Unit 4 Pygmalion warming up and reading(福建省福州市仓山区)

课件39张PPT。PygmalionUnit 4 This play by George Bernard Shaw (萧伯纳) is an adaptation of a 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, to ask her to make the statue into a real woman.His wish is granted. Company LogoQuestions:Who wrote the play?George Bernard ShawCompany LogoAbout the author(1856-1950)George Bernard ShawCompany LogoA brief introduction1.Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman
2.defender of women’s rights and advocate of equality of income.
3.In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honour but refused the money.
4.He was a very humorous playwright.George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)Company LogoQuotes1. If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
有人说我们来到这个世上就是要帮助别人的，
倘若此话非虚，那么请问，别人来到这个世界
又是干什么的
2. Money is not everything. There's Master card & Visa.
金钱并非一切，还有信用卡呢。
3. One should love animals. They are so tasty.
人们应该喜爱动物，它们好吃来着呢。Company LogoLiterary worksThe filmSome were made into filmsPre-readingMy Fair Lady
Have you seen the film?
If you have, did you like it? Have a discussion and give reasons.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年龙凤配 (Sabrina)
1954年战争与和平
(War and Peace) 1956修女传
(The Nun‘s Story) 1959 第凡内早餐
(Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
1961Fateful meetingsReadingCompany LogoActingAct oneFateful meetings:try to act it out.Eliza DoolittleHenry
HigginsColonel
PickeringMain 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 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 gentleman2. 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 him3. Why Eliza began to cry? Because _______.
A.she thought Professor Higgins would
arest 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 manners5. 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 greedyLower 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 _______ Elizapoliteignoresconversation What other things show one’s status in society apart from how one speaks?Choose adjectives to describe each character
in the play.Henry Impatient, rude, confident, superior, self-importantColonel Kind, polite ,generous,
enthusiastic, eager, confidentElizaAnxious, eager, emotional
ambitious, unsure,dynamicCorrect 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!Summary Read the play and finish the summary of this part. Use only one word for each blank.
The story happened on a (n) _____ night outside a theatre in London in 1914. Professor Higgins, whose profession and hobby was to study _________rainyphoneticsand ______ people from their own speech, was hiding from the rain but watching people’s ________ and reactions, busy making _____ . A flower girl, who spoke terrible English, caught his attention. In his opinion, once educated to speak ________, classifylanguagenotesproperlyin three months the girl could ____ herself off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party, and even find her __________ as a lady’s maid or a shop assistant. Colonel Pickering, a (n) _____ in the army, was very curious about their talk and after a while, he became Higgins’ _____.passemploymentofficerfriend Are you interested in Psychology? If yes, have you ever heard of the “Pygmalion Effect ”??What is it? 心理学家莫顿（Robert Merton）将此现象名之为“自我实现的预言”。这也就是在萧伯纳名剧《窈窕淑女》(My Fair Lady)中为人所熟知的“皮格马利翁效应”（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.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。”HomeworkDo Ex 1.2.3 on page32.
Find the difficulties in the text.