Learning about Language获奖说课稿

Part 1 Teaching Design 第一部分教学设计

Period 1 A sample lesson plan for reading (PYGMALION) Introduction

In this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to pre-read the text. Then they shall read for forms，copy collocations and make sentences and transfer information. The class is to end by students having a dictation.

Objectives To help students understand the text’s forms and contents

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learn about English dramas To help students communicate on the topic in focus with the words, collocations and structures learned in this unit

Focus Words

hesitate， disguise， classify， betray，dismiss， condemn，

pronounce，

curtsy， compromise， sob， overlook，fade， fade，

Collocations

in disguise，

in amazement，generally speaking，

in terms of，

the other day， take away，once more， in need of

Patterns

1. I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman.

2. The English that will condemn her to the gutter to the end of her days. 3. …an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person’s English decides his or her position in society.

4. I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise.

5. But they betray themselves ery time they open their mouths.

Aids

Multimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams Procedures 1. Warming up by leaning about Pygmalion Pygmalion Pygmalion (1938) — the non-musical film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Phonetics Professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with Colonel Pickering that he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle into a lady within three months. To do so, he must transform her thick-accented voice, by coaching her to speak proper English, teaching her manners, and drilling her so she will be educated. “We were above that in Convent Garden… I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me; I'm not fit to sell anything else.” “I'm a good girl, I am.”

At a tea party, in her first public testing, she blurts out, “Not bloody likely.” However, she makes a spectacular debut at a society ball proving him right. The movie drastically diverges from Shaw's play at the end by indicating that Higgins falls in love with Eliza. This is really not a love story. 2. Pre-reading---about My Fair Lady A priceless classic, My Fair Lady has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, the film swept the Academy Awards. 《窈窕淑女》可谓无价经典之作，是有史以来最受欢迎的音乐剧之一。该片以萧伯纳1913年的剧作《皮格马利翁》为蓝本，夺得了多项奥斯卡奖。

It tells a tale of a waif who was educated into being a lady. 该片讲述一个流浪者被教育成一位淑女的故事。

Egotistical linguist Professor Henry Higgins (Oscar winning Rex Harrison) bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering, that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) into a lady in time for an important society ball. 自负的语言学教授亨利·希金斯（奥斯卡奖获得者雷克斯·哈里森饰）同他的好友休·皮克林上校打赌，他能及时将伦敦穷人区的卖花女伊莱扎·杜利特尔（奥黛丽·赫本饰）变为一位淑女，以便她能参加一个重要的社交舞会。

His gamble could pay off but the spirited Eliza is more of a handful than the Professor could have predicted. As she slowly becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his confusion, that he can’t live without her.

他的打赌也许会赢——但是活泼的伊莱扎远比教授想象的要难对付。随着她慢慢地变得越来越优雅，越来越独立于他，希金斯困惑地意识到自己已离不开她。

The film was nominated for 12 Oscars and won eight, including Best Picture and Director. 该部影片获得12项奥斯卡奖提名，最终赢得8项，包括最佳影片和最佳导演奖。 Professor Henry Higgins: Now, try it again.

Eliza Doolittle: The rime in spine sties minely in the plain. Professor Henry Higgins: The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. Eliza Doolittle: Didn't I say that? Professor Henry Higgins: No, Eliza, you didn't “say” that, you didn't even “say” that, now every night before you get into bed, where you used to say your prayers, I want you to say “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain” fifty times. You'll learn to get much further with the Lord if you learn not to offend His ears. Eliza Doolittle: I sold flowers; I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else. Mrs. Higgins: However did you learn good manners with my son around?

Eliza Doolittle:

It was very difficult. I should never have known how ladies and gentlemen really behaved, if it hadn't been for Colonel Pickering. He always showed what he thought and felt about me as if I were something better than a common flower girl. You see, Mrs. Higgins, apart from the things one can pick up, the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated. I shall always be a common flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me like a common flower girl, and always will. But I know that I shall always be a lady to Colonel Pickering, because he always treats me like a lady, and always will.

3. Reading for forms

It is unlikely that you will understand 100 percent of the vocabulary in the text, especially at a first reading. Use first the context and then your own knowledge of the subject to help you guess the meaning of unknown words. Read the text to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful collocations. 4. Copying and making sentences Why learn collocations? •

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Your language will be more natural and more easily understood. You will have alternative and richer ways of expressing yourself. It is easier for our brains to remember and use language in chunks or blocks rather than as single words. You are asked to read the text to find and copy all the useful collocations. You may make your own sentences with each of these collocations. Collocations from PYGMALION

a poor flower girl卖花女, be ambitious to improve oneself立志要改善自己, an expert in phonetics语音学专家，the quality of a person’s English一个人的英语水平,

What was E doing in She was selling flowers.

the street?

decide one’s position in society决定某人的社会地位, an officer in the army一个军官, set…a task给……一个任务, outside a theatre在剧场外, pour with rain下倾盆大雨, hide from the rain躲雨, make notes做记录, shelter from…躲避……, hesitate for a moment迟疑片刻, take…for three pence花三便士买……, hold up…举起……, sound friendly听起来友好, some small change一些零钱, be disappointed at …对……失望, get worried担心, have a right to do…有权利做……, take…for…把……看作

……, a policeman in disguise便衣警察, take down…for…为……记下, hand over…,递……过去，

be covered with…被…….覆盖, push… back at…把……推回给……, in one’s own voice用某人自己的声音, come from the west end of…来自于……西边,

look confused困惑不解, be classified from…对……分类, make an income有收入, the age of the newly rich致富的年代, begin one’s working life in a poor neighborhood of…从……的穷人区开始工作, with 80 pounds a year年收入80英镑, end in a rich life with 100 thousand最终年收入10万英镑, betray oneself无意中露出本性, condemn one to the gutter to the end of one’s days注定要在贫民窟里呆一辈子, speak properly正确的讲，find… employment为……找份工作, require better English要求更好的英语, make one’s acquaintance结识某人, throw a handful of…into…扔一把……到……里, have a celebration庆祝一下, look at the collected money看着收集起来的钱, in amazement惊奇地, a whole pound整整一英镑

What did G give her?

He gave her some small change.

What was H doing at He was taking notes of what E was saying.

the time?

What can H do?

He can place any spoken conversation within six miles, and even within two streets in London sometimes.

What benefits can Once educated to speak properly，the girl could even find her employment as a lady’s maid or

a shop assistant, which requires better English.

good English bring to a poor girl like E?

5. Transferring information

You are going to read the play once again to fill in the chart with necessary information. 6. Closing down by having a dictation To end this class, we are going to take a dictation. To make the task easy for you I will give you some more background information, in Chinese. 说话不饶人的语言学家贺勤（Henry Higgins）与友人打赌，要在六个月之内，将满口乡音、在伦敦街头卖花的少女伊丽莎（Eliza Doolittle）（柯德莉夏萍饰）改造成大家闺秀，出席上流社会的舞会而不被揭发。伊丽莎得知受改造之后有望斩断穷根，便欣然接受贺勤一连串的发音及仪态训练。六个月后，伊丽莎成为舞会上的全场焦点，富家子弟纷纷拜倒石榴裙下，可是她发现自己办是贺勤眼中的赌具而已，遂毅然离开。贺勤发现伊丽莎不知所踪，既愤怒又不安，因为若你已明白Pygmalion 的意思，相信也知道接下来的故事会如何发展。

Now the dictation: The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters

and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.