Learning about Language教学设计实例

Period 2

Learning about language 【Project】

Look up useful expressions, analyze some difficult sentences, and put them into use.

【Process】

Task 1

Look up these words and expressions and translate or complete the sentences. 1. hold up/ hold on/ hold on to ① The gentleman who was a workaholic was always _________ as a role model by the general manager.

② Please ________ the furniture because of its rarity.

2. Make sentences using the phrases.

be of use

be of importance be of significance be of value 3. Why does she take me for a fool? On first acquaintance she could be mistaken for a judge.

take …for instance

take… for granted

4. pass sb. off

as

5.The invader took the land from the native with a handful of coins as an exchange. Chaplin impressed us with a mouthful of food in the movie Gold Rush.

A basketful of flowers were put beside the shop window. 6. deep in conversation The worker work round the clock; they are always deep in work. He buried himself in reading while his sister was deep in thought.

A lot of people in the Wall street went bankrupt and was deep in debt in the Great Depression. Are we so deep in our books that we ignore everything around us? II. Read the following sentences and translate them. 1. Nearby a flower girl wearing dark garments and a woolen scarf is also sheltering form the rain.

2. What do you take me for? 3. I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise.

4. What if I was? What’s it to you? 5. They betrayed themselves every time they open their mouths.

6. Now once taught by me, she’d become an upper class lady.

7. Once educated to speak properly, that girl could pass herself off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.

8. And I came to England to make your acquaintance!

9. I rather fancied myself because I can pronounce twenty-four distinct vowel sounds.

10. I am not asking for any favors—and he treats me like dirt.

【Product】

Group work : What other things should be done to pass Eliza off apart from how she speaks?

【Practice】

I. Fill in the blanks according to the Chinese given.

1. Eliza is a poor flower girl who has _________________________ (雄心勃勃) to improve herself 2. Excuse me, ______________________________? (你有零钱吗？) 3. Who’s hurting you, you silly girl. __________________________________? (你把我看成什么人啦？)

4. You come from the west end of London, born in Lisson Grove ____________________ (如果我没有搞错的话). 5. Eliza_______________________________________(谋生)by selling flowers. 6. Professor Higgins believed that one’s speech could show one’s social status. “People _____________________________(透露自己的身世)every time they open their mouths”

7. “Her terrible English will_______________ (使她注定为市井小民）to the end of her life,” said Professor Higgins. 8. Once educated to speak properly, the girl could _______________ (冒充成女公爵) at an ambassador’s garden party.

9. ________________________(走着瞧).I am determined to become a great success. 10. The little boy picked up_______________________ (一把沙子)and began to build a castle

II. Choose part of the play and act it out.