark them by lines?Suggested answers:1. Studies serve for delight and disposition of business.2. For expert men can execute from those that they are learned.3. To spend th time in studies is sloth is the humor of a scholar.4. They perfect nature except they be bounded in by experience.
13、5. Crafty men condemn studies but to weigh and consider.6. Some books are to be tasted and writing an exact man.Then ask some student to read the six main ideas one by one and make some necessary explanations. T: Could you tell me the general idea of the first paragraph?S: I think the first sentence
14、 is the general idea of the first paragraph.T: Your answer is correct. The first paragraph tells us that we study for pleasure, for discussion and for work. What does “Retiring” in the third line mean?S: It means “preferring not to spend time with other people”.T: Then what about “discourse” and “di
15、sposition”? What does it mean?S: “Discourse” is a formal form of “discussion”.S: “Dispn” means “the way sth is arranged or placed”. A proverb about “dispose” is “man proposes, God disposes”. The meaning in Chinese is “谋事在人, 成事在天”.T: Could you tell me what the second paragraph tells us?S: This paragr
16、aph tells us that men of learning are better at government and management than experts.T: What does “expert” mean?S: Experienced.Then go on with the rest main ideas. Some language points:1. sloth = laziness2. affection = pretense3. humor = one of the four liquids that were thought in the past to be
17、in a persons body and to influence health and character”.4. crafty = wise5. confute = to prove a person or an argument to be wrong6. “take sth for granted = to believe sth is true without first making sure that it is E.g. I just took it for granted that hed always be around. 我还想当然的以为他总能随叫随到呢.After-r
18、eading Ask students to read the text again and finish activities 46.Check the answers. The main idea of the text: “Of Studies” anawhat studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and how studies exert influence over human character. The writing charac
19、teristics: Forceful and persuasive, compact and precise, “Of Studies” reveals to us Bacons mature attitude towards learning.The writing style: The text is an argumentative essay. Argumentation is an important form of human communication. The author used many parallelism sentences to make the text re
20、adable and concise.Suggested answer to the questions about some words with 17th century meanings:1. The chief use for ornament is in discourse.2. The leaen might plot to marshal affairs from the general counsels.3. Sloth is likely to be negative characteristic because it is shameful. 4. “Humor” is a
21、 neutral word. “Humor” means “one of the four liquids that were thought in the past to be in a persons body and to influence health and character”.5. “Crafty” has a positive meaning.6. This is useful for reading less important books. Suggested answer to the questions in activity 6:1. These are paral
22、lelism sentences. Yes. For example, “reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man” and so on. The author used many parallelism sentences to make the text readable and concise.2. The subj these two sentences is an infinitive. An infinitive makes the passage sound like w
23、ell-reasoned argument.3. I think the passage is written to be read aloud, like a speech. You try it.4. “Delight” is described as “pleasure”; “Ornament” as “decoration”; “Affection” as “pretence”; “Learned” as “experienced”; “Argument” as “contradiction”.5. Yes. When I was a college student, I enjoye
24、d reading this readable passage because the text analyzes what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and how studies exert influence over human character. Then ask studenwork in pairs and discuss the answers to the questions in activity 7. Check
25、 the answers with the class. T: Do you follow Bacons advice when you study and read books?S: Yes. I think his words make sense.T: Answer the question 2, please.S: Reading for taking an exam.T: Most students read for taking exams. The next question.S: When you talk with others, the knowledge that you
26、 acquire from books can be used.T: Good! The last question.S: I think a person is “wise” if he quotes the sentence he learned to demonstrate your knowledge of English. The reason is that learning a language is the process of imitation and communication.Step II Homework1. Ask students to read From Of Studies repeatedly after class and preview the next period, writing.2. Ask students to finish the following. 根据以下提示以 “On Perseverance” (论毅力)为题写一片80个词左右关于毅力的短文.要点: 1. 成功的标准是毅力; 2. 努力, 努力, 再努力直至成功; 3. 没有毅力会导致失败.好句子: Try and try until you succeed.
