Learning about Language优质课教案

Module 8 Unit 4 Pygmalion 【学习目标】Learning aims 1.

Review the previous reading texts by circulatory reading. 2.

Improve our reading skills by skimming and careful reading. 3.

Know something about the play Pygmalion. 4.

Learn how to analyze the characteristic of people in plays. 【重点难点】Important and difficult points 1.

Review the previous knowledge. 2.

Comprehend the play. 3.

Improve reading skills. 【学法指导】Learning guides Skimming and scanning for information; careful reading for details; analyzing with evidence 【知识链接】Knowledge links The Pygmalion effect

The Pygmalion effect refers to the concept that a person will achieve or perform as he is expected to perform, and it can have both positive and negative effects on an individual or group. A person expected to perform well will achieve or exceed this expectation, according to the Pygmalion effect, but a person expected to underachieve or perform poorly will also fulfill this expectation.

The term "Pygmalion effect" comes from a Greek myth. According to the myth, Pygmalion was a prince of Cyprus and a sculptor who created and fell in love with an ivory statue of his ideal woman. He pleaded with the goddess Venus to give life to his creation, and she obliged. Pygmalion married his creation and they had a perfect life together. He had expected the statue to be the perfect woman, and she fulfilled his expectations when she was brought to life. 【学习过程】Learning procedure Step 1 Circulatory reading 循环阅读

(12 minutes) Task: Read the passages in Unit 3. Recite as many important sentences as possible. Check: Recite some sentences. Step 2 New reading 新阅读

(15 minutes) Task Lead-in: Read the passage and finish the four tasks below in 15 minutes.

Task 1: Skim the passage to figure out the main idea. The play is mainly about __________________________ who is lucky to

come across a professor who might help her ___________________________. Task 2: Read the passage carefully and finish the following tasks.

1. List out the main characters in this play.

________________________________________________________

2. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to _______.

A. ask him to buy some flowers from her

B. talk with him

C. ask him to teach her

D. beg some money from him

3. Why is Eliza frightened of Henry Higgins at first?

_________________________________________________________

4. Where has Colonel Pickering been living and what has he studied?

________________________________________________________

Task 3: Find out the words the characters spoke and their behaviors, and then

judge their characteristics. The following adjectives may help you. Name Language Behaviors Characteristic

Colonel Pickering

Henry Higgins

Eliza

impatient

kind

polite

rude

confident anxious

eager

enthusiastic

emotional self-important

ambitious

generous

unsure

superior... ...

Task 4: Make a summary of the passage using some or all of the given

expressions.

fateful meetings, shelter, a heavy rain, a flower girl, a gentleman, poor English,

an expert, phonetics, accent, social position, educate, pass her off, officer,

the army, Indian dialects, make one’s acquaintance

Step 3

Cooperative reading 合作探究

(5 minutes)

Discuss tasks 3 and 4 within your group.

Step 4 Post-reading show 读后提升性展示

(8minutes) Share your analysis and summary in class.

Step 5 Textual integration (5 minutes) Act One of Pygmalion tells us how the main characters of this play, Eliza

Doolittle, Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering had their 1. ___________(fate) meetings while 2. _________(shelter) from a heavy rain outside a theater in London, England in 1914. Eliza was 3. _______ poor flower girl. When she tried to sell her flowers to a gentleman, her terrible English caught Professor Higgins’

attention. Professor Higgins, an expert 4. _______ phonetics, could place a person by his/her remarks. He convinced that the quality of a person’s English decides his/her social position.

In his opinion, once 5. ________(educate)

to speak 6. ________(proper), Eliza could pass 7. _________(she) off

in threes months as

a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party and perhaps she could even work 8. _______ a lady’s maid or a shop assistant. Colonel Pickering, an officer in the army, 9. ________ had studied many Indian dialects himself, came to England to make the 10. _________(acquaint) of Professor Higgins.

Optional exercises: Make sentences using the similar structures in the underlined sentences.

【本课小结】Class summary

【学习反思】Learning reflection

我学到的：_________________________________________________________ 我的困惑：_________________________________________________________ 我给老师的建议：___________________________________________________