Module 5 Unit 2
It describes the changes in Chinese society.
教材分析
本课为Module 5的第二单元，主课文以介绍著名作家老舍、其作品《茶馆》和北京老舍茶馆为主要内容。
教学目标
1. Listening and understanding familiar topics (Beijing Opera) finding specific information.
2. Describing intentions and plans in simple language.
3. Reading and understanding the sequence of events.
4. Writing a short passage about favourite play or film.
教学重难点
1. Key vocabulary: act, show, common, describe, society, beginning, head teacher, college, novel, if, magic
2. Keys structure: Infinitive structures (1): infinitives as objects; verbs followed by infinitives.
课前准备
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures
教学过程
Step 1 Warming-up
1. Enjoy a play: Lao She Teahouse
2. Review the text of Unit 1.
3. Show some pictures.
4. Look at the pictures, and talk something about the pictures.
5. Introduce the new words.
6. Learn the new words.
7. Read the new words.
【设计意图】
本活动的目的是让学生快速复习Unit1,看图片讨论，并学习新单词，为本课接下来的学习做准备。
Step 2 Work in pairs.
1. Ask and answer questions about Lao She.
1) What do you know about Lao She?
2) What are his most famous books and plays?
3) What’s the special about Lao She Teahouse?
2. Tell the students about Lao She.
Lao She (1899-1966) was one of the most renowned contemporary Chinese writers, famous for his novels and plays. His works have been translated into over 20 foreign languages.
【设计意图】
本活动的目的是让学生通过提前查阅资料，了解老舍的相关信息，并在班上和他人分享。
Step 3 Reading.
1. Play the recording and listen to the tape carefully.
2. Ask the students to read through the passage.
3. Read the passage by themselves.
4. Read the text together.
5. Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs in Activity 2.
6. Check with a partner.
7. Call back the answers from the whole class.
【设计意图】
本活动为信息概括题，旨在培养学生的略读能力。
Step 4 Complete the timeline.
1. Read the passage again.
2. Complete the timeline with information about Lao She.
LAO SHE
1957 ____________________________________
1924 ____________________________________
1918 ____________________________________
1913 ____________________________________
1899 born in Beijing
3. Check with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
【设计意图】
本活动着重培养学生获取细节信息的能力。
Step 5 Complete the passage.
1. Ask the students to the words in the box in Activity 4.
century common if magic society writers
2. Ask the students to read through the passage in Activity 4.
Lao She’s play, Teahouse, has three acts. It describes the life of Wang Lifa and the changes to the lives of (1) ________ people in Chinese (2) ________ in the first half of the twentieth (3) _______.
Lao She went to a teacher’s school in Beijing, taught in London, and later returned to China. He is one of China’s greatest (4) ________.
Come to Lao She Teahouse in Beijing (5)__________ you like Beijing Opera, traditional music or (6) ________ shows.
3. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words from the box.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
【设计意图】
本活动要求学生学习并掌握课文中的重点词汇，并能够灵活运用。
Step6. Writing.
1. Complete the table.
Teahouse
Your favourite play or film
Where does the story take place?
When does the story take place?
What is the story’s main idea?
Why is it good?
2. Write sentences about Teahouse with the information in Activity 5. Use the passage in Activity 2 to help you.
The story of Teahouse takes place in Beijing.
Now join the sentences. Write a passage about Teahouse.
3. Write a passage about your favourite play or film. Use Activities 5 and 6 to help you.
【设计意图】
本活动是一个语言输出能力的训练，要求学生撰写出自己最喜爱的戏剧或电影的介绍。
Step7. Homework
Search more information about Lao She Teahouse, and share it with your classmates.
教学反思
本模块的任务是让学生通过小组合作，把一部戏剧中的一幕改编成短剧并加以表演。在开展该活动的过程中，教师应培养学生的合作精神，让他们积极与同学配合，共同完成表演任务。
课件36张PPT。5Lao She TeahouseModuleUnit 2
It describes the changes in Chinese society. Free talk (1)1). Have you ever seen a performance of
Beijing Opera?
2). What do you know about Beijing Opera?
3). Who is Lao She?
4). What do you know about Lao She?
5). What works of Lao She have you read?
6). Have you ever heard about his play Teahouse?
7). What do you think people can do in Lao She’s Teahouse? What is Lao She most famous for?
He is most famous for his play, Teahouse.
Do you want to know something more about Lao She and his Teahouse? Free talk (2)1. Who is Lao She?
2. What do you know about Lao She?
3. What is his famous play? What is it about?
4. What other works of Lao She’s do you
know?
5. What is Lao She’s Teahouse? Where is it?
6. What can people do in Lao She’s Teahouse?Give an introduction of Lao She and Teahouse. Teahouse is the most famous play written by Lao She.
It took place in 1898 to 1945 in a teahouse in old Beijing.
This play tells us a story of Wang Lifa. and his customers in old Beijing. There are many different types of people with different ends. Wang loses the teahouse and dies in the end. Lao She is considered as a Great Master of Language in the twentieth century. Characters in Teahouse王利发常四爷松二爷崔久峰What are the people in the pictures doing?Lao She and his family membersLao SheLao She was writing.Lao She was in a teahouse.Home of Lao She in BeijingHome of Lao She in LondonLao She’s play-- Teahouse1 Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions
about Lao She.
1 What do you know about Lao She?
2 What are his most famous books and plays?
3 what’s special about Lao She’s Teahouse?
Lao She is one of the greatest Chinese writers
of the twentieth century. Teahouse. It describes the changes in Chinese societyWhen you read a passage, remember to look at its title, the paragraph headings and the photos if there are any. They will help you understand the main ideas.Learning to learn2 Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs.
a) Lao She Teahouse
b) The story of Teahouse
c) Lao She
Teahouse is one of Lao She’s most famous plays. He wrote it in 1957. The play has three acts and shows the lives of common people in1 b China from the end of the
nineteenth century
to the middle of the twentieth
century. It tells us the story of
Wang Lifa and the customers
of his teahouse in Beijing. It describes the
changes in Chinese society over fifty years.
Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899. His mother sent him to a teacher’s school in 1913. After finishing school in 1918, he became a head teacher of a primary school. In 1924 Lao She left home and went to England. He taught Chinese at a college in London and returned to China five years later. He wrote many plays, novels and short stories about people’s lives, and was named “ the People’s Artist”. Lao 2_________CShe is one of the greatest Chinese writers of the twentieth century.
3_______
At Lao She Teahouse today, customers can drink tea and eat delicious Beijing food. If you like the Beijing Opera, traditional music or magic shows, you can enjoy them at the teahouse. Lao She Teahouse gives a warm welcome to everyone from all over the world.
a1. What did Lao She write in 1957?2. When did the story start?He wrote Teahouse in 1957.The story started in 1898 during the
Qing Dynasty.3. Who is the important person in
Teahouse?Wang Lifa.Read the passage and answer the questions.6. What can you enjoy in Lao She’s
Teahouse?You can enjoy the tea, delicious Beijing
food, Beijing Opera, traditional music or magic shows.5. What was he named by people?He was named a “People’s Artist” by people.4. Where did Lao She study and work?He studied in Beijing Teacher’s School and worked in London.3 Complete the timeline with information about Lao She.
LAO SHE
1957
1924
1918
1913
1899 He wrote Teahouse He left home and went to England He finished school and became the head teacher of a primary school He was sent to a teacher’s school He was born in Beijing 4 Complete the passage with the words in the box.
Lao She’s play, Teahouse, has three acts. It
describes the life of Wang Lifa and the changes
to the lives of (1)________people in Chinese
(2)_________ in the first half of the twentieth
(3) _________century common if
magic society writerscommonsocietycentury . Lao She went to a teacher’s school in Beijing,
taught in London, and later returned to
China. He is one of China’s greatest(4)______.
Come to Lao She Teahouse in Beijing
(5)______ you like Beijing Opera, traditional music or (6)________ shows.writers if magic5 Complete the table. Then work in pairs, discuss information about your favorite play or film.In Beijing
From the end of the 19th
century to the middle
of 20th century.
It shows the lives of common
people in china.It describes the changes
in Chinese society over
fifty years. The story of Teahouse takes place in Beijing.
Now join the sentences. Write a passage
about Teahouse.
6. Write sentences about Teahouse with the
information in Activity 5. Use the passage
in activity 2 to help you.Sample: The story of Teahouse takes place
in Beijing. It narrates a story from the
end of the 19th century to the middle
of 20th century. It is a story about
Wang Lifa and the customers of his teahouse
in Beijing. Why is it so popular? It is because
this story describes the changes in Chinese
society over fifty years.
Write a passage about your favorite play
or film. Use Activities 5 and 6 to help you. 提示信息：
Where does the story take place?
When does the story take place?
What is the story’s main idea?
Why is it good?
My favourite film is The Sound of Music. It takes place in Austria in 1938. It’s the story of Maria, and von Trapp family. Maria goes to look after the seven children. Their father, Captain von Trapp,
tells Maria to make them study hard. However, she takes them out to play. In the end, the captain falls in love with Maria and marries her. Julie Andrews plays Maria. She’s very pretty and she sings beautifully. The best part of the film is the singing. It’s very beautiful and interesting.
Sample:一、根据句意及首字母或汉语提示，完成下列句子。
1. Today is my sister’s t_______ birthday
and she is twenty.
2. Our team is the best and we have never
l___ a football match.
3. Have you read her new n_____?
4. She is a c______ student now.
5. He is dangerous to s_______.wentiethostovelollegeociety二、用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. Tian’anmen Square is one of the ______ (large) squares in the world.
2. Mike is very funny and he always makes us _____ (laugh).
3. Our city _________ (name) “Water City”
several years ago.
4. Mr. Wang asked us _________ (not play) in the busy street after school.
5. Yu Hong is good at music and she can
sing English songs _________ (beautiful). largest laugh was namednot to playbeautifullyto waitlisteningto learnto get三、用所给单词的适当形式填空。1. She asked me ______ (wait) for her at the cinema.
2. I enjoy ________ (listen) to the radio in the evening.
3. It is not easy _______ (learn) a foreign language.
4. He agreed _____ (get) someone to help us.5. I told him _________ (not play) in the
street.
6. Would you like ______ (come) with me?
7. Your task is ______ (find) the cost of
the hotel.
8. Should I ___ (go) home now?
9. I want to _____ (see) you again.
10. He needs ______ (buy) a new bike.not to playto cometo findgoto seeto buyLao She is ____ “the People’s Artist”.
A. name B. named
C. naming D. to name
2. Do you see my shoes? I can’t find ____.
A. it B. them
C. they D. their
四、单项选择BB1.你愿意和我们去游泳吗?
_______you ______ __ __ swimming with us?
2.让我们休息一会吧.
_____ _______ a rest.
3.我还想再去一次老舍茶馆.
I _______ ___ ___ to Lao She’s teahouse again.Would like to go Let’s havewant to go五、 翻译句子4.我们想在下星期吃野餐.
We ________ ____ _____ a picnic next week.
5.昨天我爸爸提出开车送我上学。
My father _______ ___ _____ me to school yesterday.want to haveoffered to drive HomeworkSearch more information about Lao She Teahouse, and share it with your classmates.
