Lecture notes on Suzhou gardens

Zhou Chongdian Huang Falian

I. Talking about teaching materials

1. The position of this unit in the textbook: The reading teaching of the fourth volume in junior high school is mainly to connect with life and pay attention to cultivating the ability to read expository texts. The first unit is the starting unit of expository teaching. The five texts selected from the textbook are different in content and form, but they all start from specific things, or explain the external characteristics of things, or reveal the internal principles of things, showing a novel world from different sides. In the teaching of this unit, on the one hand, we should pay attention to guiding students to fully feel the natural beauty and artificial beauty of the world, on the other hand, we should try our best to help students understand the characteristics of the objects described in the text and understand what order, methods and languages the author uses to explain the characteristics of things.

2. teaching material analysis: Suzhou Garden is a literary work. This paper expounds the similarities and general impression of nearly 200 gardens in Suzhou, that is, "No matter where tourists stand, there must always be a perfect picture in front of them."

3. Emphasis and difficulty in teaching: it is the focus of this teaching to guide students to understand what expository writing is and what the object of explanation is; It is difficult to help students grasp the characteristics of the object of explanation in the reading process and learn the characteristics of clear hierarchy, flexible expression and concise language.

Two. Speaking and teaching methods

1. Read quickly and feel the image.

After a brief introduction, immediately give students 3-4 minutes to read the full text (this article *** 155 1 word, about 400-500 words per minute) and think about what the object of this article is.

Note: What this article is talking about is not the characteristics of a garden in Suzhou, but the similarities and overall impressions of nearly 200 gardens in Suzhou.

2. Directional reading, extracting information

(1) Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the article roughly explain the important position and general characteristics of Suzhou gardens. Extract a sentence from the text that can summarize this feature. -"Make sure that no matter where tourists stand, there is always a perfect picture in front of them." What are the four aspects of this feature? -"Pay attention to the layout of pavilions, the coordination of rockery ponds, the foil of flowers and trees, and the level of close-range vision". (This is the outline of the full text)

(2) Please extract the central sentence in paragraphs 3-9, and grasp these four sentences to understand the text: First, explain the main characteristics of Suzhou gardens from four angles: layout (the third paragraph), coordination (the fourth paragraph), foil (the fifth paragraph) and level (the sixth paragraph). Then, from the details of the garden, it introduces the beauty of the picture reflected by the layout of the corner (the seventh paragraph), the carving of doors and windows (the eighth paragraph) and the deployment of paint paintings (the ninth paragraph).

The tenth paragraph is awkward, and the end of the full text is memorable.

3. Visual reading, learn to appreciate

Prepare some pictures of palace-style buildings, street trees in western gardens, palace gardens in Beijing and Suzhou gardens, and display them with multimedia, so that students can appreciate and feel the "picture beauty" of Suzhou gardens and improve their appreciation ability of plastic arts.

4. Reading sentences and learning languages

(1) The article is typical, concise and exquisite. Try to find out your favorite examples and analyze them. For example:

I think Suzhou Gardens are specimens of gardens in China (the meanings of "model" and "representative" vividly show that Suzhou Gardens have inherited the tradition of ancient garden art and condensed the essence of China Garden art, which is a model).

The piling of rockeries can be said to be an art, not just a technology. Art is a spiritual creation and an aesthetic activity that embodies individuality. Technology is only the experience, knowledge or skills gained in long-term repetitive work, and there are different levels between them.

(3) The two sides of the porch are borderless, actually separated but not separated, and the boundary is not (although the flower wall and the porch divide the landscape into several parts as boundaries, it seems that they do not really separate the landscape. )

(4) If the window is facing the white wall and it is too monotonous, add some bamboo or bananas. (It reflects the craftsman's care and ingenuity, and is good at paying attention to the beauty of the picture, making monotony rich and colorful.)

(2) The paragraphs of the article are standardized and the structure is rigorous. Teachers should choose one or two representative paragraph design exercises to guide reading (this link should pay special attention to the understanding and mastery of explanation methods). For example:

Painting is also the main way to plant trees and prune trees in Suzhou gardens. Tall trees and short trees are pitching. Deciduous trees and evergreen trees alternate with each other, and different kinds of flower trees alternate with each other when they bloom, so that you don't feel lonely all year round. There are no pines and cypresses trimmed like pagodas, and there are no roadside trees like parade: because from the aesthetic point of view of Chinese painting, it is not worth taking. Several gardens are full of Gu Teng, and the winding and rugged branches are a good painting. When the flowers bloom, they are full of jewels, which makes tourists feel infinite prosperity and joy, but they can't say it.

1. Point out the specific meanings of the following words in the text:

① Alternating: ② Military parade: ③ Not feeling lonely:

2. The central sentence of this article is:

3. The structure of this paragraph is:

4. The characteristics of Suzhou garden tree planting are:

5. The characteristics of pruning trees in Suzhou gardens are:

6. The main interpretation methods used in the paragraph are:

7. The object described in this paragraph is characterized by:

(Reference answer: 1. (1) one is separated from the other; 2 uniforms; It blooms all year round. 2. The first sentence 3. The total score is 4. Tall trees and low trees are leaning. Deciduous trees alternate with evergreen trees, and different kinds of flower trees alternate with each other. 5. There are no neatly trimmed pines and cypresses like pagodas, and there are no roadside trees like military parades. 6. Metaphor, imitation, comparison and examples. 7. Focus on painting)

5. Sino-US joint reading encourages innovation.

Organize students to search for beautiful essays on Suzhou gardens through the internet, libraries or other channels, and read them in contrast to feel the stylistic characteristics of explanatory essays. For students with higher level, we can guide them to write "topic composition" and encourage them to express boldly and create actively.

Three. Methods of speaking and learning

1. Autonomous learning.

Read quickly and perceive the image; Directional reading, extracting information; Visual reading and learning appreciation mainly adopt autonomous learning. The first two parts are mainly to cultivate students' correct reading habits and train students' ability to read and extract information quickly. The third part requires students to contact their own visual feelings, mobilize their own life experience, and taste and appreciate beauty. Higher classes can also organize students to talk about aesthetic experience.

2. Cooperative learning.

Sentence reading and language learning mainly adopt cooperative learning methods. Taste the text, so that students can use "I find the text in the text is very good, but not bad …", and then organize the above speeches in the form of study groups to discuss the demonstration and subtlety of this article. In intensive reading, the teacher can give an example first and point out the regular test sites for explaining the proposed questions. Then, let the students choose beautiful paragraphs to write questions, test each other and exercise their ability to analyze and solve problems.

3. Inquiry learning.

Reading American literature together and encouraging innovation can be done before class or after class. Mainly to train their ability to collect and process information, so that they can gradually develop the habit of thinking, exploring and accumulating hard.

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