Unit 《Stories》教案2(北师大版选修6)

《Unit 16 Stories》教学指导

Unit objectives

Draw students’ attention to the unit

objectives and read through the first four

objectives with the class. Ask students to

think about which of these skills

(speaking, listening, reading, writing) is

their strongest and which is their weakest,

and to decide which objective is the most

important for them in this module.

Resource used

Cassette.

Background

The characters in the drawings are:

A) Sherlock Holmes, the famous

detective from the stories by Sir Arthur

Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Conan Doyle

was a Scottish doctor who became one of

the first successful crime writers. His first

Holmes book was A Study in Scarlet

(1887). Holmes solves crime mysteries

using his incredible brain and powers of

observation. The stories also illustrate life

in late Victorian London.

B) Wu Kong , a King monkey, Ba Jie , a

pig, Sha Seng , a monster and Tang

Seng , a monk, the four main characters

in the novel “Record of a Journey to the

West” , a fictitious story/myth by Wu

Chengen (1500-1582), a writer in Ming

Dynasty.

C) Robin Hood and Maid Marion. The

legend of Robin Hood, an outlaw who

robbed the rich to give to the poor,

developed around the thirteenth century.

Robin Hood also fought against the bad

John (later King John I) of England, who

took over the country while his brother,

Richard I, was on the crusades.

D) Lu Zhishen beat Zheng guanxi in Exercise 2

■ Read the example sentences with the

class.

■ Students then think of the kinds of

stories they most enjoy and why.

■ Students then report back to the class.

If you wish, the class can vote for their

favourite type of story (and least popular

type of story).

Exercise 3

■ Students look at the Key Words as

they listen to the beginnings of the

stories.

■ Play the cassette twice for students to

decide their answers.

■ When checking students’ answers,

encourage them to give reasons for their

answers, and, if there is disagreement, to

argue for their point of view. Explain that

there could be two possible answers for

some of the beginnings of the stories.

Answers

1 horror story 2 science fiction 3 true

story 4 detective story 5 fairy story

Tapescript

1 It was a dark and foggy night. We

drove and drove. At midnight, just as

we thought we were lost, we saw a

light behind some trees. As we got

nearer, we could see a house. It looked

deserted, abandoned. We knocked on

the heavy, wooden door. It opened

slowly. A tall man dressed entirely in

black stood there. “Good evening,” he

said in a slow, deep voice. “I’ve been

expecting you.”

2 We were travelling through deep

space at the speed of light. Suddenly, drunkenness. This is a

story from the novel “All Men are

brother/The Marsh Law” written by Shi

Naian and Luo Guanzhong (1330-1400) a

novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and

early Ming Dynasty.

Warm-up

Key words

adventure stories, autobiographies,

biographies, detective stories, fairy

stories, fantasies, historical stories, horror

stories, humorous stories, ghost stories,

love stories, legends, myths, science

fiction, travel stories, true stories

Exercise 1

■ Students work in pairs, reading the

Key Words and looking at the pictures to

identify the kinds of stories and the

characters.

■ Students then discuss their answers as

a class.

Answers

A) detective story/Sherlock Holmes

B) Myth , “Record of a journey to the

West”

C) legend/Robin Hood and Maid

Marion

D) Historical story , “All Men Are

Brothers”

■ Ask students if they can think of the

important characters in the other types of

story. the spaceship slowed down and

immediately the system came into

view. A bright star with twenty or

more planets. One of these would be

our new home, five light years from

our own galaxy.

3 One of my earliest memories is of

my father running along the beach with

our dog, Tess. I must have been about

three years old. I remember the dog

jumping up on me and knocking me

over into the water.

4 The man lay on the ground next to a

white van. There was no doubt. He was

dead. I quickly looked in the pockets of

his jacket -- some money, a

handkerchief and a theatre ticket with a

Chicago phone number written on it.

Three murders in three weeks and the

victims all killed in the same way.

5 Once upon a time, a long, long time

ago, there lived a beautiful princess.

She was an only child and her father

and mother, the king and queen, loved

her very much. One day, an old woman

came to the castle. When she saw the

princess, she smiled and laughed in a

strange and horrible way.

Exercise 4

■ Students read through the questions

silently and think about their own