This was more than twenty years ago. Once, I watched an acrobatic performance at the Shanghai World Open-air Theater. The program was wonderful and the venue was packed. The people sitting in the first few rows are all foreign tourists. The beautiful oriental acrobatics fascinated them. They applauded every program with the audience in China.
A handsome boy appeared. In the relaxed and elegant music, I saw a pile of high white porcelain bowls with red flowers in Phnom Penh on his head, his limbs stretched gently and naturally, making all kinds of amazing movements, and suddenly he fell down and jumped up ... The bowls were dangling on his head, but they never fell off. Finally, he rode on another actor, and the two men stood up for a while, lay down for a while, and turned their bodies in various postures for a while. Standing on other people's shaking bodies, it is difficult for him to keep his balance. The bowl on his head shook badly. With a sharp turn, that pile of bowls suddenly fell off his head! This unexpected mistake shocked all the audience.
There is no panic on the stage. The top bowl boy smiled apologetically and bowed gracefully to the audience. A girl came out, swept up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground and held out a lot of bowls, ten of which were red and white porcelain bowls in Phnom Penh. Then, the music started again, and the bowl was held high above the teenager's head. The boy calmly repeated the action just now, still so relaxed and beautiful, and the nervous audience finally reveled in his performance. At the last moment, two people were stacked together again, one after another, and the bowl shook violently above his head. The audience held their breath and stared at the bowl on his head ... Seeing that the body had turned around, several impatient foreign audiences could not help but applaud. That pile of bowls seemed to be deliberately disruptive, and suddenly they danced. The teenager shook his head to keep his balance, but it was too late. The bowl fell again.
There was a lot of noise in the meeting. On the stage, the top bowl boy just stood, sweating and at a loss. It was the same girl who came out to sweep away the broken porcelain on the floor. Someone in the audience shouted: "Come on, don't come again, let's play the next program!" " "Many people echoed shouted. A stocky white-haired old man walked from the background to the light. He still has a pile of red and white porcelain bowls in Phnom Penh in his hand! He walked up to the teenager with a smile on his face and no blame. He handed the bowl to the boy, then stroked the boy's shoulder and shook it gently, whispering something in his mouth. The boy calmed down, holding a new bowl in his hand, and bowed deeply to the audience.
The music is playing for the third time! There was not a sound in the meeting. Some female viewers simply covered their eyes.
This is really a thrilling struggle! When the pile of bowls shook violently again, the boy shook his head gently and finally stabilized the bowls. A storm of noise broke out in the audience.
In the later years, somehow, I often think of the top bowl boy and his performance; And every time I think about it, there will always be a little excitement. ......
[Edit this paragraph] Teaching plan
4* Top Bowl Teenager
First, the interpretation of teaching materials
1. Short text.
This article describes a gripping acrobatic performance. The top bowl boy who performed acrobatics failed for the first time, but he bowed gracefully to the audience and started over. The second time, the bowl fell down again, and the teenager calmed down again, holding a new bowl in his hand and bowing deeply to the audience; The third time, the bowl finally stabilized and the audience applauded like thunder. How many years later, the author will always be a little excited when he thinks about it. ...
This paper describes three performances of Ding Wan's youth, focusing on "thrilling" performances. (1) Grasp the movements and expressions of teenagers during the performance and describe the difficulty of the top bowl performance; (2) Describe the audience's reaction when watching the performance, and highlight the wonderful performance; (3) The anthropomorphic description of "Bowl" not only reflects the difficulty of performance, but also sets off the tension of performance. The author mainly focuses on the specific description of "teenagers, spectators and bowls", highlighting the tension of acrobatic performances.
This is a skimming text. The purpose of writing this text is to find out the outline of the story and understand the expression order of the text; The second is to understand the philosophy of life that "failure is the mother of success" and cultivate students' confidence and courage in facing setbacks; Third, you can talk about your own experiences and feelings in combination with real life.
The focus of this teaching article is to grasp the main content and find out how the top bowl teenager faced failure, insisted on performing again and again, and finally succeeded. It is difficult to understand the inspiration the author got when he watched the performance.
2. Text analysis.
Understanding of (1) sentence.
(1) in the relaxed and elegant music, I saw a tall Phnom Penh safflower white porcelain bowl on his head, stretching his limbs softly and naturally, making all kinds of amazing movements, suddenly lying down, suddenly jumping up ... the bowl wobbled on his head, but never fell down.
This sentence is a concrete description of the performance of the top bowl teenager. Under the soft music, the gentle movements performed by teenagers-"limbs stretch gently and naturally" are integrated with music, which embodies the beauty of oriental acrobatics and gives people beautiful enjoyment. "Suddenly lying down, suddenly leaping ..." Writing about the changes in performance movements is both rigid and flexible, and ellipsis contains endless changes in performance movements. The description of the bowl shows the superb performance skills of the teenagers, and it can also be seen that the performance is very difficult.
The top bowl boy smiled apologetically and bowed gracefully to the audience.
This is a description of Ding Wan's expression and action when he failed in his first performance, expressing his apologies and guilt to the audience. From "smiling" and "keeping grace", we can see that he has enough confidence and courage in the performance.
(3) On the stage, the top bowl boy just stood, sweating all over his face, a little at a loss.
The second failure made the teenager lose confidence and courage. These descriptions of "standing in a daze", "sweating on his face" and "being at a loss" vividly depict the frustration and embarrassment of teenagers at this time.
The boy calmed down, holding a new bowl in his hand, and bowed deeply to the audience.
After two failures, the teenager was not intimidated. Calm down shows that the teenager has withstood the test of failure and started the third performance again.
This is really a thrilling struggle!
This is the sigh of the author after watching the performance, and it is also the focus of the article. It expresses the author's admiration for Ding Wan's youth who is not afraid of difficulties, setbacks, pressure and courage to struggle.
6. In the later years, somehow, I often think of the top bowl boy and his performance. Every time I think about it, there will always be a little excitement. ...
This sentence comes down in one continuous line with the first sentence at the beginning of the article, highlighting that acrobatic performances left an unforgettable impression on the author. The ellipsis at the end of the sentence is enlightening and intriguing to the author.
(2) Understanding of words.
No manners: no manners.
Soul-stirring: The description is deeply touching and shocking. In this article, the author was deeply shocked by the performance of the top bowl boy and left a deep feeling.
Echo: describes that words and actions follow others. This article is used to describe the performance of some viewers following others when teenagers fail in their second performance.
Intoxication: describes being immersed in a certain realm or ideological activity and being very proud. The article describes the audience immersed in beautiful acrobatic performances.
Second, the teaching objectives
1. Read the text correctly, fluently and emotionally, and accumulate the language.
2. Make clear the content of the text, understand the order of text expression, and understand the philosophy of life that "failure is the mother of success".
3. Through the description of the characters' movements and demeanor, we can understand the inner activities of the characters and perceive the author's way of expressing emotions.
Third, teaching suggestions
1. This article is a skimming of the text. Students should read it by themselves, grasp the outline of the text, understand the order of expression of the text, and experience the philosophy of life that "failure is the mother of success".
2. Guide students to read the conjunctions in front of the text and understand the learning objectives of this lesson: 1. Read the text silently and think about what kind of acrobatic performance the author sees; The second is to talk about what I read from the ellipsis at the end of the article. Understand the content of the text around the goal and realize the philosophy of life.
What kind of acrobatic performance did the author watch? Why is this performance "thrilling" and "very difficult"? Guide students to understand 3-7 natural paragraphs, grasp the description of characters' movements and demeanor, and experience the characters' hearts. For example, the statement describing Ding Bowl's movements in the first two performances "In the relaxed and elegant music, the bowl wobbled on his head, but it never fell off" "The limbs were soft and stretched naturally" "Suddenly lying down, suddenly leaping up" and "At the last moment, the two people closed together again ... The bowl shook violently on his head. ..... the bowl fell down again. " From these sentences, we feel that this acrobatic performance is not only wonderful and beautiful, but also very difficult to perform. For another example, the sentences describing the boy's demeanor when performing, "no hurry, but no loss of grace" and "standing with a full face of sweat, at a loss", show that he can remain calm and confident to perform again after the first failure; But after the second failure, he was too nervous to perform any more. From the description of the movements and manners of the teenagers performing acrobatics, we can understand that this is a "thrilling" and "very difficult" acrobatic performance. At the same time, it is difficult to feel the acrobatic performance from the audience's expressions, words and deeds and the specific description of the "bowl"; From the description of the behavior and actions of the elders, we can understand the tolerance and encouragement of the elders to the teenagers. It is this tolerance and encouragement that gives young people courage and strength and makes the performance a success.
What did you read from the ellipsis at the end of the article? Students should be guided to contact the first paragraph to understand this problem and express their views. The author got the enlightenment of life from Ding Wan's performance-that is, in the face of setbacks, we should be brave in fighting and not give up easily.
3. Understand the narrative order of the text. On the basis of summing up his own life experience, the author tells the story more than 20 years ago in the way of recollection, and describes it in the order of acrobatic performance "first failure-second failure-third success", and finally expresses his inner sigh and excitement. Give consideration to both before and after, echo from beginning to end, and finally realize the philosophy of life that "failure is the mother of success"
4. Guide students to accumulate language independently. Words such as "packed", "amazed", "dumbfounded", "at a loss" and "thrilling" should be accumulated in understanding and used in practice.
Fourth, teaching cases.
First, read "conjunctions" and make clear the learning tasks.
Today, we are going to learn Lesson Four, The Big Bowl Boy, which is the work of Mr. Zhao, a famous writer in China. Please look at the "conjunctions" in front of the text carefully and see how we learn the text.
First, read the text silently. Think about what kind of acrobatic performance the author is watching. The second is to talk about what I read from the ellipsis at the end of the article. )
Second, think silently. What kind of acrobatic performance did the author watch?
1. What the author saw was a very difficult acrobatic performance.
(1) See what natural paragraphs in the text are about the process of juvenile performance. (3-7 natural section)
(2) Read 3-7 natural paragraphs freely, sketch notes while reading, and think: Why is this a very difficult acrobatic performance? You can also discuss in groups.
(3) Communication with the whole class. From the fact that teenagers failed in both performances, we can feel that the performance is very difficult, which can be realized by combining specific sentences in the text.
(4) Read aloud with emotion. From the failure of two performances by teenagers, we feel that what the author saw was really a very difficult acrobatic performance! With this feeling, read the third and fourth paragraphs aloud.
What I saw was an acrobatic performance, which reflected the tolerance and care for the elderly. This can be felt from two angles: the behavior of the elderly and the performance changes before and after adolescence.
(1) "A short, fat, white-haired old man walked from the background to the light ... and whispered something. The boy calmed down, holding a new bowl in his hand and bowed deeply to the audience. " From the behavior and actions of elders, we can appreciate their encouragement and care for teenagers.
(2) After the first failure, the teenager was "unhurried and graceful", but after the second failure, he "just stood there, sweating all over his face and at a loss". It can be seen that he was very nervous after the second failure, but after the old man comforted him, he calmed down and the third performance was very successful, which shows how important the old man's care and encouragement are to him.
(3) Guide imagination: What might the old man whisper to the top bowl boy? We realize that although we don't know what the old man said, what is certain is that it is with the tolerance and encouragement of the old man that the teenager finally succeeds!
(4) With this feeling, read aloud the fragments describing the old man.
What I see is a thrilling struggle. (omitted)
What the author saw was an acrobatic performance that he would never forget. (omitted)
3. What did you read from the ellipsis at the end of the article?
1. Guide writing. Please read the first paragraph and the last paragraph together. What did you read from the ellipsis at the end of the article? Write down your thoughts.
2. Write and communicate, and experience the philosophy of life such as "failure is the mother of success", "success comes from hard work" and "tolerance and care can help others succeed".
3. Summary: Simple words express the author's voice and our feelings. It seems that this is also an acrobatic performance that inspires us from life!
Fourth, extract words.
1. Word accumulation. There are many words worth accumulating in the text. Please write down what you think is worth accumulating.
2. Word recommendation. Recommend a word to share with you.
3. concluding remarks. I believe the students will remember these words and use them in our exercises.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) related links
1. Zhao essayist and poet. Born in Chongming County, Shanghai, 195 1 was born in Shanghai. He has written more than 60 works, including essays, Grass of Life, Love on Earth, Mystery of Maya, Reportage and New Painting, and published four volumes of Selected Works of Zhao. His works have won dozens of awards at home and abroad. The collection of prose "Soul of Poetry" won the China Excellent Prose Collection Award in the new period, and the Shadow of the sundial won the first "Bing Xin Prose Award". Many prose works have been selected into Chinese textbooks for universities, middle schools and primary schools in China and Hong Kong and Singapore, which have a wide influence on readers.
2. On Zhao's Prose World
Zhao wrote many narrative essays, many of which were about people. As we all know, prose writers do not require meticulous carving, but only write "the outline of people"; It is not required to describe a complete character image, but only to grasp some characteristic fragments or details and write a unique and distinctive personality or artistic conception. Zhao gave full play to the characteristics and advantages of the essayist and created many real and vivid characters.
To sum up, Zhao mainly describes three characters: first, contemporary writers and artists in China, such as writers, poets, painters, dancers, violinists and female calligraphers; Second, ordinary people, such as "country people", educated youth, "sweeping the floor", old doormen, old people who keep lights, top bowl teenagers and mountain postman; Third, foreigners, such as old Mexican writers, matadors, veterinarians, American poets, China people in Chinatown, Ukrainian poets and singers in the streets of Kiev. Comparatively speaking, among the three types of images, ordinary people are vividly portrayed. Zhao Ceng bluntly admitted: "There is nothing amazing or touching in my prose. Only my understanding of life and nature, my understanding and praise for some ordinary people around me. " The representative work Autumn Wind describes the tragic ending of sweeping the floor with dignified strokes. Instead of writing about her life, the author chose the worst episodes of her later years. Although her appearance is "ugly", "grey hair, wrinkled face and swollen eyes", the author highlights her beautiful heart of loyalty, kindness and honesty. "Top Bowl Boy" has different expression techniques and describes a thrilling struggle. A handsome guy made two mistakes in the top bowl performance, but he was calm and hard-working, and finally succeeded for the third time, winning stormy applause from the audience. This is an image of a strong man who dares to struggle and devote himself to technology, which gives people profound enlightenment. Another example is "Lao Zhang Tou" who loves his post and dedication and selfless dedication in Jade Bird, "Master Qin, a janitor who has devoted his life to mankind without being noticed" in Magnolia, and so on. Writers can reveal their extraordinary connotation from these ordinary people and shine extraordinary light in the ordinary.