Learning about Language设计意图

Teaching Design Teacher: Zhan Shuang

Grade Level: Senior 2 Lesson title: Act One-Fateful Meetings Period: Appreciating the play I. Overview This class covers: Reading the play to better understand the plot and three characters and analyzing the personality of each character. Pygmalion is a play written by Geroge Bernard shaw. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of Phonetics. Higgins makes a bet that he can transform a flower girl from the streets of London into a high class lady within six months. The central idea of the play is that your life can be shaped by the way that you speak.

After the study of this play, may students learn to have courage and determination to change their status quos, seeking opportunities to constantly improve themselves and pursuing their own progress. II. Designed Results 1.

Be able to understand the identities of three characters. 2.

Be able to have a good knowledge of the plot in the play. 3.

Be able to analyze the personalities of each character. III. Challenges 1.

The students lack the ability to analyze the personalities of characters accurately. 2.

Correct the improper sentences Eliza said. IV. Classroom Techniques 1.

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Using multi-media. Scanning. Problem solving. Individual work. Group discussion. Competitions. V. Teaching design

Step 1: Dictation.

There is a dictation in the beginning of this class, which covers twenty words and phrases from the word list. The words are out of order and each word are read twice. One student is chosen to write on the small blackboard, while other students take out a piece of paper to write down words. After the dictation, the teacher check the answers and then read together. Step 2: Consolidation.

In order to help students strengthen the words dictated just now, there is a match game, including four rounds in total. The following are the details: T: I want to help you strengthen these words once more, so there is a game, match game, you should match the words meaning with these phrases or words, clear? … ok, anyone?

In the first round, a girl comes to the front, matching the words and words meaning. Then she clicks the button of checking answers and she is all right. In the second round, a boy matches correctly.

But in the third round, a boy has a poor command of these words and he only answers one correctly. After he tries a second time, but it turns out to be the same as before. So the teacher changes another boy to help him. T: Is he right? S: Yes. T: Ok. Last one. Have a try. In the last round, a boy matches very well, not only quickly but also correctly. Step 3: Comprehension. Firstly, students are shown a short video from the movie Pygmalion, in which the flower girl met professor Higgins for the first time outside the theater. After watching, students are asked to think about the following questions. What kind of person is Henry Higgins? What kind of person is Colonel Pickering? What kind of person is Eliza? There is a game for each question. It is a form of competition, which requires two students to finish it. The above descriptions are task one. The first task requires analysis of each character. The second task is a form of ‘True or False’, which requires an understanding of the details of the text. The third task is a form of ‘gap filling’, which also requires the understanding of the details of the text. The following are the details: Task 1 T: First, let’s see the book, turn to page 28, in this text, there are three characters. Character means what? S: 角色,人物. T: There are three characters in the text, Eliza Doolittle, leading lady, professor Higgins, professor means? S:教授. T: Colonel Pickering, colonel means? S:上校. T: (pointing at the blackboard) identity is what? S: 身份. T: Ok, the answers is already in the textbook. So anyone can comes to the front and help me finish these three blanks? Who can? You can take your book. Have a try. A girl writes the answers on the blackboard. T: Eliza Doolittle is a poor little girl. She is a poor?

S: 卖花女. T: Professor is a? S: 专家. T: In? S: Phonetics. T: Phonetics means? S:语音学

T: 他是一个语音学的教授. The last one, Colonel Pickering, he is an officer? S: In the army T: Army means? S: 陆军,军队. T: 他是一个陆军军官. There is a video made by me, which is exactly the text we are going to learn today. Let’s watch together.(watch the video) Ok. That’s it. Now I will give you three minutes to scan the text, scan means? 细看,浏览, and two minutes to discuss in groups. You need to think three questions. First, what kind of person is Henry Higgins?什么意思? S: 他是什么样的人. T: 也就是,我在问他的? S: 性格. T: Next one, what kind of person is Colonel Pickering? The last one, what kind of person is Eliza? You need to think these three questions. Now begin. (students spend three minutes reading the text and two minutes discussing in groups) T: Ok, time is up. Have you got any conclusion? Conclusion? S: 结论. T: Let’s see. There is a game about what kind of person is Henry Higgins. I need two students to come to the front to have a competition. Who can? T: If the words is right, you can click, 点击. The score is in the corner of the screen. (Game begins. A boy and a girl take part in the competition. In the end, the boy wins.) T: Let’s clap our hands for L. Let’s see the answers. Henry Higgins is impatient, impatient means? S: 没耐心的. T: rude. S: 粗鲁的. T: confident. S:自信的. ……

T: Ok, next one, what kind of person is Colonel Pickering? (two boys come to the front) T: Ok, D wins. Go back to your seats. What a pity! Let’s check the answers. Colonel Pickering is kind. S: 善良. T: polite. S: 有礼貌的. ……

T: Next round. What kind of person is Eliza? (two boys come to the front)

T: Let’s see the answers. Our leading lady is anxious?

S: 焦虑的. T: eager. S: 渴望的，热切的. ……

Task 2 T: This is another game. I also need two students to come here and you should pay attention to this part, dark blue part. This part will show some questions, but the questions in both sides are different. If the answer is right , you need to click the ‘right’ button, but if not, you can click the ‘wrong’ button. Clear?

S: clear. T: Anyone? (two boys come to the front) T: Go. You can change the answers. ……

T: They are neck in neck.不分上下,并列,难分伯仲. Let’s see the answers together. First one, Higgins is hiding from the rain. Hide means? S:躲藏. T: 希金斯在? S: 躲雨. ……

Task 3 T: Here is a gap filling game. Fill means 填充, gap means 空隙, 缺口,这是一个填空题, you need to drag the answer into the blank and check the answer, clear? Anyone? Have a try? Class means what? 班级吗? S: 阶级. (A girl comes to the front) T: Ok, she is right. why? Why professor Higgins is from the middle class?他是来自于中产阶级. Eliza is from? S: Lower class. T: And Colonel Pickering is from? S: Upper class. T: And our professor is rude to Eliza, rude? S: 粗鲁的. T: And he is polite to Colonel, polite? S: 有礼貌的. T: So our professor is from the middle class. Any questions? S: No. T: Ok, next one. Who can?

(A girl comes to the front) T: Ok, let’s translate the question. 本文主要讲述了Eliza, Higgins 和Colonel Pickering的第一次见面. This one, greet means what? S: 欢迎. ……

Step 4: Homework

In the end of the class, students are left a piece of homework. Suppose you have a chance to help Eliza improve her use of the English language. Correct all these sentences so that she can use them properly. T: Please turn to page 31, let’s see together. Suppose means what? Be supposed to do?

S: 应该. T: 我们这个suppose叫假设,假定. Suppose you have a chance to help Eliza improve her use of the English language.假设你？

S: 有机会帮助Eliza改善她的口语.

T: Correct means? S:…

T: 动词: 纠正, 形容词:正确的. 那么需要你纠正所有的下面的句子. So that? S: 以至于. T: 以至于她可以正确地使用他们. Let’s see the first one. Come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. How to say the proper language. It should be ‘Come over here, captain, captain means what? S: 队长. T: 在这里指长官. You can write down the right answers in your textbook. ……

VI. Reflection Through different games, I succeed in giving the classroom to students, so that students can enjoy themselves in an atmosphere of autonomy, inquiry, and cooperation. Five minutes’ video can give students a sense of immersion, grasp students' curiosity, and start our topic smoothly. Different game settings are designed to stimulate students' interest in learning. However, there are some problems that need improvement. For one thing, In daily teaching, I should train students’ spoken English more and encourage students to speak bravely. For another, this lesson focuses on the overall comprehension of the text, but fails to teach some basic language knowledge and sentence structure. So I should pay attention to the combination of comprehension and knowledge. On the whole, I am glad that I can help them learn something new. For me, it is a process of teaching and learning.