Learning about Language教学实录及点评

Unit 4 Pygmalion

learning about language Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

officer, hesitate, pence, uncomfortable, troublesome, outcome, disguise, brilliant, classify, mile, betray, dismiss, condemn, ambassador, acquaintance, handful, fortune, in disguise, pass...off as, make one’s acquaintance, in amazement b. 重点句子

An expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person’s English decides his / her position in society.

There you are and you were born in Lisson Grove if I’m not mistaken.

But, sir, (proudly) once educated to speak properly, that girl could pass herself off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.

This is the age of the newly rich. People begin their working life in a poor neighbourhood of London with 80 pounds a year and end in a rich one with 100 thousand.

The English that will condemn her to the gutter to the end of her days.

Perhaps I could even find her a place as a lady’s maid or a shop assistant, which requires better English.

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to talk about the play and use the play to work out the characteristics of each social group.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to talk about the play and use the play to work out the characteristics of each social group.

Teaching important points 教学重点

How to talk about the play.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

How to use the play to work out the characteristics of each social group.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Listening, reading and discussion.

Teaching aids 教学准备

A recorder, a computer and a projector. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ

Revision and lead-in Review the story Pygmalion.

Step Ⅱ

Reading Deal with the Reading part. Play the tape for the students to listen. Then analyze the play. Ask the students to read through the text. While reading, pay attention to the writing style.

Skimming

Ask the students to read the play quickly and answer the questions. Step Ⅲ

Comprehending

This time the students should listen to the tape as carefully as possible. They should not only pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation but get the main idea of the play as well. T: Pygmalion is a play about recognizing a person’s position in society by the way they behave and speak.

Step Ⅳ

Discussion

Ask the students to do Part 5 on page 31.

Then ask the students to read the play again and do Part 2 on page 31.

Step Ⅴ

Homework 1. Read the play repeatedly and try to act out the play.

2. Preview the grammar part.