Learning about Language优秀公开课教案

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 phrases 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to the phraes Teaching important & difficult points 教学重难点

How to use the phrases Teaching methods 教学方法

Individual work and discussion. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

StepⅠRevision Check the homework.

Ask the students to review Act One: Fateful meetings. A sample summary of the act:

Eliza Doolittle, is a poor, dirty flower seller in the turn of the century England. The Pygmalion in this film is Henry Higgins (Harrison), a linguist and phonetic expert who believes that speech is what really sets the classes apart. He bets with his friend Colonel Pickering that through a change in dress and speech, he can turn the lower class Eliza into a lady that will fool high society. The only thing in the bet for Eliza is that she might be able to open her own flower shop and somewhat escape her lower class roots. Step Ⅱ practise 1.Complete the passage using the correct form of the words below.

handful upper betray status

mistaken fortune plot pass

classic classify superior

George Bernard Shaw was interested in the way people spoke. He argued that he was never _________ about a person’s _______.

Generally speaking, he thought that lower class people _________ themselves with their remarks whenever they spoke, and that he could ________ people’s social position after only a few minutes’ observation. However, he never put himself to the test like Henry Higgins and tried to

______ someone of the lower class off as an authentic member of the ________ class. Higgins thought that a _________ social position was more dependent on grammar and pronunciation than on a person’s ________. Actually his view was only accepted by a ________ of his followers.

These people never realized that his idea would form the _____ for one of Bernard Shaw’s most famous and _______ plays!

2.Complete these sentences using the correct form of the phrases below.

in return in disguise in amazement

in delight in particular

1). The man we thought was a policeman was actually a thief ___________.

2). As he accepted the prize for his adaptation of a novel for TV, Li looked around him __________.

3). She stared at the priceless antique ring ______________.

4). It was such a wonderful play – I enjoyed the music ____________.

5). He gave me a musical box at my birthday party and I gave him a wonderful new coat __________.

课堂练习

I. 根据下列各句句意及所给单词的首字母

或汉语提示，写出该单词的正确形式。

1). Growing up in a m________ family, William had fertile soil for music creation.

2). They bought the clock at a(n) ________ (古董) shop in Paris.

3). Justin tried to ______ (抢劫) a bank, but failed.

4). My ________ (长袜) is always full of presents at Christmas.

5). Different people have a different understanding of ___________ (佛教).

II. 用所给词的适当形式填空。

1). ______________ (wait) in the queue for half an hour, Tom suddenly realized that he had left his wallet at home.

2). __________ (attract) by the beauty of nature, the girl from London decided to spend another two days on the farm.

3). Once ________ (begin), the project can’t be changed.

4). More time ________ (give) to us, we could have done the job much better. Step ⅢHomework 1. Read the play once again. 2.Finish Using Words and Expressions on Page 71 of workbook.