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M8 Unit 4 Pygmalion

一、课 题：M8 Unit 4 Pygmalion 二、学习目标：

1.通过阅读让学生了解萧伯纳及其作品《窈窕淑女》的剧情，理解心理学上的“皮格马利翁”效应。

2.让学生掌握本单元教学目的和要求中的词汇和短语的用法。

三、学习过程：

Pre-reading 1.

Have you ever heard of the “Pygmalion Effect

”? What is it? 2.

What do you know about George Bernard Shaw and his works? 3.

Have you seen the film My Fair Lady? If you have, what do you learn from it? While-reading Step1: Skimming: Step1: Skim Act One of the play and get the main idea: The play is mainly about a poor ___________ girl who is lucky to come across a professor who might help her to __________ her life. Step2: Scanning: Read carefully and choose the best answer. 1. Why Eliza began to cry? Because _______.

A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest her

B. the gentleman didn’t give her some money

C. Pickering beat and scolded her

D. there was no reason 2.Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______.

A. his appearance

B. his action

C. his conversation

D. his manners

3. Which of the following can best describe Henry Higgins?_______.

A. Kind and polite.

B. Impatient and anxious.

C. Self-important and confident.

D. Unsure and generous.

4.The flower girl wanted to become ________.

A. a duchess

B. a shop assistant

C. a lady

D. a lady’s maid

5. From the last sentence of the play, we can conclude that Eliza felt ______ about what Higgins said. A. confident

B. optimistic

C. certain

D. doubtful

Post-reading: Summarize the play. It tells us how the main characters of this play had their _______ meetings while _________from a heavy rain outside a theatre in London in 1914. Eliza was a poor flower girl who tried to sell her flowers to a gentleman when her _______ English caught Professor Higgins’ attention. Professor Higgins, an expert in _________, could place a person by his / her remarks. He convinced that the ______ of a person’s English decides his / her social position. In his opinion, once educated to speak ________, Eliza could pass herself off in three months as a ________ at an ambassador’s garden party and perhaps she could even work as ____________ or a shop assistant. Colonel Pickering, an officer in the army, who had studied many _______ dialects himself, came to England to make the ____________ of Professor Higgins. Language Learning

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一．在课本中找出本单元的下列短语并翻译成汉语。

1. convince that…__________________

2. in all directions ______________________ 3. in disguise______________________

4. hand over _______________________ 5.pass..off as __________________

6. hesitate for a moment __________________

7. have a right to do sth ________________ 8. betray oneself _______________________ 9. in amazement __________________

10. a handful of ________________________ 11. shelter from the rain___________

12. in terms of_________________________ 13. make one’s acquaintance ____________ 14. make a bet_____________________ 15. show..in__________________

16. in need of

________________________ 17.fade out______________

18. take…for ________________________

二．完成句子。

1.我们相互认识已经很多年了。

We________ ________ _________ ________each other for ages. 2.这位皇帝喜欢微服私访。

The emperor liked travelling ________ __________. 3.登山者们为躲避暴风雪只好待在山上的茅屋里。

The climbers had to ________ ________the snowstorm in a mountain hut. 4.我坚信他是无辜的。

I _________ _________ _________he was innocent. 5.他英语说得那么好，常被人误认为是英国人。

He speaks English so well that he’s often ________ ________a native. 6.小时候，她经常冒充自己是童话里的公主。

She used to _________ ___________ _________ _________ the princess in the fairy tale when she was young. 7.从长远来看，好习惯对我们的健康是极好的。

_______ __________ _______ long-lasting benefits, good habits will help a lot with our health. 8.很显然他老了之后会把事业交给他儿子。

It is obvious that he will _________ _________ his business to his son when he gets old.

三．仿写句子。

1. While watching, he makes notes.

他一边观察, 一边做笔记。

while watching为while he was watching省略句。在以when, while, if, unless,after等引导的状语从句中, 如果从句中的主语与主句主语一致且从句谓语动词含有be动词的形式, 往往将从句中的主语及be动词省略, 而以动词的

-ing形式或过去分词形式来代替。

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完成工作后他就回家了。______________________________________________________ 2）

计划讨论后, 应立即实施。_____________________________________________________ 比较：But, sir, (proudly) once educated to speak properly, that girl could pass herself off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party. 1）

当被问到她住哪里时，小女孩默不作声。________________________________________________ 2）

因为被邀请去参加晚会，她决定去租一条钻石项链。

_____________________________________________________________________________________ 3)尽管被许多人嘲笑, 他还是继续他的研究。

______________________________________________________________________________________

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