The man who enjoyed grumbling

文本分析

【What】主要内容

本书是“阳光英语分级阅读”初二上级别的一本故事类读物，讲述了雷切特先生和他的山羊邻居相处的故事。雷切特先生是一位喜欢抱怨的坏脾气老头，而山羊一家总是制造麻烦，但他并不介意，因为他喜欢抱怨山羊一家。有一天，山羊一家突然搬走了，雷切特先生却倍感孤独，不适应安静的生活，而搬到山上的山羊一家也怀念曾经热闹的生活。于是，山羊一家又搬回了原来的家。想到又可以抱怨了，雷切特先生开心地跳起了踢踏舞。他非常高兴他们能够搬回来。雷切特先生虽然爱抱怨山羊一家，但他也很喜爱山羊一家，山羊一家制造的麻烦，他也不介意，也不介意被他们取笑。在山羊搬走的那天，他一下子就察觉到了安静，并去看山羊一家发生了什么。雷切特先生总是用坏脾气来掩饰自己的内心，只会通过抱怨来沟通，但在故事的结尾他终于表达了自己内心想法。

【How】文本结构和语言修辞

按照故事发展的一般顺序讲述了雷切特先生和山羊一家的故事。本书山羊一家两次搬家为主线，雷切特先生和山羊一家的心理变化交织其中，本书使用大量形容词、情感分明的语言以及生动的插图塑造了鲜明的人物形象。文中有不少幽默的词句，能引人会心一笑，作者也用了大量对比的写作手法来突出人物的变化。

【Why】写作意图

本书讲述了雷切特先生和山羊一家的故事，突出雷切特先生爱抱怨的特征，从而给人留下坏脾气的印象。通过一些幽默得话语，可以看出雷切特先生是一个喜欢掩盖自己内心的人，在生活中最常做的事就是抱怨，从而导致邻居搬走。作者像我们展示了抱怨这样一种沟通方式。一方面我们要理解抱怨是他人的一种沟通方式，并非有恶意，要思考为什么别人要抱怨自己。另一方面我们要避免一直抱怨从而伤害别人，而是要采取适合的沟通方式。

学情分析

本书故事情节生动有趣，扣人心弦，用词生动活泼，插图精美，对于初二下的学生来说是一本很有引力的故事类读物，总体学习难度适中。

教学目标

By the end of the lesson, the students are expected to be able to:

1. understand the story and answer literal questions.

2. analyze the feeling of the character by experiencing and finding out supporting evidence.

3. talk about the themes of the book by answering critical questions.

教学资源

PPT

教学过程

教学步骤

教学活动

设计意图

Step 1 Lead-in

1. Play a game. Find the similarities and differences in the two pictures.

吸引学生兴趣，设置悬念。

Step 2 Read to understand

1. What are the main characters of the story?

2. What’s the relationship between them?

3. Are they always neighbors?

4. Why did they move to high hills? Can you find the reasons from the book?

5. Are they neighbors in the end?

6.Why did they move back? Try to find the reasons in the book.

7. What did Mr R do to the Goat family at first?

8. What did the Goat family do?

9. How did they feel? Are they happy?

10. Imagine if you have a neighbor like them, what will you do?  

11.However, is it a problem to Mr R? How did he feel? Angry? Really?

12. Imagine if you have a neighbor like Mr R, what will you do?

13. What did the Goat family do? They moved up into high hills. Did they tell Mr R? How did he know?

14. How did Mr R feel when he found out what happened? find some details to support it. Read together to experience his feeling.

15. There is a sentence below, Mr R looked around. Sure enough, there was no one scratchy to be seen. Why did he do this? Is this sentence necessary? Can we cut it out?

15. It seems that that he has nothing to grumble about. But did he stop grumbling?

16. What did he grumble?

17. How did he feel now? how do you know that? Let’s find out what he said. read it to experience

18. Did his feeling change gradually?

19. What about the goat family? Are they happy after moving to the high hills?.

19. At last, they moved back. How did they feel? How do you know that?

20. What’s the meaning of the word tremendous in English? How do you know? Can you use another word to replace it?

20. How did Mr R feel? A little happy or very happy? Find some details to show it.

通过理解性问题对故事内容进行梳理，让学生熟悉故事内容、分析人物形象。通过朗读，角色扮演等发现语言的魅力。通过分析语句内容，分析人物的心理。

Step 3 Read to think

1. let’s look at the two pictures again. Do the Goat family still like making trouble? Does Mr R still enjoy grumbling?

2. But their relationship has improved, what makes the change of their relationship? Move house.

3. Do you think move house or get away is a good way to solve the problem? What if the goat family didn’t move back?  

4. What did they realize after they moved back?

(At first, the goat family just want to get away from Mr R and at last they realized they need him.

Mr R also need the goat family to let him grumble and make him happy.)

They are really close now.

5. But it’s natural to have problems in a relationship. How can we deal with it? Discuss.

Grumbling is also a kind of communication. It expresses information as well as feelings. But grumble to much may hurt other’s feelings and push them away. And some people may not accept this kind of communication. We should choose a proper way to communicate with others. We need to make a good communication

Step 4 Read to connect

1. Do you have a grumbler in your life? In your class or in your family? Do you have problems with the grumbler? How do you deal with them?

A good Communication can always

break the hedge, connect people and bring hearts and mind closer.

让学生通过自己对文本的理解，多角度地表达自己的想法，进一步分析作者是如何塑造人物的，并对主题意义进行解读。 

Homework

Pretend to be Mr R and write to the Goat family. Talk about how you feel about the move and being apart. Write about what you miss about them. Remember, you don’t want to admit that you actually miss them.

激发学生想象力，锻炼学生语言能力。