UsingLanguageⅠ

1、Book 8 Unit 4 PygmalionMaking the bet,蔡马英 嵊州市长乐中学,My Fair Lady is a musical play based on George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion.,The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins.,An Irish playwright. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major work

2、s such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.,The author George Bernard Shaw,(26 Jul. 1856 2 Nov.1950),Do you think phonetics/pronunciation is important?,What opin

3、ion does Henry Higgins hold towards phonetics/pronunciation?,What opinion does Henry Higgins hold towards phonetics/pronunciation?,Ones _doesnt decide which social class he belongs to.,Pronunciation/phonetics,_ does.,appearance,Act Two, Scene,Making the bet,Henry Higgins,Eliza Doolittle,(A poor flow

4、er girl),Part Setting,Who,Where,What,When,(A professor in phonetics),Colonel Pickering,(An officer in the army),Mrs. Pearce,( A housekeeper),Higgins house,11am next day,A bet?,Part Setting,Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering made a bet to_ through _ lessons.,pass Eliza off as a lady,speech,Act Two,

5、Scene,Making the bet,Part Plot and characters,Two gentlemen are distinguishing vowels.,Part Plot and characters,H,CP,MP,“I fancied myself.”,(laughing),“.beat me”,“.with practice.”,(cookies, teapot, cream),(hesitating),“common, dirty nails”,“talk into your machines”,“an interesting accent?”,“.luck, .

6、show you.”,excellent,confident,arrogant,self-centered,modest,_ accent.,strange/flawed/terrible/horrible,Tip 1: Speeches and the stage directions reflect the personality of the characters.,(curtsies),H,CP,E,How did Higgins and Pickering treat Eliza? Find out evidence.,(shyly, dirty, shabby),(disappoi

7、nted),“no use, take away”,(gently),“young lady”,“this girl”,“flower shop lady”,“ready to pay”,(ignore),“the best offer”,“worse than a father”,“the greatest.”,“the referee for the bet” “pay for”,(gratefully),(compromise),“take away*3 ”,(sobbing),“never had a bath”,“disgusting”,indifferent,Part Plot a

8、nd characters,considerate,“deliciously low”,?,sarcastic,“wash, burn”,polite,experimental subject,_ low,extremely/completely/truly,rude,strict,clever,gentle,comparison,Tip 2: Comparison makes the description of the characters more vivid.,bet : _,challenge and temptation,H,CP,“.another problem”,（heart

9、ily）,“throw her back”,“practical”,“deal with that later”,Part Plot and characters,thorough-thinking,reckless unconcerned,kind, polite, generous, considerate, gentle, clever,excellent, confident, superior, self-centered, rude, reckless,H,CP,Is professor Higgins a real gentleman?,Part III Reflection,P

10、art III Reflection,Can Higgins win the bet?,to teach Eliza phonetics to pass her off as a lady,suspense,Tip 3: The suspense at the end of the scene makes the play more attractive.,E,What kind of person is Eliza?,_appearance _family _career _accent _manners,unpleasant,badly-off,inferior,horrible,inap

11、propriate,Part III Reflection,Lower class,Middle/Upper class,Part IV Discussion,How can Higgins transform Eliza into a real lady?,Elizas clothes Elizas hygiene Elizas behaviour Elizas language: grammar accent appropriacy of language,New ones,Baths,Education,For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. Audrey Hepburn,Part V Homewor