1、Unit 2 King Lear Part One: Teaching DesignPeriod 2: A sample lesson plan for Learning about Language(The Adverbial )AimsTo help students learn about the Adverbial To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and expressionsTo help students discover and learn to use some useful struct
2、uresProceduresI. Warming up by learning about King Lear Tragedy by William Shakespeare, first performed in 160506. Lear, king of Britain, favours his grasping daughters Goneril and Regan with shares of his kingdom but refuses his third, honest daughter Cordelia a share because she will not falsely f
3、latter him. Rejected by Goneril and Regan, the old and unbalanced Lear is reunited with Cordelia but dies of grief when she is murdered.II. Discovering useful words and expressionsWhat is a phrasal verb?An English verb complex consisting of a verb and one or more following particles and acting as a
4、complete syntactic and semantic unit, as look up in She looked up the word in the dictionary or she looked the word up in the dictionary.What is an adjective?The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphological
5、ly by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.What is the order of adjectives?NumberValue/OpinionSizeAge/TemperatureShapeColorOriginMaterialNow you are going to do the words and expressions exercises 1, 2,
6、3 and 4 on page 15.III. Revising useful structuresWhat is an adverbial?In linguistics, an adverbial is a sentence function like subject and object and so on. Adverbials typically express content that is considered to be secondary or non-essential to the sentence it appears in. Three types of adverbi
7、al are typically recognized: adjunct, disjunct, and conjunct (although several more are proposed in various theories). The terms “adverbial“ and “adverb“ are very often mistaken for each other, but do not mean the same thing. An adverb is a word class category whereas an adverbial is a syntactic fun
8、ction. The meal was eaten quickly.The meal was eaten at noon.In the first sentence, “quickly“ is an adverb which modifies the meaning of the verb “eaten“. In the second sentence, “at noon“ is an example of a preposition phrase serving as a temporal adverbial. linguist.What is a non-finite verb?A non
9、-finite verb is not limited by the person, tense and number of the subject. Its opposite is finite verb. It is a verbal noun and cannot be placed as a predicate.Reading for forms Read the short text on page 16 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives
10、 and underline all the useful expressions. Considered to be the greatest writer of plays /in the English-speaking world, William Shakespeare is more famous today/ than he was in his own lifetime. Nowadays, his plays are read /and performed throughout the world /and /nearly every high school student
11、knows his name. Even though /he wrote his plays /almost 500 years ago, his plays are still relevant today. Shakespeare wrote about such things as good /and evil, love/ and hate, greed /and sacrifice. His plays make people laugh/ and cry, sometimes/ at the same time. By involving us/ in the lives of
12、both important people/ like kings/ and governors/ and little people /like servants /and fools, Shakespeare forces us /to examine our beliefs /about the world.Born into a middle class family/ in Stratford-on-Avon, England, Shakespeare attended a local school /where he learned Greek /and Latin grammar
13、, literature /and history. Although married with two children, Shakespeare left Stratford-on-Avon /at the age of about 30 /and went to London alone. Quickly making a name for himself /as both actor/ and dramatist, Shakespeare soon earned enough money to buy his own theatre. During his time/ in Londo
14、n /he wrote many plays/ and at the age of about 50 /retired to Stratford-on Avon. He died three years later/ in 1616.Now go on to copy all the useful expressions from the text.considered to be, the greatest writer of plays, in the English-speaking world, in ones own lifetime, throughout the world, h
15、igh school student, know ones name, even though, be relevant today, write about, suchas, make people laugh, at the same time, by involving sb., in the lives of, bothand, force sb. to do sth., examine ones beliefs about the world, born into a middle class family, attend a local school, learn Greek an
16、d Latin grammar, literature and history, married with two children, at the age of, go toalone, make a name for oneself as, earn enough money to do sth., buy ones own theatre, during ones time, write many plays, retire to, three years later Doing exercises You are now to do exercises 2 and 3 on page
17、16.IV. Closing down by writing about King LearKing Lear is widely regarded as Shakespeares crowning artistic achievement. The scenes in which a mad Lear rages naked on a stormy heath against his deceitful daughters and nature itself are considered by many scholars to be the finest example of tragic
18、lyricism in the English language. Shakespeare took his main plot line of an aged monarch abused by his children from a folk tale that appeared first in written form in the 12th century and was based on spoken stories that originated much further into the Middle Ages. In several written versions of “
19、Lear,“ the king does not go mad, his “good“ daughter does not die, and the tale has a happy ending.This is not the case with Shakespeares Lear, a tragedy of such consuming force that audiences and readers are left to wonder whether there is any meaning to the physical and moral carnage with which Ki
20、ng Lear concludes. Like the noble Kent, seeing a mad, pathetic Lear with the murdered Cordelia in his arms, the profound brutality of the tale compels us to wonder, “Is this the promised end?“ (V.iii.264). That very question stands at the divide between traditional critics of King Lear who find a heroic pattern in the story and modern readers who see no redeeming or purgative dimension to the play at all, the message being the bare futility of the human condition with Lear as Everyman.
