英语选修8-Unit4-Pygmalion-warming up-reading公开课

Pygmalion(1913), adapted as the musical play My Fair Lady in 1956
Personality
Humorous and witty
Death
In 1950
artist
Phonetics professor
statue
Flower girl
scanning
I. Read through the act one and choose the best answer. 1. This text is mainly about the first experience of Eliza meeting with ____.
A. Professor Higgins B. Colonel Pickering C. Professor Higgins and Colonel
Psychological term
/saikə'lɔdʒikəl /
心理学的;心理学家的,
心理的,精神的 “Pygmalion Effect ”?
What is it?
the Pygmalion Effect
The Pygmalion Effect is that people tend to behave as you expect they will. If you expect a person to be successful, he probably will. If you expect something to happen, it will happen. On the contrary, if you expect something not to happen, it will not happen.
3. The flower girl wanted to become ________. A. a duchess B. a shop assistant C. a lady D. a lady’s maid
4. The flower girl was worried when she found Higgins making notes because __.
Pickering D. a gentleman
2. Which of the following can best describe Henry Higgins? A. Kind and polite. B. Impatient and anxious. C. Self-important and confident. D. Unsure and generous.
disguise
5. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to _______.
A. ask him to buy some flowers from her
B. talk with him C. ask him to teach her D. beg some money from him
Goddess
Colonel Pickering
The play My Fair Lady has the same
theme as the Greek Story.
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.
where London, England who Eliza, Colonel Pickering, Higgins what fateful meetings how Eliza wanted to sell flower to Colonel
Pickering, Higgins noticed her pronunciation.
6. Why Eliza began to cry? Because _______.
A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest him
B. the gentleman didn’t give her some money
C. Pickering beat and scolded her D. there was no reason
“说你行，你就行，不行也行； 说你不行，你就不行，行也不
Wh行a。t”we expect tends to come true.
美国心理学家罗森塔尔等人于1968年做过一 个著名实验。他们到一所小学对三个班的儿 童进行煞有介事的“预测未来发展的测验”， 然后实验者将认为有“优异发展可能”的学 生名单通知教师。其实，这个名单并不是根 据测验结果确定的，而是随机抽取的。它是 以“权威性的谎言”暗示教师，从而调动了 教师对名单上的学生的某种期待心理。8个月 后，再次智能测验的结果发现，名单上的学 生的成绩普遍提高。这个实验取得了奇迹般 的效果，人们把这种通过教师对学生心理的 潜移默化的影响，从而使学生取得教师所期 望的进步的现象，称为“罗森塔尔效应”， 习惯上也称为“皮格马利翁效应”
job. F 7. Either man had planned to meet the
other although they didn’t know each
other. T
Can you recognize each character’s social position by their behaviour and language? Is he or she from the upper class, middle class or lower class? Give your reasons.
My Fair Lady a play written by George Bernard Shaw Have you seen the film? If you have, did you like it? Have a discussion and give reasons.
The author-----George Bernard Shaw
Born
In 1856
Nationality
Ireland
Achievements
Nobel Prize for Literature in1925 Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman
Works
Arms and the Man(1894) The Devil’s Disciple(1897) SuFra Baidu bibliotekerman(1905) Androcles and the Lion(1912)
True or False?
1. Eliza was selling some flowers when Higgins first met her. T
2. She succeeded in selling some dead flowers to Huggins for some small change. F
Lead-in
Do you know the famous actress?
She is regarded as the one of the most elegant ladies in the world. What’s her name? Can you name some films which she acted in?
1. Come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl.
Come over here, captain, and buy some flowers from a poor girl.
2. I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman.
Reading Pygmalion
Act One
Fateful meetings
Acting : Try to act it out.
Act one
Fateful meetings
Eliza Doolittle
Henry Higgins
Colonel Pickering
skimming
when 11:15 pm, in1914
Roman
Holiday 《罗马假期 》
1953年
War and Peace 《战争与和平》
1956年
My Fair Lady 《窈窕淑女》 1964年
Pygmalion
a Greek story Do you know this story?
Pygmalion, a gifted artist, dislike women. One day he makes a stone statue of a beautiful woman.
Role play Comprehending
When he finishes the statue, he falls in love with it and goes to the Greek goddess, Aphrodite, to ask her to make the statue into a real woman.
She makes his wish come true.
A. she thought she did something wrong B. she thought she didn’t have the right to
sell flowers C. she didn’t want Higgins to write down
what she said D. she thought Higgins was a policeman in
An Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater.
His main works:
Immaturity Widowers' Houses Pygmalion Man and Superman (1902), Major Barbara (1905)
4. How do I know whether’ ou took down right?
How do I know whether you wrote down what I said accurately?
5. A shop assistant? Now that’s sommat I want, that is! A shop assistant? Now that’s something I would like to be!
I haven’t done anything wrong by speaking to that gentleman.
3. I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise.
I thought maybe you were a policeman in disguise.
3. Huggins wrote down her name and address. F
4. Huggins was good at judging people from their own speech. T
5. Huggins could earn a lot for his job. T 6. Huggins promised to find her a good