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人教版选修8 Unit4 Pygmalion阅读课教学设计

Unit4 Pygmalion

the first period: warming-up, and reading 教学内容及解析

本单元以皮格马利翁为话题，通过学习，使学生能够根据书中给出的三张图片以及下面的文字说明编出自己的希腊神话故事；了解皮格马利翁效应；了解萧伯纳的基本信息；能够有感情地朗读课文；了解具有共同主题的希腊神话pygmalion与萧伯纳戏剧之间在表现形式、人物塑造等方面的相同与不同之处；同时能够更加深入地理解课文。

目标及解析

1. Teaching goals

Enable the students to talk about the Greek story Pygmalion.

Enable the students to talk about the play and use the play to work out the characteristics of each social group. 2. Ability goals

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

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

How to talk about the play.

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

目标：识记目标词；训练口语能力，引导学生用英语解释单词和培养学生的阅读能力。

解析：“热身”(warming up)通过三幅图了解希腊神话皮格马力翁的故事，了解萧伯纳的基本信息。reading是为了通过学习了解戏剧的写作技巧。

教学重难点

how to talk about the play.

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

教学过程设计

step1

warming up

1.

Pygmalion, this play by Bernard Shaw is an adaptation of a Greek story. Look at the pictures and the captions below them and try to work out the story. Who can tell us the story? 2.

And there is a Psychological term called Pygmalion Effect. Do you know what is it? 3.

Who can introduce some information about The author-----George Bernard Shaw?

设计意图：导入新课，激发兴趣。同时给学生展示自我的机会。

step2 while-reading 1.

Ask four students to read the play, including three main characters and a narrator. 2.

In pairs discuss what this theme might be. Theme of the Greek story: Pygmalion, an artist creates a statue from stone and makes it have a new life . Theme of My fair lady: Higgins, a phonetics creates a new girl Eliza from lower class to upper class by teaching her English. Fast-reading 1.

Fill in the blanks by glancing at

stage directions at the beginning of the text. Eliza Doolittle(E): a ____ _____ ___ who is ambitious to improve herself. Professor Higgins(H): an expert in ________, ________ that the quality of a person’s English decides his/her position in society Colonel Pickering(P): an_______

in the army and later a friend of Higgins’ who sets him a task. Gentleman (G): a gentleman passes and _______ for a moment.. 2.

Read through the beginning of the play and find out the information of the time,place,characters and event.

when

where

who

what happened

Careful-reading Task 1 : Read from Line 11 to 22 True or False (1). Eliza is selling fresh and beautiful flowers to people. (2). The gentleman is uncomfortable and annoyed when asked to buy some flowers by Eliza Task 2：Read from Line 23 and fill in the blanks Eliza is w______ and even begins to cry when she sees Higgins _____ _____, because she thought he is a policeman ____ ______ . But Higgins comes up to call Eliza ____

_______ and gives her a h___________. Task 3 Read the rest of the play and answer questions (1). Who is Higgins anxious to meet?

(2).

Where has Pickering been living and what has he studied? (3)

What does Eliza want to be? (4) What is Higgins' profession and hobby? Can you recognize each character’s social position by their behavior and language? (Is she or he from the upper class, middle class, or lower class? Give your reasons.) Character Position in society Evidence in the play

Eliza

Behaviour: _________ to

people of higher class Language: calls gentleman “sir” and ___________ (or captain) which is a compliment(恭维)

Character Henry Higgins

Position in society

Evidence in the play

Behaviour: _____ to lower class; _____ to same or upper class Language: calls Eliza “___________” and Pickering “________________”

Character Colonel Pickering

Position in society

Evidence in the play

Behaviour: generally confident and ______;

Pickering who had been__________ the girl, now speaks to Higgins Language: That’s quite _______ How did you do that, ____I ask?; generous with praise to him.

Discuss with you partner and choose those adjectives in the list

which best describe each character in the play.

Some can be used more than once.

impatient

kind

polite rude confident

anxious eager enthusiastic ambitious

unsure (没自信的) emotional (易于动感情的self-important(妄自尊大的)

generous superior (傲慢的)

dynamic(活跃的，精神饱满的) 设计意图：通过这些步骤，锻炼学生的英语阅读理解能力。

师生活动：师问生答，小组活动。

step3 post-reading Competition Challenge yourself : try to answer the following questions as soon as possible.If anyone of you stand ups first and answers the question correctly, then he or she can obtain one score for his or her group. Choose the correct answer. 1. This text is mainly about the first experience of Eliza meeting with ____. A. Professor Higgins B. Colonel Pickering C. Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering D. a gentleman 2. Which of the following can best describe Henry Higgins? A. Kind and polite. B. Impatient and anxious. C. Self-important and confident. D. Unsure and generous. 3. The flower girl wanted to become ________. A. a duchess B. a shop assistant C. a lady D. a lady’s maid 4. The flower girl was worried when she found Higgins making notes because __. A. she thought she did something wrong B. she thought she didn’t have the right to sell flowers C. she didn’t want Higgins to write down what she said D. she thought Higgins was a policeman in disguise

5. 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 6. Why Eliza began to cry? Because _______. A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest him B. the gentleman didn’t give her some money C. Pickering beat and scolded her D. there was no reason 7. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______. A. his appearance B. his action C. his conversation D. his manners 8. From the text, we can infer that Professor Higgins is a man described below EXCEPT _________. A. he doesn’t care about money B. he is an expert in phonetics C. he is proud D. he is greedy 9. From the last sentence of the play, we can conclude that Eliza felt ___ about what Higgins said. A. confident B. optimistic C. certain

D. doubtful True or False? 1. Eliza was selling some flowers when Higgins first met her. 2. She succeeded in selling some dead flowers to Huggins for some small change. 3. Huggins wrote down her name and address. 4. Huggins was good at judging people from their own speech. 5. Huggins could earn a lot for his job. 6. Huggins promised to find her a good job. 7. Either man had planned to meet the other although they didn’t know each other.

Discussion Work in groups of four or six and discuss the question : if you were professor Higgins, what would you do to help Eliza become a fair lady? Work in groups of four or six and discuss the question: what’s the result of the play? Homework: Preview Using Language: Making the bet on Page 34&35.

设计意图：使学生更好的掌握课文。

师生活动：小组讨论，教师指导。

小结

本课了窈窕淑女的第一幕，三个主人翁出场，文章中出现了一些不符合规范的用语，使人领略到了当时下层社会人物所使用的语言。

教学反思：本节课是学校要求进行的青年教师汇报课，课前进行了认真准备，学生也提前预习了课文，对文章比较熟悉，课堂氛围尚可。因为本文是节选又出现了一些不符合规范的用语以及文化差异，给学生在理解上造成一定的困难，最好让学生看一遍电影，以帮助学生理解不同文化背景下不同社会地位的人的用语和生活方式。所以，在时间充裕的情况下，我会考虑播放相关主题电影。