Learning about Language教学内容分析

Book 8 Unit 4

Pygmalion

Learning about language

Period 1

Vocabulary study

I. Teaching contents:

Leaning about language in Unit 4 II. Teaching goals 1. To help Ss discover some useful words and expressions in Unit 4 and increase their interests of vocabulary study. 2. To enable Ss to master the spellings and meanings of the new words.

3. To help Ss understand and grasp the use of the words and expressions from the context. III. Teaching important and difficult points Help students consolidate the use of the new words and expressions from the context.

V. Teaching and learning approaches 1. Task-based method

2. Self and cooperative learning

VI. Teaching aid

A multi-media computer, blackboard , chalks VII. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Greeting

Greet the whole class as usual. Step 2 Revision Let Ss read the new words and expressions of U4 together and correct their pronunciations if necessary. Step 3 Discovering useful words and expressions Exercise 1

1.Ask Ss to look at the meanings and identify and words from the unit. Ss take turns to give the answers according to the clues. The answers are as follows: caption, garment, whistle, woollen, hesitate, troublesome, wallet, outcome, condemn, brilliant, adaptation, thief

2. Ask Ss to look at the word square and find the words.

Exercise 2

1.

Let Ss read the words in the blank and translate them into Chinese. Then ask them to associate the words with the changes of part of speech and some fixed collocations.

handful ---- hand

mistaken----mistake----mistook

fortune---- fortunate ----unfortunate---- unfortunately

classic ---- classical calssify ---classification

1).handful : a handful of 一把,少量

2).betray:

~

oneself 原形毕露

/ one’s trust 辜负某人的信任

~ a secret to sb. 向某人泄露秘密

指出下列句子中黑体词的含义

He would suffer death rather than betray the secret. The man is capable of betraying his friends.

Asking questions will betray my ignorance. 3). mistaken:make a mistake

/ by mistake 错误地

be ~ about 误解某事

be ~ in doing sth. 做某事是错误的

4). pass: pass sb. off as…

翻译: 她冒充有经验的演员.

She passed herself off as an experienced actress. 他让秘书冒充他的妻子.

He passed his secretary off as his wife. Pass away去世

/ by 经过,通过/ through 经历/ on 传递

用适当的词填空: 1. He escaped by passing himself_______ as a guard. 2. His mother passed_______ last year. 3. I passed ________ your hourse. 4. The good tradition has been passed _______ from generation to generation. 5). classify:

classify A into …把A 分类为…

~

sth. by …

根据…分类

6). superior : be ~ to sb. /sth.

翻译：

这个模式超过了与之竞争的产品。

This model is _________________ its competitors. 2.

Check out the answers of Ex.2 mistaken, status, betrayed, classify, pass, upper, superior, fortune, handful, plot, classic

Ex. 3

1.

Ask Ss to read the phrases in the blank and translate them into Chinese. 2.

check the answers one by one.

3.

Ask 3 students to give more similar phrases that we have learned. For example,

in agreement, in line,

in addition, in cash, in charge, in common, in general ,in trouble,etc. 4.

Group work : Ss form groups to use at least 3 phrases above to make a short passage and then ask some students to share in the class. Step 4 Homework 1.

Review the words and expressions in Unit 4. 2.

Preview the grammar in this unit.