高中英语人教新课标选修八Unit 4 Pygmalion Warming and Reading课件-(25张ppt)

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My Fair Lady opened at xxx Theater on March 15th, 1956 and enjoyed a run of 2,717 performances, which lasted more than nine years and became the greatest commercial triumph the American theatre had known up to that time. It became the longest running production in Broadway history.
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The 1964 film version won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Cinematography and Score. It also won for sets, costumes and sound.
Best Original Score最佳原创音乐奖
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In the musical, Professor Henry Higgins takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform the dirty flower girl, Eliza, into a lady and for everyone into thinking she really is one too.
He tutors Eliza not only in the refinements of speech, but also in the refinements of her manners. They end up producing a very ladylike Miss Doolittle. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him. And suddenly Higgins realized he had grown accustomed to her face and can’t live without her.
The lessons learned become much more far-reaching.
The play was written at the time when social classes were fixed and it was extremely difficult to move from one social class to another.
First you needed money. But even if you had money, it was unlikely that a higher social class would accept you. Money earned in trade was not considered to be as important as family connections. So a poor Duke() or Lord() was often considered more important than a rich businessman.
A second important way of telling a person's class was by his clothes.
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A third was the way a person spoke. So the social position of the gentleman and Eliza in the first part of Act 1 would be very clear to an English audience as soon as they open their mouths. What is not made clear( but would have been clear to the English audience also) was how difficult it was going to be for Eliza to move from the poor working class to the upper class. At the time of the story, there were very few respectable( ) jobs for women. There were few, if any, chances of going to university or being trained as nurses or teachers. Also once a girl married, she was forced to give up work. So selling flowers and owning a flower shop was one of the few jobs that someone in Eliza's position could do. If it was her own shop, she could continue to work in it after marriage. This was why Eliza was eager to own a flower shop.
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From the play we know Eliza’s clothes, accent, poor grammar and general conversation show her low social class.
What other things show one’s status in society apart from how one speaks
You can show your social status by:
clothes you wear
expensive possessions (like cars or jewellery)
attitudes and behavior
education level
how many foreign language spoken and countries visited
My Fair lady was the title of a successful musical and later film based on Bernard Shaw's classic Pygmalion.
It's a gloriously witty musical.
The film is based on Bernard Shaw's classic Pygmalion.
a Greek myth
Pygmalion
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artist
stone statue
beautiful woman
ask the Greek Goddess
bring …to life
granted
get married
In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a gifted sculptor, who showed no interest in the local women at all. Instead, Pygmalion concentrated on his art until one day he ran across a large flawless(无暇的） piece of ivory （ 象牙）and decided to carve a beautiful woman from it. When he finished the statue, Pygmalion found the image of his ideal woman so lovely that he dressed the figure and covered her in jewels. He gave the schedule a name Galatea, which meant sleeping love. He found himself falling in love with his ideal woman, so he went to the temple of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty and fertility（生育）, to ask for forgiveness for all the years he had kept away from her and beg for a wife who would be as perfect as his stature.
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Aphrodite was curious, so she visited the studio of the sculptor while he was away, and was charmed by his creation. Galatea was the image of herself. Flattered, Aphrodite brought the statue to life. when Pygmalion returned to his home, he found Galatea alive and humbled himself at her feet. Pygmalion and the lady got married and Pygmalion never forgot to thank Aphrodite. He and Galatea brought gifts to her temple throughout their life and Aphrodite blessed them with happiness and love in return.
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The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, is the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, often children or students and employees, the better they perform.
The effect is named after Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw.
Pygmalion effect is a very important concept in educational psychology.
皮格马利翁效应
July 26,1856, Dublin, Ireland
1876
London
1925
the Nobel Prize, refuse the money
Nov. 2, 1950, died, England
a great and humorous playwright
July 26,1856, Dublin, Ireland
1876
Nov. 2, 1950, died, England
萧伯纳
Irish dramatist & socialist
George Bernard shaw was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant his education was irregular due to his dislike of any organized training. A shaw was one of the world's greatest playwrights whose characters. MHM. Professor Henry higgins and eliza doolittle lived on in the musical. Was an Irish playwright and co-founder of the London school of economics
1.This text is mainly about the first
experience of Eliza meeting with ____.
Professor Higgins
Colonel Pickering
Both A and B
a gentlemen
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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.
d
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.
c
4. From __, Higgins got to know the girl came
from the west end of London.
A. her clothes B. her language
C. her look D. her job of selling flowers
B
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
d
Homework:
1.Role play act one of this play after class.
2.Preview act two of the play.