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1、Do you know the famous actress?,Lead-in,She is regarded as the one of the most elegant ladies in the world. Whats her name? Can you name some films which she acted in?,Roman Holiday 罗马假期 1953年,War and Peace 战争与和平 1956年,My Fair Lady 窈窕淑女 1964年,PYGMALION,Pygmalion,a Greek story Do you know this story?
2、,Pygmalion, a gifted artist, dislike 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.,She makes his wish come true.,“Pygmalion Effect ”?,?,What
3、 is it?,心理学的;心理学家的, 心理的,精神的,/saikldikl /,Psychological term,the Pygmalion Effect,The Pygmalion Effect is that people tend to behave as you expect they will. If you expect a person to be successful, he probably will. If you expect something to happen, it will happen. On the contrary, if you expect so
4、mething not to happen, it will not happen.,What we expect tends to come true.,“说你行，你就行，不行也行；说你不行，你就不行，行也不行。”,美国心理学家罗森塔尔等人于1968年做过一个著名实验。他们到一所小学对三个班的儿童进行煞有介事的“预测未来发展的测验”，然后实验者将认为有“优异发展可能”的学生名单通知教师。其实，这个名单并不是根据测验结果确定的，而是随机抽取的。它是以“权威性的谎言”暗示教师，从而调动了教师对名单上的学生的某种期待心理。8个月后，再次智能测验的结果发现，名单上的学生的成绩普遍提高。这个实验取得了
5、奇迹般的效果，人们把这种通过教师对学生心理的潜移默化的影响，从而使学生取得教师所期望的进步的现象，称为“罗森塔尔效应”，习惯上也称为“皮格马利翁效应”,My Fair Lady a play written by George Bernard Shaw Have you seen the film? If you have, did you like it? Have a discussion and give reasons.,The author-George Bernard Shaw,An Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spo
6、kesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater.,His main works:,Immaturity Widowers Houses Pygmalion Man and Superman (1902), Major Barbara (1905),In 1856,Ireland,Nobel Prize for Literature in1925 Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman,Arms and the Man(1894) The Devils Dis
7、ciple(1897) Superman(1905) Androcles and the Lion(1912),Pygmalion(1913), adapted as the musical play My Fair Lady in 1956,Humorous and witty,In 1950,?,The play My Fair Lady has the same theme as the Greek Story.,artist,Phonetics professor,statue,Flower girl,Goddess,Colonel Pickering,Theme of the Gre
8、ek story: Pygmalion, an artist create a statue from stone and make it have a new life . Theme of My fair lady: Higgins, a phonetics create a new girl Eliza from lower class to upper class by teaching her English.,Reading Pygmalion,Fateful meetings,Act One,Acting,Act one,Fateful meetings,: Try to act
9、 it out.,Eliza Doolittle,Henry Higgins,Colonel Pickering,11:15 pm, in1914,London, England,Eliza, Colonel Pickering, Higgins,fateful meetings,Eliza wanted to sell flower to Colonel Pickering, Higgins noticed her pronunciation.,skimming,1. This text is mainly about the first experience of Eliza meetin
10、g with _. A. Professor Higgins B. Colonel Pickering C. Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering D. a gentleman,scanning,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 an
11、d confident. D. Unsure and generous.,3. The flower girl wanted to become _. A. a duchess B. a shop assistant C. a lady D. a ladys maid,4. The flower girl was worried when she found Higgins making notes because _. A. she thought she did something wrong B. she thought she didnt have the right to sell
12、flowers C. she didnt 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? Bec
13、ause _. A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest him B. the gentleman didnt 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 manners,8. From th
14、e text, we can infer that Professor Higgins is a man described below EXCEPT _. A. he doesnt care about money B. he is an expert in phonetics C. he is proud D. he is greedy,9. From the last sentence of the play, we can conclude that Eliza felt _ about what Higgins said. A. confident B. optimistic C.
15、certain D. doubtful,1. Come overere, capin, and buy me flowers off a poor girl.,Come over here, captain, and buy some flowers from a poor girl.,2. I aint done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman.,I havent done anything wrong by speaking to that gentleman.,I thought maybe you were a policeman
16、 in disguise.,4. How do I know whether ou took down right?,How do I know whether you wrote down what I said accurately?,5. A shop assistant? Now thats sommat I want, that is!,A shop assistant? Now thats something I would like to be!,3. I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise.,Read Act One of the play and then answer these questions.,Comprehending,1. What is the name o
