人教版高中英语选修八 Unit4 Pygmalion-Warming up and reading2 课件（共41张PPT）

课件41张PPT。PYGMALIONPygmaliona Greek story
Do you know this story? Pygmalion, a gifted artist, dislike women. One day he makes a stone statue of a beautiful woman. When he finishes the statue, he falls in love with it and goes to the Greek goddess, Aphrodite, to ask her to make the statue into a real woman.She makes his wish come true. “Pygmalion Effect ”??What is it?心理学的;心理学家的,
心理的,精神的/saik?'l?d?ik?l /Psychological termthe Pygmalion EffectThe Pygmalion Effect is that people tend to behave as you expect they will. If you expect a person to be successful, he probably will. If you expect something to happen, it will happen. On the contrary, if you expect something not to happen, it will not happen.What we expect tends to come true.“说你行，你就行，不行也行；说你不行，你就不行，行也不行。”My Fair Lady
a play written by George Bernard Shaw
Have you seen the film?
If you have, did you like it? Have a discussion and give reasons.The author-----George Bernard ShawAn Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. His main works:Immaturity
Widowers' Houses
Pygmalion
Man and Superman (1902),
Major Barbara (1905)In 1856
Ireland
Nobel Prize for Literature in1925
Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman
Arms and the Man(1894)
The Devil’s Disciple(1897)
Superman(1905)
Androcles and the Lion(1912)Pygmalion(1913), adapted as the musical play My Fair Lady in 1956
Humorous and witty In 1950
?The play My Fair Lady has the same
theme as the Greek Story. artistPhonetics professorstatueFlower girlGoddessColonel PickeringTheme of the Greek story: Pygmalion, an artist
create a statue from stone and make it have a
new life .
Theme of My fair lady: Higgins, a phonetics
create a new girl Eliza from lower class to upper
class by teaching her English.Reading Pygmalion Fateful meetingsAct OneActingAct oneFateful meetings: Try to act it out.Eliza DoolittleHenry
HigginsColonel
Pickering11:15 pm, in1914London, England
Eliza, Colonel Pickering, Higgins
fateful meetings
Eliza wanted to sell flower to Colonel
Pickering, Higgins noticed her
pronunciation.skimming 1. This text is mainly about the first experience of Eliza meeting with ____.
A. Professor Higgins
B. Colonel Pickering
C. Professor Higgins and Colonel
Pickering
D. a gentlemanscanning I. Read through the act one and choose the best answer.2. Which of the following can best describe Henry Higgins?
A. Kind and polite.
B. Impatient and anxious.
C. Self-important and confident.
D. Unsure and generous. 3. The flower girl wanted to become ________.
A. a duchess
B. a shop assistant
C. a lady
D. a lady’s maid4. The flower girl was worried when she found Higgins making notes because __.
A. she thought she did something wrong
B. she thought she didn’t have the right to sell flowers
C. she didn’t want Higgins to write down what she said
D. she thought Higgins was a policeman in disguise 5. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to _______.
A. ask him to buy some flowers from
her
B. talk with him
C. ask him to teach her
D. beg some money from him 6. Why Eliza began to cry? Because
_______.
A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest him
B. the gentleman didn’t give her some money
C. Pickering beat and scolded her
D. there was no reason 7. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______.
A. his appearance
B. his action
C. his conversation
D. his manners8. From the text, we can infer that Professor Higgins is a man described below EXCEPT _________.
A. he doesn’t care about money
B. he is an expert in phonetics
C. he is proud
D. he is greedy9. From the last sentence of the play, we can conclude that Eliza felt ___ about what Higgins said.
A. confident B. optimistic
C. certain D. doubtful1. Come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers
off a poor girl.Come over here, captain, and buy some
flowers from a poor girl.2. I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to
that gentleman.I haven’t done anything wrong by
speaking to that gentleman.I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise.4. How do I know whether’ ou took down right?How do I know whether you wrote down
what I said accurately?5. A shop assistant? Now that’s sommat I want,
that is!A shop assistant? Now that’s something I
would like to be!3. I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise.Read Act One of the play and then
answer these questions. Comprehending 1. What is the name of the man hiding
from the rain? Henry Higgins2. Why is Eliza frightened of him at first?
3. Where has Colonel Pickering been living
and what has he studied? She thinks he is a policeman in disguise.He has been living in India and has
studied many Indian dialects.4. Who is Henry Higgins anxious to meet
and why?He is anxious to meet Colonel Pickering
because he is researching in the same
academic field as Pickering.5. What is Eliza’s ambition and what does
she decide to do about it? Her ambition is to be a shop assistant.
She decides to take lessons from Professor
Higgins to achieve her aim.1. Eliza was selling some flowers when
Higgins first met her.
2. She succeeded in selling some dead
flowers to Huggins for some small change.
3. Huggins wrote down her name and
address.
4. Huggins was good at judging people
from their own speech.T F F T True or False? 5. Huggins could earn a lot for his job.
6. Huggins promised to find her a good
job.
7. Either man had planned to meet the
other although they didn’t know each
other.T F T Can you recognize each character’s
social position by their behaviour and
language? Is he or she from the upper
class, middle class or lower class?
Give your reasons. Lower classLanguage: calls gentleman “sir” and ___________ (or captain) which is a compliment(赞美话,恭维话)Behaviour: _______ to people of higher classRole play Comprehending respectful“cap’in”Language: calls Eliza “___________” and Pickering “________________”Behaviour: _____ to lower class; _____ to same or upper classMiddle classrudepoliteyou silly girlmy dear manUpper classLanguage: prepared to begin a __________ with Henry, whom he does not know; generous with praise to himBehaviour: generally confident and ______; but _______ ElizapoliteignoresconversationChoose those adjectives in the list which best describe each character in the play. Impatient kind polite rude confident anxious eager enthusiastic ambitious
Emotional self-important generous unsure superiorkind, polite, generous,
enthusiastic, eager, confident impatient, rude, confident,
superior, self-importantanxious, eager, emotional,
ambitious, unsure, dynamicSummary Read the play and finish this part.
Act one of Pygmalion tells us how the main characters of this play, Eliza Doolittle, Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering had their _______ meetings while _______________ from a heavy rain outside a theatre in London, England in 1914.sheltering / hidingfateful Eliza Doolittle was a poor flower girl. When she tried to sell her flowers to a gentleman, her _______ English caught Professor Higgins’ attention. Professor Higgins, an expert in ________, could place a person by his / her remarks. He convinced that the ______ of a person’s English decides his / her social position. terriblephoneticsqualityIn his opinion, once educated to speak ________, Eliza Doolittle could pass herself off in three months as a ________ at an ambassador’s garden party and perhaps she could even work as ____________ or a shop assistant.
Colonel Pickering, an officer in the army, who had studied many _______ dialects himself, came to England to make the ____________ of Professor Higgins. properlyduchessa lady’s maidIndianacquaintance