Learning about Language课时教案

选修八Unit4 Pygmalion Learning About Language 教学设计

Teaching goals: 1.

To enable Ss to master key phrased and expressions. 2.

To enable Ss to learn how to use these words and expressions. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Revision Get the Ss to retell the story of Pygmalion Step 2 Language study 1.

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

upper

betray

status

mistaken

fortune

plot

pass

classic

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!

2.

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 ____________. 5. He gave me a musical box at my birthday party and I gave him a

wonderful new coat __________. Step 3 More practice 根据下列各句句意及所给单词的首字母

或汉语提示，写出该单词的正确形式。

1. Growing up in a m_______ family,

creation. William had fertile soil for music 2. They bought the clock at a(n) ________

(古董) shop in Paris. 3. My ________ (长袜) is always full of presents at Christmas.

4. Different people have a different understanding of ___________ (佛教). Step 4 Game time Get the Ss to make up a story where they must use at least five words and expressions above. Then get some of them to share their stories. Step 5 Homework Finish Using Words and Expressions on Page 71 of workbook.