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Unit 4

Pygmalion Reading --

Act I

教学设计

学 科： 高中英语

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Unit 4

Pygmalion

Reading --- Act I

Teaching Design Teaching

Objectives 1. Language aims: Get the students master some key phrases and sentences

and learn about English dramas 2. Ability goals:

a. Understanding the general meaning of the new text to train the reading

ability of the students. b. Enable the students to talk about the play and use the play to work out

the characteristics of each social group.

3. Emotional aims:

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.

Teaching methods

Listening, reading , acting, discussion, individual work, pair work and group work. Teaching aids

A recorder, a computer and a projector.

Teaching procedures & ways

Step Ⅰ Warming up by leaning about Pygmalion

1.

The Pygmalion effect, refers to situations in which students perform better than other students simply because they are expected to do so. The effect is named after George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, in which a

professor makes a bet that he can teach a poor flower girl to speak and act like an upper-class lady, and is successful. 2. The Greek story Pygmalion（Three pictures）

Pygmalion was a gifted artist. One day, he decided to make a stone statue of a beautiful woman. After that, he spent day and night carving it, and then he clothed the figure, gave it the jewellery, and even named it the Sleeping Love. How he wanted to bring it to life and made it his wife. Therefore, he asked the Greek Goddess to make it alive. And finally the Goddess was moved by his sincere feeling. His wish was granted. Pygmalion threw himself to his feet, the girl smelt down at him. Afterwards, they loved each other and married. T: Can you tell me the theme of the story? S: People tend to behave as you expect they will. T: Excellent! Based on classical myth, Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in the social world. Phonetics Professor Henry Higgins tutors the very Cockney Eliza Doolittle, not only in the refinement of speech, but also in the refinement of her manners. When the end result produces a very ladylike Miss Doolittle, the lessons learned become much more far reaching. OK, today we will read a story about it. It’s written by the famous English playwright, George Bernard Shaw. Step Ⅱ. Pre-reading---about My Fair Lady

A priceless classic, My Fair Lady has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play

Pygmalion, the film swept the Academy Awards. It tells a tale of a waif who was educated into being a lady.

Egotistical linguist Professor Henry Higgins (Oscar winning Rex Harrison) bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering, that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) into a lady in time for an important society ball.

His gamble could pay off but the spirited Eliza is more of a handful than the Professor could have predicted. As she slowly becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his confusion, that he can’t live without her.

The film was nominated for 12 Oscars and won eight, including Best Picture and Director.

Step Ⅲ

Reading

1. Skimming and acting Deal with the Reading part. Play the tape for the students to listen. Ask the students to read through the text in each group. While reading, pay attention to the writing style and answer the questions .

The play is mainly about a poor 1. _______ girl who is lucky to come across a professor who might help her to 2. ________ her life. 2. Scanning

Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.

Eliza

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She is very poor and makes a living by 1. _____________ and is 2. _________ to improve herself.

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When she sees Professor Higgins 3. ____________, she feels worried because she takes him for a(n) 4. ___________ in disguise who wants to catch her as a(n) 5. ______.

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Her 6. ________ English will make her live in the 7. _______ all her life, according to Professor Higgins.

Professor Higgins

quality of a person’s English decides his / her 9. ________ in society. ★

He can know where a person is from by what he / she 10. _____. ★

He thinks if taught by him to speak properly, Eliza Doolittle

Professor Higgins

may become a(n)

11. ___________ lady.

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He thinks Eliza Doolittle can be changed into a woman like a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party in 12. ______ months, a lady’s maid or a shop assistant.

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He was going to 13. ______ to meet Colonel Pickering.

Colonel Pickering

of Higgins’.

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He studies many Indian 15. ________ and comes to England to make Higgins’

acquaintance.

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He is a(n) 14. ______ in the army and later a friend ★

He is an expert in 8. _______, who thinks that the

Step Ⅳ Comprehending 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.

Step Ⅴ Discussion Look at the sentences on page 31 in Part 5 and help her correct all these sentences in terms of grammar, spelling, etc, so that she can use them properly. You can discuss them in your group .(Ask some students to write down their answers on the blackboard.) Step VI. Homework

1.

Discovering useful words and expressions 2. Preview the second text

The writing on the blackboard: Unit 4

Pygmalion

Reading --- Act I Sample answers:

1. Come here, and come in. Buy flowers from me—a poor girl. 2. I did nothing wrong when I spoke to that gentleman. 3. I thought you maybe was a policeman in disguise. 4. How do I know whether you wrote down my words or not? 5. You say I can work as a shop assistant? That’s definitely what I want.