Learning about Language教案和课堂实录

Unit 4 Pygmalion Learning about Language 任课老师：高二（4）班

李嘉琪

Content: Unit 4, NSEFC Book8 Learning about language (40mins)

I.

Teaching aims and demands: 1.

To read the passage carefully and master the key language points of the text. 2.

To analyze the words, phrases and sentences through the exercises. 3.

To learn and comprehend the grammar---past participle as adverbial. 4.

To train the students’ basic skills of listening, speaking and reading and writing.

Teaching important points: 1.

To enable students to master the key words, phrases and sentence structures through exercises. 2.

To enable the students to learn the grammar and make good use of it. Teaching difficult points: 1.

To master the extension of the words, phrases and sentences. 2.

To express their own opinions and ideas by using the grammar.

II.

Teaching aids:

PPT, multi-media, computer and blackboards

III.

Teaching methods: 1.

Asking-and-answer activity to check the students’ answers to the questions and understanding of the text 2.

Self-learning skills to enable students to finish the exercises on their own. 3.

Group discussion method to enable students to cooperate each other to solve the problems and understand what they have learned today in class. 4.

Pair work to make every student get involved in the classroom activities.

IV.

Teaching procedures: Step 1 Warming-up Free talk of the related topic of this unit---Pygmalion T: Boys and girls, how are you today? Do you still remember what we have learned in last class? (A flower girl who improves herself/her social status taught by Professor Higgins. So we can see education can change a person by language, body language or manners and so on.)

Step 2 Presentation (exercises in Learning about language)

2.1 Look at the meanings and identify the words from the unit. Then find them in the word square. E.g. 1) words printed above or below a picture (caption)

2) a piece of clothing (garment)

2.2 Complete the passage using the correct form of the words below. E.g. (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!

2.3 Complete these sentences using the correct form of the phrases below.

(in return, in disguise, in amazement, in delight, in particular)

E.

g. 1. The man we thought was a policeman was actually a thief______________. 3.

As he accepted the prize for his adaptation of a novel for TV. Li looked around him_______________.

5.

Step 3 Grammar---revise the past participle as adverbial.

3.1 Introduction of the past participle as adverbial by showing some sentences

E.g. When taught by a professor, she’d become an upper class lady.

Once educated to speak properly, that girl could pass herself off as a teacher.

3.2 Details of the grammar (the past participle as different adverbials)

1) The past participle as adverbial of time (sometimes including the time adverbial words such as when, while etc.) E.g. Seen from the top of the hill, the city looked like a big garden.

=When it was seen from the top of the hill, the city looked like a big garden.

2)

The past participle as adverbial of reason(equals to an adverbial clause) E.g. Moved by the speech, the excited young people stopped arguing. Because they were moved by the speech, the excited young people stopped arguing.

3)

The past participle as adverbial of condition E.g. Given another chance, he will do it better.

If he was given another chance, he will do it better.

4)

The past participle as adverbial of concession E.g. Laughed at by many people, he continued his study. Although he was laughed at by many people, he continued his study.

5)

The past participle as adverbial of accompany or way E.g. The old man went into the room, supported by his wife.

The old man went into the room, and he was supported by his wife.

Step 4 Consolidation---exercises 1)

Multiple choice. E.g. ______ more attention, the tree could have grown better.

A. Given

B. To give C. Giving

D. Having given. 2. The computer center, ____ last year, is very popular among the students in this school. A. open

B. opening C. having opened

D. opened

2)

Fill in the blanks. E.g.1._______ (pollute) air and water are harmful to people’s health. 2. The problem ___________(discuss) at the meeting yesterday was very difficult to solve. 3. He became _______

(excite) when he heard the news that he had won the first place in the competition. 4. I am _________ (interest) in the story. 5. I haven’t got the film ___________ (develop) yet. 6. Do you know the man _________ (stand) beside the door?

3)

Correct the mistakes. E.g. 1. He came back with a basket filling with eggs

2. A breaking cup is lying on the floor.

3. The meeting holds yesterday was very important.

Step 5 Discussion (Pair Work)

5.1 Show four familiar picture around us (a pen, books, an apple and an umbrella). 5.2 Make sentences using the past participle (v-ed form) as attribute for each picture, as many as possible. 5.3. Each group will be distributed the specific picture and then report the sentences in front of the class. E.g. The umbrella is beautiful, used for keeping away form the rain. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ .

Step 6 Homework

6.1. Review what we have learned today, especially the grammar 6.2.Finish the exercises on exercise book.

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