人教版高中英语选修8 Unit 4Pygmalion 教学设计
Teaching goals教学目标
1. Target language目标语言
重点词汇和短语
officer, hesitate, uncomfortable, trouble-some, outcome, disguise, brilliant, classify, mile, betray, dismiss,
condemn, ambassador, acquaintance, handful, fortune, in disguise, pass off as, make one’s acquaintance, in amazement
重点句子
1An expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person’s English decides his/her position in society.
2The English that will condemn her to the gutter to the end of her days.
3Perhaps I could even find her employment as a lady’s maid or a shop assistant, which requires better English.
2. Teaching important & difficult points教学重难点
How to talk about the role of the play and work out the characteristics of each social group
3. Teaching methods教学方法 Listening, reading and discussion
Task based activities (任务型活动)
STEP I Warming up热身
Review the story Pygmalion
T : Last period, we learned something about the Greek story Pygmalion and the play version by Shaw. Of all
Shaw’s plays, Pygmalion is without the doubt the most beloved and popularly received. Several film versions have
been made of the play, and it has even been adapted into a musical. In fact, the film version of 1963 helped Shaw
to become the first and only man ever to win the double prize: the Nobel Prize for literature and an Academy
Award. Do you still remember the story? Now who can tell it to all of us?
Ask the Ss whether they know the Greek story of Pygmalion. If they know, tell the story.
Picture 1________________________________________________.
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请学生展示他们或她们的组为warming up部分的希腊神话故事《皮格马立翁》查余额的的资料小组派出一名学生表述该剧本
的大意。 并且说明本单元的《窈窕淑女》就是由萧伯纳根据该故事改编而来。
Further question:Will Pygmalion and his statue-wife be happy? Give your opinion.
STEP 2. Pre-reading and Lead-in导入
Have you seen the film “My Fair Lady”(《窈窕淑女》)?
心理学家莫顿Robert Merton将此现象名之为“自我实现的预言”。这也就是在萧伯纳名剧《窈窕淑女》(My Fair Lady)中为
人所熟知的“皮格马利翁效应”Pygmalion effect。该剧取材自希腊与罗马神话中的一个角色皮格马利翁这名神话中的主角深
信他所刻的雕像非常美丽终于使雕像变成有生命的人。
A brief introduction to George Bernard Shaw:
Born In 1856 in Ireland
Achievement Nobel Prize for Literature in1925 Irish dramatist, literary critic,
asocialist spokesman
Works Arms andthe Man(1894) The Devil’s Disciple(1897) Superman(1905)
Androcles and the Lion (1912 Pygmalion(1913),
play My Fair Lady in 1956
Personality Humorous and witty
Death In 1950
STEP3. Fast reading泛读
Let students listen to the tape and especially pay attention to the girls’ pronunciation and tone.
1 What is the weather like when the play begins?
2 Why did Professor Higgins want to make notes of what Eliza said?
3 What’ the meaning of the newly rich?
After listening to the tape, ask students to answer the questions.
STEP 4 Careful Reading精读
This Time lat students go through the text again and find the answers to the following five questions.
1. what is the main idea of the play?
A. The poor flower girl, Eliza, found Higgins to buy some flowers for her.
B. A person’s language and behavior decides on his/her position in society.
C. Colonel Pickering found Higgins outside a theatre of London.
D. Higgins made his acquaintance withPickering.
2. The flower girl was worried because____.
A. she thought she did something wrong.
B. she didn’t have the right to sell flowers.
C. she didn’t want Higgins to write down what he said.
D. she thought Higgins was a policeman in disguise.
3. Why did Higgins make notes while he was watching the flower girl?
A. He thought it was interesting.
B. He wanted to know what the girl wanted to do.
C. He wanted to study something about phonetics from the girl.
D. He was a policeman in disguise.
4.From __, Higgins got to know the girl came from the west end ofLondon.
A. her clothes B. her language C. her look D. her job of selling flowers
5.According to Higgins, if the flower girl was educated well to speak properly, she can do the following
EXCEPT___.
A. pass herself off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party
B. serve as a lady’s maid
C. become a shop assistant
D. sell more flowers
STEP 5 Analysis人物及关系分析
To make students know well about the persons in the play, teacher ask them to read the lines with different parts.
Let students discuss the four persons’ character.
在让学生分角色阅读的过程中请他们注意剧中人物的语音语调而其他的同学也要注意伊丽莎白在语言中的语法错误和语音错
误并且判断这几个人物的性格和由此判断的原因如他们的语言和行为是判断的最佳依据。
Make out the relationship among the three persons
Relationships Evidence from the play
between characters
Eliza: 1 anxious; eager not to do the wrong thing; ambitious to improve herself; respectful and curious about Henry’s expertise
Attitude to Henry Higgins (H)
Attitude to Colonel Pickering (H) 2 resents not being included in the conversation when talked about.
Is the statement true?
1 Yes
Relationships Evidence from the play
between characters
Colonel Pickering: 1 appreciates his expertise; praises him; asks his opinion; happy to be friends
1Attitude to Henry Higgins (L)
2 Attitude to Eliza (L) 2 ignores her; does not stop Henry when he talks about Eliza in front of her (which is veryrude)
Sum up the three persons’ characteristics: anxious, eager, emotional,ambitious, unsure
kind, polite, generous,enthusiastic, eager, confident
Impatient, rude, confident ,superior, self-important