Unit 4 Pygmalion Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending 课件（43张PPT）

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Unit 4英语课件GREEK MYTHOLOGYThe Gods （十二主神）
Zeus(宙斯): the god of the sky
Hera(赫拉): the goddess of marriage and childbirth
Poseidon(波塞冬): the god of the sea
Hestia(赫斯提亚): the goddess of the Hearth(灶台)
Demeter(德墨忒尔): the god of agriculture
Ares(阿瑞斯): the god of war
Hermes(赫尔墨斯): the god of thieves and commerce
Hephaestus(赫菲斯托斯): the god of fire
Apollo(阿波罗): the god of light
Artemis(阿尔忒弥斯): the goddess of the moon, the hunt and the virginity
Athena(雅典娜): the goddess of wisdom
Aphrodite(阿弗洛狄忒): the goddess of love and beauty
天神宙斯天后赫拉海神波塞冬火神赫淮斯拉斯太阳神阿波罗农神得墨忒耳维纳斯的诞生智慧女神雅典娜战神阿瑞斯 The legends of human heroes originate from the worship for ancestors. Heroes in these legends are almost descendants of God and Man. They have huge strength and are very brave, which reflects those people’s strong will and extraordinary confidence.皮格马利翁与伽拉忒亚Unit 4 Pygmalion Can you imagine the whole story through these pictures and words?Warming up Pygmalion, a gifted artist, dislikes 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.His wish is granted. 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.The author-----George Bernard ShawAn Irish dramatist, a literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. His main works:Saint Joan (圣女贞德)
Widowers‘ Houses (鳏夫的房产)
Pygmalion
Man and Superman (1902),
Major Barbara (1905)My Fair Lady
Have you seen the film?
If you have, do you like it? Have a discussion and give reasons.Pre-readingEliza 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.Main charactersBackground:
In Shaw’s play, Professor Higgins is a man who does not like women either and is very rude to them. For a bet he agrees to teach a poor young woman so that she can be passed off as a rich lady in high class society. So, like Pygmalion, Higgins creates a perfect young woman. Both the statue and Eliza depend on their creator for their new life. Fateful meetings 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 gentlemanComprehending 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. doubtfulLower classLanguage:
calls gentleman “sir” and “cap’in” (or captain) which is a complimentBehaviour: respectful to people of higher classLanguage: calls Eliza “you silly girl” and Pickering “my dear man” (an equal and friend)Behaviour: rude (and patronizing) to lower class; polite to same or upper classMiddle classUpper classLanguage: prepared to begin a conversation with Henry, whom he does not know; generous with praise to himBehaviour: generally confident and polite; but ignores Eliza The social relationships within the play are shown by the different way people talk to and about each other. Try to think about what you say when you like someone or want to help them. What other things show one’s status in society apart from how one speaks? Use some adjectives which best describe each character in the play. Work in pairs to discuss them. You may use the adjectives on page 31. kind, 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 Preview grammar by finishing Exercise 1&2 on Page 33 and exercise of page 72 of using structures. Homework