(皮格马利翁效应).ppt

1、Unit 4 Pygmalion,1. What is Pygmalion?,2. What did he pray for?,3. Who made his wish come true?,Pygmalion,1. What is Pygmalion?,2. What did he pray for?,3. Who made his wish come true?,a talented sculptor,sculpture,a wife like the statue,statue,Venus , the goddess of love and beauty,Pygmalion,Pygmal

2、ion effect,(皮格马利翁效应),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 wont.,George Bernard Shaw 萧 伯纳,Shaw wrote the play Pygmalion, which is an adaptation o

3、f that Greek story.,the film, My Fair Lady,窈窕淑女,Theme(主题):,People tend to behave as you expect they will.,playwright,basic factors of a play,Act (幕),: Scene (场),Main characters(主要角色)：,Narration(旁白),Line (台词),Plot (情节),Main characters,Eliza Doolittle :,Professor Higgins:,Colonel Pickering:,a poor flo

4、wer girl who is ambitious to improve herself.,an expert in phonetics,convinced that the quality of a persons English decides his/ her position in society.,an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins who sets him a task.,Suppose you were Professor Higgins. Can you help her correct her Englis

5、h?,Come overere, capin, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. Come over here, captain, and buy flowers from a poor girl. I can giveou change, capin. I can give you change, captain.,3. Thankou, sir. Hey! I aint done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman. Ive a right to sell flowers, I have. Im an

6、 onest girl I am! Thank you, sir. Hey! I havent done anything wrong by speaking to that gentleman. I have a right to sell flowers. Im an honest girl! 4. I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise. I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise.,5. Then why didou take down my words for? How do

7、 I know whether ou took me down right? ou just show me what ou wrote? Then why did you take down my words? How do I know whether you wrote down what I said correctly? Can you just show me what you wrote? 6. That aint proper writing. That isnt proper writing.,7. What if I was? Whats it to you? What if I do?