Learning about Language教学实录与评析

Book8 Unit 4 Pygmalion Period 1

Warming up and Reading 一、Teaching aims:

Knowledge aims: 1. Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part:

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

2. Let students learn about PYGMALION Ability aims: 1. Develop students’ reading ability and let them learn different reading skills. 2. Enable students to talk about PYGMALION

Emotional aims 1. Help the Ss know about PYGMALION. 2. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.

二、Teaching emphasis 1. Develop students’ different reading abilities.

2. Enable students to talk about PYGMALION 三、Teaching difficulties 1. Let students learn more about PYGMALION. 2. Get students to learn different reading skills, especially the reading ability of understanding implied meaning of the author’s

四、Learning Plan Step1. Preparing lessons &self-study and exploring the problems

(预习自学，探究问题) Task1. Warming up Look at the pictures on page 28. Please work in pairs and work out the story:

1.What’s the outline of the story?

2.What do you think of Pygmalion? 3.Do you think that Pygmalion and his statue-wife will be happy together? Why? Suggested answers: 1. Pygmalion was a gifted artist. One day, he decided to make a stone statue of a beautiful woman. He worked day and night and at last he finished. Then he clothed the figure, decorated it with the jewellery, and even named it the Sleeping Love. The work was so beautiful that he couldn’t help thinking that if the statue could be brought to life, he’d very much like it to be his wife. Therefore, he asked the Greek Goddess to help make it alive. Finally the Goddess was moved by his sincerity. His wish was granted. Pygmalion threw himself to his feet, the girl smelt down at him. Afterwards, they fell in love with each other and married. 2.Pygmalion was a very gifted artist. He spent a long time making a stone statue of a beautiful woman. It was so beautiful that he couldn’t help loving it and wanted it to be his wife.

3.No, I don’t think so. Maybe they can’t understand each other, because they come from different world. It’s very hard for Pygmalion to understand his wife, because his wife is made from a stone. She doesn’t know the words, behavior, anything about him.

Task2. Reading-----Skimming

1）What are the main characters of this act? 2）What do they do respectively? 3）What are they doing at the beginning of the play? (Tip: Some information is included in the stage directions,

like the character, time, place, weather, lighting, etc.) Suggested answers: Main characters：

Eliza Doolittle(E): a poor flower girl who is ambitious to improve herself. Professor Higgins(H): an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality

of a person’s English decides his/her position in society.

Colonel Pickering(P):

an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins’ who sets him a task.

------They are sheltering from the rain outside a theatre. Step2.Finishing

plan & asking questions（完成学案，提出问题）

Task3. Choose the best answers from A,B,C or D in the following exercises after reading the Act One of the play. 1. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to _______.

A.

talk with him B. ask him to buy some flowers from her

C. ask him to teach her D. beg some money from him 2. Why did Eliza begin to cry? Because _______.

A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest her B. the gentleman didn’t give her some money

C. Pickering beat and scolded her D. there was no reason Step2.Finishing

plan & asking questions（完成学案，提出问题）

Task3. Choose the best answers from A,B,C or D in the following exercises after reading the Act One of the play. 1. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to _______.

B.

talk with him B. ask him to buy some flowers from her

C. ask him to teach her D. beg some money from him 2. Why did Eliza begin to cry? Because _______.

A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest her B. the gentleman didn’t give her some money

C. Pickering beat and scolded her D. there was no reason 3. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______. A.

his appearance

B. his action

C. his conversation

D. his manners 4. From the text, we can infer that Professor Higgins is a man described below EXCEPT _________. A. he doesn’t care about money B. he is an expert in phonetics

C. he is proud

D. he is greedy 5. What other things show one’s status in Society after reading the play EXCEPT_____?

A. Clothes and Education level B. Expensive possessions(like cars or jewellery) C. Attitudes and behavior and how many foreign language spoken and countries visited

D. What families one comes from Suggested answers: 1-5:BACAD Step3.Researching cooperatively& answering questions(合作探究, 解决问题) Task4.Read the

play carefully and fill in chart:

Language

behaviour

social position

Colonel

standard Pickering well-educated

Henry Higgins

Eliza

standard well-educated

non-standard

poor-educated

Suggested answers:

Language

behaviour

generally confident

and polite;but ignores Eliza

rude to lower class;

polite to same or

upper class

social position upper

middle

Colonel

standard Pickering well-educated

Henry Higgins

Eliza

standard well-educated

non-standard respectful to people

poor-educated of higher class

lower