Module 5 Lao She TeahouseUnit 2 It describes the changes in Chinese society.教学设计Teaching aims: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.Teaching important and difficultpoints:1. Key vocabulary: act, show, common, describe, society, head teacher, college, novel, if, magic, name2. Key structure: Infinitive structures: infinitives as objects; verbs followed by infinitives.Teaching Steps:Step 1 Warming-up1. 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.Step 2 Work in pairs1. 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) Whats 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.Step 3 Reading1. 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.Keys: b c aStep 4 Complete the timeline1. Read the passage again.2. Complete the timeline with information about Lao She.LAO SHE1957 _1924 _1918 _1913 _1899 born in Beijing.3. Check with a partner.4. Call back the answers from the whole class.Keys:1957 He wrote Teahouse.1924 He left home and went to England.1918 He finished the teachers school and became the head teacher of a primary school.1913 His mother sent him to a teachers school.Step 5 Complete the table.Something about TeahouseThe play has (1) _ acts.It tells us the story of Wang Lifa and (2)_in Beijing.Something about Lao SheHe was born in Beijing in 1899. He studied in a(n) (3) _ from 1913 to 1918.From 1924 to 1929, he taught (4) _ at a college in London. He was one of the greatest Chinese writers of the (5) _ century.Lao She TeahouseYou can enjoy the Beijing Opera, traditional music or (6) _ at the teahouse.Key: three, the customers of his teahouse, teachers school, Chinese, twentieth, magic shows.Step 6 Complete the passage.1. Ask the students to read the words in the box in Activity 4.century common if magic society writers2. Ask the students to read through the passage in Activity 4.Lao Shes 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 teachers school in Beijing, taught in London, and later returned to China. He is one of Chinas 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.Keys: common, society, century, writers, if, magicStep 7 Learning to learn.When 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.Step 8 Writing.1. Complete the table.TeahouseYour favourite play or film.Where does the story take place?When does the story take place?What is the storys 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.Keys: In Beijing, Students own answers, It starts at the end of the 19th century and finishes later, Students own answers, It tells the changes in Chinese society over 50 years, Students own answers, It shows the lives of common people in Chine, Students own answers Step 9 Language points.1. and was named “Peoples Artist” Lao She is one of the greatest Chinese writes of the twentieth century.（他）被誉为“人民艺术家”，老舍是20世纪中国最伟大的作家之一。name在这里是动词，表示“命名”；name还有“任命”的意思。例如:Lili was named as captain of our English studying team.李丽被任命为我们英语学习小组的组长。2