Teaching Aims:
1.Learn and master the following:
(1)Words:
weakness,anymore,greatness,judgement,gentleman,troublesome,gentle,bless,surgeon,declare,court
(2)Phrases:
tear up,have mercy on,offer up,be seated
2.Train the students’ reading ability.
3.Learn to recount detail in conversation.
Teaching Important Points:
1.Useful words and phrases:
have mercy on,anymore,tear up,offer up,be seated,pay back
2.Improve the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Help the students understand the play exactly,especially the following sentences.
1.You might as well go stand upon the beach and argue with the sea.
2.I offer you ten times the money that Antonio has borrowed.
Teaching Methods:
1.Asking-and-answering before reading to make the students interested in what they will read.
2.Fast and careful reading to train the students’ reading ability.
3.Discussion after reading to make the students further understand what they’ve read.
Teaching Aids:
1.the multimedia
2.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step Ⅱ Revision and Pre-reading
T:Yesterday,we learned a lot about William Shakespeare and his plays.Who’d like to tell the titles of his four great tragedies?Volunteers?
S1:Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,Macbeth.
T:Thank you.Sit down,please.And he also wrote some romantic comedies.Which is the most outstanding one?
Ss:The Merchant of Venice.
T:Tell the names of the main characters in the play.
Ss:Shylock,Antonio,Bassanio,Duke,Portia.
T:Well.Now look at the screen and match the people in Column A with the instructions in Column B.
(Show the screen and ask the students to do it together.)
1.Antonio A.the Magnifico
2.Shylock B.a merchant
3.Bassanio C.Antonio’s friend
4.Portia D.a moneylender
5.Duke E.Bassanio’s wife
Suggested answers:
1-B 2-D 3-C 4-E 5-A
T:After Portia knows that Antonio has to give Shylock a pound of his flesh,she thinks up a plan to save Antonio.What do you think Portia will do to save Antonio?
S2:I think she will give Shylock much more money than what Antonio borrowed from him.
T:Will Shylock accept her money?
S2:Maybe.He is greedy.
T:It sounds reasonable.Is there anyone who has a different opinion?
S3:I think she will try to persuade Shylock to show mercy to Antonio.
T:Will she succeed?Don’t forget he is cruel and he hated Antonio.Who has read this play?Tell us what Portia does to save Antonio.
S4:She pretends to be a judge and arrives at the court of the Duke.
T:Thank you.Sit down,please.Today,we’re going to read this play,The Merchant of Venice.After reading it,we’ll know what happened in the court.First,let’s learn some new words and expressions.Look at the screen.
(Teacher shows the screen and deals with them with the whole class.)
have mercy on 对……表示怜悯
weakness/′ｗｉｋｎIｓ/ n. 软弱；弱点
anymore/′ｅｎI′ｍ/ adv. 不再
greatness/′ｇｒｅIｔｎIｓ/ n. 伟大
judgement/′ｄｄｍｎｔ/ n. 判决；判断
gentleman/′ｇｅｎｔｌｍ迹/ n. 绅士
envy/′ｅｎｖI/玽t.& n. 妒忌；羡慕
troublesome/′ｔｒｂｌｓｍ/ adj. 令人烦恼的；讨厌的
merciful/′ｍｓIｆｌ/ adj. 仁慈的；宽大的
gentle/′ɡｅｎｔｌ/ adj. 温柔的；柔和的；有教养的
bless/ｂｌｅｓ/ vt. 祝福，保佑
tear up 撕毁；取消（合同等）
swear/ｓｗｅ/vt.& vi. 发誓；宣誓
offer up 献出；献上
surgeon/′ｓｄｎ/ n. 外科医生
△sentence/′ｓｅｎｔｎｓ/ n. 判决
declare/ｄI′ｋｌｅ/ vt. 宣布；宣称
court/ｋｔ/ n. 法庭
△scale/ｓｋｅIｌ/n. 天平盘；称盘
Step Ⅲ Reading
T:Well.Now please turn to Page 67.Read the play quickly and find out what she does when she arrives at the court.You can begin to read it now.
(After a few minutes,teacher checks the answer.)
T:OK.Everyone,I think you must have found the answer.Who’d like to tell me?
S5:She tries to persuade Shylock to show mercy to Antonio and accept the money offered by Bassanio.
T:Does she succeed?
S5:No.
T:What does she do next?
S5:She has to allow Shylock to take his pound of flesh from Antonio’s breast.
T:Thank you.Sit down,please.Do you agree with him/her?
Ss:Yes.
T:Well done.You’ve understood it well.Now please read it carefully again and further understand it.At the same time,find out all the useful phrases.A few minutes later,I’ll collect them from you.
(After a few minutes,teacher collects and writes them on the blackboard.After that,teacher deals with some language problems.)
T:Look at the blackboard,please.All these phrases are important and useful.You must remember them and try to use them.Do you remember?
Ss:Yes.
T:Besides,there are some other language points which are useful but difficult to understand.I’ll explain them to you.Look at the screen.
(Teacher shows the screen and explains to the students.)
1.anymore=any more
e.g.She doesn’t live here anymore.
Are they producing this machine anymore?
2.may/might as well do sth.
e.g.Since nobody else wants the job,we might as well let him have it.
All the pubs are closing.We may as well go home.
3.If you offered me…,I would still take…
(Note:if=even if)
e.g.If she is poor,she’s honest at least.
If the sun were to rise in the west,I would not break my word.
4.be seated
e.g.He then asked me to be seated.
She seated herself on the sofa.
She saw a few people seated on the bench at the back of the classroom.
5.…how can you hope for mercy yourself when you show none?
(Note:when=if)
e.g.I’ll come when I’m needed.
She’ll be able to give you help when necessary.
6.I offer ten times the money that Antonio has borrow.
e.g.The new building is four times the size of the old one.
The street is three times the length of that one.
The room is twice the size of that one.
(=The room is as twice large as that one.)
7.pay-back
e.g.Have you paid(me)back the money you owe me yet?
I’ll pay him back for the trick he played on me.
Rose doesn’t know how to pay him back for his help.
(Bb:anymore=any more,may/might as well do sth.,be seated,if=even if,when=if,times,pay back)
Step Ⅳ Listening and Reading Aloud
T:OK.Now I’ll play the tape of the text.First,listen and follow.Then,listen and repeat.Meanwhile,pay attention to your pronunciation and intonation.Is everything clear?
Ss:Yes.
(Teacher begins to play the tape.A few minutes later,teacher deals with the next part.)
Step Ⅴ Post-reading
T:Now,you must have understood the play more exactly.Let’s have a discussion about it.Please turn to Page 69.Look at the questions in Post-reading and work in groups of four to discuss them.After a while,I’ll ask some of you to report to the rest of the class.Begin to work now.
Suggested answers:
1.She is clever and learned.
2.He is cruel.
3.Shylock hated Antonio because Antonio had many times scolded him publicly for being greedy and cruel.
4.(A)Literally, with the heart which he shall cut out of my body; (B)metaphorically, whole-heartedly, willingly.
5.①Usually,things are weighed with a balance.
Weighs go into the left scale and things go into the right scale.
②She wants to remind Shylock that he must cut exactly a pound of flesh from Antonio,no more,no less.
③The deeper meaning of the balance is justice.
In Portia’s court of law,morals are weighed.
6.Duke speaks to Antonio
Shylock speaks to Duke
Bassanio speaks to Antonio
Portia speaks to Bassanio
Step Ⅵ Summary and Homework
T:In this class,we have mainly read the first part of 玊he Merchant of Venice.While reading it,we’ve also learned some useful words and expressions and sentences.After class,read the text again and revise what we’ve learnt in this class.That’s all for today.See you!
Ss:See you!
Step Ⅶ The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard
Unit 19 The Merchant of Venice
The Second Period
Ⅰ.Words
anymore=any more
if=even if
when=if
Ⅱ.Phrases:
show mercy on,may/might as well do sth.,according to,cut off,tear up,offer up,do the deed,be seated,
take sb.in one’s arms
Ⅲ.Sentence patterns:
A is three (four,etc.)times the size(height,etc.)of B.
cStep Ⅷ Record after Teaching