1、NSEFC Students Book 8,Unit4 Pygmalion,Period1 Warming Up & Reading,Questions:What do you think of when you hearof “Pygmalion”?,A Greek story.,Warming up,Pygmalion, a gifted artist, makes a stone statue of a beautiful woman.,He asks the Greek Goddess to bring her to life.,(使复活),His wish is granted.,G
2、alatea,Pygmalion, king of Cyprus,Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love,Pygmalion, the play by George Bernard Shaw, is an adaptation of the Greek story.,About the author, George Bernard Shaw,1.Shaws life 2.Shaws works 3.Shaws identity,group1: Shaws life,Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1856 an
3、d died in 1950. hated schooling and dropped out of school at 15. In1876, Shaw moved to London to live with his mother, where he began his literary career by writing music and theatre criticism, and novels. In 1884, he joined the Fabian Society（费边社）, and took an active part in the socialist movement.
4、 began writing plays in 1892. won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.,He wrote 51 plays, much concerned about the social problems he lived.His famous plays include: Widowers House鳏夫的房产 Mrs. Warrens Profession 华伦夫人的职业 Major Barbara 巴巴拉少校Heartbreak House 伤心之家 Saint Joan 圣女贞德Pygmalion 卖花女 The Apple Car
5、t 苹果车,group2: Shaws works,playwright, literary critic, socialist spokesman， free thinker.,identity,group3: Shaws identity,He is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare.,Pygmalion was made into a film called My Fair Lady in 1964. Read the three main characters and predict
6、who is Pygmalion in the play.,Pre-reading,Pygmalion,Fateful meetings,Act One,Skimming,Pay attention to the title and para.1, skim the passage, and answer the following questions:,1. When and where does the story take place?2.What is the weather like in Act One?3.How many characters are included in A
7、ct One? Who are they?,Answers: 1. 11:15pm in London in 1914 outside a theatre. 2. Its pouring with rain. 3. Four. They are Eliza (E), a gentleman (G), Professor Higgins (H) and Colonel Pickering (CP).,Scanning,Read Act One of the play and the answer the firstfive questions in Ex.1 on P.30.,Answers:
8、Henry Higgins. She thinks he is a policeman in disguise. He has been living in India and has studied many Indian dialects. 4. He is anxious to meet Colonel Pickering, because they are studying in the same academic field. 5. A shop assistant. She decides to take lessons from Colonel Pickering,Answer:
9、 Eliza is from the lower class, Professor Higgins is from the middle class and Colonel Pickering is from the upper class,Can you recognize each characters social position by their behavior and language? Is heor she from the upper class, middle class or lower class?”,1.Whats Professor Higginss attitu
10、de towards Eliza? What does he call her and how does he evaluate her English? 2. Whats Professor Higginss attitude towards Colonel Pickering? What does he call him? 3.Whats Colonel Pickerings attitude towards Professor Higgins? 4.Does Colonel Pickering do or say anything to Eliza? Why? 5. How terrib
11、le is Elizas English? Can you find some adjectives to describe Elizas feelings towards Professor Higgins at different times?,Careful reading,Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:,1.Whats Professor Higginss attitude towards Eliza? What does he call her and how does he evaluat
12、e her English?2. Whats Professor Higginss attitude towards Colonel Pickering? What does he call him?,Rude. He calls her “a silly girl” and he says that her English is terrible.,Polite and respectful. He calls him “sir” and“my dear man”.,3.Whats Colonel Pickerings attitude towards Professor Higgins?4
13、.Does Colonel Pickering do or say anything to Eliza? Why?,He appreciates his expertise and admires him.,No. Maybe he is not interested in thosewho from the lower class.,5. How terrible is Elizas English? Can you find some adjectives to describe Elizas feelings towards Professor Higgins at different
14、times?,Her English is terrible in terms of grammar, spellingand pronunciation. At first, she is frightened of him, and then she is respectful and curious about Henrysexpertise.,妄自尊大的,impatient kind polite modest confident anxious rude enthusiastic unsure aggressive generous ambitious superior emotio
15、nal self-important,傲慢的,妄自尊大的,Choose those adjectives which best describeeach character In the play.,kind, polite, generous, enthusiastic, eager, confident,impatient, rude, confident, superior, self-important,anxious, eager, emotional, ambitious, unsure,1.Whats the style of the play? Tragedy, comedy
16、or historical play? 2.How do we get the story through a play?Answers:1. Comedy.2. Stage directions and lines.,Discussion,1. Finish Ex.5 on P.31, correcting the sentences spoken by Eliza. 2. Prepare to retell the passage. 3. Listen to the tape and read the passage aloud, underlining the difficult points for you.,Homework,
