Daily Lessons for Teaching Pygmalion

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Preface: As he states in his Preface to the play, Shaw believes that phonetics is one of the most important areas of study being explored in his time. In fact, Pygmalion is a play about phonetics. The objective of this lesson is to explore the study of phonetics.

1) 1) Warm-up Exercise: Have students look in their dictionaries to find examples of words that are not...
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