Unit 6 An old man tried to move the mountains.

Section B Reading

一、教学目标：

1. To learn about Hansel and Gretel.

  To learn about the elements, language features, and techniques of expressions of play.

2. 多阅读中外传统文学名著，让学生们明白中国传统文化的博大、精深，并吸取中国传统文化中的精华。了解外国的文化，开阔自己眼界。

二、教学重难点

1. 教学重点：

1) 阅读短文，获得相关信息，提高学生们的综合阅读能力。

2) 让学生了解戏剧的要素、语言特点、表现手法。

2. 教学难点

剧本的演绎和词汇的恰当使用。

三、教学过程

Step 1 Warm up

1. Show some fairy tales. Let students guess the name of the story.

  Sleeping Beauty  睡美人

Cinderella  灰姑娘

Little Red Riding Hood  小红帽

2. Talk about other fairy tales. 

3. T: Do you know Hansel and Gretel? What do you know about it?

Watch a video and know something about the story. 

Hansel and Gretel are poor children. Their mother died because of an accident when they were 3 years old. Nowadays, they lived with their father and stepmother.

One day, a piece of bad news happened to Gretel and Hansel. It was a mid-night, their stepmother advised their father to leave the children to die in forest. Otherwise ，the whole family could die.

Let’s look at the passage to know what happened next?

Step 2 Reading 

Fast reading

Ask students to read through the passage and decide what kind of text it is. Is it a letter, a play, a short story or something else?

Students may find out that it’s a play.

戏剧一般根据场景的不同分为不同的幕；戏剧文本多以人物对白为主，偶尔会有旁白或舞台指示语；有的戏剧文本会对故事背景有简单的介绍。

Work on 2c

1. T: Now let’s read the play again and try to match each description below with the correct scene.

  A. The children get lost.

B. The children wake up.

C. The children cannot find the pieces of bread.

D. Gretel learns about Hansel’s plan.

E. The children surprise the parents.

F. Hansel has to change his plan.

G. The children learn that something bad is going to happen.

SCENE ONE _____    SCENE TWO ____

SCENE THREE ____   SCENE FOUR ____

SCENE FIVE _____   SCENE SIX _____

SCENE SEVEN _____

2. Students read the play carefully and try to match each description.

3. Check the answers with the class. 

Keys: GBDEFCA

Careful reading

1. T: Now let’s work on 2d. First read the questions below. Then read and find the answers to the questions.

1) Why does the wife tell her husband to leave the children in the forest?

2) What does Hansel go out to get?

3) Why does he do it in the moonlight?

4) How do Hansel and Gretel find their way home?

5) Why do Hansel and Gretel get lost the second time?

2. Check the answers.

Step 3 Role play

Ask students to act out the play Hansel and Gretel in groups of four. Choose two groups to act in class.

Step 4 Continuation

Continue to write the ending of the story. Choose some students to show their ending and express why they give the story an ending like this.Then ask students to think about another question---What can we learn from Hansel and Gretel? Let them know the spirit of this story.

Step 5 Homework

Retell the whole fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.