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?

Scanning

Ask three students to read to the play while other students scan it and get ready to answer the questions:

According to Higgins, if a person is very poor, he or she can still be better off at last. Do you agree with him? If so, how to realize the aim

Who can complete the last sentence in the first line on page 30: Now once taught by me...?

What other things show one's statue in society apart from how one speaks?

Do you think Pickering if of the upper class?

Step III Comprehending

Ask Ss to listen to the tape as carefully as possible. They should not only pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation but get the main idea of the play as well.

T: Pygmalion is about recognizing a person's position in society by the way they behave and speak. Please listen to the tape and use the play to work out the characteristics of each social group.

And then fill in the blanks on page 30

Step IV Discussion

Ask Ss to do part 5 on page 31.

T: Suppose you have a chance to help Eliza improve her use of the English language. Look at the sentences on page31 in Part 5 and help her correct all these sentences in terms of grammar, spelling, etc, so that she can use them properly.

Step V Homework

1. Read the play repeatedly and try to act out it.

2. Preview the grammar part.