1、Unit 2 King Lear Part One: Teaching DesignPeriod 3: A sample lesson plan for Using Language(KING LEAR )AimsTo help students read the passage KING LEAR on page 17To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writingProceduresI. Warming up by learning about the complete work
2、s by William ShakespearComedy History Tragedy PoetryAlls Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Loves Labours Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Nights Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre Henry IV, part
3、1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry V Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3 Henry VIII King John Richard II Richard IIIAntony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus AndronicusThe Sonnets A Lovers Complaint The Rape of Lucrece
4、Venus and Adonis Funeral Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Winters Tale II. Reading for forms Read the play King Lear on page 17 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the u
5、seful expressions. KING LEAR (on page 17)Part 3NARRATOR: As soon as Goneril has got all/ she can/ from her father, she begins treating him disrespectfully. When Lear wants to speak to her, Goneril tells her servant, Oswald, to say/ she is sick. She encourages her staff /to be disrespectful towards L
6、ear/ and begins complaining about the hundred soldiers/ Lear has brought with him. However, King Lear soon has a friend by his side. The Duke of Kent, who Lear ordered to leave Britain, cannot abandon his king. He /therefore comes to Lear /disguised as a servant/ called Caius/ and asks for a job.(En
7、ter Lear, several of Lears soldiers/ and Kent/ disguised as a servant.)LEAR: OK Caius, Ill give you a trial. And /if you prove to be good at your job, Ill keep you on /as my servant. (Oswald enters.) Hey, you there. Wheres my daughter? (Oswald ignores the king/ and hurries out of the room.) Hey. Wha
8、ts going on? Call him back. Is he deaf? (A soldier rushes out after Oswald.) Its as though /the whole world has gone to sleep. (Soldier reenters.) Wheres that servant? Why didnt he come back /when I called? SOLDIER: Sir, he answered me very rudely /and said/ he would not come back.LEAR: I dont belie
9、ve it!SOLDIER: Sir, I am sorry, to tell you this, but it seems to me that /you are not being treated with the respect /due to a king. Everyone here, including your daughter, is behaving very coldly towards you.LEAR: Mmm. I suspected the same, but I kept telling myself/ it was my imagination. Please
10、tell my daughter /I wish to speak with her. (Soldier bows /and leaves. Oswald enters.) Ah, come here my man/ and answer me. Who am I?OSWALD: My ladys father.LEAR: Your ladys father? Is that all /I am to you, you dog, you slave! (Lear raises his arm/ as though to strike Oswald.)OSWALD: Ill not be hit
11、, my Lord.KENT: (Kent kicks Oswalds feet out/ from under him.) And you wont be laid flat /on your back/ either, I suppose. Now/ get up /and get out of here. (Oswald leaves.)LEAR: My thanks, Caius. I can see /you will be a most valuable servant.(Enter Goneril.) Whats up, daughter? You always seem to
12、be frowning lately.GONERIL: Is it any wonder/ that I frown /when your soldiers are continually drinking /and fighting? I thought /when I told you about their behaviour/ you would make them behave, but now/ I hear /you have insulted Oswald. I do believe /you are encouraging your soldiers /in their ba
13、d behaviour.LEAR: Is this my daughter scolding me?GONERIL: I have had enough of your soldiers. They are expensive to keep /and you dont need them. Besides, their drunken behaviour /and bad manners are disgusting. You will send half of them away. And /unless you want me to get rid of the rest of them
14、 /too, I suggest /you teach them how to behave properly.LEAR: Thats a lie. My soldiers are good men /who know how to behave properly. I wont stay here/ to be insulted. I still have one more daughter. Shell scratch out your eyes/ when she hears how /youve treated me. Men! Get my horses ready/ and col
15、lect my baggage. Ill leave immediately. I wont stay /where Im not welcome.(Lear /and companions leave.)NARRATOR: Lear sends Kent on ahead/ to the castle of his other daughter, Regan, to tell her that/ he will soon be arriving. Goneril sends her servant Oswald to Regan/ to tell her side of the story.
16、III. Copying expressionsNow try to find and copy all the useful expressions from the play.as soon as, begin doing sth., treat sb. disrespectfully, speak to sb, tell sb. to do sth., encourage sb. to do sth., complain about, bring with sb., have a friend by ones side, order to do, abandon sb., disguis
17、e as, ask for a job, give sb. a trial, to be good at, keep sb. on as, ignore sb., hurry out of, go on, call sb. back, rush out after sb., as though, go to sleep, come back, it seems to sb. that, be treated with the respect, due to, keep telling oneself, wish to speak with sb., come here, raise ones
18、arm, kick ones feet out from under one, be laid flat on ones back, get up, get out of, be up, seem to do, tell sb. about, make sb. behave, encourage sb. in ones bad behaviour, scold sb., have enough of, be expensive to do, send half of sb. away, get rid of, the rest of, teach sb. how to do.,stayto b
19、e insulted, have one more daughter, scratch out ones eyes, getready, collect ones baggage, on ahead, send sb. to do., tell ones side of the story.IV. Writing a summary of King Lear-Part IIILear makes a vivid speech about his current situation and begins to show signs of losing his sanity. Lear, The
20、Fool, and Kent come upon Edgar disguised as an insane beggar named Poor Tom. Toms deranged babble seems to compliment Lears downward spiral of sanity. Gloucester leaves the castle (defying Regan) and locates Lear. Lears old friend persuades him to take shelter in a barn from the wicked elements of t
21、he storm.Edmund displays his vile disregard for his father by letting The Duke of Cornwall see a fabricated letter implicating Gloucester in a plot to conspire with France to attack Britain Cornwalls land. Cornwall intends to reward Edmund for his loyalty, and severely punish Gloucester upon his ret
22、urn.Sheltered from the storm in the barn, Lears madness reaches a new peak. He creates a fictional courtroom in which The Fool and Poor Tom are judges. Lear charges Regan and Goneril for their crimes. Lear goes to sleep with persuasion by Kent. Gloucester returns from fetching supplies and informs e
23、veryone that Lears life is in danger. Regan and Goneril, he says, intend to kill their father. Gloucester sends Lear to Dover, because he believes he will be safe there.Gloucester then thinks he should return to his castle. Upon arriving, however, he is met with accusations. The French had landed an
24、d Cornwall says Gloucester is a traitor. Regan excitedly states they should pluck Gloucesters eyes out. Ironically, one of Cornwalls own servants pulls his sword to defend the Earl. During the ensuing battle the servant manages to mortally wound Cornwall, but is himself killed by Regan. In a grizzly
25、 scene, Cornwall gouges Gloucesters eyes out and Regan sends him outside the castle to wander until he dies. Cornwall, assisted by Regan, exits bleeding profusely.V. Reading a short storyOn page 19 there is an article entitled “The three daughters of the king“You are going to read it to cut/ the sen
26、tence into thought groups, blacken the predicative, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF THE KING ( on page 19)A long, long time ago, there was a king/ who ruled over the southwest part of England. One day, the king asked his three daughters/ how mu
27、ch they loved him. Two of them said /they loved him more than anyone /or anything /on the earth. The third daughter chose not to flatter her father/ with dishonest claims/ and instead /told him/ she loved him /only as much as her duty/ as a daughter required. The king, who was not a very good judge
28、of character, believed the two dishonest daughters /and gave them his kingdom. He told the honest daughter that/ she was ungrateful /and unnatural. He made her leave his kingdom /and she traveled across the sea /to France.The king then went to live with his eldest daughter, bringing with him a hundr
29、ed soldiers /to look after him. But the eldest daughter demanded that/ he reduce the number of his soldiers/ to fifty. The king was angry/ and went to live with his second daughter /instead. But /the second daughter was no different /and she further reduced his soldiers /to twenty-five. The king the
30、n went backwards/ and forwards /between his two daughters/ until he had no soldiers /at all.The youngest daughter, hearing what had happened to her father, gathered together an army/ and defeated her two sisters. She then /put the old king back /on his throne. When the king died peacefully /in his s
31、leep /the honest daughter became queen.a long, long time ago, rule over, ask sb. how much, two of , on the earth, flatter sb. with, as much as, a very good judge of character, make sb. do, travel across, live with sb., bring with sb. sth., look after, reduceto, go backwards and forwards between, at
32、all, happen to, gather together, defeat sb., put sb. back, die peacefully in ones sleep, become queenVI. Closing down by learning about Chinas Shakespeare Guan Hanqing (关汉卿)Considered one of the Four Great Yuan Playwrights, Guan Hanqing (关汉卿) (circa 1241-1320), sobriquet “the Oldman of the Studio“ (
33、斋叟 Zhisu), was born in the capital city of the Yuan Empire, Dadu (the part that is Anguo, Hebei, China now) and produced about 65 plays, mostly in Vernacular Chinese of the time. Fourteen survived, including: The Injustice to Dou E or The Injustice Suffered by Dou E (窦娥冤 Dou E Yuan) Saving the Dusty-windy or Saving the Prostitue (救风尘 Jiu Fengchang) The Conference of a Single Dao or Meeting the Enemies Alone (单刀会 Dandao Wei) The Pavilion of Moon-Worship (拜月亭 Baiyue Ting)
