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1、M8U4 Pygmalion -Reading -徐蓉娟.lead-in: (Talk with the Ss about their present situation of learning English.)Are you confident about your English? /Do you consider your English to be standard, fluent and elegant? /What do you think of your English? /Do you want to improve your English? However, to be
2、frank, your English is not so poor. I know a girl who originally can only speak such kind of English, much worse than you. Come overere, capin, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. I aint done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman. Her English is poor in grammar, spelling, pronunciation, etc. B
3、ut finally she succeeded in pass herself off with the help of an expert in phonetics. Thats a miracle!. Pre-reading:1. Introduction of the film/play: The story happened in a film named My Fair Lady. Have you ever seen the film? It won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, and Actor. Audrey
4、 Hepburn starred in this film. Actually, this film is a shortened version of the play Pygmalion adapted by Shaw. George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, is a leading figure in the 20th century theater. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honour but refused the mone
5、y. He was a very humorous playwright (剧作家).2. It is an adaptation of a classic Greek story about Pygmalion: This play Bernard Shaw adapted is based on a Greek myth about Pygmalion. Ask the students to look at the captions and invite one student to work out the story: Pygmalion is a sculptor who does
6、 not like woman. However, he creates a perfect stone woman who is so beautiful that he falls in love with her. He asks the Goddess Hera to make his dream come true by turning the stone statue into a real woman. This Hera does and the two are married and happily together.The play by Shaw has the same
7、 theme as the Greek story. Professor Higgins is a man who doesnt like women either and is very rude to them. But eventually he also fell in love with someone.Lets enjoy the play. While-reading1. skimming: . Who are the main characters of this act? . What do they do respectively?. What are they doing
8、 at the beginning of the play?Eliza 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 persons English decides his/ her position in society. Colonel Pickering (CP): an officer in the army and later a f
9、riend of Higgins who sets him a task. They are sheltering from the rain outside a theatre.2. careful-reading: At the beginning of the act, E directly greeted to a gentleman. But did they know each other? A. why did Eliza greet to the gentleman?B. Did the gentleman buy the flowers from her? Why? C. W
10、hen Eliza tried to persuade him to buy some flowers again for three pence, whats his reaction/feeling? Well, through the whole process, all that Eliza spoke to the gentleman was set down by Higgins. But at first Eliza misunderstood him. As far as she was concerned, sth unpleasant happened. watch a v
11、ideo and see what happened. (pay special attention to Elizas manners) She thought Higgins who was taking notes to be a policeman in disguise. She felt worried whether she was considered as a thief and would be arrested. The way she spoke to others/manners: rude/rough At that moment, the conversation
12、 between H and E was interrupted by CP, who was researching in the same academic field as H. thus, these characters had a fateful meeting, after which sth was changed. listen to the tape , and see what happened after these three met?A. where has Colonal Pickering been living and what has he studied?
13、B. Whats Elizas ambition?C. What makes Higgins so confident that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess at an ambassadors garden party? Higgins thought he could educate Eliza to speak properly. In his opinion, how a person speaks the English language classifies his/her position in someones eyes. Post-
14、reading:Besides the language, we can also classify a person by his/her behaviour.1. Group work:Would you please find out the sentences in the play which show the language and behaviour of the three main characters, in order to analyze their social positions?Eliza：Sentences/stage directions: characteristics of the language / behavior. Towards G, H & CP:_ _; _. Towards herself:_ _;_ _;_ _Higgins:Sentences/stage directions: characteristics of language / be
