在英语诗歌教学中感受语言与情感的共融
2016-04-09帅悦唐思峰
帅悦 唐思峰
2014年12月6日—8日第九届全国高中英语课堂教学观摩研讨会在西安举行,我们有幸亲临现场观摩了来自各省市优秀老师生动精彩的现场授课。各位老师授课课型多样,有阅读课、写作课、听说课以及语法课。此外,在教材选用上不拘一格,除了北师大版和人教版教材外,有多位老师敢于突破和创新,采用自选或自改编的教材。观摩会上展示的优秀课例精彩纷呈,其中杭州高级中学汤沛、南京外国语学校杨梦、上海卢湾高级中学李伟、重庆巴蜀中学雷廷等老师的授课等都给我们留下了深刻的印象。尤其是武汉市第二中学的袁希荣老师呈现的人教版英语选修6《A Few Simple Forms of English Poems》让我们开阔了视野,受到了启迪。就高中英语教学而言,诗歌教学对于老师和学生都是很大的挑战。袁老师浅入深出,在短短30分钟的课堂上,将语言与情感自然融汇,唤起了学生的共鸣,展示出了扎实的专业功底和丰富的教学技巧。在此,我们摘取袁老师在授课过程中的精彩片段与各位同仁共赏。
教学片段一:教授Cinquain(五行诗)
袁老师充满感情地朗诵完Poem D,问:From the poem, can you taste the writer’s emotion? Does the writer like or dislike his brother?
学生:The writer likes his brother.
袁老师:How do you know?
学生:You can find “mine” in the poem. He is my brother, not yours.
袁老师:Actually, almost every word in the poem expresses a strong emotion of the writer, such as beautiful, athletic and especially mine. (此时板书emotion)The writer likes his brother very much. Although the poem has only five lines, we can still taste the strong emotional ties between the writer and his brother.
接下来老师又让学生齐声朗读Poem E,并提问:Does the writer like or hate summer?How do you know?
学生用诗歌中表达情感的词汇回答出老师的问题。
袁老师:So, from these two poems, can you find the structure of this kind of poem?
在学生总结的基础上,袁老师老师总结cinquain的结构和特点,并重点强调如何运用词汇表达情感。
【赏析】
cinquain这一类型的诗歌简短,学生容易掌握结构,但不容易领会这一诗歌形式所包含的内涵和情感,袁老师在教授时采用自己朗读,而后让学生齐声朗读的方式进行。……
