Learning about Language教案评析

The Fifth Period Listening Teacher goals教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

pronunciation, criteria, ambassador, confused, impress, evidence, give away b. 重点句子

Does he concentrate on her pronunciation rather than her grammar? She speaks English so well that she must be a foreigner, probably a Hungarian. She is so beautiful that she must be a princess. 2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to listen to and understand the play in the listening material. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to listen to and understand the play in the listening material. Teaching important & difficult points 教学重难点

How to listen to and understand the play in the listening material. Teaching methods 教学方法

Individual work and cooperative learning.

Teaching aids 教学准备

A recorder and a projector.

Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ Revision Check the homework. Then talk about the characters in the play.

T: In Shaw’s play, each character is depicted vividly especially the three main characters. What can you say about them?

S1: Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl working outside Covent Garden. Her potential to become “a lady” becomes the object of a bet between Higgins and Pickering.

S2: Henry Higgins is a British, upper class professional bachelor, a world-famous phonetics expert, teacher. S3: Colonel Pickering is a retired British officer with colonial experience and

later a friend of Higgins’.

T: Now please look at Part 4 on page 31. Choose those adjectives in the list which best describe each character in the play. Place them in the right place in the box.

Sample answers:

Henry Higgins: impatient, emotional, superior Colonel Pickering: kind, polite, unsure Eliza: anxious, eager, ambitious Step Ⅱ Listening Ask the students to work in pairs and discuss what they would do to change Eliza into a lady and how, and then fill in the table in Part 1.

T: From the scene we learned last period, we know that the ambitious flower girl wants to lift herself to upper class society. According to the expert, Higgins, what she needs is some education. Now work in pairs and discuss what you would have to do to change Eliza into a lady. Fill in the table in Part 1 on page 35.

Things that need to be changed 1. speech 1. start with the alphabet and pronunciation, and learn to speak grammatically right sentences and try to speak clearly and fluently. 2. clothing 2. change the shabby clothes with beautiful ones and often take baths. 3. behavior

After that, ask the students to listen to the recording and answer the questions in Part 3.

T: Now go through the questions in Part 3. And then I will play the tape three times. For the first time, try to get the general idea of the material. While listening for the second time, try to put down the important information, and answer the questions. For the third time, I will pause where necessary, and you can check 3. learn to behave politely and gracefully. How to make the change

your answers. Play the tape three times. After that, check the answers. Step Ⅲ Listening (Workbook: P70) First discuss the questions with the students.

T: Next we’ll listen to Act Three of the play, testing Eliza. Before listening, let’s discuss some questions. Now look at the questions on page 70. How would you test Eliza? S1: I would take her to a grand party, where there are a lot of rich people to see if she can get along well with other people or if people would like to talk with her. If so, Eliza has been taught well and has made great progress. If not, she will be taught again. T: Good idea! What criteria would you use to decide if the test was a success or not? S2: I think we could use quantity and effect of her communication as criteria: how many people want to talk or dance with her? What do people feel about her?

Then ask the students to listen to the recording three times and finish the exercises.

T: Good! Now let’s listen to the tape and finish the exercises 2-4.

And then check the answers with the class.

After that, ask the students to think of some new ideas to help Professor Higgins teach Eliza better. T: From the above, we know Eliza has made some progress in her speech and behavior. But after the test, Professor Higgins finds what he has done is not enough. In order to teach Eliza better, he decides to do something to improve her. Now work in groups and discuss what still needs to be done to turn Eliza into a lady.

S1: In order to teach Eliza better, Higgins can have her sell flowers again but in the theater in the day. But she needs not to worry about how much she could earn. What she needs do is to pay more attention to what a lady or a gentleman is saying and how they behave themselves. And Higgins would ask her about what

she has learned during the daytime. She must imitate what she has seen and heard.

T: Good job.