Learning about LanguagePPT配套教学设计内容

一．Aims: Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言：

重点词汇和短语adaptation, plot, professor, Pygmalion 2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to talk about the Greek story Pygmalion 二．Contents: Ask Students to look at a group of three pictures and try to describe them in their own words. T: Yes, today we are going to learn about a Greek story Pygmalion. First, look at the pictures on page 28. Please work in pairs and work out the story. S1: Let me try. Pygmalion was a very gifted artist. He spent a long time making a stone statue of a beautiful woman. It was so beautiful that he couldn’t help loving it and wanted it to be his wife. T: What problems do you think they will have? S1: Maybe they can’t understand each other, because they come from different world. S2: It’s very hard for Pygmalion to understand his wife, because his wife is made form a stone. She doesn’t know the words, behavior, anything about him.…

Step III Discussion Make a brief introduction about Shaw. T: George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, literary critic, a thsocialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20 century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defenders of women’s rights, and advocate of equality of income,. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honor, but refused the money. He was a very humorous playwright. Here is a story about him. One day, Shaw took part in a grand party, in which he met the then Prime Minister Churchill. Churchill was very fat at that time whereas Shaw was very thin. Churchill said to Shaw very sharply, “When people see you, they will know how poor your country is”. And then Shaw answered very quickly, “When people see you, they will know the reason why our country is so poor.” From it we can see how witty Shaw is! T: Have you seen the film My Fair Lady? Do you like the film? Say something about the film. Step V Homework Ask the students to do the following. 1. Find more information about Pygmalion 2.Pre-read the play and get ready for the next period.

The Second Period

Reading 一．Aims: 1. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the Ss to talk bout the play and use the play to work out the characteristics of each social group. 2. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the Ss learn how to talk about the play and use the play to work out the characteristics of each social group. 二．Contents: Step I Revision and Lead-in Step II Reading Unit 4 Pygmalion The First Period

Warming up

Deal with the Reading part. Play the tape for the Ss to listen. Then analyze the play.

Ask the students to read through the text. While reading, pay attention to the writing

style. Skimming Ask the Ss to read the play quickly and answer the questions. T: Now please read the play. After a few minutes, I’ll ask you some questions.

Show the followings. 1.

How many characters are there in the play? 2.

What is the weather like when the play begins? 3.

Do you think Eliza a well educated woman, why or why not? 4.

Why did Professor Higgins want to make notes of what Eliza said? 5.

What’ the meaning of the newly rich?

Scanning Ask three students to read to the play while other students scan it and get ready to answer the questions: According to Higgins, if a person is very poor, he or she can still be better off at last. Do you agree with him? If so, how to realize the aim Who can complete the last sentence in the first line on page 30: Now once taught by me…?

What other things show one’s statue in society apart from how one speaks? Do you think Pickering if of the upper class? Step III Comprehending Ask Ss to listen to the tape as carefully as possible. They should not only pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation but get the main idea of the play as well. T: Pygmalion is about recognizing a person’s position in society by the way they behave and speak. Please listen to the tape and use the play to work out the characteristics of each social group. And then fill in the blanks on page 30 Step IV Discussion Ask Ss to do part 5 on page 31. T: Suppose you have a chance to help Eliza improve her use of the English language. Look at the sentences on page31 in Part 5 and help her correct all these sentences in terms of grammar, spelling, etc, so that she can use them properly. Step V Homework 1.

Read the play repeatedly and try to act out it. 2.

Preview the grammar part.