Teaching paper of Unit2, Module8 Reading Turandot in Beijing
Lijia Middle School Yin Huiying Class1, Senior2 May.17
Teaching aims
1. to enable students to master the strategy of reading a review of an opera and its characteristics.
2. to guide students to appreciate the opera of “Turandot” and be able to retell it.
3. to improve students’ ability of speaking and writing.
4. to raise students’ awareness of cross-culture and appreciating “universal language”.
Teaching procedures
Step1. Lead-in
Lead to the text by playing some videos of operas performed by our students and
teachers to arouse interest in the topic.
Step2. Reading strategy
Help students read a review of an opera better by learning how a review is usually
organized.
c. other information about the performanced. the writer’s comments/evaluation
Step3. Fast-reading
1. Match paragraphs with related information.
2. Search background information about the opera and the the performance.
Step4. Detailed-reading
Explore the story of Turandot by finding out the main characters and their relationship as well as the plot.
Step5. Consolidation
Encourage students to tell the story supposing they were one character in the first person.
Step6. Discussion
Divide students into groups and discuss the following questions:
1. What contributes to Turandot’s transformation(转变)?
2. What is the theme of the story?
3. Why did Giacomo Puccini, an Italian composer write an opera set in China?
4. What’s the purpose of writing a review?
Step7. Writing
Make a summary about the review if time permits.
Step8. Appreciation
Appreciate some famous operas or music, like “Nessun Norma”, “Jasmine” .
Step9. Homework
Motivate students to write a brief review of their favourite book/film/opera by applying
what they have learnt.
Outline:
Background informationThe plot and characters
ThemeYour comments
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