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课件39张PPT。PYGMALIONunit 4period 3 ReadingAudrey HepburnDo 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年龙凤配 (Sabrina)
1954年战争与和平
(War and Peace)1956年修女传
(The Nun‘s Story)
1959年第凡内早餐
(Breakfast at Tiffany‘s)
1961年窈窕淑女
(My Fair Lady)
1964年Questions:Have you seen the film My Fair Lady ?
Who wrote the play?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, a gifted artist, makes a stone statue of a beautiful womanHe asks the Greek Goddess to bring her to life.His wish is granted.Do you heard of “the Pygmalion Effect”?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. Pre-reading---(2m)?The play by Shaw has the same theme as the
Greek Story. In pairs discuss what this
theme might be.Fateful meetingsMain charactersEliza 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.This play, Pygmalion, was
also made into a film called
My Fair Lady.
Have you seen the film?第三十七届(1964年)奥斯卡《窈窕淑女》获十三项提名夺得最佳影片,最佳男主角,最佳导演,最佳摄影(彩色片),最佳艺术指导(彩色片),最佳服装设计(彩色片),最佳音响,最佳音乐(配乐)共八项奖。) 演员表：
奥黛丽·赫本 Audrey Hepburn .
... Eliza Doolittle
雷克斯·哈里森 Rex Harrison
.... Professor Henry Higgins窈窕淑女 Pygmalion (1938)剧情简介：　　The snobbish（势利的） & intellectual（有智力的） Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters（贫民区） and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own. 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 gentlemanAct One主旨大意 2. 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 3. 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 4. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______.
A. his appearance
B. his action
C. his conversation
D. his manners 5. 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 greedy推理判断Lower classLanguage: calls gentleman “sir” and ___________ (or captain) which is a complimentBehaviour: _______ to people of higher classComprehending 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 adjectives to describe each character
in the play.Henry Impatient, rude, confident, superior, self-importantColonel Kind, polite ,generous,
enthusiastic, eager, confidentElizaAnxious, eager, emotional
ambitious, unsureCorrect all these sentences in terms of grammar, spelling,etc.
1. 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 bu speaking to that
gentleman.I haven’t done anything wrong by speaking to
That gentleman.3. I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise.I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise4. How do I know whether’ ou took me words
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!Detailed reading I The social position of the characters influences the way they behave to each other. Is this true in Shaw’s play? Give your evidence in the chart below.(H)---higher social class; (L)---lower classprofessionalphoneticiannotessilly girlYesYes(H)---higher social class; (L)---lower classexpertisepraisesYesYesignoresstop(H)---higher social class; (L)---lower classresentsYesUnclearanxiouseagerambitiousrespectfulWhat 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 visitedConsolidation the whole passage:
Pygmalion is a play about recongnizing a
person’s________ in society by the way
they______________. From the story we learn
that people can chang it by____________.
No matter how difficult the thing is, try our
best and never_______. Our _______will be
rewarded afterwards.
We can also learn that if you think you can
you can. Nothing is _________if you put your
heart into it.
positionbehave and speakhard-workinggive upeffortsimpossible