Learning about Language优质教案设计

Unit 4

Pygmalion Using language（Teaching design）

Teaching goals and demands

1. Target Language

a. Words and phrases cookie，teapot，cream，nail，wax，disk，shabby，referee，compromise，

horrible,laundry,bathtub,sob,waist,vest,disgusting,overlook,alphabet,fade pass...off as, show... in, the other day, take away, once more, in need of, fade out b. Important sentences I’m not asking any favors-and he treats me like dirt. I’d never have come if I’d known about this disgusting thing you want to do to me,... 2. Ability goals

Enable students to learn more about the play My Fair Lady. By reading they will know the manners and behavior of the three leading characters,Higgins,Pickering and Eliza. So after this period, students will know more about the differences between upper society and lower society.

3. Learning ability goals

Help students appreciate the play. Teaching important points

a. Help to understand the play and grasp their manners. b. Grasp the usage of some words and expressions. c. How to help students appreciate the play . Teaching difficult points

a. Help students grasp the manners and behavior of the three leading characters . b. Help students really master the usage of words and expressions. Teaching methods

student-centered teaching method, task-based teaching,learning and acting out. Teaching aids

A projector , a computer. Teaching procedures & ways

Step Ⅰ Revision and leading in The purpose of this step is to connect Act 1 and Act 2. The Act one of the play Fateful Meeting is mainly about the first experience of Elisa meeting with Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering.What will happen next?

Step Ⅱ Reading The purpose of this step is to improve students’ reading ability.

Task 1: Scanning Read the passage quickly and answer the question.

This text is mainly about Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering ______about teaching Elisa. A.

making a conversation B.

quarreling C.

fighting D.

making a bet

Task 2: Careful reading I.

Read the passage carefully and choose the right answers. 1.

Elisa refused to have a bath,from what he said,we can infer that she lived a ____ life. A.

miserable

B.happy

C.good

D.dirty 2.

From act II,what can you infer? A.

In order to prove himself,Higgins decided to teach Elisa free of charge. B.

Elisa had to change her grammar as well as pronunciation if she wanted to speak well. C.

When the bet was over,Elisa might get a job in a flower shop. D.

Elisa would return to the gutter selling flowers in the street when the experiment was over. II.

Read the play and answer the following questions. 1.

Do you think Elisa is very ambitious? 2.

Why did Pickering fancy himself? 3.

What habits did Elisa have?

4.

What do you think Higgins would have to do to change Elisa into a lady? 5.

How do you think Colonel Pickering? III.

Choose those adjectives in the list which best describe each character in the play. In pairs discuss them and then place them in the boxes below. Some can be used more than once.

impatient

kind

polite

rude

confident

anxious

eager

enthusiastic

motional

self-important

ambitious

generous

unsure

superior

dynamic

Professor Higgins: Colonel Pickering: Elisa: IV. Suppose you have a chance to help Eliza improve her use of the English language. Correct all these sentences in terms of grammar, spelling, etc, so that she can use them properly.

1. I wanna be a lady in a flower shop stead o' selling flowers in the street. 2. I can't.I dursn't.It ain't natural and it'd kill me. 3. Now yer talking,...You wouldn't have theface to ask me for the same

for teaching me as yer would for French.

Step ⅡI Discussion The purpose of this step is to improve students’ speaking ability. Discuss in groups of four what professor Higgins needs to do to change

Elisa into a lady.

Step IV Acting The purpose of this step is to improve students’ acting ability and inspire their interest in learning English. Ask four students to act the play out.After that,other students rate their performance.

Step V Homework The purpose of this step is to improve students’ writing ability. Write a summary about 40 words for the passage.