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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 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. But 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 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 money. 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 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 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 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 friend 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. When 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 video 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 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?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-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 / behavior. Towards Eliza: _ _;_ _;_ _. Towards CP: _ _Pickering:Sentences/stage directions: characteristics of language / behavior. Towards Higgins:_ _; _ _ _;_ _;_ _;. Towards Eliza: _ _2. Discussion:Besides the way one speaks and behaves, what other things show ones status in society?You can show your social status by: Clothes you wear Expensive possessions (like cars or jewellery) Attitudes Education level How many foreign language spoken and countries visited From these items, we can realize that it was extremely difficult to move from one social class to another because you may betray yourself even though your behavior is only a little inappropriate. 3. show the result: Eliza made every effort to improve English, with the help of H. show video.Higgins succeeded in tutoring Eliza, not only in the refinements of speech, but also in the refinements of her manners. Show video.The end result produces a very ladylike Miss Doolittle.4. Encourage the students to work hard- “Pygmalion Effect” We are ambitious to improve our English! We are ambitious to improve ourselves ! We are to be successful !.Homework: 1. Read the play repeatedly & try to act it out.2. What are the characteristics of Drama?. Drama is divided into several _ and each one is made up of various _. . Drama is always written in _. There is always a _ who will tell us the background of the story before it starts. . The words of Drama are always _ to understand. . The _ tense（时态） is always used. Classroom Teaching Record:Module 8 Unit 4 Reading Pygmalion by Xu Rongjuan ( recorded by Zhang Yan).lead-in: (Talk with the Ss about their present situation of learning English.)T: Are you confident about your English? S: Yes!T: Do you consider your English to be standard, fluent and elegant? S: Probably OK. (Ss laugh.)T: What do you think of your English? Do you want to improve your English?S: I think my English is not so good, and I want to improve my EnglishT: OK. So somebody are not so confident about English. However, to be 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. But finally she succeeded in pass herself off with the help of an expert in phonetics named Higgins. . Pre-reading:1. Introduction of the film/play:T: 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 Hepburn starred in this film. Now you can see these pictures. (Admire the pictures) 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 money. He was a very humorous playwright (剧作家).2. It is an adaptation of a classic Greek story about Pygmalion:T: This play Bernard Shaw adapted is based on a Greek myth about Pygmalion. Pygmalion is a sculptor who does not like woman. Look at the captions. And you can depend on the pictures to work out the story.(several seconds)OK, Summer, would you please make up the story?S: Pygmalion, a gifted artist, doesnt like any 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.T: Yes, thank you, thats the story. And today well look at a play also named Pygmalion. The play by Shaw has the same 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:T: First les read the text very quickly and try to answer the questions on the screen. Who are the main characters of this act? . What do they do respectively?. What are they doing at the beginning of the play?Here Id like to provide you with some tips: Some information is included in the stage directions, (舞台说明) like the character, time, place, weather etc. OK, I will give you only one minute.(Students read for one minute. Then four of them answer the questions)S: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 friend of Higgins who sets him a task. T: Before they meet each other, what are they doing?S: They are sheltering from the rain outside a theatre.2. careful-reading:T: At the beginning of the act, E directly greeted to a gentleman. But did they know each other?S: No!T: Why did Eliza greet to the gentleman?S: She wanted to sell flowers.T: Did the gentleman buy the flowers from her? Why? S: No. Because he had no change.T: When Eliza tried to persuade him to buy some flowers again for three pence, whats his reaction/feeling?S: Uncomfortable. He thought she was a troublesome girl. T: So at last he didnt buy any flowers. He just gave her some changes. He would rather give her some changes than buy some flowers. 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. Now lets watch a video and see what happened. Try to pay special attention to Elizas manners. ( Play the video )T: Whats her feeling when she knew Higgins wrote down what she said?S: She thought Higgins who was taking notes to be a policeman indisguise. She felt worried whether she was considered as a thief andwould be arrested.T: Good. Have you ever paid attention to the way she spoke to others? The manners?S: rude/roughT: At that moment, the conversation 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. Lets listen to the tape , and see what happened after these three met? After listening , you are required to answer these questions:D. where has Colonal Pickering been living and what has he studied?E. Whats Elizas ambition?F. What makes Higgins so confident that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess at an ambassadors garden party?(Listen to the tape.)T: Now please answer the three questions.S: India. He has studied many Indian dialects.S: To be a shop assistantS: 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-reading:T: Now we know how a person speaks can indicate his social position. Besides the language, we can also classify a person by his/her behaviour.1. Group work:T: 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? Here Ive got some papers. Group One, youre required to analyze Eliza; Group Two, you Higgins; and Group Three, you CP. Look carefully at the requirement. Try to find out the sentences and the expressions that can show their social positions.(Group discussion for 5 minutes.)T: OK, stop here. I think you have found out a lot of sentences now. Lets deal with the character Eliza. Can you tell me the sentences Eliza said to G,H & CP?S: Come overere, capin, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. sirT: We know her language is (S: non-standard ). Yes, and we can infer she is poor-educated. Now can you correct her poor English?1.Come overere, capin, and buy me flowers off a poor girl.S: Come over here, captain, and buy some flowers from a poor girl.T: 2.I aint done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman.S: I havent done anything wrong by speaking to that gentleman.T: 3. I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise.S: I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise.T: 4. ou just show me what ouve wrote about me!S: You just show me what you have written about me!T: 5. A shop assistant ? Now thats sommat I want, that is!S: Now thats something I would like to be!T: And what about her attitude to the two gentlemen?S: Rude.T: Rude? But she used “capin, sir”S: Respectful to people of higher classT: Yes. And the sentences towards herself:S: worried / I aint done nothing wrong by speaking toS: Ive the right to sell flowers. I aint no thiefan honest girlS: A shop assistant? Now thats sommat I want. Howll you help me? T: The sentences express what kinds of feelings?S: Anxious, aggressive when defending herself, and ambitious to improve herselfT: Very good. Then lets come to analyze Higgins. Towards Eliza:S: there, there. Whos hurting you, you silly girl? Who do you take me for?S: (rudely) Look at this girl with her terrible En: the En that will condemn her to the gutter to the end of her days.S(ignore her) (carelessly throws a handful of money into her basket) T: Then what about his language and attitude?S: Standard well-educated language; rude to lower class.T: What did he say towards CP?S: We must have a celebration, my dear man.T: It shows that Higgins (S: is polite to same or upper class).OK Now lets talk about Pickering. Towards Higgins, what language did he use? Yes, Standard well-educated languageS: (has been watching the girl and now speaks to Higgins)Thats quite brilliant! Let me congratulate you! How did you do that, may I ask? I came here to make your acquaintance! T: It shows that Pickering is -(S: generous with praise to H.) Yes, and he is generally confident and polite; modest, prepared to learn from others. Pickering and Higgins are happy to be friends. Then what about her attitude towards Eliza?S: Ignore her.T: Yes, just ignore her. Now lets make a conclusion. Try to fill in the blanks.languagebehaviorSocial positionPickeringstandardwell-educatedgenerally confidentand polite;but ignores ElizaupperHigginsstandardwell-educatedrude to lower class;polite to same or upper classmiddleElizanon-standardpoor-educatedrespectful to people of higher classlower2. Discussion:T: You see, besides the way one speaks and behaves, what other things show ones status in society? For example, you can show your social status by clothes you wear. I will give you some time to discuss.S: Expensive possessions (like cars or jewellery)./Attitudes/Education level/How many foreign language spoken and countries visited/T: From these items, we can realize that it was extremely difficult to move from one social class to another because you may betray yourself even though your behavior is only a little inappropriate. But Eliza succeeded. Now lets see the process through videos. Eliza made every effort to improve English, with the help of H. (show video.)Higgins succeeded in tutoring Eliza, not only in the refinements of speech, but also in the refinements of her manners. (Show video.)The end result produces a very ladylike Miss Doolittle.So lets review: At the beginning, she was very rude and rough, but at last she was elegant. At first she was unconfident and with the help of Higgins she became very confident. Mr. Higgins to Eliza is what I to you, Right? I think I will help you in English. Now please read the sentences loudly: We