1、Using LanguageCHANGING ELIZAH = Higgins CP = Colonel Pickering E = ElizaListen again and fill in the blanks.H: Good morning, Eliza. My goodness, how pretty you are after a good bath! Ready for your first lesson? You see, Colonel Pickering and I are both here waiting.E: Than you sir!H: So lets begin.
2、 Say your alphabet.E: I know my alphabet. Do yer thin I know noffink!H: Now, now! Lets start again. Say this after me. (very slowly, loudly and carefully) Do you think I dont know anything?E: Do yer think I dont know anythink!CP: Do you know, Higgins, I think that was better!H: (far from satisfied)
3、Once more, Eliza. (emphasizing each word) Do you think I dont know anything!E: (very slowly and carefully too) Doo yoo think I dont know anything?H: Now to the alphabet, my girl. Dont argue just say it.CP: Yes, say it, Eliza! Youll understand soon. Do what he tells you and let him teach you in his o
4、wn way.E: Oh, well! If you put it like that! Ahyee, Bayee, Sayee, Dayee H: (bored) Stop at once. Now say A, B, C, and D.E: (in tears) But I am saying it. Ahee, Bayee, Sayee, Dayee H: Stop! Say “a cup of tea”.E: I cap-o-tee.H: Put your tongue forward until it pushes against the top of your lower teet
5、h. Now say “cup”.E: C-c-c. I cant. I cant hear no difference cept that it sounds more genteel like when you say it. (begins to cry)H: (angrily) Well, if you can hear that, why are you crying? Now try again, Eliza.E: C-cup.CP: Splendid, Miss Doolittle. Never mind a little crying, you are doing very w
6、ell. The lessons wont hurt. I promise not to let him pull you round by your hair.H: Now try the whole thing, Eliza. A cup of tea.E: (very slowly and with emphasis) A cu-up of tea.CP: Good, good!H: Better, better! Now try this sentence. “The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain”.E: (again with emp
7、hasis) The rine in Spine falls minely on the pline. H: (excitedly) Its coming! Its coming! Now try again, Eliza. (slowly) The rain (ai, ai, ai) in Spain (ai, ai, ai) falls mainly on the plain.E: The rai-ain in Spai-ain falls mai-ainly on the plain.P: Miss Doolittle, thats so much better.H: Now, Eliz
8、a, go and practise by yourself. Keep your tongue well forward instead of trying to swallow it.E: (beginning to cry) Oah! Oah!H: (angrily) Now, Eliza, go and tell Mrs Pearce about this lesson. Think about it and practise by yourself. Away with you! (Eliza is still sobbing, rushes from the room)P: Now
9、 Henry, couldnt you have been kinder to that poor girl after all the effort she made?Workbook-ListeningTESTING ELIZAH = Higgins CP = Colonel PickeringE = Eliza MH = Mrs HigginsM = Maid C = Clara F = Freddy N = NarratorListen again and fill in the blanks.N: Elizas first test is a tea party at Henrys
10、mothers house.H: Well, hello, mother! This is Colonel Pickering, and this is Eliza.CP: Good afternoon, Mrs Higgins.E: (slowly and carefully) Good afternoon, Mrs Higgins.MH: (to both) Good afternoon. (murmurs) Now Henry, how is your experiment coming along?H: Well, mother, well.M: (announces loudly):
11、 Here is Mr and Miss Hill!MH: Good afternoon, Freddy and Clara. Its so good of you to come. Let me introduce you to Miss Eliza Doolittle, my son Henry, and his friend Colonel Pickering.F: How dyou do? (shakes hands with everyone)H: Delighted Im sure.N: Eliza talks to Clara and Freddy while the other
12、s listen.E: (very carefully): How do you do, Mr Hill and Miss Hill?C: Good afternoon. May I call you Eliza and do please call me Clara. How pretty you look!F: Yes, indeed. May I sit next to you, Eliza?E: Oh, yes. Please do.F: Now, will it rain, do you think?E: There are indications that the rain to
13、the west of these islands is likely to move to the east.F: Oh, how funny!E: (crossly) Whats wrong with that, young man? I bet I got it right.C: I hope it wont turn cold though. Theres so much flu about.E: My aunt died of flu, so they said. But I believe they done the old woman in.C: Done her in? Ple
14、ase what does that mean, Mr Higgins?H: Oh, thats the new small talk. To do a person in means to kill them.E: (continuing) Yes, why should she die of influenza? She recovered from diphtheria the year before. I believe they done her in. C: (turning to Eliza) Do you mean that?E: (getting enthusiastic)
15、Yes, I do! What became of her new straw hat that she promised to me? Somebody stole it, and what I say is: the person who stole it, done her in. Her family would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat!F: (cant help laughing) I like the new small talk.E: (angrily) If that was right, why were
16、you laughing? Have I said anything I oughtnt, Mrs Higgins?MH: Not at all.E: Well, what I say is H: (looking at his watch) Ahem!E: (taking the hint and rising) Well, I must go. So pleased to have met you. Goodbye.MH: Goodbye.F: May I walk you home?E: Walk? Not likely! Im going in a taxi! (exits) (Fre
17、ddy and Clara also rise)C: Its time for us to leave. Thank you, Mrs Higgins.MH: Its been my pleasure. See you next week then? (exit the Hills)H: Now, mother, do you think she is ready for the ambassadors garden party?MH: You silly boy. Of course not. She looks all right, of course. But she gives her
18、self away with every sentence she speaks!H: Never mind about that! Pickering and I will just have to work a little harder. Do you think, Pickering, we should take her to the theatre?CP: Yes, what a good idea! But do you think shell (fade out as they leave the house)Workbook-Listening TaskThe ambassa
19、dor (A), his wife (W) and their friend, Mr Pommuck (P), are receiving guests as they arrive at the party. Henry (H), Colonel Pickering (CP) and Eliza (E) arrive together. Mr Pommuck catches sight of Henry as he enters the room and rushes up to him.O = official announcerListen again and fill in the b
20、lanks.P: Well, hello, Professor Higgins. Do you remember me?H: No, I dont. Who the devil are you?P: Im Pommuck. I was your first student, your best and greatest pupil. H: What are you doing here?P: Im an interpreter for the ambassador and I can speak THIRTY-TWO languages. Nobody can fool me when it
21、comes to discovering what country they come from. (Colonel Pickering and Eliza stand in line ready to be introduced to the ambassador and his wife.)CP: Are you nervous, Eliza?E: No, not me. (laughs) Oh, Colonel, this is too much of a dream for that!O: (loudly) Miss Doolittle, Colonel Pickering and P
22、rofessor Higgins.W: Hello, my dear. The ambassador and I are so happy to meet you.E: (slowly and clearly) How do you do? (passes on to the party)P: (catches sight of Eliza) My goodness, who is she? I must go and find out. (follows Eliza)A: Now come on, Henry. Tell us about that wonderful young lady.
23、H: What wonderful young lady?W: You know very well. They tell me there has been nothing like this for years. They are all standing on their chairs to look at her. (Mr Pommuck comes back.)A: Ah, heres Pommuck. What have you found out about Miss Doolittle?P: Ive found out all about her, ambassador. Sh
24、es a cheat.W: A cheat! Oh no!P: Yes, yes. She cant hide it from me. Her name cant be Doolittle.H: (nervously) Why?P: Because Doolittle is an English name. And shes not English.W: Nonsense. She speaks English perfectly!P: Thats it! Too perfectly. Can you show me any English woman who speaks English s
25、o well? Only foreigners can speak it so well.W: Well, if shes not English, what is she? P: Hungarian. EVERYBODY: (astonished) Hungarian?P: Hungarian and a princess.H: Did you speak to her in Hungarian? P: I did. She was very clever and said (imitates Eliza) “Please speak to me in English. I dont und
26、erstand French”. Impossible. She knows both.H: And a princess?P: Yes, yes, Professor Higgins.W: I agree. She must be a princess.A: I agree too.H: Well, I dont agree with you. (Pickering enters with Eliza)E: (to Henry) Im ready to go home now. I dont think I can bear it much more. People stare at me
27、so. An old lady said I spoke just like the Queen. Im sorry if I lost the bet, but I did my best.CP: Youve not lost it, my dear. Youve won it ten times over. (to Henry) Lets go now, Henry. Elizas tired and Im hungry. Lets go and have supper somewhere.E: Yes please! I feel like some simple food tonight. (all exit)
