英语歌曲欣赏与英语写作

英语歌曲欣赏与英语写作

Teaching aims:

1.to improve ss’ writing skills

2.to improve ss’ awareness of culture difference, especially in thinking model

Teaching Procedure

Part1. Lead-in：(6 minutes)

Activity 1 How to improve writing skills by enjoying the English songs

1.to learn the different thinking model between the western people and

Chinese

2.to improve writing skills by writing out ss’ own feeling about songs

Activity 2 different thinking models between the western people and Chinese

1.Writing is different from translating

2.Thinking models of western people

①focus on details ②focus on the logical relations between details

3.Thinking models of Chinese people: reserved

Activity3: What is detail and logical relations?

1.“Do you love me?” the answer from a western person

2.“Do you like my class” the answer from the Chinese ss.

3.“Do you agree with me?” （2006.浙江卷）

Activity 4: different thinking model and the songs

1. An English song:

“I love you, because you are so beautiful, like a lily in the spring garden”

2. A Chinese song:

“你问我爱你有多深我爱你有几分你去想一想你去看一看月亮代表我的心”

3. Conclusion:

English: abstract→concrete Chinese: reserved

Part2: Before Writing (14 minutes)

Activity 1: Enjoying a MTV

Question:

What’s your feeling about the music? (Happy? Sad? Exciting? Peaceful?) Activity 2: Watching the MTV for a second time

Questions: part1

1.Where is this place? / What kind of place is it?

2.What do you think about the girl’s fe eling now?

Questions: part2

1.What’s man doing?

2.Did the man find the girl on purpose, or by accident?

3.How did the man feel when the girl flew away?

4.How did they feel when they got together?

Questions: part3

What does this metaphor mean?

1.The girl was broken into pieces=________________________

Activity 3: Watching the MTV again with the lyrics and find the metaphors Leave me out with the waste, this is not what I do

It's the wrong kind of place to be thinking of you

It's the wrong time for somebody new

It's a small crime(罪) and I got no excuse

And is that all right, yeah?

I give my gun away when it's loaded.

Is that all right, yeah?

If you don't shoot it how am I supposed to hold it?

Is that all right, yeah?

I give my gun away when it's loaded.

Is that all right, yeah, with you?