2013外研版新版七年级英语Module 9 life history Unit 2.ppt

9 Unit 2 He decided to be an actor. Ask and answer --When is …? --It’s in… . Ask and answer about when you were five years old. — Did you ride a bike when you were five years old? — Yes, I did./No, I didn’t. 2. — Did you play computer games when you were five years olds? — Yes, I did./No, I didn’t. Do you know these plays? 《Hamlet》 《Romeo and Juliet》 《Merchant of Venice》 《King Lear》 Who is the writer of these plays? William Shakespeare 1. To master the new words: successful, build, on, fire, die, rich, around the world 2. To get information from the reading material about William Shakespeare. 3. To introduce a writer you know well. Language aims /pleI/ /p?uIm/ /m?ri/ /s?ksesful/ /w?:k/ /bIld/ 剧本；戏剧 n. play 诗歌 n. poem 结婚 v. marry Words and expressions 成功的 adj. successful work build 作品；著作 n. 建造 v. /?n/ /faI?/ /daI/ /rIt?/ /l??ɡwId?/ 在…河边 prep. on 火；火灾 n. fire 死；死去 v. die 富有的 adj. rich language around the world 语言 n. 世界各地 actor writer play marry poem move company not rich join the army He became successful at the age of 25. the River Thames the Globe Theatre Then work in pairs .Read the passage and decide what William Shakespeare. plays poem stories William Shakespeare was a famous English writer of plays and poems. He wrote about thirty-eight plays, 154 short poems and a few long poems in his life. Two of his famous plays are Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford, England. Like many people 400 years ago, Shakespeare’s parents didn’t learn to read or write. At school he liked plays, so he decided to be an actor when he finished school at fourteen. He married in 1582 and had three children. The life of William Shakespeare Shakespeare went to London and joined a theatre company in about 1592. He became a successful actor and began to write plays. Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed his works very much. In 1599 the company built the Globe Theatre on