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Book 8 Unit 4 Pygmalion Warming up & Pre-reading Teaching Aims 

Students will be capable of getting to know the theory of Pygmalion and the importance or the function of expectation; 

Students will be capable of being familiar with the movie “My Fair Lady”, including the main characters, major plot and part of its content; 

Students will be capable of being aware that it is the expectation that gives others or oneself the hope, the trust or the confidence to be better and to achieve one’s ambition; in addition, they will be more willing to be nice to others by giving positive expectations.

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 listen, read and guess

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Reading the English and guess in which country it may exist

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Listening to one sentence of the teacher and guess what it means or at least where she comes from The teacher will deliver one sentence in her own dialect which is from Zhejiang

3.

(optional) Two foreigners will be shown on the video with American and British accents respectively. So dear students, from the accent, we may tell where a person comes from or at least which specific area a person belongs to. Even in one country, one’s accent can tell your social classes. Do you know which country?—England, especially in London.

Step 2 Read, practice and express

1.

In this part, a tongue twister will be prepared and invite students to challenge a shorter time to finish reading it. In this way the teacher can lead another key word to the class. What I want is a proper cup of coffee made in a proper copper coffee pot. Believe it or not, all what I want is a proper cup of coffee made in a proper copper coffee pot. If I cannot have a proper cup of coffee made in a proper copper coffee pot, I would have a cup of tea.

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Questions are designed here in order to have students involved in this activity.

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Who is brave enough to read the tongue twister aloud? (2)

Do you believe he can do better? (3)

How many seconds do you expect him to finish reading it? (4)

Are you expecting yourself to be faster? Fabulous! You did much better than I expected. But here I have two questions, one is for the audience, the other is for our participants. When we said “I think he can”

”I

believe he can”

“I expect him to finish it faster”, what were we giving him or her?

When you heard the above sentences, how did you feel?

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confident, happy... (Students’ answers may vary) Transitional sentence: Today, in the unit of Pygmalion, we are going to enjoy a film which happened in London having something to do with the word “expectation”. Step 3 Pre-reading ---Get into the film The film might be not so familiar to you. And I still want to know how many of you have seen it. I am convinced that the starring role is well-known to us. Even she is the goddess for lots of people.

Please open your book and turn to page 28. Please find the answers for my first question: 

What are the three roles mentioned in the following play?

(Three pictures of the three main roles are needed here and they will be stuck to the blackboard) 

What is the biggest change which happened to Eliza? In this part, I think you had better to underline some of her lines and you can find the difference very quickly.

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What do you think caused this change? Step 4 Pygmalion

Based on what we have discussed above, I think it is time for us to know an important guy and a story on the page 28. That is Pygmalion.

Now please look at the three pictures and the lined given under them. Can you make a conclusion that what you can get from the story? 陕师大附中

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Yes, thanks a lot. The three pictures are something with expectation, and something with realization. It is all included in a famous theory, which is called the Theory of Pygmalion. Actually, the film is adapted from the old story. Step 5 Conclusion

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Dear students, with so much we have talked about, can you finish the following form?

The realization of one’s dream

Expectation

For others

For oneself Confidence

Trust

Support

Attitude

Action

Ambition

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In our daily life, what will you do or change after you get the theory of Pygmalion? Step 6 Homework

1.

Please finish seeing the film any time you are free in this month.

2.

Please find your own group of acting, and practice acting one of its scenes. We will have a show next month.

3.

Go to find more examples of the using of the Theory of Pygmalion.

陕师大附中

何丽燕

heliyan307@163.com