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About the author
(1856-1950)
Works
Introduction
Quotes
Anecdote
George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
This play by Bernard Shaw is an adaptation 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
Do you know the myth of Pygmalion
It is a Greek myth.
Pygmalion was a very gifted artist. He spent a long time making a stone statue of a beautiful woman. It was so beautiful that he couldn’t help loving it and wanted it to be his wife.
But it was only a stone. How could he make his dream become true He thought and thought and at last he asked the Greek Goddess to help him to bring it to life.
The Greek Goddess agreed to help and his wish was granted.
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
the myth
the play
The play by Shaw has the same theme as the Greek story. In pairs discuss what this theme might be.
Fateful meetings
Act One
Skimming
2
What do they do respec -tively
1
What are the main characters of this act
3
What are they doing at the beginning of the play
Tip: Some information is included in the stage directions, like the character, time, place, weather, lighting, etc.
Eliza Doolittle(E): a poor flower girl
who is ambitious to improve herself.
Colonel Pickering(P): an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins’ who sets him a task.
Let’s check
Professor Higgins(H): an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person’s English decides his/her position in society.
Skimming
Main characters
They are sheltering from the rain outside a theatre.
Scanning
1. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to ____.
2. Why did Eliza begin to cry Because _______.
3. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______.
4. From the text, we can infer that Professor Higgins is a man described below EXCEPT _________.
Scanning
1. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to _______.
talk with him
B. ask him to buy some flowers from her
C. ask him to teach her
D. beg some money from him
Scanning
2. Why did Eliza begin to cry Because _______.
A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest her
B. the gentleman didn’t give her some money
C. Pickering beat and scolded her
D. there was no reason
Scanning
3. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______.
his appearance
B. his action
C. his conversation
D. his manners
What other things show one’s status in Society
Clothes
Expensive possessions (like cars or jewellery)
Attitudes and behavior
Education level
How many foreign language spoken and countries visited
Scanning
4. 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
scanning
5. Colonel Pickering had been living in
_____ and studied ______.
A. Africa; African dialects
B. Asia; Asian dialects
C. Britain; British dialects
D. India; Indian dialects
6. According to the passage, we can learn
that Eliza __________.
A. wants to help Higgins with his research
B. hopes to make friends with Higgins
C. hopes to sell lots of flowers each day
D. wishes to make her life better
8. 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 gentleman
主旨大意
Analysis
character position evidence
Eliza
Higgins
Pickering
Character Position in society Evidence in the play
Eliza
Lower class
Language: calls gentleman “sir” and ___________ (or captain) which is a compliment
Behaviour: _______ to people of higher class
Comprehending
respectful
“cap’in”
Character Position in society Evidence in the play
Henry Higgins
Language: calls Eliza “___________” and Pickering “________________”
Behaviour: _____ to lower class; _____ to same or upper class
Middle class
rude
polite
you silly girl
my dear man
Character Position in society Evidence in the play
Colonel Pickering
Upper class
Language: prepared to begin a __________ with Henry, whom he does not know; generous with praise to him
Behaviour: generally confident and ______; but _______ Eliza
polite
ignores
conversation
Discussion
Choose adjectives to describe each character in the play.
impatient kind polite confident
anxious eager rude enthusiastic
unsure generous ambitious
superior emotional self-important
anxious,
emotional,
ambitious
enthusiastic
unsure
dynamic
impatient, rude,
proud,
superior,
self-important
kind, polite,
generous,
eager
confident
Eliza Doolittle
Higgins
Colonel Pickering
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 by speaking to that gentlemen.
I haven’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentlemen.
3. I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise.
I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise.
4. 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!
Post-reading
Eliza’s ambition is to improve herself. Without meeting Higgins and Pickering ,she couldn’t realize her dream. So, the meeting determined her fate.
Why is the meeting fateful？
Thinking
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A brief introduction
1.He is a very humorous Irish(爱尔兰) playwright.
2.In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused the money.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
Anecdote
One day, Shaw took part in a grand party, in which he met the then Prime Minister Churchill. Churchill was very fat at that time whereas Shaw was very thin. Churchill said to Shaw very sharply, “When people see you, they will know how poor your country is”. And then Shaw answered very quickly, “When people see you, they will know the reason why our country is so poor.”
You’re
so skinny
Meat ball ^O^
Quotes
1. Behind every successful man, there is a woman and behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
每个成功的男人后面都有一个女人；每个不成功的男人后面都有两个女人。
2. I was born intelligent —— education ruined me.
我生下来时很聪明的——教育把我给毁了。
3. Practice makes perfect..... But nobody's perfect...... so why practice 完美无缺苦练来……但没有一个人是完美无缺的……所以干吗要苦练呢？
4. 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？
5. Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak. 由于光速比音速快，所以在我们听到人们开口之前，个个都显得很聪明。
6. Money is not everything. There's Mastercard & Visa.
金钱并非一切，还有信用卡呢。
7. One should love animals. They are so tasty.
人们应该喜爱动物，它们好吃来着呢。
8. Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.
每一个男人都应该结婚。毕竟，幸福不是人生中惟一的东西。
9. The wise never marry and when they marry they become otherwise.
明白人从不结婚，结了婚就不明白了。
10. Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
成功是一个相对的概念，就看你怎么看，无怪乎成功人士大家都拿他当自家亲戚看。
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This play, Pygmalion, was also made into a film called
My Fair Lady.
Have you seen the film
Literary works
Candia 康蒂妲
Androcles and the Lion 安德罗克利斯与狮子
The Devil’s Disciple 魔鬼的门徒
Saint Joan 圣女贞德
Heartbreak House伤心之家
Arms and the Man 武器与人
The film
Some were made into films
