高中英语优秀教案Unit4Pygmalion(新人教版选修8)

Unit four Pygmalion

The First Period Warming up

一．Aims:

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言：

重点词汇和短语adaptation, plot, professor, Pygmalion

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to talk about the Greek story Pygmalion

二．Contents:

Ask Students to look at a group of three pictures and try to describe them in their own words.

T: Yes, today we are going to learn about a Greek story Pygmalion. First, look at the pictures on page 28. Please work in pairs and work out the story.

S1: Let me try. 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.

T: What problems do you think they will have?

S1: Maybe they can’t understand ea ch other, because they come from different world.

S2: It’s very hard for Pygmalion to understand his wife, because his wife is made form a stone.

She doesn’t know the words, behavior, anything about him.…

Step III Discussion

Make a brief introduction about Shaw.

T: George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defenders of women’s rights, and advocate of equality of income,. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honor, 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.” Fro m it we can see how witty Shaw is!

T: Have you seen the film My Fair Lady? Do you like the film?

Say something about the film.

Step V Homework

Ask the students to do the following.

1. Find more information about Pygmalion

2.Pre-read the play and get ready for the next period.

The Second Period Reading

一．Aims:

1. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the Ss to talk bout the play and use the play to work out the characteristics of each social group.

2. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the Ss learn how to talk about the play and use the play to work out the characteristics of each social group.

二．Contents:

Step I Revision and Lead-in

Step II Reading

Deal with the Reading part. Play the tape for the Ss to listen. Then analyze the play.

Ask the students to read through the text. While reading, pay attention to the writing

style.

Skimming

Ask the Ss to read the play quickly and answer the questions.

T: Now please read the play. After a few minutes, I’ll ask you some questions.

Show the followings.

1.How many characters are there in the play?

2.What is the weather like when the play begins?

3.Do you think Eliza a well educated woman, why or why not?

4.Why did Professor Higgins want to make notes of what Eliza said?

5.What’ the meaning of the newly rich?

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