新人教版高中英语必修3Unit 2 Morals and Virtues-Reading for Writing教学设计

Unit 2 Morals and Virtues-Reading for Writing教学设计

The topic of this part is “Share your opinions about a moral story”.

This sectionfocuses on the social responsibility. This reading is a fable A Stone on theRoad, which is rich in the educational functions and profound meanings. Sostudents not only should be guided to learn its superficial meaning, butunderstand its inner meaning. Then students should be asked to write commentsabout the story, which aims at making them analyzing the story from the outerto the inner, understanding the author’s views correctly and expressing theirown feelings and opinions by organizing proper language.

Concretely, thefable tells that to detect his people’s attitudes to problems, a king put alarge stone in the middle of the main street and hid gold coins under thestone. Then he hid and watched people’s response to the stone. Although thestone led to much inconvenience, even complaint, no one was reluctant to removethe stone. At last, an honest young girl had it removed, who got the king’sgold coins and praise. In the reading, the speeches like personification,metaphor and symbol are used to uncover the educational theme and profoundmeanings.

1. Read quickly to get main idea;read carefully to get the detailed information about the fable.

2. Learn the structure of the reading articleand language.

3. Write a story comment.

4. Learn to correct others’ comments.

1. Write a story comment.

2. Use the structure of the reading articleand language.

Step 1 Lead in ---Small talk

In our traditional culture, there are a lotof good morals and virtues. Can you list some ?
diligence/hard-working; obliging/be ready to help others;perseverance/toughness; thrift/economic

Do you know some fables or stories aboutthem?
Yu Gong Moved the Mountains Hou Yishot the Sun

Step 2 While reading ---Task 1

Read the fable and answer the followingquestions:

Q1: What does the fable tell us ?
It tells us not to ignore and complain about the problems we meet, but to solveit positively.

Q2: What was the king’s idea for teachingan important lesson to his people ?
He put a huge stone in the middle of a street, and watched to see if anyonewould move it.

Q3: What was the response from most of thepeople?
They just became angry or upset because the stone was in their way.

Q4: What did the young girl think and dowhen she saw the coins ?
She thought that the money belonged to someone else and that it should bereturned.

Step 3 While reading ---Task 2

This storypresented different people’s emotions and responses when they came across thesame problem. Complete the table according to the story.

Step 4 Post reading---Pair work

Q1: What do youthink this fable is trying to tell us?

It is trying tell us that we should alltake responsibility for our community, society and country.

Q2: Was the kingwise ? Why or why not ?

Yes, he was. Because as a ruler, he shouldpay attention to his people’s morals and virtues. Only having good morals andvirtues could make his people live with each other in harmony, and his countrymay be in control and prosperity.

No, he wasn’t. Because no one learntanything from his experiment. In the text, the milkman, the woman with water,the other villagers ignored and even complained about the stone and continuedtheir journey. It seemed that the social responsibility of the majority is toolittle just because they are busy with their own things.

Q3: Can you listsimilar things in your life when you felt and acted like the girl or like theother people in the story?

I recently sawsome children playing on a dangerous balcony, and so I warned them it wasdangerous and had them go somewhere else to play. However, often I’m more likethe milkman in the story because I’m very busy with my own work and worries.

Step 5 Writing ---The Outline

Step 6 Writing---Words and phrases

1. 寓言 fable
2. 等着作某事 waitto do sth/wait for doing sth
3. 负责任 take responsibility for/beresponsible for
4. 成功作某事 succeed in doing sth/be successful in doing sth
5. 因...让人印象深刻 havea deep impression on/upon/impress on/upon with sth
6. 目的 purpose
7. 鉴于这一原因 forthe reason

Step 6 Writing---make sentences
1. 这个寓言是一个关于一位国王古寓言。 Thefable is an old fable about a king.
2.作者用这个故事让读者对于社区的问题负有个人责任的必要印象深刻。
The author used the story to impressupon readers with the need to take personal responsibility for problems in thecommunity.
3. 这个故事十分成功的实现了它的目的。The story was quite successful in achievingits purpose.

Step 7 Writing
Please write areview of the story according the outline above.