Learning about Language优质课教学设计

Teaching plan of unit4 Pygmalion Learning about language Teaching objectives: 1.

Review the words in unit4 such as adaptation,garment, caption, thief... 2.

Grasp the phrases like in return, in disguise, in amazement, in delight... 3.

Raise students’ awareness of competition and cooperation in the activities. Teaching procedures: Step one warming-up Question: what’s Pygmalion Effect?

Pygmalion, a gifted artist, makes a stone statue of a beautiful woman.He asks the Greek Goddess to bring her to life.His wish is granted. A competition: Two students are invited to take part in a competition.(one boy and one girl) The one who win it will be awarded as "The King/Queen of Words" in our class. They are supposed to choose the words or phrases in unit4. Step two Exercise one: Cooperate with your

group members and look at the meanings and identify the words from the unit. Then find them in the word square. 1.

words printed above or below a picture

2.

a piece of clothing 3.

high sound made by blowing air with your mouth 4.

made of wool 5.

pause before saying sth as feel nervous or uncertain 6.

causing problems

7.

leather purse

8.

final result of sth 9.

strongly disapprove or punish 10.

extremely clever or very bright 11.

something written in a different form 12.

someone who steals sth or robs sb

Exercise two:

Complete the passage using the correct form of the words below.

handful

upper

betray

status

mistaken

fortune

plot

pass

clasic

classify

superior

George Bernard Shaw was interested in the way people spoke. He argued that he was never______ about a person’s ______. Generally speaking, he thought that lower class people ______ themselves with their remarks whenever they spoke, and that he could _______ people’s social position after only

a few minutes’ observation. However, he never

put himself to the test like Henry Higgins and tried to _____ someone of the lower class off as an authentic member of the ______ class. Higgins thought that a ________ social position was more dependent on grammar and pronunciation than on a

person’s ________. Actually his view was only accepted by a ________ of his followers. These people never realized that this idea would form the ____ for one of Bernard Shaw’s most famous and _______ plays!

Exercise three:

Complete these sentences using the correct form of the phrases below. in return

in disguise

in amazement

in delight in particular 1. The man we thought was a policeman was actually a thief

.

2. As he accepted the prize for his adaptation of a novel

for TV, Li looked around him ___________.

3. She stared at the priceless antique ring

_____________.

4. It was such a wonderful play – I enjoyed the music ____________.

4.

He gave me a musical box at my birthday party and I gave him a

wonderful new coat __________.

Exercise four: Tyr to brainstorm more phrases like in return, in amazement.

Step three Summerise

Step four Homework 1.

Review the new words/phrases in unit4 then we will have a dicatation. 2.

Try to find out more prep. + noun phrases by referring to your dictionary. 3.

Preview the grammar of this unit--past participle as adverbial.