Lesson 87
Teaching objectives:
1．Help the Ss to have a good understanding of How Sydney saved Charles.
2．Learn-ing form as attributes and adverbials.
Teaching aids: a recorder, a computer, VCD, etc.
Teaching procedure:
Step 1．Pre-reading
1．Revision
Check the homework exercises.
Get the Ss to tell the relationship of the main characters (Dr Manette, Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, Sydney Carton, Monsieur Defarge, Marquis St Evremonde) in A Tale of Two Cities.
(Show the pictures of the main characters with the computer.)
2．Presentation
You may ask the Ss to imagine the ending of the story to lead in the new lesson.
Step 2．While-reading
Let the Ss do skimming and answer a question: When did the revolution break out?(In July, 1789.)
Let the Ss do scanning and answer comprehensive questions: SB Page 120, 1
Let the Ss put the events in right order. (Ex. Ⅱ in AB)
1．Charles with Lucie and Dr Manette left Paris.
2．The Revolution stared.
3．Sydney had his head cut off.
4．Sydey bought some special medicine.
5．Charles found a letter form France.
6．Charles was sentenced to death.
7．Sydney persuaded Charles to change clothes with him.
8．Charles returned to France.
9．Charles was put into prison.
Answers: 8 1 9 6 2 5 7 3 4
You may explain language points to the Ss
live a… life
eg. After marriage, they lived a happy life. (They lived happily.)
similar usage:
He died a heroic death. (He died heroically.)
She smiled a bitter smile. (She smiled bitterly.)
set fire to (something): set (something) on fire
eg. He set fire to the building. ----He set the building on fire.
On + v- ing /n: as soon as…
On the arrival in Beijing, she phoned me.
As soon as she arrived in Beijing, she phoned me.
do wrong←→do right
eg. I felt I had done wrong.
You did wrong to tell her the secret.
do good
You should do good all your life.
do harm
Any kind of pollution will do harm to health. v-ing used as adverbial: as-clauses
Knowing that she was an experienced teacher, we often asked her for help.
As we knew that she was an experienced teacher, we often asked her for help.
to be eager for something /to do something
I am eager for a computer.
I am eager to have a computer.
Step 3．Post-reading
1．Fill in the blanks with the right verb forms. (Ex. Ⅲ in AB)
Having (have) once made (make) a promise to Lucie Manette that he would do (do) anything he could (can) to make sure she was (be) happy, Sydney Carton thought (think) of a way to rescue Charles Darnay, Lucie's husband. As the two men looked (look) very much like each other, Sydney went (go) to visit Charles in the prison and they exchanged clothes. He used (use) some special medicine to make Charles sleep, and then had (have) him carried (carry) out of the prison. The next day, Sydney, who had taken Charles's place, had (have) his head cut (cut) off.
2．Debate
You may say: At the end of this story, Sydney Carton, who loved Lucie very much, took Charles's place and had his head cut off. Do you think it was worth? Now let us have a debate. (Divide the class into two groups.) Group1 agrees with what Sydney Carton did. Group 2 does not agree with what Sydney Carton did. And give your reasons.