高中英语校本教材----“英语美文阅读与欣赏”课程纲要一、课程基本概况1、课程名称：英语美文阅读与欣赏2、课程类型：校本课程（选修）3、教学材料：选编、改编4、授课时间：21课时5、授课对象：高一学生二、课程内容：1、课程背景：高中新课标英语教材（现在学生用课本）有着丰富而鲜活的语言素材，是一套很理想的教材，但对于优秀生群体来说，内容还显得不足，学生学力有余。
新课程改革提倡国家、地方、学校三级课程，鼓励教师进行校本教研，提高使用教材和开发教材的能力。
随着新课改的推进，阅读在英语中比重加大，且考查方式也由以前单一的选择题变成了阅读填空、信息匹配题、翻译句子等多种方式。
而课本上的阅读材料有限，为了扩大学生的阅读量，提高学生的阅读能力和技巧，开发阅读校本课程势在必行。
2、课程目标：“英语美文阅读与欣赏”课程是国家课程的校本化，旨在根据学生英语学习水平的实际情况补充适量、相当的阅读素材，弥补英语教材的不足，扩大学生的阅读量和阅读视野，丰富学生的词汇，使得学生更广泛地了解英语国家的文化，在语言学习的同时，陶冶情操，提高文学素养和人文素养。
3、课程内容与任务课程内容主要涉及七个方面，即文学作品，人物传记，历史文化，社会风情，科学经济以及人生态度与理想，异域风情。
主要任务是通过篇章阅读,获取信息，了解相关知识，增强文化意识；掌握不同题材文章的阅读技巧,形成相应的阅读策略;掌握关键词、短语和句型，扩大词汇量，重点发展学生阅读和写作能力。
4、科目安排：分七个模块，每个模块各3课时，共计21课时。
（1）文学作品1 The Little Match Girl /2 APerfect Day/ 3 The Pied Piper of Hamelin （2）人物故事1 Louis Armstrong/ 2Special Fund in Honor of Hong Zhanhui/3 Pop Star and Songwriter: Han Hong（3）历史文化 1 Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt/ 2 Studying difference/ 3 Spring Festival’sSymbols/(4）社会风情 1International Left-hander’s Day/ 2 The Origin of Kiss/ 3 Make Sports a Kind of Culture（5）科学与经济 1 Greenhouse Effect Occurred 5,000 Years Ago/ 2China’slaunching plans for Shenzhou 7/ 3 China’s New “Four GreatInventions”(6）人生态度与理想1You Are the World/2 Honesty/ 3 Facing Life Positively（7）异域风情1An strange experience 2 The Taj Mahal (泰姬陵) 3 Organic-a legal meaning三、课程形式：课堂教学1、教学方法：任务交际法2、教具：多媒体、音像资料等四、教学评价：教师评价与学生评价相结合附1)阅读自我评价表：（每节课下前学生自我评价）注: 优秀（A）良好（B）合格（C）待改进（D）Lesson 1The Little Match Girl编写教师：刘晓兰Once upon a time, a little girl tried to make a living by selling matches in the street.It was New Year’s Eve and the snow clad streets were deserted. From brightly lit windows came the tinkle (发出清脆的声响)of laughter and the sound of singing. People were getting readyto bring in the New Year. But the poor little match seller sat sadly beside the fountain. Her ragged dress and worn scarf did not keep out the cold and she tried to keep her bare feet from touching the frozen ground. She hadn’t sold one box of matches all day and she wasfrightened to go home, for her fath er would certainly be angry. It wouldn’t be much warmer anyway, in the draughty attic (阁楼) that was her home. The little girl’s fingers were frozen with cold. If only she could light a match! But what would her father say at such a waste! Falteringly (迟疑地)she took out a match and lit it. What a nice warm flame! The little match seller cupped her hand over it, and as she did so, she magically saw in its light a big brightly burning stove.She held out her hands to the heat, but just then the match went out and the vision faded. The night seemed blacker than before and it was getting colder. A shiver (寒噤) ran through the little girl’s thin body. After hesitating for a long time, she struck another match on the wall, and this time, the glimmer turned the wall into a great sheet of crystal. Beyond that stood a fine table laden with food and lit by a candlestick. Holding out her arms towards the plates, the little match seller seemed to pass through the glass, but then the match went out and the magic faded. Poor thing: in just a few seconds she had caught a glimpse of everything that life had denied her: warmth and good things to eat. Her eyes were filled with tears and she lifted her gaze to the lit windows, praying that she too might know a little of such happiness.She lit the third match and an even more wonderful thing happened. There stood a Christmastree hung with hundreds of candles, glittering (闪烁) with tinsel (金属箔) and colored balls. “Oh. How lovely!” shouted the little match seller, holding up the ma tch. Then, the match burned her finger and went out. The light from the Christmas candles rose higher and higher, then one of the lights fell, leaving a trail behind it. “Someone is dying,” murmured the little girl, as she remembered her beloved Granny who used to say: “When a star falls, a heart stops beating!”Scarcely aware of what she was doing, the little match seller lit another match. This time, she saw her grandmother.“Granny, stay with me!” she pleaded, as she lit one match after the other, so that her grandmother could not disappear like all the other visions. However, Granny did not disappear but gazed smilingly at her. Then she opened her arms and the little girl hugged her crying: “Granny, take me away with you!”A cold day dawned and a pale sun shone on the fountain and the icy road. Close by lay the lifeless body of a little girl surrounded by spent matches.“Poor little thing!” exclaimed the passers-by. “She was trying to keep warm!”But by that time, the little match seller was far away where there is neither cold, hunger nor pain.I Aims and Demands（教学目的和要求）To learn a story about the little match girl written by Anderson.ⅡKey Points and Special Difficulties（重点和难点）Key points: to grasp some useful words and expressionsdeserted, fade, strike, hesitate, deny, exclaim, glimpse, aware, be frozen with, go out, strike a match, catch a glimpse ofSpecial difficulties:1) to learn Inversion.2) to learn v-ed phrases used as modifiersⅢTeaching Aids and Approaches（教具及教学方法）Multi-media, Task-based approach and the integrated approachⅣBrief Teaching Procedures（教学过程）Step1 Background information（背景知识）Do you know about the great tale writer Anderson?Can you list some of his masterpieces?Step2 Fast reading（快速阅读）Read the passage quickly and answer（快速阅读并回答下列问题）:1) Why didn’t the little girl strike a match to keep herself warm?2) What did the little girl see when the last vision appeared?Keys（参考答案）:1) She was afraid that her father would be angry.2) She saw her beloved grandmother who had died.Step3 Careful reading（细读）1. What visions did the little match seller see? What did they mean to her?(a big brightly burning stove→warmth; a fine table laden with food→good things to eat; a Christmas tree hung with candles→joy and happiness; her grandmother→love and care)2. Translate the following sentences and pay attention to the underlined parts.1) From brightly lit windows came the tinkle of laughter and the sound of singing.2) Her ragged dress and worn scarf did not keep out the cold and she tried to keep her bare feet from touching the frozen ground.3) Beyond that stood a fine table laden with food and lit by a candlestick.4) Her eyes were filled with tears and she lifted her gaze to the lit windows, praying that she too might know a little of such happiness.5) There stood a Christmastree hung with hundreds of candles, glittering with tinseland colored balls.6) Close by lay the lifeless body of a little girl surrounded by spent matches.7) If only she could light a match!8) A cold day dawned and a pale sun shone on the fountain and the icy road.9) But by that time, the little match seller was far away where there is neither cold, hunger nor pain.What characteristics do the underlined parts have? What function?(They are all v-ed phrases, which are used as modifiers.)Step4 Key patterns(主要句型)Analyze the sentence below:From brightly lit windows came the tinkle of laughter and the sound of singing.This is an inverted sentence. The subject of the sentence is “the tinkle of lau ghter and the sound of singing”, and “came” functions as the predicate.Find out more similar sentence structures in the passage.(Beyond that stood a fine table laden with food and lit by a candlestick.There stood a Christmastree hung with hundreds of ca ndles…Close by lay the lifeless body of a little girl surrounded by spent matches.)Step5 Homework（作业）Rewrite the story. (With about 200 words.)Step6 Assessment（评价）Words and expressions（词和短语）1. deserted adj.冷清清的2. draughty adj. 漏风的3. vision n.景象4. fade v .消逝，消失5. strike vt. 擦（火柴）；击打6. hesitate v. 迟疑，犹豫7. glimpse n .v. 一瞥8. deny v.否定，否认9. pray v. n. 祈祷10. aware adj.意识到，觉察11. exclaim v.呼喊，惊叫Lesson2APerfect DayCarrie Jacobs-Bond编写教师：刘晓兰When you come to the end of a perfect day ,And you sit alone with your thought,While the chimes ring out with a carol gayFor the joy that the day has brought,Do you think what the end of a prefect dayCan mean to a tired heart,When the sun goes down with a flamingray,And the dear friends have to part?Well,this is the end of a perfect day,Near the end of a journey too;But it leaves a thought that is big and strong,With a wish that is kind and true.For memory has painted this perfect day,With colours that never fade,And we find at the end of a prefect day ,The soul of a friend we've made.I Aims and Demands（教学目的和要求）Enjoy English poems and have a basic knowledge of poetry, such as images, rhyme and limerick.ⅡKey Points and Special Difficulties（重点和难点）Have a thorough understanding of the emotional elements displayed in the poem.Ⅲ Teaching Aids and Approaches（教具及教学方法）Multi-media, listening, reading, practice and performance.Ⅳ Teaching Procedures（教学过程）Step1 Lead-inRead poetry in English ,you are supposed to focus on the themes of the original work. Generally speaking, what are the themes of the poems?Love VS HatredLife VS DeathWar VS PeaceAnger VS DelightLoneliness VS SociabilityFriendliness VS RevengeStep2 Listening and readingListen to the tape and answer: what’s the theme of this poem?Loneliness VS SociabilityStep3 Read and practice1.Read the poem by yourself and get some detailed information.(1). What happened in the day?(2) What was the writer doing at the end of the day?(3) How is the writer’s mood developed?Joy-----------the parting with friends------------Depression2. Find the images in the poem.A perfect day: a carol gay/ the chimes/ the sun/ the flaming rayThe end of a perfect day: a tired heart/ the sun which goes down/ the end of a journey Step4. Analyse the structure of the poemRhyme:/ei/ day,gay,ray,fade,made/a:/ heart,part/u:/ too,trueStep5 DiscussionWhat should you do in your daily life?To value friendshipTo face partition of friends and relatives in a positive way.Step6 PerformanceSuppose you are the writer and his friends, make a performance about your perfect day. Work in a group of four.Step7 Assignment1. Recite the poem.2. Write a limerick.Words and expressions（词和短语）Carol 颂歌flaming 燃烧的fade 褪色，凋谢Lesson 3 The Pied Piper of Hamelin编写教师：刘晓兰Once upon a time, on the banks of a great river in the north of Germany lay a town called Hamelin. The citizens of Hamelin were honest people who lived contentedly in their grey stone houses. The years went by, and the town grew very rich. Then one day, an extraordinary thing happened to disturb the peace. Hamelin had always had rats, and a lot too. But they had never been a danger, for the cats had always solved the rat problem in the usual way—by killing them. All at once, however, the rats began to multiply.In the end, a black sea of rats swarmed over the whole town. First, they attacked the barns and storehouses then, for lack of anything better, they gnawed（啃）the wood, cloth or anything at all. The one thing they didn’t eat was metal. The terrified citizens flocked to plead with the town councilors（委员会）to free them from the plague of rats（鼠疫）. But the council had, for a long time, been sitting in the Mayor’s room, trying to think of a plan.“What we need is an army of cats!”But all the cats were dead.“We’ll put down poisoned food then…”But most of the food was already gone and no poison stopped the rats.“It just can’t be done without help!” said the Mayor sadly.Just then, while the citizens milled around outside, there was a loud knock at the door. “Who can that be?”the city fathers wondered uneasily, mindful of the angry crowds. They gingerly opened the door. And to their surprise, there stood a tall thin man dressed in brightly colored clothes, with a long feather in his hat, and waving a gold pipe at them.“I’ve freed other towns of beetles and bats,”the stranger announced, “and for a thousand florins, I’ll rid you of your rats.”“A thousand florins!” exclaimed the Mayor. “We’ll give you fifty thousand if you succeed!” At once the stranger hurried away, saying, “It’s late now, but at dawn tomorrow, there won’t be a rat left in Hamelin!”The sun was still below the horizon, when the sound of a pipe wafted through the streets ofHamelin. The pied piper slowly made his way through the houses and behind him flocked the rats. Out they scampered from doors, windows and gutters (沟), rats of every size, all after the piper. And as he played, the stranger marched down to the river and straight into the water, up to his middle. Behind him swarmed the rats and every one was drowned and swept away by the current.By the time the sun was high in the sky, there was not a single rat in the town. There was even greater delight at the town hall, until the piper tried to claim his payment. “Fifty thousand florins?”exclaimed the councilors, “Never…”“A thousand florins at least!” cried the pied piper angrily. But the Mayor broke in. “The rats are all dead now and they can never come back. So be grateful for fifty florins, or you’ll not get even that…”His eyes flashing with anger, the pied piper pointed a threatening finger at the Mayor.“You’ll bitterly regret ever breaking your promise,” he said, and disappeared.A shiver of fear ran through the councilors, but the Mayor shrugged and said excitedly, “We’ve saved fifty thousand florins!”That night, freed from the nightmare of the rats, the citizens of Hamelin slept more soundly than ever. And when the strange sound of piping wafted through the streets at dawn, only the children heard it. Drawn as by magic, they hurried out of their homes. Again, the pied piper paced through the town, this time, it was children of all sizes that flocked at his heels to the sound of his strange piping. The long procession soon left the town and made its way through the wood and across the forest till it reached the foot of a huge mountain. When the piper came to the dark rock, he played his pipe even louder still and a great door creaked open. Beyond lay a cave. In trooped the children behind the pied piper, and when the last child had gone into the darkness, the door creaked shut. A great landslide（山崩）came down the mountain blocking the entrance to the cave forever. Only one little lame boy escaped this fate. It was he who told the anxious citizens, searching for their children, what had happened. And no matter what people did, the mountain never gave up its victims. Many years were to pass before the merry voices of other children would ring through the streets of Hamelin but the memory of the harsh lesson lingered in everyone’s heart and was passed down from father to son through the centuries.I Aims and Demands（教学目的和要求）To learn a tale--The Pied Piper of Hamelin and get the students to know the importance of honesty. ⅡKey Points and Special Difficulties（重点和难点）Key points: to grasp some useful expressionsall at once, free sb. from…, rid…of…, make one’s way, break inSpecial difficulties: to understand Inversion.ⅢTeaching Aids and Approaches（教具及教学方法）Multi-media, Task-based approach and the integrated approachⅣBrief Teaching Procedures（教学过程）Step1 Fast reading（快速阅读）Read the passage quickly and answer some questions（快速阅读并回答下列问题）:1) What trouble did the citizens of Hamelin have?2) What was the result of their breaking the promise?Keys（参考答案）:1) There were too many rats in the town for them to live a normal life.2) All the children but one were drawn into the cave and killed.Step2 Careful reading（细读）1. What words did the author use to indicate that the plague of rats was too terrible?(a black sea, swarmed the whole town, gnawed everything except metal, need an army of cats…)2. Find out inverted sentences in the passage.(…, on the banks of a great river in the north of Germany lay a town called Hamelin.…, there stood a tall thin man dressed in brightly colored clothes…Behind him swarmed the rats….The pied piper slowly made his way through the houses and behind him flocked the rats. Beyond lay a cave.In trooped the children behind the pied piper.)3. Key expressions (要点表达)1) all at once = all of a sudden/ suddenly 突然2）And to their surprise, there stood a tall thin man dressed in brightly colored clothes, with a long feather in his hat, and waving a gold pipe at them.“dressed in brightly colored clothes, with a long feather in his hat, and waving a gold pipe at them” is used to modify the subject “a tall thin man”.3）There was even greater delight at the town hall, until the piper tried to claim his payment. “claim” in the sentence means “ask for”.4) His eyes flashing with anger, the pied piper pointed a threatening finger at the Mayor.“His eyes flashing with anger”是独立主格结构，在句中用作状语。
