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Unit 4 PYGMALION Teaching Design Period 3 A plan for Using Language (MAKING THE BET) Introduction Language is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the students read, listen, write and speak in English, making use of the focused words, collocations, structures and topic ideas covered in this unit. The following steps are offered to the teacher for reference: warming up by learning more about PYGMALION，reading and acting，copying the collocations，

acting a play，closing down by learning to act. Objectives

To help students read the passage

MAKING THE BET To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing Procedures 1. Warming up by learning more about PYGMALION When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an Academy Award winning motion picture. Generations of readers and theatergoers have found relevance in Shaw's story of speech therapist Henry Higgins, who successfully transforms Liza Doolittle, a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe," into a darling of high society who momentarily upsets his hard-edged reserve. The extraordinary wit of this master dramatist of the twentieth century cuts away at the artificiality of class distinctions to reveal that human clay can be molded into wondrous shapes. 2. Reading and acting Read the text MAKING THE BET

on page 33 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken

the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful collocations.

3. Copying the collocations Why do we learn collocations?

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Your language will be more natural and more easily understood.

You will have alternative and richer ways of expressing yourself.

It is easier for our brains to remember and use language in chunks or blocks rather than as single words. Now read the text and find the collocations. Collocations from MAKING THE BET sit deep in conversation坐着深切交谈, fancy oneself自负, pronounce twenty-four distinct vowel sounds清晰地发出24个元音, a common kind of girl with dirty nails普通的手指甲脏的姑娘, talk into…对着……讲话, get an interesting accent夹杂很有趣的口音, a bit of luck有运气, make records做记录, return shortly很快回来, come into the rooms shyly羞怯地走进房间

,be dirty and badly dressed穿着破旧并且脏, curtsy to…向……行屈膝礼, ask any favors求某人帮忙, treat…like dirt把……当下贱人看, get…for two shillings an hour from…从……每小时得到两先令, have the face to do…有脸做……, pass…off as…冒充一位……, pay for…向……付钱, burn one’s horrible clothes烧掉可怕的衣服, have a bath洗澡, weep with…和……哭泣, in need of…需要……, deal with…处理……, begin with…以……为开端, fade out减弱消失, go off stage走下台

4. Acting a play

5. Closing down by learning to act Acting is the only art you cannot be caught doing. An actor must: 1. light up the screen,

2. have a buzz in themselves,

3. be on,

4. use energy for entertainment,

5. look into special interesting things of the character,

6. love them self; I'm great and I'm amazing,

7. leave their talent alone and

8. learn instant acting.

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