人教版高中英语选修八_Unit_4_Pygmalion-Warming_Up__Reading_PPT课件免费下载.ppt

Designer for this period:   Shao Changguo * Company LOGO Pygmalion Period1 Warming Up Reading NSEFC Student’s Book 8 About the author (1856-1950) Works Introduction Quotes Anecdote George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion This play by Bernard Shaw is an adaptaion 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 Pygmalion Effect Psychological term 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. Theme of the Greek 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 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 ouside 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