1、 2018 学年度人教版选修 8Unit 4 PYGMALIONPeriod3Learning about language 教案设计(Revise the Past Participle as the Adverbial)IntroductionIn this period students will be first helped by the teacher to discover and learn to use some useful words and collocations, and then to discover and revise the past participle
2、 as the adverbial. The following steps of teaching may be taken: Warming up by looking for the Past Participle as the Adverbial， Learning about the past participles used as the adverbials， Correcting and completing， Closing down by putting on a short play.ObjectivesTo help students revise the Past P
3、articiple as the Adverbial To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and collocationsTo help students discover and learn to use some useful structuresProcedures1. Warming up by looking for the Past Participle as the Adverbial Hi, class. Lets go over the play Fateful Meetings to lo
4、ok for examples of the Past Participle as the Adverbial. Professor Higgins, an expert in phonetics，convinced that the quality of a persons English decides his her position in society (surprised) For a pound? Im afraid Ive got nothing less. (disappointed at the outcome but thinks it is better than no
5、thing) Thankou, sir (sees a man/ taking notes/ and gets worried) Hey！ (still worried) Then/ why did ou take down my words/ for? 2. Learning about the past participles used as the adverbialsThe past participles are sometimes used as the adverbials. Look at the following examples: We went home exhaust
6、ed (疲惫地). (逻辑主语 we, 过去分词exhausted) Encouraged by my teacher, I decided to work hard. (逻辑主语 I，过去分词 encouraged) Granted that he has enough money to buy the house, it doesnt mean hes going to do so. Told by the teacher, she knew she was wrong. (分词 told 用过去式分词表示被动) Now you are going to read the text for
7、 more examples of the past participles used as the adverbials. 3. Correcting and completingNow you shall go on to do exercises 2 and 3 on page 33. First you are to read the 5 sentences and correct any mistakes in them. Check with a partner.Then read the uncompleted passage and complete it with suita
8、ble words, in the form of either the present or past participle.4. Closing down by putting on a short playTo end this period we are going to put on a short play. Hamlet and the Heckler (a very short play)Hamlet: To be or not to be.Heckler: I knew it. I knew he was going to say that.Hamlet: that is t
9、he question.Heckler: Hes going to say the rest of it, too.Hamlet (to Heckler): Excuse me, do you mind?Heckler: I didnt know he was going to say THAT.Hamlet: Im just trying do my job here.Heckler: Yeah, but do you have to do it the same way every time?Hamlet: Well, this IS Shakespeare you know.Heckle
10、r: Ooooo, Shakespeare. Why dont you do Shakespeare with modern language?Hamlet: Shakespeare wrote it perfect the way it is. We cant change it. Heckler: Why not? Just change “To be or not to be.“ into whatever the hell it means. pause By the way, what does it mean?Hamlet: Well, hes considering suicid
11、e. Hes considering which might be better, living or dying, being or not being. Changing it would sound stupid, wouldnt it? It wouldnt be memorable.Heckler: But the audience would understand it, for a change.Hamlet: But people do understand Shakespeare, at least most of it. And they figure out the rest from the context.Heckler: Ill bet the audience didnt know what “To be or not to be“ means from the context.Hamlet: Then how would you say it?Heckler: How should I know? Im just a heckler.Hamlet: Then why dont you just shut the hell up?Heckler: Not bad, was that Shakespeare?curtain
