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Unit 4 Pygmalion

The First Period Speaking Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

重点词汇

adaptation, plot, professor, Pygmalion

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to talk about the Greek story Pygmalion.

3.Teaching important points 教学重点

Help the students learn how to retell the story.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

Help the students know the similarities and differences between the story and the play Pygmalion.

Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ Lead-in

Has anyone heard of Pygmalion Effect? What is it?...

Step Ⅱ Warming up (Pair work) Look at the pictures on page 28 and work out the story.

Step Ⅲ Discussion

Make a brief introduction about Shaw.(George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defender of women’s rights, and advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honour but refused the money. He was a very humorous playwright. Here is a story about him. One day, Shaw took part in a grand party, in which he met the then Prime Minister Churchill. Churchill was very fat at that time whereas Shaw was very thin. Churchill said to Shaw very sharply, “When people see you, they will know how poor your country is”. And then Shaw answered very quickly, “When people see you, they will know the reason why our country is so poor.” From it we can see how witty Shaw is!) Step Ⅳ Homework 1. Find more information about Pygmalion.

2. Pre-read the play to see if they can understand well.

The Second Period Reading 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

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

3. Learning ability and emotional goals 学能和情感目标

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 教学重点

How to talk about the play.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

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

Teaching methods 教学方法

Listening, reading and discussion.

Teaching aids 教学准备

A recorder, a computer and a projector. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ Revision and lead-in Review the story Pygmalion.

Step Ⅱ Reading Deal with the Reading part. Play the tape for the students to listen. Then analyze the play. Ask the students to read through the text. While reading, pay attention to the writing style.

Step Ⅲ Comprehending

This time the students should listen to the tape as carefully as possible. They should not only pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation but get the main idea of the play as well. Step Ⅳ Discussion

Ask the students to do Part 5 on page 31.

Finish Part 2 on page 31.

Relationships between characters Evidence from the play Henry Higgins: 1. My dear man 1. Attitude to Colonel Pickering (H) 2. Dismissively, ignore, carelessly 2. Attitude to Eliza (L)

throw Is the statement above true? The statement is true. Colonel Pickering: 1. May I ask… /

Let me

1. Attitude to Henry Higgins (H)

congratulate you 2. Attitude to Eliza (L) 2. ...

Is the statement above true? The statement is not true. Eliza: 1. Pushes it back at him 1. Attitude to Henry Higgins (H) 2. ...

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2. Attitude to Colonel Pickering (H)

Is the statement above true? The statement is not true.

Step Ⅴ Homework 1. Read the play repeatedly and try to act out the play.

2. Preview the grammar part.

The Third Period Grammar Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

in return, in trouble, in disguise, in amazement, in pain, in delight, in shock b. Grammar: Past participle as the adverbial.

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to use the past participle as the adverbial.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to use the past participle as the adverbial. Teaching important points 教学重难点

How to use the past participle as the adverbial. Teaching methods 教学方法

Task-based activities. Teaching aids 教学准备

Some slides and a projector.

Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

StepⅠ Revision Ask the students to act out the play.

Step Ⅱ Word study Ask the students to finish Exx. 1 and 2 in Learning about Language. Then check the answers with the class.

Step Ⅲ Grammar

First ask the students to find out the examples of the past participle as the adverbial in the play:

Then tell the Ss that The past participle as the adverbial

is a very important grammar, and it can indicate time, condition, reason, and way. We can add when / while / if or other conjunctions before the past participle in order to make the meaning more clearly. For example: If bitten by a snake, you should send for help and don’t walk.

The room, although supposed to be kept locked, was often left open. Ask the Ss to rewrite these sentences：

1. Given more time, we could do it better. 2. Heated to a high temperature, water will change to vapour. 3. Frightened by the noise in the night, the girl did not dare sleep in her room. 4. Disturbed by the noise, we had to finish the meeting early. 5. Seen from the hill, the park looks very beautiful. 6. She walked out of the house, followed by her little daughter. Sample answers:

1. When / If we were given more time, we could do it better.

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2. When / If it is heated to a high temperature, water will change to vapour. 3. As she was frightened by the noise in the night, the girl did not dare sleep in her room. 4. As we were disturbed by the noise, we had to finish the meeting early. 5. When it is seen from the hill, the park looks very beautiful. 6. She walked out of the house, and her little daughter followed.

Practice

Ask the students to finish Parts 2 and 3 on page 33.

Time permits, ask the students to finish Exercises 1 and 2 in USING STRUCTURES on page 73.

Step Ⅳ Summary and homework

Finish the exercises in USING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS.

The Fourth Period Extensive reading Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

pronounce, distinct, nail, compromise, horrible, bathtub, sob, disgusting, overlook, alphabet, fade, classic, effective, show...in,

the other day, take away, in need of, fade out b. 重点句子

I’m not asking any favours — and he treats me like dirt. I’d never have come if I’d known about this disgusting thing you want to do to me, I... What’s to become of me?

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to talk about the play Making the bet.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to talk about the play Making the bet. Teaching important & difficult points 教学重难点

How to talk about the play Making the bet. Teaching methods 教学方法

Individual work and discussion.

Teaching aids 教学准备

A recorder and a projector. 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

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and somewhat escape her lower class roots.

Step Ⅱ Reading

Have the students read the play carefully and then answer the following questions. 1. Do you think Eliza is very ambitious? 2.Why did Pickering fancy himself? 3.What habits did Eliza have? 4.What do you think Higgins would have to do to change Eliza into a lady? 5. How do you think Colonel Pickering? After that, lead the students to have a discussion about the ending of the play. Show the following.

1. Do you think Eliza should marry Henry? 2. Do you think Eliza should marry Freddy? 3. If Eliza loves Henry and marries him, do you think he will become a good husband? Step ⅢHomework 1. Read the play once again.

2. Pre-listen to the recording for Listening and speaking part.

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 and emotional goals 学能和情感目标

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.

Step Ⅱ Listening

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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 1on page 35.

Things that need How to make the change 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 3. learn to behave politely and gracefully. After that, ask the students to listen to the recording and answer the questions in Part 3.

Step Ⅲ Listening (Workbook: P70) First discuss the questions on page 70 with the students.

Step Ⅳ Talking

（Pair work）When Henry and Pickering get home, they will have to talk to Eliza about the tea party. What do you think they will say to her in order to improve her conversational skills but not spoil her confidence? Now work in pairs and work out the speech that Pickering and Henry will make to Eliza. Remember that Eliza is not sure that she convinced Freddy and Clara that she was a lady. So be kind to her as well as give her good advice. Step Ⅴ Listening (Workbook: P73) There are three exercises in this part. The first one is for the students to decide

whether the statements are true or false. The second one is to answer the three questions after listening. The last is to ask the students to enjoy the humor of the act and try to fill in the table.

Play the tape and ask the students to listen and finish the activities.

Step Ⅵ Homework 1. Listen to all the recordings once again and enjoy the play. 2. Finish the WRTING TASK on page 76.

The Sixth Period Speaking and writing Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

Practise expressing conjecture I wonder whether... Is it possible that...? Do you know if...? Do you really think that’s true?

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to write a scene of the play.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to write a scene of the play. Teaching important & difficult points 教学重难点

How to write a scene of the play. Teaching methods 教学方法

Discussion and practice.

Teaching aids 教学准备

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A computer and a projector. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

Step Ⅰ Revision

Check the homework by asking some students to read their work.

Step Ⅱ Discussion

Ask the students to discuss how Eliza felt after her first lesson.

Work in pairs and discuss the following questions.

1. How did Eliza feel about her first lesson?

2. How do you think Mrs Pearce would comfort her? 3. How would Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering behave in the second lesson?

Sample answers:

1. I think she may be discouraged. She may think it is too difficult to learn formal English.

2. Mrs Pearce would comfort or encourage her by saying: “Don’t worry, dear lady. It’s not that easy to become a member of the upper class. Keep trying and you are sure to succeed.”

3. In the second lesson, Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering would be more kind and patient.

Step Ⅲ Writing Page 36，Part 2. Read the instructions and write a scene in which Professor Higgins gives Eliza her second lesson.

Step Ⅳ Homework Summarize what have learned in this unit and prepare for the next unit.

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