Learning about Language优质课教案设计

Learning about language Teaching aims: 1. a better understanding of use of words and expressions.

2. Review the use of past participle. I. Discovering useful words and expressions: 1 Look at the meanings and identify the words from the unit. Then find them in the word space.

1. words printed above or below a picture

(caption) 2. a piece of clothing

(garment)

3. high sound made by blowing air with your mouth

(whistle)

4. made of wool

(woolen)

5. nervous pause before saying sth.

( hesitate )

6. causing problems

(troublesome) 7. leather purse

(wallet)

8. final result of sth.

(outcome)

9. strongly disapprove or punish

(condemn)

10. extremely clever or very bright

(brilliant)

11. something written in a different form

(adaptation) 12. someone who steals sth. or robs sb.

(thief)

2

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!

Keys:

mistake;

status;

betrayed;

classify;

pass;

upper;

superior;

fortune;

handful;

plot;

classic

3 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 __________.

Keys: 1. in disguise

2. in delight

3. in amazement

4. in particular

5. in return

1

Revising useful structures 1 Correct the errors in the following sentences. Then check with a partner. 1. Being taught by the two gentlemen, great progress was made by Eliza. 2. Having been awarded so many prizes in literature. George’s years of effort was well deserved.

3. Bitten by the snake in the bush, we sent Susan back to the camp. 4. Being punished by his boss, his mood was very bad. 5. All his possession has gone, having been cheated by that company. 6. Found a hole in her stocking Mandy said to her friend, "I will buy another pair and meet in two hours’ time. 7. Been forced to leave his job, he set up his own company. 8. Having been caught, the police took the thief to the police station.

Keys:

1. Being taught by the two gentlemen, Eliza made great progress. 2. Having been awarded so many prizes in literature. George felt his years of effort was well deserved. 3. Bitten by the snake in the bush, Susan was sent back to the camp. 4. Being punished by his boss, he was in a bad mood. 5. Having been cheated by that company, he lost his possessions. 6. Having found a hole in her stocking,

Mandy said to her friend, "I will buy another pair and meet in two hours’

time. 7. Having been forced to leave his job, he set up his own company. 8. Having been caught, the thief was taken to the police station (by the police ) .

2 Complete the following passage. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form. Eliza was a flower girl _______(determine) to succeed and be independent of her family. _______(force) to earn money herself because her family was poor. _________(know) it was impossible to be_________ (accept) in that profession___________ if she did not speak correct English. But after her first lesson, she was_______ (disappoint) because Professor Higgins was so impatient ___________with her.

However. Eliza did not give up. _______________(train) for several months. Eliza began to speak_______ in a more attractive accent. In time her __________ (speak) English became so pleasant that she became ________(know) as “the London songbird”.

Keys: determined;

Forced;

Knowing;

accepted;

if;

disappointed;

with;

Having been trained;

in;

spoken;

known

2