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黄晓丽:影视资源在英语文化教学中的应用

作者:黄晓丽    |    发布日期:2012年08月12日
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这堂课的教学内容是“西餐礼仪”,人教版的高一英语(上)第六单元“礼貌规矩”(Unit6 Good Manners)的第三课时,课型为基于多媒体教学的阅读课(A Multi-media Based Reading Course),教学任务是学习一篇介绍西方餐桌礼仪的说明文“宴会餐桌礼仪”(“Table Manners At A Dinner Party”)。这样的课文内容贴近生活实际,非常有实际意义,对中国学生而言也相当有吸引力,学生对它十分感兴趣。

这篇阅读课文由5个段落组成,各段内容分别谈及餐具的摆放,餐前礼仪,餐中礼仪,用餐过程中的谈话礼仪,饮酒、敬酒礼仪,餐桌礼仪变迁等方面,全面而简要地对西餐的餐桌礼仪作了介绍。此文不但是训练学生的阅读能力好文章,同时也是培养学生跨文化交际的意识好材料。

课文生词量不大,较难的短语和句式也不多,语言点比较容易掌握。然而,课文内容是学生不熟悉的,它实际上反映出的是中西方文化在餐桌礼仪方面的差异。因此,在准备这堂课的时候,本人主要引导学生理清文章思路,了解文章含义,学习了解西方餐桌礼仪及其与中餐礼仪的异同对比。

14学情分析:

本人所执教的三个班级的高一学生,英语语言基础普遍较弱,言语技能也不是很好,大部分的学生由于初中阶段习惯了依赖母语(汉语)来学习外语(英语),到了高中仍然不能完全适应全英授课的课堂教学模式。因此,基于学生的这些特点,本人在课堂用语上力求简洁明了,在问题设置上,从简到难,多角度提问,同一问题以不同句式和词语呈现,便于学生理解问题,以降低学生“听”的难度,不至于影响学生听课兴趣,有利于巩固课文内容,特别是语言点掌握。

2.教学目标

通过学习这篇阅读文章,主要要达到以下几个目标:

21知识目标:

学习以下生词和短语的意义并掌握其在具体语境中的运用:make / leave / create a good impression on sb.; start / end with; ask for; drink to sth.; toast sb.; advice for n. / doing sth.;

22能力目标:课前布置给学生信息查找任务,让学生搜集中西方餐桌礼仪的相关资料,以ppt.课件或网页的形式呈现出来,自学西方餐桌礼仪后,在这堂课上,让学生了解西方用餐过程,主要解决语言学习中的字、词、语法等问题,并能将所学礼仪应用于生活实际。在此基础上,让学生对比发现中西方餐桌礼仪的差异,不仅训练、提高学生的阅读能力,同时也渗透一定的文化教育,培养学生跨文化交际意识,以促进语言学习。

23情感目标:教育学生懂得礼仪的重要性以及如何在日常交往中遵循基本礼仪,做到言行得体、合宜,体现个人修养,给人留下好印象。

3.教学重点、难点

31 教学重点:让学生了解西餐就餐过程及礼仪,明确中西方餐桌文化差异,适当拓展到相关文化背景知识的了解;掌握重点字词的用法。

3 2教学难点:如何提高学生的阅读能力,激发阅读兴趣;如何让学生意识到语言与文化的关联并在此基础上培养学生跨文化交际意识。如何培养学生搜集、筛选、整理信息的能力以及通过查找相关信息获取有用信息的能力。

4.教学过程设计及案例描述、说明

Step1: Warming up and leading in

1.1 Watching the film

Students watch some passages from the film Pretty Woman and think about what the woman behaved in the table is good or bad manners. What do you think good table manners are like?

This part is to make the Ss realize how to behave at the table. The film can be used to arouse students’ curiosity and interest about this text.

1.2 Brainstorming

Judge these manners: Which are good and which are bad?

Can you speak with your mouth full?

Can you use your hand to take food from the plate?

Is it polite to touch the glasses when you toast?

Is it polite to persuade others to drink up after toasting?

These questions are not really for the Ss to answer, but to arouse their interest in this topic.

1.3 Ss’ Work Presentation

Select some of the Ss’ sample-work and show it to the class.

This assignment has been done by the Ss before learning this lesson. The assignment is for the Ss to search for information on both Chinese and Western table manners as well as party culture. The Ss are required to collect appropriate information and present their work in the forms of documents or web-pages. This is Ss group work.

Step2: Fast-Reading

Ask the Ss to read through the text “Table Manners at a Dinner Party” quickly for the first time and try to give the right order of these dishes: Dessert, Main course, Starter, Drinks, Soup. (Show them onto the screen and 2 minutes for the Ss to go.) ……(Present the correct order of the dishes and their pictures on the screen to make it more active and vivid.

In this step, the T wants to let the Ss get a general idea of the text and the main procedure of a Western dinner.

Step3: Intensive-Reading

Ask the Ss to read the text again carefully part by part with the following tasks:

Questions for careful-reading:

1. What do you find on the table at a Western dinner party? Make a list of them.

2. How is the tableware laid?

3. What is the right way of using the napkin?

4. Which hand do you use to hold the knife?

5. How do people toast each other in Western countries? And how do we Chinese do when drinking a toast?

3.1 Para.1 — Careful-reading

3.1.1 Make a list of things on a Western dinner table.List the items onto the screen when the Ss give their lists.

This task is aimed at letting the Ss know the tableware on a Western dinner table.

3.1.2 Ask the Ss to draw a picture to show how to lay a Western dinner table with the tableware they listed in the step above. (When the Ss finish drawing, the T selects some of the works to show on the project to the whole class. Then, gives an illustration on the screen.) (Show the Ss some laid Western dinner tables on the screen to let them know more ways of laying the table.)

This part is for the Ss to get clear the way of laying a Western dinner table.

3.2 Deal with the napkin, the knife and fork and the ways of toasting.

3.2.1 How should you use the napkin in a correct way?

3.2.2 How do you use the knife and fork?

3.2.3 Blank-filling exercises for “toasting”.

This step is to deal with both the ways of using the napkin, the knife and fork and drinking a toast, as well as some of the language points in the text.

3.3 Para.2 to Para.6 — Careful reading while listening

3.2.1 Listen and Write down some “Don’ts”.

With this task, the T wants to let the Ss know what they should do and what they are not allowed to do during a Western dinner.

Step4: Exercises for Consolidation

Do the P or I statements exercise on Page39 in Post-reading.

This exercise is to check the Ss’ understanding of the text.

Step5: Discussion:

5.1 Compare the tableware and table manners of a Western dinner party with the ones in a Chinese dinner party. (Ask the Ss to have a discussion in groups.) (After the discussion, T gives a list of Chinese tableware.)

This step is to arouse the Ss awareness of cultural difference the differences between a Western dinner table and a Chinese one.

Step7: Revision and Homework

Review what the Ss learnt in this class and give after-class assignments.

5.案例分析及反思

高中英语阅读课,主要以训练高中生英语阅读能力,培养阅读技巧,增加积累学生词汇量,扩展其知识面为目的。一堂好的阅读课,应当知识讲解清楚,信息传达有效,课堂气氛活跃,教学节奏适当,教学目的明确,且教学内容处理和结构安排较合理。作为一名年轻教师,如何将现代信息技术融入课堂,在传统的课堂模式下优化课堂教学,改进教学效果,提高教学效率,并且最大限度的提高学生在交际语境中的语言能力以及信息技术应用能力,是我选择这样一堂课作为信息技术与自己学科整合尝试的初衷。

首先,我以电影片段导入这课的主题——餐桌礼仪,为整堂课定下一个大背景,并且通过这个电影片段可以让学生意识到了解一定的西餐宴会礼仪文化的重要性。以电影片段作为课文的导入可以很好的吸引学生的兴趣和注意力,并且在欣赏电影之前布置学生任务,让他们找出片中女主角在餐桌礼仪中不得体的地方。带着任务去欣赏电影,在观看电影的同时也在学习餐桌礼仪。

随后向学生提出几个看似简单的非常常见的实际问题,有些是学生马上可以回答的,而有一些是学生一时回答不了或尚不清楚的,需要在学习这课之后才能明白的。提出这些问题的目的在于引起学生对接下来学习内容的兴趣,而非真正要求学生马上能够给出非常完满的答案,否则,这节课的学习也就没什么意义了。

接下来我让学生展示他们在课前搜集到的关于餐桌礼仪的相关材料,扩大知识面,变“教师教授-学生接受”为“教师指导-师生互学、生生互学”的教学模式。

然后正式开始进入阅读阶段。

第一遍阅读,要求学生快速浏览全文,将西餐菜式的次序罗列出来,也就是完成课后练习二。这是一个简单的任务,绝大部分学生能够在快速阅读全文后完成这一题目。将这个课后练习作为快速阅读题目,原因有二,其一,它非常简单,容易完成,适合学生在第一次以较快速度阅读后去完成;其二,它是对整个西餐用餐过程的总体描述,利于学生先对课文有一个整体的宏观的认识。

第二次要求学生精读课文,在细读的同时带着五个问题或任务:1、罗列西餐餐具。2、如何摆放这些餐具?3、怎样正确使用餐巾?4、如何操作西餐刀叉?5、在西方国家,人们如何敬酒?并将之对比于中国敬酒礼仪。在随后解决这几个问题过程中,我用了直接给出答案、画图、图片展示、句子填空等多种方式,梳理文章脉络结构,同时强调学生对文章内容的理解,其间穿插语言点(重点字词)的讲解处理,达到理解课文内容同时解决语言问题的目的。

文章处理完后,我将课后的练习作为当堂巩固,检查学生对课文的掌握情况,同时也将这堂课作一个回顾、总结,加深印象。

在结束之前,介绍给学生两条英彦,渗透一定的德育教育,进一步强调遵守文化习俗,养成良好行规,行为举止合乎礼貌礼仪的重要性。

总体而言,这是一堂比较成功的阅读课,对教学内容中的重点、难点把握得当、讲解清晰。课上利用了多媒体课件,也利用了学生的“研究成果”,从图片、声音、文字等多方面向学生展示教学内容,有助于课文讲解及学生理解掌握,课堂氛围较好,易激发学生学习兴趣,达到了预期的教学效果及教学目标。