Learning about Language特级教师教学实录

The Second Period Reading 2 ---learning about language 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 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 goals 学能目标

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 1.Review the story Pygmalion.

Do you still remember the story? Now who can retell it to all of us? A sample retelling version:

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. Step Ⅱ Reading 1.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.

2.Skimming

Ask the students to read the play quickly and answer the questions. How many characters are there in the play? There are three characters in the play. They are Eliza, Professor Higgins, and Colonel Pickering. What is the weather like when the play begins? When the play begins, it is pouring with rain. Do you think Eliza a well-educated woman? Why? No, I don’t think so. In fact, she is poor-educated. We can know it clearly from

what she said. For example, come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. For another, I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman. Why did professor Higgins want to make notes of what Eliza said? He wanted to make a speech, because it’s his profession. What’s the meaning of “the age of the newly rich”?

It means 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. 3.Scanning

Ask three students to read the play: one will be Eliza, one Professor Higgins, and one Colonel Pickering.

According to Higgins, if a person is very poor, he or she can still be better off at last. Do you agree with him? If so, how to realize the aim? Who can complete the last sentence: in the first line on page 29: Now once taught by me...? What other things show one’s statue in society apart from how one speaks?

Do you think Pickering is of the upper class? 4.Now please listen to the tape carefully and try to catch the main idea of this act. 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 exercises in Learning about language.

Suppose you have a chance to help Eliza improve her use of the English language. Finish the exercises in Learning about language. 1.Complete the passage using the correct form of the words below. handful

upper

betray

status

mistaken

fortune

plot

pass

classic

classify

superior George Bernard Shaw was interested in the way people spoke. He argued that he

was never _________ about a person’s _______.

Generally speaking, he thought that lower class people _________ themselves with their remarks whenever they spoke, and that he could ________ people’s social position after only a few minutes’ observation. However, he never put himself to the test like Henry Higgins and tried to ______ someone of the lower class off as an authentic member of the _______ class.

Higgins thought that a _________ social position was more dependent on grammar and pronunciation than on a person’s ________. Actually his view was only accepted by a ________ of his followers. These people never realized that this idea would form the _____ for one of Bernard Shaw’s most famous and _______ plays!

2. Complete these sentences using the correct form of the phrases below. in return

in disguise

in amazement

in delight

in particular

1. The man we thought was a policeman was actually a thief ___________. 2. As he accepted the prize for his adaptation of a novel for TV, Li looked around him __________.

3. She stared at the priceless antique ring

______________. 4. It was such a wonderful play – I

enjoyed the music ____________. 5. He gave me a musical box at my birthday party and I gave him a wonderful new coat __________. Step Ⅴ Homework T: Today’s homework:

1. Read the play repeatedly and try to act out the play.

2. Preview the grammar part.