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8 Unit 4 Pygmalion-ReadingPYGMALIONMAIN CHARACTERS:Eliza Doolittle (E): a poor flower girl who is _(ambition) to improve herself Professor Higgins (H): an expert in phonetics, _ (convince) that the quality of a persons English decides his/her position in societyColonel Pickering (CP): an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins who sets him a taskAct One FATEFUL MEETINGS11:15 pm in London, England in 1914 outside a theatre. It is pouring with rain and cab whistles are blowing _ all directions. A man is hiding from the rain _(listen) to peoples language and watching their _(react). While watching, he makes notes. Nearby a flower girl wearing dark garments and a _(wool) scarf is also sheltering from the rain. A gentleman (G) passes and hesitates for a moment.E: Come overere, capin, and buy me flowers off a poor girl.G: Im sorry _ I havent any change.E: I can givou change, capin.G: (surprised) For a pound? Im afraid Ive got nothing less.E: (hopefully) Oah! Oh, do buy a flower off me, Captain. Take this for three pence. (holds up some dead flowers)G: (uncomfortably) Now dont be _(trouble), theres a good girl. (looks in his wallet and sounds more friendly) But, wait, heres some small change. Will that be _any use to you? Its raining _(heavy) now, isnt it? (leaves)E: (disappointed at the outcome, but thinking it is better than nothing) Thank you, sir. (sees a man taking notes and feels worried) Hey! I aint done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman. Ive a right _(sell) flowers, I have. I aint no thief. Im an honest girl I am! (begins to cry)H: (kindly) There! There! Whos hurting you, you silly girl? What do you take me _? (gives her a handkerchief)E: I _ (think) maybe you was a policeman _ disguise.H: Do I look like a policeman?E: (still worried) Then why did ou take down my words for? How do I know whether ou took me down right? ou just show me _ ouve wrote about me!H: Here you are. (hands over the paper covered in writing)E: Whats that? That aint proper writing. I cant read that. (pushes it back at him)H: I can. (reads imitating Eliza) Come over ere, capin, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. (in his own voice) There you are and you were born in Lisson Grove if Im not _ (mistake).E: (looking confused) What if I was? Whats it to you?CP: (has been watching the girl and now speaks to Higgins) Thats quite brilliant! How did you do that, may I ask?H: Simply phonetics studied and classified from peoples own speech. Thats my profession and also my hobby. You can place a man by just a few remarks. I can place any _ (speak) conversation within six miles, and even within two streets in London sometimes.CP: Let me congratulate you! But is there an income _(make) in that?H: Yes, indeed. Quite a good one. This is the age of the newly rich. People begin their working life in a poor _(neighbor) of London with 80 pounds a year and end in a rich one with 100 thousand. But they betray themselves every time they open their mouths. Now once _(teach) by me, shed become an upper class lady .CP: Is that so? Extraordinary!H: (rudely) Look at this girl with her terrible English: the English that will condemn her to the gutter to the end of her days. But, sir, (proudly) once educated to speak properly, that girl could pass_(her) off in three months as a duchess at _ ambassadors garden party. Perhaps I could even find her a place as a ladys maid or a shop assistant, _ requires better English.E: Whats that you say? A shop assistant? Now thats sommat I want, that is!H: (ignores her) Can you believe that?CP: Of course! I study many Indian dialects myself and .H: Do you indeed? Do you know Colonel Pickering?CP: Indeed I do, _ that is me. Who are you?H: Im Henry Higgins and I was going to India to meet you.CP: And I came to England to make _ (you) acquaintance!E: What about me? Howll you help me?H: Oh, take that. (carelessly throws a handful of money into her basket) We must have a celebration, my dear man. (leave together)E: (looking at the collected money in amazement) Well, I never. A whole pound! A fortune! Thatll help me, indeed it will. Tomorrow Ill find you, Henry Higgins. Just you wait and see! All that talk of (imitates him) authentic English . (in her own voice) Ill see _ you can get that for me . (goes out)Act Two, Scene 1 MAKING THE BETIt is 11am in Henry Higgins house the next day. Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering are sitting deep _ conversation.H: Do you want to hear any more sounds?CP: No, thank you. I rather fancied myself because I can pronounce twenty-four distinct vowel sounds; but your one hundred and thirty beat me. I cant distinguish most of them.H: (laughing) Well, that comes with practice. There is a knock and Mrs Pearce (MP), the housekeeper, comes in with cookies, a teapot, some cream and two cups.MP: (hesitating) A young girl is asking to see you.H: A young girl! What does she want?MP: Well, shes quite a common kind of girl with dirty nails. I thought perhaps you _ (want) her to talk into your machines.H: Why? Has she got an interesting accent? Well see. Show her_, Mrs Pearce.MP: (only half resigned to it) Very well, sir. (goes downstairs)H: This is a bit of luck. Ill show you how I make records on wax disks .MP: (returning) This is the young girl, sir. (Eliza comes into the room shyly following Mrs Pearce. She is dirty and _(wear) a shabby dress. She curtsies to the two men.)H: (disappointed) Why! Ive got this girl in my records. Shes the one we saw the other day. Shes no use at all. Take her away.CP: (gently to Eliza) What do you-want, young lady?E: (upset) I wanna be a lady in a flower shop stead o selling flowers in the street. But they wont take me less I speak better. _ here I am, ready to pay him. Im not asking for any favours and he treats me like dirt.H: How much?E: (happier) Now yer talking. A lady friend of _(me) gets French lessons for two shillings an hour from a real Frenchman. You wouldnt have the face to ask me for the samefor teaching me as yer would for French. So I wont give yer more than a shilling.H: (ignoring Eliza and speaking to Pickering) If you think of how much money this girl has why, its the best offer Ive had! (to Eliza) But if I teach you, Ill be _(bad) than a father.CP: I say, Higgins. Do you remember _ you said last night? Ill say youre the greatest teacher alive if you can pass her off as a lady. Ill be the referee for this little bet and pay _ the lessons too .E: (gratefully) Oh, yer real good, yer are. Thank you, Colonel.H: Oh, she is so deliciously low. (compromises) OK, Ill teach you. (to Mrs Pearce) But shell need _(clean) first. Take her away, Mrs Pearce. Wash her and burn her horrible clothes. Well buy her new ones. Whats your name, girl?E: Im Eliza Doolittle and Im clean. My clothes went to the laundry _ I washed last week.MP: Well, Mr Higgins has a bathtub of his own and he has a bath every morning. If these two gentlemen teach you, youll have to do the same. They wont like the smell of you otherwise.E: (sobbing) I cant. I dursnt. It aint natural and itd kill me. Ive never had a bath in my life; not over m