(共17张PPT)
unit 4
warming up & reading
Questions:
Have you seen the film My Fair Lady
Who wrote the play
George Bernard Shaw
The author-----George Bernard Shaw, who is
an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater.
His main works:
Pygmalion
Man and Superman (1902),
John Bull's Other Island (1904),
Major Barbara (1905)
Do you know something about Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defender of women’s rights, and advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused the money . He was a very humorous playwright.
The Fair Lady by George Bernard Shaw is an adaptation of a Greek story. Do you know the story
Pygmalion
This play by Bernard Shaw is
an adaptaion of a Greek story.
His wish is granted.
He asks the Greek Goddess to bring her to life.
Pygmalion, a gifted artist, makes a stone statue of a beautiful woman
Pygmalion, a gifted artist of Greece, disliked women.
One day he made a stone statue of a beautiful woman.
When he finished the statue, he fell in love with it. So he asked the Greek Goddess to bring her to life and make her wife.
His wish is granted. They two got married and lived happily ever after.
Pygmalion loves the girl so much that he decides to teach her how to speak and how to behave herself . Little by little , they understand each other well and live happily.
It is an adaptation of the
play “Pygmalion”.
It is a musical made in 1956.
It was filmed in 1964.
My fair lady
Audrey Hepburn
奥黛丽 赫本
The film was a huge success, winning eight Oscars.
Main characters in this Act
Eliza
伊莱扎
Higgins
希金斯教授
Pickering
皮克林上校
A poor flower girl
Ambitious to improve herself
An expert in phonetics
A person’s English decides his position
An officer in the army who came to meet Higgins from India
Language and positions of the characters
lower/middle/upper class
language they used
lower class
middle class
upper class
e.g. …buy me flowers off a poor girl
e.g. …look at this girl with her English. …
condemn…but sir…
e.g. Who are you
…make your acquitance
extraordinary
Are you interested in Psychology If yes, have you ever heard of the “Pygmalion Effect ”
What is it
The Pygmalion Effect is that people tend to behave as you expect they will. If you expect a person to take responsibility, they probably will. If you expect them not to even try, they probably won’t.
皮格马利翁效应也被总结为:“说你行,你就行,不行也行;说你不行,你就不行,行也不行。”
Do you know the famous actress She is regarded as the one of the most elegant ladies in the world. What’s her name Can you name some films which she acted in
罗马假期 (Roman Holiday)
1953年
Main characters
Eliza Doolittle(E): a poor flower girl who is ambitious to improve herself.
Professor Higgins(H): an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person’s English decides his/her position in society.
Colonel Pickering(P): an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins’ who sets him a task.
Choose adjectives to describe each character in the play.
Higgins
Impatient, rude, confident, superior, self-important
Colonel
Kind, polite ,generous,
enthusiastic, eager, confident
Eliza
Anxious, eager, emotional
ambitious, unsure