人教版英语选修8 Unit4 Pygmalion--Period3.doc

Unit 4 Pygmalion Period 3 A sample lesson plan for Using Language (MAKING THE BET) Introduction Language is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the students read, listen, write and speak in English, making use of the focused words, collocations, structures and topic ideas covered in this unit. The following steps are offered to the teacher for reference: warming up by learning more about PYGMALION，reading and acting，copying the collocations， acting a play，closing down by learning to act. Objectives To help students read the passage MAKING THE BET To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing Procedures 1. Warming up by learning more about PYGMALION When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an Academy Award winning motion picture. Generations of readers and theatergoers have found relevance in Shaws story of speech therapist Henry Higgins, who successfully transforms Liza Doolittle, a draggle-tailed guttersnipe, into a darling of high society who momentarily upsets his hard-edged reserve. The extraordinary wit of this master dramatist of the twentieth century cuts away at the artificiality of class distinctions to reveal that human clay can be molded into wondrous shapes. 2. Reading and acting Read the text MAKING THE BET on page 33 to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful collocations. 3. Copying the collocations Why do we learn collocations? ? Your language will be more natural and more easily understood. ? You will have alternative and richer ways of expressing yourself. ? It is easier for our brains to remember and use language in chunks or blocks rather than as single words. Now read the text and find the collocations. Collocations from MAKING THE